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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 12h

Thanks Jeremy, but I think you’ve found just as many!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 12h

One of my favourites and I’ve seen none in flower here 🥲

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 12h

And the yellows - Bristly Oxtongue, Black Medick (Bam-a-lam), Shaggy Soldier, Nipplewort and Yellow Corydalis for #WildflowerHour plus an irresistible urban Perennial Sowthistle.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 12h

The pinky-purple group for #WildflowerHour Field Madder making a modest comeback, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Herb Robert, Cyclamen, Selfheal and, getting down with the knotweeds, a Hardheaded. All in Bradford-on-Avon.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 12h

Witchgrass - stunning garden escape in Bradford-on-Avon for #WildflowerHour

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 12h

A Round-leaved Geranium in focus! Amazing! Plus Trailing Bellflower, garden escape Plumbago, and a Forgetmenot for #WildflowerHour

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 2d

I was aghast at the swathes of Japanese Knotweed along the railway leaving Swansea a few weeks ago. Several kilometres I should think and marching up the embankment too.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 2d

A few for #FungiFriday from Picket Wood near Trowbridge

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Concrete Botany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 5d

Purple-Stem Cliffbrake (Pellaea atropurpurea) on a wall by 12th & Jackson, shot Sunday.
#Ferns #Wallplants #UrbanBotany #UrbanNature

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 5d

Thanks! They went on one of my miscellaneous sheets to the VCR, Roger, when they were really quite small - 5th August!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 5d

Well I won’t bother to post mine from Church Street in Bradford-on-Avon then. Oops! 3 statuesque plants.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 7d

But my favourite find was this Common Centaury in a rubbish-strewn gateway #WildflowerHour

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 7d

After the rain and wind there are still a few brave flowers: Common Ragwort, Meadowsweet, Wild Carrot, Ivy & Upright Hedge Parsley, then Red Clover, Marsh Woundwort, a bedraggled Common Fleabane, Bramble & Herb Robert. All in Monassa, Co. Kilkenny for #WildflowerHour

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 10d

Singles - including Penny Bun? - and troops of toadstools, all looking wonderful in the Monassa woods in Co. Kilkenny #FungiFriday

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 11d

Nearly forgot these #WildWebsWednesday pics from this morning - spiders on Bramble and thistle, and a rose gall I don’t remember seeing before. Co. Kilkenny

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 11d

Wonderful!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13d

That was Russulas of course

Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13d

And loads more for #MushroomMonday from Co. Kilkenny - an Apricot something, 2 Russia’s I think, and a ground-dwelling brackety thing! No books with me 🙄

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks Lukas!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13d

Thanks Caroline. More attractive than some slime moulds I’ve seen!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13d

Masses of the bonnets (?) on the grass here in Co. Kilkenny but just one gorgeous orange sponge on some wood - ID for that one would very welcome. #MushroomMonday

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 14d

Very late for #WildflowerHour here are some #PavementPlants from last week in Bradford-on-Avon Field Poppy, Herb Robert, Opium Poppy and Hemp Agrimony.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 15d

Patrick Barkham’s eye-opening article about Lyme Disease www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s... Very well worth reading.

As my daughter got sicker and sicker, our quest for answers dragged on. How did we all miss the bacteria taking over her body?

I write about nature, but when Milly got sick with a mystery illness, it never occurred to me that a long-forgotten tick bite could be the cause

www.theguardian.com

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 18d

Or just scenting a room - lovely!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 21d

I want one!

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