Joni Cook
@cookjonil.bsky.social
Plant ecologist, working in comms. Love wildflowers & wild places. BSBI Events & Comms. sec. Views my own. She/her
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A lovely day yesterday seeing some of my favourite waxcaps 🥰 It was wonderful to see them again even though some weren’t looking quite their best because of the recent dry weather. Also saw Earthy, Snowy, Slimy, Blackening, Golden & Pale. 17 waxcaps in a day is not bad!! #FungiFriday #MushroomMonday
October 19, 2025 at 10:56 AM
A lovely day yesterday seeing some of my favourite waxcaps 🥰 It was wonderful to see them again even though some weren’t looking quite their best because of the recent dry weather. Also saw Earthy, Snowy, Slimy, Blackening, Golden & Pale. 17 waxcaps in a day is not bad!! #FungiFriday #MushroomMonday
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I'm delighted that we have a whole range of talks from our Northern Ireland Botanical Skills Project taking place this winter on Tuesday evenings.
Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS??
See them all here:
bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS??
See them all here:
bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
Botanical Skills Webinars – Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland
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October 14, 2025 at 1:30 PM
I'm delighted that we have a whole range of talks from our Northern Ireland Botanical Skills Project taking place this winter on Tuesday evenings.
Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS??
See them all here:
bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
Want to learn more about conifers? Rushes? Clubmosses? Hawthorns? Plant Pathogenic Fungi? ROBOTS??
See them all here:
bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
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Dandelion, Yarrow, Ladies Bedstraw, Herb Robert, Common Toadflax & Common Knapweed seen in a local churchyard this week.
#WildflowerHour
#WildflowerHour
October 19, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Dandelion, Yarrow, Ladies Bedstraw, Herb Robert, Common Toadflax & Common Knapweed seen in a local churchyard this week.
#WildflowerHour
#WildflowerHour
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Autumnal shades of Catsear, Buttercup, Daisy and Hawthorn berries. #WildflowerHour
October 19, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Autumnal shades of Catsear, Buttercup, Daisy and Hawthorn berries. #WildflowerHour
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Want to up your #WildFlowerID game this winter?
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
Want to up your #WildFlowerID game this winter?
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
We just launched our Winter Webinar programme!
7-8pm, every Tuesday from 4 Nov - 10 Feb.
Thanks to funding from @daera-ni.gov.uk, these 10 great plant ID webinars are FREE for all of you to attend!
Programme & booking links: bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
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Papery Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris) always looks spectacular, even when it's gone over (hmm, it always looks a bit like it's gone over!)
Lots on the dunes at #Strandhill, #CoSligo @bsbibotany.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #seedheads (just!)
Lots on the dunes at #Strandhill, #CoSligo @bsbibotany.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #seedheads (just!)
October 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
Papery Carline Thistle (Carlina vulgaris) always looks spectacular, even when it's gone over (hmm, it always looks a bit like it's gone over!)
Lots on the dunes at #Strandhill, #CoSligo @bsbibotany.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #seedheads (just!)
Lots on the dunes at #Strandhill, #CoSligo @bsbibotany.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #wildflowerhour #seedheads (just!)
Lovely to spot Red Campion and Wood Avens flowering in the woods, providing an autumnal food source for pollinators. #wildflowerhour
October 5, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Lovely to spot Red Campion and Wood Avens flowering in the woods, providing an autumnal food source for pollinators. #wildflowerhour
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Our annual membership special offer opens today!
Join us this month & you'll enjoy 15 months of membership benefits for the price of 12.
Those benefits are so numerous & fabulous you'll have to head over here to see them all:
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Then join us! bsbi.org/join-us
Join us this month & you'll enjoy 15 months of membership benefits for the price of 12.
Those benefits are so numerous & fabulous you'll have to head over here to see them all:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...
Then join us! bsbi.org/join-us
October 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
Our annual membership special offer opens today!
Join us this month & you'll enjoy 15 months of membership benefits for the price of 12.
Those benefits are so numerous & fabulous you'll have to head over here to see them all:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...
Then join us! bsbi.org/join-us
Join us this month & you'll enjoy 15 months of membership benefits for the price of 12.
Those benefits are so numerous & fabulous you'll have to head over here to see them all:
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Then join us! bsbi.org/join-us
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📢Speaker Announcement: CARGO Movement
🧾Panel: The Journey of Plants through Black Botanist
CARGO is a not for profit organisation founded in 2016 by creative director Charles Golding and Poet Lawrence Hoo.
Learn more about CARGO Movement and register here: buff.ly/jWhjAei
🧾Panel: The Journey of Plants through Black Botanist
CARGO is a not for profit organisation founded in 2016 by creative director Charles Golding and Poet Lawrence Hoo.
Learn more about CARGO Movement and register here: buff.ly/jWhjAei
September 23, 2025 at 10:31 AM
📢Speaker Announcement: CARGO Movement
🧾Panel: The Journey of Plants through Black Botanist
CARGO is a not for profit organisation founded in 2016 by creative director Charles Golding and Poet Lawrence Hoo.
Learn more about CARGO Movement and register here: buff.ly/jWhjAei
🧾Panel: The Journey of Plants through Black Botanist
CARGO is a not for profit organisation founded in 2016 by creative director Charles Golding and Poet Lawrence Hoo.
Learn more about CARGO Movement and register here: buff.ly/jWhjAei
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What wonderful news, and what a wonderful plant! Holly Fern is the best fern 😍
September 26, 2025 at 1:17 PM
What wonderful news, and what a wonderful plant! Holly Fern is the best fern 😍
Registration for this fantastic event closes tomorrow, Sun 28th! Please share widely. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
I can't stress it more. This conference has been designed for us by us. Support @blackinplantsci.bsky.social conference at the University of Leeds funded by the SEB, Faculty of Biological Science at Leeds, the Grow More and New Phytologist foundations and Gastby. Join us on 24/10, details below.
📢Deadlines fast approaching for the BiPS Conference 2025!
Join us for a day of connection and celebration where we'll be hearing from the renowned academics Nicola Patron and Kevin Cox. With workshops on a variety of topics and a chance for you to build your community.
Register: buff.ly/J9PM0Wj
Join us for a day of connection and celebration where we'll be hearing from the renowned academics Nicola Patron and Kevin Cox. With workshops on a variety of topics and a chance for you to build your community.
Register: buff.ly/J9PM0Wj
September 27, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Registration for this fantastic event closes tomorrow, Sun 28th! Please share widely. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
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On the castle walls.
Castle Acre, Norfolk, yesterday.
Common Calamint and Common Ragwort still in flower. Rosebay Willowherb on the castle mound.
#WildFlowerHour
Castle Acre, Norfolk, yesterday.
Common Calamint and Common Ragwort still in flower. Rosebay Willowherb on the castle mound.
#WildFlowerHour
September 18, 2025 at 7:47 PM
On the castle walls.
Castle Acre, Norfolk, yesterday.
Common Calamint and Common Ragwort still in flower. Rosebay Willowherb on the castle mound.
#WildFlowerHour
Castle Acre, Norfolk, yesterday.
Common Calamint and Common Ragwort still in flower. Rosebay Willowherb on the castle mound.
#WildFlowerHour
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@wildflowerhour.bsky.social Very excited to find out that I have the first record of Slender tare in VC55. Here it is still in flower today. #wildflowerhour
September 21, 2025 at 7:17 PM
Yarrow, Common Knapweed and Hogweed still flowering this week along rural verges, Leicestershire. #wildflowerhour
September 21, 2025 at 7:13 PM
Yarrow, Common Knapweed and Hogweed still flowering this week along rural verges, Leicestershire. #wildflowerhour
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It’s Sunday and it’s 8pm so it must be time for #WildflowerHour! 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild and naturalised blooms you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland in the last week!
Despite the local churchyard just having its Autumn grass cut & ‘tidy up’, I found these flowers in bloom there this week: Ivy, Autumn Hawkbit, Common Knapweed, Hedgerow Cranesbill, Field Forget-me-not, Herb Robert, Burnet-saxifrage, Yarrow, Common Toadflax & Cyclamen #WildflowerHour
September 21, 2025 at 6:59 PM
It’s Sunday and it’s 8pm so it must be time for #WildflowerHour! 🥳 Please share your pics of the wild and naturalised blooms you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland in the last week!
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Great opportunity. Please share/repost with anyone with a botany, ecology or environmental science qualification!
#botany #wildflowerhour #science #ecology
#botany #wildflowerhour #science #ecology
We're hiring!
Could you help us support & grow the community of botanists across Northern Ireland?
Manage our @daera-ni.gov.uk-funded Botanical Skills Training Project?
Help boost participation in @npms.bsky.social across NI?
Please apply by midnight this Sunday, 21 Sept:
bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
Could you help us support & grow the community of botanists across Northern Ireland?
Manage our @daera-ni.gov.uk-funded Botanical Skills Training Project?
Help boost participation in @npms.bsky.social across NI?
Please apply by midnight this Sunday, 21 Sept:
bsbi.org/botanical-sk...
bsbi.org
September 18, 2025 at 2:52 PM
Great opportunity. Please share/repost with anyone with a botany, ecology or environmental science qualification!
#botany #wildflowerhour #science #ecology
#botany #wildflowerhour #science #ecology
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It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us?
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
Not In Our Name: Women in support of the trans+ community - Not in our name
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September 19, 2025 at 12:00 PM
It’s time for women and allies to speak up. To say ‘not in our name’ to the discrimination and exclusion of trans people. Are you with us?
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
✍️ If you are a woman and agree please sign @nionwomen.bsky.social 's open letter
https://goodlaw.social/wu1u
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Herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia, in a local woodland #wildflowerhour #favouriteplant
September 14, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Herb Paris, Paris quadrifolia, in a local woodland #wildflowerhour #favouriteplant
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I hadn’t seen it for a couple of years so it was extra special in early June to catch up with my #FavouritePlant! The gorgeous Mertensia maritima, commonly named Oysterplant, as the leaves taste like the fruits of the sea! Caithness #Wildflowerhour
September 14, 2025 at 6:33 PM
I hadn’t seen it for a couple of years so it was extra special in early June to catch up with my #FavouritePlant! The gorgeous Mertensia maritima, commonly named Oysterplant, as the leaves taste like the fruits of the sea! Caithness #Wildflowerhour
A highlight this year was these beautiful Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia L.) in acid grassland, a species in strong decline due to drivers such as habitat loss and nitrogen deposition. #FavouritePlant #wildflowerhour
September 14, 2025 at 7:14 PM
A highlight this year was these beautiful Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia L.) in acid grassland, a species in strong decline due to drivers such as habitat loss and nitrogen deposition. #FavouritePlant #wildflowerhour
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The #BigButterflyCount results are in and it's official...
2025 was an average year for butterflies.
See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇
https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025
2025 was an average year for butterflies.
See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇
https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025
September 9, 2025 at 8:00 AM
The #BigButterflyCount results are in and it's official...
2025 was an average year for butterflies.
See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇
https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025
2025 was an average year for butterflies.
See the full results and what can be done to help butterflies and moths 👇
https://butterfly-conservation.org/big-butterfly-count-results-2025
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For the last weekly challenge, we want to know what was your favourite plant that you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland this year? Share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #favouriteplant and we’ll celebrate it with you! 🥳🌿🌸
September 12, 2025 at 8:17 PM
For the last weekly challenge, we want to know what was your favourite plant that you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland this year? Share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #favouriteplant and we’ll celebrate it with you! 🥳🌿🌸
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We invite all #BSBImembers & supporters to take part in our 2025 survey & help inform our future direction!
All responders receive a 60% discount code on our eBooks until the end of September & there's a prize draw to win a year's free membership.
Start the survey:
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All responders receive a 60% discount code on our eBooks until the end of September & there's a prize draw to win a year's free membership.
Start the survey:
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BSBI Member and Supporter Survey 2025
We are looking to learn more about our members, and supporters, and about how the BSBI is working. As a Society, it is vital that we work with members to meet our goals and ensure we have the greatest...
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September 8, 2025 at 4:52 PM
We invite all #BSBImembers & supporters to take part in our 2025 survey & help inform our future direction!
All responders receive a 60% discount code on our eBooks until the end of September & there's a prize draw to win a year's free membership.
Start the survey:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
All responders receive a 60% discount code on our eBooks until the end of September & there's a prize draw to win a year's free membership.
Start the survey:
docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1F...
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The utterly ridiculous seed pods of Yellow Horned Poppy, Glaucium flavum, at Rye Harbour. One plant still had a flower tenaciously hanging on in there. #Wildflowerhour #SeedHeads
September 7, 2025 at 7:21 PM
The utterly ridiculous seed pods of Yellow Horned Poppy, Glaucium flavum, at Rye Harbour. One plant still had a flower tenaciously hanging on in there. #Wildflowerhour #SeedHeads
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For the #seedheads challenge for #wildflowerhour
Strawberry Clover, Trifolium fragiferum. Seed pod is enclosed by the swollen, downy, net-veined calyx tube
Strawberry Clover, Trifolium fragiferum. Seed pod is enclosed by the swollen, downy, net-veined calyx tube
September 7, 2025 at 7:08 PM
For the #seedheads challenge for #wildflowerhour
Strawberry Clover, Trifolium fragiferum. Seed pod is enclosed by the swollen, downy, net-veined calyx tube
Strawberry Clover, Trifolium fragiferum. Seed pod is enclosed by the swollen, downy, net-veined calyx tube