Orange jewelweed in the rain 🧡💎🧡 Also known as orange balsam this is an introduced species, which has become naturalised in the UK. It is especially common around the Thames🧡 #FlowersOfTwitter #Oxford

A Michaelmas daisy for #MichaelmasDay 💜🤍💜

Tulip trees in golden leaf 🍂🌼🍂 I love the sculptural remains of the tulip-shaped blooms after which the tree is named. It also has a rather lovely botanical name: Liriodendron tulipifera meaning 'lilytree bringing forth tulips'🌼

Borage still flowering on the #Oxford canal💙 Also known as starflower, this flower is one of my favourites & it makes the prettiest ice-cubes💙

Beech stained glass💛💚🧡 How it started How it's going

The spiky hedgehog of a sweet chestnut 🍂🤎🦔 Sweet chestnuts have been growing in the UK since at least the 12th century💚

A touch of Narnia about #Oxford today❄️ I love the autumn colours - golden beech & yellow birch - showing through the snow❄️🍂💛

Frosted field maple leaves💛🍂💛 #SundayYellow

November colour 💛❤️💚 Sunshine on bramble leaves🍂

Magical misty woodland🖤 Bagley Wood, #Oxford

Early morning light💛 #SundayYellow

The #WinterSolstice sun appearing between the clouds of the morning and the rain of the afternoon - a delight! Solstice comes from the Latin 'solstitium' meaning 'sun standing still'☀️

Merry Christmas everyone!🎄🌲🎄

The stunningly scented wintersweet or Japanese allspice🤍🌸🤍 Native to China and Iran, where it is called the 'ice flower'🤍 This one is perfuming a college garden in Oxford🌸 #FlowerFriday

'To break through the cat ice in shallows' (1884) The fabulous swirls & undulations of cat ice💠 This is ice from which the water has receded; so thin it would only support a cat!💠🐈💠

Unbelievable. Rachel Reeves has passed her £10,500 energy bill onto the taxpayer. The sum was to heat her second home over the past 5 years. Meanwhile, pensioners are stripped of their fuel allowance.

Frosted teasels❄️ So named because they were used 'tease' cloth. In particular they were used to raise a nap on wool - according to a writer in 1870 'the best clothiers still prefer the teazel for finishing their cloth'❄️

This is my cousins daughter, if anyone in Limerick knows anything, please help, the family is very worried

Early morning on the #Oxford canal

My first butterbur of the year!🩷🌸🩷 So named as its large soft leaves were used to wrap butter 🧈