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Weather bomb approaching 😯
August 29, 2025 at 5:05 PM
Weather bomb approaching 😯
Farewell to Deeside, great showing of Creeping Ladies Tresses, my favourite of that genus 🙂 @ukorchids.bsky.social
August 1, 2025 at 5:40 PM
Farewell to Deeside, great showing of Creeping Ladies Tresses, my favourite of that genus 🙂 @ukorchids.bsky.social
Inspired by @trisnorton.bsky.social I snapped a rush today, a common one I think J conglomeratus, alingside a striking group of Marsh Woundwort 🙂
August 1, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Inspired by @trisnorton.bsky.social I snapped a rush today, a common one I think J conglomeratus, alingside a striking group of Marsh Woundwort 🙂
Nice to see some interesting flowers while searching out those elusive Orchids, Large Hemp Nettle, Deeside.
July 28, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Nice to see some interesting flowers while searching out those elusive Orchids, Large Hemp Nettle, Deeside.
Worth the long trip to the Western Isles and with a bit of luck on timing here we have the lovely Irish Ladies Tresses @ukorchids.bsky.social 🙂
July 27, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Worth the long trip to the Western Isles and with a bit of luck on timing here we have the lovely Irish Ladies Tresses @ukorchids.bsky.social 🙂
Up close with the Lesser Bladderwort a quite amazing plant 🙂
July 9, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Up close with the Lesser Bladderwort a quite amazing plant 🙂
Median wasp checking out my beloved Epipactis Leptochila 😊 @ukorchids.bsky.social
July 5, 2025 at 5:53 AM
Median wasp checking out my beloved Epipactis Leptochila 😊 @ukorchids.bsky.social
Delighted to find the lovely, but deadly, Henbane recently, a chalk downland specialist, approach with caution 😱
July 2, 2025 at 5:56 AM
Delighted to find the lovely, but deadly, Henbane recently, a chalk downland specialist, approach with caution 😱
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I'm giving a Zoom talk for Cambridge Beekeepers' Association on Wednesday 2nd July - with a focus on the fascinating world of #SolitaryBees.
Do please sign up if you are interested, and share the link if you would! 🐝 🌼 🙏
#bees #bumblebees #pollinators
www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
Do please sign up if you are interested, and share the link if you would! 🐝 🌼 🙏
#bees #bumblebees #pollinators
www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
June 17, 2025 at 12:09 PM
I'm giving a Zoom talk for Cambridge Beekeepers' Association on Wednesday 2nd July - with a focus on the fascinating world of #SolitaryBees.
Do please sign up if you are interested, and share the link if you would! 🐝 🌼 🙏
#bees #bumblebees #pollinators
www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
Do please sign up if you are interested, and share the link if you would! 🐝 🌼 🙏
#bees #bumblebees #pollinators
www.tickettailor.com/events/cambr...
Hurray the Surrey Bees are out 🙂 @ukorchids.bsky.social
May 31, 2025 at 7:24 AM
Hurray the Surrey Bees are out 🙂 @ukorchids.bsky.social
I have a soft spot for the Butterfly Orchid as it was the first to spark a lifelong obsession, so always pleased to see the first flower of the year 🙂 @ukorchids.bsky.social
May 15, 2025 at 2:51 PM
I have a soft spot for the Butterfly Orchid as it was the first to spark a lifelong obsession, so always pleased to see the first flower of the year 🙂 @ukorchids.bsky.social
Inspired by recent posts I went in search of a Surrey Meadow Saxifrage and found a great presence at a local churchyard, clearly very proud of their flora 🙂
May 14, 2025 at 6:11 AM
Inspired by recent posts I went in search of a Surrey Meadow Saxifrage and found a great presence at a local churchyard, clearly very proud of their flora 🙂
Plenty of these lovely Early Mining Bees - Andrena haemorrhoa, flying now, distinctive orange tails so even I can identify them 😂 @StevenFalk1 @B_Strawbridge
May 9, 2025 at 6:03 AM
Plenty of these lovely Early Mining Bees - Andrena haemorrhoa, flying now, distinctive orange tails so even I can identify them 😂 @StevenFalk1 @B_Strawbridge
Some lovely dwarf Green Winged Orchids flowering over the Sussex Downs amongst the short turf and very fragrant downland herbs 🙂 @ukorchids.bsky.social
May 8, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Some lovely dwarf Green Winged Orchids flowering over the Sussex Downs amongst the short turf and very fragrant downland herbs 🙂 @ukorchids.bsky.social
Check out your local churchyards, and if they've been well managed they'll look a bit scruffy but will host treasures like the lovely Green Winged Orchid, Sussex. @ukorchids
May 4, 2025 at 6:05 AM
Check out your local churchyards, and if they've been well managed they'll look a bit scruffy but will host treasures like the lovely Green Winged Orchid, Sussex. @ukorchids
Surrey's orchid season is up and running 🙂 @ukorchids.bsky.social
April 23, 2025 at 2:26 PM
Surrey's orchid season is up and running 🙂 @ukorchids.bsky.social
Partial solar eclipse, with my makeshift pinhole papers 😂
March 29, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Partial solar eclipse, with my makeshift pinhole papers 😂
Good showing of dog violets this spring 🙂
March 14, 2025 at 6:56 AM
Good showing of dog violets this spring 🙂
Went out looking for Anthophora plumipes, and found some 😀 but the little devils were so flighty, anyway caught their hairy legs on this photo, feeding on a white Violet.
March 9, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Went out looking for Anthophora plumipes, and found some 😀 but the little devils were so flighty, anyway caught their hairy legs on this photo, feeding on a white Violet.
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Green-winged Orchid (Anacamptis morio). In the UK it flowers in April and May. Base colour and markings are highly variable - but always with the distinctive green veins in the 'wings'. Normally seen as single flower spikes, it can also form small clumps. Here are some of my favourite 'flavours'.
February 5, 2025 at 8:45 PM
Green-winged Orchid (Anacamptis morio). In the UK it flowers in April and May. Base colour and markings are highly variable - but always with the distinctive green veins in the 'wings'. Normally seen as single flower spikes, it can also form small clumps. Here are some of my favourite 'flavours'.
Some lovely velvety shanks enjoying the cold weather ❄️
January 13, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Some lovely velvety shanks enjoying the cold weather ❄️
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What do you get when you cross one orchid taxa with another in subtribe Orchidinae? Increased seed quality and germination performance! Find out more in this months #EditorsChoice article 🌍🧪🌿👇
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Seed quality and germination performance increase with cross-pollination in members of subtribe Orchidinae (Orchidaceae)
Abstract. Over half of angiosperms have self-incompatibility systems to avoid self-pollination and inbreeding depression. Many members of Orchidaceae are s
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January 13, 2025 at 10:00 AM
What do you get when you cross one orchid taxa with another in subtribe Orchidinae? Increased seed quality and germination performance! Find out more in this months #EditorsChoice article 🌍🧪🌿👇
academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...
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academic.oup.com/botlinnean/a...
@linneansociety.bsky.social
Some interesting "hair ice" seen this morning, this is actually a fungus, Exidiopsis effusa 🙂
January 8, 2025 at 2:35 PM
Some interesting "hair ice" seen this morning, this is actually a fungus, Exidiopsis effusa 🙂
Here’s hoping we get another show before the end of this amazing year for the auroras, taken back in October, Surrey.
November 17, 2024 at 11:02 AM
Here’s hoping we get another show before the end of this amazing year for the auroras, taken back in October, Surrey.
Webcap season is pretty much over so in celebration of a good year a lovely Violet.
November 10, 2024 at 6:57 PM
Webcap season is pretty much over so in celebration of a good year a lovely Violet.