Welcome – British wildflowers
Welcome to my blog – I love spotting wildflowers when I’m out and about, and I’m always taking pics – some better than others! Recently I’ve been making more effort to identify them but I’m not a botanist.
Two themes
This website is intended to be a blog where I put all my most recent pics, but I’m also building an identification resource. Every time I ID something new, I try to explain a bit about it, which is the Wildflower links down the right hand side. You can see I still have a way to go! The pages I have put up may be incomplete because I only write about flowers I have seen – there may be related species I haven’t come across yet. There are many more wildflower pics on this site – just use the search box (top right) to find them or scroll through my posts.
You might notice that the month given in the blog post heading doesn’t match the month the post was written – this is because I’m often out and about and busy in the summer and then write it up in the winter.
Nature notes
This is where I put things spotted while out and about that don’t justify their own blog post
19/02/21 Birds in my garden at the moment and for about the last month: 2 blackcaps, 2 collared doves, 2 wood pigeons, 2 robins, 3 blackbirds, numerous starlings, dunnocks & sparrows and a wren.
Here is a pic of the regular fox visitor we’ve had since early Nov.
06/02/21 Spotted in flower today on my health walk in Seaford Sussex but no pics:
Red deadnettle – Lamium purpureum, Daisy – Bellis perennis, Sweet violet – Viola odorata, Dandelion – Taraxacum, Shepherd’s purse – Capsella bursa-pastoris, Grounsel – Senecio vulgaris, Chickweed – Stellaria media, Annual dog-mercury – Mercurialis annua, Celandine – Ficaria verna, Speedwell – Veronica persica, Ivy-leafed toadflax – Cymbalaria muralis, Red valerian – Centranthus ruber, Cow parsley – Anthriscus sylvestris, Winter heliotrope – Petasites fragrans, Snowdrop – Galanthus (probably a garden escape).
Plus loads of frothy new Cow parsley and Alexanders foliage.
