My favourite of 2026 from April, delicate cuckoo flowers a sign that spring was absolutely underway (in the North of England)
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#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Most of the Wild Marjoram/Oregano has gone to seed but some fresh sprigs have sprung up lower down the bushes.

Seen this week near the River Soar, Leicester city centre: Shaggy Soldier, Yarrow and Ragwort. #wildflowerhour

Surviving the hot summer to produce flowers and fruit at the same time. Small Nightshade living up to its scientific name Solanum triflorum with flowers and fruits in threes. Almost my #FavouritePlant but becoming common in #Suffolk #Brecks fields. #WildflowerHour

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Common Plantain under the grapevine.

Sea Aster beside Beacon Ponds at Spurn today. Drifts of purple flowers in salty ground by a lagoon. #WildflowerHour

Fodder vetch (V. villosa), I think, fields north of Romford, for #wildflowerhour

#favouritefind was probably the St Dabeoc’s Heath from Galway last week, or the Yellow Vetch from Shoreham-by-Sea back in June

For the #wildflowerhour #favouriteplant challenge 2026, I'm probably going to choose this lovely patch of Coralroot #Orchids (Corallorhiza trifida) from the dunes of South Cumbria. They were absolutely magnificent 🥰

And another #FavouritePlant, from the village woods this Spring is the Wood Anemone, Anemone nemerosa, #WildflowerHour

Some of the last Great Willowherb flowers! #WildFlowerHour

Common bird’s-foot trefoil. St Aidans, Leeds. #wildflowerhour

Common Stalk's-Bill had flowered, disappeared, and now has returned again! #WildFlowerHour

Something far less showy but equally beautiful: a mature, fluffy seed head from a sow - thistle plant.
#wildflowerhour

#WildflowerHour #WildflowerAllotment Borage and bee...

Another #FavouritePlant, Mousetail, Myosurus minimus, #WildflowerHour

Scarlet pimpernel flowering on the pavement in Ely. #WildflowerHour #PavementPlants