Is the weather getting you down too? Here's a cheering Protea from S Africa, photographed on Treso, Isles of Scilly.
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/05/is-weather-getting-you-down-too-heres.html
Lady's Smock, Cuckoo Flower, Meadow Cress, Spinks; all names for Cardamine pratensis - from the Greek for little cress.
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/04/ladys-smock-cuckoo-flower-meadow-cress.html
Cornish hedges are coming to life. Greater Stitchwort, Herb Robert and Green Alkanet catch some sun on a showery day. On Twitter 11th April.
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/04/cornish-hedges-are-coming-to-life.html
I watched a Blue Tit pulling the scales off this Royal Fern's spring crozier. Posh soft furnishings, or what?!
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/04/i-watched-blue-tit-pulling-scales-off.html
In a wet spot in my lawn I stopped spring mowing and planted some of these. Look what I found this morning! Fritillaria
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/04/in-wet-spot-in-my-lawn-i-stopped-spring.html
Berberis sp It's hard to get that outrageous colour right but it works better on Blogger than on Twitter!
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/03/berberis-sp-hard-to-get-that-colour-but.html
Branchless Equisetum fluviatile - Water Horsetail - growing on the margin of my pond. Tweeted on 25th March with comments around a Carboniferous Fantasy.
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/03/branchless-equisetum-fluviatile-water.html
Young curled fronds of Osmunda regalis. Tweeted of 21 March along with a liknk to John Martyn's song that includes the line "Curl around me like a fern in the spring".
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/03/young-curled-fronds-of-osmunda-regalis.html
Just a calabrese leaf on a drizzly day. Tweeted as Three Colours Green on 13th March.
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/03/just-calabrese-leaf-on-drizzly-day.html
Tillandsia usneoides an extraordinary epiphytic bromeliad from the New World tropics and sub-tropics. Growing in a greenhouse in Cornwall
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/03/spanish-moss.html
'Marsh Marigold' or 'King Cup' Caltha palustris flowering on pond edge. Truro Cornwall 8 March 2012
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/03/marsh-marigold-or-king-cup-caltha.html
New Lupine leaf and raindrop. Porth Kea, 28 Feb 2012
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/02/new-lupine-leaf-and-raindrop.html
An Aloe at Eden Project January 2012
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/02/aloe-at-eden-project-january-2012.html
Cliffs near Penberth, Penwith, Cornwall, photo 24 Feb 2011. The pink granites are showing through between the black and yellow lichen bands and there's a broad grey band above.
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/02/cliffs-near-penberth-penwith-cornwall.html
Danish Scurvy Grass - Cochlearia danica on a slate roof in Mousehole, Penwith, Cornwall. 24 February 2012
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/02/scurvy-grass.html
Frogspawn, Cornwall, Feb 23rd 2012
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/02/frogspawn-cornwall-feb-23rd-2012.html
Mahonia, Feb 2012
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/02/mahonia-feb-2012.html
Try to talk to archaeologists; they see things differently. My friend Peter Herring (the archaeologist) was telling me about a flock of Lapwings that he has been seeing in a field near his home...
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/02/try-to-talk-to-archaeologists-they-see.html
They've taken three years to appear.
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/02/snowdrops-feb-2012-stephen-warman.html
The 'Culm Measures' are the bedded slaty rocks of North Cornwall and North Devon that were formed by immense undersea mudslides during the Carboniferous period.
http://beyondthetweets.blogspot.com/2012/02/culm-measures-are-bedded-slaty-rocks-of.html