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Rachel P 🌿

@rach0penno.bsky.social

I enjoy natural history (esp. botany), wildflowers, ecology, local history, archaeology and genealogy. Happiest on long family walks in the countryside. 🌿🍁🍄🍂🌼🌳

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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚@rgleadow.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Very good animation on the type of illness induced by certain activity in people with ME - get informed. Thank you for a couple of minutes of your time to learn about this awful disease that my daughter has @elizacharley.bsky.social

Irish ME/CFS Association@irishmecfsassoc.bsky.social · 5mo ago

2/‬ ‪May is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME) Awareness Month. ‬ ‪You can help by sharing and/or liking this video. It is 3 minutes 5 seconds long. ‬ ‪ youtu.be/TGIo1v7KVJQ ‬ ‪ ‪This film will give you an introduction to PEM (Post Exertional Malaise).‬ ‪ ‪Day 2 #MEcfs #CFS

Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · last yr.

I contributed to the Covid-19 Inquiry on the Test and Trace Module as an expert written witness. My statement is now public for those (few) interested covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/in...

INQ000575988 - Witness Statement of Professor Christina Pagel, dated 19/03/2025 UK Covid-19 Inquiry Archives

Witness Statement of Professor Christina Pagel, dated 19/03/2025.

covid19.public-inquiry.uk

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Lucerne or Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) growing in an arable field margin. Seen on a beautiful late summer evening walk. #WildflowerHour

Purple flowers of Lucerne or Alfalfa growing at the edge of an arable field. The photo was taken in the evening, the sky in the background is soft blue and peach in colour.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) adding bright spots of colour to the dry grasses in this meadow. #WildflowerHour

A bright magenta coloured Knapweed flower in a meadow with straw coloured tall grasses around it.

A meadow of straw coloured dry, tall.grass spikes dotted with purple Knapweed flowers.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Not much flowering in the woods now, but there was a lovely patch of Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca) adding a splash of colour to the greens of the woodland. #WildflowerHour

Purple and blue tall erect flower spikes of Tufted Vetch.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Common Restharrow (Ononis repens) on Rodborough Common, Gloucestershire this afternoon. The pink flowers of this shrubby creeping bush are now starting to take over from the pink of the fragrant orchids. #WildflowerHour

A low growing shrub, Common Restharrow, with its pink flowers. Set against a blue sky with clouds. This plant was growing in a small quarried area on Rodborough Common

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Last week's hot weather had baked most of the orchids on Rodborough Common to a crisp, but a few were clinging on: Pyramidal orchid, white Fragrant Orchid, pink Fragrant Orchid and a Bee Orchid. #WildflowerHour #Orchids

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Last week's hot weather had baked most of the orchids on Rodborough Common to a crisp, but a few were clinging on including this upside down Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera) #WildflowerHour #Orchids

A Bee Orchid with two flowers at the top of the stem. The flowers are growing upside down on this plant.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Ashton Court meadows, Bristol showing how sympathetic management for wildlife can happily sit alongside recreation for a large urban population. #WildflowerHour #UrbanPlants

A meadow of tall grasses, common spotted orchids, clover, yellow rattle and yellow hawkbit flowers.

A magenta purple/pink orchid probably a hybrid marsh orchid.

Two pale pink flower spikes of Common Spotted Orchid.

Pale pink Common Spotted Orchids, yellow Hawkbit flowers, Ox-Eye Daisies, tall grasses.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Thousands of Common Fragrant Orchids (Gymnadenia conopsea) flowering across Rodborough Common, Gloucestershire yesterday. The strong breeze made photography challenging! #WildflowerHour #Orchids

A pale pink tall flower spike of common fragrant orchid on Rodborough Common near Stroud, Gloucestershire. There are more flower spikes in the distance.

A pink flower spike of Common Fragrant Orchid with several more spikes behind.

Vinny Blood @orchidvinny.bsky.social · last yr.

One of the 7 orchid wonders of Dorset - the Great Pyramidals of Weymouth 10.06.25. They certainly made this Giza happy! 🤪 #orchid @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Broomrape, probably Common (Orobanche minor) and Pyramidal orchids (Anacamptis pyramidalis) were the standout flowering plants seen today in Gloucestershire. Very late for #WildflowerHour

A stem of pale pinkish brown flowers of Common Broomrape within a green meadow with tall flowering grasses and clovers.

A bright magenta purple pyramidal orchid flowering in a grassy road verge.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

A few from Gloucestershire's Golden Valley today at Daneway Banks and Strawberry Bank Nature Reserves @gloswildlife.bsky.social. The drought has had a noticeably negative impact on the flora at both sites. Common Columbine, Greater Knapweed and Dyer's Greenweed. #WildflowerHour

A deep purple wild Common Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris) growing on the steep slopes of Strawberry Banks, Gloucestershire.

A magenta pink coloured Greater Knapweed (Centauria scabiosa) with a bulbous tufted swollen head at the top of the stem.

Dyer's Greenweed (Genista tinctoria) with bright yellow flowers on erect leafy stalked spikes.

A deep purple wild Common Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris) with a nodding head and long backwards pointing spurs on the petals.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Navelwort or Wall Pennywort (Umbilicus rupestris) is currently enjoying its moment all along the wall leading up to our village church. Some absolute units amongst them! #WildflowerHour #Wildflowers

A large cluster of wall pennywort flowers growing from a grey stone wall. The plant has tall round, green, succulent leaves that look like coins, and straw-coloured, thin, candle-like flower spikes which grow from the centre of the leaf.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Late yesterday, just before dusk, a thick mist formed in the warm evening air after a sudden downpour, turning this urban park into an ethereal landscape 🧚🏻‍♀️

Two trees in the foreground stand on the edge of a park with a thick band of mist hovering above the grass. The sky is peachy and blue grey in colour shortly before dusk.

Sarah @sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · last yr.

The Bluebells on Skomer Island are just spectacular at the moment. Also loving the Sea Campion, so pretty and the Puffins look great in amongst all the flowers. #wildflowerhour

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

A Hawthorn tree encrusted with flowers, whilst thunder rolled around the Cotswold Edge. #WildflowerHour

A solitary Hawthorn tree in a meadow laden with white flowers. The sky is very dark grey from storm cells.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

A miniature purple forest of Bugle flowers (Ajuga reptans) for #WildflowerHour #Wildflowers

Lots of purple Bugle flowers with erect stems with many flowers on them. These were in a shaded woodland, growing with Sanicle and Speedwell.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Early Halloween decorations 🎃 or the ghostly silken webs of the Ermine moth? I tried not to get tangled up with the writhing caterpillars that were dangling on silken threads as they broke free from the tree! #NaturePhotography #Caterpillars #Moths @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social

A tree with its branches totally covered in Ermine moth cobwebs so that it looks ghostly white and ready for Halloween! The caterpillars had stripped all the leaves off the tree, with some of the caterpillars emerging from inside the webs and forming long writhing threads dangling from the branches.

A close up of the white silken webs of the Ermine moth, totally cloaking the branches of a tree.

A close up of a ball of wriggling Ermine moth caterpillars inside one of the 'nurseries' inside the white silken web.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Like delicate ballerina-pink tutus dancing on long stems, the Water Avens (Geum rivale) are showing well in the damp grassy areas at Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire. #WildflowerHour #Wildflowers #NaturePhotography @gloswildlife.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

A close up photo of a pale pink water avens flower. It has dark reddish brown, hairy sepals and stem. The flower head is nodding, so that the petals all point down, it looks a bit like a lampshade.

A close up photo of a pale pink water avens flower. It has reddish brown, hairy sepals and stem. The flower in this photo is not facing downwards, so we can see inside the petals at the feathery seed head that's developing.

A close up of a pale pink water avens flower. It has dark reddish brown, hairy sepals and stem. The flower head is nodding, so that the petals all point down, it looks a bit like a lampshade.

A close up photo of a pale pink water avens flower. It has dark reddish brown, hairy sepals and stem. The flower head is nodding.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Early-purple orchids (Orchis mascula) in the calcareous shallow soils at Selsley Common near Stroud, Gloucestershire. A windy site due to the SW facing aspect of its steep slopes. #WildflowerHour #Wildflowers #NaturePhotography

A pair of magenta purple Early Purple orchids

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Thousands of Green-winged orchids (Anacamptis morio) flowering in the grassland and meadows at Ashton Court, Bristol. A real success story for the sympathetic management of shared open spaces for wildlife👏🏻 #WildflowerHour #Bristol #Wildflowers #Meadows #NaturePhotography

A close up of a dark magenta purple green winged orchid. The name comes from the green veins on the upper petals of the flower.

A pale pink green winged orchid showing the green veins on its upper petals really clearly.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Hundreds of Cowslips flowering in the meadow within our local ancient woodland. Such a delight 💛 #SundayYellow #Wildflowers #Woodland #NaturePhotography

A meadow with hundreds of yellow cowslips with their bell-like pendulous flowers on tall erect stems.

A meadow full of hundreds of yellow cowslips.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

A little patch of heaven on earth for Earth Day 💙💚 A carpet of fragrant English Bluebells in our local ancient hazel/oak/ash woodland. #EarthDay #Bluebells #Woodland #NaturePhotography #Wildflowers

A carpet of bluebells under hazel and ash. The hazel trees have yellow green leaves unfurling.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Blue sky and Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) yesterday at Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire for #BlueSkyMonday #Bluebells #NaturePhotography @gloswildlife.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

Looking along a woodland path to an old wooden '5 bar' gate. There are bluebells on either side of the path carpeting the woodland floor. There are hazel trees with vibrant green leaves.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) adding some sparkle to our local hedgerows and verges 🤍💚 #WildflowerHour #NaturePhotography #Wildflowers

A mass of white Greater Stitchwort flowers, each with five deeply notched petals.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

Carpets of fragrant English Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) in Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire 💙💚 #WildflowerHour #NaturePhotography #Wildflowers #Woodland @gloswildlife.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

A carpet of blue-violet bluebells under a yellow-green emerging canopy of hazel leaves.

A sea of blue-violet bluebells on the woodland floor beneath vibrant yellow-green hazel leaves.

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

The recent rain seems to have helped the Bluebells fulfil their peak potential in Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire. Such a glorious sight 💙💚 #WildflowerHour #Bluebells #Woodland #WildFlowers @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

A close up photo of an English bluebell with its blue-violet bell-like flowers nodding on a gently curved stem. There are lots of bluebells in the background of the photo.

Lots of English bluebells carpeting the woodland floor, with tree trunks and hazel coppice.

Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · last yr.

The first flowering orchid of the year is always special - a single Early Purple-orchid in a glade at Bedford Purlieus NNR. Parts of the woodland floor were smothered with Wood Anemones, while the yellow-green flowers of Wood Spurge lit up the ride margins #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A carpet of white Wood Anemone flowers with a scatter of Buebells

The acid yellow-green flowers of Wood Spurge

Fresh leaves of Silver Birch and Pedunculate Oak in soft chartreuse-green, gently clothing naked winter branches along a woodland ride

Rachel P 🌿@rach0penno.bsky.social · last yr.

It's Bluebell time...💙💙💙 #WildflowerHour #Bluebells #BlueSkyMonday #NaturePhotography

A carpet of blue-violet bluebells with vibrant green leaves carpeting the woodland floor beneath hazel coppice. A few yellow celandine flowers scattered amongst them. The trees in the background of the photo have bright yellowy-green leaves emerging.