Had a delicious barefoot bumble around a soggy floodplain meadow. It was an afternoon of splashing through water - one of muddy toe wriggles, Sedge Warblers and Marsh-marigolds (Caltha palustris) - is there a more yellow yellow?! 😍

TONIGHT!📢

Love plants and want to take better pics of them?📸🌼

📆 Join us and Leif Bersweden on 29 April, 7-8pm, for an Online Talk: Plant Paparazzi – Botanical Photography for Beginners

Become a member to book your space now.
👉 bit.ly/4awkwjI

Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea), isn't it just stunning? It's a larval foodplant of a host of moths including the nationally scarce Cloaked Carpet moth, and provides an early nectar source for pollinators. #wildflowers #nomow BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

So special to celebrate the launch of Wild Service last night - 13 *amazing* authors coming together to put forward a powerful pathway to heal our relationship with nature. Get your copy here! - uk.bookshop.org/p/books/wild-s…

My wonderful friends Katie Monk and Indy Kiemel Greene are off on a big, wildlife-filled adventure to raise money for Hebridean Whale & Dolphin Trust this summer - go follow them to keep up and see what they find! 🙌 You can donate here: gofund.me/abeff770

🌟ANNOUNCEMENT🌟

In 1 month, Katie Monk & I will be walking from Lands End to John O' Groats to raise money for the Hebridean Whale and Dolphin Trust.🐬

107 days 2300km.

Pls give anything you can to this fab cause & follow our journey on our socials
gofund.me/abeff770

Two book recommendations for you! First a brill photographic tree ID guide by Gail Ashton 💚🪲🌍 & Dominic Couzens 👌 and also this fantastic kids book, The Wonderweeds by Claire Brown - welcome children into the wonderful world of the Dandelion, plantains and docks!

FIND OF THE CENTURY AGHhh!!!!

Red-list Endangered, found at <100 places in Britain & formerly presumed extinct for Dorset…I cannot believe I’ve found this GORJ Three-lobed Crowfoot (Ranunculus tripartitus) at a site in Dorset! Wowowow!! 😍🌱

Holy crap. Primrose heaven on an Archway (N.London) side street.

Episode 3 of #TheFrogsBollocks podcast is out now! James Stevens and I go head-to-head again comparing ultimate survivors and we’re joined by special guest Leif Bersweden! 🐸🌸

Stream on all major platforms or click the link below!

open.spotify.com/episode/7iY5Io…

Woooo thanks for having me Megan McCubbin James Stevens! You can listen here ⬇️

Spring is a reminder of the wonders of our Planet, and to help you get in the Spring mood, here's a brilliant stack of books that will tickle your curiosity for the natural world 🍃
Nicklas Brendborg Leif Bersweden Derek Gow Philippa Forrester Sally Coulthard

Little tree raspberries! These are the flower-like female cones of Larch (Larix decidua). They’re SO rhubarb-and-custardy, I love them so much 😍

Update: I found a massive patch of wood anemone flowers 😍

(awkward crouching smiley botanist for scale)

Coltsfoot thriving in a rushing Lakeland beck. Flowers are hardcore.

Brilliant first session Leif Bersweden introduced by Brigit Strawbridge

We don't think anyone will look at a plant in the same way again. Thank you Leif.

#shaftesburybookfesrival #wainwrightprize The Grosvenor Arms The Bookseller The Wainwright Prize

Such a joyful weekend, thanks ShaftesburyBookFestival & FOLDE!

Recently read The Meaning of Geese by the wonderful Nick Acheson - what a glorious book! I love its simplicity: you sit & watch one of nature’s most amazing spectacles with Nick - he delivers you into the moment and keeps you there. Get your copy here: uk.bookshop.org/p/books/the-me…

Starting 14:00 GMT today 28 Feb - Quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 Watch it live on YouTube & recorded for later. youtube.com/@BotanicalUniv…

4:22am
Can't sleep.
Hot drink and peanut butter cookie didn't work.
Time for plan B.... listen to Leif Bersweden narrating his beautiful book 'Where the Wild Flowers Grow' 🤞

audible.co.uk/pd/Where-the-W…