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@james99.bsky.social

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formerly @jahasse at X (formerly Twitter) Still walking while attempting to naturally historicise; battling the wannabe wood to keep a “wildflower” garden intact

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · 2d

I did find that very useful guide, but not til I got home. Clearly, I didn't look close enough/take enough photos. Only excuse is that was a non-botanist group walk!

Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · 3d

Why are thistles so difficult? #wildflowerhour #wildflowerID this tall scraggly one, in a somewhat damp area, with a lovely flowerhead may be a Marsh Thistle (Cirsium palustre)

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · 3d

Is that without a battery?

(I suppose it helps that mornings have just got "earlier"!)

Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · 3d

All the pinky purples for #WildFlowerHour from Denbies Hillside today: Clustered Bellflower, Knapweed,Self Heal, Marjoram, Scabious and Harebell

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 29

Maybe an ornamental of some sort ...

Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 29

Nearly spherical....

Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 29

Thanks. Taste test suggests P pyraster 😬

Steyning appears proud of it's fruit tree traditions and very nearby is:

steyningcommunityorchard.org/the-memorial...

The Memorial Playing Fields Orchard | Steyning Community Orchard

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 28

South Downs Way had plenty of colour: always astonishing Chicory blue, White Campion, Burnet Rose, Field Sowthistle and Greater Knapweed #wildflowerhour

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 28

Parked in a Steyning municipal car park today, under a deliberately planted pear tree with abundant small round fruits. Can't be a Plymouth Pear (Pyrus Cordata) surely? Brought some "samples" home for later tasting. #wildflowerhour #wildflowerid

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 24

Keep seeing #Caterpillars #Moths on paths. Why so much moving about in the open at the moment? Or just lucky spotting them? Two intriguing beauties: Fox Moth and Pale Tussock #WildWebsWednesday

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 22

Native to the eastern half of (North) America. But successful on other continents too, now. Invasive, but not that super-spreading.

Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 21

Orchid seed heads in abundance on Mickleham Down escarpments, Birdsnest and Broad-leaved Helleborine #wildflowerhour

Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 21

Clustered Bellflower, now in a range of colours #wildflowerhour

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 21

It's not exactly a bloom but blooming gorgeous, invasive escapee on a local river bank, but incredible too, Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) #wildflowerhour

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 15

Very much depends on your soil type. And the aspect. Plus the weather in a particular year.

We find the first crucial, eg on our Surrey sand it's tough to grow anything. And the one plant on that list that does really well, and nearly dominates is Ribwort Plantain. Avoid at all costs!

Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 14

Nice find on edge of a paddock near Guildford was some Field Bugloss (Anchusa arvensis) #WildflowerHour

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 14

Super bloom of Persicaria maculosa in the base of a currently dried-up pond #wildflowerhour

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 8

Thanks. Always read the small print!

Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 8

Chilterns walk from Bledlow revealed the superb material for #wildflowerhour especially on Lodge Hill, awash with huge clumps of #Eyebright #Scabious and views!

Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 8

Autumn #Gentians only just got going at Yoesden in the Chilterns earlier last week #wildflowerhour

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 1

#WildFlowerHourID am worried now that #Plantnet actually ID's this as Viburnum trilobum and NOT Viburnum opulus. Guess I have to go back and study the leaf glands?

Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Sep 1

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Viburnum opulus L., Highbush-Cranberry (World flora)

Viburnum opulus L. (Highbush-Cranberry, Guelder Rose, Snowball, Black Haw, Crampbark, European Cranberrybush, Red Elder, Water Elder, Cranberrybush, Gemeiner Schneeball, Schneeball, Cranberry-tree, Eu...

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Roger_TL45Y @rogerhorton.bsky.social · Aug 31

Nine Nightshade family members from #Cambridge and #Suffolk:
Woody, Black, Green,
Small, Deadly & Tall Nightshades,
…plus Thorn Apple, Henbane & Duke of Argyll's Tea Plant.
Scientific names in ALT.
#WildflowerHour #Fruits

A collage of nine photos of members of the Nightshade family in a three by three array:
Solanum dulcamara, S. nigrum, S. nitidibaccatum,
S. triflorum, Atropa belladonna, S. chenopodioides
Datura stramonium, Hyoscymus niger, Lycium barbarum.

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Aug 31

Ok, I know it's not native and is at Kew Gardens, but the rose hips on these Rosa Roxburghii, are as big as chestnuts, one of their common names #wildflowerhour

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Natural Historian @james99.bsky.social · Aug 31

Everlasting-pea are stunning in close-up, late-flowering on the Surrey chalk, and fade so well too #wildflowerhour

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