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Hey #botany folks, can we get #WildflowerHour going on Mastodon? Sunday evenings, 8pm UK time, post your wildflower photos. The rules:
- your own photo
- taken in the past week
- no garden plants, just wild ones, but garden weeds are fine
- please try to help people who ask for #WildflowerID help
#plants #flowers #wildflowers #plantscience #photography
OK, so it looks like there's quite a bit of enthusiasm for a #WildflowerHour so: 8pm UK time (9pm Germany, 3pm US East Coast) but if you can't post during the hour there's no harm in posting later.
- Post your photo using #WildflowerHour
- Click the hashtag to see other people's photos.
- If you want help identifying it, add #WildflowerID to your toot.
- If you have any ID skills, please take a look at that hashtag and help if you can.
- Enjoy hunting for flowers. They *are* still out there!
@petersketch that sounds like a great idea! 
@petersketch I have been trying to port #WildflowerHourNYC here as well. (Wednesdays, 8:00 - 9:00 pm NYC time.)
I missed you today because I was doing a clean-up at the Olmsted-Beil House on Staten Island and I might be busy next Sunday, too; but I will browse your photos and hope to be able to visit one of these days.
@petersketch - good to see that #wildflowerhour is coming here. One of my favourite parts of Twitter.
@petersketch I love this idea! I’m in! If I remember…
@petersketch Just thinking out loud, but could #WildflowerHour be better here as any time on a Sunday rather than the specific hour? So more like #WildWebsWednesday ? Either way, it would be great to see everyone’s wildflowers. 
@Lesley4Nature I suspect it's likely to evolve naturally, depending how many people are interested and where they are. I'm hoping that eventually one or more of the nice folks who run it on another social media platform will get accounts on here and can give it a steer - for now I'm trying to make it as close as I can to a clone of the original and then we'll see what happens.
@petersketch Thank you. Will join in! 
@petersketch Wondering, in the spirit of being in a different place - if there is some slightly different approach we can take? Maybe we should DM a bit?
@petersketch can we approach Botany Beck & BSBI on bird site to come over & set up? I think I can DM them both to ask their intentions
@organicbotanic I'm definitely hoping that they'll show up here and run it, meaning it would be up to them how it works. I was just thinking we could get it going in advance of there being a BSBI presence here. I don't have either the profile or the botany skills to boost it or steer it in the way they do on Twitter, so it will end up being a bit less organised. But hopefully that's only for a week or two.
So yes, if you wanted to contact them that would be great.
@petersketch I may not have any photos to share but I’m thinking I will want to observe all the photos! So nice!
@petersketch Not finding it easy to stay in contact as you aren't following! Nearly got logged out of my account, then nearly migrated to toot Wales!!! I had several messages on blue dod land with BSBI and I think they are going to start over here but maybe with new model/approach - but presumably not yet as I haven't found them yet.
@organicbotanic I still haven't got this place properly figured out yet - think I'm following you now. Hope BSBI do come along soon, but I don't think it will do any harm if one happens tonight without them steering.
@petersketch I’m sure you are right Peter - no harm as you’ve said it is happening …..I think it might be nice after tonight to do it somewhat like they do here when it gets going….it isn’t about lots of favs and boosts..it is. More about community and sharing I think. 1/1
@petersketch No algorithms to drive!! And generally a small for words on the image using alt text means people with impaired sight (Mastodon was built around that principle) can screen read a photo and take part e.g. Bog Asphodel on Snowdonia or pretty simple like that…but I am still having lessons about how to do alt text right…hope this helps, yes, you are following 2/2
@organicbotanic @petersketch Thank you so much for last Sunday both, very much appreciated! No need to worry as Wild Flower Hour is here now 
I’ll be having a good look around and seeing how it can all work. I think using hashtags will be key and also making sure we use image descriptions. I will boost all the #WildFlowerHour tweets during the hour itself pretty much as I did before on the other blue place and see how we will get on from there. 
@petersketch
Well done and thanks Peter for getting it going. Only took 1 week for it to really take off!
Back next week for more of the same