Lesley Totten
@lesleytotten
Passionate about Birds and Nature in general. Poet. Studied Art History. Teacher of care-experienced young people. Proud mother and resident of Edinburgh.
Think this one’s Rosebay Willowherb, also Bittersweet, Purple Loosestrife, Water mint and Michaelmas Daisy found in the lush borders around Blackford Pond, Edinburgh #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Field Bindweed, Great (?) Willowherb, Mugwort (?) Yellow Toadflax, St John’s Wort & a Robins Pin Cushion gall which sneaked in 🤫😅 all on a disused Railway Walk Midlothian @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
Apologies for awful photo of possible D-F Cranes’s-bill - obviously impossible to ID ?😅 maybe this one shows stem better - hairs ? down ? 🤷♀️🙆🏼♀️ #wildflowerhour
More #ByTheSea for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social ID a bit of a challenge for a couple 🤔 but the sun and salt brought out the pink all round - Rosa rugosa, Bloody Crane’s-bill, Yarrow, C Mallow, Restharrow ?, Dove’s-foot Crane’s-bill ? 🩷🌸🌊 #WildFlowerHour #EastLothian
Sea Rocket and Frosted Orache #ByTheSea on the beautiful East Lothian coast. #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Another exciting find on the Assynt coast - Rosetoot stonecrop (?) Sedum rosea @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #WildFlowerHour
Great to find Scots Lovage (?) Sea Campion and more gorgeous English Stonecrop - All coastal Assynt @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #WildFlowerHour
Assynt glories for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social All the Heathers; Cross-leaved Heath, Bell & Ling. Common Milkwort & English Stonecrop near Drumbeg #WildFlowerHour
Purple Loosestrife, Broad-leaved Dock, Clustered Dock, Charlock - perhaps flattened by heavy rain?, Hedge Mustard and Hedge woundwart - all glorious at #BlackfordPond @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
Grypocoris stysi (?) adult & nymphs on Hogweed - #HermitageofBraid Edinburgh, Burnet Moths on Tufted Vetch & Buff-tailed Bumblebee on Clover - #MorrisonsHaven Musselburgh for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #pollinatorpals What a joy to see all of these this week ☺️😍🪲🦋🐝
Salad Burnett, Mexican Fleabane, Poppy and Furmitory #GrangeCemetery Edinburgh for #ChurchyardFlowers #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Yellow Corydallis and Hop Trefoil #GrangeCemetery Edinburgh for #ChurchyardFlowers #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Red Valerian #GrangeCemetery Edinburgh for #ChurchyardFlowers #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Common sorrels I think #GrangeCemetery Edinburgh for #ChurchyardFlowers #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Some tall maritime flowers & a couple of unusual finds for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social Sea Arrowgrass, Wild Onion & Weld at Gosford Bay #EastLothian #wildflowerhour
Astounding amounts of Northern marsh orchid at my favourite urban wetland reserve #LittleFrance - squeezed in between the massive Hospital/Bioquarter & encroaching housing (built on the rubble of an inter-war social housing estate) #orchidchallenge #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Good Evening from #BlackfordHill Edinburgh #WildFlowerShow We have used Hawthorn & Sycamore for height with an understory of Salmonberry, Cranesbill Vetch & Guelder Rose -so happy with our planting this year & it all flowered in time @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #WildFlowerHour #ChelseaFlowerShow2026
Thank you - Just my phone camera, so photos are always a bit hit and miss 🫣😅
Above #PattackFalls nr Newtonmore/Spean Bridge please let me have Bog Beacon for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social and the most beautiful coloured Cowberry and Blaeberry #wildflowerhour #tinyplants
Seapinks galore, Birds-foot-trefoil, Lesser Trefoil, Sea-Sandwort and ran out of time to #ID this last one ! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #tinyplants #AberladyBay #GullanePoint #EastLothian
Heath Milkwort ? Dog Violet ? and my favourite Cowberry - found in stunning Glen Affric for #wildflowerhour #tinyplants @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @affrichighlands.bsky.social
Heath Milkwort, Blaeberry and Deergrass #tinyplants #wildflowerhour Pushing the boundaries (🫣) for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @visitdundreggan.bsky.social A very special place
A v hairy Birdsfoot Trefoil ? Common Vetch, Fumitory and Broom #MusselburghLagoons @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #CarrotsAndPeas #wildflowerhour
Intrigued to find this delightful flower along the banks of a burn Edinburgh, then again along the murky banks of the Esk at Musselburgh - wee bit disappointed to find out it is possibly an invasive 😅 ? Fringe Cups @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @lothianloop.bsky.social #wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Some beautiful #treeflowers here in #Humbie Woods #wildflowerhour Copper Beech, Elm and a Crab Apple
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Never seen so many Blaeberry flowers (I have pushed the flower definition here🫣?) #Humbie woods - also Opposite-leaved Golden-saxifrage, Greater Stichwort and a strange lone Vetch - Common ? #ID so bright I couldn’t get a better photo ! # wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social More Woodland flowers from Humbie - confused about the two different Lesser Celandines ? #ID and carpets of Wood Anemone #wildflowerhour
@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Baku Violets galore in Humbie Woods, East Lothian - NEVER seen so many ! A variety of colours but I think all Dog Violet ? #wildflowerhour
Spotted Medick, Ground Ivy, Dogs Mercury, Wood Anemone, Wood Spurge, Field Madder, Borage, Greater Celandine, Common cornsalad AND BLUEBELLS all around Canterbury 💙💚 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @kentwildlife.bsky.social #wildflowerhour