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Barry 🏳️‍🌈 🇵🇸 🌿🌿
@wonkyeggs.bsky.social
Mainly plants and pretty things, with a dollop of music/TV geekery, and random nonsense

FISC 5, still makes mistakes 🤦‍♂️🤷‍♂️

He/Him/They/Them/Get Her

pro-Trans 🏳️‍⚧️

Low-level tolerance to wankery. Swears more than my mother would like.
Two pots of Dyer's Greenweed (Genista tinctoria) cuttings taken today for ex-situ conservation.

Now categorised as Endangered in Great Britain. I'm glad I've been growing this species from both seed and cuttings for a few years now to bulk up local populations.
November 28, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Oh, there goes my excitement - iNat has a load more records further north 🙄😂

Gorgeous thing though.
November 1, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Ram's Horn Galls caused by the wasp Andricus aries spotted in Middlesbrough today. Never recorded this far north before (species.nbnatlas.org/species/NHMS...).

Bonus Oak Marble Galls - nature has a sense of humour 😉
October 31, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Alpine Cotula (Cotula alpina) on a North York Moors National Park road verge yesterday.

Rabbit poo for scale.

#WildflowerHour
October 19, 2025 at 7:35 PM
Trailing St John's-wort

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October 12, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Lady's Bedstraw

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September 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Common Bird's-foot-trefoil

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September 28, 2025 at 7:21 PM
Common Knapweed

#WildflowerHour
September 28, 2025 at 7:20 PM
Devil's-bit Scabious

#WildflowerHour
September 28, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Intermediate Lady's Mantle

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September 28, 2025 at 7:18 PM
September 28, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Hemp-agrimony

#WildflowerHour
September 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Wood Vetch having a second flush

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September 28, 2025 at 7:16 PM
A late flowering Dyer's Greenweed taking advantage of the recent rains

#WildflowerHour
September 21, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Nice to see Donegal County Council going all out for nature in Letterkenny this morning 🤦‍♂️😂
September 15, 2025 at 1:42 PM
A rather unseasonal Bird's-eye Primrose

#WildflowerHour
September 7, 2025 at 7:18 PM
Hop Trefoil

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September 7, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Eyebright City! 😍😍

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September 7, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Hemp-agrimony - flowering in it's first year after I scattered some (locally collected) seed on a damp patch to brighten my area up.

#WildflowerHour
September 7, 2025 at 7:14 PM
Burnet-saxifrage

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August 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Field Pansy

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August 3, 2025 at 8:00 PM
Greater Knapweed

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August 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Autumn Gentian

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August 3, 2025 at 7:59 PM
Chalk Fragrant-orchid

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August 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM
Small Scabious

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August 3, 2025 at 7:58 PM