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it's well worth a stroll through #wildflowerhour I've been enjoying this evenings contributions, including the urban theme - too tired to continue, I'll be back in the morning. lovely gwyddfid ~ honeysuckle at Teifi Marshes yesterday @wtsww.bsky.social

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"Its a weed!" a man exclaimed as I snapped a photo for tonight's #WildflowerHour. "No, they're #UrbanPlants," I called back with a smile. So, let's chalk and talk about these plants by naming them and drawing attention to urban ecosystems #BotanicalChalkandTalk

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Even this narrow bin-lined alley in Birmingham has a fern growing from a downpipe #WildflowerHour ##UrbanBotany #UrbanPlants

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Very occasionally, Ivy-leaved Toadflax… isn’t. Meet it’s blousier and more flamboyant sister - Italian Toadflax (Cymbalaria pallida). One of those plants you’re not sure about the ID until you actually see it. Very rare in Wales, this is on a wall in Colwyn Bay #urbanplants #wildflowerhour

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Some #UrbanPlants around York this weekend for #WildflowerHour. The wildflower meadow by the Art Gallery is at peak beauty at the moment! IDs in alt text.

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Just below Nine Standards Rigg in the North Pennines, at the border of #Cumbria and #NorthYorkshire #wildflowerhour

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Top day on Cwm Idwal on Friday with Pete S, my first visit since 1992. That was also the last times I saw Subularia aquatica (Awlwort) and Tufted Saxifrage (Saxifraga cespitosa). Micranthes nivalis (Alpine Saxifrage) almost out, which I have only seen in Scotland before. #wildflowerhour #tinyplants

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Whitby -style #urbanbotany for #wildflowerhour. Plants growing in cracks on Whitby west pier harbour wall, looking vertically downwards.

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A walk in the woods on Father's Day looking for orchids with some nice Greater Butterfly and Common Spotted seen #WildflowerHour

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Common Cow-wheat, Melampyrum pratense, on Keston Common for #WildflowerHour

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Unplanted companions. Scarlet Pimpernel and Field Bindweed on a Lincolnshire field margin #WildflowerHour

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#UrbanPlants #Wildflowerhour #BSBI Lysimachia arvensis, Scarlet Pimpernel, pushing it's way through tarmac!

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Sea carrot by the sea! No associated broomrape found though. @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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Water Figwort, Scrophularia auriculara, at Keston Ponds for #WildflowerHour.

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For #WildflowerHour this week marsh bedstraw, water forget-me-not, some stonking southern marsh orchid (and some likely hybrids with CS orchid), CS orchid, field rose (?), ragged robin, lesser stitchwort and meadow vetchling (with friends) 💚 @bsbibotany.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social

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My favourite flower of the week was this patch of Biting Stonecrop with yellow star-like flowers. #wildflowerhour

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Day 15, #30DaysWild. A walk round Little Downham Nature Reserve and some beautiful Hedge woundwort in flower. #WildflowerHour

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Cut-leaved Cranesbill and Tutsan near the Norfolk - Suffolk county boundary this evening #wildflowerhour

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Some #Speyside finds for #Wildflowerhour. @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbiscotland.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social #Moray #VC95

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Happily botanising in the clag with @mattrjones.bsky.social on Ben Lawers #wildflowerhour

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Dandelions, growing wherever they damn well please 🌱 #WildflowerHour #UrbanPlants

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Feverfew in a pavement gap on a walk in Blackheath, where I was walking down memory lane (my old route to school) #wildflowerhour

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Given the choice, many wildflowers seed into gravel where there isn't much competition. These have all planted themselves into my back yard. #wildflowerhour

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Thyme-leaved Sandwort, Arenaria serpyllifolia. #UrbanPlants for #WildflowerHour #Arnside, #Cumbria

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Man orchid @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

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All three no mow areas outside @theul.bsky.social have had Bee orchids this year. #UrbanPlants #WildflowerHour 💕

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rhubard & custard roses... well that's my new name for (I think) Rosa canina ~ Marchiaren ~ Dog rose when rich colours like these. Teifi Marshes Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire @wtsww.bsky.social #wildflowerhour @bsbicymru.bsky.social

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If we are all willing to dig in and sacrifice, by growing our red bars we can do our part in making the green bar even bigger.

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Cymbaleria muralis ~ Mam Miloedd ~ ivy leaved toadflax A white one! Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire #wildflowerhour @bsbicymru.bsky.social

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stars in the grass Stellaria graminea ~ Serenllys Gwelltog ~ lesser stitchwort. They are scattered all over the place - like looking down into the grass and seeing the starry sky. Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire #Wildflowerhour @bsbicymru.bsky.social

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A flower that likes urban spaces in my locality: Centranthus ruber ~ triglog goch ~ red valerian, in it's 3 colours, all together Trefdraeth/Newport Sir Benfro Pembrokeshire #wildflowerhour #UrbanPlants @bsbicymru.bsky.social

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It’s not often you see a Common Spotted Orchid with a brick backdrop but I can include this little beauty for the #UrbanPlants challenge as most excitingly it has seeded itself in my garden! 😍 #Wildflowerhour

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It's Sunday, it's 8pm so it must be #WildFlowerHour! Please share pix of wild & naturalised plants you spotted in bloom this week across Britain & Ireland, esp. if they were #UrbanPlants, to tie in with the publication of @trevorthebotanist.bsky.social's fab new book! Use #WildFlowerID for ID help!

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IT’S NOT TOO LATE for the government to change course. Keir Starmer is being advised to urgently pause the Government's plans to cut disability & health benefits by Parliament's work & pensions committee who say they should not go ahead without a comprehensive impact assessment Contact your MP, NOW

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'He was untroubled by reports that cast members may boycott the performance. “I couldn’t care less,” he said. “Honestly, I couldn’t. All I do is run the country well.”' www.mirror.co.uk/news/us-news...

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Good morning. Don't have pollen sacs at your disposal?? there's more than one way to collect pollen. You can grow a brush on your butt and sweep it up ... you'll have to learn to shimmy though. I think this is Megachile centuncularis.

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1. Trump's tax cuts overwhelmingly help the rich 2. His spending cuts are targeted at the poor 3. Tariffs cost the poor a larger share of their income Roll these three regressive policies together and you get the largest redistribution from poor to rich in American history. The anti-Robin Hood.

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I'm on my way to the Senate floor to talk about the assault on my colleague, Senator Alex Padilla. This is a horrifying moment in our nation’s history.

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WATCH: Sen. Padilla pushed to the ground, handcuffed for demanding DHS not lie

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Shocked by the BBC plans to 'Win Over Reform Voters by Changing News and Drama Output'? Just another reason to call for major updates to how we regulate our media. Please sign and share my petition calling for this. It's more important than ever! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...

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Not news. @evanhd.bsky.social years ago said the Daily Mail was most read in the Today newsroom as it tended to lead on stories that grew legs Probably because they were covered by Today? To inform, educate, and entertain. One and a half out of three?

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That's a lot of cuts to health related research...we'll all be affected. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

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Here's a gift Article on the many ways this administration is undermining and doing away with the actions that made the USA a world leader in medical science.

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Picture perfect. #WorldBollardAssociation

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looking back at some of my work. And I still like this! Extracted from a text of mine, then further broken down, rearranged, reading in different ways...can a list be read like poetry? 4 versions in one #poetry #spokenword #writtentospeak soundcloud.com/caerdyddpast...

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