Jeremy Sanders

😂 Any luck with your Toothwort hunting this week? I’ll be checking favoured sites hereabouts this weekend.

I believe fern enthusiasts are called pteridomaniacs, at least they were in Victorian times!

Whether it’s a first Lesser Celandine flower of the year or Elder leaves unfurling. The first #WildflowerHour challenge of the year is to spot #SignsOfSpring! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm. Below is the link if you would like to record your #NaturesCalendar sightings ⬇️ @bsbibotany.bsky.social

With the mild weather, more and more flowers are popping up — like my first lesser celandine, dandelion, Primrose, Cornelian cherry, Fingered speedwell, and Wall speedwell.

Thanks to #WildflowerHour for this fab #TheWinter10 — I really enjoyed it! 😄

It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm, so it must be time for #wildflowerhour! Please share your pics of the wild & naturalised blooms you’ve found from across Britain & Ireland in the last week! Did you manage to spot the last #thewinter10?

I sometimes don't have to travel very far for #WildflowerHour! A lovely patch of Sweet Violet, Viola odorata, in my road. 💜

Wonderful splashes of Coltsfoot, Fran! It doesn't seem to grow in my immediate area; at least I've yet to find it.

Splashes of Coltsfoot sunshine beside the Kennet & Avon canal for #WildflowerHour

1st March says Spring to me, as do these: Cherry Plum, Primrose, Greater Horsetail, Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage, Common Whitlowgrass and my first Rue-leaved Saxifrage flowers of the year (a bit blurry in the breeze) #WildflowerHour

Lovely spring finds, Fran! So good to see!

Thank you, Fran! This is earliest I've ever found Toothwort and at a new location no less! I'll be checking my more familiar locations next weekend.

Final #TheWinter10 for this winter from N. Wilts. for this week's #wildflowerhour: Primrose, Toothwort, Early Dog-violet, Sweet Violet, Green Hellebore, Marsh Marigold, Cyclamen coum, Lungwort, Barren Strawberry & Cherry Plum. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Primrose growing in a hedge-bank surrounded by Ivy, Dartmoor, Devon.

Cluster of pale sunbeams. Primroses #Dartmoor #Devon #WildflowerHour

Hairy Bittercress Lesser Celandine Groundsel Red Dead-nettle Shepherd’s Purse Hazel (male) Dandelion Greater Periwinkle Daisy Red Campion Hazel (female) Germander Speedwell Snowflake/Snowbell Primrose Dog’s Mercury Snowdrop

Another very wet week in Dorset, so for today’s #thewinter10 I’ve kept as close to home as possible. All these native and naturalised plants in the hedgerows within 200m of my front door. See ALT text for details @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #WildflowerHour

Thank you very much, Joni! Great to see that you saw Dog’s Mercury and Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage too! The latter are only just getting started in my locale.

Many thanks, Fran! It gave me a ‘wow!’ moment when I saw it.

Lovely finds, Fran, usual! Wish I could find fumitories around my locale. I’ve yet to spot any.

#TheWinter10 in N. Wilts. for this week's #wildflowerhour: Lesser Celandine, Summer Snowflake, Primrose, Early Dog-violet, Cherry Plum, Lungwort, Yew (♂), Opposite-leaved Golden Saxifrage, Alder (♀ & ♂) & Dog's Mercury. @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

What a gorgeous sight, Rebecca! 🤩

I can well imagine!

So mossy and enchanting! 💚😀

Thank you so much!

What a beauty, Pam! I haven't found the typical pink variety hereabouts yet, let alone the white form!

Sounds about right - too much of a bumpkin! 😁

Gagea bohemica Early Star-of-Bethlehem at Stanner Rocks! A cheery spark of sunshine in the damp grey welshness. All credit to the volunteer site warden who keeps the habitat open for this and the site’s other botanical treasures. #Wildflowerhour

Snowdrop Galanthus nivalis in sunshine!

Greater Snowdrop Galanthus elwesii with its broad, hooded leaves

Green Snowdrop Galanthus woronowii, a relative newcomer which is now locally well-established

Peak Snowdrop in Uffington Churchyard

Peak snowdrop time in South Lincolnshire and Peterborough - filling churchyards and popping up on lots of country road verges. Straightforward Snowdrop is most frequently encountered, but Greater Snowdrop and Green Snowdrop seem to be increasing locally

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Early Crocus Crocus tommasinianus

Primrose Primula vulgaris

Winter Aconite Eranthis hyemalis

Corsican Hellebore Helleborus argutifolius

A few more spring flowers to brighten up an utterly cold and miserable February day (though all are looking rather rain-speckled) - Early Crocus, Primrose, Winter Aconite and Corsican Hellebore - all found in local churchyards

#wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

It’s Sunday & it’s 8pm so it must be time for #wildflowerhour but it’s been a grey, soggy week have you spotted anything in bloom? Please share your pics of any wild or naturalised flowers you’ve seen this week from across Britain & Ireland!

All great finds and a nice collection of spurges, Fran! I've only found Petty around here at the moment.

Twelve for #theWinter10 Spurges Sun, Petty and Balkan, Red Deadnettle, Greater Periwinkle, Primrose, Daisy & Yarrow, Wood Avens, Stinking Hellebore, Blue Fleabane (!) and Danish Scurvygrass, all from west Wiltshire for #WildflowerHour