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Restoring Shropshire's Verges Project

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Founded 2018 by local people with support from NT @GodsAcre SC Highways @ShropHillsAONB with guidance from @Love_plants to restore wildflower rich verges

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Help wildlife survive in winter: 🌱 Don’t cut back plants 💧 Offer fresh water: natural sources may be frozen 🦔 Keep a corner wild for hibernating animals 🍏 Feed the birds 🐝 Grow ivy: it’s great for wildlife! More: bit.ly/4gcHNKj #nature

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Good morning, late November sunny days and trees, a perfect combination. Have a lovely day wherever you may be. #thicktrunktuesday #trees #NaturePhotography #TwitterNatureCommunity

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The snow has arrived and with it hungry garden birds who will fight over buried sunflower seeds. From my upcoming book Garden Safari. @graffeg_books @OMSYSTEMcameras @Natures_Voice @BTO_GBW @BBCSpringwatch #autumnwatch @IoloWilliams2 @patrick_barkham

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Hard Rush, Juncus inflexus. Vegetative ID. Glaucous. Up to 1m tall. Tufted. Stems ridged, up to 5mm diameter and with interrupted pith

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Crimson waxcap near Snowshill this weekend. #fungi #MushroomMonday

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Oh lovely, it felt so warm in the sun earlier in the week. Good to see the hoverfly.

Taken on my walk on Tuesday #Dandelion #SundayYellow

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Mid November Devil's bit scabious in a #Donegal #meadow #wildflowerhour

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Large Yellow Underwing, Noctua pronuba. Larval food plants include Cock’s-foot, Foxglove and Annual Meadow Grass

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Here comes a new week. Hope it is a good one. Popped out and enjoyed finding #dandelions amongst the beautiful fallen autumnal leaves. #NatureTherapy #MondayMorningMotivation

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Ribwort plantain (Plantago laceolata). Regarded as a weed in intensive farming. But when found in species rich grassland it has a crazy number of overlooked benefits, not least that cows love it and seek it out as a natural wormer. 1/

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Thoroughly enjoyed it, great presentations and a wonderfully dedicated and engaging group of people


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Attended National Meadows Group conference yesterday. Great to hear about all the fab work being undertaken to restore and create meadow habitat @plantlife @ShropsVerge @Buzz_dont_tweet @Floodplainmead @BSBIbotany

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#wildflowerhour Still flowering in Carmarthenshire, Ragged Robin, Lychnis flos-cuculi (1 of 2). Up to 70cm. Pink petals deeply divided into 4 narrow lobes. Central buds open first. Calyx tube reddish with 10 veins and 5 teeth.

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Hare'sfoot inkcap #fungi , so short lived, so delicate & beautiful.

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Green Shieldbug nymph photobombing my recce for tonight’s #wildflowerhour #seedheads challenge

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Horrendous. Already far too much krill, from the Southern Ocean is taken, by industrial fishing. The krill is needed, for whales, penguins and other marine animals. Instead, humans are taking krill, to turn into fish meal (for farmed fish or farmed animals) or Omega 3…

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Happy encounter on an industrial estate yesterday 😀 Happy Friday one and all. #dandelions #FlowersOfTwitter #FlowersOnFriday

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A handful of little apples––crisp & bright as coins––from the tree in my garden, grown from a pip brought back by the writer Roger Deakin from the ur-apple forests of Kazakhstan, shortly before he died. A windfall of memory. Story of both pips & tree here: emergencemagazine.org/essay/east-to-…

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One of 5 Elephant hawkmoth caterpillars found on the Rosebay willowherb today!

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Planting an apple tree has many benefits: 🍎 helps bumblebees, butterflies & bats 🍏 boosts biodiversity 🍎 protects food heritage 🍏 habitat for beetles, woodpeckers & redwings 🍎 lots of lovely fruit in autumn! How to choose an apple tree: bit.ly/45AFzhZ

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