Fran Sinclair
Plants are my passion but the rest of the world is pretty fascinating, too. Except sport.
- Three of the highlights from today’s monad recording-lite in Chippenham. Naturalised Cyclamen coum, a dozen or so Bee Orchid rosettes, and Veronica agrestis. We also found a county first but it’s not very photogenic. Smells good though. 😊🤐
- Maidenhair Fern Adiantum capillus -veneris at its well-known site in Bath, curtaining one end of a canal tunnel, but now spreading to the outside wall at the other end and even to the wall of a nearby railway cutting. #FernFriday #FridayFerns #ahashtagwithFernsinit
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- Precocious Cherry Plum, Snowdrops, Winter Heliotrope, Trailing and Adria Bellflowers, grubby Forgetmenot and a single star on Butcher’s Broom, then Celandine, Primrose, Water Bent and Shepherd’s Purse #theWinter10 +1 for #WildflowerHour #Imbolc !
- The (old) beginning of a wasp nest? #WildWebsWednesday Couldn’t get closer to take better pic.
- Some hints of spring amid the greyness: Primrose, Red Deadnettle, Sweet Violet, Groundsel and Hazel. Forgetmenot, Balkan Spurge, Oxford Ragwort, Chickweed and cheery Sun Surge make #theWinter10 for #WildflowerHour and then some bonus Snowdrops.
- Discarded rosette rescued from communal green bin 2 years ago and look what it’s done this year 🥰
- A solitary ladybird creeping out of its Periwinkle shelter for some sun #WildWebsWednesday
- One of several magnificent Yews in Mells churchyard in Somerset #ThickTrunkTuesday
- #TheWinter10 plus 2: Stinking Hellebore, Common Field-speedwell, Lesser Celandine, Trailing Bellflower and a Crocus 🥰 from springlike Mells in Somerset. Groundsel, White Deadnettle, Petty Spurge, Red Deadnettle and Forgetmenot from cloudy B-on-A. Bonus Snowdrops; Common and Pleated. #WildflowerHour
- #FernFriday catered for by a wall full of Rustyback 🥰 in Mells, Somerset
- Yay! Velvet Shank in Mells for #FungiFriday
- Taking #WildWebsWednesday rather literally today 🙂
- #theWinter10 harder to find this week! Bedraggled Daisy family first: Feverfew, Daisy, Dandelion, Mexican Fleabane and (the only one shrugging off weather) Winter Heliotrope. Then grubby Forgetmenot, Annual Mercury, wind blown Creeping Buttercup, Petty Spurge and Red Deadnettle #WildflowerHour
- Diamond-patterned White Poplar on the banks of the Nadder in Salisbury #ThickTrunkTuesday
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- #theWinter10 at #NewYearPlantHunt for #WildflowerHour Trailing & Adria Bellflower, Sun Spurge & Grape Hyacinth, then previously frozen versus fresh Round-leaved Cranesbill, & then Groundsel, Forgetmenot, Fuchsia, Oxford Ragwort & Green Alkanet. That was 4 days of fun; what’s next? 😄
- #WiltsBotSoc picnicking to the amusement of those queueing for Salisbury recycling centre, and then optimistically searching for flowers on some Callitriche that anglers had dumped on the bank of the Nadder #NewYearPlantHunt - our final total 49 (or maybe 50 - we’ll see!)
- What estate agents call “the desirable Bath side of town” was much harder work for my second #NewYearPlantHunt due to tidy brigade and frost. Campanulas posch ‘n’ port (I can see someone in Hampshire wincing at that) always flowering but the Muscari was a surprise.
