Good to see chalk grassland flora doing well at Orwell Clinch Pits, S. Cambs, yesterday despite the drought like conditions. Particularly nice to find hawkweed oxtongue and leases calamint (TBC with irecord submission).

Snap, I just noticed them in my garden today

Pigs in the paddock next door were feeling playful despite the heat

I had a nice stroll round Thriplow Meadows today. Too late for marsh orchids but still some nice things around including meadow vetchling, fen bedstraw, greater birdsfoot trefoil and marbled white on marsh thistle. Plus the site managers came over to say hello.

Yes there were plenty of these last weekend. When I first went there about 25 years ago I seem to remember seeing oxlips in little cages to protect them but they are doing well at the moment.

Tripleurospermum maritimum, sea Mayweed, in flower today in N. Cornwall.

Cernuella virgata, striped snail, from coastal grassland in N. Devon yesterday. A smart looking beastie.

Looks like lots of great plant stories in this, I'm looking forward to curling up with it over the Christmas break @kentfieldclub.bsky.social

They are still doing ok at Therfield Graeme. This taken there back in May this year.