No new flowers for #wildflowerhour on my walk at Streatley (W. Berks) today but took time to watch this early bee working around a daisy flower in the sunshine.

Enough bright sunshine yesterday to bring out the flowers of common whitlow grass (pic 1) and hairy bittercress (pic 2) at The Holies, Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour

Green Hellebore flowers yesterday at Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour

Green hellebore (helleborus viridis) in early flower on the woodland floor, from a rather wet walk yesterday at Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour

Lesser celandine (ficaria verna) in some welcome sunshine, from a walk at Streatley (W. Berks), 4th Feb 2026. #wildflowerhour

A promise of spring - minute crimson styles peeking out from the buds of female hazel flowers like tiny sea anemones, from walks this week at Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour

Spurge laurel, yellow-green blooms for the winter, from a walk this week at Streatley (W. Berks). Late for #wildflowerhour

My finds this week from W. Berks & N. Hants for #thewinter10 - common field-speedwell, dandelion, bramble, red clover, common gorse, daisy, ploughman's spikenard, self-heal, shepherd's purse & wild parsnip. #wildflowerhour

From my walk this week around Ashford Hill Meadows (N. Hants), pics 2-11 providing this week's #thewinter10 for #wildflowerhour - groundsel, garlic mustard, red campion, white dead-nettle, water forget-me-not, betony, tormentil, common knapweed, nipplewort & herb robert.

Wildflowers from my walk yesterday at Streatley (W. Berks) for #thewinter10: bush vetch, rough hawkbit (I think), long-stalked crane's-bill, marjoram, lesser hawkbit, harebell, smooth sowthistle, black horehound, blue fleabane & common centaury. Late for #wildflowerhour

My selection for #thewinter10 this week from two downland walks - common milkwort, yarrow, wood avens, clustered bellflower, common toadflax, fairy flax, small scabious, greater knapweed, hogweed and common mouse-ear. #wildflowerhour

A small copper butterfly reluctant to move far on a chilly and breezy day, journeying simply fom a dandelion-type flower to a nearby stalk, seen last week at The Holies, Streatley (W. Berks). #WildWebsWednesday

Possibly the tachinid fly ectophasia crassipennis, feeding off yarrow, seen yesterday on Stockbridge Down (Hants), for #WildWebsWednesday

From my walks at Streatley (W.Berks) this week, bush vetch, musk mallow and long-stalked cranes-bill. #wildflowerhour

Long-stalked crane's-bill and harebell from my walk yesterday at Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour

Common milkwort in both blue and pink forms now reappearing at The Holies, Streatley (W. Berks), 18/10/2025. #wildflowerhour

Bastard toadflax (thesium humifusum), a single tiny bloom of clustered bellflower (campanula glomerata) and devil's-bit scabious (succisa pratensis) seen today at The Holies, Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour

Variations in pale toadflax, from my walk today at Streatley (W. Berks). #wildflowerhour

Some tiny autumn gentians spotted on a walk this week on Stockbridge Down (Hants). #wildflowerhour

Some echoes of spring this week on Stockbridge Down (Hants) - germander speedwell and (assumed) sweet violets. #wildflowerhour

Common toadflax (linaria vulgaris) from a walk this week on Stockbridge Down (Hants). #wildflowerhour

It's hard to pick a #FavouritePlant from all those seen in a season but it is one with a mainly western distribution seen on our holiday in Devon that stands out in my mind. It is navelwort, here growing on a stony bank facing the sea. #wildflowerhour

Chiltern gentians this week at The Holies, Streatley (W. Berks) for #wildflowerhour. Pictures 2 & 3 are of the same plant 2 days apart, the 1st showing the flowers largely closed in dullish, breezy conditions and the 2nd showing (some) flowers fully open in bright sunshine.

Some #SeedHeads from my walk yesterday at Streatley (W. Berks) - teasel, carline thistle and wild carrot. #wildflowerhour

Autumn gentians have been scarce at The Holies (at Streatley, W. Berks) this year with none found for last week's gentian challenge, so pleasantly surprised this week to find even one of the related chiltern gentians. #wildflowerhour

Hawthorn berries, elderberries and acorns from my walks (N. Hants & W. Berks) this week for the #fruits challenge for #wildflowerhour.

Trifid bur-marigold (bidens tripartita) seen this week around the dried out main pond at Ashford Hill Meadows. #wildflowerhour

2025 of course!

Nettle-leaved bellflower (campanula trachelium) at Warburg nature reserve, 24/8/2024. #wildflowerhour

Yellow wort and common centaury from walks in W. Berks and S. Oxon respectively this week for the #GentianFamily challenge. #wildflowerhour