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My garden is my sanctuary. #DollysCottageGarden - Flowers, books, gardening, sunsets, nature, clouds, fungi & everything quirky in between. Looking to connect with gardener/horti accounts please. 🌱🌼🌿 I don’t do politics & don’t follow those who do.
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Allotments are a fantastic tool to improve people’s health, help with the cost of expensive food, and improve local biodiversity. Glad to see at least one politician gets it.

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Amazing that in just 12 days 59 postcards have arrived for The Big Summer Holiday #PostcardDrop2025, including the first one from overseas, and one from this decorated postbox in Bristol! Do keep sending them whether to here, Royal Mail, friends or family. They are such a joy! 💌🇸🇪

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Valentine showing his boney tongue, which is apparently called a lingual. #parrot #conure

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In 1872 John Atkinson Grimshaw was commissioned by the House of Commons to paint three views of the Roundhay Estate (of which this is one) in consideration of the Leeds Corporation Improvement Bill that proposed to turn this former private estate into a public park.

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Ever changing skies at sunrise in Ballycastle #StormHour #ThePhotoHour @cmjohnston.bsky.social @organicbotanic.bsky.social @barrabest.bsky.social @metoffice.bsky.social @weatheraisling.bsky.social @itvweather.bsky.social

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🪶Good Morning Birdies🪶 On a very blustery morning Mr Wagtail is having second thoughts…. Enjoy your bird watching! ☘️😊☘️

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More wonderful postcards have arrived at THLAS HQ in the last couple of days. Here are yesterday’s fabulous ones… (Would anyone mind if I sneak the Mr T notecard into the collection? He has sent pretty postcards on occasions) #PostcardDrop2025 🤩✉️🪂🎉

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My next article will be out on Saturday and will be on my favourite summer climbers. You can get it straight to your inbox for free and before anyone else, if you subscribe to my page below. bournetogarden.substack.com 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening

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Scarlet Tiger (Callimorpha dominula) Leicestershire 10/06/25 #teammoth

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🌱 Here are some shots of the roses planted around my pergola currently flowering their hearts out! 🌱

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Painting of the day - Kestrel over the Cornish Coast by Richard Barrie Treleaven. (Image credit: Kirklees Museums and Galleries).

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#Hollybluebutterfly A Holly blue butterfly making good use of the orange ball buddleia.

submitted 16 hours ago • 4 comments

Present 📸

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Advice needed! Wildlife pond filled with rainwater 1st Apr. It's not rained since, the water level is ~15cm lower than it should be, the pond is 50cm at its deepest. Loads of plants, including oxygenators. A frogs moved in already ❤️ Q - should I top it up with tap water? #wildlifepond #allotment

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🎵 Raindrops on roses, And whiskers on kittens 🎶 Sorry, couldn't resist 😂 Happy #RoseWednesday everyone 🌹😊

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Rosa ‘The Pilgrim’ a repeat-flowering rose with a beautiful sweet fragrance. 🌼💛🌼 Bred by David Austin. #RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱 #FlowerFeed #Roses #DollysCottageGarden

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I always assumed these angels were painted around the inside of St. Peter’s dome until I saw them up close. Amazing mosaics made up of thousands upon thousands of tiny glass and gold tiles. #photography #EastCoastKin #ArtYear #MosaicMonday #Rome

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#TuesdayBlue with the pretty Felicia amelloides. 🩵💛🩵 #BloomScrolling #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #Greenheart #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱 #DollysCottageGarden

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Orchids and meadow flowers at Ashton Court, Bristol. Such a brilliant expanse of wildflower meadows in a city-owned park. Skylarks singing everywhere, & huge numbers of butterflies, grasshoppers & other invertebrates.

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I finally have a Nepeta back in the garden, ‘Bokratune' a compact variety that’s deeper blue 💙💜 #TuesdayBlue #nepeta #flowers #blueflowers

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

#TuesdayBlue with unexpected Himalayan blue poppies at #StirlingCastle yesterday. #Bloomscrolling #DailyFlowers

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Happy Tuesday Its blowing outside at present - not what my young allotment plants need The great tit fledglings are still around and still being fed too by really dilligent parents Not sure what im doing today apart from planting a few cabbage seeds Have a great day🤗 #Birds #NatureUK #Photography

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Sweet chestnut, for #ThickTrunkTuesday 🌱🌳📷 #Trees #TreeClub #TreeOfTheDay #EastCoastKin

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Washington Park Rose Garden today - a couple of 90 degree days works wonders! #Flowers #Photography 📷

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One of the coolest features of the Agami Heron is its gorgeous, flowing crest that flutters as it poses and preens. But I've never seen it up close before with the details and textures. #CostaRica #herons #nature #birds

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A 🐝#bee-lated incoming #foxglove moment to wish all the #flowers folk happy #MagentaMonday 🌸🌿💜@haniestep.bsky.social @clockworkdolly.bsky.social @rubyslippers.bsky.social & warmest Yorkshire wishes to @venetiajane.bsky.social 🌼🌿 #Bloomscrolling #wildflowers #flowerphotography #insects #pollinators

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Red-winged blackbird #birds

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Rosa Madame Isaac Pereire #FlowersonFriday #roses #gardening #gardeningfeed #bloomscrolling lovely fragrance

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Rosa Burgundy Ice #bloomscrolling #roses #RoseWednesday #gardeningfeed #flowers

submitted 13 days ago • 2 comments

Lovely poppies in the rain for #SundayYellow #bloomscrolling #gardeninglife #flowers

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Sadly the newly flowering peony has been battered towards the ground by the recent rain but it's still pretty.

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Rosa ‘Honorine de Brabant’ a bourbon rose. Has a beautiful fragrance. 🩷 #Roses #BloomScrolling #FlowerFeed #Greenheart #Gardening 🌱 #UKGardening #DollysCottageGarden Hope you’re having a bright and beautiful day. ☀️🌸🌹

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Happy #MacroMonday sky-folk 🌱📷 #GardensHour #EastCoastKin #BlueskyMonday #BugSky #Bloomscrolling #JuneBlooms

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