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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Common Agrimony is still going strong by the DNA path near Addenbrookes, Cambridge. #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Lot's of nice wildflowers around still in Cambridge. And the sun came out, so a chance to try out the new phone camera! Names in ALT text. #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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White Dead-nettle, Viper's Bugloss, Dwarf Mallow;
Wild Mignonette, Ragwort, Dewberry;
Common Carrot, Pink (?) Campion, Creeping Cinquefoil;
Agrimony;
Lanceolate Aster (nat.), Dandelion, Bristly Oxtongue, Yarrow.

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks Rebecca 🙂 It was great to get back in the zone!

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks Helen, I've been a bit slack lately! It was nice to spend some time today out looking 🙂

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

The ground around Cambridge has perked up over the past few weeks following much needed rain, resulting in quite a few new wildflowers blooming, some unusually late in the year. Names in ALT text. #WildflowerHour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Greater Celandine, Water Mint, Wild Mignonette, Common Knapweed with Stictopleurus punctatonervosus, Bird's-foot Trefoil with Seven-spot Ladybird;
Ribwort Plantain, Common Toadflax, Viper's Bugloss, Marsh Woundwort, Orange Mullein;
White Campion, Field Scabious, Yarrow;
Chicory, Sainfoin, Vervain, White Dead-nettle, Hawkweed Oxtongue, Red Campion;
Musk Mallow, Dandelion, Common Mallow, Narrow-leaved Ragwort, Purple Toadflax, Great Willowherb.

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Can I have a third #FavouritePlant for #WildflowerHour? 😅 I joined @dunnjons.bsky.social and @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social on one of their brilliant Kent orchid tours this year, and saw a Late Spider orchid for my first time. We also found a magnificent v. flavescens, and reached 14 different orchids!

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#FavouritePlant #2 2026 — Bee Orchid f. bicolor. My wife and I found 39 in a single colony on private land this summer — an extraordinary number for a form so rarely seen in Britain, especially in VC29. And we hadn’t even searched the whole colony. Still slightly mind-blowing! 😅 #WildflowerHour

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#FavouritePlant of 2026 — Oxlip. We’re very lucky to have these growing locally in ancient woodland. Flowering in March, even before our county flower, the Pasqueflower, they mark the start of the wildflower season for me. And I still enjoy being told they’re Cowslips 😅 #WildflowerHour

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

For the last weekly challenge, we want to know what was your favourite plant that you’ve spotted from across Britain and Ireland this year? Share your pics for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #favouriteplant and we’ll celebrate it with you! 🥳🌿🌸

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 13/08/2026

For #Wildflowerhour this week find a wild or naturalised bloom with quirky #CommonNames! Pictured is Scutellaria galericulata, commonly named Skullcap, Hoodwort & Helmet Flower as the flowers were likened to the galerum worn by Roman soldiers ! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm!

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Mugwort, Creeping Thistle, Greater Burdock, Carline Thistle, Tansy, Ragwort and Fleabane for this week's #WildflowerHour challenge, #DaisyFamily. From a cycle and a dog walk around bone-dry Cambridge today. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

What can you find blooming along the coast? That’s the challenge this week for #WildflowerHour! Share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #ByTheSea! Happy flower hunting! 🌿🌸🌊

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Branched Bur-reed for this week's #WildflowerHour - #WetlandPlants. Lots of it growing in our local country park.

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

The theme for this week’s #wildflowerhour challenge is wetland plants. So have a mosey in your local marsh, mire, bog, fen and see what you can find! Share your pics this Sunday 8-9pm using #wetlandplants #InternationalBogDay2026

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Late for #WildflowerHour this evening. Here's a Broad-leaved Helleborine I found in some ancient Beech woodland - #StillFlowering - probably actually #JustFlowering! I've never seen them this tiny before - the largest were only about 8" tall 😯 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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Prof Bill McGuire @profbillmcguire.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

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Tell the BBC: Don't cancel Winterwatch!

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

Phew it’s been so hot lately!This week’s challenge is to find those wild & naturalised plants that are surviving the drought conditions & are #StillFlowering! Share your finds for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm!

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Thanks Jo, I needed a better camera really, as I couldn't get close enough with the phone.

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

I think these might be hybrid Water Lilies? On the same pond as the white ones in our local country park, Cambridge. #AquaticPlants #WildflowerHour @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Purple Loosestrife grows in abundance by the fishing swims in our local country park. One of my favourite #AquaticPlants for #WildflowerHour 🙂 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

A pair of White Water-Lily for this week's #WildflowerHour challlenge - #AquaticPlants There are some pink ones too on the same pond in our local country park - I assume they're hybrids of some kind? @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

With warmer temperatures forecast for the end of the week hopefully you’ll appreciate a watery theme for this week’s challenge! Find wild or naturalised aquatic plants in bloom and share for #wildflowerhour this Sunday 8-9pm using the hashtag #AquaticPlants 💦🌱

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Edward Pollard @epollard.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

A good number of Chalk Hill Blue on the Fleam Dyke (Cambs) transect this week. Warm weather, and easterly winds are forecast. Could this mean recolonisation of Magog Down....? Will they cross the 6km of farmland?

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

One more for #WildflowerHour, #ClimbingPlants - Traveller's Joy. So different in seed, to in flower, which is where it gets its other name from - Old Man's Beard 🙂

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

A few #ClimbingPlants for this week's #WildflowerHour Honeysuckle, Bindweed, Ivy and White Bryony. I find the tendrils of White Bryony fascinating - perfect "springs"! Zooming into the Ivy leaf, there's a Nigma walckenaeri checking its next meal 😋 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Dr Richard Bate @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

3/7/26 #Cumbria - Phwoar! The Dark Red #Helleborines (Epipactis atrorubens) are peaking on the Limestone pavements above Morecambe Bay, in an array of colours! Tomorrow I take Arnside & District NHS out near Kendal and on Sunday it’s a trip up #HuttonRoof for @mariposanature.bsky.social

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Can you find a flowering wild or naturalised plant that has a climbing habit?! 🧗That’s the challenge this week for #wildflowerhour! Share your finds this Sunday 8-9pm!

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Thanks David, I wasn't sure what type of bee it was 🙂

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Really great to see it though 🙂

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Thanks Steven, @thenewgalaxy.bsky.social was much quicker on the draw, and got a superb shot!

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

Hunting around East Anglian fens 3 weeks ago for dactylorhiza praetermissa ssp. Schoenophila, there were a few Marsh Fritillaries mainly visiting Buttercups, and I was lucky to get a photo, as they weren't settling for long at all, and I only had my "flower" lens 😂 #PollinatorPals #Wildflowerhour

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

On an orchid trip in Kent a few weeks ago we were lucky to see pseudocopulation of a Late Spider orchid by a bee! #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

One from a few weeks ago for #WildflowerHour, #PollinatorPals... A Swallowtail on Dame's Violet.

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A Small White butterfly on Creeping Thistle for this week's #WildflowerHour, #PollinatorPals

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wildflowerhour @wildflowerhour.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

This week’s challenge is #PollinatorPals! Find a flowering wild or naturalised plant with a pollinating visitor & snap away. Of course it’s not just about bees! Butterflies, moths, wasps, flies & beetles can be #pollinators too! Share your pics for #Wildflowerhour Sunday 8-9pm 🪲🦋🪰🐝

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 15/06/2026

A macro shot of the underside of a fern leaf, showing the sori - a collection of sporangium, containing spores. #macro #nature

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

These are all growing in a single meadow, containing hundreds of Common Spotted, Heath Spotted and Chalk (possibly Marsh) Fragrant orchids. I struggle with dacts, but I'm sure some could be hybrids. #WildflowerHour #OrchidChallenge @bsbibotany.bsky.social @ukorchids.bsky.social

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

A selection of local (VC29) Bee orchids for this week's #WildflowerHour - only one is "normal"! Including f. bicolor and f. chlorantha, and possibly v. belgarum. Not technically #ChurchyardFlowers, but some are in the grounds of a former abbey 🙂 #OrchidChallenge

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

An Early Marsh orchid ssp. ochroleuca - almost #LawnFlowers for this week's #WildflowerHour. #Orchids

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Not our lawn, but a lovely pair of Southern Marsh orchids growing in a rather damp lawn! #WildflowerHour #LawnFlowers #Orchids

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

We did #NoMowMay, and will probably do #NoMowSummer. So we have plenty of Hedgerow Crane's-bill growing as #LawnFlowers for this week's #WildflowerHour challenge - they really brighten up the lawn when the Sun comes out 🙂

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David Harris @cycle4nature.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Thanks so much, Jon. I'd love to commit, but unfortunately have to put the business first right now. Perhaps things will be different in a few years... 🤞

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