@wonkyeggs
Mainly plants and pretty things, with a dollop of music/TV geekery, and random nonsense FISC 5, still makes mistakes 🤦♂️🤷♂️ He/Him/They/Them/Get Her pro-Trans 🏳️⚧️ Low-level tolerance to wankery. Swears more than my mother would like.
Latest map of North America
Canadians are currently living above a
🔥Burning🔥 Meth Lab
Moss makes an excellent seed bed.
Rosette of Primula veris, Cowslip.
Starmer is powerless to stop Polanskis savage Green army
Starting to think the British press aren't coping too well with the Green Party wanting to tax wealth fairly.
Join.greenparty.org.uk
More clips and extended clips as well. The Nightmare Begins is going to be a fascinating watch
youtu.be/QvwUrJAuAHk?...
It's no longer OK for you to sit in the house of Lords because your dad did.
But if your mate put you there?
That's fine.
Neither of these really feel like democracy to me.
Can you find any wild or naturalised plants that have white blooms? That’s the #wildflowerhour challenge this week! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #WhiteFlowers. Happy flower hunting!
@bsbibotany.bsky.social
I’ve been following the British state’s interest in censoring Irish music group Kneecap. Unlike far right campaigns* about ‘cancellation’ & ‘woke’, Starmer’s lawyers are >really< trying to censor art & remove freedom of speech. Such authoritarian actions have no place in a democracy.
My local road verges are looking absolutely Sweet Violetastic at the moment. 😍
In the greatest liberation since the US bombed a girls’ school, and bombed it again when rescuers arrived, the Epstein axis has bestowed the ultimate liberation on the women of Tehran.
www.normalisland.co.uk/p/women-of-t...
Yellow Primrose flower amongst green moss covered rocks, grass, twigs and other primroses yet to open. Barnard Castle, County Durham, UK
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring Primrose, Barnard Castle, County Durham
BREAKING: The US has confirmed those 168 school girls and staff were liberated by a Tomahawk missile and their rescuers were liberated by a 2nd Tomahawk in a "double-tap". That's two liberations for the price of one. If you don't support this, I can only assume you hate freedom.
One of many Small Nettles today from an arable field edge, some with flowers in their axils. Near Perranporth for #wildflowerhour
Urtica urens
Spring Beauty under a planted Beech hedge in #Cambridge
#WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring
What did the Romans do for us? They forgot to take Alexanders with them when they left in 410AD. Early flowers from where it is invading a #Cambridge hedge. #WildFlowerHour
A Purple toothwort flower in grass.
Purple toothwort in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour
A Wood Anemone flower
A Wood Anemone flower
Wood Anemones have opened along verges close to woodlands #SignsOfSpring #WildflowerHour Although they still seem somewhat subdued, perhaps the weather isn't ideal and we haven't had much sunlight for some time
Cherry Plum tree flowers
More Cherry Plum trees have blossoms! #SignsOfSpring #WildflowerHour
Orchis punctulata, Orchids of Cyprus © Dr Richard Bate
Epipactis veratrifolia, Orchids of Cyprus © Dr Richard Bate
Postcard from the field from our fabulous orchid tour leader, @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social, on our #OrchidsOfCyprus tour:
Yesterday's highlights included these two Asiatic #orchids, on the very edge of their world range - dramatic Epipactis veratrifolia, and Orchis punctulata. Exciting finds!
Paphos Blue (Glaucopsyche paphos) and Anacamptis syriaca, Orchids of Cyprus © Dr Richard Bate
If any image sums up what we love best here at Team Mariposa, it's this one from tour leader @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social today - a lovely, fresh Paphos Blue on Anacamptis syriaca, the sophisticated cousin of Green-winged Orchid. We can't think of any better thing for a butterfly to sit upon.
The Wild Daffodils, Narcissus pseudonarcissus subsp. pseudonarcissus, at Lesnes Abbey Woods are looking spectacular at the moment. 💛 #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring
"Look at me, I've got 14 petals!"
There is always one show-off ...... 🙄
Lesser Celandine, Ficaria verna, at Lesnes Abbey Woods. #WildflowerHour #SignsOfSpring
Primrose
#WildflowerHour
Green Hellebore for @haggewoods.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour
Sweet Violet
#WildflowerHour
Some male Dog's-mercury flowers from me for #WildflowerHour with both fresh closed and older open anthers showing in actual focus and honestly modern technology is amazing because it was windy and I am not the most stationary of people when holding a phone
Spurge-laurel in full flower - it's got a really long flowering season hasn't it? - in a very steep-sided wood near Rievaulx Abbey, North Yorkshire #WildflowerHour
I could try and say something relevant, topical, profound even on the general state of everything. However what I feel I need is a small, purple, Sea Lavender Weevil. So here it is. #Nature
I can only imagine if Björk Guðmundsdóttir herself sat in the middle of a grassland wearing a bespoke designer dress and headgear that you would have anything as good as that performance
Can anyone think of a native grassland creation project that really surprised and impressed you when you saw it?
Asking because the ROSALÍA performance at the Brits last week was both & so I wondered if we could point to something that good but in grassland creation.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=7fyu...