The Wash Shimmering mud trees on the far horizon softened in heat haze soft shades of blue and grey where sky meets sea endless space and calm #photography #naturewriting

Numbers are waning, but every day there's something interesting... This week we've had Saltmarsh Knothorn and Hawthorn Tuft new for our Peterborough garden, our first Webb's Wainscot since 2011 and our second Dark-marked / Strawberry Tortrix agg. #mothsmatter #teammoth

Masses of Bulbous Meadow-grass in very trampled grassland to the north of the Snettisham beach car-park, favouring the tops of mounds where it stood out because of its greyish colour, vying with Rough Clover for best necrobotany specimen of the day... #ByTheSea #wildlfowerhour

A few non-maritime species that often like to live #ByTheSea were still flowering earlier this week at Snettisham - Viper's-bugloss, Common Restharrow, Hoary Mullein and Fennel. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

An impromptu day #ByTheSea at Snettisham, where some of the coastal flora was still looking good despite the drought - Sea Holly, Carline Thistle, Sea Spurge, Prickly Saltwort (so much of it!) and a Rock Sea-lavender #wildlfowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Out recording NVC quadrats at @wildlifebcn.org Fulbourn Fen NR today. During a short break I spotted these two moths - Marbled Clover and Lesser Pearl - both could be migrants but also just about within their native range, and the right sort of habitat... #mothsmatter #teammoth

The best of this morning's haul in the Peterborough trap - a very fresh Four-spotted moth showing its intricate patterning; a likely garden-grown Toadflax Brocade and a stunning Gold Spot, probably flown in from the nearby Nene valley. #mothsmatter #teammoth

Excited to find a Lime Flame at the bottom of the Peterborough moth trap this week - a flash of orange with three silvery raised spots edged in black on each wing. Associated with mature lime trees, this one has almost certainly wandered in from nearby Thorpe Hall. #mothsmatter #teammoth

August on the Maxey Cut - clear water flowing over waving beds of River Water-crowfoot. On the evening of 12th Aug you can join Kathryn Parsons and Richard Astle for a gentle walk exploring the working landscape south of the Maxey Cut - from ancient common to nature restoration - link in comments

Sad to read of suspected arson at Holme Fen reserve. 🔥 A 657-acre protected area in Cambridgeshire featuring the country's largest silver birch woodland, it is the lowest land point in GB & managed by Natural England, forming part of the wider Great Fen project... www.greatfen.org.uk/holme-fen

Holme Fen | The Great Fen

Holme Fen National Nature Reserve is one of four remaining fragments of the ancient wild fens.

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The gentlest of nettles - elegant and eminently stroke-able, with scarcely any stinging hairs! Urtica dioica subsp. subinermis, found growing in a shady corner of the Hinksey Stream, Oxford - somewhat of a hot-spot for this taxon #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

I went to Bedford Purlieus NNR this morning to visit the Broad-leaved Helleborines. As expected, plenty of vegetative plants and eventually a few with open flowers, but many flower-spikes had shrivelled in bud - a response to the prolonged drought... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Celebrating the #wetlandplants of Woodwalton Fen NNR during a training day this week - from towering Marsh Sow-thistles to low-growing Common Comfrey (subsp. bohemicum), Yellow Loosestrife on the point of flowering and a rather shy Greater Water-parsnip... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

In the pink - a very fresh Roseate Marble new for our Peterborough garden, possibly on the roots of the Perennial Sow-thistle gracing our patio. And a smart Mint Moth- very common in the garden but just because it's so beautiful... #mothsmatter #teammoth

We are very sad to hear that Rosemary Parslow, a much-loved Wildlife Travel leader, great friend, wise counsel and botanical inspiration to many, has passed away We will never search for Least Adder's Tongue or Dwarf Pansy on our hands and knees without thinking of Rosemary She will be much missed

Very sad news that Rosemary Parslow has passed away. She joined the Society in 1979 & served as our Vice-County Recorder for the Isles of Scilly since 1983: an immense service to the botanical world. We send our condolences to her family & friends. More information here: bsbi.org/about/news/l...

Non-botanical highlight of our recent survey visit to the Lincolnshire coast was finding hordes of Natterjack toadlets scuttling around in several recently scraped dune slacks. The Dynamic Dunescapes habitat restoration has clearly worked well...

Sea-lavenders at Saltfleetby-Theddlethorpe NNR this week... Swathes of Common Sea-lavender painting the saltmarsh purple; a potential hybrid with Lax-flowered Sea-lavender; and two species of rock sea-lavender on the saltmarsh-dune interface. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

The theme for this week’s #wildflowerhour challenge is wetland plants. So have a mosey in your local marsh, mire, bog, fen and see what you can find! Share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm using #wetlandplants #InternationalBogDay2026

A couple of urban neophytes #StillFlowering in Sussex - self-seeded Garden Lobelia looking happy at the base of a wall in Pevensey and Yellow Corydalis lighting up a village churchyard in Hellingly, close to a native Great Mullein living up to its name... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A fine assemblage of wetland species found during a very hot and breezy survey of a small part of the Pevensey Levels - the highlight being lots of fruiting Sharp-leaved Pondweed, a rare species whose stronghold is in Sussex. Names in ALT #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social #StillFlowering

Sheets of Strawberry Clover #StillFlowering on the Pevensey Levels earlier this week, coping well with the extended drought that's turned much of the grassland from green to gold. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Horned Poppy was one of the few plants #StillFlowering on the shingle at Pevensey Bay. But great to see plenty of fruiting Sea Kale and to find the spiky seed-heads of Rough Dog's-tail, looking very at home in the dry conditions... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Three species #StillFlowering in the grounds of the cafe at Hastings Country Park when most other vegetation was dry and shrivelled - Chicory, Thrift and Pineappleweed - true survivors... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Different shades of pink from three species of Ericaceae - Cross-leaved Heath, Bell Heather and Heather - #StillFlowering in Ashdown Forest this week, alongside some bright yellow-flowered Dwarf Gorse which provided a lively colour contrast. #wildflowerhour @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!

A few nice species I don’t often see, found in a very hot and dry corner of Ashdown Forest en route to the Pevensey Levels - Redstart, Small Red Damselfly, Grass Emerald and Evarcha arcuata

The entomological highlight of the recent LNU/LFG trip to Scrivelsby Park was this Yellow-legged Clearwing found by Peter Kirby. Very few records of this elusive moth in North Lincs (VC54). Its larvae feed internally on oak wood. @lincsnata.bsky.social #teammoth #mothsmatter

A very pale, almost silvery, variant of Cornflower, seen today in an area seeded with wildflowers at Tolworth Court Farm Fields LNR, during a very hot grassland NVC survey. #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Wild Parsnip and Field Scabious looking wonderful in our wild garden this week - and providing pollen and nectar for a wide range insects... #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildlifegarden