Goonown Growers where I volunteer. Both Male and Lady fern enjoying the tool shed as well as the tools!

Riccia glauca, Glaucous Crystalwort on a path edge in the wonderful Potager Garden in Cornwall.

"If you find someone who makes you smile, who checks up on you often to see if you're okay. Who watches out for you and wants the best for you. Who loves and respects you. Don't let them go. People like that are hard to find." ~ Franz Kafka 🎨 Stanislav Zhukovsky (1927)

Spend less time with people where you need to put on a show & more time with people where you can be yourself

Delighted to come across a bright green colony of Bifid Crestwort (Lophocolea bidentata) covering a rock mid-stream today. Devon woodland #liverwort #bryophyte

It's so real...

Here's a photomicrograph of the very small #liverwort Toothed Pouncewort (Drepanolejeunea hamatifolia) from West #Cornwall. It's very small and I didn't have my camera to photograph in situ! It's a temperate rainforest species.

Some wonderful mosses and ferns along the River Fowey today.

I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian. Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference. Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say? Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk

🍃NEW EPISODE: "We are a society of altruists governed by psychopaths." @georgemonbiot.bsky.social shatters an entrenched myth around human nature in less than 90 seconds. Listen to the full episode of It’s Bloody Complicated, out now, wherever you get your podcasts.

Happy #BogDay. The most misunderstood ecosystems on our planet have been ridiculed, drained, burned, and destroyed throughout modern history. These water purifiers, carbon keepers, storytellers, and beautiful places deserve our respect, today and every day.

Ravens having a little chat on Truro Cathedral.

Spring Squill, Scilla verna on sea cliff in Cornwall. #Wildflowerhour

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Petition: Ban driven grouse shooting

Chris Packham, Ruth Tingay and Mark Avery (Wild Justice) believe that driven grouse shooting is bad for people, the environment and wildlife. People; we think grouse shooting is economically insignifi...

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I decided to decorate my simnel cake in a cheery, colourful way this year. A few flowers from the garden make all the difference.

Here is a young plant of Wild Celery (Apium graveolens) growing on the path edge, River side walk, #Truro. A reventment with more plants is on the opposite side of the footpath. Tidal Truro River beside Tesco carpark.

A symmetrical pattern, well almost; with Clustered feather-moss (Rhynchostegium confertum) and Winter heliotrope (Petasites fragrant). Wall top, Truro.

Bawdy Greek jokes and Edwardian treats in today's pteridomanic @theguardian.com country diary by Sara Hudston. (Think I just made up a word...) #countrydiary #naturewriting

Country diary: They look like tiny green toenails. So why the name ‘maidenhair’ spleenwort? Sara Hudston

Bridport, Dorset: The common fern’s name was inspired by another phase of its life cycle, when fronds die off and spindly threads of stem remain in luxuriant, wiry tufts

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I'm thrilled to share news of my new book - Mosses, Liverworts and Hornworts of the World - which is now available for pre-order at some book shops and will hit the streets in August. Published by Princeton University Press: tinyurl.com/Mosses-of-th...

Lovely, made me smile.

Helen Warlow@hippychick.bsky.social · last yr.

‘Owls on Big Hat Night’. Vicky Sawyer.

Mexican Tree Fern, Cibotium schiederei in #Cambridge #BotanicGarden for #FernFriday, worthy of a Celtic craftsman.

Wild daffodils in a Cornish hedge and an unusal pinkish coloured Barren Strawberry in woodland, Liskeard, from yesterday's roam. #wildflowerhour

Illuminous moss, Schistostega pennata Goblin gold in the Cornish hedges near Liskeard today. Always nice to find. Difficult to photograph as tucked back in earth hollows. #bryophyte #moss

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

"Let us not look for you only in memory, Where we would grow lonely without you. You would want us to find you in presence, Beside us when beauty brightens." ~ John O'Donohue The Gathering of Daffodils 🎨 Harold Harvey

Second day of BBS Spring Field Meeting. Spring Wood, Kettlewell, was a rich site with some lovely plants including the limestone crevice specialists Pedinophyllum interruptum, Orthothecium intricatum, and Mnium marginatum.

"Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen." ~ Blaise Pascal Flowers in a Vase (1873) 🎨 Paul Cezanne

Light green patch of the liverwort Lophocolea bispinosa (Great Crestwort) on lawn/path edge in municipal gardens. The area is regularly sprayed with Roundup. Accompanied by Phaeoceros laevis (Smooth Hornwort) and Crescent-cup Liverwort. #bryophyte #liverwort

Thanks everyone. Back Later. Here is a wonderful collection of apple names and varieties. Helen🌷🐝📚

‘Alex’ by Vicky Sawyer. She was the first artist to adorn animals etc with headdresses