Eirian
@miltonei.bsky.social
Artist, musician, curious about the natural world.
A strange, wintery-looking combination this week - meadowsweet coming into flower (seems late?) looking at first glance like frosty seedheads, set against a background of greenery and bright red berries (of white briony I think). By our local pond, in Oxfordshire.
#wildflowerhour
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November 23, 2025 at 8:00 PM
A strange, wintery-looking combination this week - meadowsweet coming into flower (seems late?) looking at first glance like frosty seedheads, set against a background of greenery and bright red berries (of white briony I think). By our local pond, in Oxfordshire.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
Upright coral fungus at Harcourt arboretum today
#fungifriday
#fungifriday
November 21, 2025 at 1:13 PM
Upright coral fungus at Harcourt arboretum today
#fungifriday
#fungifriday
November 16, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Visted RSPB Arne in Dorset yesterday: the gorse was in flower in many parts of the heath, and I also saw some common heather, bell heather, and some hedge woundwort.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
November 16, 2025 at 8:05 PM
Visted RSPB Arne in Dorset yesterday: the gorse was in flower in many parts of the heath, and I also saw some common heather, bell heather, and some hedge woundwort.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
Listening to the sounds of Autumn in the Chilterns. (the fall . . . )
November 7, 2025 at 7:07 PM
Listening to the sounds of Autumn in the Chilterns. (the fall . . . )
November 2, 2025 at 8:22 PM
#wildfungihour
#wildflowerhour
Some colourful specimens found during the last ten days in Oxfordshire. Beefsteak Polypore; Magpie Inkcap; Dyer’s Polypore; Lilac Fibrecap; Witch’s Hat; Chip Cherries
(Identified using Seek app -hope names are accurate).
#wildflowerhour
Some colourful specimens found during the last ten days in Oxfordshire. Beefsteak Polypore; Magpie Inkcap; Dyer’s Polypore; Lilac Fibrecap; Witch’s Hat; Chip Cherries
(Identified using Seek app -hope names are accurate).
October 26, 2025 at 7:14 PM
#wildfungihour
#wildflowerhour
Some colourful specimens found during the last ten days in Oxfordshire. Beefsteak Polypore; Magpie Inkcap; Dyer’s Polypore; Lilac Fibrecap; Witch’s Hat; Chip Cherries
(Identified using Seek app -hope names are accurate).
#wildflowerhour
Some colourful specimens found during the last ten days in Oxfordshire. Beefsteak Polypore; Magpie Inkcap; Dyer’s Polypore; Lilac Fibrecap; Witch’s Hat; Chip Cherries
(Identified using Seek app -hope names are accurate).
Hedge woundwort, field pansy, and red campion this week.
#Wildflowerhour
#Wildflowerhour
October 19, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Hedge woundwort, field pansy, and red campion this week.
#Wildflowerhour
#Wildflowerhour
Yew, hedge cranesbill, and greater knapweed, all caught my eye this week.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
October 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
Yew, hedge cranesbill, and greater knapweed, all caught my eye this week.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
#Wildflowerhour
Spotted a few of these unexpectedly this week, and I almost broke into song:
“As I was going to Strawberry Fair, Singing, singing buttercups and daisies …”
(no strawberries anywhere to be seen though…)
Spotted a few of these unexpectedly this week, and I almost broke into song:
“As I was going to Strawberry Fair, Singing, singing buttercups and daisies …”
(no strawberries anywhere to be seen though…)
September 28, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#Wildflowerhour
Spotted a few of these unexpectedly this week, and I almost broke into song:
“As I was going to Strawberry Fair, Singing, singing buttercups and daisies …”
(no strawberries anywhere to be seen though…)
Spotted a few of these unexpectedly this week, and I almost broke into song:
“As I was going to Strawberry Fair, Singing, singing buttercups and daisies …”
(no strawberries anywhere to be seen though…)
#wildflowerhour
A solitary windswept harebell on Selsley common, a rain drenched red campion still in flower by the Sapperton Canal. Also Field Scabious and Spindleberries - not open so the wonderful colour-clash of orange seeds against the pink of the fruit casing is yet to appear.
A solitary windswept harebell on Selsley common, a rain drenched red campion still in flower by the Sapperton Canal. Also Field Scabious and Spindleberries - not open so the wonderful colour-clash of orange seeds against the pink of the fruit casing is yet to appear.
September 21, 2025 at 7:00 PM
#wildflowerhour
A solitary windswept harebell on Selsley common, a rain drenched red campion still in flower by the Sapperton Canal. Also Field Scabious and Spindleberries - not open so the wonderful colour-clash of orange seeds against the pink of the fruit casing is yet to appear.
A solitary windswept harebell on Selsley common, a rain drenched red campion still in flower by the Sapperton Canal. Also Field Scabious and Spindleberries - not open so the wonderful colour-clash of orange seeds against the pink of the fruit casing is yet to appear.
#favouriteplant
#wildflowerhour
Blue sky with Blackthorn, early April this year. Now, five months later, this blossom has turned into a profusion of sloes.
#wildflowerhour
Blue sky with Blackthorn, early April this year. Now, five months later, this blossom has turned into a profusion of sloes.
September 14, 2025 at 7:15 PM
#favouriteplant
#wildflowerhour
Blue sky with Blackthorn, early April this year. Now, five months later, this blossom has turned into a profusion of sloes.
#wildflowerhour
Blue sky with Blackthorn, early April this year. Now, five months later, this blossom has turned into a profusion of sloes.
#seedheads
#Wildflowerhour
Sorry, I am very late for wildflower hour. Angelica - but not sure which sort - in our local woodland. This one had a very dense seed head compared with its neighbours.
And (k)napweed.
#Wildflowerhour
Sorry, I am very late for wildflower hour. Angelica - but not sure which sort - in our local woodland. This one had a very dense seed head compared with its neighbours.
And (k)napweed.
September 7, 2025 at 10:27 PM
#seedheads
#Wildflowerhour
Sorry, I am very late for wildflower hour. Angelica - but not sure which sort - in our local woodland. This one had a very dense seed head compared with its neighbours.
And (k)napweed.
#Wildflowerhour
Sorry, I am very late for wildflower hour. Angelica - but not sure which sort - in our local woodland. This one had a very dense seed head compared with its neighbours.
And (k)napweed.
#wildflowerhour
#fruits
A tapestry of colourful fruit:
walnut, hawthorn, blackberry, acorns, rosehips, and many, many sloes in south Oxfordshire this week.
#fruits
A tapestry of colourful fruit:
walnut, hawthorn, blackberry, acorns, rosehips, and many, many sloes in south Oxfordshire this week.
August 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
#wildflowerhour
#fruits
A tapestry of colourful fruit:
walnut, hawthorn, blackberry, acorns, rosehips, and many, many sloes in south Oxfordshire this week.
#fruits
A tapestry of colourful fruit:
walnut, hawthorn, blackberry, acorns, rosehips, and many, many sloes in south Oxfordshire this week.
Common centaury adding a pop of colour to a car park at Swaddywell Pit nature reserve, near Peterborough this week.
#langdyke
#swaddywell
#wildflowerhour
#gentianfamily
#langdyke
#swaddywell
#wildflowerhour
#gentianfamily
August 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Common centaury adding a pop of colour to a car park at Swaddywell Pit nature reserve, near Peterborough this week.
#langdyke
#swaddywell
#wildflowerhour
#gentianfamily
#langdyke
#swaddywell
#wildflowerhour
#gentianfamily
A pink form of yarrow, and a sunny patch of fleabane, both found in south Oxfordshire this week.
#daisyfamily
#wildflowerhour
#daisyfamily
#wildflowerhour
August 17, 2025 at 7:04 PM
A pink form of yarrow, and a sunny patch of fleabane, both found in south Oxfordshire this week.
#daisyfamily
#wildflowerhour
#daisyfamily
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
#pollinatorpals
Seven spot ladybird enjoying the sunshine today on some Rosebay Willowherb in the Chilterns.
#pollinatorpals
Seven spot ladybird enjoying the sunshine today on some Rosebay Willowherb in the Chilterns.
August 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
#wildflowerhour
#pollinatorpals
Seven spot ladybird enjoying the sunshine today on some Rosebay Willowherb in the Chilterns.
#pollinatorpals
Seven spot ladybird enjoying the sunshine today on some Rosebay Willowherb in the Chilterns.
Eyebright, Euphrasia (not sure which one) growing on a chalky Chiltern hillside.
Tiny - it hides in the grass - and is one of my favourites.
#wildflowerhour
Tiny - it hides in the grass - and is one of my favourites.
#wildflowerhour
August 3, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Eyebright, Euphrasia (not sure which one) growing on a chalky Chiltern hillside.
Tiny - it hides in the grass - and is one of my favourites.
#wildflowerhour
Tiny - it hides in the grass - and is one of my favourites.
#wildflowerhour
Red bartsia, water mint, marjoram, and (I think?) black horehound?
#wildflowerhour
#deadnettlechallenge
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#deadnettlechallenge
July 27, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Red bartsia, water mint, marjoram, and (I think?) black horehound?
#wildflowerhour
#deadnettlechallenge
#wildflowerhour
#deadnettlechallenge
In the pink?
There seem to be many flowers in different pinkish shades at the moment. Some of them here …
Rosebay willowherb, corn cockle, bramble, bindweed, yarrow.
#wildflowerhour
There seem to be many flowers in different pinkish shades at the moment. Some of them here …
Rosebay willowherb, corn cockle, bramble, bindweed, yarrow.
#wildflowerhour
July 27, 2025 at 7:01 PM
In the pink?
There seem to be many flowers in different pinkish shades at the moment. Some of them here …
Rosebay willowherb, corn cockle, bramble, bindweed, yarrow.
#wildflowerhour
There seem to be many flowers in different pinkish shades at the moment. Some of them here …
Rosebay willowherb, corn cockle, bramble, bindweed, yarrow.
#wildflowerhour
#wildflowerhour
Lady’s thumb and toadflax (with hidden bug)
Lady’s thumb and toadflax (with hidden bug)
July 20, 2025 at 7:05 PM
#wildflowerhour
Lady’s thumb and toadflax (with hidden bug)
Lady’s thumb and toadflax (with hidden bug)
Not a harebell but nettle leaved bellflower. One for the hairy plants challenge.
July 20, 2025 at 6:59 PM
Not a harebell but nettle leaved bellflower. One for the hairy plants challenge.
July 20, 2025 at 6:57 PM
Great Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum
The stems were backlit by the sun, showing the hairs clearly, at eye level.
#hairyplants
#wildflowerhour
The stems were backlit by the sun, showing the hairs clearly, at eye level.
#hairyplants
#wildflowerhour
July 13, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Great Willowherb - Epilobium hirsutum
The stems were backlit by the sun, showing the hairs clearly, at eye level.
#hairyplants
#wildflowerhour
The stems were backlit by the sun, showing the hairs clearly, at eye level.
#hairyplants
#wildflowerhour
Viper’s bugloss competing in the hirsute challenge with a hungry hairy visitor
#hairyplants
#wildflowerhour
#hairyplants
#wildflowerhour
July 13, 2025 at 7:00 PM
Viper’s bugloss competing in the hirsute challenge with a hungry hairy visitor
#hairyplants
#wildflowerhour
#hairyplants
#wildflowerhour