Clover on a roadside verge, I think it's perfect. #wildflowerhour

Quaking grass (and friends) BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour

Our little Rowan 🌳s live for only about two hundred years but they are an important pioneer species and can grow at a higher altitude than any other native species. They hide & blend into the background most of the year but in just a couple of weeks the woods are going to be

5am wake-up from wood thrush while in my tent. Hit record on my recorder, then dozed off. On downloading recording, my breath was weirdly and wonderfully synched with the song. Sleeping outside or w/open window, surely these voices stitch themselves into our subconscious.

Beautiful day in the Downs: shepherds’ church, flint portal and pyramidals doing burnt tip. Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 South Downs National Park Wild Orchids UK & Ireland

A wee rowan at the top of the route ~900m

Marvellous piece:

These remarkable structures are galls that have been induced on the underside of a leaf of a rowan tree (Sorbus aucuparia) by the rowan crown fungus (Gymnosporangium cornutum), seen in Glen Affric yesterday. Their presence is indicated by the red areas on the top side of the leaf

'The beadbonny ash'🧡 Hopkins's beautiful name for rowan draws on the fact that 'beads' originally meant prayers - transferred to the objects that counted prayers on rosaries. Traditionally rowan or 'quickbeam' is also one of the most magical of trees: mugglenet.com/2022/02/secret…

Gorgeous spider - Araneus angulatus - crossing a woodland path in the North Downs. BAS Surrey Wildlife Trust

I’d love a guide to the mysterious hieroglyphics of leaf mines and cuttings.

Heathland side of Pulborough Brooks and my favourite Bee, the Green-eyed Flower Bee, along with Ornate-tailed Digger Wasp and Ruby-tailed Wasp. RSPB Pulborough Brooks Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔

This embattled rowan is definitely deserving of the title of #treeoftheday

Some botanical highlights from a long walk in the South Downs yesterday: honeysuckle, burnet rose, common toadflax and - yes - lots of autumn ladies-tresses. South Downs National Park BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Wild Orchids UK & Ireland

More yet to come Wild Orchids UK & Ireland BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

A very fancy looking sneezewort on the South Downs (escaped garden variety?) and lesser knapweed visited by dusky sallow. wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland

Lichens of the Chanctonbury Hill trig. point, West Sussex: Lecanora muralis + Lecanora campestris (perhaps). Nice view anyway! The British Lichen Society South Downs National Park Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔

Beautiful, sponge-like clusters of slime mould (Arcyria ferruginea prob.) Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔

A couple of interesting lichens from a short walk this afternoon beneath the Downs: Ramalina fraxinea, I think, and a delicate red-tipped Cladonia sp. Sussex Wildlife Trust 🦔 The British Lichen Society