Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 21/06/2025We started this glorious #SummerSolstice day with a sunrise swim at the ever-lovely Petersfield Open Air Pool and ended it watching the sunset from Butser Hill, the highest point of the South Downs 050
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 11/05/2025Carnivorous plants were much in evidence in Connemara last week. So for this week’s #WildflowerHour, here is round-leaved and oblong-leaved sundew, and delicate flowers of butterwort 0221
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 07/05/2025Late entry for last Sunday’s #WildflowerHour #HighUpPlants challenge. St Patrick’s Cabbage just coming into flower close to the summit of Binn Idir an Dá Log, at 702m the highest of Connemara’s Maum Turk mountains 060
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Closest I can offer to a #HighUpPlant foot #WildflowerHour are these from a Connemara hillside: milkwort & tormentil 0232
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 04/05/2025Plus some other beauties in shades of white, pink & purple: lousewort, sea campion, marsh orchid, green-veined orchid #WildflowerHour #Connemara 072
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 04/05/2025It’s all about the sea pinks on the Connemara shoreline this week - masses of clumps in varying colours #WildflowerHour 160
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 21/04/2025Missed #WildflowerHour but these beauties were crying out to be shared. Green-winged orchids locally abundant on an outcrop at Trá An Dóilín (Coral Beach) in Connemara 0471
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Meanwhile in the Dublin mountains, which got more of the week’s sunshine, gorgeous gorse & coltsfoot brightening forest tracks verges #YellowFlowers #WildflowerHour 1151
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 09/03/2025Spring is still barely arriving in Connemara, and flowers few and far between. But the rare ones I found last week did have the good grace to be #YellowFlowers - almost-out celandine, catkins & some slightly bedraggled primroses #WildflowerHour 080
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 04/03/2025At first glance, this is a pile of shells in a rockpool. Keep watching and you’ll see it’s a hermit crab colony. Look out for the one that falls on its shell and flips back over, and the one that triumphantly pulls out a shell from underneath it. #Connemara #AnDóilín 1134
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 16/02/2025Durford Wood and Rogate Common in Hampshire were notably short of flower today. Just some European gorse bravely bringing colour to the scene #WildflowerHour 1473
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 09/02/2025I’m intrigued by the variation in hazel behaviour. Some trees have catkins and virtually no sign of female flowers yet; others have a good sprinkling of female flowers while the catkins are still forming #WildflowerHour 1394
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 09/02/2025Spring is creeping into the Ashford Hangers. Dog’s mercury unfurling and, on a sheltered path, stinking hellebore and the first primroses #WildflowerHour 0293
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 02/02/2025First flower photos of the year and I missed #WildflowerHour 🤦 So, better late than never, here are snowdrop from last week, and celandine & winter heliotrope from a lovely walk this morning 0383
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 05/01/2025Very little in flower in Connemara last week, but this sea pink was somehow hanging on by the Atlantic coast at Baile na hAbhainn. A late entry for #NewYearPlantHunt as well as this week’s #WildflowerHour 0545
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 11/12/2024Everybody needs a fabulous Christmas concert! And our @elysiansingers.bsky.social concert will be fabulous indeed. Come along, and I guarantee you’ll leave smiling and with a bunch of festive earworms Thurs 19 Dec, 7.30pm, details and tickets here: tickettailor.com/events/theelys… 052
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 02/12/2024Looking forward to talking with @jessphillips at our next Citizens Advice Data Insights briefing about improving protections for women and girls. Join us on Friday to discuss actionable strategies for a safer, more equitable future for everyone ⤵️ eventbrite.co.uk/e/citizens-adv… #DataInsights 022
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 30/06/2024A cornucopia of loveliness from Connemara and the Burren for #WildflowerHour 0113
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 21/06/2024Not exactly midsummer weather, but still plenty of light in the Connemara sky at 10.45pm at the summer solstice 020
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 25/02/2024Splashes of colour meanwhile from lots of scarlet fungus (which I know is not a flower) growing by the stream. My phone tells me this is Sarcoscypha coccinea #WildflowerHour 050
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 25/02/2024So, all the flowers currently out in the Ashford Hangers seem to be in shades of green. Is that a time of year thing? On a very wet walk I found stinking hellebore, golden saxifrage, dog’s mercury (male) and spurge laurel #WildflowerHour 1152
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 11/02/2024Haven’t found much in flower in Connemara yet, but the gorse is making a great showing, along with the ever-reliable dandelion #WildflowerHour 0101
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 28/01/2024Late for #WildflowerHour but can’t resist - finally some of the new season’s flowers appearing. Snowdrops, late and not abundant but elegant as ever; and celandine, which always feels like the real beginning of spring 081
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 20/12/2023I’m looking forward to meeting today’s train, predicted by the SWR app to to be 22 carriages long 010
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 19/11/2023Late! And not quite #TheWinter10 - remaining flowers in the Ashford Hangers are sparse as well as somewhat spindly. But we did find a few this morning for #WildflowerHour, including a very late rockrose, with a little fungus and seed head activity for balance 0141
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 11/11/2023Went looking for the sheep for @pubstr.at but the dog wasn’t having any of it, so it’ll have to be a selfie today 140
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 10/11/2023Thank you Stefan! I’ll see if I can find some more sheep tomorrow. In the meantime, I raise you a fine beech tree 000
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 07/11/2023For reference, this was the same day in 2020 🤣 110
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 07/11/2023I took this shot every day in Oct & Nov 2020, charting the progression of autumn colour in the Ashford Hangers. Now I’m mostly back in London, it’s nice when wfh coincides with beautiful sunshine 270
Clare Moriarty @claremoriarty.bsky.social · 03/11/2023Malvern Hills looking stunning this morning, unexpected and joyous side-benefit of a visit to two local Citizens Advice offices in Worcestershire 080
