Lesley Totten
@lesleytotten.bsky.social
Passionate about Birds and Nature in general. Poet. Studied Art History. Teacher of care-experienced young people. Proud mother and resident of Edinburgh.
Australia has a completely different set of ecosystems to the UK. In Britain, you don’t fight fire with fire: you fight it with water. We have allowed landowners to comprehensively drain our peat bogs, remove farmland ponds, riddle landscapes with field drains. Make Britain Wet Again!
My favourite flower #ByTheSea this week has got to be the beautifully delicate Common Sea-lavender growing on Chesil Beach. Erect stems sprinkled with gorgeous purple flowers, interspersed with little white cups that tell of past blooms. A lovely flower in a lovely location. 💜 #wildflowerhour
More #ByTheSea for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social ID a bit of a challenge for a couple 🤔 but the sun and salt brought out the pink all round - Rosa rugosa, Bloody Crane’s-bill, Yarrow, C Mallow, Restharrow ?, Dove’s-foot Crane’s-bill ? 🩷🌸🌊 #WildFlowerHour #EastLothian
Sea Rocket and Frosted Orache #ByTheSea on the beautiful East Lothian coast. #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Missed last Sunday’s #wildflowerhour as was returning from beautiful Scotland. One of my highlights seeing my very first Grass of Parnassus in real life in the hills over looking Loch Ness! A beauty. Himself in the Loch agreed!!
A few blooms spotted for #wildflowerhour this week on a lovely family holiday in beautiful Northumberland! #ByTheSea
It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it’s time for #wildflowerhour! 🎉 Please share the wild & naturalised blooms you’ve spotted across Britain & Ireland in the last week especially if you found them #ByTheSea, the theme for this week’s challenge!
Pam McInnes @pammcinnes.bsky.social · 3d ago#Wildflowerhour #ByTheSea2 More from the stunning Jurassic coast. Names in ALT.
Lovely to see so many #wetlandplants for tonight's #WildFlowerHour. Many thanks to everyone who shared photos! Today is #InternationalBogDay2026 so a good opportunity to remind ourselves about the crucial importance of bogs for wildlife, for carbon capture & more: www.iucn-uk-peatlandprogramme.org
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Moira O'Donnell@naturelark.bsky.social · last wk.Trifid Bur-marigold, Bidens tripartita, Runnymede. #WetlandPlants #WildflowerHour
Can't recall ever seeing Carline Thistle in it's flowering stage before, always see the dried plants in Autumn and Winter. Here it is in all it's stunning glory, seen on Aberffraw dunes today #Anglesey #Wildflowerhour
#wetlandplants for this week's #wildflowerhour 💦 🩷 Ragged Robin & marsh marigold from a damp #GlenFinglas in the Trossachs 🤍 Round sundew & bog cotton from Spinningdale bog at #Ledmore & Migdale In this weather are there any wetland plants thriving near you? #InternationalBogDay2026
There for the butterflies (lots and lots of them!) but couldn’t ignore Corn Mint (Mentha arvensis) in Grafton Wood, Worcestershire. With visiting bug, I think Red-spotted Plant Bug (Deraeocoris ruber). #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @savebutterflies.bsky.social
Fine-leaved Water-dropwort, Oenanthe aquatica, on the dried up edge of Langham Pond, Runnymede. #WetlandPlants #WildflowerHour
#WetlandPlants or at least damp loving plants, seen this week at a local NR: Purple Loosestrife, Angelica, Meadowsweet & Hemp Agrimony. Surprised they looked so healthy, so must still be enough moisture there for them. #WildflowerHour
Three Clustered Bellflower from today’s #WiltsBotSoc meeting on the National Trust’s Stonehenge arable reversion sites - a very impressive selection of chalk grassland species in the fields where reversion began a fair few years ago. And a cool breeze too! #WildflowerHour
Lesser Marshwort, Helosciadium inundatum, on the dried up edge of Langham Pond, Runnymede. #WetlandPlants ##WildflowerHour
Another exciting find on the Assynt coast - Rosetoot stonecrop (?) Sedum rosea @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #WildFlowerHour
Great to find Scots Lovage (?) Sea Campion and more gorgeous English Stonecrop - All coastal Assynt @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #WildFlowerHour
Assynt glories for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social All the Heathers; Cross-leaved Heath, Bell & Ling. Common Milkwort & English Stonecrop near Drumbeg #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 found across Britain & Ireland in the last week especially if they are #WetlandPlants the theme of this week’s challenge!
Sheila Gregory@sheilagregory.bsky.social · last wk.We went to Glasson Moss NNR to look for bog plants today It was a bit dry, but we found some nice things, including baby Lizards. #wetlandplants #wildflower_hour #SolwayCoastNL #Cumbria @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Phew it’s been so hot lately!This week’s challenge is to find those wild & naturalised plants that are surviving the drought conditions & are #StillFlowering! Share your finds for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm!
Not content with cancelling Autumnwatch a few years ago, the BBC now want to get rid of Winterwatch! Don't let them do it! Please sign the petition! you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/pr...
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It’s #SwiftAwarenessWeek! Peek into the lives of our Swift family with our live nest cam. We can’t promise you’ll get anything done once you’ve seen the swiftlets. Click our avatar to watch live 😍
Very interesting to see your finds for the #InvasivePlants challenge! Some garden escapes can seem innocuous but in time they can become extremely problematic shading out native flora & causing environmental damage. Keep a look out for the next challenge & happy flower hunting!
Bruce Taylor@barrabirder.bsky.social · last mo.Non-native Gunnera, Isle of Barra. From 1 plant in the late 90s to 700+ today, this wannabe Triffid is thriving in the damp peaty soil but shading out native flora including rare Irish Lady's Tresses. There's talk of an eradication scheme; it can't come soon enough. #InvasivePlants #wildflowerhour
Purple Loosestrife, Broad-leaved Dock, Clustered Dock, Charlock - perhaps flattened by heavy rain?, Hedge Mustard and Hedge woundwart - all glorious at #BlackfordPond @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
All beetles for this week’s #wildflowerhour #pollinatorpals challenge: pollen beetles on yellow water lily, Pseudovadonia livida on oxeye daisy and Leptura quadrifasciata on bramble sp..
