...and nearby the first stirrings of Thale cress (Arabidopsis thaliana). If you squint you can see a flower that's just opening 🧐
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A perfect sweet violet on the edge of some tarmac
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A treat to find this gorgeous clump of primroses on my walk this afternoon. A handy adaptation to prevent self-pollination, both flower forms, thrum & pin-eyed were growing alongside each other. #wildflowerhour

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#WildFlowerHour Very early (22/1/24) Butterbur, Petasites hybridus, in a swale in Accordia estate beside Hobson's Brook #Cambridge. No sign at historic site in city yet!

Scramble near Fairhead finding Lesser Celandine flourishing & flowering oddly only near tiny (wind sheltered) stream & Gorse + many buds looking amazing. + One "Alpine" Strawberry in garden.

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A welcome #TheWinter10 for #WildFlowerHour from Shacklegate Lane Cemetery, TW11
Shy celandine, snowdrops, primrose
common and green field-speedwell, ivy-leaved speedwell, red dead-nettle
daisy, eastern sowbread and dandelion

The first few flowers are appearing on the carpet of naturalised spring sowbread, Cyclamen repandum, in St James churchyard, and clearance work on a nearby road verge has exposed several patches of beautifully marked sowbread, Cyclamen hederifolium, leaves
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#TheWinter10 for #WildFlowerHour from local roads and St James churchyard, TW12 including my first sweet violet 💜 and primrose 💛 of the year. It feels as though the new year's flowers are finally starting - just before the chilly shock

My first lesser celandine (Ranunculus ficaria, syn. Ficaria verna) flower of the year. Okay, so the flowers aren't open, but I had to share for #wildflowerhour

An Ely #thewinter10. Daisy, Shepherd’s purse, Sweet violet, Dandelion, Periwinkle, Winter heliotrope, Annual mercury, another Daisy, Common chickweed, Red dead nettle and Feverfew. #wildflowerhour

As winter takes hold, I found signs of spring on today's walk - Winter Aconite and Snowdrop flowering in a village churchyard and the first Bluebell leaves pushing through the leaf litter at Old Sulehay Forest NR.
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My first post on Bluesky is a few plants for #wildflowerhour from Shacklegate Lane Cemetery, TW11
ivy-leaved speedwell (Veronica hederifolia; flowers not yet open), thyme-leaved speedwell (V. serpyllifolia) and eastern sowbread (Cyclamen coum)