Highlight of the week was Ploughman's Spikenard, which does live in the UK but this one was in #Paris last weekend. Specifically in a quiet corner of the Pere Lachaise Cemetery - yes I went to see Oscar Wilde's grave rather than to look for flowers. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

Michaelmas Daisy and one of its #PollinatorPals - a tiny hoverfly. Seen in my local park in #Swindon this morning. #WildflowerHour #Wiltshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

Went to the local park this morning looking for flowers with their #PollinatorPals - this is Hemp Agrimony with a rather large hoverfly. Not sure what species of hoverfly, but it's definitely pollinating the flowers. #WildflowerHour #Swindon #Wiltshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

Orange jewelweed and flowering rush along the river Great Ouse, taken from the canoe #WildflowerHour

My last spinies for the week.

Carline Thistle.

I've never seen the brown protuberances before, perhaps I haven't been paying attention. Presumably anthers or some shit like that.

Hmm there seems to be a spiky theme for me this week.

Burdock, probably Lesser Burdock

Creeping Thistle

The rosettes of these are danger to the arse of the unwary

Bristly Ox-tongue

This place is buzzing!

I couldn't get any #PollinatorPals on wildflowers today but I did see this bee on a garden flower (iNaturalist tells me it's probably a kind of blunthorn bee, which is new to me. I'm looking forward to learning about it) and a lovely Herb Robert growing round the corner for #WildflowerHour today.

Common agrimony and hemp-agrimony in Wicken Fen. #WildflowerHour

10/08/2025 - Marmalade hoverfly on dandelion toast for today's #WildFlowerHour & #PollinatorPals

Flax flowering at the edge of an arable field.
#WildflowerHour

Common Blue butterfly enjoying a Rough Hawkbit #PollinatorPals #WildflowerHour

This week's #WildflowerHour challenge is always my favourite - #PollinatorPals is the hashtag and the challenge is simply to get a picture of an insect pollinating a flower (usually, but not always, while collecting nectar or pollen).
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Devil's-Bit Scabious blowing in the early morning breeze. #sunrise #wildflowerhour #nature

Mountain pansy #WildflowerHour

As I am camping, I keep forgetting the day and time, so I missed #WildflowerHour (again). But here is some purple-loosestrife growing along the banks of the river Thame behind our tent!

Nearly missed #WildFlowerHour, but just in time, here's some Codlins and Cream

Great Willowherb, Epilobium hirsutum.

#WildFlowerHour

Nymphaea alba (White Waterlily) at Devon Wildlife Trust Nature Reserve Little Bradley Ponds, near Bovey Tracey, in June.

Great Mullein and Evening Primrose !