Photographing Wildflowers

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

03/04/21 The fox tried to bury a ball in our garden this week, but was disturbed before she finished digging! Spotted in flower today for the first time this year – ivy leaved toadflax, spanish bluebell, bulbous buttercup, ground ivy, lords and ladies, wall mustard, common dog-violet.

04/03/21 Out and about in Seaford this week

early march wildflowers 2021 — Early March wildflowers Seaford L-R: Cultivated snowdrops at Blatchington pond, Red dead-nettle *Lamium purpureum* Blatchington Pond, Sweet violet *Viola odorata* roadside verge, Spring starflower garden escape in the pavement

Adding to the bird list: 2 magpies, now 2 wrens, 2 great tits.

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.

seaford february — **Some places I visit on my health walk** L-R the lime walk with flint cemetery wall; view from Landsdown Rd to patch of winter heliotrope slightly blackened by wintry weather to row of trees along Alfriston Rd with more trees the other side of the road bordering the Last Wood and Meadow; the Last Meadow.

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), Winter heliotrope – Petastites fragrans.

Plus loads of frothy new Cow parsley and Alexanders foliage.