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Lovely teazel with headband.

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2019-07-28

Broad-leaved Helleborine- lots of different shades. Wallington Northumberland

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2019-07-28

Ireland's beautiful common cottongrass/cottonsedge (Eriophorum angustifolium) grows on peat/acidic soils, in open wetland, heath or moorland. Hence more commonly called bog cotton! Used for treatment of diarrhoea! 📷: Irishcentral.

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2019-07-28

Not great pics as just phone snaps & it was gloomy in the shade of the trees but I enjoyed a quiet moment watching this wasp pollinating Broad-leaved Helleborine. It had pollinia attached to its head & bashfully peeped at me from between the blooms!

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2019-07-26

A selection of lovely wild grasses using light- box photography. Grasses are important for pollinators like butterflies🦋 Leave some sections long in your garden 🌿🌿🌿🐛🐝☺️ Rogue plantain in there I know!

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2019-07-18

In Cumbrian 'pissibed' is the dandelion

Dandelion was used as a tool for divination. If you blow a seed head, the number of seeds remaining are the number of children you will have.

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2019-07-14

One reason I love living in Mid Devon is that it changes so much through the seasons. I photographed the lanes, forests & moors over the year - you can see the results here: https://t.co/4SUexgETym

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2019-07-08

Let's celebrate seaside holidays with this montage from Edwardian botanical artist Diana Ruth Wilson

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2019-06-17

We've been seeking out all things orchidaceous for this week's Caroline Maria Applebee's delicate 19th century illustration shows 2 native UK orchid species - Ophrys insectifera (fly orchid) & Ophrys apifera (bee orchid).

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2019-06-10

I think these are Dog Violet and Bugle - Orbost, Isle of Skye

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2019-05-20

Diana Ruth Wilson's incredible series of 200 watercolours record unusual plants that we have now lost or are losing in the local area

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2019-05-13

Man Orchid, north Kent last week, late for

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2019-05-06

We've been plant hunting again for For this week's we're sharing some beautiful by Laurence Perugini (dated 1922), which features bladder campion (Silene vulgaris), red campion (Silene dioica) & blackberry (Rubus fruticosus).

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2019-05-06

Hawthorn in full bloom is a joy to behold! However, in May blossom is closely associated with death! To attract pollinators the flowers emit triethylamine which is one of the first chemicals produced when living tissue starts to decay.

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2019-04-25

So what did an 8 year old sharing my camera discover this week asides a Song thrush? Well, that Toads are tucked into stonewalls, blossoms vary and lime green Alexandras are now flanking our roadside verges

Think their parents will be seeking

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2019-02-25

I was surprised to find comfrey flowering, albeit just one spike. This was a very quick sketch because of the wind. The leaves can be soaked in water to make plant food, and bees love the flowers

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2019-01-14