Elizabeth Dauncey

This time with a picture 😁

They are a delight 💕

...and nearby the first stirrings of Thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana). If you squint you can see a flower that's just opening 🧐
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A perfect sweet violet on the edge of some tarmac
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A treat to find this gorgeous clump of primroses on my walk this afternoon. A handy adaptation to prevent self-pollination, both flower forms, thrum & pin-eyed were growing alongside each other. #wildflowerhour

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Three photos of Butterbur flower heads.

#WildFlowerHour Very early (22/1/24) Butterbur, Petasites hybridus, in a swale in Accordia estate beside Hobson's Brook #Cambridge. No sign at historic site in city yet!

Image from Carrickmore "downland" looking towards Fairhead

Gorse flowering + a lot of buds

First Lesser Celandine flowering on bleak windy hillside

Image of Alpine strawberry - first flower of this year

Scramble near Fairhead finding Lesser Celandine flourishing & flowering oddly only near tiny (wind sheltered) stream & Gorse + many buds looking amazing. + One "Alpine" Strawberry in garden.

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A welcome #TheWinter10 for #WildFlowerHour from Shacklegate Lane Cemetery, TW11
Shy celandine, snowdrops, primrose
common and green field-speedwell, ivy-leaved speedwell, red dead-nettle
daisy, eastern sowbread and dandelion

The first few flowers are appearing on the carpet of naturalised spring sowbread, Cyclamen repandum, in St James churchyard, and clearance work on a nearby road verge has exposed several patches of beautifully marked sowbread, Cyclamen hederifolium, leaves
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A cluster of white yarrow flowers, pink herb Robert, pale yellow primrose, a closed yellow flower-head of smooth sow-thistle with two red holly fruit below, a dishevelled daisy, partially unfurling yellow dandelion, red dead-nettle, bright blue flowers of green alkanet, green sun spurge and a single purple sweet violet flower

#TheWinter10 for #WildFlowerHour from local roads and St James churchyard, TW12 including my first sweet violet 💜 and primrose 💛 of the year. It feels as though the new year's flowers are finally starting - just before the chilly shock

Sorry to hear that. Some UK gardeners dislike its ability to spread, but it brings me great pleasure in my own garden

Thanks! 🌼

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Thanks Sue, it's good to see you on here too. Thought I'd try doing both but I'm not sure it's going to work - and I've only tried two posts tonight!

I'm glad it's the only plant I've seen with flowers so there are still lots to look forward to 💛

Single lesser celandine plant growing on a grave. It has mottled leaves and two flower buds

My first lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria, syn. Ficaria verna) flower of the year. Okay, so the flowers aren't open, but I had to share for #wildflowerhour

An Ely #thewinter10. Daisy, Shepherd’s purse, Sweet violet, Dandelion, Periwinkle, Winter heliotrope, Annual mercury, another Daisy, Common chickweed, Red dead nettle and Feverfew. #wildflowerhour

As winter takes hold, I found signs of spring on today's walk - Winter Aconite and Snowdrop flowering in a village churchyard and the first Bluebell leaves pushing through the leaf litter at Old Sulehay Forest NR.
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Thanks. I thought it was about time 😊

Thanks. I'm looking forward to joining the wildflower comminity on here

Ivy-leaved speedwell with tiny pale flowers in bud; a short spike of thyme-leaved speedwell with white flowers; and a Cyclamen coum flower of pale pink with cerise throat in front of a few heart-shaped leaves

My first post on Bluesky is a few plants for #wildflowerhour from Shacklegate Lane Cemetery, TW11
ivy-leaved speedwell (Veronica hederifolia; flowers not yet open), thyme-leaved speedwell (V. serpyllifolia) and eastern sowbread (Cyclamen coum)