What’s Flowering? July 6th – July 19th (Weeks 28, 29) – Heatwave / Drought
Worcestershire’s landscape has become increasingly parched over the past couple of weeks, yet some flowers are still to be found despite the conditions.
A visit to Kemerton Lake Nature…
What’s Flowering? June 29th – July 5th (Week 27)
Common Centaury – Creeping Thistle and a lady – Gatekeeper Bracken – Stachys star jumps – Rosebay Wiggleherb – Wood Sage in dune woods – Buttonweed & Sea-heath on the…
What’s Flowering? June 1st – June 7th (Week 23)
Heath bedstraw & Sheep Sorrel – Bladder Campion – Grey Hair-grass – Dyer’s Greenweed – Great Burnet at Upton Ham – Brown Sedge lawns – Common Meadow-rue – Water Purslane…
What’s Flowering? Hartlebury Common – Acid Grassland Flowers – Week 16
Woodlands often hold our attention at this time of year, but before the parching heat of the summer, acid grasslands are also wonderful spots to botanise. This week, the minute…
What’s Flowering? 9th – 15th February (7) – Bonus Spanish Edition
Ten of my favourite finds from my trip to the Málaga Province. From the cliffs and valleys of El Chorro, to the pine forests and scrublands of Sierra Negra. Here…
What’s Flowering? September 2025: Late summer plants of the Wyre Forest
I decided to take the afternoon off to recharge the batteries in nature, and I was glad that I did. Wyre is a ‘slow burn’, at the start of the…
What’s Flowering? Early May 2025 (18, 19)
This week it’s more of a highlights reel, as I was away in Porto and I’m writing this well into week 20. But there’s potential for a hybrid Viola and…
What’s Flowering? 21st-27th April 2025 (17)
It’s really beginning to feel like spring, with hawthorn starting to flower, St Mark’s Fly are abundant over on Hartlebury Common and cow parsley is just getting going. In the…
What’s Flowering? 14th-20th April 2025 (16)
This week, It was generally a wet and cold, but the botanising was augmented by my birthday trip to North Wales. We visited the Nannau estate for the Precipice walk…
What’s Flowering? 7th-13th April 2025 (15)
It was warm this week, with highs up to 19 degrees Celsius. Bluebells have started to fill the air with their distinctive fragrance in woodlands and hedgerows alike. We have…
What’s Flowering? 31st March to 6th April
A selection of (mostly) flowers from the first week of April 2025. The date is given on the first record of that day only. Location is given on the first…
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