Wood Forget-me-not tackling the challenges of urban living!
Originally a woodland plant, it is now more commonly found as a garden escape.

Today, May 1, is known in Gaelic as Là Buidhe Bealltainn, the ‘yellow day of Beltane’. The marsh marigold in bloom is a symbol of the start of summer and is considered lucky. Its blooms would often be tied above doorways or to the tails of horses or cattle to bring good fortune.

🌳 Wonderful to see Royal Botanic Garden Edinburgh' Scottish Plant Recovery project funding from the #NatureRestorationFund , managed by NatureScot, helping to protect and grow disease resistant saplings from the Beauly Elm - believed to be Europe's oldest wych elm.
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Today is the day - it's #NoMowMay !🌷🎉

Let it grow this year and give nature the boost it deserves this summer!🌱🐝

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#NoMowMay 24

Sunrise through misty pines at the old Caledonian forest of Rothiemurchus.

Thrilled to find Goldilocks Buttercup thriving along the Allan Water tonight! With its spindly upper leaves and chunky lower leaves, and quirky lopsided flowers with between one and all five petals stunted, it’s an odd looking thing… but to me, just right! 🌼🐻🐻🐻

Cowslips, dogs mercury, primrose and wood rush along the River Dee by Dinnet in Aberdeenshire for #Wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland this week

A fine clump of Lesser Celandine at Quendale in the South Mainland of #Shetland for #WildflowerHour wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland BSBI Scotland The Wild Flower Society

For the wonderful #wildflower hour this week, this little beauty #barrenstrawberry #potentillasterilis 😊 hope you are all well, many well wishes from #Perthshire #Scotland @BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour Plantlife Scotland #wildflower

Early Purple-orchid, Hairy Rock-cress and Spring Cinquefoil decorating sunny ledges in the Fintry Hills for #wildflowerhour . No sign of Spring Sandwort though - last seen here in 2010, I hope it hasn’t disappeared for good 🤞😔

Mossy Saxifrage basking on a south-facing ledge in the Fintry Hills - out of reach of the nibbling sheep! #wildflowerhour

A delightful group of Dandelions for #wildflowerhour , growing in upland calcareous grassland in Stirlingshire. Charming plants!
#InternationalDayoftheDandelion

Happy #InternationalDayoftheDandelion let's see all your wonderful images of these feeders of #pollinators and #birds please.

Be honest. Is our Honesty getting out of hand? Honestly?!

Did you know that Honesty was first recorded as an escape from gardens in Britain in 1597? No, me neither!
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At first glance Comrie Colliery looks like a barren wasteland, but look a little closer and fantastic flowers start to jump out! Post-industrial landscapes can be havens for biodiversity. Small Cudweed, Sand Spurrey (probably) and Medium-flowered Wintercress blooming here!

Great work Robin - that’s one tiny vetch!

On the eve of #NoMowMay (and beyond!) here’s a little thread on why both mowing AND not mowing different parts of your lawn can be brilliant for wildlife. Sounds perverse? It’s all about long-grass and short-grass, and why you want both…

A fabulous swathe of Red Dead-nettle growing with Hairy Bitter-cress where construction churned up the topsoil last winter, exposing the seed bank. Great for early pollinators, and so named as the leaves are like nettle but stingless ('dead').
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Delighted to join the #ecomuseum of Scottish #mininglandscapes launch NationalMiningMuseum to chat to some brilliant people and help showcase a little of the fantastic #biodiversity these post-industrial sites support! Thanks Mining Landscapes Dr Katie Strang Yvonne Weighand Lyle 😊

Interesting to see how the regeneration around isolated pines balloons out on the side of the tree opposite to the prevailing wind. With a prevailing SW wind the regeneration is on the NE side of the tree. Highlights how seed source influences the distribution of regeneration.