Ex-university academic. Plants, fungi and the internet ... having a great time in Liverpool

Joined May 2014
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#WildFlowerHour Red and white flowered Red Campion growing together! @wildflower_hour #Wirral #Merseyside
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#WildFlowerHour Elder (Ysgawen, Sambucus nigra). Flowering coming to an end now, but then there will be elderberries. Cordial from sweet-smelling flower heads, sugar, lemon juice & citric acid. @wildflower_hour #Wirral #Merseyside
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#WildWebsWednesday Sowthistle with leaf miners eating its leaves into a lacy network. @WebsWild #Wirral #Merseyside
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#WildFlowerHour Ox-eye daisy (llygad-llo mawr, Leucanthemum vulgare) floating over a sea of green grass. #Wirral @wildflower_hour
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#WildWebsWednesday Skipper butterfly on an ox-eye daisy (llygad-llo mawr, Leucanthemum vulgare). Young skippers need to eat grass leaves, seen in background. @WebsWild #Wirral
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#WildFlowerHour Meadow buttercup (blodyn ymenyn, Ranunculus acris) soaking up the sun! #Wirral @wildflower_hour
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#WildWebsWednesday Nettles are not glamorous, indeed are painful to the touch but are home & food for many insects. See the folded- up leaf with someone inside!
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#WildFlowerHour Mouse-ear hawkweed (Clust y llygoden, Pilosella officinarum), common, with solitary flower-head a circle of long flowers, lemon-yellow on top, red stripes below. Leaves with long hairs. @wildflower_hour #Gwynedd #seaside
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#WildFlowerHour White bryony (Bloneg y ddaear, Bryonia dioica) scrambling up fencing with its tendrils into the light. @wildflower_hour #riverdee #AfonDyfrdrwy
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#ButtercupChallenge #WildFlowerHour Water Crowfoot growing in a muddy pond at the side of a track. Amazing sight. Big white & yellow-centered flowers all over the pond. Pond water-crowfoot, Ranunculus peltatus? @wildflower_hour
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#WildWebsWednesday Cute little moth on Lady's Smock. @WebsWild
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#WildFlowerHour #PlantID What is this in a rural #hedgerow? Sort of looks like a raspberry, but big red flowers! Pretty spiky too!! @wildflower_hour #Gwent
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Another cafe opening in #PortSunlight. Cobble and Hay, behind the Gladstone Theatre. Soft launch underway. Open 10 am - 6 pm later in week and at weekends, at the moment. #Wirral #Merseyside @PortSunlight @PSRiverPark
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#CowslipChallenge On rubbish tip now become a public park. A few planted but spreading and moving around enthusiastically. Briallen Fair, Primula veris. @wildflower_hour #Wirral #Merseyside @PSRiverPark
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#TreeFlowers #WildFlowerHour So many trees starting to flower. This ash (onnen, Fraxinus excelsior) looks in good condition, but is only just opening buds. @wildflower_hour #Wirral #Merseyside
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#WildWebsWednesday Bee fly on red dead nettle. Early spring flowers so important for insects. #Wirral @WebsWild
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#SignsofSpring Clump of Winter heliotrope (Alan pêr, Petasites fragrans) advancing along the road verge and now flowering. Scenting the air on still, damp days. #Merseyside #Wirral
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#WildWebsWednesday Rust, probably Puccinia lagenophorae, on groundsel (creulys, Senecio vulgaris). Very conspicuous. Apparently this rust only known in UK since 1961, now common, originated from Australia! #Merseyside #Wirral
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#WildFlowerHour Red dead-nettle (Lamium purpureum, marddanhadlen goch) 'abundant weed', but cheerful spots of pink and red. @wildflower_hour #Wirral #Merseyside
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#WildFlowerHour Speedwells out in force in the sunshine. Green field speedwell (Veronica agrestis) and Common field speedwell (Veronica persica) I think. #Wirral @wildflower_hour
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