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Purple sweet violet plant with purple flowers. Sun is shining on the plant.

Sweet violet enjoying a bit of spring sunshine a couple of days ago. #wildflowerhour

Looking down over around six four-petalled pinky/purple flowers, with others about to open.

Cuckoo cuckoo! Cuckooflower is out.
aka Milkmaids
aka Lady's Smock
aka Pink Folly
aka Meadowcress
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Star like white bells of Spring Snowflake (Leucojum vernum) with pale green blotches on the bell tips

Spring Snowflake clump growing on the sandy margin of the River Earn at Crieff

Close up of the Spring Snowflake bells

Spring Snowflake naturalised along the river banks near Crieff. Lovely plant, definitely #SignsofSpring for #wildflowerhour, even if I spotted it a day late…

Just to the right of centre a group of very pale yellow flowers with darker yellow centres with orange lines radiating from the centre of the flower. There is another flower top left slightly out of focus. They're growing up through grass and some thin dead twigs. Their leaves are a dark crinkly green.

The first of our Primroses are just starting to flower in The Slade entrance to the Valley. 😊
Planted by our volunteers over a number of years, they're one more #SignsOfSpring.
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Colt’s-foot (Tussilago farfara) flowers near Neville’s Cross, Durham last Tuesday. #SignsOfSpring #wildflowerhour

A large purple flowered, large leaf orchid growing in grassland.

A close-up photograph of an orchid flower.

It feels so strange seeing an orchid in flower in March, but here it is, a Giant Orchid (Himantoglossum robertianum) in Oxfordshire.
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Larch flowers. Like little pink pineapples clinging to a twig.

Late for #wildflowerhour but here are larch flowers I saw yesterday #signsofspring @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Cherry Plum Blossom

Cherry Plum in the wet which pretty much sums up the last week.. #wildflowerhour

Blackthorn (I think). Trumper's Field 08/03/26

Blackthorn (I think). River Brent 08/03/26.

Hogweed. River Brent 08/03/26.

Sweet Violet. Trumper's Field 08/03/26.

#SignsofSpring in the Brent River Park in West London.

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Beautiful photo Jill!

Primrose

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A Purple toothwort flower in grass.

Purple toothwort in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour

Yellow tinted catkins of Goat Willow against a background of scrub, sky and lake

Sunlit sulphur yellow #SignsOfSpring amongst the twigs of the lakeside Goat Willow. #WildflowerHour

Sweet Violet

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Green Hellebore for @haggewoods.bsky.social

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Pale yellow Primrose flowers and purple Sweet violet flowers against a stone wall.

Pretty Primroses and Sweet violets at Little St Mary’s, Cambridge. #SignsOfSpring #WildflowerHour

Five photos of six flowers. Catkins, Wood Avens, White Dead Nettle, Chickweed, Red Dead Nettle, Groundsel.

Catkins, Wood Avens, White Dead Nettle, Chickweed, Red Dead Nettle, Groundsel. #WildflowerHour

The wonderful puff of Yew Tree Pollen #LordAncrumsWood #NewBattleAbbeyCollege #SignsofSpring #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social

Lovely to see some woodland Primroses and Lesser Celandines this week - sure #SignsofSpring ! #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

One of Bath's long closed graveyards with amazing display of daffs and primroses...possibly both native varieties #wildflowerhour

Coltsfoot is one of my favourite flowers - I nearly fell off my bike the first time I saw it! #SignsOfSpring #Wildflowerhour

To end this🧵on 3 #chalkstream tributaries of the River Cam, some wayside plants: Wild Privet indicating we are indeed on chalk, Cuckoo Pint leaves & early Cow Parsley coming into bloom, as well as the roadside Danish Scurvy Grass (Cochlearia danica). #Cambridgeshire #wildflowerhour #flower 10/10

Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna) on a visit to Sheffield Botanical Gardens today.

It’s Welsh name is Llygad Ebrill which translates as ‘The Eyes of April’.

Climate change means flowers appear as early as January in Wales. Is a rename due?

#shiftingbaselinesyndrome
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Primroses, and blackthorn bursting into bud

#wildflowerhour here in the Eden Valley, Cumbria, yesterday morning

A green plant of the carrot family with pale yellowy green flowers in front of a stone wall.

Belated #wildflowerhour - my first ever sighting of #Alexanders by the wall of #NottinghamCastle

Field of sweet violets at University of Kent #WildflowerHour #SignsofSpring

At the bottom of the photo a partial view of a pavement with a bench towards the right hand side. Behind it a mass of wild flowers, mostly Kidney Vetch and Ox-eye Daisies. In the background are houses, a few parked cars, and some small trees. There are white clouds in an otherwise blue sky.

Our Wildflower Enhancement Project at Rock Edge has increased populations of important wildflowers such as Field and Small Scabious and vastly increased the resource of nectar and pollen-rich flowers available to insects on this amenity grassland. Link in next post. 🌰🌍 #WildflowerHour

A dense patch of white form violets.

Bumped into some lovely violets on one of my walks earlier in the week. #WildflowerHour

Cherry, Primrose, Barren Strawberry, Lesser Celandine, Willow, Hazel (female flower), Bluebell, Primrose.

Dog’s Mercury, Wood Anemone, Bee Orchid rosette, Dog Violet, Willow, Wood Anemone, Daffodil, Hazel (make flower), Cherry.

Lots of #SignsOfSpring at Powerstock Common NR in Dorset this week, including the first Bluebells pushing through, my first Wood Anemone and the promise of Bee Orchids to come. See ALT text for more #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @dorsetwildlife.bsky.social