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Julia Hanmer BSBI 🍁
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Chief Executive of @bsbibotany.bsky.social. Views my own. Wildlife, conservation, plants, bats, forest school, learning.
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Nice piece by @emilybeament.bsky.social in @the-independent.com today about #GBRedList, threatened plants & work carried out by @plantlifeuk.bsky.social to conserve Fen Orchid:
www.indy100.com/news/beautif...
More info about Fen Orchid on its #PlantAtlas2020 page: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
PlantAtlas
plantatlas2020.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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Huge thanks to @adamvaughan.bsky.social for his excellent article in today's @thetimes.com about #GBRedList.
Wild plants inc Common Restharrow, Common Rock-rose & Common Milkwort all now classed as Vulnerable - so no longer common!
Download the new Red List:
britishandirishbotany.org/index.php/bi...
November 5, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Today BSBI published the #GBRedList for vascular plants, crucial new evidence to underpin nature conservation and help prioritise future action. Thanks so much to the amazing botanists, partners and funders who have made this possible.
November 5, 2025 at 11:34 AM
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Next talk at #NPMS10 online event is from Rachel Murphy @plantlifeuk.bsky.social. For the past 7 years, as @npms.bsky.social Support Manager, Rachel has been the 1st point of contact for #NPMSVolunteers, offering support & guidance. Talking today about volunteer roles, opportunities & accessibility
October 18, 2025 at 10:50 AM
Do join us in celebrating the NPMS 10th birthday today! 🎂
Our #NPMS10 online celebration event is this Saturday! Good news - you can still book & join for all or part of the programme ow.ly/xqqf50X4fEE talks from @bsbibotany.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social @jncc.bsky.social @ukceh.bsky.social as well as volunteers & stakeholders.
October 18, 2025 at 10:54 AM
Join us online tomorrow to celebrate 10 years of the National Plant Monitoring scheme. Hear from the volunteers who take part. Talks 11-4pm (or pick & mix). Booking link below. Looking forward to celebrating 10 years amongst the wildflowers with you! #NPMS10 @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 17, 2025 at 2:58 PM
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Book now for our online #NPMS10 celebration event on 18 October: https://ow.ly/jlRJ50X4fe4 Rachel Murphy from @plantlifeuk.bsky.social (1 of 4 @npms.bsky.social partners) will be talking about #NPMSVolunteer roles, opportunities & accessibility & hosting an array of #VolunteerVoices.
October 5, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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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...
October 10, 2025 at 1:56 PM
A fascinating talk from Sue McBean @organicbotanic.bsky.social illustrating through her beautiful wild plant photos how we can look with new eyes at the plants we study. Very inspiring. I’m now going to be looking at the underside of celandines! @bsbiireland.bsky.social #BSBIAutumnMeeting
October 4, 2025 at 3:00 PM
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Fantastic talks at @bsbibotany.bsky.social #BSBIAutumnMeeting: here is Cilian Roden describing the unique vegetation on the islands in #LoughCorrib. Thanks to @npwsireland.bsky.social and the National Botanical Gardens, Glasnevin for their support.
October 4, 2025 at 1:24 PM
Interesting talk on Turlough ecology by Hannah Mulcany @npwsireland.bsky.social. 450 turloughs are known but there may be more like 850+ #BSBIAutumnMeeting
October 4, 2025 at 10:20 AM
Looking forward to the Ireland #BSBIAutumnMeeting today, with a wide range of botany talks here at National Botanic Gardens, Glasnevin. @bsbiireland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @npwsireland.bsky.social
October 4, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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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:
bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/10/bsbi...
Then join us! bsbi.org/join-us
October 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
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Our fourth NPMS Annual Report is now available. This year we take a special look at the achievements of the scheme & our volunteers over the last decade, as the NPMS celebrates it's special 10th anniversary. Read the report here www.npms.org.uk/article/npms...
September 10, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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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...
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September 18, 2025 at 2:47 PM
Hope you can join us at one of these #NPMS10 events for talks, workshops and more. Find out how the NPMS is helping us to understand the health of UK plants and habitats and celebrate the volunteers who contribute.
September 15, 2025 at 3:38 PM
We would love your feedback!
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...
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 9, 2025 at 8:32 AM
Fantastic find James! And a fascinating story of how you identified it. Thanks for sharing.
Here's a story for you all, about how - without really knowing what I was doing - I accidentally found a plant that had only ever been seen in Britain once before.

@bsbibotany.bsky.social

Here's a photo of it:
July 12, 2025 at 5:45 PM
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Absolutely fabulous evening with friends, family, colleagues & botanists galore to celebrate the launch of Urban Plants at Philip Mould’s gallery last night. Thank you everyone that came along, it meant the world to me! #UrbanPlants
June 6, 2025 at 7:47 AM
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Hurrah, it's here at last!
Urban Plants by @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social is published today by @bloomsburybooksuk.bsky.social.
If (like Trevor) you're one of our #BSBImembers, you can claim a whopping 25% discount when you order your copy.
Find out more: bsbipublicity.blogspot.com/2025/06/urba...
June 5, 2025 at 12:40 PM
Fantastic to join @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social and lots of botanists and others at the launch of his exciting new book Urban Plants. BSBI members get a 25% discount! bsbi.org/news-views
June 5, 2025 at 7:39 PM
Delighted @bsbibotany.bsky.social could work with partners @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social & @naturalengland.bsky.social on this project to nurture Lady's-slipper Orchid back into the wild in Yorkshire!
Orchid on the brink of extinction returns to the wild🌱

The iconic Lady’s-slipper orchid, once thought extinct in the early 20th century, was rediscovered in 1930.

Find out how we've helped return it to the wild - loom.ly/gM2516E

📷Kevin Walker/Dr Elizabeth Cooke
June 4, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Fascinating to hear the history of Lady’s-slipper Orchid conservation in Yorkshire!
Great to work with partners @yorkswildlife.bsky.social @rbgkew.bsky.social @plantlifeuk.bsky.social & @naturalengland.bsky.social on a secret project to nurture Lady's-slipper Orchid back into the wild in Yorkshire!
More info here: plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9... & here: bsbi.org/download/467...
June 3, 2025 at 9:02 PM
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Veronica chamaedrys, Germander Speedwell in Skye, nuallach (also for a howling cry) in Gaelic.

#wildflowerhour
May 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM