Lots of people make their own press. We'll try and pull together some instructions and put them on our website.

Flowers of Hairy Wood-rush Luzula pilosa, the open one star shaped with dark tepals edged in white.

Flowers of Pill Sedge Carex pilulifera

Two early-flowering species of acid woodland seen this week - the delicate star-like flowers of Hairy Wood-rush growing close to the even more understated flowers of Pill Sedge

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Wood anemone: at its most perfect today!

Anemone nemorosa - aka windflower - turning its flowers toward the sun and dancing in the breeze

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A lovely selection of blooms for tonight's #WildFlowerHour, huge thanks to everyone who shared photos: great to see so many cowslips for the #CowslipChallenge!
Have a great week plant-hunting now spring is here, see you next Sunday & keep an eye out for the next @wildflowerhour.bsky.social challenge

Trying to hold a very tall shepherd’s purse still in Storm Dave for #WildflowerHour 😂

Anemoides ranunculoides, Buttercup Anemone. Also naturalised in my garden. The Olds will remember this as Anemone ranunculoides. And perhaps also know it as a parent of the delicately lovely, A. x lipsiensis (A. nemorosa x A. ranunculoides) with pale, creamy yellow flowers.
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Field Wood-rush aka Good Friday Grass coming out at the appropriate time in Calverley Grounds #wildflowerhour

From top left, clockwise: White Blackthorn flowers; Bluebells in front of white Stitchwort; delicate light purple Cuckoo flower; pink Herb-robert; Hawthorn with new green leaves and red berries from last year and White nettle flowers among the green leaves.

A few finds for @wildflowerhour.bsky.social. that I spotted on my walk around the village lanes this afternoon. Blackthorn; Bluebells with Stitchwort; Cuckoo flower; Herb-robert; Hawthorn with new leaves and berries from last year and White nettle.
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Tiny yellow flowers at the top of a stem with leaves set in a cross.

Crosswort Cruciata laevipes #WildFlowerHour

Blackthorn blossom, Dartmoor, Devon

Blackthorn blossom

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Earlier in the week for #wildflowerhour - my first spring with my eyes switched on properly 😍

Viola, tricolor

Viola tricolor @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Toothwort. #wildflowerhour

My little #CowslipChallenge project: turning my lawn into a cowslip-friendly habitat. Two years after planting them, the first seedlings are here this spring! #WildflowerHour #NoMowMay

A patch of tussilago farfara in a grass verge

Coltsfoot 🌱

#WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #SundayYellow

Greater Celandine growing as 'street weed'. In an entirely different family from Lesser Celandine, grouped with poppies rather than buttercups. #wildflowerhour

Few flowered garlic

Few flowered garlic invasive! @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Tassels of pale-green Redcurrant flowers; shallow cups with recurved petals and a coral-coloured centre; anthers shaped like tiny dog bones.

It's always a treat to come across wild flowering Redcurrant, a species of damp woodland, part of a huge thicket growing on seasonally flooded silts alongside a spring-fed limestone stream in Bedford Purlieus NNR. Such strange flowers with anthers like tiny dog bones...

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Bright yellow-orange Marsh Marigold flowers.

A green fern frond beginning to grow.

Pinky-white Cherry Blossom above murky lake water.

Bluebells in woodland on a sunny day.

Some plants from in-and-around Ditchling Common country park.

#WildflowerHour #Sussex

A dandelion-like flower, seen from below. The backs of the petals have green/grey stripes.

The same flower seen face-on from above.

Front and back view of a #WildflowerID request. Growing among the dandelions in my front yard but smaller and with the dark grey backs to the petals looks like one of the hawk-things. #WildflowerHour

Primroses by Brignall ditches.
According to traditional plant lore planting primroses upside down would make them bloom pink rather than yellow. This was discussed last century by E.M. Marsden-Jones, 'Alleged change of colour in Primula vulgaris', "Journal of Botany" 71: 17, 1933. #wildflowerhour

Several yellow dandelion flowers at various stages of flowering. You can also see the serrated leaves of the dandelion and grass under the flowers. The colours are vibrant. The word dandelion comes from the French “la dent de lion”, lion’/ tooth, because of the shape of the leaves.

A honey bee on a celandine flower. Its leaves and grass can be seen underneath.

Dandelions and celandine flowering today in Monmouthshire. #WildflowerHour

2 nice finds! Bluebells and do you know what the other one is or would you like some #WildFlowerID help?

Cowslips have been appearing everywhere over the last few days. #cowslipchallenge #wildflowerhour

Primrose @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Gorgeous Blackthorn (Prunus spinosa) blossom today - making me think of weddings!
Complete with (pollinating) guest...🐝🌸
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Wood anemones. #wildflowerhour

Oilseed rape by road @bsbibotany.bsky.social #wildflowerhour

Wood Anemones - white and blue - at Rosecraddoc Woods, Cornwall

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