Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 09/10/2026Shaggy Scalycap in Black Dog Wood near Westbury yesterday #FungiFriday 0191
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 06/10/2026Another Willow at Slimbridge, this one hosting two Viburnum rhytidophyllum and several other plants #ThickTrunkTuesday 1160
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 06/10/2026A Crack Willow at WWT Slimbridge that’s not giving up yet #ThickTrunkTuesday 0130
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 05/10/2026@bramblebotanist.bsky.social @ghostofdatura.bsky.social thank you so much for seeds, specimen and many sightings of gorgeous Nodding Bur-marigold Bidens cernua (various). Sorry about the jumper, Alex! 180
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Flowering at WWT Slimbridge today, Meadowsweet, Redshank, Beggarticks, Nodding Bur-marigold (well, gone over, but still…), Wild Carrot and Marsh Marigold for #WildflowerHour In October, for goodness sake! 2706
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 04/10/2026Some mellow fruitfulness for #WildflowerHour Sweet-briar, Black Bryony, Dogwood, White Bryony, Bittersweet and unripe Yellow-flowered Strawberry 0352
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 04/10/2026From Bradford-on-Avon this week, Duke of Argyll’s Ttea Plant, Perennial Wall-rocket, an almost white Musk Mallow, Ivy, Beggarticks and Hogweed for #WildflowerHour 0232
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Shame about Google’s option for a collage of 5, but Many-seeded Goosefoot does warrant some publicity; such an attractive plant. And what cute ray florets on this Canadian Fleabane! #WildflowerHour 1222
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026Quick snaps on shopping trips etc in Bradford-on-Avon this week #WildflowerHour 1316
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026From Monday’s stroll on Oliver’s Castle near Devizes: Harebell, Red Bartsia, Perforate St John’s-wort, Devil’s-bit Scabious, Burnet-Saxifrage and Knapweed #WildflowerHour 1224
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Bradford-on-Avon excels again! Vervain along Christchurch and the delightful purple variety thoroughly escaped along Woolley Terrace 🙂 162
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 23/09/2026A camouflaged spider on a Woolly Thistle seed head for #WildWebsWednesday in nearby Poulton meadow. 080
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Rather slender for #ThickTrunkTuesday, this is one of several Beech trees on Oliver’s Castle hill fort near Devizes. So beautiful up there yesterday. 1190
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 20/09/2026Not much time for botanising this week so just a few from Kilkenny; from top left Black Medick, Common Mallow, Perennial Sowthistle, Field Poppy, Atlas Poppy and Borage #WildflowerHour 1383
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 16/09/2026Not really a #WildWebsWednesday candidate but this Square-spot Rustic was a not unwelcome visitor to my B&B room in Kilkenny last night 090
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026And, of course, Beggarticks Bidens frondosa, today’s specimens at Bradford-on-Avon Wharf on the K&A canal, on lock gates and in canal walls. Still a #FavouritePlant despite becoming common as muck locally! #WildflowerHour 0252
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Who could not love Yellow Nonea Nonea lutea? A surprise find spreading in grass in South Wraxall - immediately a #FavouritePlant for the year #WildflowerHour 1384
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026I’d been keeping my eye out for New Zealand Bitter-cress Cardamine corymbosa on Silver Street in Bradford -on-Avon for several years, so I was delighted and relieved to finally see it this March. Such a compact, pretty member of that family! #FavouritePlant #WildflowerHour 1332
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026Definitely a “Well hello! What are you doing here?!” moment in Melksham in February. A #FavouritePlant and county first (which is nice) Mediterranean Nettle Urtica membranacea for #WildflowerHour 2294
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 11/09/2026For #FungiFriday have a lickable Dog Vomit Slime Mould 😉 and a False Chanterelle holding what @ghostofdatura.bsky.social might call Forbidden Soup 😄 4232
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Just another waterside patch; Beggarticks, Water Mint, Gipsywort, Amphibious Bistort and …Snapdragon…🤔😄 080
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 06/09/2026#Fruits from the Kennet & Avon Canal - in a lock as well as beside the towpath - and Southleigh Wood, near Warminster. #WildflowerHour 1304
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 04/09/2026…but it seems to be moving from cute to brute 😕 Ain’t it always the way with favourites? 😅 This plant was with many others at Staverton (Wiltshire). 031
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 03/09/2026Possibly my favourite plant, perhaps chiefly when it poses on lock gates and beside winding gear etc: Beggarticks Bidens frondosa along the Kennet & Avon canal at Devizes today 1203
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Some #Seedheads before they got too soggy (names in Alt) for this week’s #WildflowerHour 1282
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/08/2026Helophilus pendulus on Gipsywort next to Beggarticks for #WildWebsWednesday 0120
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 23/08/2026…my annual Beggarticks hunt began along the Kennet & Avon canal and, growing out of joints in the canal walls, I found Skullcap, Beggarticks (lots!), Gipsywort and, bizarrely, Small Teasel! #WildflowerHour #WallPlants 2473
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 23/08/2026It looked as though it was going to be slim pickings for the #WildflowerHour #WallPlants challenge, with only Yellow Corydalis, Ivy-leaved Toadflax, Trailing Bellflower, Wall Lettuce and Mexican Daisy on nearby walls in Bradford-on-Avon, but then… 0333
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 22/08/2026It seemed like the veggie equivalent of eating a pet rabbit - such cute flowers on New Zealand Spinach. Good greens. 091
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Verges brown, hedges and trees mostly looking rather autumnal along this lane, but the Hops! Scrambling along and over and up everything! Wilsford, Wiltshire. 040
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 18/08/2026An oak that has been gradually shedding a few branches in the parched grass of Brockwell Park, Herne Hill #ThickTrunkTuesday 0150
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 17/08/2026My only find for #WildflowerHour #CommonNames theme was this Dittander Lepidium latifolium; my first encounter with the plant, so it was worth missing a bus! More info in ALT 2223
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 12/08/2026Green-veined White nectaring on Devil’s-bit Scabious on a rather overgrown ride in Somerford Common #WildWebsWednesday 1304
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 09/08/2026Surprising how many of the #DaisyFamily are coping with heat and drought, brightening browned lawns and path edges everywhere #WildflowerHour (names in Alt). 2261
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 09/08/2026A species I’ve long wanted to see: Golden Dock Rumex maritimus at Cotswold Water Park on Wednesday. What a fabulous plant! #WildflowerHour 1252
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 06/08/2026It’s usually tiny plants that a hand lens makes stunning, but the detail in a Dark Mullein Verbascum nigrum flower is amazing! So I had to check out Great Mullein Verbascum thapsus too - not quite so much 1970s pow! but still superb. #WildflowerHour 1141
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 02/08/2026A lovely cool breeze at Severn Beach for my #ByTheSea collection for #WildflowerHour a thoroughly enjoyable few hours 🙂. Names in Alt. 1163
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 01/08/2026On the ceiling of the hallway this evening - a Lilac Beauty Apeira syringaria; a beautiful moth. Potted and freed in Bradford-on-Avon #TeamMoth 190
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 30/07/2026They strimmed down the Mayweeds and Geranium rotundifolium along the wall but kept the (admittedly statuesque) Burdock (near the white van) which is repaying them handsomely. I hope the young footballers appreciate it. 🙄 140
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Now that I’ve got my train ticket to find plants #ByTheSea there’s no need to save up my #PavementPlants for Sunday’s #WildflowerHour! Names in Alt - was tempted to call the Oxalis Rorschach’s Sorrel 😊 1151
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Found this glabrous Amaranthus sp last week and returned yesterday hoping for seeds to confirm either A. hybridus or A. retroflexus. All other weeds untouched but this one taken without trace ☹️ 130
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Lastly, Wild Teasel, Woolly Thistle, Small Scabious and Dwarf Thistle. The last three from today’s meeting and the Teasel just because. #WildflowerHour 2303
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/07/2026Three Clustered Bellflower from today’s #WiltsBotSoc meeting on the National Trust’s Stonehenge arable reversion sites - a very impressive selection of chalk grassland species in the fields where reversion began a fair few years ago. And a cool breeze too! #WildflowerHour 2338
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/07/2026A few #PavementPlants for #WildflowerHour too - Chicory, Lady’s Bedstraw and, more reasonably for an urban setting, Garden Lobelia all in Bradford-on-Avon 0231
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/07/2026The edge of the K&A canal was the closest I got to #WetlandPlants this week. Orange Balsam and Wild Angelica qualify but the Greater Burdock doesn’t much care where it finds itself. #WildflowerHour 1193
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Gatekeeper on Hemp-agrimony with attendant Mallards on the K&A canal #WildWebsWednesday 1100
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Mystery oddities in mown grass/ equisetum in southern Lapland last week. No other part of plants visible. Wondered if they were galls or phyllody (but of what?); anyone have an idea, please? 010
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 19/07/2026White Marsh Thistle at Landford Bog, Bristly Ox-tongue, Ragwort, Hemp-agrimony and Field Bindweed close to K&A canal, and Ploughman’s Spikenard 😍 #StillFlowering on top of a wall for #WildflowerHour 1223
Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 19/07/2026All #StillFlowering beside the Avon: Great Willowherb, Gypsywort, Branched Bur-reed and Tansy with Purple Loosestrife #WildflowerHour 1272