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Prof Ros Gleadow FAA 💙💚 @rgleadow.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Very good animation on the type of illness induced by certain activity in people with ME - get informed. Thank you for a couple of minutes of your time to learn about this awful disease that my daughter has @elizacharley.bsky.social

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Prof Christina Pagel @chrischirp.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I contributed to the Covid-19 Inquiry on the Test and Trace Module as an expert written witness. My statement is now public for those (few) interested covid19.public-inquiry.uk/documents/in...

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INQ000575988 - Witness Statement of Professor Christina Pagel, dated 19/03/2025 UK Covid-19 Inquiry Archives

Witness Statement of Professor Christina Pagel, dated 19/03/2025.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Lucerne or Alfalfa (Medicago sativa) growing in an arable field margin. Seen on a beautiful late summer evening walk. #WildflowerHour

Purple flowers of Lucerne or Alfalfa growing at the edge of an arable field. The photo was taken in the evening, the sky in the background is soft blue and peach in colour.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 06/07/2025

Common Knapweed (Centaurea nigra) adding bright spots of colour to the dry grasses in this meadow. #WildflowerHour

A bright magenta coloured Knapweed flower in a meadow with straw coloured tall grasses around it.

A meadow of straw coloured dry, tall.grass spikes dotted with purple Knapweed flowers.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 29/06/2025

Not much flowering in the woods now, but there was a lovely patch of Tufted Vetch (Vicia cracca) adding a splash of colour to the greens of the woodland. #WildflowerHour

Purple and blue tall erect flower spikes of Tufted Vetch.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Common Restharrow (Ononis repens) on Rodborough Common, Gloucestershire this afternoon. The pink flowers of this shrubby creeping bush are now starting to take over from the pink of the fragrant orchids. #WildflowerHour

A low growing shrub, Common Restharrow, with its pink flowers. Set against a blue sky with clouds. This plant was growing in a small quarried area on Rodborough Common

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Last week's hot weather had baked most of the orchids on Rodborough Common to a crisp, but a few were clinging on: Pyramidal orchid, white Fragrant Orchid, pink Fragrant Orchid and a Bee Orchid. #WildflowerHour #Orchids

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Last week's hot weather had baked most of the orchids on Rodborough Common to a crisp, but a few were clinging on including this upside down Bee Orchid (Ophrys apifera) #WildflowerHour #Orchids

A Bee Orchid with two flowers at the top of the stem. The flowers are growing upside down on this plant.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Ashton Court meadows, Bristol showing how sympathetic management for wildlife can happily sit alongside recreation for a large urban population. #WildflowerHour #UrbanPlants

A meadow of tall grasses, common spotted orchids, clover, yellow rattle and yellow hawkbit flowers.

A magenta purple/pink orchid probably a hybrid marsh orchid.

Two pale pink flower spikes of Common Spotted Orchid.

Pale pink Common Spotted Orchids, yellow Hawkbit flowers, Ox-Eye Daisies, tall grasses.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Thousands of Common Fragrant Orchids (Gymnadenia conopsea) flowering across Rodborough Common, Gloucestershire yesterday. The strong breeze made photography challenging! #WildflowerHour #Orchids

A pale pink tall flower spike of common fragrant orchid on Rodborough Common near Stroud, Gloucestershire. There are more flower spikes in the distance.

A pink flower spike of Common Fragrant Orchid with several more spikes behind.

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Vinny Blood @orchidvinny.bsky.social · 10/06/2025

One of the 7 orchid wonders of Dorset - the Great Pyramidals of Weymouth 10.06.25. They certainly made this Giza happy! 🤪 #orchid @bsbibotany.bsky.social

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

Broomrape, probably Common (Orobanche minor) and Pyramidal orchids (Anacamptis pyramidalis) were the standout flowering plants seen today in Gloucestershire. Very late for #WildflowerHour

A stem of pale pinkish brown flowers of Common Broomrape within a green meadow with tall flowering grasses and clovers.

A bright magenta purple pyramidal orchid flowering in a grassy road verge.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 01/06/2025

A few from Gloucestershire's Golden Valley today at Daneway Banks and Strawberry Bank Nature Reserves @gloswildlife.bsky.social. The drought has had a noticeably negative impact on the flora at both sites. Common Columbine, Greater Knapweed and Dyer's Greenweed. #WildflowerHour

A deep purple wild Common Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris) growing on the steep slopes of Strawberry Banks, Gloucestershire.

A magenta pink coloured Greater Knapweed (Centauria scabiosa) with a bulbous tufted swollen head at the top of the stem.

Dyer's Greenweed (Genista tinctoria) with bright yellow flowers on erect leafy stalked spikes.

A deep purple wild Common Columbine (Aquilegia vulgaris) with a nodding head and long backwards pointing spurs on the petals.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 25/05/2025

Navelwort or Wall Pennywort (Umbilicus rupestris) is currently enjoying its moment all along the wall leading up to our village church. Some absolute units amongst them! #WildflowerHour #Wildflowers

A large cluster of wall pennywort flowers growing from a grey stone wall. The plant has tall round, green, succulent leaves that look like coins, and straw-coloured, thin, candle-like flower spikes which grow from the centre of the leaf.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

Late yesterday, just before dusk, a thick mist formed in the warm evening air after a sudden downpour, turning this urban park into an ethereal landscape 🧚🏻‍♀️

Two trees in the foreground stand on the edge of a park with a thick band of mist hovering above the grass. The sky is peachy and blue grey in colour shortly before dusk.

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Sarah @sarahfaulkner.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

The Bluebells on Skomer Island are just spectacular at the moment. Also loving the Sea Campion, so pretty and the Puffins look great in amongst all the flowers. #wildflowerhour

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A Hawthorn tree encrusted with flowers, whilst thunder rolled around the Cotswold Edge. #WildflowerHour

A solitary Hawthorn tree in a meadow laden with white flowers. The sky is very dark grey from storm cells.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

A miniature purple forest of Bugle flowers (Ajuga reptans) for #WildflowerHour #Wildflowers

Lots of purple Bugle flowers with erect stems with many flowers on them. These were in a shaded woodland, growing with Sanicle and Speedwell.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Early Halloween decorations 🎃 or the ghostly silken webs of the Ermine moth? I tried not to get tangled up with the writhing caterpillars that were dangling on silken threads as they broke free from the tree! #NaturePhotography #Caterpillars #Moths @ukbutterflies.bsky.social @royentsoc.bsky.social

A tree with its branches totally covered in Ermine moth cobwebs so that it looks ghostly white and ready for Halloween! The caterpillars had stripped all the leaves off the tree, with some of the caterpillars emerging from inside the webs and forming long writhing threads dangling from the branches.

A close up of the white silken webs of the Ermine moth, totally cloaking the branches of a tree.

A close up of a ball of wriggling Ermine moth caterpillars inside one of the 'nurseries' inside the white silken web.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Like delicate ballerina-pink tutus dancing on long stems, the Water Avens (Geum rivale) are showing well in the damp grassy areas at Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire. #WildflowerHour #Wildflowers #NaturePhotography @gloswildlife.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

A close up photo of a pale pink water avens flower. It has dark reddish brown, hairy sepals and stem. The flower head is nodding, so that the petals all point down, it looks a bit like a lampshade.

A close up photo of a pale pink water avens flower. It has reddish brown, hairy sepals and stem. The flower in this photo is not facing downwards, so we can see inside the petals at the feathery seed head that's developing.

A close up of a pale pink water avens flower. It has dark reddish brown, hairy sepals and stem. The flower head is nodding, so that the petals all point down, it looks a bit like a lampshade.

A close up photo of a pale pink water avens flower. It has dark reddish brown, hairy sepals and stem. The flower head is nodding.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Early-purple orchids (Orchis mascula) in the calcareous shallow soils at Selsley Common near Stroud, Gloucestershire. A windy site due to the SW facing aspect of its steep slopes. #WildflowerHour #Wildflowers #NaturePhotography

A pair of magenta purple Early Purple orchids

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Thousands of Green-winged orchids (Anacamptis morio) flowering in the grassland and meadows at Ashton Court, Bristol. A real success story for the sympathetic management of shared open spaces for wildlife👏🏻 #WildflowerHour #Bristol #Wildflowers #Meadows #NaturePhotography

A close up of a dark magenta purple green winged orchid. The name comes from the green veins on the upper petals of the flower.

A pale pink green winged orchid showing the green veins on its upper petals really clearly.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

Hundreds of Cowslips flowering in the meadow within our local ancient woodland. Such a delight 💛 #SundayYellow #Wildflowers #Woodland #NaturePhotography

A meadow with hundreds of yellow cowslips with their bell-like pendulous flowers on tall erect stems.

A meadow full of hundreds of yellow cowslips.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 22/04/2025

A little patch of heaven on earth for Earth Day 💙💚 A carpet of fragrant English Bluebells in our local ancient hazel/oak/ash woodland. #EarthDay #Bluebells #Woodland #NaturePhotography #Wildflowers

A carpet of bluebells under hazel and ash. The hazel trees have yellow green leaves unfurling.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 21/04/2025

Blue sky and Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) yesterday at Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire for #BlueSkyMonday #Bluebells #NaturePhotography @gloswildlife.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

Looking along a woodland path to an old wooden '5 bar' gate. There are bluebells on either side of the path carpeting the woodland floor. There are hazel trees with vibrant green leaves.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) adding some sparkle to our local hedgerows and verges 🤍💚 #WildflowerHour #NaturePhotography #Wildflowers

A mass of white Greater Stitchwort flowers, each with five deeply notched petals.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

Carpets of fragrant English Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) in Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire 💙💚 #WildflowerHour #NaturePhotography #Wildflowers #Woodland @gloswildlife.bsky.social @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

A carpet of blue-violet bluebells under a yellow-green emerging canopy of hazel leaves.

A sea of blue-violet bluebells on the woodland floor beneath vibrant yellow-green hazel leaves.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 20/04/2025

The recent rain seems to have helped the Bluebells fulfil their peak potential in Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire. Such a glorious sight 💙💚 #WildflowerHour #Bluebells #Woodland #WildFlowers @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social

A close up photo of an English bluebell with its blue-violet bell-like flowers nodding on a gently curved stem. There are lots of bluebells in the background of the photo.

Lots of English bluebells carpeting the woodland floor, with tree trunks and hazel coppice.

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Sarah Lambert @sarahlambert7.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

The first flowering orchid of the year is always special - a single Early Purple-orchid in a glade at Bedford Purlieus NNR. Parts of the woodland floor were smothered with Wood Anemones, while the yellow-green flowers of Wood Spurge lit up the ride margins #wildflowerhour @bsbibotany.bsky.social

A carpet of white Wood Anemone flowers with a scatter of Buebells

The acid yellow-green flowers of Wood Spurge

Fresh leaves of Silver Birch and Pedunculate Oak in soft chartreuse-green, gently clothing naked winter branches along a woodland ride

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

It's Bluebell time in our local ancient woodland - my absolute favourite time of year 💙💜💙 #WildflowerHour #BlueSkyMonday #NaturePhotography #Bluebells

A carpet of blue-violet English bluebells in an ancient hazel/oak/ash woodland in South Gloucestershire

A close up photo of an English bluebell with its delicate curving stem dripping with frilly blue-violet bell-like flowers. There is a sea of bluebells in the background carpeting the woodland floor.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

False Oxlip (Primula veris x vulgaris), a hybrid of cowslip and primrose (left) and Common Primrose (Primula vulgaris) in our local, ancient woodland for #WildflowerHour #WoodlandPlants

A small patch of dark green basal leaves and small yellow primrose-like flowers on top of tall stems. The plants are growing on the woodland floor with trees in the background of the picture.

A patch of pale yellow primrose flowers on a woodland bank that's recently been subject to tree felling, letting more light in and encouraging growth of plants on the woodland floor.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Common Speedwell (Veronica persica) and Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna) scattered through the grass in our local churchyard #WildflowerHour

A large patch of bluey-purple Speedwell flowers and a few flashes of bright yellow Celendine amongst them, with green grass shoots and green Speedwell leaves.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Hawthorn (left) and Blackthorn (right) encrusted with dainty white blossom. The hedgerows have become transformed into white billowy boundaries over the last few days 🤍 #WildflowerHour

A hawthorn tree with its branches densely encrusted with white blossom set against a deep blue sky.

A Blackthorn tree in a hedge boundary near dusk, covered with white blossom and with the apricot coloured sun dipping towards the horizon in the background.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

A sunny yellow Cowslip (Primula veris) enjoying the sunshine on Rodborough Common, Gloucestershire for #WildflowerHour

A close up of a yellow Cowslip flower with blue sky and hawthorn in the background.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

Wood anemones (Anemone nemorosa) - remnants of a bygone woodland on Rodborough Common, Gloucestershire for #WoodlandPlants #WildflowerHour

A close up of two wood anemone flowers, one with 6 and one with 7 white petals, and beautiful yellow starburst anthers in their centres.

A patch of white wood anemones in the sunshine, all tilting towards the sun.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

A patch of delicate pale yellow Common Primrose (Primula vulgaris) revealing the elongated, pale green, hairy #sepals that form the calyx 💛💚 #WildflowerHour

A close up photo of pale yellow primroses with long pale green, hairy sepals at the back of the flowers and hairy stems. The sun was shining.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

The first of the Blackthorn blossom is starting to explode across the hedgerows in the local woods, offset perfectly by today's glorious blue sky. Lovely green #sepals for #WildflowerHour.

A cluster of delicate white Blackthorn flowers, with orange anthers on green stamens and green sepals. The sky is a deep blue.

A close up of a single Blackthorn flower showing the green sepals at its back. The flower has white petals and orange anthers. The sky is a deep blue and there are the dark silhouettes of trees in the distance.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 30/03/2025

Wood anemones (Anemone nemorosa) shining like fallen stars on the woodland floor. What a beautiful spot for a Mother's Day walk in the sunshine 🤍💛💚 #WildflowerHour #Wildflowers

A patch of white petalled wood anemone flowers with an explosion of yellow anthers in their centres and dark green deeply dissected palmate leaves. The flowers are in dappled sunlight on the woodland floor.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 23/03/2025

Common Toothwort (Lathraea squamaria) flowers just emerging from the earth, unfurling like Ballerina pink alien grubs 🩷 Growing on hazel roots on an old sunken wood bank that forms part of The Cotswold Way. #WildflowerHour #NaturePhotography

Pale pink scale like petals of a Toothwort emerging, uncurling from the moss covered ground. It resembles a larval grub at this stage.

Pale pink scaly petals of a Toothwort flower emerging from a moss strewn bank beneath a hazel tree.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

Common they may be, but I love the muted greys in this stack of Turkey Tails (Trametes versicolor) seen yesterday in #Gloucestershire #MushroomMonday #FungiFriends

A tier of grey and cream striped Turkey tail fungi growing on an old tree stump.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

My first Wood Anemone of the year shining like a star amongst the brown, decaying bracken and a Green Hellebore putting on a viridian show on a newly clear-felled roadside verge in #Gloucestershire. Completely missed #WildflowerHour last night🤦🏻‍♀️ #Wildflowers #Spring

Six white petals with a starburst of golden yellow anthers in the middle. Three deeply divided trifoliate leaves from the stem. There is an old, brown bracken leaf behind the wood anemone which makes it look more prominent.

A green hellebore with five green, veined petals and greeny-yellow anthers. The leaves are palmate and serrated.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

A trio of #YellowFlowers flowering in South Gloucestershire this week - Wild daffodil (Narcissus pseudonarcissus), Coltsfoot (Tussilago farfara) and Primrose (Primula vulgaris) for #WildflowerHour #SundayYellow

A photo of a single wild daffodil showing its pale yellow petals and a deeper yellow trumpet.

A bright yellow Coltsfoot flower enjoying the sunshine. Its stem appears scaly. The flower is growing in an old arable field.

A clump of pale yellow primrose flowers nestled amongst dark green leaves.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 04/03/2025

A beautiful day to check in on this gentle giant - Wickwar's ancient 'Electric Oak' (ancient tree inventory id 10297). Not too much longer to wait until its leaves start unfurling🌳 #ThickTrunkTuesday #Trees #NaturePhotography

An ancient oak tree with a wide girth, squat in stature and wide spreading branches. The sky is a deep blue showing off the ancient tree's silhouette to best effect.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

Cornelian cherry (Cornus mas) at Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire yesterday for #WildflowerHour

Yellow clusters of flowers on otherwise bare branches of a Cornelian cherry tree.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 01/03/2025

I found some much needed calm and beauty at Westonbirt Arboretum this afternoon in these exquisite Camellias 🩷 #Flowers #Gloucestershire #Gardens

A very pale pink Camellia flower bud, just open to reveal yellow anthers. There's a tiny insect on the flower. The leaves are glossy green.

A striking vibrant pink Camellia flower with a cluster of yellow anthers in its centre and glossy green leaves.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 25/02/2025

Introducing these charming, slightly rudimentary, grotesques inhabiting the four inside corners of Wickwar Holy Trinity's 14th century tower. Particularly love the owl and the grinning plump-cheeked face top left 😀 #Churches #LocalHistory #Carving #Gloucestershire #SouthGloucestershire

Four grotesques in a rudimentary style inside Wickwar Holy Trinity Church 14th Century tower. Clockwise from top left is an owl with outstretched wings, a charming large grinning face with plump cheeks, a figure that seems to be saluting wearing what appears to be a textured tunic, and a very rustic carving of two heads and one upper torso.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

What a colour combination! 💙💛 Hazel catkins in the sunshine at Westonbirt Arboretum, Gloucestershire yesterday for #WildflowerHour. #NaturePhotography #SundayYellow #Spring

Bright yellow pendulous Hazel catkins hanging from a branch, set against a backdrop of deep blue sky.

A Hazel tree laden with yellow catkins, with a deep blue sky behind.

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Rachel P 🌿 @rach0penno.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Not much more in flower this weekend after a cold, interminably grey week. A few patches of primroses and snowdrops braving the cold, but most plants are still some way behind this time last year. #WildflowerHour #Snowdrops #Primroses #Flowers #February

A small patch of about 7 pale yellow primroses nestled amongst their dark green quilted leaves.

A dense patch of delicate white snowdrops.

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