nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 02/08/2026Marsh Gentians at their best right now in the New Forest. 0232
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 13/05/2026Trifolium glomeratum, found on a sandy bank in a meadow on the Isle of Wight. Exquisite flower! 0131
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Wood Clubrush in marshland, Alverstone, Isle of Wight. Love this plant! 020
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 12/05/2026Marsh cinquefoil on the Isle of Wight today, at Alverstone Meads 020
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 07/05/2026Meadow thistles today in a damp hay meadow in Hampshire. 050
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 05/05/2026Oenanthe silaifolia, or narrow-leaved water-dropwort, flowering in species rich water meadows at Amberley Wild Brooks, West Sussex. 110
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 04/05/2026Water meadows plants today in Hampshire. Water avens and marsh valerian, with two whippets having fun. 040
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Early purple orchids still going strong in Hampshire. 030
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 02/05/2026Green winged orchids growing on graves at a cemetery on the Isle of Wight. 020
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 08/04/2026Ivy broomrape already in flower in Dorset. Looking gorgeous! 020
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 02/04/2026Finally got to see Draba aizoides on the Gower this year, and it did not disappoint! 020
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 16/03/2026Bluebells and toothwort flowering in ancient woodland in Hampshire yesterday. 😃 011
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 09/03/2026Alternate-leaved Golden Saxifrage growing on a river bank in Hampshire. A county rarity that’s persisting, thankfully. 040
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 08/03/2026For those of you who like colour forms of viola odorata, I’m thinking this is f. Lilacina; pale colour with lilac flushes, bearded inner petals and dark spur. What do you think? 🤔 010
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Lamium hybridum ( cut leaved dead nettle) found in a pavement , Bishops Waltham, Hampshire. Never tire of seeing this plant. 0121
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 04/03/2026Rue-leaved Saxifrage already in flower, in Lymington, Hampshire. ❤️ 0100
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 11/02/2026The glory of Early Star of Bethlehem, in flower this year. 2196
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 01/11/2025I love this little fern. Rustyback growing on a flint stone wall near home. Not many sites for it in Hampshire and it has disappeared from some sites on the Isle of Wight. 070
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 01/11/2025Nottingham Catchfly silene nutans is enjoying a second flush of flowers on Hayling Island. 070
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 13/10/2025Spiked Speedwell Veronica spicata still flowering beautifully in the Avon Gorge. 050
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 12/10/2025A surprise find in the shape of Dittrichia viscosa Woody Fleabane on the central reservation of a dual carriageway outside Southampton. Made my day! 030
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 12/10/2025May not be much to look at, but this is the very rare Potamogeton nodosus Loddon Pondweed looking rather attractive in a river on the Hampshire Berkshire border. 1131
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 28/09/2025Another one for Sorbus fans: the rare Sorbus domestica growing on coastal cliffs in a remote spot along the river Severn. 040
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 27/09/2025One of my favourite species of dock: Rumex maritimus, golden dock, looking particularly golden in a damp meadow in Cambridgeshire 030
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 27/09/2025For Sorbus fans: Sorbus herefordensis growing on the edge of woodland in Herefordshire ( of course). A very handsome tree! 010
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 12/09/2025Not your usual mugwort, this is Chinese mugwort, which flowers much later in the season and has different leaves to common mugwort. 140
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 12/09/2025End of summer colour: golden samphire still putting on a great display along the sea wall at Broadmarsh, Hampshire. 010
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 10/09/2025This little beauty is the hybrid between common and pale toadflax, Linaria x sepium. Growing with Pale toadflax, Linaria repens, on chalk grassland on a disused railway embankment in Hampshire 040
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 10/09/2025Pale toadflax, Linaria repens, flowering happily on chalk grassland on a disused railway embankment in Hampshire 0130
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 05/09/2025I found this persicaria capitata legging it down a drainpipe in Falmouth town centre! Made me smile 😃 030
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 05/09/2025Carline thistle looking particularly golden in the evening sun in Sharp Tor point, Devon 000
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 03/09/2025A trip to Dartmoor is not complete without seeing this gem, ivy leaved bellflower. Love seeing this! 000
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 02/09/2025Crataegus persimilis broad-leaved cockspur thorn growing well away from any garden, at the foot of a disused railway embankment in a remote part of north Devon 041
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 29/08/2025Pale toadflax ( Linaria repens) flowering happily on the shingle at Browndown, Hampshire 060
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 28/08/2025The white firm of Dorset Heath ( Erica cilliaris) on a Cornish heath. Magic! 020
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Sea daffodils flowering in Cornwall today. Good for the soul. 2352
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 28/08/2025Crinum x powellii ( white flowered form) well established on cliffs at Housel Bay, Lizard, Cornwall 010
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 28/07/2025I never tire of seeing jewelweed or orange balsam by the river Meon in Hampshire. Good for the soul. 010
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 25/07/2025Summer’s here: the wonderful clematis flammula or virgin’s bower, flowering sweetly at Ventnor, Isle of Wight ❤️ 010
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 23/07/2025The delightfully quirky Tall Thrift Armeria maritima spp elongata at its type locality at Ancaster, Lincolnshire. 020
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 23/07/2025Found a new site for Violet Helleborine Epipactis purpurata in south Hampshire 👍. 091
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 20/07/2025A rather special helleborines: Epipactis sancta on Holy Island, doing well this year! 020
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 19/07/2025A blizzard of sneezewort today in a Hampshire hay meadow 0110
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Round-headed rampion in pristine condition on chalk grassland, Hampshire. ♥️ 130
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Here’s one for the sedge lovers. Finally tracked down True Fox Sedge, Carex vulpina, with its flabby ligule, near Coombe Hill, Gloucestershire. 030
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 06/07/2025Greater Dodder, seen at Coombe Hill, Gloucestershire. 040
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 02/07/2025American Cranberry , Vaccinium macrocarpon, flowering beautifully on a damp heath in Dorset. Not a British native but an interesting alien that is doing well at Ashley Heath. 010
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 01/07/2025A lovely assemblage of arable plants in a corner of a field: round leaved fluellen; dwarf spurge; small toadflax. In south Hampshire. 010
nickaston.bsky.social @nickaston.bsky.social · 30/06/2025Quite unassuming but no less special for being so: Hampshire Purslane in the New Forest. 030
