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Bloomscroller! Fun, nature, etymology, garden, daily trivia to brighten up your feed from the grind of daily claptrap, garbage & piffle 🌿 Cheltenham, UK & occasional Norway 🌿 Trigeminal neuralgia 💪🥳💗 All my photos, no pilfering, no DMs 🏆
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🌿☕ Hydrangea means water vessel.. & they do need a lot of water to thrive 💦 I've been hosing mine for the last couple of weeks It may look like they have a lot of petals, but they’re actually sepals - small leaves that protect the flower bud Some even change colour depending on the soil pH 💐

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🌿☕ White legged damselfly in the patch I don't do much in, or to give it it's scientific name platycnemis pennipes which means flat shinned winged foot... They've been around since the Jurassic Period 🦕 which is how I felt when I got up this morning 💃 british-dragonflies.org.uk/odonata/dams...

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🌿☕ Wet leg are quite a famous indie rock band 🥁 very cool. Unlike me. I had my moments 30 years ago but according to my daughter I am now just embarrassing 😂 This is my Cheltenham version: Wet petal. #bloomscrolling

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🌿☕Begonia boliviensis 'Firecracker' Welcome to the Cheltenham Andes😃 4 years in, looking🔥 Amazed this has survived without a greenhouse 🏡 Originating from cloud forests in the Andes in Bolivia (hence the name) The cultivar 'Kimjongilia' is a floral emblem of North Korea (I ❤️ this fact😂)💐

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🌿☕Good morning🌞 I had a lovely surprise today when this scarlet tiger moth fluttered across the garden landing on the wall. I thought it was a butterfly at first until I gave it a closer inspection🦋💐 In Germany it's known as schönbär meaning beautiful bear🐻 www.wildlifetrusts.org/wildlife-exp...

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🌿☕ The rain & wind has arrived this afternoon so I am grabbing a moment to re acquaint myself with this rather lovely book I purchased from a National Trust site last year I think I have a few followers that might appreciate knowing it exists! Some beautiful recipes 💐 @nationaltrust.org.uk

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🌿☕Good morning🌞 Britney eat your heart out #toxic 🐞 spots & red colour warn of toxicity. A threatened🐞 can play dead to protect itself & secrete fluids from joints in its legs 🤢🦵 The seven-spot ladybird synthesizes the toxic alkaloids, N-oxide coccinelline & precoccinelline 👌 #natureisamazing

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🌿☕Happy Summer Solstice☀️ I have plenty of marmalade hoverfly flies on my verbena today In paganism verbena is used in rituals of love & healing during the summer solstice, linked to the earth, water & ☀️ All left over should be thrown on the Solstice bonfire. It protects against negative magick🔥

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🌿☕ Herbs for honeybees 🪻 Lavender .. The ancient Egyptians used lavender to mummify, as well as for perfumes. Traces of lavender were found in the tomb of the Egyptian pharaoh Tutankhamun, a lingering floral smell was still present 🪻 #lavender #bloomscrolling

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🌿☕ Ok, so my garden has popped up another classic self seeder.. Blackhorehound, otherwise known as Stinking Roger Has been excellently used throughout history to expell intestinal parasitic worms 🐛 🪱 More info in this lovely blog 👇 bugwomanlondon.com/2020/06/24/w... #bloomscrolling

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🌿☕Phew 🥵 good morning☀️ Cheltenham baking again, highs of 30°C☀️ Ladycows still happy, I got a lovely 📸 of this 7 spot on yarrow (I think it is yarrow.. another garden self seeder) There are 26 types of 🐞 in the UK, identifier link👇 www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2021/03... @wtscotsocial.bsky.social

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🌿☕Knautia macedonica .. sneaky self seed for you this morning... Love the colour.. it can stay! Carl Linnaeus (the father of modern taxonomy!) named it after Christian Knaut (1654–1716) a celebrated German botanist🌿 #bloomscrolling

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🌿☕🥵Cheltenham officially baking🥵 Harlequin.. invasive.. but still eating my greenfly Anyone Bluetoothed at the moment reading this or use it? Did you know it's named after King Harald of Denmark, known as Bluetooth & the trademark is actually Scandinavian runes? www.bluetooth.com/about-us/blu...

submitted 7 days ago • 3 comments