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Who else enjoys a frosty winter walk?❄️✋ There's still lots to see and admire this time of year😍 #Frost #Winter #Wildflowers

Hazel flowers in the morning sunshine already! BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour Hampshire & Isle of Wight Wildlife Trust @WoodlandTrust

Wild carrot seed heads are beautiful but when they are covered in frost, they are extra special. #wildflowers

Cow parsley still flowering in an East Devon hedgerow earlier this week. #wildflowerhour BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour #Devon

First sweet violet of the year for me this week, the only flower open amongst a gathering of sweet violet leaves.#WildflowerHour

The highlight of our #NewYearPlantHunt this year was this rather stunning Small Scabious, Scabiosa columbaria at Humphrey Head, #Çumbria. We managed 8 species in total here. #Wildflowerhour with Lindsay Maskell

Rather windswept and bedraggled but still flowering. I liked the way the pink flower has a fine thread wrapped around it as though anchoring itself to the wall. Mexican fleabane, seen yesterday. 🩷🤍 #WildflowerHour

Lovely encounter with an Irish Hare today, first good view for ages! It ran out of a patch of rushes, but stopped a short distance away. We sat and watched each other for a few minutes, until the hare made its way back to its hiding place again

There aren't many opportunities to learn how to ID plants in winter - but here's your chance if you're within reach of Co Down, NI, with these two workshops. For more details of these and other NI events, visit bsbi.org/botanical-skil… BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland Ulster Wildlife The Conservation Volunteers (TCV)

It's hard to find plants that are completely new to Rathlin these days (let alone in January), so a big surprise to discover Hay-scented Buckler-fern hiding in the conifer plantation at the weekend! The crinkly texture was distinctive but couldn't detect the eponymous scent

It's always a delight to see my favourite monoecious plant (Hazel, Corylus avellana) coming into flower. Here are the male and female flowers side by side. A sure sign spring is on its way! #wildflowerhour BSBI Ireland

Some grassy wetlands for #WorldWetlandsDay! Ireland has many beautiful, biodiversity and important #WetGrasslands. This mosaic of different habitats borders a fen in Co. Clare. #HabitatsToCelebrate #GreatIrishGrasslands More... greatirishgrasslands.ie

Finding great variety in size and shape among the larch cones on Rathlin - some squat with flared scales, others narrower with flatter scales. Presumably most or all of these trees are hybrids, showing the spectrum of variation between the parent species

Conifer cones of Rathlin - Noble Fir, larch, Lodgepole Pine and Sitka Spruce shown here. A keen conifer collector may also find Western Hemlock in the plantation, the odd other cypress and pine species in gardens, and the native Juniper hugging the cliffs

Delicate cherry-plum (Prunus cerasifera) blossom in nearly-spring sunshine: an early-flowering Prunus, distinguished by its green flowering twigs and turned-back sepals. And in autumn, round red edible fruits: Plums or cherries? BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland wildflowerhour #wildflowerhour

New flowers of colt's-foot (Tussilago farfara), which appear early, before the leaves, to be pollinated by flies & early-flying bees. A cure for coughs too! Info from the amazing Flora of Fermanagh- read about this & other plants at fermanagh.bsbi.org BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland CEDaR

Lovely to see Lesser Black-backed Gulls at both ends of the island today - welcome back! They always start to appear in February so we've been eagerly watching out for them

The first field days of the Targeted #AquaticPlantProject funded by National Parks and Wildlife Service will be in County Clare on 31st May and 1st June this year. To see more details and book your free place visit bsbi.org/aquatic-plant-… Photo credit Neil Wyatt

More field days in Co. Kerry and Co. Clare now available with Targeted #AquaticPlantProject funded by National Parks and Wildlife Service. These days are free - a great chance to survey for rare plants and learn while you're out. For more information see bsbi.org/aquatic-plant-… Photo: Thomas Garner

Targeted #AquaticPlantProject field days available to book thanks to funding from National Parks and Wildlife Service Places available this Sunday (Co. Kerry) and in July in Co. Wedford for rare plant survey days. Use link to book bsbi.org/aquatic-plant-… Photo from Co. Clare thanks to Paul Green