Chicory, Cichorium intybus, still in flower near Shaker's Lane #BuryStEdmunds #Suffolk today. #WildflowerHour

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Borage still in blossom though far less so now.

For #wildflowerhour if there is such a thing as having favourite stamens (!!), these are mine on Great Mullein, Verbascum thapsus

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment This scarlet pimpernel blossom remains closed. Apparently 'flowers close when atmospheric pressure falls and bad weather approaches.'

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Last of the Self-Heal.

#wildflowerhour a thistle, but I dont know which one. Over 2m tall, I havent seen one like this before. #wildflowerID

Greater celandine flowering on a pavement in Ely this week. #WildflowerHour

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Thale cress now reappearing. This one a small new plant.

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Henbit Deadnettle flowers making a rare appearance. Apparently at times of year when there are not many pollinating insects, the flowers self-pollinate.

Common bistort. East Lancs 🌱

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So you're related? Seeds of Common Lime, Tilia x europaea, and Hollyhock, Alcea rosea, both members of the Mallow family, Malvaceae. #WildflowerHour

Taking the opportunity to start working on a few areas of the drawdown zone in the Long Pits, Dungeness for the scarce Lesser-Water Plantain (Baldellia) with some in flower and in seed

The water levels are very low at the moment

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The oak tree in my backyard is covered in flowering Ivy, and it’s absolutely buzzing! Hundreds of hoverflies, wasps, and bees are flying in and out #WildflowerHour

#wildflowerhour #reflowering #stillflowering hedge bindweed and michaelmas diasy in Croydon

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Have never seen this before but apparently is called Lesser Swinecress

#Wildflowerhour from #Preston yesterday; snowberry & flowers at the same time, a wild carrot seedhead, cow parsley, vetch, bramble, honeysuckle, knapweed, creeping thistle, herb Robert, meadowsweet & red bistort. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Lancashire

Very pretty but invasive Snowberry in the local hedgerows #wildflowerhour

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment This week noticed a lot less bees, insects, and blossoms too. Seems all are getting ready for winter. One exception seems to be this Purple Toadflax.