Tiny Flowers on Spear Leaved Orache & Frosted Orach on a Galway beach #WildflowerHour #ByTheSea

Sea Aster on the Galway coast with Sea Mayweed and a White Tailed Bumblebee #WildflowerHour #ByTheSea

Colourful Snakelocks Anemone tentacles flowing in a Galway rock pool today

Wild Thyme is NOT #StillFlowering in this heat. It's dried to a crisp. Which surprised me as it chooses to live on the drier sunnier spots. #WildflowerHour

Common Knapweed is flourishing at the moment. The only plant I've seen that is doing more than just surviving the dry conditions. #StillFlowering #WildflowerHour

Summer days ☀️ The Martello Tower near Rossaveel yesterday. Great to see all the flags out along the roads in support of the county in the all Ireland hurling final today #Galway

Orlando (The Marmalade Cat). One of my childhood favourites

I saw one like that a couple of weeks ago. I wonder if its a response to the hot weather 🤔

Spear Thistle with Furrow Orb Weaver Spider. Many other types of invertebrates were present on the plants too. ##WildflowerHour

Lesser Bladderwort in Connemara. For once close enough to get a decent photo. Normally out of reach in the middle of boggy pools! #AquaticPlants #WildflowerHour

Large Bindweed in Dublin. #ClimbingPlants #WildflowerHour

A pale form of Smooth Sow Thistle #WildflowerHour

Delighted to find a cluster of Adder's Tongue Ferns in Galway. (I know they are not Wildflowers, but they are pretty) #WildflowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social

I believe this is Pale Dog Violet in Connemara. My first sighting. #WildflowerHour

A frilly Common Spotted Orchid ( Dactylorhiza fuchsii) in Galway #OrchidChallenge #WildflowerHour

Western Marsh-Orchid, Dactylorhiza kerryensis. Blooming all along the Galway Bay coast this week #OrchidChallenge #WildflowerHour @bsbiireland.bsky.social

Daisies putting on a magnificent #WildflowerShow #WildflowerHour

Orchids starting to bloom in Galway. Green Veined Orchid & Irish Marsh Orchid(?). #WildflowerHour

Is this an erect form of Blinks? I'm more familiar with the prostrate form that is flat and forms dense circles. This has quite a different overall shape, though the leaves and flowers look right. #WildflowerHour #WildflowerID

Golden blloms of Creeping Buttercup & Bulbous Buttercup in Galway this weekend #ButtercupChallenge #WildflowerHour

A fabulous Emperor Moth in Galway yesterday. Freshly emerged from its chrysalis and chilling out in the grass. My first time seeing this furry creature. 😊 #Moth #teammoth

Three Cornered Garlic in Dublin #WildflowerHour #HedgerowChallenge

Common Bird's Foot Trefoil on Galway Bay #WildflowerHour

The Cowslips at the Enfield service station on the M4. First saw them during the Covid lookdown when the grass was not cut. Now some re-appear in uncut areas. A couple of weeks late for #CowslipChallenge. #WildflowerHour

Sea Campion on the Galway Bay shore ##WildflowerHour

My grand-aunt worked in Switzers at that time. I wonder if they knew each other?

Nearby a colourful Drinker Moth caterpillar basking on a lichen-covered stone wall #moth

An impressive Garden Moth Caterpillar on the Galway coast yesterday enjoying the warmth of the sun 🌞 #moth

Primrose in Dublin #WoodlandPlants #WildflowerHour

Three Cornered Leek in Dublin #WoodlandPlants #WildflowerHour