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Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Studying, appreciating, recording & conserving our wild plants Supporting the botanists who care about our wild plants https://bsbi.org/ #PlantAtlas2020 #NewYearPlantHunt #WildFlowerHour DMs not checked
Map of Southeast Asia using heat colours to show relevant drought risk to vegetation productivity
🌱 How does drought affect plants' ability to take in carbon?
It's an important question for land use planning and climate policy.
We've developed an open-source approach to calculating drought risk to vegetation carbon productivity across different spatial scales.
🧪 1/ #DroughtRisk
My local road verges are looking absolutely Sweet Violetastic at the moment. 😍
Fully support wildlife featuring on our banknotes, but it’s sad to see that plants will, once again, be treated merely as a pretty floral background to ‘animals & birds’. Why not feature Bluebell (the nations’ favourite wildflower) or iconic Lady’s-slipper Orchid? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I've published my book Britain's Dandelions, A Photographic Guide. It's currently available on Blurb blurb.co.uk/b/12805510-bri…
Next week I will be adding additional outlets. #Taraxacum #Botany #Dandelions #BritainsDandelions
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!
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Me & Amanda with her book “Wild Pavements”
Fun evening with lots of botanists and nature lovers celebrating the launch of @amandatuke.bsky.social’s new book, “Wild Pavements” at Stanfords bookshop. Looking forward to reading this!
Moschatel and Water Avens in flower today #CuerdenValleyPark Lancashire @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Each spring I look forward to the appearance of this little patch of naturalised Siberian squill (Scilla siberica) in Armstrong Park. It’s back again for a new season! #urbanflora
Big patch of Sweet Violets (Viola odorata) in a friends garden this morning.
Lovely in the sunshine !! 😊
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social
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#wildflowerhour #botany #flowers #spring #nature #lincolnshire #wildlife #wildflowers #violets
A Purple toothwort flower in grass.
Purple toothwort in @cubotanicgarden.bsky.social. #WildflowerHour
So pleased to hear that #WarrenFarm has officially received Local Nature Reserve status, & props to the local groups who've achieved this. #urbannature @brentriverpark.bsky.social www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
If you fancy joining Richard and his co-leader Dave Fairhurst for a feast of orchids (and butterflies, wildflowers, herps, birds, et al) next spring, our #OrchidsOfCyprus tour is the one for you. It generates a donation to support @bsbibotany.bsky.social too.
www.mariposanature.com/tours/botani...
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…
Eeee, that was fun. Thrilled to top off today's #urbanflora launch day with an @nenature.bsky.social talk to over 100 local people tonight ☺️📖
A small selection of the orchids to be seen on our annual Orchids of Rhodes tour
We think a conservation charity shouldn't have to wait for a donation; not for months, and certainly not for years.
We've made our #OrchidsOfCyprus donation to @bsbibotany.bsky.social today, the day after the tour ended. We've donated to them after every orchid tour since Mariposa formed.
#orchids
Alternate-leaved Golden-saxifrage Chrysosplenium alternifolium in West Berkshire today. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
It's launch day! 🎉🌿
Absolutely chuffed to share that Urban Flora of Newcastle and North Tyneside is now available on Amazon.
If you're interested, you can grab a copy here 👉 www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1036970124
Mega thanks to @nenature.bsky.social and @bsbibotany.bsky.social for making it happen.
Like @commonbynature.bsky.social, I'm a #pavementplants enthusiast. Newcastle's a fab city for exploring #urbannature (it's featured in my book Wild Pavements) & I'll definitely be taking a copy of James' books when I next go there 💚
Here’s Mark Avery’s review of Amanda Tuke’s @amandatuke.bsky.social fabulous new book Wild Pavements. In a nutshell: if you thought there wasn’t much wildlife in town, let Amanda take you by the hand and lead you through the streets of London, she’ll show you something to make you change your mind.
Perfoliate (Cotswold) Penny-cress Microthlapsi perforatum aplenty today! Only dropped by in the hope of seeing leaves and ended up with a real treat. Gloucestershire. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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
#signsofspring
#wildflowerhour
A sweet week for violets #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
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
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
It was such a pleasure to spend a few hours with Guardian Country Diarist Susie White, admiring #pavementplants and other urban treasures in Newcastle’s Ouseburn Valley 🌿
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
This means such a lot from the author of already-a-classic 'Urban Plants', which of course is included in Wild Pavements further reading list💚😊
You’re very welcome Jane! My personal favourite is xenicity - the proportion of non-native species in a community of plants. Enjoy!
Dense-flowered Orchid (Neotinea maculata), Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn
Dense-flowered Orchid (Neotinea maculata), Orchids of Rhodes © Jon Dunn
Been a busy day writing about #orchids*, and putting finishing touches on a *very* exciting new orchid tour I'll be leading for @mariposanature.bsky.social next year...
*Dense-flowered Orchid, as you ask. I'll be seeing you any day now, a personal, subtle favourite of the #OrchidsOfRhodes.
Upper (L) and lower leaf surfaces of Bluebell Hyacinthoides non-scripta (L) and Yellow Star-of-Bethlehem. @bsbibotany.bsky.social