As expected Cut-leaved germander has appeared in quantity at its only Glos site this year but, like many of us, it's not thriving in the heat...
Wiltshire Downs wonderfully floriferous. Never seen Round-headed rampion so abundant & as for the Clustered bellflower! Numerous Dark green fritillaries & Painted ladies adding to the spectacle.
For ##wildflowerhour & #ClimbingPlants Black Bryony appropriating our garden bench & another one hanging around with some Helleborines, plus a Clematis vitalba, Traveller's-joy. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Some Helleborines from Glos today. Broad-leaved & Green-flowered. Unfortunately unable to find any Slender-lipped in all the usual places - any tips would be most welcome! @ukorchids.bsky.social
Today is #NationalMeadowsDay & here are some from Wiltshire looking their very finest @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @floodplainmead.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
The N Wilts meadows are looking stunning right now. This is from Distillery Farm today. Love the sneezewort.
Clattinger Farm WWT reserve. Floodplain hay meadows, storing carbon, supporting biodiversity & ready to slow & filter the next inevitable floods. Beauty & utility. @floodplainmead.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social
Clattinger Farm is looking absolutely magnificent right now, despite the heat & drought. One of the finest species rich hay meadows in the lowlands. We are so lucky places like this are protected & still exist. #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
We saw 3 rather special plants this week in N Wilts & S Glos - Cut-leaved Self heal, Round-headed campion & Field cow wheat. #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
These are some of our #LawnFlowers for #WildflowerHour. It's been evolving over a number of years: extra pleased to have 3 Fragrant orchids arrive this year. Orobanche minor appears every year & in some quantity. #NoMowMay begins in April & runs to July. @wildflowehour.bsky.social
I really like the vermillion shade of Early marsh orchid var coccinea, seen here at Braunton Burrows @ukorchids.bsky.social
Last year one, this year three Fragrant orchids in our garden wildflower area. All just turned up. @ukorchids.bsky.social
Burnt orchids are back in N Wilts. Very few, but it's an improvement on last year & they are just gorgeous @ukorchids.bsky.social
On the same @floodplainmead.bsky.social trip as @milesking.bsky.social to W. Fermanagh, Green-veined white on Heath spotted orchid @ukorchids.bsky.social
Early purple orchids here in Donegal are still in full flower, along with primroses! Probably as a result of the distinctly cold weather! It was great to finally meet up with Sean Cole & Mike Waller at Sheskinmore today. @ukorchids.bsky.social
2 colour versions of the bee/fly hybrid Ophrys x pietzschii. Numbers seem to be dwindling here @ukorchids.bsky.social
For #wildflowerhour #peasandcarrots Horseshoe & Kidney vetch on the Wiltshire Downs, the latter food plant of Adonis blue butterflies who were keeping well out of the cold wind today. Plus a carrot & Field fleawort. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Only 4 Burnt orchids seen at Pewsey Downs today; better than last year when there were none. Most years there are 100s; still it's early yet.... @ukorchids.bsky.social
A dripping tufa cascade covered in Pinguicula hirtiflora, Albania.
Early marsh is about par but I don't recall seeing Southern marsh flowering this early. @ukorchids.bsky.social
This is interesting: this very attractive An. morio flowered for 3 consecutive years, then took 2 years off & has just reappeared. Glad to see it back. @ukorchids.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A selection from the Pembroke coast, Lousewort, Spring squill, Sea campion & Early purple orchid #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Never seen such an abundance of Golden-saxifrage as in these Pembroke woods. #WidflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
I've generally found that albino A. morio are later to come into flower; not this one. @ukorchids.bsky.social
Scarcely room to fit another celandine on this verge. & here's an unusual albino which occasionallyappears. #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
