TrevorTheBotanist
@trevorthebotanist.bsky.social
Botanist, conservationist & author. Endlessly curious about plants, especially orchids, ferns, our British flora & tropical plants.
Author of ‘Urban Plants’ (Bloomsbury British Wildlife Collection). Work for The Species Recovery Trust, BSBI Trustee
Author of ‘Urban Plants’ (Bloomsbury British Wildlife Collection). Work for The Species Recovery Trust, BSBI Trustee
It’s nearly December. Down beside the Conwy estuary, it’s time for the… err… Hawthorn to burst into bloom!! #Conwy #WildflowerHour
November 23, 2025 at 6:05 PM
It’s nearly December. Down beside the Conwy estuary, it’s time for the… err… Hawthorn to burst into bloom!! #Conwy #WildflowerHour
I never expected the reaction I’ve had to Urban Plants. So many wonderful comments from so many wonderful people. The satisfaction from knowing I’ve inspired people to look at the urban world with different eyes is indescribable and deeply rewarding #ChristmasBooks #ChristmasReading #WildlifeBooks
November 23, 2025 at 5:05 PM
I never expected the reaction I’ve had to Urban Plants. So many wonderful comments from so many wonderful people. The satisfaction from knowing I’ve inspired people to look at the urban world with different eyes is indescribable and deeply rewarding #ChristmasBooks #ChristmasReading #WildlifeBooks
We do have the bright (and weird) ones too…
November 18, 2025 at 7:19 PM
We do have the bright (and weird) ones too…
It might not be the brightest jewel in the grass, but I have a real soft spot for Meadow Waxcap (Cuphophyllus pratensis). This lovely chunky specimen is growing - appropriately - in our meadow #Waxcaps #Fungi #GrasslandFungi
November 18, 2025 at 11:44 AM
It might not be the brightest jewel in the grass, but I have a real soft spot for Meadow Waxcap (Cuphophyllus pratensis). This lovely chunky specimen is growing - appropriately - in our meadow #Waxcaps #Fungi #GrasslandFungi
#SundayYellow Urban street trees lighting up the concrete jungle www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...
November 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
#SundayYellow Urban street trees lighting up the concrete jungle www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...
Never imagined I’d see the #aurora from our house in southwest France (Dordogne, an hour south of Limoges)… but here you go (with palms and pencil cypress to prove the point!).
November 12, 2025 at 7:09 AM
Never imagined I’d see the #aurora from our house in southwest France (Dordogne, an hour south of Limoges)… but here you go (with palms and pencil cypress to prove the point!).
Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!
November 5, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Major revision of #GBRedList of plants published today shows 25% of our native & archaeophyte flora threatened with extinction. Many iconic widespread species classified as threatened for first time including Betony, Marsh Marigold, Devil’s-bit Scabious and Harebell. Another wake-up call for action!
In the fading light of Halloween-Eve, I found a rather nice Fly Agaric in our local woods #FungusFriday #halloween #FlyAgaric #fungi 🍄
October 31, 2025 at 7:35 AM
In the fading light of Halloween-Eve, I found a rather nice Fly Agaric in our local woods #FungusFriday #halloween #FlyAgaric #fungi 🍄
October 30, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Collected some Narrow-leaved Ragwort seed yesterday which I’ll scatter around the garden in gravelly spots where Groundsel tends to appear. Will be interesting to see how it does as a garden plant - hope I don’t regret it!
October 29, 2025 at 7:34 AM
Collected some Narrow-leaved Ragwort seed yesterday which I’ll scatter around the garden in gravelly spots where Groundsel tends to appear. Will be interesting to see how it does as a garden plant - hope I don’t regret it!
Lots of Narrow-leaved Ragwort beside the A55 this week giving a late splash of colour. A sign of things to come, it lines many, many miles of verges in France (last pic). And it’s flowers are so big & bright I might just grow it in the garden! #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 26, 2025 at 8:56 PM
Lots of Narrow-leaved Ragwort beside the A55 this week giving a late splash of colour. A sign of things to come, it lines many, many miles of verges in France (last pic). And it’s flowers are so big & bright I might just grow it in the garden! #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
Really looking forward to speaking at Kent Wildlife Conference tomorrow about - what else? - urban botany! Will be talking Lobelia, Senecio’s and giant invasive trees! #urbanplants #urbanbotany #pavementplants #concretejungle @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social
October 24, 2025 at 6:41 PM
Really looking forward to speaking at Kent Wildlife Conference tomorrow about - what else? - urban botany! Will be talking Lobelia, Senecio’s and giant invasive trees! #urbanplants #urbanbotany #pavementplants #concretejungle @kentfieldclub.bsky.social @kentgrasshoppers.bsky.social
Garden Pansy (V. × wittrockiana) seeded onto a pavement from a window box in Conwy. Love how our urban flora is shaped by very personal decisions. If Mrs Jones grows Lobelia next year, that may appear as a #PavementPlant instead #UrbanPlants #WildflowerHour www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...
October 12, 2025 at 7:27 PM
Garden Pansy (V. × wittrockiana) seeded onto a pavement from a window box in Conwy. Love how our urban flora is shaped by very personal decisions. If Mrs Jones grows Lobelia next year, that may appear as a #PavementPlant instead #UrbanPlants #WildflowerHour www.bloomsbury.com/uk/urban-pla...
Have been out this week surveying Goldilocks Aster (Galatella linosyris) on the steep limestone cliffs of Y Gogarth (Great Orme) for Species Recovery Trust. Glad to report it’s in fine fettle, flowering well - if a little late - after the summer drought #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 12, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Have been out this week surveying Goldilocks Aster (Galatella linosyris) on the steep limestone cliffs of Y Gogarth (Great Orme) for Species Recovery Trust. Glad to report it’s in fine fettle, flowering well - if a little late - after the summer drought #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social
For #FernFriday, here’s one of our most beautiful native ferns - Southern Polypody (Polypodium cambricum). Found this colony on the warm, south-facing limestone cliffs of Y Gogarth (Great Orme) above Llandudno, under a canopy of Whitebeam, Turkey Oak and Strawberry Tree @bsbibotany.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 7:27 AM
For #FernFriday, here’s one of our most beautiful native ferns - Southern Polypody (Polypodium cambricum). Found this colony on the warm, south-facing limestone cliffs of Y Gogarth (Great Orme) above Llandudno, under a canopy of Whitebeam, Turkey Oak and Strawberry Tree @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A super intense Pot Marigold in the garden, opening now we’ve had some rain 🌱
September 3, 2025 at 8:46 PM
A super intense Pot Marigold in the garden, opening now we’ve had some rain 🌱
The centre of a Grass-of-Parnassus flower (Parnassia palustris) looking like something from the Crown Jewels #wildflowerhour
August 31, 2025 at 7:22 PM
The centre of a Grass-of-Parnassus flower (Parnassia palustris) looking like something from the Crown Jewels #wildflowerhour
The adorable seed heads of Strawberry Clover (Trifolium fragiferum) on Anglesey dunes this week. Not many plants have #fruits more attractive than their flowers! #wildflowerhour
August 31, 2025 at 7:06 PM
The adorable seed heads of Strawberry Clover (Trifolium fragiferum) on Anglesey dunes this week. Not many plants have #fruits more attractive than their flowers! #wildflowerhour
Huge thanks to Alys Fowler for such a wonderful review of
'Urban Plants' in the August edition of Gardens Illustrated (I know, I'm a little late to the party!). Thrilled you enjoyed it so much ☺️
'Urban Plants' in the August edition of Gardens Illustrated (I know, I'm a little late to the party!). Thrilled you enjoyed it so much ☺️
August 29, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Huge thanks to Alys Fowler for such a wonderful review of
'Urban Plants' in the August edition of Gardens Illustrated (I know, I'm a little late to the party!). Thrilled you enjoyed it so much ☺️
'Urban Plants' in the August edition of Gardens Illustrated (I know, I'm a little late to the party!). Thrilled you enjoyed it so much ☺️
A very nice find! Don’t think it’s on many people’s radar @bsbibotany.bsky.social plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
August 29, 2025 at 6:06 AM
A very nice find! Don’t think it’s on many people’s radar @bsbibotany.bsky.social plantatlas2020.org/atlas/2cd4p9...
Sea-heath (Frankenia laevis) bringing a splash of colour to the shoreline near Rhosneigr, Anglesey. Really quite rare and threatened, it’s a very lovely little thing #wildflowerhour
August 17, 2025 at 7:24 PM
Sea-heath (Frankenia laevis) bringing a splash of colour to the shoreline near Rhosneigr, Anglesey. Really quite rare and threatened, it’s a very lovely little thing #wildflowerhour
Been out surveying Anglesey dunes this week. Flora very stunted in the heat and drought, such as these tiny Lesser Centaury (Centaurium pulchellum), Common Restharrow (Ononis repens) and Field Gentian (Gentianella campestris) #wildflowerhour
August 17, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Been out surveying Anglesey dunes this week. Flora very stunted in the heat and drought, such as these tiny Lesser Centaury (Centaurium pulchellum), Common Restharrow (Ononis repens) and Field Gentian (Gentianella campestris) #wildflowerhour
Rose Chafer beetles always stop me in my tracks. They’re just so big and so green and so damn metallic. Like a large lump of green metal on legs. This one crossed my path in the Dordogne last week.
August 7, 2025 at 7:25 PM
Rose Chafer beetles always stop me in my tracks. They’re just so big and so green and so damn metallic. Like a large lump of green metal on legs. This one crossed my path in the Dordogne last week.
Back in the Dordogne for a bit (so this isn’t UK) but lovely to find the very impressive Broad-leaved Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis ladanum) growing in a ditch behind our house #Deadnettlefamily #wildflowerhour
July 27, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Back in the Dordogne for a bit (so this isn’t UK) but lovely to find the very impressive Broad-leaved Hemp-nettle (Galeopsis ladanum) growing in a ditch behind our house #Deadnettlefamily #wildflowerhour
One of my favourite pics in ‘Urban Plants’ (just published!) is of five big chaps up to their elbows installing a tree in a tree pit. The engineering involved is marvellous. My other favourite pic is a Westie using such a street tree for its primary use, thus nicely demonstrating the dog-pee zone.
July 15, 2025 at 6:53 AM
One of my favourite pics in ‘Urban Plants’ (just published!) is of five big chaps up to their elbows installing a tree in a tree pit. The engineering involved is marvellous. My other favourite pic is a Westie using such a street tree for its primary use, thus nicely demonstrating the dog-pee zone.