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 🐶💐📚🐝
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
#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!
The view from mum’s gate is ever changing. The daily question is whether you can see the Ochills!
October 26, 2025 at 5:35 PM
The view from mum’s gate is ever changing. The daily question is whether you can see the Ochills!
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
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
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
For #wildflowerhour, 4 from Down Grange Meadow in Basingstoke from yesterday - toadflax, oregano/wild marjoram, small scabious, common centaury. Lovely to still have some colour in the meadows.
September 21, 2025 at 5:59 PM
For #wildflowerhour, 4 from Down Grange Meadow in Basingstoke from yesterday - toadflax, oregano/wild marjoram, small scabious, common centaury. Lovely to still have some colour in the meadows.
For #wildflowerhour Eryngium maritimum sea holly, from the beach at Lee on Solent #seedheads
September 7, 2025 at 6:35 PM
For #wildflowerhour Eryngium maritimum sea holly, from the beach at Lee on Solent #seedheads
September 4, 2025 at 7:23 PM
For #WildFlowerHour #fruits, it's that time of year for #hips #haws #sloes and #blackberries all signs of Autumn, although it is still summer (just, for a few more hours, although autumn weather has arrived in NE Hants🌦️). Another interesting fact is that they are all members of the Rosaceae family.
August 31, 2025 at 5:40 PM
For #WildFlowerHour #fruits, it's that time of year for #hips #haws #sloes and #blackberries all signs of Autumn, although it is still summer (just, for a few more hours, although autumn weather has arrived in NE Hants🌦️). Another interesting fact is that they are all members of the Rosaceae family.
#WilderHook had its Gentian walk today, just in time for #wildFlowerHour #GentianChallenge #gentian - marsh gentian - Gentiana pneumonanthe #NEHampshire
August 24, 2025 at 7:56 PM
#WilderHook had its Gentian walk today, just in time for #wildFlowerHour #GentianChallenge #gentian - marsh gentian - Gentiana pneumonanthe #NEHampshire
I love old buttons, the feel, the shape and the way they sit (sometimes slightly dished)... I've made a few of these, and frame them (as presents, this will be a wedding present). They are mostly about the size of a pencil. I didn't take a picture of the finished item.
August 19, 2025 at 9:14 AM
I love old buttons, the feel, the shape and the way they sit (sometimes slightly dished)... I've made a few of these, and frame them (as presents, this will be a wedding present). They are mostly about the size of a pencil. I didn't take a picture of the finished item.
For #wildflowerhour #daisychallenge from the asteraceae family ragwort - Senecio Jacobaea & yarrow Achillea millefolium (sorry none of the leaves were in the pic)
August 17, 2025 at 6:14 PM
For #wildflowerhour #daisychallenge from the asteraceae family ragwort - Senecio Jacobaea & yarrow Achillea millefolium (sorry none of the leaves were in the pic)
The original pic was autumn flowering marsh gentian, but these 👇 were taken in Austria in May (up a mountain, we’d gone by funicular railway), these were even bluer 💙 and the flowers less goblet shape and more open - spring gentian
August 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
The original pic was autumn flowering marsh gentian, but these 👇 were taken in Austria in May (up a mountain, we’d gone by funicular railway), these were even bluer 💙 and the flowers less goblet shape and more open - spring gentian
For #wildFlowerHour #polinatorPals watching a bee in the marsh gentian - Gentiana pneumonanthe in NE Hampshire
August 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
For #wildFlowerHour #polinatorPals watching a bee in the marsh gentian - Gentiana pneumonanthe in NE Hampshire
For #wildFlowerHour walking across our local heathlands, when the sun shines (ok not seen too much sun this week), there are so many vivid blue marsh gentian - gentian pneumonanthe. At this time of year, I go the long way over the heath to the local shops, such a joy to see the blue flowers!
August 3, 2025 at 6:22 PM
For #wildFlowerHour walking across our local heathlands, when the sun shines (ok not seen too much sun this week), there are so many vivid blue marsh gentian - gentian pneumonanthe. At this time of year, I go the long way over the heath to the local shops, such a joy to see the blue flowers!
For #wildFlowerHour, it’s going to be a good year for Sloes, the blackthorn are full of fruit in the hedgerow
August 3, 2025 at 6:14 PM
For #wildFlowerHour, it’s going to be a good year for Sloes, the blackthorn are full of fruit in the hedgerow
Marsh gentian Gentiana pneumonanthe in north east Hampshire, such a vivid blue, is it almost the end of summer?
July 28, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Marsh gentian Gentiana pneumonanthe in north east Hampshire, such a vivid blue, is it almost the end of summer?
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
July 27, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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 a trio of broad leaved helleborines Epipactis helleborine from @lancasteruni.bsky.social on Thursday evening
July 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
For #wildflowerhour a trio of broad leaved helleborines Epipactis helleborine from @lancasteruni.bsky.social on Thursday evening
Being away from home means you see flowers you don’t normally see. For #wildflowerhour, from along the Lune - white stonecrop - sedum album & wild radish - Raphanus raphanistrum
July 20, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Being away from home means you see flowers you don’t normally see. For #wildflowerhour, from along the Lune - white stonecrop - sedum album & wild radish - Raphanus raphanistrum