Not flowering yet, but the bee #orchids in our lawn are coming up ready for next year. Two found so far. Now is probably the best time to go check for these in your own lawns so you don't mow them going into winter #WildflowerHour

Nice to see this cowslip coming into flower...just after our first frost 🤔 We had one in flower on Jan 1st this year, could it do the same again this winter?? #WildflowerHour

Now up to seven bee orchids found in their winter green state. Four on a public footpath, so we might have to get some signs and markers put out to stop them being trampled. Now is the time to go looking for them in your lawn/park/reserve too 🙂 Wild Orchids UK & Ireland #WildflowerHour

Our No Mow lawn is always packed with cowslips. So cheery in the early spring and the perfect reason to bring #NoMowMay forward to include April as well #CowslipChallenge #WildflowerHour

Our hedgerows are in the gap between blackthorn and hawthorn blossom. But, the bases of them are a sea of bluebells and greater stitchwort, a reminder of their age and the woodland past of our hay meadows #WildflowerHour wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

One of our trays of common birds-foot trefoil sent out this morning. Literally spilling out of the box!! The benefit of buying our jumbo plug plants. These will look stunning in a #NoMowMay lawn, providing food for common blue butterfly caterpillars 🐛

I just can't stop myself from looking for orange-tip butterfly eggs on cuckooflower at this time of year. Plenty of both in our meadows this year! #WildWebsWednesday WildWebsWednesday Butterfly Conservation 🦋

Find a member of the pea or carrot family, that’s the challenge this week from Wild Flower Hour! Don’t be tempted to eat them up though, as some members of the carrot family are extremely poisonous ☠️ Post your finds for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using #carrotsandpeas!

Peat should be left in the ground, storing carbon and providing wonderful habitat for a host of flora and fauna. Ban it now.

This lovely patch of bush vetch in our wildflower lawn was perfect for #WildflowerHour #CarrotsAndPeas

Have you been taking part in #NoMowMay or opting for a #NoMowSummer? The challenge this week is to show us your #LawnFlowers! No lawn? See what’s blooming in another local grassed area instead. Share your pics for #WildflowerHour this Sunday 8-9pm. Happy flower hunting! 🌸🌾🌼

We found some time to leave our wildflower nursery and actually visit somewhere else! 😲 This early purple #orchid overlooking the #Staffordshire moorlands had slightly gone over, but that didn't detract from the lovely view into the #PeakDistrict #Wildflower #Nature

Walking the farm this morning to do some botanical surveys, when I heard this pied flycatcher singing in our woodland #birds StaffsWildlife 🦔🍄🦇 RSPB

A lovely mountain pansy to start our morning walk up in the Peak District #Wildflower #TwitterNaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity

Potting on some devil's-bit scabious and finding quite a few of these spotty weeds in there! 😉 Almost certainly common spotted orchids! 😃 One of the 'downfalls' of having the nursery next-door to our species-rich hay meadows #wildflower #orchids Wild Orchids UK & Ireland

Our #NoMowMay lawn is packed full of species. Give it a zoom and see how many you can see! Loads to come too (meadow vetchling, common knapweed, bee orchids, yarrow, and so on). It'll have to be a #NoMowSummer for us 🙂 wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland #WildflowerHour #LawnFlowers

We are so lucky to have hares on our farm. Here's one sat in a meadow, overlooking the mature oak woodland that is nestled in the valley. #TwitterNaturePhotography #Wildlife

One of these things is not like the others. Playing spot the moth with the grandkids this morning for #30DaysWild Excellent camouflage from this buff-tip moth #TeamMoth #MothsMatter

I've been doing some botanical surveys across the farm today. It also gave me a chance to get some photos of orchids for #WildflowerHour this evening 🙂 I always feel very lucky to call this place home, to look after these fields, and to help the wildlife here.

Three species of orchid from the farm today for #OrchidChallenge Common spotted have been here for over a decade, bee orchids about 5yrs, and greater butterfly orchids flowering for just the 2nd year following a change of management to a field #WildflowerHour