Look amazing. I have to try making these for #NorfolkFloraGroup botanists ... but you're setting the bar way too high, here 😲 Are you able to share trade secrets? Think body may be a date? Are legs chocolate? What do you make the blood out of? (and is it suitable for vegetarians??)
THIS year we did cupcakes again. Matt mostly did these. I helped some but I had to go get work done in me office so I didn't see the final product until this morning. they're so good ahahaha there is blood icing inside the cockroach that oozes out when you bite into em
October 31, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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1st world problem? ... when your special lime drizzle cakes for the first #BSBIbotany #NorfolkFloraGroup winter meeting of 2025-26 are sadly compromised by a slightly over-risen profile so that the drizzle topping slides off. Edges will be very tasty, at any rate....
October 31, 2025 at 6:52 PM
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Thorn Apple Datura stramonium in curious abundance as a contaminant in Pigweed seed margins. Huge plants too. Must’ve been a good summer for it. #NorfolkFloraGroup
October 4, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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A copse of Huntingdon Elm Ulmus vegeta in arable NW Norfolk with #NorfolkFloraGroup today. Lovely big trees undoubtedly surviving due to their isolation from elmy areas.
October 4, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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Been an amazing year for them in the UK. Taking a garden trug-full to #NorfolkFloraGroup meeting tomorrow, so if anyone wants quinces and would like to join the group for the day, now's your chance! Also make an amazing gin - you can make apple-and-quince-gin crumble when you strain the gin :)
September 26, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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A fine form of hybrid polypody Polypodium x mantoniae at Anmer with #NorfolkFloraGroup this weekend. I must have inspected the undersides of hundreds of polypodies over the years but I’ve never noticed this cute frond friend before.. Any ideas? #wildflowerhour
September 21, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Many (and belated!) Thanks to the #NorfolkFloraGroup and @jo-the-botanist.bsky.social for a great day in the field! Looking forward to the next field meeting (and more surveying!) 🥰🌱🌿
We had a great #NorfolkFloraGroup day out on the Estate with enough people to field 3 survey groups, covering a massive 8 monads between them - was especially lovely to have @sarahastewart.bsky.social join us 🥰
September 21, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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We had a great #NorfolkFloraGroup day out on the Estate with enough people to field 3 survey groups, covering a massive 8 monads between them - was especially lovely to have @sarahastewart.bsky.social join us 🥰
September 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
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Some fun plants from this weekend’s #NorfolkFloraGroup meeting: Green Nightshade Solanum nitidibaccatum, Orpine Sedum telaphium, Grass-wrack Pondweed Potamogeton compressus and a hybrid dock Rumex obtusifolius x sanguineus #wildflowerhour
August 24, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Scleranthus perennis ssp prostratus Prostrate Perennial Knawel in Breckland this weekend with #NorfolkFloraGroup #wildflowerhour
August 17, 2025 at 8:24 PM
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Lathyrus sylvestris var. sylvestris Narrow-leaved Everlasting-pea beside Breckland tracks with #NorfolkFloraGroup #wildflowerhour
August 17, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Cambridge Milk Parsley Selinum carvifolia at Chippenham Fen NNR with #NorfolkFloraGroup and Cambs colleagues. #Wildflowerhour
August 17, 2025 at 7:43 PM
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Not #Asteraceae but nevertheless thrilled to see hundreds of Sch8 flowering Cambridge milk-parsley Selinum carvifolium at Chippenham Fen NNR on location with #CambsFloraGroup & #NorfolkFloraGroup. A new one for me (I don't count the ones I saw a few years back at Cambs Botanic Gardens!).
August 17, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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I'm not the best go-to person for taxonomy. Learnt pretty much everything by osmosis! By mid Sept, #NorfolkFloraGroup is down to only 1x meeting a week, so a mini-meeting might be nice :)
August 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
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An interesting population of Knapweeds in a fragment of native chalk grassland with #NorfolkFloraGroup yesterday. Seems to be Chalk Knapweed Centaurea debeauxii introgressed by some Brown Knapweed Centaurea jacea = Centaurea x moncktonii. Referee thinks nigra ss may be involved too! #wildflowerhour
July 27, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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A damp outing with #NorfolkFloraGroup but some nice arable plants seen: Night-flowering Catchfly Silene noctiflora (flowers open due to overcast weather?), Cornfield Knotweed Polygonum rurivagum and Cut-leaved Deadnettle Lamium hybridum #wildflowerhour
July 27, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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A damp day in NW Norfolk today with #NorfolkFloraGroup but several interesting finds including 2 hybrid docks - this one is Rumex x pratensis. The valves are intermediate - broad like crispus with a few teeth from obtusifolius. Family portraits with obtusifolius L, x pratensis C & crispus R
July 26, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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I rather like that... think straplines are outdated now, but #NorfolkFloraGroup : Eat cake. Find rare things.
It has a certain ring to it :)
It has a certain ring to it :)
July 20, 2025 at 8:53 AM
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A new shallow pond scraped into dull arable - first year it produces Jersey Cudweed Gnaphalium luteoalbum, Grass-poly Lythrum hyssopifolia and Cavernous Crystalwort Riccia cavernosa! Interesting dynamism in landscapes never fails to deliver #NorfolkFloraGroup #wildflowerhour
July 19, 2025 at 6:38 PM
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#wildflowerhour #hairyplants cheating (quite a lot) but couldn't resist our #NorfolkFloraGroup Tim D on marshes at Langley with a 'so-hairy-that-there-is-nothing BUT-hair-and would-make-a-great-green-toupee' horse-hair (Pithophora?) alga.
July 13, 2025 at 6:58 PM
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Rubus crudelis Curved-prickle Bramble found on the #NorfolkFloraGroup annual Rubus meeting. A NT endemic: this is likely to be the only plant remaining in the Norfolk outpost to its Surrey-Sussex distribution. Note the fiercely prickly inflorescence branches & hairy anthers (zoom in) #wildflowerhour
June 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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A fantastic find by #NorfolkFloraGroup botanists - the yellow form of Ivy Broomrape Orobanche hederae f monochroa on a mid-Norfolk road verge. A very welcome addition to the county’s flora.
June 21, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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You can see it in Norfolk too, you know... @vc57botanist.bsky.social found a second Norfolk site last week... all sorts of other wonderful things to find and then there is the lovely #NorfolkFloraGroup who would be thrilled to have a VCR accompany them on a meeting...
June 20, 2025 at 6:03 PM
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Rosa micrantha x rubiginosa last seen in Norfolk in 1885, on today’s #NorfolkFloraGroup meeting #wildflowerhour
June 14, 2025 at 8:04 PM
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The beautiful, weird that is Crested Cow-wheat Melampyrum cristatum on today’s #NorfolkFloraGroup outing #wildflowerhour
June 14, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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