Good morning
Its the start of the mystery historics!
Ive been collecting unnamed abandoned narcissi for the last 5 years, hoping to either match them to a known variety or to a lost variety and i always appreciate help and suggestions
If you think you know please shout!
Have an amazing day 🌱🌸
I like it very much, a great idea 😊
The quiz is fun and very informative. It's lovely that it's suitable for various parts of the world too.
Ok. I have developed an on-line fern tutorial lesson and the start of an identification section. Try it out. Let me know what you think. This is early, early, development. The intended audience are casual/somewhat interested botanist. 1 of 2.
fernofgithub.github.io/FernLessonId/
#fern #ferns
Could you become BSBI's new Wales Officer, helping support the network of botanists across Wales & leading our Priority Plants in Wales Project?
You'd be helping to conserve rare & beautiful wild plants, like this lovely Radnor Lily.
For more details & how to apply, visit:
bsbi.org/about/people...
A photograph of two Oriental Lilies pointing to the right with dehisced anthers. I took the photo before I knew they were poisonous to pets and won't have them in the house now.
🐈⬛Flowers for your #Valentine ?
Do not get #Lilies if you have a cat.
Fact check everything in the bouquet. Eucalyptus is also #toxic. Oriental #Lily, even the #pollen licked off fur is a veterinary emergency.
#ValentinesDay #14th #February #Flowers #Bouquet #Cat #Poison #Love #Pet #dog #Vet 🐈⬛🐈⬛🐈⬛
Lovely picture! 🪻
Young man sitting in field with plant ID books, recording wild flowers in the sunshine
Can you find, identify & record 100 wild plants in 2026?
BSBI is confident that (with our support) yes, you can!
Beginner botanists, will you accept the challenge?
Sign up today for #100Plants2026 challenge:
bsbi.org/take-part/ac...
Check out the webinars & #WildFlowerID help we've prep'd for you!
Congratulations to you both, hope all is well!
A blackbird is purchased on the ground of a wooded bank near a lake on a misty winter day. Overhead, hazel catkins droop.
“When we see the hazel catkins turn yellow, we know that spring is not far off”
Writer: EL Grant Watson
Artist: CF Tunnicliffe
Another reason to leave the flail in the barn for a year or two
Rare butterflies bounce back after landowners in Wales cut back on flailing hedges www.theguardian.com/environment/...
What Hoylake has now is a biodiversity hotspot here to stay filled with >250 species of wild plant, Endangered natterjack toads & much so more.
Thank you to everyone who has helped fight to keep this special place over these years - I can’t tell you how appreciated you are 🌱❤️
🚨Hoylake beach update🚨
After a LONG six years, we’re finally seeing a light at the end of the tunnel!! An agreement has finally been reached between @NaturalEngland and @WirralCouncil which means around 2% of the 41ha of vegetated foreshore at Hoylake will be cleared.
Rustyback (Asplenium ceterach) from today's jaunt. An uncommon little fern in Northumberland. #ferns
Looks absolutely delicious! Wishing a very Happy Birthday to Mrs Bourne!🎉🎂
Is there something on my face?
Static electricity helps bumblebees to collect pollen. As the bumblebee flies, it builds up a positive charge on its hair which negatively charged pollen grains are attracted to ⚡
🔎🐝 Buff-tailed bumblebee (Bombus terrestris)
📷 Laura Freitas
Don’t know about anyone else but this is the densest display of Maidenhair Spleenwort I have ever seen
A nine-image collage of yellow flowers against soft green backgrounds, including buttercup, greater celandine, cowslip, azalea, leopard’s bane, daffodil, pale yellow tulips, lesser celandine, and clustered daffodils, evoking sunshine and fair-weather lore on St Vincent’s Day.
22 Jan: St Vincent’s Day—yellow blooms for sunshine:
“Remember on St. Vincent’s Day,
If the sun his beams display
Be sure to mark the transient beam,
Which through the casement sheds a gleam
For ’tis a token bright & clear
Of prosperous weather all the year.”
#FolkloreThursday
We're hiring!
Could you become our new Wales Officer, lead our Priority Plants Project & support #BSBICountyRecorders across Wales?
Apply here: bsbi.org/about/people...
Deadline: 23 February
Interested but not for you?
Please help us spread the word!
Rydyn ni'n recriwtio!
Allech chi ddod yn Swyddog Cymru newydd i ni, arwain ein Prosiect Planhigion Blaenoriaeth a chefnogi #CofnodwyrSirolBSBI ledled Cymru?
Gwnewch gais yma: bsbi.org/about/people...
Dyddiad cau: 23 Chwefror
Diddordeb yn y maes ond dim i chi?
Helpwch ni i ledaenu'r gair!
A most wonderful squirrel from @theul.bsky.social
Book front cover with illustrations of fern leaves and the title: Ferns, lessons in survival from Earth’s most adaptable plants Written by: Fat-Wei Li and Jacob S. Suissa Illustrated by Laura Silburn
Looking for a new 📕 to read about plants??
I highly recommend the brilliant book ‘Ferns, Lessons in survival from Earth’s most adaptable plants’
Written by @fernway.bsky.social and Jacob Suissa with amazing illustrations by Laura Silburn
🌿 #FernFriday 🌿
👋😊
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Share and sign to keep Freeview TV rather than swap to internet only based broadscast.
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All done! Best wishes to your daughter, hope all goes well ❤️
Questionnaire about AI and loneliness for my daughter's psychology dissertation
Hi everyone.. I need a big favour please! ❤️
Could you please complete this survey for my daughter's psychology dissertation. 🙏
I've done it, it's easy, multiple choice answers & click submit at the end! 😊
It only takes a couple of minutes.
Here;
app.onlinesurveys.jisc.ac.uk/s/plymouth/d...
Wall-rue, Asplenium ruta-muraria. Tufted. Irregularly bipinnate. Fronds to 12cm. Fan-shaped or rounded, toothed pinnules. Green, channelled petiole with few scales. Linear sori
The wonderful Guernsey Fern Asplenium x microdon, the hybrid of Lanceolate Spleenwort A. billotii and Hartstongue A. scolopendrium, growing with both parent species on the banks of a shady lane on Guernsey last summer
Lovely fern 🪴
Various frozen ferns
-4°C this morning ❄️
