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Joshua Styles
@joshual951
Plant obsessive, restoration ecologist and science communicator 🏳️‍🌈
Liverpool, England
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    Joshua Styles
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    Dec 13, 2025
    🚨Hoylake beach update🚨 After a LONG six years, we’re finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!! An agreement has finally been reached between @NaturalEngland and @WirralCouncil which means around 2% of the 41ha of vegetated foreshore at Hoylake will be cleared.
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    Jul 6, 2023
    Hi @CheshireEast, years ago you designated our road verge an official Wildflower Verge. It became so rich in wildflowers inc. orchids & lots of other wildlife that the verge is now proposed to become a Local Wildlife Site. It was amazing until you mowed it this morning. Why?😢🌱
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    Apr 30, 2022
    I am absolutely DEVASTATED. An approved outline application for industrial units and other development has been approved by @KnowsleyCouncil. This development will result in the destruction and deterioration of over 7 HECTARES of ancient woodland. @WoodlandTrust PLEASE HELP!😭
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    Jul 11, 2023
    Hi @BBCNews, the lethal dose of hemlock is rather large. It would take a person eating a large handful (c.30g) to become seriously ill from conine, while the RHS has identified >130 highly toxic plants that commonly grow in gardens Stop demonising nature
    Hemlock on an overgrown path in Bucklesham, Suffolk.
    Hemlock: Anger after poisonous plant found near Bucklesham school
    From bbc.co.uk
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    Joshua Styles
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    May 27, 2022
    OH 👏🏼 MY 👏🏼 JESUS 👏🏼 I went to a Manchester bog where I reintroduced the very rare Oblong-leaved Sundew (Drosera intermedia) two years ago after it became extinct there >150 years back. The population has increased MORE THAN 4-FOLD, with potentially THOUSANDS of seedlings!!!
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    Joshua Styles
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    Feb 6, 2022
    OH MY JESUS!!!!! I’ve just found Thin-spiked Wood Sedge (Carex strigosa) in Halewood!! It’s been presumed extinct in Merseyside for OVER 100 YEARS!!!!! 🤯🎉
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    Joshua Styles
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    Oct 12, 2020
    WHY on EARTH, have you just allocated >6,000 new homes on irreplaceable deep peat deposits in Carrington, @AndyBurnhamGM? This new allocation will destroy an irreplaceable, 10,000 year old habitat, and end up emitting over 380,000 TONNES of carbon into the atmosphere! PLS SHARE
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    Joshua Styles
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    Aug 16, 2024
    OH MY GOD…. Finding a globally rare orchid was not what I was expecting to see in this wee nomow area in Liverpool… Dune helleborine (Epipactis dunensis) is an orchid endemic to Britain and, even here, can be found at fewer than 100 places. WOW 😍😍🌱
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    Joshua Styles
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    Oct 18, 2020
    OH 👏🏼 MY 👏🏼 GOD 👏🏼 So today I found Golden Bog-moss (Sphagnum pulchrum) at @Lancswildlife Winmarleigh Moss, last seen at the reserve OVER 100 YEARS AGO!!!!! 😱🎉
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    Joshua Styles
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    Jun 16, 2023
    Two years ago my gardens were a biological desert with 25 different wild plants and barely a fly, bee or beetle in sight. Today, I’ve >150 wild plant species across my gardens which are humming with insects. There’s barely a leaf not being used by all manner of life! Gorgeous😍🌱
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    Joshua Styles
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    Aug 12, 2021
    After months of stress, I’ve finally got my first house! First on the priority list - let’s sort these horribly enriched and sterile gardens out 🤩🌱🌸
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    Joshua Styles
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    Jul 18, 2023
    Hi @TitchmarshShow, As a child, I looked up to you & other TV gardeners. It was bc of that admiration that I first grew wildflowers. From that, I began volunteering & became an ecologist whose ‘rewilded’ garden gives joy every. single. day. Devastated.
    Alan Titchmarsh warns against ‘ill-considered’ rewilding trend in domestic gardens
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    Joshua Styles
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    May 21, 2023
    I’m utterly devastated. Since this image was posted, one of the entitled and bitter locals has decided to pull up ALL flowering Yellow Flag Iris on Hoylake beach. To deprive other people and wildlife of such a beautiful and valued wild plant is outright evil.
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    Joshua Styles
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    May 16, 2023
    Got sent this beautiful picture of a Yellow Flag Iris (Iris pseudacorus) on the astounding Hoylake Beach today which has cheered me right up! 😍🌱
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    Joshua Styles
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    Jul 24, 2023
    Graduation time for my MSc - I got a distinction! 🌱❤️
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    Joshua Styles
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    Sep 2, 2023
    Two years ago I collected and grew on seed from Liverpool’s very last native population of Devil’s-bit Scabious, planting out 10s of plants across Netherley’s wildflower grasslands. I’m excited to say that the very 1st plant of this rare beastie was seen in flower today!! YAY!
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