Anna Shergold
@annashergold.bsky.social
Retired IT professional, living in Hampshire. Trying out where the skies are blue, and the sun always shines. Any photos, unless reposts are my own. Interests: crafts, wild flowers, orchids, nature, the environment, #Wilder, Bentley the Berner 🐶💐📚🐝
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Anna Shergold
@annashergold.bsky.social
· Jul 27
The last 4 pics of Bentley Berner bear, we went to Scotland & he never made it home. He was a good boy (well bonkers until the last year, then good, he’d just turned 5). Earlier that day we stopped at Gretna, he made loads of new friends, & went down hill very fast 💔🐾🌈 #BMD #bernesemountaindog
For #wildflowerhour #winterTen - Winter heliotrope, gorse, periwinkle, hazel, white dead nettle, snowdrops, petty spurge, sweet violet, daisy, primrose & a few others that didn’t make the collage! So pretty now it’s reached ‘snowdrop carpet season!’
February 1, 2026 at 8:49 PM
For #wildflowerhour #winterTen - Winter heliotrope, gorse, periwinkle, hazel, white dead nettle, snowdrops, petty spurge, sweet violet, daisy, primrose & a few others that didn’t make the collage! So pretty now it’s reached ‘snowdrop carpet season!’
An interesting find, growing through brambles - a clematis - such pretty markings, I think a garden escapee #wildflowerhour
February 1, 2026 at 8:40 PM
An interesting find, growing through brambles - a clematis - such pretty markings, I think a garden escapee #wildflowerhour
What a difference a dry sunny day makes - today’s walk, the scent of winter heliotrope, the sound of birdsong & seeing snowdrops flowering in the verges #spring
January 28, 2026 at 8:55 PM
What a difference a dry sunny day makes - today’s walk, the scent of winter heliotrope, the sound of birdsong & seeing snowdrops flowering in the verges #spring
‘Were there a fruit that grew in my garden throughout winter, I wonder if winters would seem a little less interminable.’ Just what I needed to hear, waiting to watch spring appear, whilst reading Villager. Thanks @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social #books
January 28, 2026 at 2:39 PM
‘Were there a fruit that grew in my garden throughout winter, I wonder if winters would seem a little less interminable.’ Just what I needed to hear, waiting to watch spring appear, whilst reading Villager. Thanks @dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social #books
Signs of spring for #wildflowerhour - primrose, hazel & my first celandine
January 25, 2026 at 9:01 PM
Signs of spring for #wildflowerhour - primrose, hazel & my first celandine
Reposted by Anna Shergold
As the 2026 Big Garden Birdwatch begins, why is dedicated birdwatcher David Jobbins staying away? He wonders, what's the point when the government’s growth-at-all-costs policy rides roughshod over our impoverished natural environment. Read his analysis ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
From green to grey: why ‘growth at all costs’ is threatening British wildlife
This weekend amateur naturalists will spend an hour logging the birds that visit their gardens to contribute to national data
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 22, 2026 at 7:06 PM
As the 2026 Big Garden Birdwatch begins, why is dedicated birdwatcher David Jobbins staying away? He wonders, what's the point when the government’s growth-at-all-costs policy rides roughshod over our impoverished natural environment. Read his analysis ⤵️
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
@eastangliabylines.co.uk
The local #wilder team went for a walk to see what we could find, and were excited to find hazelnuts which had been chewed by dormice. Lovely to know we have some in our village. Isn’t the chew pattern pretty! #patternsInNature #dormice
January 18, 2026 at 9:43 PM
The local #wilder team went for a walk to see what we could find, and were excited to find hazelnuts which had been chewed by dormice. Lovely to know we have some in our village. Isn’t the chew pattern pretty! #patternsInNature #dormice
A stinky hellebore (Helleborus foetidus) seen as a pavement plant wandering round some of the roads where I live, I love the little red line round the flower head. For #wildflowerhour, slightly late
January 18, 2026 at 9:33 PM
A stinky hellebore (Helleborus foetidus) seen as a pavement plant wandering round some of the roads where I live, I love the little red line round the flower head. For #wildflowerhour, slightly late
repeating part of my NYPH walk(where I found lots of ice & no flowers!), as the heath was so bleak, even the cows were hidding, walked home a different way & saw a few flowers. See alt for list of flowers. The bracken was beautiful! #wildFlowerHour
January 11, 2026 at 6:14 PM
repeating part of my NYPH walk(where I found lots of ice & no flowers!), as the heath was so bleak, even the cows were hidding, walked home a different way & saw a few flowers. See alt for list of flowers. The bracken was beautiful! #wildFlowerHour
@BSBI #NewYearPlantHunt - just a few images from my New Year Plant Hunt in NE Hampshire - disappointed not to see any EPO orchid rosettes, but pleased to see both male & female hazel flowers
January 2, 2026 at 10:13 PM
@BSBI #NewYearPlantHunt - just a few images from my New Year Plant Hunt in NE Hampshire - disappointed not to see any EPO orchid rosettes, but pleased to see both male & female hazel flowers
Here’s a pretty flower found on the verges this week - winter heliotrope, smells so pretty - one of its names is Petasites fragrans - wishing you a joyful Christmas see you in the new year for the NY flower hunt & flower filled walks #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
December 24, 2025 at 4:04 PM
Here’s a pretty flower found on the verges this week - winter heliotrope, smells so pretty - one of its names is Petasites fragrans - wishing you a joyful Christmas see you in the new year for the NY flower hunt & flower filled walks #wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
It was a bit bleak on the heath this afternoon. I went to look for fungi & found flowers #wildflowerhour - scentless chamomile, sweet violet & cross leafed heath
November 16, 2025 at 9:05 PM
It was a bit bleak on the heath this afternoon. I went to look for fungi & found flowers #wildflowerhour - scentless chamomile, sweet violet & cross leafed heath
Reposted by Anna Shergold
I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
November 5, 2025 at 12:39 PM
I have two - TWO - of these gorgeous original A4 meadow hare linoprints by my mum, Jo, to give away to a couple of lucky people here on Bluesky today.
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
Rules are simple: to be in with a chance to win, you just have to repost this piece I wrote about Jo and her art: www.tom-cox.com/the-magic-ro...
#fungi Helvella crispa, Elfen or white saddle, such a funky shaped fungi, it was late afternoon seen on a footpath (so not the best photos)
November 3, 2025 at 12:22 AM
#fungi Helvella crispa, Elfen or white saddle, such a funky shaped fungi, it was late afternoon seen on a footpath (so not the best photos)
For #wildflowerhour a #winterTen (or was it #theWinterTen) - well nine and a helva crispa, the nine are yarrow, daisy, green Alkanet, periwinkle, red & white dead nettles, devils bit scabious, shepherds purse & buttercup - the fungi had to be included, it’s so cute!
November 2, 2025 at 5:26 PM
For #wildflowerhour a #winterTen (or was it #theWinterTen) - well nine and a helva crispa, the nine are yarrow, daisy, green Alkanet, periwinkle, red & white dead nettles, devils bit scabious, shepherds purse & buttercup - the fungi had to be included, it’s so cute!
For #wildflowerhour #wildfungihour a birch bolete found under the birch trees in my mum’s garden in Scotland. We’ve just got back after almost 2 weeks, with a variety of weather, the day I took this it was sunny, Scotland at its best!
October 26, 2025 at 5:31 PM
For #wildflowerhour #wildfungihour a birch bolete found under the birch trees in my mum’s garden in Scotland. We’ve just got back after almost 2 weeks, with a variety of weather, the day I took this it was sunny, Scotland at its best!
For #wildflowerhour - chicory, ox eye daisy & red campion all along the field margins in Perthshire (should they even be flowering at the end of Oct) - but a welcome splash of colour
October 19, 2025 at 5:37 PM
For #wildflowerhour - chicory, ox eye daisy & red campion all along the field margins in Perthshire (should they even be flowering at the end of Oct) - but a welcome splash of colour
Fungi #fungifriday #fungifriends a selection seem down the woods, I need more practice to identify, but just admiring the variety of shapes
October 9, 2025 at 11:43 PM
Fungi #fungifriday #fungifriends a selection seem down the woods, I need more practice to identify, but just admiring the variety of shapes
The ivy flowers are positively buzzing at the moment in the autumn sunshine - butterflies, hoverflies, wasps and various assorted insects #buzzing
October 7, 2025 at 11:20 AM
The ivy flowers are positively buzzing at the moment in the autumn sunshine - butterflies, hoverflies, wasps and various assorted insects #buzzing
Reposted by Anna Shergold
As renewables overtake coal as the world's largest source of electricity, what did we get from the Tory conference?
- repeal the Climate Change Act
- scrap 2050 net-zero target
- remove renewable energy subsidies
- maximise oil and gas extraction from the North Sea
They are so out of touch!
- repeal the Climate Change Act
- scrap 2050 net-zero target
- remove renewable energy subsidies
- maximise oil and gas extraction from the North Sea
They are so out of touch!
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
Developing countries lead the historic clean energy charge but the US and EU rely more on fossil fuels than before, a think tank study shows.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
As renewables overtake coal as the world's largest source of electricity, what did we get from the Tory conference?
- repeal the Climate Change Act
- scrap 2050 net-zero target
- remove renewable energy subsidies
- maximise oil and gas extraction from the North Sea
They are so out of touch!
- repeal the Climate Change Act
- scrap 2050 net-zero target
- remove renewable energy subsidies
- maximise oil and gas extraction from the North Sea
They are so out of touch!
Reposted by Anna Shergold
While saying they want to "preserve nature" the Conservative Party have just pledged to scrap the Climate Change Act.
This makes no sense.
How do more floods, more droughts, and rising temperatures "preserve" nature?
That's what scrapping the Act will lead to.
This makes no sense.
How do more floods, more droughts, and rising temperatures "preserve" nature?
That's what scrapping the Act will lead to.
October 2, 2025 at 11:37 AM
While saying they want to "preserve nature" the Conservative Party have just pledged to scrap the Climate Change Act.
This makes no sense.
How do more floods, more droughts, and rising temperatures "preserve" nature?
That's what scrapping the Act will lead to.
This makes no sense.
How do more floods, more droughts, and rising temperatures "preserve" nature?
That's what scrapping the Act will lead to.
For #wildflowerhour, common kapweed & greater celandine - still lots of flowers, but starting to look autumnal
October 5, 2025 at 7:54 PM
For #wildflowerhour, common kapweed & greater celandine - still lots of flowers, but starting to look autumnal
Reposted by Anna Shergold
Linocut by #printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #WomensArt
October 5, 2025 at 1:54 PM
Linocut by #printmaker Mariann Johansen-Ellis #WomensArt
For #wildflowerhour Devil's-bit scabious -
Succisa pratensis appearing in copious amounts on the local heath
Succisa pratensis appearing in copious amounts on the local heath
September 28, 2025 at 7:15 PM
For #wildflowerhour Devil's-bit scabious -
Succisa pratensis appearing in copious amounts on the local heath
Succisa pratensis appearing in copious amounts on the local heath
Reposted by Anna Shergold
'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt
September 21, 2025 at 6:08 AM
'My Garden...' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary artist and printmaker #WomensArt