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Plant knowledge becoming more popular! Cambridge University botanic garden @CUBotanicgarden joins UK others offering short courses plant vocabulary and ID. See also @BSBIbotany Identiplant (enrols December), Plantlife @Love_plants, Field Studies Council @FieldStudiesC #BUC2026

Wild cowslips (Primula veris) are a seriously rare sight in Liverpool. Find out how we’re bringing them back! 🌱❤️

Sometimes when we are botanising we can forget to look up! Which would be a shame as #treeflowers are both fascinating & beautiful! This week’s challenge is to go looking for wild & naturalised trees that are blooming. Share your finds for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm!

It's Sunday, it's 8pm so it must be #WildFlowerHour! Please share pix of any wild or naturalised plants you saw in bloom last week across Britain & Ireland inc any #storyplants. Mystery plant? Use #WildFlowerID to summon help from friendly @wildflower_hour botanists

Lots now for #Wildflowerhour. Celandine, including some interesting bronze leaved variants, dogs mercury, pulmonaria, red dead nettle, green alkanet, goat willow, alexanders

Three Portuguese Heath plants growing out of the side of a roadside wall in Chacewater Cornwall today. #WhiteFlowers #wildflowerhour Erica lusitanica

I'd hoped to find wood anemones in the woods yesterday (I didn't!), but I was rewarded instead by hundreds of sweet white violets-viola odorata-just in time for this week's #WhiteFlowers challenge for #wildflowerhour

The naturalised hybrid bluebells have overtaken the native ones and are now in full flower in Chacewater Cornwall today. Blue and pink flowered plants next to each other. #wildflowerhour Hyacinthoides x massartiana

#WhiteFlowers are beautiful so I’m glad this was the #Wildflowerhour challenge. The little Barren Strawberry has lovely heart shaped petals 🤍 and despite being bedraggled by the recent winds, the Feverfew flower still resolutely looked to the sun.

A Wood forget-me-not in its typical habitat of a pavement and not a wood. Chacewater Cornwall today. #wildflowerhour Myosotis sylvatica

#WhiteFlowers for #WildflowerHour Something about white flowers draws the eye. Perhaps because they appear so simply — a pale star in the hedgebank, a quiet flicker in the woodland. You notice them almost before you realise you are looking. And suddenly spring is everywhere.

Three cornered leek #wildflowerhour #whiteflowers 🍃

The green pendant flowers of Redcurrant, flowering by a wooded path in Chacewater Cornwall today. I also saw a few Gooseberry bushes, but they're not in flower yet (beware the spines on those). #wildflowerhour Ribes rubrum

It’s #WildflowerHour, and this evening we have this beautiful white form of Sweet Violet for #WhiteFlowers

Appearing naturalised, but it's hard to tell sometimes, a Flowering Currant bush next to a streamside path in Chacewater Cornwall today. #wildflowerhour Ribes sanguineum

Like the way the buds of white comfrey unfurl #whiteflowers #wildflowerhour

Buffish / Chocolate mining bee visiting Alexanders #wildflowerhour #bees

I’m hoping the cream flowers of Climbing Corydalis, Ceratocapnos claviculata won’t be too far off theme for this week’s #WhiteFlowers challenge for #wildflowerhour

A native Bluebell, Musk Storksbill and a #WhiteFlowers Sea mouse-ear from Falmouth yesterday for #wildflowerhour