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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 4h

I’ve got a few on my fleece from yesterday but I’m leaving them on as a botanical affectation 😉

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 8h

A delightful border you have there, Moira! Perhaps a few dot plants of Caltha for autumn colour would be good? 😄

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 10h

@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!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Isn’t the Kickxia amazing! Lovely selection as usual, Jeremy.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Flowering 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!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Some mellow fruitfulness for #WildflowerHour Sweet-briar, Black Bryony, Dogwood, White Bryony, Bittersweet and unripe Yellow-flowered Strawberry

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

From 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

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

I know you were replying to Jeremy, Henk-Jan, but I’d really like to read a Word translation, please!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I use it a bit and it’s not bad. Seems to be the best for uk so far I think.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Chuck them in the nearest drain - they love it down there 😄

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

😄 It’s not very common round here - we mostly get Bilbao’s locally

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Thank you for that ear-worm every time I see one from now on 😖😉

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Yes, that ‘Hotlips’ is horrible!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Shame 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

Many-seeded Goosefoot, Yellow Corydalis, Ivy, Adria Bellflower and Canadian Fleabane

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Quick snaps on shopping trips etc in Bradford-on-Avon this week #WildflowerHour

Procumbent Yellow-sorrel (purple variety), Cyclamen, Autumn Hawkbit, White Dead-nettle, Dandelion and Black Nightsgade

Chicory, Fool’s-parsley, a gutter Buddleja, Wild Carrot, Welted Thistle and a Mayweed.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

From 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

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

B frondosa has become very common along the canal here, and I worry that it is, to a certain extent, perhaps displacing the native B tripartita. I’ve never found B cernua but that’s our other one. Occasional B ferrufolia (?) as a garden escape and that is in dry sheltered places.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

I hadn’t heard of this species but the 3 Bidens that grow in the wild here are all generally in damp places.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

Is that some kind of drain behind the railings or is it growing in a dry habitat?

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I believe so, but it seems surprisingly eager in several residential streets here.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Bradford-on-Avon excels again! Vervain along Christchurch and the delightful purple variety thoroughly escaped along Woolley Terrace 🙂

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

A camouflaged spider on a Woolly Thistle seed head for #WildWebsWednesday in nearby Poulton meadow.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Not about my person, I’m afraid!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

You’re in need of a toad, sir!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Rather slender for #ThickTrunkTuesday, this is one of several Beech trees on Oliver’s Castle hill fort near Devizes. So beautiful up there yesterday.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

😄 Always envious of your Solanums - and the Yellow Teasel.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

I’ve yet to get a decent photo of it!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

For ‘thin and weedy’ read ‘delicate’!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Not 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

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

Thanks for posting - as you say, inspiring, but also excellent entertainment!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Thanks! Thought it had rather a sedge look about it.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Never mind the Cockscomb, what’s that lovely grassy thing?!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Not really a #WildWebsWednesday candidate but this Square-spot Rustic was a not unwelcome visitor to my B&B room in Kilkenny last night

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Very much, thanks, Rebecca; your challenges are greatly appreciated!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Lovely to see the flowers fully open.

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Lovely! And great information, Jeremy; I didn’t know about the drunken wasps!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Funnily enough I met it for the first time yesterday in Devizes, Jeremy! But having it next to B tripartita is quite something, Moira!

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

And, 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

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Who could not love Yellow Nonea Nonea lutea? A surprise find spreading in grass in South Wraxall - immediately a #FavouritePlant for the year #WildflowerHour

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Fran Sinclair @notfrangible.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I’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

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