Different shades of Early Purple Orchid (Orchis mascula) in Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire #WildflowerHour #Orchids

Beautiful Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) coming into their own at Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire #WildflowerHour #Bluebells #Spring

Herb-Paris (Paris quadrifolia) growing under mature hazel tree canopy at Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire #WildflowerHour

Pink female flowers (left) and orange, pollen-heavy male flowers (right) of a Spruce tree upended by recent heavy winds. #TreeFlowers #WildflowerHour

A Pasqueflower (Pulsatilla vulgaris) and visiting Bee clinging on in high winds during Storm Kathleen.
Barnsley Warren, Gloucestershire.
#WildWebsWednesday #NaturePhotography #Bees #Wildflowers

Pure joy to see the Bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) starting to put on their annual, breathtaking, sweet-scented show in Lower Woods Nature Reserve 💙
#BlueMonday #Wildflowers #NaturePhotography #Woodland #Bluebells

A fallen Spruce tree that was blocking my path today revealed these beautiful pinkish-red female flowers that were on its top most branches🩷
#Woodland #Flowers #Spring

The Bluebells are just beginning to turn parts of the woods a beautiful mauve blue 💙 Maybe next weekend they'll be at their peak?
#WildflowerHour #Spring

Starry Wood Anemones (Anemone nemorosa) spangling the woodland floor.
Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire.
#WildflowerHour #Woodland #Spring

The Pasque Flowers (Pulsatilla vulgaris) are starting to flower on the slopes at Barnsley Warren, #Gloucestershire . Photographing them during Storm Kathleen was a bit of a challenge though😆
#WildflowerHour #Spring #NaturePhotography

#stainedglasssunday
The Peter Scott memorial window in the Church of St John the Evangelist, Slimbridge.

Pls read this thread-story about the planned, sustained, in-plain-sight destruction of a SSSI bluebell wood in Kent by illegal waste-disposers.
The inaction of multiple authorities, the broken system for nature protection; it’s all there.
Pls sign the petition, pls share the 🧵on

Wellies are definitely de rigueur for a walk in Lower Woods NR at the moment 🫣
Part of the 'Royal Forest of Alveston and Horwood' in the 12th century, Horwood is derived from the Anglo-Saxon terms 'horu' and 'wudu' meaning 'wood on muddy ground'...
#Woods #mud #OutdoorsFun

Coprinellus micaceous (?), Mica Cap or Glistening Ink Cap, growing on an old tree stump in Lower Woods Nature Reserve, South Gloucestershire.
#Fungi Friday #Fungi #Mycology

Blackthorn blossom and black clouds. A day of downpours, hail, blue sky, sunshine and rainbows.
#Spring #Clouds #Blossom #EasterMonday

A swathe of Dog's Mercury (Mercurialis perennis) in yesterday's sunshine #WildflowerHour #WoodlandPlants #Spring #Easter

Cuckoo Flower or Lady's Smock (Cardamine pratensis) and Ground Ivy (Glechoma hederacea) for #WildflowerHour
#SignsofSpring #HappyEaster 💚

Plenty of #WoodlandFlowers starting to bloom, just in time for #WildflowerHour 💚
Clockwise from top left: Ground Ivy, Primrose, Bluebell, Cowslip/Primrose hybrid, Wood Anemone and Wild Garlic. #SignsofSpring #HappyEaster

A pysanka is a Polish-Ukrainian Easter egg, decorated with traditional folk designs using a wax-resist method #WomensArt

Woman rushes baby hedgehog to animal hospital - only to discover it's a hat bobble

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