One of my favourite wild flowers - Sand Pansy (Viola tricolor subsp. curtisii) I love the flash of blue on the sepals! - in the dunes at Braunton Burrows 🤩 BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour

Beautiful Wild Strawberry 🍓 (Fragaria vesca) flowers growing amidst the Bugle (Ajuga reptans) at Braunton Burrows today 🤍 wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

How exciting! A big bundle of prints has just arrived from the printers! Soon to be added to my etsy shop.
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#fineartprints #artprints #birdseggs #ladybird #inkcapmushroom #naturalhistoryillustration

A very cute Rue-leaved Saxifrage (Saxifraga tridactylites) seen somehow growing in bare rock and managing to produce a single flower - on Portland last week 🤍 BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour

Shining Cranesbill (Geranium lucidum)
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Rubes enjoying more sunny weather 🖤☀️ #Staffy #BlackStaffy

Nice to see the Vetches flowering!
Bitter Vetch (Lathyrus linifolius)
Common Vetch (Vicia sativa)
Bush Vetch (V. sepium)
Hoping to see one of my favourite flowers this year - Grass Vetchling (L. nissolia) 🤞🩷 BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour

I finally caught the beautiful Bogbean flowering (Menyanthes trifoliata) 🌟
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I adore violets so was especially happy to find a white form of Marsh Violet (Viola palustris) at a local reserve 🤍💜
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Cuckooflower and Coralroot (Cardamine pratensis and Cardamine bulbifera) in South Somerset 🌸🌿
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Well, I wasn’t expecting to see this in flower this weekend. Everyone’s favourite Dorset hybrid. #orchid #woodcock #hybrid Britain's Orchids Wild Orchids UK & Ireland

More of the Early Spider Orchids (Ophrys sphegodes) doing their best to attract male bees with their hairiness, ‘wings’, ‘eyes’ and even (apparently) mimicking the pheromones of a female bee 🐝 BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour

Rubes enjoying the warm weather whilst waiting for me to photograph the orchids 💙🖤💚

Stunning Early Spider Orchid (Ophrys sphegodes) in Dorset 💚
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Huge thanks to Andy Rogers Alastair Stevenson Duncan Harris Steve Parsons 💙 🙏

An Early Purple Orchid flower, showing the very long spur. Orchis mascula, South Somerset. 🩷 BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour

Woodland flowers from South Somerset - Snakes-head Fritillary (Fritillaria meleagris), Wild Daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), Wood Anemone (Anemonoides nemorosa) and more Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria) 🌸🌳
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The trees have ears👂- Jelly Ear (Auricularia auricula-judae) in South Somerset this afternoon British Mycological Society #Fungi

An invasion of American Skunk Cabbage (Lysichiton americanus) at Wayford Woods in South Somerset 🦨🥬 wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland