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This week's #WildflowerHour challenge is #TreeFlowers.
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Sometimes when we are botanising we can forget to look up! Which would be a shame as #treeflowers are both fascinating & beautiful! This week’s challenge is to go looking for wild & naturalised trees that are blooming. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm!

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BlueUtah 🇺🇲🇺🇦🇨🇦🇩🇰4d ago

July 2023 Beautifuly backlit Indian Paintbrush. The early morning light reveals the structure of these wildflowers. Finding them on a mid-summer hike is always a highlight for the lens. #WildflowerHour #LandscapePhotography #PhotoSky #BlueUtah #NaturePhotography

Peter Sketch 4d ago

Bulbous Buttercup has a very niche habitat around here - it grows in the bits of road verge where the daffodils are, but nowhere else. It flowers early in the season so likes the bits that are spared mowing in early summer but then mown later. Cunning. #WildflowerHour #Swindon #Wiltshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

Peter Sketch 4d ago

Rue-leaved Saxifrage for #WildflowerHour from a car park in #Bristol on Tuesday. Saxifrage means stone-breaker/ Wikipedia thinks this means it was used to treat kidney stones, but when you see it growing on bare tarmac you do wonder if it can sink its roots into rock. #WildflowerHour #StoryPlants #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

Peter Sketch 4d ago

Coltsfoot in #Bristol near the River Avon this morning. My first of the year. Normally I see it at my favourite building site in the city centre but that has work going on meaning you can't see into it as easily as usual. So here's a roadside one instead. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

Katharine Hayhoe 4d ago

Texas bluebonnets are in full bloom this week #wildflowerhour

Carine Alders 4d ago

This week, #BirdeyeSpeedwell is in full bloom all over the city of Amersfoort in the Netherlands. The Dutch name is Grote Ereprijs, which translates as something like ‘Great honorary prize’. The name supposedly stems from the Middle Ages, when knights winning a tournament received a wreath of these flowers. #StoryPlants #WildflowerHour

One of the willows

Bluebell, white form.

Hyacinthoides spp.

𝔸𝕟𝕔𝕚𝕖𝕟𝕥 𝕊𝕠𝕦𝕟𝕕𝕤 🔉4d ago

Highlight of our #wildflower searching this week were a few of the first flowers of Early Spider-orchid on the Purbeck coast. Very many more rosettes, spikes and buds yet to open up, so it was exciting to finally find a few flowers. This time last week, we couldn't find any. Soon there will be thousands.

#WildflowerHour #orchids