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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 23h

🫧🌺💕🌸🫧 Finding cheer #bloomscrolling Adjusting to a colder, grey & wet day - thankful for recent beautiful sunshine 🌱

Single peachy coral-pink rose, in a small yellow vase on a tablecloth which has a pink & orange check weave

Ivy leaved pelargonium with a flush of spiky sugar-pink blooms. Think it’s called ‘Lotusland’ ? Its pot is plain white ceramic & stands on the kitchen windowsill. Beside is a tiny white ceramic lucky cat, Maneki-neko

Pink & orange fruits on a little Spindle bush - Euonymus europaeus

Mixed tapestry of tall purple-flowered Salvia Amistad and pink roses. Sunlight on green foliage, darker silhouetted Ash tree behind

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

@naturelark.bsky.social Enjoyed this friendly Clouded Yellow butterfly trying to baffle me?! ✨💛🫧

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Looks like my Cardoon?! 💜

Thistle-like dried brown seedheads of Cardoon with fluffy seeds emerging from their tops. In the garden

Against blue sky, purple flowerheads of Cardoon in hot Summer 2026

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

#WildflowerHour while listening to Steve Reich at 90 on Radio3 🎶🫧✨💕 Joyful to see these #stillflowering beauties today Descriptions in Alt text 🕊️ @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

✨🫧💛🫧✨ Beautiful garden companion - a Clouded Yellow #butterfly 🦋🌱

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

🫧💛 My little Clouded Yellow friend (Monday)✨🦋

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

“And a heaven in a wild flower…” Early for #WildflowerHour 🦊 Fox & Cubs - pilosella aurantica Corydalis lutea 🐝 Red Valerian -centranthus ruber Ragwort - senecio jacobaea 🌼 Love to all 💕 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

Orange flower and little buds of Fox & Cubs on a downy stem. Hairy foliage beneath

Yellow tubes of Corydalis and its delicate green foliage

Deep ruby Red Valerian flowerhead with a tiny striped Hoverfly feeding

Beautiful yellow flowers of Ragwort with its fawn button seedheads

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

🕊️Dear #WildflowerHour posted in astonishment 👀 from a walk today - Blackthorn blossom - in September? 🤔 Not just one or two flowers - many! 🫧 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social @botanybeck.bsky.social 🌱

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Early for #WildflowerHour Treasures of this week, from the heavenly realms ✨🫧🦠🫧🕊️✨ Bristly Ox Tongue & Bryophytes @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Late addition for #WildflowerHour 💞 Is this a wild Autumn crocus - colchicum autumnale, or garden variety? 🤔 Growing on slope beneath old Willow stump in the garden 🌱 Welcome bright beauty! 🌸

Autumn crocus - colchicum autumnale, lilac pink petals in sunshine against dried grasses

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

#favouriteplants for #WildflowerHour 🫧💞🕊️🫧Centranthus ruber - Red Valerian, in flower pretty much every month this year. Hummingbird Hawkmoth visits a lovely highlight. Thought I’d a video, but can’t find it! 🤔 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

Deep pink Centranthus ruber and starry white Bedstraw flowers

Centranthus ruber at night - moths feeding

Centranthus ruber growing in paving cracks - a source of irritation to my partner!

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

#Fruits for #WildflowerHour 🍒🫐❣️🫧🍎 Love ‘em all! Big berry bonanza 🐦‍⬛ @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

#SeedHeads Hogweed - Heracleum sphondylium Feverfew - Tanacetum parthenium Willowherb - Epilobium montanum

Hogweed seedhead - Heracleum sphondylium

Golden bobble seedheads of Feverfew Tanacetum parthenium

Dry tangled scribble of Broad-leaved Willowherb Epilobium montanum seedheads in dry grass

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

🌼 Unusual Sunday - helping an injured cyclist after collision outside, all OK 🙏❤️‍🩹🚑 Late post of #SeedHeads for #WildflowerHour Corn Marigold - Glebionis segetum Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria Feverfew - Tanacetum parthenium Wildflower seed from garden, calming 🫘✨ @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

Starry seedhead of Corn marigold - Glebionis segetum, also two cheery yellow flowers

In a small cardboard tray lie two dried flower spikes of Purple Loosestrife - Lythrum salicaria
Petals now crispy, pale pink - hope to collect seed

On a small brown envelope is a very bill-like seed of Meadow Cranesbill
Also four empty seedheads of Feverfew
A wooden pencil is behind
All are shades of sepia/brown

My little seed collection table has various cardboard trays of seedheads.
At front are Feverfew seeds ready for winnowing, very sugar-like

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

#WallPlants for #WildflowerHour Few after heat, & I’ve not ventured far, so home/shed walls 👀 Plantago lanceolata - Ribwort Plantain Corydalis lutea - Yellow Corydalis Centranthus ruber - Red Valerian Pentaglottis sempervirens - Green Alkanet @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

At base of pale green wall - Ribwort Plantain foliage and one spiky cream tassel flowerhead

Pretty yellow tube cluster flowers of Yellow Corydalis. Beautiful ferny foliage against pale green wall

Sunlight making shadows of Red Valerian at base of shed wall. Partner would like this plant gone, but Hummingbird Hawkmoth & I love its crimson flowers & starry seeds

Green Alkanet has statuesque foliage, but sad to have missed its forget-me-not blue blooms. Against pale green wall

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

In peace & with thanks for your lovely wildflower pics 💞🕊️

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

🌸🫧🐻‍❄️🌿🧵 #CommonNames for #WildflowerHour Early, as cooking supper 🙏 Herb Robert/Stinky Bob- geranium robertianum Sheeps Sorrel - rumex acetosella Spindle - euonymus europaeus @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 10/08/2026

🌸🫧🙏💞🕊️ Very delighted to see a solitary Rosebay Willowherb - Chamaenerion angustifolium blooming in a heap of Erigeron karvinskianus by our wall. I appreciate its willowy leaves & delicate flowers 🌱 #Wildflowers #Bloomscrolling

Clear pink flowers of Rosebay Willowherb with its elegant willowy leaves

One stem of Rosebay Willowherb flowering above many tiny daisies of Mexican fleabane

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

🌼🌸 #DaisyFamily for #WildflowerHour Corn Marigold - Glebionis segetum Oxeye Daisy - Leucanthemum vulgare Aster sp Bristly Ox Tongue - Helminthotheca echioides @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

🌱 Two more #ByTheSea from same walk, needing #plantID please 🔍 - Bee on tiny yellow brassica/mustard flowers? 🌼🐝 - Mallow foliage? 🌸🙏 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Lots of tiny lemon yellowflowers on scribbly stems. At their centre, a Bee

Think this may be a clump of Mallow foliage on the shingle beach path edge? Distant Sea Kale - blue sea & sky beyond

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

🌊🌾🕊️🌼🐚 Pile of pics #ByTheSea for #WildflowerHour from another hot week 🌞 Pett Level beach, East Sussex - a welcome breeze 🌬️ @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

💦🩵🪴🫧 Not strictly #aquaticplants & they’re in pots in the garden🤔 but didn’t want to miss #wildflowerhour I’ve not ventured far due to heat this week. Garden Liatris, Eryngium, Cardoons & Sunflower are standing in! Hope everyone’s cool🌻🌞🥀

Magenta pink flower spikes of Liatris - in a pot

Blue spiky flowers of Eryngium planum ‘Blue Hobbit’ in a pot beside big Shasta Daisy and blue Agapanthus

Blue sky with tall purple Cardoons, a yellow Sunflower and pots of cheery flowers

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

🌞💕🌼💞🌸 Therapeutic #wildflower #bloomscrolling outside my window. Another hot day, but joyful to see Honeysuckle 🌱 #climbingplants

Sunshine dazzles bright above a shaded section of hedgerow. Outstretched arms of a flowering Honeysuckle in foreground, with her pastel pink-vanilla dancing fingers

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

In the garden for #WildflowerHour Pretty they may be, but #InvasivePlants 🤔 Ground Elder/Aegopodium podagraria Red Valerian/Centranthus Ruber Mexican Fleabane/Erigeron Karvinskianus Rose of Sharon/Hypericum calycinum (Vinca also a thug, no pic) @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

💐Plent of Dubbin on my late Mum’s walking shoes? Born 1919 - Cumbrian tenant farmer family. I still have the shoes 🕊️ Pic 2, in her Sunday best pair 💞

1940s shiny brown leather shoes with laces. My late Mum’s who was born 1919

Mum 1940s, walking in sepia countryside. She’s in her Sunday best skirt & blouse, crossing the A6 near High Hesket, Cumbria (then called Cumberland). Handbag in one hand, a coat across her other arm. She’s smiling at the photographer - my late Dad.
Sepia landscape behind shows a metal fence at the narrow lane junction - behind is a field of corn stooks, a telegraph pole and trees - likely including Elms?

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

🦋🪲🐝🌼🐞🌸 #PollinatorPals for #WildflowerHour A joy to look for these! 👀 Early post as I’m cooking supper 🥵 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Well done for enduring the grimness 🎧🎶🕊️ PS just rediscovered my old playlist from when neighbour was cutting down trees …

List of tunes to calm me nerves and drown the sound of a chainsaw:
‘Fisherman’s Blues’ The Waterboys
‘Society’ Eddie Vedder
‘For a Dancer’ Jackson Browne
‘Nina Cried Power’ Mavis Staples & Hozier
‘Sail Away’ Randy Newman

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

✨🪔🧡🙏🕊️💞🙏💐🪔✨

Bright orange Lily flowering in a pot. Curvy stem of Cotoneaster horizontalis with tiny red berries beside.
My toes & flip-flops are included - pink + orange = happy

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

🌼🌾 Not quite #ChurchyardFlowers for #WildflowerHour but Charlie dog’s mini-forest, planted in memory of a very special boy 🐾 Beside his ashes grow Honeysuckle, Oxeye daisies, Knapweed & allsorts - among his sapling Oak, Spindle, Hornbeam etc 🌱 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Grey oval pebble with ‘Charlie’ in rainbow lettering & a pawprint carved into its surface. Selfheal, Oxeye daisy and Herb Robert around it. Also Love-in-a-mist, Green alkanet, Forget-me-not seedheads & a red ball

Charlie’s resting place in long grass with wildflowers. Honeysuckle beginning to twine up a small wire obelisk

Blue sky backdrop to Gorse, saplings of Spindle, Hornbeam & Field Maple in uncut grass

Charlie dog was a smooth white-haired Staffy-cross. He’s lying in long grass with Sainfoin & Oxeye Daisies, focused on his tennis ball

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 12/06/2026

🐚🫧🛟🐇🪸🐰🧚🏾‍♀️🫧🕊️ On top of the water butt, *Fairy Garden* has survived recent chilly rain & winds. Reward is sedum anglicum English Stonecrop, about to flower. Peter Rabbit is enjoying 🌱 #wildflowers

English Stonecrop growing in and over the edge of a small terracotta trough. Flowers are still in creamy white bud. Behind is a ceramic figure of Peter Rabbit, and a tiny rustic beach hut

Small succulent plants of blue Sedum reflexum beside a little dark-brown pebble-bowl of rainwater. Tiny ceramic Peter Rabbit next to the little beach hut, and tall Oxeye Daisy stalk in front.

Ceramic Peter Rabbit peeping under curved flowering stem of English Stonecrop. Pebbles and a blue Sedum reflexum plant beside the edge of shallow terracotta trough

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

✨🙏🌾 I picked a bit for closer view - lovely & very strongly anchored little Sedge. Must be tiny hooks/barbs, on its leaf edges? 🌱

Close up of green bristly Sedge flowers dotted along two slender green stalks - laid on a striped grey teatowel

Green spikey Sedge flowers dotted along two slender green stalks, with their wispy leaves - laid on a striped grey teatowel

Close up of green bristly Sedge flowers dotted along two slender green stalks, also two of their very wispy leaves - casting pretty shadows on a striped grey teatowel

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

May I ask - is this it too? 🌾⬇️

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

🦋🐝🌼🌾🕊️ #LawnFlowers for #WildflowerHour 7 years ago a lawn. Mown path now with wildflowers/grasses. Me & local creatures planted Elder, Hazel, Birch, Oak, Ash, Field Maple, Alder & Hornbeam 🌱 Oxeye daisies Bloody cranesbill Foxglove Self heal @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A very good year for Oxeye daisies! Many, shining in the sunlight on a slope which used to be mown

Tall white Oxeye daisies mixed with magenta pink flowers of Bloody Cranesbill, on previously mown slope

Long grasses and Oxeye daisies. To the right are a group of deep pink foxgloves. Behind is a Wild Rose and Elder bush

Purple flower heads of Self Heal, also tiny foliage of Spotted medick in mixed grassed area

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

✨🔥💞🌾🌸🦋🕊️ A scorching hot week, so haven’t ventured far at all! Sorry, no Orchids for #WildflowerHour Wild rose Linaria, Euphorbia, Oxeye daisies Red Valerian, Moth (Angle Shades?) Foxglove, Love-in-a-Mist @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

Blue sky and enormous bush of white Dog rose, many blooms fully open on fresh green foliage

Tall purple spikes of Linaria purpurea, frothy lime green Euphorbia ? and white Oxeye daisies beside a farm track. Five barred gate to a sheep field and blue sky above

Torchlight on Red Valerian flowers being visited at dusk by a blurry Moth. My toes in flip-flops beneath

Hot day Foxglove shining in sunlight. Beside are feathery leaves and pale blue flowers of Love-in-a-Mist

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

🌸💞🌼 More #WildFlowerShow in the garden for #WildflowerHour Pink Oxalis, Red Valerian Oxeye Daisies Common Valerian Elderflower, Bloody Cranesbill… @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

Bright pink Oxalis & Red Valerian in the garden beside path

Oxeye Daisies opening on grassy bank beside tall, leaning chainlink fence. Blue sky, mature Ash trees & Gorse behind.

Potting shed behind tall pale flower spikes of Common Valerian in a pot. Pink flowers of Herb Robert in ‘bank vole corner’. Foreground of more Valerian growing out of cracks in the path. Wooden lid of the well - its pump is being repaired, so no handle atm!

Greenish white head of frothy Elderflower beside a Fig tree in grassy bank, with a few Bloody Cranesbill flowering - cerise pink. Bloomin Mexican fleabane daisies in another ‘bank vole corner.’ Blue sky at the top behind Cow Parsley & chainlink fence.

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

✨❤️‍🔥🌞☘️🦋🌸🕊️✨ Early, as I may nod off in the heat! #WildFlowerShow for #WildflowerHour Wild Rose Foxglove Elderflower Red Valerian & friends @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

Single beautiful flower of Wild Rose, its petals are pink fading to white near the central golden yellow stamens. Some fresh green buds & leaves around the bloom

Magenta pink Foxglove flowering through leaves of young Field Maple

Single head of Elderflower, dozens of frothy tiny cream flowers on one stalk. Underneath are seedheads and bronze leaves of Bugle

Garden setting with distant mature Ash trees against blue sky. In foreground are masses of Red Valerian - unstoppable & welcome self-seeders! Also mixed in are Ribwort plantain, Valeriana officinalis (tall & pale lilac pink), a Foxglove, tiny Mexican fleabane daisies & bright pink Oxalis.

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

✨🔎☘️💐🔍✨ #tinyplants for #WildflowerHour Spotted Medick Cut-leaved cranesbill Garlic Mustard Early Forget-me-not @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

Tiny yellow pea flower above clover-like green foliage. Each leaf lobe has a black heart-shaped dot

A blurry pic taken in windy conditions, of Cut-leaved cranesbill. Tiny magenta-pink flower, leaves are cut into many long pointy lobes

Cluster of white four-petalled flowers - Garlic Mustard with its spiked seed pods all down the stem

Many tiny Early Forget-me-not flowers in grass with a little Herb Robert alongside

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

🌈🔎☘️💐🔍🕊️ #tinyplants for #WildflowerHour Wood Avens Herb Robert Early Forget-me-not Black Bryony @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

Little yellow flower with a rusty orange fuzz of stamens at its centre. Pointy flowerbuds to either side, fresh green leaves

Pretty pink flower of Herb Robert, downy stems & buds

Many tiny blue Forget-me-not flowers, some with yellow centres, others white. Its curling greyish stems & buds have minute white hairs

Teeny lime green flowers of Black Bryony are dotted along slender twining stems. The glossy green leaves are veined & an elongated heart-shape. It’s scambling through a garden Hydrangea shrub!

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 10/05/2026

🥕🫛 Early for #WildflowerHour because I’m cooking supper! #carrotsandpeas Cow Parsley - Anthriscus sylvestris Common Vetch - Vicia sativa I heard nibbling under the Vetch - bank vole supper? 🐭🌱 @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Froths of white Cow Parsley flowers on a green grassy bank. To the left is a Hazel bush, & behind on the right is an Elder

White lace patterns of a pretty Cow Parsley flowerhead

Magenta pink pea-like flower of Vetch, close up with its seed pods & tendrils

Magenta pink Vetch flower and its fresh foliage

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

🌸🙏🦋🐛 Cardamine pratensis #wildflowers

Close-up pic. Delicate pale pink, four-petalled flowers of Ladysmock/Cuckooflower in grass. Six or seven open blooms on one stem, with fine veining to their petals. Vibrant lime green/yellow stamens.
Cardamine pratensis

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

✨ Ribwort Plantain flower/stars - Plantago lanceolata & Valeriana officinalis 🌸 Favourite #Wildflowers of the day 🌱 Awake at 4am, so treated myself to a #DawnChorus listen. Tawny Owls & Cuckoo - quite the duet, with a beautiful loud songbird singalong-cacophony, all under a misty Moon 🌖🕊️🎶

Five starburst shapes of Ribwort Plantain flowers

Valeriana officinalis - clusters of tiny pale pink flowers, some buds are unopened

Dark cone flowers of Ribwort plantain with delicate starry crowns

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Marti @martifarrow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

🌼🌞💛 #buttercupchallenge for #WildflowerHour In grass beside a path at home. Creeping Buttercup - Ranunculus repens 🌱 Cheery ✨

A dozen golden yellow Creeping Buttercup flowers and their bright green foliage. Sunny grass beside path

A pair of sunlit golden yellow Creeping Buttercup flowers, and green leaves

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