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The home of #WildflowerHour: 8-9pm every Sunday. Wild Flowers you find across Britain & Ireland in the last week. The biggest cheerleader for our wild plants! Posts by @botanybeck.bsky.social https://wildflowerhouruk.weebly.com/

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 10h

Now autumn is here #wildflowerhour is such a lovely way to spend a Sunday evening! Don’t those beautiful photos lift the spirits! There’s still lots of brave blooms out there but will they still be flowering next Sunday ………….. Happy flower hunting!

VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 11h

October…“When all the lovely wayside things
Their white-winged seeds are sowing,
And in the fields still green and fair,
Late aftermaths are growing.”

Hogweed, hollyhock, campion, creeping thistle, autumn hawk-bit, yarrow, green alkanet, feverfew found today. #WildflowerHour

A collage of eight wildflowers: delicate white umbels of hogweed; bright pink hollyhock blooms; white campion with star-like petals; purple spiky creeping thistle; small yellow autumn hawk-bit; clustered white yarrow heads; vivid blue green alkanet flowers; and daisy-like feverfew with yellow centres.

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 10h

VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 11h

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 11h

Bladder campion #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Carolyn B @kylenano.bsky.social · 11h

Ivy flowering next to the River Soar, Leicester, this morning, before the fog cleared. #WildflowerHour

Lower half of the photo, foreground, shows ivy flowers growing on the bank of the River Soar, Leicester. In the background the river and a former textile factory are shrouded in fog.

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · 11h

Very late flowering Spanish Catchfly, Silene otites, at Icklingham Triangle SSSI West #Suffolk. Can be easier to see the dark green leaves than he flowers against the background.
#WildflowerHour

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Julian Hughes @penrhynbirder.bsky.social · 11h

Splashes of yellow and purple amid the greens and browns on Mynydd Mawr, the most westerly point in #NorthWales, yesterday.

Western Gorse, a couple of species of heather and this patch of Creeping Cinquefoil (Potentilla reptans). #WildFlowerHour

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Adrian Brown @adrianbrown.bsky.social · 11h

Purple toadflax still flowering strongly #WildFlowerHour

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 11h

Sea Spurry

#WildFlowerHour

Two very pale mauve five-petalled flowers against a background of their fleshy grean leaves. The flowers are about 1cm across.

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Pam McInnes @pammcinnes.bsky.social · 11h

#Wildflowerhour Flowers found on my travels in the north west this week. Foxgloves, St John's Wort species, Oxeye Daisy, Field Speedwell, Self Heal, Devil's Bit Scabious, Hedge Bedstraw and Redshank.

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Dave @sylvatica2024.bsky.social · 11h

Some more plants flowering at Par Sands Cornwall from this last week for #wildflowerhour

Sea Rocket, Water Mint and Michaelmas Daisy

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 11h

Harebell @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 11h

Corn Spurry

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Two five-petalled white flowers about 1cm across on slender green stems.
It is held between the fingers of a pink-looking make hand, palm upwards.

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Jane Lucas Ⓥ🌱🌈🌻 @janelucas82.bsky.social · 11h

Seen in Nantwich on Friday Common Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) #wildflowerhour

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John Martin @pilning.bsky.social · 11h

Plymouth Thistle (Carduus pycnocephalus) at (where else?) Plymouth Hoe and Plymouth Thistle selfie with @janettem34.bsky.social on the way back from the SW. Thanks to @andymus.bsky.social for the quality gen. Three plants in flower in this area #wildflowerhour

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Sarah @miffedandhere.bsky.social · 11h

Truth be told, I am a glass of wine in and forgot to look up what my #wildflowerhour flowers are. But there is a cheeky grapevine which escaped into the wild. And I like the heart-shaped mushroom because we all need some love.

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johnfen1.bsky.social @johnfen1.bsky.social · 11h

Field Madder. Most conspicuous in the size of its very tiny mauve-pink flowers. A new one for me observed along a well trodden Lincolnshire farmland footpath #WildflowerHour

2-3 mm Mauve-pink flowers of Field Madder amongst their whorled, pointed green leaves.

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Hampshire Biodiversity Information Centre @hantsbic.bsky.social · 11h

Marsh Mallow near Fawley and Long-stalked Crane's-bill on chalk grassland near Andover over the summer #WildflowerHour

📷Billy Dykes

Long-stalked Crane's-bill, a pale pink flower with a long stem.

Marsh Mallow - close up of the flower. It had white petals.

More Marsh Mallow. There are some stems of Reeds in amongst the patch of Marsh Mallow

Habitat shot for the Marsh Mallow. It is mostly shingle with a little sand near the water. The sea is flat and partly out. Some of the shingle and intertidal area is vegetated. On the opposite side of the water is Southampton with some tall buildings visible, as well as a wooded area.

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 11h

Fennel, originally planted but hopped from a flowerbed to a meadow area, in Calverley Grounds #wildflowerhour

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Jelltex @jelltex.bsky.social · 11h

For #WildflowerHour:

Scarlet pimpernel

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Barry 🏳️‍🌈 🇪🇺 🇵🇸 🇱🇧 💚 🌿 @wonkyeggs.bsky.social · 11h

Trailing St John's-wort

#WildflowerHour

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Ian Senior @ians4ad.bsky.social · 11h

Ivy and ivy bee! @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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benrl.bsky.social @benrl.bsky.social · 11h

North Wirral finds for #wildflowerhour this week

Purple viper’s bugloss escaped into cemetery

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Ian Beavis @ianbeavis.bsky.social · 11h

Creeping Thistle still attracting pollinators in Dunorlan Park. In many parks this big patch would have been wiped out as 'weeds' but not here in Tunbridge Wells! #wildflowerhour

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Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social · 11h

Buck’s-horn plantain, Ragwort and Green alkanet flowering in West Cambridge, and Feverfew in the North Courtyard at @theul.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Close-up photographs of Buck’s-horn plantain, Ragwort, Green alkanet and Feverfew with a bug on it.

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Peter Sketch @petersketch.bsky.social · 11h

Last summer I went to RSPB Snettisham specifically to find Carline Thistle, which I'd never seen. Yesterday I went to see the Short-toed Lark that's been feeding on the beach there, so I got to see what Carline Thistle looks like when the plant's died leaving just the seed heads. #WildflowerHour

A dead plant with dried up spiny leaves. Several large thistle seed heads are still attached and still have seeds which haven't yet blown away.

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terrible normie @botvolution.bsky.social · 11h

Sea Pinks

The only ones I saw :(

#WildFlowerHour

A cluster of mauve-pink globular flowers with a background of fleshy green stems.

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