A few blooms spotted for #wildflowerhour this week on a lovely family holiday in beautiful Northumberland! #ByTheSea

What can you find blooming along the coast? That’s the challenge this week for #WildflowerHour! Share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #ByTheSea! Happy flower hunting! 🌿🌸🌊

The theme for this week’s #wildflowerhour challenge is wetland plants. So have a mosey in your local marsh, mire, bog, fen and see what you can find! Share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm using #wetlandplants #InternationalBogDay2026

Also #StillFlowering an enormous swathe of Common Fleabane in my local park. Such a cheery plant, its bright sun-shaped flowers are an absolute magnet for invertebrates! #Wildflowerhour 🌞

Despite the recent hot weather & drought conditions the Broad-leaved Helleborines in the woods at work have been looking spectacular! I’ve been in orchid heaven admiring them all! #Wildflowerhour #StillFlowering

With warmer temperatures forecast for the end of the week hopefully you’ll appreciate a watery theme for this week’s challenge! Find wild or naturalised aquatic plants in bloom and share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #AquaticPlants 💦🌱

It’s been a bit of a week with my son back in hospital so sadly not had much time for botanising but I did see these lovely #ClimbingPlants whilst walking my little hairy pal 🐾 Left, White Bryony, Bryonia dioica & right, Honeysuckle, Lonicera periclymenum for #WildflowerHour

It was nice to see the Broad-leaved Helleborines beginning to open in the woods at work today. Always love showing these lovely flowers to the children & explaining how they are pollinated, they were fascinated with them! 🥰 #wildflowerhour

Can you find a flowering wild or naturalised plant that has a climbing habit?! 🧗That’s the challenge this week for #wildflowerhour! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm!

After missing out last weekend, some orchid therapy was required. It was such a tonic to see lots of beautiful Marsh Helleborine & Marsh Fragrant Orchids emerging through a carpet of Seaside Centaury & Yellow-wort at this interesting ex-industrial site in Cheshire #wildflowerhour

At the start of the week my Forest School group spotted lots of Speckled Wood enjoying the Meadow Buttercups. It’s a good job I took a few photos because later in the week I came down with a horrible bug & spent all of this gorgeous weekend in bed! #Wildflowerhour #PollinatorPals

This week’s challenge is #PollinatorPals! Find a flowering wild or naturalised plant with a pollinating visitor & snap away. Of course it’s not just about bees! Butterflies, moths, wasps, flies & beetles can be #pollinators too! Share your pics for #Wildflowerhour Sunday 8-9pm 🪲🦋🪰🐝

A few stolen moments off this week at home in #Shetland and a chance to make my annual pilgrimage to Unst where, on the Keen of Hamar's serpentine debris, there were jewels to be found - one of the best years I've know for endemic Edmonston's Chickweed. #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

My local #ChurchyardFlowers were looking beautiful this afternoon, Ox-eye daisies, Meadow Crane’s-bill, Wild Strawberry, Tufted Vetch, Cat’s-Ear, naturalised hardy geraniums, to name a few, all supporting lots of inverts & just so much better than mown grass! #wildflowerhour 🥰

New challenge alert!🔔 When managed sympathetically churchyards can be amazing places for wildlife! The challenge this week is to see which wild & naturalised plants you can find blooming there! Share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using #ChurchyardFlowers @caringforgodsacre.bsky.social

Have you been taking part in #NoMowMay or opting for a #NoMowSummer? The challenge this week is to show us your #LawnFlowers! No lawn? See what’s blooming in another local grassed area instead. Share your pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy flower hunting! 🌸🌾🌼

My son has just sent me an update on my garden Bee Orchid, just in time for #wildflowerhour! I can include this one for the #orchidchallenge as it arrived by itself, isn’t it gorgeous! 🥰

Posting my finds for this week’s #OrchidChallenge early as they don’t count for #Wildflowerhour because I’m in Normandy! Had a wonderful holiday & I’m so happy to see the Late Spider again, thought they might have been frazzled but luckily I managed to find one in the shade of a tree! 🥰

I couldn’t resist inspecting the ditches as we went round Batterie Longues-sur-Mer, Normandy, this morning. I was so excited to find this beautiful plant parasitising Yarrow which would hopefully make it the Yarrow Broomrape, Phelipanche purpurea, one I’ve been longing to see! 🥰

First day touring around Normandy with husband on the Guzzi noticed records for Thyme & Slender Broomrape near to where we are staying. It was so hot, hoping I found both! Thinking left pics are O. alba & right O. gracilis but apparently gracilis is very variable………..! @christhorogood.bsky.social

It’s that time of year when social media just seems to be full of gorgeous orchid pics! The challenge this week is to see if you can find one! Share your orchidaceous finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #OrchidChallenge.

When you don’t want to leave for a holiday because your garden Bee Orchid is about to flower! 🤪 My house-sitting son has promised me updates! 🥰 #wildflowerhour

Three years ago, a little orchid seedling appeared in one of my garden troughs, I thought it was a self-seeded Common Spotted but now it has its first proper flower spike, it has revealed itself to be a Southern Marsh Orchid 🥰 #wildflowerhour

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It’s not often you see a Common Spotted Orchid with a brick backdrop but I can include this little beauty for the #UrbanPlants challenge as most excitingly it has seeded itself in my garden! 😍 #Wildflowerhour

The Bird’s-foot Trefoil, Lotus corniculatus was looking absolutely spectacular on my walk yesterday! It was impossible to take a photo without a bee! This plant supports 130 invertebrate species so for me it’s definitely worthy of best in show for this week’s #WildflowerShow #Wildflowerhour

It’s the #ChelseaFlowerShow2026 this week so why don’t we have a #WildFlowerShow for #WildflowerHour? Find wildflowers or combinations of several wildflower species looking absolutely spectacular & share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm! I wonder, if there will be a best-in-show?😉🏆

I went in search of #tinyplants for #wildflowerhour this week & I wasn’t disappointed! 🔁 from top left the beautiful Changing Forget-me-not, each flower opening pale yellow & then gradually turning blue! Teeny pale pink Field Madder & the gorgeous vivid blue Early Forget-me-not! 💙

Some of our #wildflowers are so incredibly minuscule they are very easy to miss! This week’s challenge is to get your specs 🤓 on & see if you find any #tinyplants in bloom. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm! Happy teeny flower spotting! 🧐🌸🌿

Seeing a plant you’ve not seen for a while is just like catching up with an old friend. So happy to see some gorgeous Fly Orchids this weekend too! Fascinating & enchanting in equal measure! 🥰 Ophrys insectifera #Wildflowerhour

What do you get when you cross a Fly Orchid with a Bee Orchid? This little cutie, that’s what! 😍 So excited to see the Fly x Bee hybrid this weekend! #Wildflowerhour

Find a member of the pea or carrot family, that’s the challenge this week from Wild Flower Hour! Don’t be tempted to eat them up though, as some members of the carrot family are extremely poisonous ☠️ Post your finds for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using #carrotsandpeas!