I'll be having a routine heart operation tomorrow so I will be out of action for a while. Hopefully afterwards, taking a photo while crouching won't leave me gasping, faint and breathless. I'm looking forward to a brighter Spring.
Sylvatica
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Sylvatica
@Botany2021
Hoping to inspire others to see the beauty of our native wildflowers and wildlife and thus help protect them.
Cornwall Botany Group/BSBI/CornwallWildlifeTrust
- 1000s of Papaver rhoeas, Common Poppies, Nr Eynsford, Kent 050717. Numerous photographers as well!
- One of the many stunning Pale Butterworts in flower today at Goss Moor #Cornwall, what a beauty. It eats insects that land on its sticky leaves which fold up and devour it. Pinguiscula lusitanica
- Galanthus nivalis "Flore Pleno", Snowdrop, naturalised for several hundred yards along the River Darent Farningham, Kent 100218 for #wildflowerhour (got very muddy knees taking this)
- Originally found by @danryan_nature the amazing Sea Daffodil is now flowering. 2 plants on sand dunes, near St Austell, Cornwall 140822 late for #wildflowerhour Pancratium maritimum - believed to have arrived on its own steam from Brittany, no evidence of any planting.
- The star of the week has to be this most stunning Wood Vetch, looks like a smaller Goat's rue but with far nicer flowers. Beautiful! Nr Barham East Kent 210620 for #wildflowerhour See thread. 1/3
- After my operation - A slow painful walk to the doctors - some new botanical records found along the way (of course), library photos (no way I can take any yet). #pavementplants
- Not a rare plant, but it looked good with the raindrops on it. The last of English Stonecrop in flower, St Mewan Beacon 310722 Sedum anglicum, early for #wildflowerhour
- Just got my copy of this book. It’s amazing with loads of tips on identifying difficult plant species. Very simple to use too.
- Imagine stumbling across this unexpectedly nowhere near any reserve, then finding another 10 nearby! Amazing things can happen. It did for me many times over the last 8 years since I took up botany. Lady Orchid, West Kent. Orchis purpurea
- TQ6159 Wrotham, Kent 200520 @KentWildlife RNR A20 north verge, several thousand flowers not mown and left for the bees to pollinate as part of the roadside nature reserve network around the county (need a lot more though).
- Star find of the day, Veronica spicata, Spiked Speedwell, Nationally Scarce, Great Orme 280617
- I pushed myself physically today as I'm back at work soon after a long illness and want to make sure I'm fit. Pleased to say I had no medical concerns today - a good day and one that has raised my spirits considerably. How could finding these flowers not do so? #wildflowerhour
