I don't know if your new phone has this, but some have a focus lock feature where you can focus it first (e.g. on your finger), lock that focus with a "long press", then you can take your finger away and it'll keep the same focus. Very handy when the darn thing won't otherwise focus!
Beautiful combo!
Pyramidal orchids, common centaury, field scabious (and ringlet butterflies) at Farnham Gravel Pit for the Harrogate Naturalists' open day yesterday #wildflowerhour.
Love that celandine / anemone side-by-side!
Opposite-leaved golden saxifrage has flowers that make no sense (to me!) But still looks amazing. #wildflowerhour
Barren strawberry #wildflowerhour
Sweet violet in Harrogate #wildflowerhour
Yellow star-of-Bethlehem near the River Wharfe. #wildflowerhour
Wood anemone in Middleton Woods, Ilkley. #wildflowerhour
A female dog's mercury flower. It's taken me ages to spot one, are they less common than male individuals? #wildflowerhour
Lesser celandine #wildflowerhour
Purple toothwort #wildflowerhour
The Botanical Society of Scotland’s species of the week: Ivy-leaved Toadflax
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A gorse (Ulex europaeus) flower. As I understand it, the other two Ulex species found in the UK don't flower at this time of year, and that in U. europaeus the bracteoles (indicated) are ≥2x the width of the pedicel (in other species they are smaller). Let me know if I'm wrong! #wildflowerhour
🔥Coltsfoot🔥 in Leeds #wildflowerhour
A Cherry Plum blossom caught in the act #wildflowerhour
Field speedwell and red dead-nettle #WildFlowerHour
Hurrah! It's #wildflowerhour again! 🌼 My second week participating and have managed to notch up #thewinter10 (better weather this week made finding flowers a little easier). Blown away by the beauty of the tiny blue stripy Speedwell flowers dotted in an inauspicious roadside verge.
I made the switch this weekend and am very relieved to see the wild flower crowd over here!
Close up of flower
Close-up of fruits
Small-flowered Crane's-bill (Geranium pusillum) with hairy fruits.
