S McLean-Barr

RHS Qualified Eco Gardener and Designer covering general maintenance, bespoke design, problem areas. Lectures/talks. Supports global animal welfare. Stop abuse.

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Tidying the garden? Please don't cut back the ivy. Right now in the UK, it will be providing a vital late season pitstop for pollinating insects like bees, butterflies, hoverflies, moths. Then in winter, this native plant will offer berries for the birds.

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

And, in this case, the associated flora is already there: bluebells, celandine, wood sorrel, dog-violet, primrose, anemone, pignut, and many more, all surviving away under bracken since last this was forested.

Very soon, this will be a rich woodland ecosystem once more.

[Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @IrishRainforest]

Growing from the face of a big boulder in the woods, a variety of lithophytic plants (living on rock): hart's tongue, scaly male and buckler ferns, navelwort, wood sorrel, dog violet and lots of mosses.

Epiphytes (plants on trees) aren't the only indicator of rainforest.

[S McLean-Barr @McLeanBarr]

@CommGdnsLondon @EasternCurve Simply beautiful. Lovely to see as we are losing so much biodiversity.

[CommunityGdnsLondon @CommGdnsLondon]

Monday blues
Ipheion uniflorum, at the Eastern Curve #communitygarden in Dalston @EasternCurve

[British Gardening History @britgardhistory]

The Herbaceous Border, 1951, by Frances Perry (1907-1993), one of the foremost garden writers of the 20th century. She grew up in Enfield next door to E A Bowles, who introduced her to her future husband Gerald Perry, a nurseryman specialising in ferns and water plants.

[Rebecca Wheeler @botany_beck]

I hadn’t seen it for a couple of years so it was extra special in early June to catch up with my #FavouritePlant! The gorgeous Mertensia maritima, commonly named Oysterplant, as the leaves taste like the fruits of the sea! Caithness #Wildflowerhour

[S McLean-Barr @McLeanBarr]

@NatureLark Thank you for sharing. It’s lovely to see them as we need to increase biodiversity given that we are losing it so rapidly.

[British Gardening History @britgardhistory]

Flowers of Waste Places, plate from A R Horwood's 'A New British Flora', illustrated by J N Fitch. Published in 1919 by The Gresham Publishing Co Ltd, Covent Garden.

[Brigit Strawbridge @B_Strawbridge]

Some of the flowering plants we saw this afternoon in the wonderfully fragrant Winter Garden at ⁦⁦@AngleseyAbbeyNT⁩…
Witch Hazel, Winter Aconite, Flowering Cherry, Winter honeysuckle, Wintersweet, Hellebore, Christmas box(?), Mahonia, and Vibernum.

[S McLean-Barr @McLeanBarr]

@B_Strawbridge @savebutterflies @NearbyWild was thinking how wonderful is when you find caterpillars in your garden or on local verges. They are a sign of what’s to come. 💚

[Brigit Strawbridge @B_Strawbridge]

If we don't cater for #butterflies in their larval stage, we can't expect to see them in their adult form.

Here's a comprehensive list of larval food plants used by British butterflies, from @savebutterflies

With thanks to @NearbyWild for posting this!

https://t.co/3FobJD855s

[Nick Bailey @nickbailey365]

Beautiful Blues (+ violet and mauve) from #RHSTatton. Delphinium, veronika, echinops, Agapanthus 'Indigo Dream', eringium and aster. Some welcome coolness in this blasting heat. Catch the coverage on BBC 2 this evening from 7pm. @GWandShows @GWmag #GardenersWorld #Plants

[Brigit Strawbridge @B_Strawbridge]

Just added lots of gorgeous & unusual new plants to our stall, including: orange hyssop, veronicastrum, agastache, santolina, thalictrums, salvias, teucriums, rogersia, caryopteris... all grown with love & care in peat-free compost! 🌿🌼🌾

French Mill Lane, #Shaftesbury, Dorset

[S McLean-Barr @McLeanBarr]

@B_Strawbridge Yay! So many people still have reservations growing in peak free compost and yet I’ve done it for over 15 years.

[BSBI: Botanical Society of Britain & Ireland @BSBIbotany]

#BSBIAtlas2020 is now live, so check out this fabulous website: https://t.co/ZNf5ZYBpHo
Find out which of these species👇 is doing well & which is declining - and why.
Read about the #PlantAtlas project & download summary reports about our changing flora: https://t.co/1K7IKvGjB3

[British Gardening History @britgardhistory]

Chrysanthemum (pyrethrum) Mawil, native of the Greater Atlas. Curtis's Botanical Magazine, London, early 1800s.

[Biodiversity Ireland @BioDataCentre]

Lesser Celandine (Ficaria verna) is currently the most commonly recorded plant species through Ireland's Citizen Science Portal.

It's easily identified by yellow flowers with dark green heart-shaped leaves.
You can submit your sightings here: https://t.co/XJ0UaMTEGH