Wildflower, Blossom and Fungi Photographs

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Winniefree 18 Jun 5:48pm, 18 Jun 2024 7,515 posts	0 Winniefree Thank you
LazyDaisy 26 Jun 9:34pm, 26 Jun 2024 40,320 posts	0 LazyDaisy My PlantNet app thinks this is pennywort, but all the pennywort I've ever seen is much smaller than this. Can anyone confirm the identification please? The flower stalks are each a good metre tall.
jacdaw 27 Jun 8:47am, 27 Jun 2024 4,495 posts	0 jacdaw Did you get to look at the leaves, or better still get a picture? It does look like some sort of navelwort (=pennywort =Umbilicus), but I wondered if it might be a different species, or a garden escape. Assuming this is southern England? Otherwise, maybe just Umbilicus rupestris in a really favourable spot.
Chrisull 27 Jun 9:29am, 27 Jun 2024 21,717 posts	0 Chrisull Pennywort goes bonkers here in Cornwall. It can really grow if it wants to.
Chrisull 27 Jun 9:49am, 27 Jun 2024 21,719 posts	0 Chrisull Also anyone noticed the desperate shortage of insects this year, hardly any butterflies and definitely short on bees here.
jacdaw 27 Jun 9:54am, 27 Jun 2024 4,496 posts	0 jacdaw Reasonable number of bumble bees here, a few solitary bees. Tons of mayflies earlier in the year. Hardly any butterflies, but we seem to have had a second burst of orange tips in the last week; really late. Maybe they were just hanging on for some warm and dry weather. Overall, though, a really poor insect year, so far.
LazyDaisy 27 Jun 11:58am, 27 Jun 2024 40,323 posts	0 LazyDaisy Oh yes Chrisull, I've been remarking on the scarcity of bumbles and butterflies in Gloucestershire. Even down in balmy East Devon it's a very poor year. Very worrying really. Also, I think it must be pennywort then (East Devon) - these were growing alongside a road where there was a lot of tree felling last winter, so they're revelling in the extra light now the trees have gone. (It was mainly ash dieback though they are managed woods so different areas get cleared from time to time.)
Chrisull 28 Jun 4:46pm, 28 Jun 2024 21,738 posts	0 Chrisull Hope on the bumblebee front - late coming out, and it's not the right part of the season for them see here on the conservation trust: x.com Also saw 3 large skippers, 5 meadow browns on lunch time walk, and 3 red admirals on yesterday's run.
NordRunner 30 Jun 8:38am, 30 Jun 2024 4,362 posts	0 NordRunner Wordle 1,107 4/6* ⬜⬜⬜⬜⬜ ⬜⬜🟨⬜🟨 ⬜🟩🟩🟩🟩 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩
LazyDaisy 30 Jun 10:43am, 30 Jun 2024 40,340 posts	0 LazyDaisy Also hope on the ladybird front, who've been conspicuous by their absence so far. My back garden in Sidmouth is full of their larvae Just as well as the buddleia is full of blackfly for them to feast on.