Moira O'Donnell
@naturelark.bsky.social
Fae Dundee 🏴 but now in South London. Choral singing, botany, butterflies, birds, wee beasties, crochet, cups of tea, G&T. Larking about in nature. Ooh look, there's a thing... 🤔 #WildflowerHour All my posts from X came too. https://linktr.ee/naturelark
A classic #WildWebsWednesday at this time of year - an Ivy Bee foraging on an Ivy flower in the pub car park in Kenley where we had lunch yesterday. This was after a very interesting tour of the airfield led by volunteers from the Kenley Revival Project.
It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it’s time for #wildflowerhour!! Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised plants you’ve found blooming in the last week from across Britain & Ireland ☺️
Sarah@sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · 5d agoFor #wildflowerhour today, I thought I'd compile a collage of the cheeriest yellow flowers I've seen this week - floral sunshine for a grey day. Here are Autumn Hawkbit, Agrimony, Gorse, Common Toadflax, Creeping Buttercup, Ragwort, Bristly Oxtongue, Tormentil, Bird's-foot Trefoil and Fleabane. 💛
I had lovely views of a Goldcrest in Coombe Wood Gardens this afternoon. 😍
A Small Copper with interesting colour variation on the upper side of the forewings, nectaring on Common Ragwort near Bough Beech yesterday. Apparently abberation is fairly frequent in this species, and I am presuming it is an abberation rather than just being faded. #WildWebsWednesday
Colley Hill, Surrey: coffee break from birding the steep scrub. Love the plaque on the bench I’m sitting on
Joining in with #Wildflowerhour is easy! Look for wild & naturalised blooms from across Britain & Ireland during the week & then share Sunday 8-9pm!
No purple colouration at all on the florets of this very attractive Carline Thistle, Carlina vulgaris, at Dungeness last Monday. #WildflowerHour
Two of my absolute favourites, Sea Campion, Silene uniflora, and Thrift, Armeria maritima, on the shingle at Dungeness last Monday. #WildflowerHour
I was out most of yesterday, and missed #WildflowerHour, so am posting my finds for last week a bit late. It was practically all gone to seed, but I was pleased to see the odd flowering plant of Nottingham Catchfly, Silene nutans, at Dungeness last Monday.
A beautiful Painted Lady, nectaring on Hemp Agrimony at RSPB Dungeness on Monday. #WildWebsWednesday
Shoreweed, Littorella uniflora, in the draw-down zone, Ardingly Reservoir. plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
Thank you for sharing your favourite plants for the last weekly challenge of 2026! I do hope you have enjoyed them! We will be having a short break before the winter challenge starts but fear not #wildflowerhour still continues each Sunday 8-9pm, see you all then! 🥰
Jelltex@jelltex.bsky.social · 3w agoNo competition this year for my #FavouritePlant, please #WildflowerHour, please enjoy, once again, Ophrys fuciflora var. flavescens. From Kent, obvs. #Orchid
Favorite plant of 2026 ... probably this Field Cow-wheat on the Isle of Wight this summer. Those colours! #FavouritePlants #wildflowerhour
My #FavouritePlant this year was the Harebells at South Gare on the River Tees Estuary in mid-July during the drought, because they were the sort of spectacular display of abundance and diversity that people go abroad for and we had it here in the Tees Valley #WildflowerHour
Primula farinosa L, Birdseye Primrose, at Ashberry. A simple case of total adoration from the emergence in April of tiny, tight rosettes clothed in farina, to that day at the very end of May, for the sheer joy of witnessing its spread ... a very good year #FavouritePlants #WildflowerHour
Square-stalked St John's-wort, Hypericum tetrapterum, on the the edge of Mansion Pond, Wakehurst place this week. #WildflowerHour
A #FavouritePlant this year is one I saw only a couple of days ago, Pennyroyal, Mentha pulegium. I've been wanting to see it for ages, and so I was excited to see it on the edge of Ardingly Reservoir. As far as I can gather, it was introduced in 1979 when the reservoir was created. #WildflowerHour.
Woohoo! It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it must be time for #wildflowerhour! 🥳 Please share your pics of any wild or naturalised blooms you’ve spotted this week from across Britain & Ireland & also tell us what your #favouriteplant of 2026 was, the focus of our last weekly challenge!
Sarah Lambert@sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 3w agoSo hard to choose a #favouriteplant but my most memorable (but not prettiest) botanical encounter of 2026 in the UK was probably finding a new population of Bearded Stonewort in a recently created pond on a @wildlifebcn.org fen-edge reserve #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
For the last weekly challenge, we want to know what was your favourite plant that you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland this year? Share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #favouriteplant and we’ll celebrate it with you! 🥳🌿🌸
Having been a member of @bsbibotany.bsky.social for several decades, this is a HUGE honour - thank you! And I’m thrilled that people love the book so much, and that it’s encouraged them to look at the plants we live alongside on pavements, walls & streets with fresh eyes #UrbanPlants
Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI)@bsbibotany.bsky.social · 4w agoCongrats to @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social on being awarded the 2026 Presidents' Award for his book 'Urban Plants'. The Award is made annually by the BSBI & @wildflowersociety.bsky.social Presidents for the most useful contribution (book, paper, discovery etc.) to our flora bsbi.org/about/news/l...
The terrestrial form of Amphibious Bistort, Persicaria amphibia, on the bank of the Wey Navigation at Guildford. #WildflowerHour
It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it must be time for #wildflowerhour! Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised blooms you’ve spotted from across Britain & Ireland in the last week & also show us your pics of any #fruits you have found for this week’s challenge! ☺️
Lin Hawthorne@haggewoods.bsky.social · 4w agoFeed the birds. Feed my soul. Rowan, the gift tree to protect every newborn. I never see them without my heart recalling this. A rowan like a lipsticked girl. Between the by-road and the main road from Song, Seamus Heaney #Fruits #Wildflowerhour
Hips, haws, nuts and berries! It’s starting to look a bit autumnal out there! So this week’s challenge is #fruits! Share your finds of wild & naturalised fruits for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy fruit hunting! ☺️🍒
