Costa Norfolk. Now, the only choice is whether a jug of sangria or a pint of wherry is more fitting

A masterclass in Thymes last night with Breckland Flora Group. Breckland Thyme Thymus serpyllum is the local special species. ID notes on ALT

Matted Sea Lavender (Limonium bellidifolium) also in the upper salt marsh at Holme. @bramblebotanist.bsky.social @ians4ad.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

A Norfolk speciality - Intermediate Sea Lavender (Limonium intercedens) on the upper salt marsh nestled in amongst the Shrubby sea-blite (Sueda vera) A gorgeous day out with @bramblebotanist.bsky.social & @ians4ad.bsky.social @norfolknats.bsky.social

For tonight’s #WildflowerHour, here’s a picture not of a flower in bloom, but of a meadow in the making. @louisacasson.bsky.social & I today gathered green hay and wildflower seed - knapweed, yellow rattle - from Kevin & Donna Cox’s amazing meadows, and spread it on our own somewhat smaller lawn. 🤞🌼

Whilst cycling in Connemara, it was a great treat to see an abundance of Pipewort in several of their beautiful clear loughs. #wildflowerhour

#WildflowerHour #ByTheSea I bring you a bouquet of sea lavenders from Cley, in North Norfolk (idents in ALT text and double-checked by @bramblebotanist.bsky.social)

Hybrid Sea-lavender Limonium x neumanii the common taxon on NW Norfolk saltmarshes. A gaudy (but lovely) Tamarisk Tamarix gallica and a paddle out to Sea Henge 2 #bythesea with @caryocatactes.bsky.social and @ians4ad.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

I spotted this on a pavement near my house and initially thought it was Spotted Spurge, Euphorbia maculata, a plant which I have been keeping my eye out for. However, I now think it might be E. serpens. If so, that's interesting, as there are only a handful of UK records. bsbi.org/maps/?taxoni...

Rubus intensior with #NorfolkFloraGroup at Filby today. A Corylifolii with intense prickles grading into pricklets, flattish leaves and white petals. A northwestern species scarce in the east but seen several times this year in Norfolk

One benefit of low water levels is that water courses with impenetrable bankside vegetation become navigable on foot. Taking advantage of this yesterday I explored a different section of the River North Esk, extending downstream the known ranges of mountain melick and sanicle.

Osmunda aplenty! Lot of young Royal fern sporelings (Osmunda regalis) in a sea cave on the Northumberland coast. #FernFriday

Cornflower in the tinder

I do like finding brambles with 7 leaflets, all the more satisfying as they can be hard to find amongst more normal leaves with 5 leaflets. This plant with strong, broad-based prickles on the stem angles is Rubus fissus. Near Strachan, Kincardineshire, yesterday.

Rubus criniger still flowering in mid Norfolk with #NorfolkFloraGroup Series vestiti (primocanes with glands hidden by hairs)with a greyish appearance and very hairy anthers

Some street weeds about suburban Grenoble..

Sea-lavenders at Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe NNR this week... Swathes of Common Sea-lavender painting the saltmarsh purple; a potential hybrid with Lax-flowered Sea-lavender; and two species of rock sea-lavender on the saltmarsh-dune interface. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

My favourite alien find today was this cracker: Hedgehog Clover Trifolium echinatum. New to me. Very few old Hampshire records, exclusively from sites where wool shoddy was used. Another interesting page in the book of Hampshire flora. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

2400m above La Grave in the French Alps. A flower-spangled paradise. Names on pics

Some wonderful plants seen in the awesome alpine pastures at Col de la Croix de Fer, a scenic high pass through the French Alps

I’m sure the same would be true of critical plant groups vs regular plant species too. Also “dark taxa” is an excellent new term.

Nathan Jay Baker@nathanjaybaker.bsky.social · 3w ago

Insect decline usually focuses on species we can name. But "dark taxa" like true flies kept revealing new species over 37-years of sampling a German stream, while well-studied mayflies/stoneflies/caddisflies plateaued with far fewer individuals. doi.org/10.1111/icad... @swarmofthoughts.bsky.social

Some good rain after the long spell of hot dry weather across France and the Ghost Orchids are responding. Dozens of spikes and several new populations recorded in the past few days. Starting to understand what makes this elusive species tick..

Beautiful Demoiselles perched on streamside nettles while bramble hunting in Grenoble this morning

3200m in the French Alps: Glaciers, Alpine Choughs and some beautiful very tough plants. Names on ALT

The eBook of our new #BSBIHandbook 'Whitebeams, Rowans and Service Trees of Britain and Ireland' is out now & it's only £10 (print book RRP = £35). 282 pages long & covers 68 taxa, all of which will be there on your phone/PC/laptop once you buy this eBook! Lead author is BSBI Sorbus expert Tim Rich.

Bramble du jour! A lovely but unknown Rubus from a streamside in Chartreuse. And French batologists out there able to advise on what species it might be?

Lyon botanical garden this afternoon. An interesting collection; I particularly enjoyed the fancy waterlilies and display of chartreuse ingredients. The spectacular glasshouses were out of bounds tho due to extreme heat

The final bramble of the week was a new one on the edge of Norwich; a Micantes indet for now.. then pressing the day’s specimens in the cool of the Green Dragon

Rubus hindii near Norwich on the final ‘26 day of photographing all Norfolk brambles with @caryocatactes.bsky.social A lovely neat Corylifolii with gently corrugated leaves, a long petiolule and primocanes which turn coral-orange for the winter

' In a muddle if you have got a lot of Buddle?' Treasures lie within. Golden margin 20+years old, greener strip 3 years old, waiting to calm down from years of intensive inputs & allow rarities to flourish. Not sown, but emerging from the seed bank. Alive with insects and birds even in 30°+