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Juliet Coates
@julietccoates.bsky.social
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Mum, Plant Science 🌱, Biology, Inclusion, Social Justice, Neurodiversity, Wellbeing 💚. Compassionate & trauma-informed education. Delivers consultancy & training based on the nervous system & biology of behaviour. She/her.
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Something carroty, some scabious and an oxeye daisy all hanging on for #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
🥕 🌼 🌺
Some small cluster ls of white wild carrot flowers (or related umbellifer)against mixed green foliage Five mauve scabious flowers against green foliage Closeup of an oxeye daisy with white petals and a yellow centre against mixed green foliage
November 16, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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A lone orange fox and cub #hawkweed hanging on for #WildFlowerHour amongst the moss and leaves 🍂 🍃 #november @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Orange hawkweed flower against its own dark green foliage with done blades of grass. Geranium leaves and moss in the background
November 9, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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Some spindle tree colour in my local nature reserve for #wildFlowerHour #november 🍂
Bright pink berry clusters against bare twigs and a few yellow leaves out of focus
November 9, 2025 at 1:23 PM
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Ours flower much later into winter!
Spiky Blooms of yellow witch hazel Hamermelis x intermedia blooming in early Feb 2025 against a backdrop of dark green foliage and brown soil
October 12, 2025 at 8:36 PM
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More #FavouritePlants #orchids from this year - Dactylorhiza and Anacamptis? #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Tall light pink speckled orchid flower sprays against background of grass, foliage and buttercups Dark pink orchid (?pyramidal) against grassland background.
September 14, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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For this year’s #FavouritePlants #WildFlowerHour I’m struggling to choose but these local kingcups were so cheerful! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Bright yellow king cups (large buttercups) with green foliage against dark soil
September 14, 2025 at 6:46 PM
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By the railway line - let me know if this is the kind of image you are after and if so I’ll email. 🌱💚
Arabidopsis green plant with white flowers in rough ground in front of a metal fence.
September 14, 2025 at 12:51 PM
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I cannot remember the agent but here’s a real photo! It’s a doer-upper. Dale Peninsula.
Lighthouse, black tower, white annex on the top and multi-window space at the bottom
September 10, 2025 at 9:51 PM
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Not quite wild as in a garden but gorgeous #teasel and #SeaHolly #SeedHeads - I could not resist! @wildflowerhour.bsky.social #WildFlowerHour
Teasel and Sea Holly seed heads in green foliage with light behind making the seed heads look quite ethereal
September 7, 2025 at 5:16 PM
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Coastal #SeedHeads from #Pembrokeshire a few weeks back- early because of drought maybe? #CoastalPlants #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Silhouettes of seed heads of various wildflowers (sorrel, umbellifers etc) against the sea and sky with green grass in foreground
September 7, 2025 at 5:13 PM
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Plenty of #SeedHeads by the #canal. #plantain and others. #WildFlowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Heads of plantain growing from green foliage on canal bank against grey water background
September 7, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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A clump of purple loosetrife central by a stream, banks with foliage foreground and background
August 31, 2025 at 9:12 PM
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More #hawthorn berries for #WildFlowerHour as they are just so beautiful and luscious this year #fruit @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Luscious scarlet hawthorn berries against green leaves and brown stems Luscious hawthorn berries (red) falling in cascades against green leaves
August 31, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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More #fruit for #WildFlowerHour. #oak #acorn #gall 🐝
Green acorn in its cup with brown wrinkly knopper gall attached to one side. On tarmac.
August 31, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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In addition to the apples 🍎 in my garden and the blackberries in my freezer there are some gorgeous local #fruits around. #Hawthorn #Arum #WildFlowerHour #fruit #berries @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Drooping sprays of red hawthorn berries with green leaves against a background of more distant branches Arum, cuckoo pint, lords and ladies. Clusters of Bright red berries on 7 stems. Dry grass foreground and foliage in background
August 31, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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Didn’t manage any gentians for #WildFlowerHour but here is some gorgeous sea thrift and viper’s bugloss @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
#coastal #seaside #maritime #plants
Blue and pink viper’s bugloss flowers amidst green foliage A clump of pink sea thrift flowers on a grassy bank
August 24, 2025 at 8:06 PM
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Cannot manage a helleborine for #WildFlowerHour this week but here’s another orchid family member, spotted in Somerset. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Pink orchid surrounded by grass and foliage
July 6, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Running late for #WildFlowerHour but here’s my #GrassFamily #GrassChallenge #UrbanPlants offering by the River Rea @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
I’m weak on monocot ID though!
Foreground tall grasses with drooped flowers in front of dark water of the River Rea with dicots on the river bank behind dark grass flowers against king grass leaves with clouded sky and 2 trees at the top of the image
June 29, 2025 at 9:06 PM
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We have 2 - a smaller Certoclav classic and a larger Dixons one which is super robust.
June 24, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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These #AquaticPlants are in the lab so cheating a bit for #WildflowerHour but we are trying to make #Arabidopsis (thale cress) flooding tolerant. Here are some experimental plants in their flooding box! 💦🪴🌱
40 Arabidopsis plants in pots in rows submerged in water inside a black box. Each pot contains a yellow or white label.
June 22, 2025 at 7:19 PM
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Some #AquaticPlants for #WildflowerHour that also occupy an important position in plant evolution as early Angiosperms. #waterlilies
2 water lily flowers against a background of water lily leaves (pads)
June 22, 2025 at 7:14 PM
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Yep- here are some more 🌺🌸🩷💜
Dark pink dahlia with yellow ring of anthers central. Peach multi petalled dahlia, looks like a Pom Pom with green leaves in background Purple Pom Pom dahlia against green foliage
June 18, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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I’m too late for the #UrbanPlants #WildFlowerHour but here are oxeye daisies and some kind of bedstraw in South Birmingham 🌼🌱. Any ideas which type of bedstraw @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social ? The petals were narrow and pointy.
A swathe of meadow with oxeye daisies, smaller white flower clusters and green foliage surrounding.
June 16, 2025 at 9:08 PM
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New #aspidistra shoots always bring joy. Keeping it flying.
Close up of aspidistra plant in white pot against sky blue background with new shoots appearing
May 26, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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I’m a bit late For #WildFlowerHour this week but here’s some ragged robin #PinkFamily amongst buttercups in a wetland. 🌸🌼🌱💚🩷💛
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Ragged robin pink flowers amongst green foliage dotted with yellow buttercups
May 18, 2025 at 8:49 PM