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#SignsofSpring Clump of Winter heliotrope (Alan pêr, Petasites fragrans) advancing along the road verge and now flowering. Scenting the air on still, damp days. #Merseyside #Wirral

#WildWebsWednesday Rust, probably Puccinia lagenophorae, on groundsel (creulys, Senecio vulgaris). Very conspicuous. Apparently this rust only known in UK since 1961, now common, originated from Australia! #Merseyside #Wirral

#WildFlowerHour Red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum, marddanhadlen goch) 'abundant weed', but cheerful spots of pink and red. @wildflower_hour #Wirral #Merseyside

#WildFlowerHour Speedwells out in force in the sunshine. Green field speedwell (Veronica agrestis) and Common field speedwell (Veronica persica) I think. #Wirral @wildflower_hour

#WildWebsWednesday Hedge still festooned with ivy berries. Mild weather, bumper year for fruits and seeds, birds have so much wild food now. But if weather becomes worse these berries will be welcomed for hungry birds. @webs_wild #Merseyside

#WildWebsWednesday Another tree, different species, covered in lichen and algae except for the youngest twigs. @webs_wild

#WildWebsWednesday Just the glorious uplifting sight of young golden-coloured willow against a blue sky and sun. @webs_wild #Dee #Borderlands

#WildFlowerHour Trailing bellflower (Campanula poscharskyana) (or similar) has escaped from a garden to a sheltered corner - above a recycling bin! @wildflower_hour

#WildWebsWednesday RlShades of russet, orange and brown. Autumn leaves and a tree trunk gradually returning to the soil and air as fungi live on it. @webs_wild #Wirral

#WildWebsWednesday Apples still on this hedge tree in a field boundary on #Deeside. Cold morning, and a fieldfare was eyeing them up, then flew off to gobble haws! @webs_wild

#WildWebsWednesday Lovely collection of lady-birds clustered together on a shoot on a cold winter day. @webs_wild #Northwich

Last #WildWebsWednesday of 2025! Flowering red deadnettle with a mildew fungus on it. Growing at edge of path in central #Liverpool. @webs_wild #Merseyside

#WildFlowerHour Hazel flowers (Collen, Corylus avellana). Separate male and female flowers. Some plants, like this one, regularly flower early. Another, covered in open male catkins, but no little red female stigmas yet.

#WildFlowerHour Gallant soldier (Galinsoga parviflora, galinsoga). From South America. First recorded UK in 1860. Now #urbanplant all over UK. Pretty daisy-like flowers. @wildflower_hour

@WildWebsWednesday #WildWebsWednesday Still butterflies in November in northern England! Red Admiral!! #NessGardens

#WildWebsWednesday Warm November, flies happy to find flowers. @WebsWild

#WildWebsWednesday Hazel leaves home to so many insects. This one has two sorts of leaf miner. One makes little wiggly tracks, the other excavated a large space for itself. @WebsWild #Merseyside

#WildFlowerHour Heather (grug, Calluna vulgaris) delicate and pretty. @wildflower_hour

#WildWebsWednesday Bumblebee warming up on a dandelion. Won't take long in today's surprisingly hot sun! @WebsWild

#WildFlowerHour Phacelia (ffaselia, Phacelia tanacetifolia) escaped from wild flower seed mix, or green manure, to flourish alone. Will it survive winter? Or at least produce seeds for next year? @wildflower_hour #Merseyside