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johnclare.bsky.social
morning and mowed down at night' as well as my favourite line of 'The kingcups brasted with the morning dew'
September 13, 2026 at 5:30 AM
hotfudgecarwash.bsky.social
For some reason at my school, buttercups got confused with kingcups and we all used these terms interchangeably, while checking for a golden glow under one another's chins. But you were a bit of a brain if you called them ✨marsh marigolds✨ #flowers #wildflowers
July 5, 2026 at 9:38 PM
racheldeering.bsky.social
‘I love to see the summer beaming forth
And white wool sack clouds sailing to the north
I love to see the wild flowers come again
And mare blobs stain with gold the meadow drain’ ~ John Clare. #BookWormSat
🖼️ Kingcups, Souvenir of Glen Artney, Lucian Freud.
Painting of kingcups, landscape in background.
June 27, 2026 at 6:47 PM
eithin.bsky.social
Also, it makes this little guy sad. flowerfairies.com/the-kingcup-...
An illustration of a flower fairy - specifically, Kingcup. He is a handsome blonde boy with a golden crown, wearing yellow tunic and hose and puffling pants, with a leaf-green cloak and shoes and a golden chain. He is attended by two smaller fairies of indeterminate gender but a lot of adorableness, and the eponymous kingcups rise up above him.
May 22, 2026 at 7:25 PM
suesconsideredt.bsky.social
Kingcups aka marsh marigolds are also in the buttercup family.
Clusters of bright yellow flowers next to a board-walk.
May 3, 2026 at 7:13 PM
jowilliams.bsky.social
I love kingcups. I always associate them with the smell of mint, because if I can see the kingcups I'm treading on the mint!
April 30, 2026 at 11:51 AM
perahlberg.bsky.social
Spring watch in the garden, post 9: a coronet of kingcups round the pond for the 80th birthday of our king! Perfect timing.
A curving rim of yellow flowers at the edge of a garden pond.
April 30, 2026 at 10:57 AM
jude04.bsky.social
The Trough Waterfall

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A portrait oriented image of a waterfall in the garden at Chatsworth. At the top of the image are trees, just below in the left the waterfall enters and then runs diagonally to the right. It’s surrounded by grass and kingcups. The overflow leaving the Grotto Pond was turned into a water feature, the ‘Trough Waterfall’, using a series of stone drinking troughs gathered from the nearby fields and farm steadings
April 29, 2026 at 8:30 AM
carlsayer.bsky.social
Marsh marigold patch edging a small North Norfolk coastal stream, eastern England. Locally known as Kingcups #wildflowerhour
Marsh marigold in a small stream
April 26, 2026 at 7:17 PM
moyotsvet.bsky.social
Proper spring walk here in Dorset (Bere Regis / Turners Puddle / Throop) this evening… bluebell season is well under way and I even saw a few swallows flitting past.
A mass of English bluebells (Hyacinthoides non-scripta) - spikes of drooping bluish purple flowers - on a gentle slope below the leafless branch of a tree. More trees in the distance below a bright blue sky with some small fluffy white clouds. Spring snowflakes (Leucojum vernum) - heads of bright white bell shaped flowers with little green spots near the points if the petals. The leaves are long and thin, a bit like those of daffodils.They are growing in damp soil amongst thin woody stems of other plants. A swathe of kingcups or marsh marigolds (Caltha palustris) - many large golden yellow flowers above glossy round green leaves. A brown-faced white sheep and her all white lamb standing in a field of lush green glass. Both have the number 22 in green on their flanks. More sheep and lambs are visible in the distance.
April 12, 2026 at 10:07 PM
ramalina.bsky.social
Kingcups
April 12, 2026 at 8:10 AM
magicpoet01.bsky.social
'All round our nest, far as the eye can pass,
Are golden kingcup fields with silver edge...'

POEM ~The House of Life: 19. Silent Noon by Dante Gabriel Rossetti. Read whole poem here: www.poetryfoundation.org/poems/45009/...
Poem uses the old name 'kingcups' for marsh marigolds💛
April 10, 2026 at 9:06 AM
drrjwarren.bsky.social
Aw beautiful! Kingcups are a truly glorious sight - thank you.
April 5, 2026 at 3:51 PM
nicwilson.bsky.social
And they've got the botany covered too! Awesome sauce! (As my littlest would say.)
A picture of yellow kingcups on a white background. A picture of white meadowsweet flowers on a white background. A picture of blue field gentian on a white background. A picture of water geum flowers on a white background.
April 1, 2026 at 9:05 PM
wendyloued.bsky.social
Marsh marigolds or kingcups at Avebury yesterday
March 29, 2026 at 6:16 PM
notfrangible.bsky.social
Marsh-marigold was very common before the general draining of land and had lots of different local names, not just Kingcups. Water-blobs, Pollyblobs and Gollins, to name a few; it was also called Mayflower and brought into the home on May evening for luck. #StoryPlants #WildflowerHour
March 22, 2026 at 7:27 PM
rock-rex.bsky.social
Daffodils, marsh marigolds (kingcups), and primulas.

#photo #photography #garden #botany #daffodil #kingcup #primula #churchill #oxfordshire
March 19, 2026 at 8:21 PM
windsweptsarah.bsky.social
Kingcups! One of my favourite marsh plants
Kingcup plant in a marsh Close-up of a golden yellow kingcup flower
March 11, 2026 at 8:57 PM
alysdragon.bsky.social
That is good to know! I’ll stick with the smaller rush, in which case. I was tempted by the forget-me-nots, but I’d already ordered some kingcups for the marshy bit behind the shed.
March 9, 2026 at 10:40 PM
alysdragon.bsky.social
Oh, excellent! It’s looking really good already.

I’m planning on brooklime, swordleaf rush, and kingcups? Maybe waterlily, but I worry we don’t get the sun.
March 9, 2026 at 9:35 PM
suesconsideredt.bsky.social
For #WildflowerHour #SignsofSpring Kingcups aka marsh marigolds seen on 2nd March
Kingcups growing next to a weed-covered pond. Also leaves of flag irises.
March 8, 2026 at 8:05 PM
alysdragon.bsky.social
Anyway, I’m gently scheming about aquatic plants.

Kingcups and Brooklime, and miniature waterlilies…

(Can’t justify a flowering rush. Don’t have the space.)
February 27, 2026 at 6:59 PM
alysdragon.bsky.social
Like, I know, correctly, it is Marsh Marigold, but they’re really Kingcups.
February 12, 2026 at 10:22 AM