A great chance to watch out for how long Alexander's rust takes to arrive. Infection levels are often high causing distortion and with copious orange spores.

Does this seem like a particularly early appearance for these beetles Andy Salisbury ?

Michael Fay @KewScience KewGardens Marsh Charitable Trust Natural History Museum Natural England Plantlife Thank you Mike! And of course thanks to the Marsh Charitable Trust Marsh Charitable Trust I can’t believe I fessed up to the Hoya carnosa…🤣

We've teamed up with Anya Lautenbach and Jamie Butterworth to create the RHS Money-Saving Garden at #RHSHamptonCourt! The garden will show which plants can give the best long-term value for money, while supporting wildlife and helping the planet 🌱 rhs.org.uk/shows-events/r…

Sursaut face à la présence de très nombreuses écidies sur #Berberis vulgaris à proximité immédiate de télies noires sur tiges sèches de #Dactylis glomerata : indice de complétude du cycle de #Puccinia graminis (f. sp. dactylidis) 🧐 ?!

Fiery red leaf patches on the uppersides and white aecia of Puccinia phragmitis on the undersides of Dock (Rumex sp.) leaves were abundant around Lawrence Weston Moor LNR today. British Mycological Society #TwitterNatureCommunity

Rabbit introduced about 1100, farmed, established in wild circa 1500-1600, abundant by 1800s. A keystone species.

#Rust aecidium on alpine currant (#Ribes alpinum), maybe caused by #Puccinia caricina s.l. (Dijon, FR).

Do we know how much damage this does to Hazel on the continent Andy Salisbury ?

How could anything that horrible happen in a place as beautiful as this?

An opportunity to join a great team at the RHS promoting great plant health in UK gardens. rhsocli.webitrent.com/rhsocli_webrec…

"I have kept young by trying never to lose my childhood sense of wonderment. I’m glad I still have a vivid curiosity about the world I live in." ~ Helen Keller Untrodden Sands (1912) 🎨 Laura Knight

"For all its material advantages, the sedentary life has left us edgy and unfulfilled. Even after 400 generations in villages and cities, we haven’t forgotten: the open road still softly calls like a nearly forgotten song of childhood." ~ Carl Sagan

Looking forward to hearing the talk by Nicholas Carter on "Lichens and Heritage Conservation at Blenheim Palace"  at the BLS Zoom Lichen Chat and Improvement Group on Tues 13 Aug at 7pm. Interested? The British Lichen Society Nicholas Carter YNU britishlichensociety.org.uk/the-society/ev…

My plant of the week RHS Harlow Carr. Fuschia 'Whiteknight Amethyst' with less contrast between its pink sepals and purple corolla than on the more usual Fuschia magellanica.

Heavy infection of the downy mildew Peronospora aparines on Cleavers seedlings. At high densities, host-specific diseases weaken and kill seedlings. This is one way disease promotes diversity in plant communities; species become less competitive as they become denser.

Two different diseases on Ranunculus repens. Leptotrochila ranunculi on the left with yellowing around brown rotting areas and apothecia not restricted to brown areas. Ramularia simplex on the right with veins delimiting black infected areas where sporulation occurs.