Minotaur beetle ( #Typhaeus typhoeus), Ty’n Tywyn Quarry (between Abersoch and Llanbedrog) last Thursday 😍

🏆Today we were at Kew Gardens to celebrate some brilliant #MarshAwards winners!
Congratulations to:
🍀Dr Sarah Whild for the Marsh Botany Award (left)
🌵Nina Davies, Clare Drinkell and Tim Utterage with The Herbarim Handbook for the Marsh Directors Choice Award (right)

Congratulations Sarah Whild on the Marsh Botany Award for 2023 Kew Science @KewGardens! Thanks to Marsh Charitable Trust for making the award possible, Nick and Annie from the Marsh Charitable Trust, the committee for help with the selection process & Carys for arranging the event.

Machlud haul neu godiad y lleuad?

Are you in SW London? Do you have a filing problem? Large number (100s) of foolscap hanging folders for filing cabinets available - free to good home/s if you can collect them from Jodrell Lab, Kew Gardens. Email: [email protected]

Cesyg gwynion yn Nhrefor heddiw - diwrnod gwyllt efo gwynt cryf 💨

The handkerchief tree ( #Davidia involucrata ( #Nyssaceae ; #Cornales ). The best flowering season yet for our young tree 😍

Tegeirian coch 13/05 y llynedd (chwith)/12/04 eleni (de) - yn yr un lle ar Ynys Môn, ond mis llawn yn gynharach 😳
The same spot on Anglesey and the same species (early purple orchid) last year, 13/05 (left)/this year, 12/04 (right) a full month earlier 😳
#Orchis mascula

Pâr o wyachod mawr copog mewn cariad ar y Tafwys yn ddiweddar ❤️
It’s the time of year when great-crested grebes (Podyceps cristatus) fall in love ❤️ (Thames, 30 March)

'Chwyn' palmant - tormaen tribys ( #Saxifraga tridactylites) a ffrindiau ym Mhwllheli heddiw
Pavement “weeds” - rue-leaved saxifrage and friends in Pwllheli today

A wonderful splash of colour in an early April day Kew Gardens, but oh what a weed 😳 ( #Smyrnium perfoliatum, perfoliate alexanders)

#Aberdaron ag #Enlli yn y 1950au (Mae’n bosib i dynnu bron yr un lluniau heddiw - nid yw’r pentref na’r ardal wedi newid lot) 😍

Aberdaron and #Bardsey in the 1950s. You can take almost the same photos today as neither the village nor the area has changed much) 😍

Two species of toothwort in flower Kew Gardens
today: the native #Lathraea squamaria (left) and the introduced L. clandestina (right)

A sad day - my new driving licence (on the right in the photo) was delivered with a double whammy: 1) due to #Brexit it no longer has the #EU symbol, and 2) due to my “advanced” age it is only valid for six years (not 10 as previously). 😡

Hen Gymru fynyddig, Paradwys y bardd;
Pob dyffryn, pob clogwyn, i'm golwg sydd hardd (Bwlch Llanberis, cerdyn post, 1940au)

Mynachod Sistersaidd yn casglu blodau eithin i wneud persawr, Ynys Bŷr (cerdyn post, 1970au)

William Condry writing about the establishment of the Bardsey Bird Observatory (🇺🇦🕊 Bardsey Lodge & Bird Obs) - cutting from The Guardian The Guardian (date unknown)

Bwlch Llanberis a Llyn Tegid -cardiau post a anfonwyd gan Dad at ei rieni pan oedd ar daith gerdded yn 1941