The meadow year is officially underway!
The first Yellow Rattle seedling has germinated in our meadow! 😍
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring
08.03.2026 20:20
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Here come our native Daffodil Narcissus pseudonarcissus!
They are just wonderful
02.03.2026 17:03
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A bit late, but our first Lesser Celandines (Ficaria Verna) for #Wildflowerhour
01.03.2026 21:30
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The first Daffodils are out at Wild Lakeland HQ!
These are the cultivar 'Tete-a-Tete' - being very popular and widely planted. They are consistently the first variety to flower here, even ahead of Rijnveld's Early Sensation.
#Daffodils #Narcissus #Spring
22.02.2026 17:31
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Must admit I'm a bit mad on Daffodils so I am going to start a thread with all the varieties I have planted at @wildlakeland.bsky.social HQ . In order as they come into flower...
Starting with Narcissus 'tete-a-tete'.
Small, early and delightful!
23.02.2025 20:22
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Spring is in the air!
Our Tree Sparrows are getting rather vocal and starting to pair up, with a few scraps starting to break out!
01.02.2026 10:24
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Adding some new boxes into one of our largest woodland nest box monitoring projects.
#LakeDistrict #Ecology #Conservation
30.01.2026 23:54
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First Snowdrops in flower for us!
A little sign that spring is on the way. The days are getting longer, the sun is getting warmer.
#LakeDistrict #Spring #Snowdrops #Galanthusnivalis #Nature #SignsOfSpring #Wildflowers
19.01.2026 21:18
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Merry Christmas, everyone!
19.12.2025 21:23
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Yesterday and last week sadly!
26.11.2025 17:02
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Always worth making the most of the rare, fine sunny days at this time of year...
26.11.2025 16:48
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A rather optimistic post I must say, but the first signs of Spring are already here! Lesser Celandine leaves have emerged in our meadow!
#WildflowerHour #LakeDistrict #SignsOfSpring
19.10.2025 18:44
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Feeling autumnal now! 🍁🍄🕸️
13.10.2025 21:11
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Still plenty of Western Gorse, Ulex gallii in flower today on Sale Fell in the NW Lakes!
29.09.2025 19:47
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Autumn
27.09.2025 07:45
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A great day of botanical surveying 😍
14.08.2025 22:36
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How lovely is this Blotched-winged Hoverfly, enjoying a Devil's-bit Scabious flower in our meadow!
#PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour
10.08.2025 19:52
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This Field Scabious (Knautia arvensis) is perfect for this week's #HairyPlants #WildflowerHour theme!
It is safe to say it is a rather hairy thing!
13.07.2025 18:52
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Even road verges can be fantastic habitats for wildflowers and biodiversity - here is our little stretch which we have been proactively managing for the last decade or so!
12.07.2025 15:30
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Sadly no Helliborines for this week's #Wildflowerhour, but I did manage to stumble upon a nice little population of Touch-me-not Balsam (Impatiens noli-tangere) which was growing in wet woodland in the #LakeDistrict.
It is the only native Impatiens species in the UK!
06.07.2025 18:52
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A day early for #NationalMeadowsDay, but just look at this ancient wildflower meadow I stumbled upon in Staffordshire the other day!
Grasslands should be full of life like this beauty, but often fall silent. Restoring them is vital if we want to see nature recover 🌱❤️
04.07.2025 10:28
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Couldn't decide which grass to post for #Wildflowerhour... So why not showcase our grass diversity!
Left to Right...
Common Bent
Meadow Foxtail
Sweet Vernal
Crested Dog's-tail
Soft Brome
Perennial Rye
Rough Meadow-grass
Timothy
Cock's-foot
False Oat
Meadow Barley
Yorkshire Fog
Tufted Hair-grass
29.06.2025 18:53
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This week's #Wildflowerhour theme is particularly fitting with this afternoon's weather! For #AquaticPlants we have Bog Pondweed, Potamogeton polygonifolius, which was growing in a shallow acidic pool in Borrowdale.
22.06.2025 19:06
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Little gang of recently fledged Tree Sparrows, seen from our kitchen window 😍
22.06.2025 09:18
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A couple from our meadow today.
Amazing how lush it now looks after a good week or so of rain!
#LakeDistrict #HayMeadow
10.06.2025 20:27
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A few from the #PeaFamily or the #Fabaceae from our meadow this evening...
Meadow Vetchling
Red Clover (a particularly striking, dark crimson flowered example)
Bird's-foot Trefoil
#Wildflowerhour
08.06.2025 19:23
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Safe to say the parents of this Pied Flycatcher brood have been very busy over the last couple of weeks!
A bumper nest of 9 chicks!
5-7 is a more normal brood size!
05.06.2025 20:08
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Here is a dinky, but no less superb, Early Marsh Orchid -Dactylorhiza incarnata growing in Upper Teesdale for this week's #WildflowerHour #OrchidChallenge
01.06.2025 19:52
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