I spent Wednesday lunchtime plant hunting in #Bristol and only found this single Hairy Bittercress plant. I think this is a new one for the fence line around my favourite building site. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
The Rue leaved Saxifrage at a car park near our office isn't quite out yet. Lots of leaves, no flowers. #WildflowerHour #Bristol #botany #plants #flowers #photography
The Rue leaved Saxifrage at a car park near our office isn't quite out yet. Lots of leaves, no flowers. #WildflowerHour #Bristol #botany #plants #flowers #photography
I spent Wednesday lunchtime plant hunting in #Bristol and only found this single Hairy Bittercress plant. I think this is a new one for the fence line around my favourite building site. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
Not much for #WildflowerHour this week. Here's a Red Deadnettle growing beside a footpath in #Swindon on Thursday.
#Wiltshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
Not much for #WildflowerHour this week. Here's a Red Deadnettle growing beside a footpath in #Swindon on Thursday.
#Wiltshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
Joey Santore's announcing that pre-orders are available for his book Concrete Botany and that there's an audiobook version available as well.
I think the audiobook *may* outsell the print version because what first brought Joey to fame was his exaggerated Chicago accent and his swearing...
Joey Santore's announcing that pre-orders are available for his book Concrete Botany and that there's an audiobook version available as well.
I think the audiobook *may* outsell the print version because what first brought Joey to fame was his exaggerated Chicago accent and his swearing...
Lots of catkins on the Hazel trees around here now. Most still aren't properly open but a few at Jubilee Lake in Royal Wootton Bassett were in full flower already. #WildflowerHour #Wiltshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
Felt like I searched every Hazel with male catkins yesterday looking for a female flower. Eventually found literally one in the whole park (Jubilee Lake in Royal Wootton Bassett). Lots of buds, so I think things are about to get serious for the Hazels. #WildflowerHour #Wiltshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
Felt like I searched every Hazel with male catkins yesterday looking for a female flower. Eventually found literally one in the whole park (Jubilee Lake in Royal Wootton Bassett). Lots of buds, so I think things are about to get serious for the Hazels. #WildflowerHour #Wiltshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
Lots of catkins on the Hazel trees around here now. Most still aren't properly open but a few at Jubilee Lake in Royal Wootton Bassett were in full flower already. #WildflowerHour #Wiltshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
"Calflora is seeking an experienced software developer who would like to take part in important conservation work and who values biodiversity data. This software developer would assist in maintaining and developing Calflora’s Java-based website and infrastructure, including systems administration, database management, web application programming, front-end development, and data integration."
https://www.calflora.org/newsletter/Jobs/DeveloperJobPosting.pdf
A very common tree in the west, but I love everything about Populus fremontii (cottonwood) trees. I even like the snowstorm of cotton like seeds that rains down in the spring (it is messy though). In the fall, the yellow leaves contrast nicely with the dark bark. This tree is set against a background of sandstone near Utah's Capital Reef National Park.
#Travel #RoadTrip #Botany #Tree #ThickTrunkTuesday #Fall #Landscape #Photography #Darktable
"Calflora is seeking an experienced software developer who would like to take part in important conservation work and who values biodiversity data. This software developer would assist in maintaining and developing Calflora’s Java-based website and infrastructure, including systems administration, database management, web application programming, front-end development, and data integration."
https://www.calflora.org/newsletter/Jobs/DeveloperJobPosting.pdf
At London’s Kew Gardens, the Dark Side of Botany.
Two revealing exhibitions explore how the British Empire used plants as a tool of colonialism.
https://observer.com/2026/01/at-londons-kew-gardens-the-dark-side-of-botany/ #globalmuseum #botany #KewGardens #exhibitions
A very common tree in the west, but I love everything about Populus fremontii (cottonwood) trees. I even like the snowstorm of cotton like seeds that rains down in the spring (it is messy though). In the fall, the yellow leaves contrast nicely with the dark bark. This tree is set against a background of sandstone near Utah's Capital Reef National Park.
#Travel #RoadTrip #Botany #Tree #ThickTrunkTuesday #Fall #Landscape #Photography #Darktable
A few more late-flowering sun orchids with spots (Thelymitra ixioides / Thelymitra juncifolia) variations near Mallacoota, East Gippsland, VIC.
Only plants in part shade on the edge of the forest were still flowering in early November at this location - usually in slightly damper soils than the adjacent open grassland.
#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra
A few more late-flowering sun orchids with spots (Thelymitra ixioides / Thelymitra juncifolia) variations near Mallacoota, East Gippsland, VIC.
Only plants in part shade on the edge of the forest were still flowering in early November at this location - usually in slightly damper soils than the adjacent open grassland.
#Orchids #OzPlants #Biodiversity #Ecology #Botany #Photography #Spring #InTheField #Nature #BloomScrolling #EastGippsland #SunOrchids #Thelymitra
Is there such a miracle as funding for a "roll your own" PhD in EU, UK, Canada, NZ?
I'm finding that most funded PhDs in plant science are slanted towards computation (either bioinformatics or remote sensing or AI) and that's not my forte nor my interest. I'd really like to be able to construct a research topic of my own given I'm not finding what I'm hoping for in advertised PhDs.
I'll never know if I don't ask, right?
