Thorow-wax Bupleurum rotundifolium and Petty Spurge Euphorbia peplus seem to be the only things able to grow in this corner of the garden veg patch: baked clay, gravel and polluted with 500 years of rubbish including crushed asphalt.

Limonium anglicum on the concrete faced cliff at Sheringham, North Norfolk. Known here since 1979 and still a strong colony despite the inhospitable habitat.

Costa Norfolk. Now, the only choice is whether a jug of sangria or a pint of wherry is more fitting

Rubus intensior with #NorfolkFloraGroup at Filby today. A Corylifolii with intense prickles grading into pricklets, flattish leaves and white petals. A northwestern species scarce in the east but seen several times this year in Norfolk

Similar outside my house too.. aware but no action other than a note, some spray paint and strimming my verge without permission or notice. At least the sparrows have a puddle to drink from.

Cornflower in the tinder

Beautiful Demoiselles perched on streamside nettles while bramble hunting in Grenoble this morning

Bramble du jour! A lovely but unknown Rubus from a streamside in Chartreuse. And French batologists out there able to advise on what species it might be?

The final bramble of the week was a new one on the edge of Norwich; a Micantes indet for now.. then pressing the day’s specimens in the cool of the Green Dragon

Rubus hindii near Norwich on the final ‘26 day of photographing all Norfolk brambles with @caryocatactes.bsky.social A lovely neat Corylifolii with gently corrugated leaves, a long petiolule and primocanes which turn coral-orange for the winter

The bizarre Longleaf Falcaria vulgaris seen today in a north Norfolk farmyard.

Another warm day hunting rare brambles in north Norfolk. Rubus glareosus was new to me today. A very characterful species with distant crinkled petals, lax inflorescences and leafy sepals.

My old Peyote Lophophora williamsii are looking floofy after their pampering session and today they’re both flowering. They have thigmotropic anthers.. not sure why. Swapped the younger one for other psychedelic plants 20 years ago.

Some lovely brambles seen today in south Norfolk with @caryocatactes.bsky.social photographing species for our bramble flora of the east. Rubus echinatus (with Peacock), indet (but spectacular!), mucronulatus (with the distinctive mucronati leaf shape) and marshalii

Rubus mucronulatus on this weekend’s annual #NorfolkFloraGroup Bramble workshop at a mid Norfolk wood. Unfortunately very few brambles remain at this once rich site, due to woodland management and subsequent overgrazing of regrowth by deer #Wildflowerhour

Alpine Pennycress Noccaea caerulescens in Teesdale, on open ground maintained by toxicity following lead mining.

Not the easiest plant to photograph.. these may be marginally better

…and a final Caithness special: Loch of Durran for Scottish Small-reed Calamagrostis scotica! Another long splashy walk in, checking C. stricta much of the way.. but we were rewarded by several hundred plants with their dark purple-brown inflorescences clearly separable from stricta

Scots Lovage Ligusticum scoticum on seaward facing dunes in our @bsbibotany.bsky.social Caithness recording square today #wildflowerhour

Rubus latifolius is a Scottish bramble, edging into northern England. A large Corylifolii with overlapping leaflets, few robust prickles (on angles) and very large flowers #wildflowerhour #BrambleDuJour

Juncus balticus Baltic Rush found with @ghostofdatura.bsky.social in lovely fen beside a loch in Caithness. A tidy 76-year refind on the @bsbibotany.bsky.social Scotland recording week :) #wildflowerhour

Nordic Moonwort Botrychium nordicum in lovely lycophyte-rich montane heath in Glen Shee. Frilly divisions, and a shorter stem than lunaria, and GB plants tend to have a lax fertile frond too.

Breaking a journey up north with a wander in the peaks. Nature palpably breathing in the tranquility while everyone seems to be running scared from the sun or watching the football.

A pocket meadow I made a few years ago on Norfolk river terrace sand & gravel. Hand collected seed from the same soil type. Now establishing distinctive droughty patches used by inverts among perennials providing nectar through dry weather, and scrub offering shelter

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In preparation for an Alchemilla odyssey.. it’s tough work..

It seems the Serapias bergonii / vomeracea is no longer present in Suffolk :( #wildflowerhour

Lobelia erinus Garden Lobelia waxes and wanes in pavement cracks at the base of a wall in my village. Seems to be having a good year

I took my macro lens specially for it

There are a few parts of GB&I it has not yet colonised, but it’s pretty much in every town, city, railway, main road verge..