bevm1066
@bevm1066
Commenting on anything, used to be biased towards my broadcast technology career. Nowadays, retired, so likely to be local things like wild flowers and countryside walking. All images, unless otherwise credited: Bev MARKS©2026
Do these other images help form a more definite opinion - anyway wondering how to interpret "glamorous" - can you explain, please? Do the more mature seed pods help? Hybrids?
#WildflowerHour Wild Radishes (Raphanus raphanistrum ssp) @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour 1mm diameter grapes - no: actually Lesser Swine-cress (Coronapus squamatus). Initially tastes very sweet, a bit carrot like, but a strong peppermint flavour lingers on the tongue. Hand to give scale! @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour I have never id any grasses before, so quite a guess but reasonably confident this is a Foxtail Bristle-grass (Setaria italica) - just one isolated plant on a field edge. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
I just felt inspired to show everyone this image of a Common Rowan tree fruiting rather well...
#WildflowerHour In the middle of a large woodland beside tan access ride: a small colony with bright flowers! Montbretia (Crocosmia × crocosmiiflora) naturalising a well lit grassy bank. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#Wildflowerhour There are no nearby #wetlands in my part of East Sussex following a very dry period, but just a hint in the woodland edge which is often very muddy but this year it's rock hard. Meadowsweet (Filipendula ulmaria) @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Today is a 8/8 cloud cover day so far, but yesterday morning was bright and woods were quiet and dappled
#WildflowerHour More from last week - Dungeness SSSI trip: Common Dodder (Cuscuta epithymum) - we found it in a different location last year, but this is a slightly better image just about showing its minute pink flowers, as well as far reaching strands... @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour More from last week - Dungeness SSSI trip: White Mullein (Verbascum lychnitis) - a small colony of several plants seen on previous years at a shingle/calcareous soil junction. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour More from last week - Dungeness SSSI trip: Common Toadflax (Linaria vulgaris) - less than 1m from a large deep water filled gravel pit. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour More from last week - Dungeness SSSI trip: Prickly Lettuce (Lactuca serriola) with flowers above my head... @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour Dungeness SSSI with its shingle"slacks" has so much to see, but my highlight this trip was Nottingham Catchfly (Silene nutans) - first ever sighting, but I didn't see any White Spot moths, who apparently hide in daytime IN the shingle! @bsbibotany.bsky.social l
#WildflowerHour On Thursday at Dungeness point it was, even at mid day, foggy - so much so that the lighthouse horn was sounding, but who could NOT notice the Viper's-bugloss (Echium vulgare) everywhere in full flower? @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour When this Elephant hawk-moth wakes up in the evening, so I am told by an expert entomologist, it may become a #PollinatorPals - but not on this Bramble whose flowers have yet to open... @bsbibotany.bsky.social
@thekentacorn.bsky.social The English Oak Project I took this pic at the Blickling Estate, Norfolk and given the Jacobean house building dates, am assuming this Oak and its neighbours to be around 400 years old...!
#WildflowerHour Common Bistort (Persicaria bistorta) - id confirmed by leaf shape, though hidden by the long grass in this image; seen on a wetland bank in Upper Wensleydale. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour Sweet Cicely (Myrrhis odorata) - one of the most distinctive Apiaceae (= Umbelliferae) with its elongated seed pods. Dominating Wensleydale's roadside grass verges, just now. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour i think this is a Small-leafed Lime (Tilia cordata), just coming into flower, but already showy... didn't check the leaf underside veins, so not sure. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour Judging by the 7 stems that have been broken off these plants, others have been attracted to them... Growing on a south facing sunny roadside verge, so presumably Eastern Gladiolus (G communis). Seen on previous years, so happily established in this location. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour Is this Procumbent Yellow Sorrel (Oxalis corniculata)? No sign really of any purplish colouring, so maybe Least Yellow Sorrel (O. exilis)? Growing on stone chippings in a fairly dry partially shaded location... [Ruler shows the size.] @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#Wildflowerhour For me one of the most overlooked usually only green leafed plant is great when flowering - a little colony of Ribwort Plantain (Plantago lanceolata). @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#Wildflowerhour Tree flowers seem to be often overlooked, so this Scots Pine (Pinus sylvestris) - id based on pairs of needles, though not obvious in image - looked rather splendid. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#Wildflowerhour Early Purple Orchids (Orchis mascula), I guess... in the local cemetery. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#Wildflowerhour My first sighting this year of a Dog Rose (Rosa canina) but not at the usual eye level ot higher, this flower was no more than 10cm above the field edge soil! @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#Wildflowerhour Hawthorn (Crataegus monogyna) is at its best locally... maybe a little early? @bsbibotany.bsky.social
#WildflowerHour I had some sort of 'Bluesky server' problem, so missed posting quite a few images tonight; but, very late, here is one I could not miss posting!: Bluebell (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) @bsbibotany.bsky.social
There is so much plant life going on here at the River Valley, Wakehurst (Kew) - visited by hundreds, but only fleetingly. We stopped, somewhat go smacked, for about 15 minutes but only took this one picture. Too much else in the brain trying to absorb this wonderous peaceful place...