@plants Another for #Alberta#MayPlantCount
Antennaria species: not one of the small silver rosette Pussytoes, this one is also rosette and mat forming, but larger than the silvers, medium green leaves(they darken over the season) with white backs, and flowers are earlier than the silvers. This patch is beside the house, growing in a (not yet this year) mowed area with dandelions, clover, grass + #NativePlants Viola adunca, Fragaria virginiana, etc.#WildflowerHour#florespondence#nature
#ClimateDiary If anyone here is near #Eastbourne in the next few weeks: do come and see the Emma Stibbon “melting ice rising tide” exhibition at the Towner Gallery, which rather brilliantly connects her polar art with new work on the changing Sussex coast line.
#ClimateDiary#Eastbourne After the exhibition we went to seafront itself; tried to take pictures of beautiful cliff gardens - see last year’s! On #WildFlowerHour! - but will need to come back in morning with better light. Still, beautiful as always but yes, crumbling… #TheCrumble
Garlic mustard, in flower just now, one of the food plants of the orange tip butterfly (we’ve been seeing lots of those about this past week)
Taken on a windy day this week in Fife. #WildFlowerHour
Late for the UK- but since I'm home/not yet outdoors on a Sunday afternoon and just at the edge of the growing season, here's a post for #WildflowerHour ! Photos from last week, #FirstFlowers of the season: #Aspen -Populus tremuloides +Willow- one of our several native #Salix species. Bonus #pollinators non-native #honeybee on the Aspen- supposed to be wind pollinated! + one of several types of #flies seen on the Willows (along with honeybees) #Alberta#Spring#Canada#bees#florespondence
Ukaliusaq, polar kæruld, Arctic bog cotton, in the low spring sun.
Our GNSS buoys in the glacier mélange are named after birds, fish and mammals and our snow site sensors are named after plants. I don't speak Greenlandic at all (yet), but this is a great way to learn a few words...
Lady's Smock Cardamine pratensis in Alexandra Park, #Hastings. In Cabbage family. This was my first look at the park, which is a phenomenal place for wild flowers -- it is threaded through by streams. Book says it flowers in April so like everything else in this part of the global north it's early. #WildflowerHour#Botany#ClimateDiary
A few blooms from a damp woodland walk. All the yellows - wild daffodils, primroses, opposite-leaved golden saxifrage (I think!) and a splash of violet.