Steve
@kingsdowner
Enjoying the nature and history of east Kent, after a lifetime of spreadsheets. "I may not have gone where I intended to go, but I think I have ended up where I needed to be"
#DaisyFamily member Common Ragwort is valuable for pollinators when all around is dessicated (while umbellifer Wild Parsnip hosts smaller insects) #wildflowerhour
Good to see Loose Women's Morris, and Wolf's Head & Vixen at Broadstairs Folk Festival.
Bittersweet var. marinum and Common Toadflax somehow surviving on the burning shingle #ByTheSea #Wildflowerhour
Marvellous display of chalk grassland species at Sands Wood LNR/LWS, and by the Wycombe Wanderers car park. Clustered Bellflower in abundance @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A record shot of one minute's rain, so we can remember what it looked like. And a bouquet of Purple Loosestrife and Common Fleabane for #wildflowerhour @kentfieldclub.bsky.social
#stillflowering in a dried-up pond in mid-Kent, Narrow-leaved Water-plantain #wildflowerhour
Greater Bladderwort is abundant in some East Kent dykes at the moment #wildflowerhour
The fire bugs are invading the allotment! At least three instars on show here.
An extraordinary horse paddock nearby - short turf with marvellous plants, including hundreds of Basil Thyme. Whatever the graziers are doing, it's working well. #wildflowerhour
So good to see more insects on the wing, after last night's rain. These seemed to be attracted to the curry plant.
Delighted that Dropwort has returned to its old site in Kingsdown! #wildflowerhour
Heath Fritillary on Corky-Fruited Water-dropwort. Not a combination I've seen before.
Stinking Chamomile is lovely to look at, but stinky to smell. #wildflowerhour
Had a quick walk around the estate first #lawnflowers #wildflowerhour. The contractors haven't cut (first time). All kinds of nice things - including 3 Corky-fruited Water-dropwort.
You know you're in good quality chalk grassland when there's so many botanists' thistles you can't sit down.
In praise of "ordinary" plants - Rough Hawkbit and Smooth Hawk's-beard. #wildflowerhour
A fine reward for habitat management on a disused road - a Lizard Orchid pops up. #wildflowerhour
Kidney Vetch glowing in the setting sun. Each flower-head carefully scrutinised for Small Blue eggs. #wildflowerhour
Nice to see Pignut in the churchyard at Capel-le-Ferne (Chapel in the Ferns, presumably referring to Bracken). @visitchurches.bsky.social
Black Bryony (Tamus communis) flowering profusely in the hedges now #wildflowerhour
"You don't need a weatherman To see which way the wind blows" Wild Mignonette on Dover cliffs for #wildflowerhour