Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris), showing off its downy stems and regal purple sepals. An arresting sight in a Cambs NNR this week.
It’s a good thing I checked the book - 6 sepals, no petals. #wildflowerhour

Dandelion on chalk,
at Cherry Hinton Chalk Pits
#wildflowerhour #DandelionChallenge The Wildlife Trust for Beds, Cambs & Northants #InternationalDayoftheDandelion

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BSPD Midlands Branch Summer Study Day will be held on Monday 24th June! This will include the presidential address from Prof Paula Waterhouse
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2/52 #OrchidsOfRhodes April 2024 #AnOrchidAWeek

Violet Limodore (Limodorum abortivum)💜

Dancing on a carpet of pine needles, illuminated by a shard of light filtering through the forest canopy
#orchids #wildflowers

Latest from me: Laughing Boy is a new play about Connor Sparrowhawk & the fight for justice after his death in an NHS unit. It's about how ppl with Learning Disabilities & autism are - still - at the frontier of the fight for human rights theguardian.com/stage/2024/apr…

Spear fishing in the park
#DentistsWithHerons #HeronLife

Alors je n'ai pas du tout fait exprès, et j'aime beaucoup les fleurs et plantes mais n'ai rien du tout d'une botaniste experte, mais le fait est: je suis tombée dans apparemment le meilleur spot à orchidées d'Europe, au mois où elles sont en fleurs

After 7 days in the field, do I know my reinholdii from my regis-ferdinandii, my rhodia from dodekanensis, blitopertha from persephonae? Let’s see!

1/52 #OrchidsOfRhodes April 2024 #AnOrchidAWeek . Starting big with Ophrys colossaea
#orchids #wildflowers

Thank you BDA for supporting this. The new purple pathway helps dental teams to protect adults at risk by providing a framework to follow when these patients are not brought to their dental appointments.

“With lengthy NHS waiting lists and my 18th birthday rapidly approaching, it’s unlikely that I will ever see an NHS dentist again, unless some serious reform occurs.”

Beth Riding is an A-level student in Cornwall.

The PM needs to read her column.
👇
theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Wind, rain, hail, sleet, snow. Perfect weather for sitting at a desk and getting on with writing. Finally, early evening sunshine just in time for a brisk, blustery walk
#phdlife #DentistsWithHerons

Thank you for voting. Looks like you won’t let me put off ID-ing all those impossible Ophrys. I think I’ll start on Thursday because, quite frankly, most Thursdays could do with more orchids. #AnOrchidADay #orchids #OrchidsOfRhodes Mariposa Nature Tours Jon Dunn 🇺🇦 Dr Richard Bate

Pink veined flowers were loving the damp in the Rivelin Valley, Sheffield. One I’ve known since childhood, Lady’s-smock (Cardamine pratensis), and something new to me, Pink Purslane (Claytonia sibirica). Plus Wood Sorrel too
#wildflowerhour wildflowerhour

It’s inexcusable that NHS England are pulling the plug on funding mental health services for hospital doctors & dentists.

NHS Practitioner Health have helped a generation with the scars of working through COVID.

Broken colleagues will pay the price as Govt chase quick savings. The BMA

Lord Laming: “I am a great believer that one of the strengths of social work is the opportunity to meet people at a time of pending crisis in their lives, to identify & assess what the issues are and [create] a plan of action that will help recover the situation” Community Care

In complex times, we “must collaborate across sectors… [we] all hold fragments of the solution” Kevin Fenton British Assn. for the Study of Community Dentistry