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Bad news/Beautiful plants. Always my own pic taken with a bog standard phone camera, usually but not always my own garden. 🌱🐝🌵🪴🌿 Socialist. Skint. NW England.
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I hope they don't ruin this place

submitted 13 hours ago • 6 comments

This little crested cactus was a cutting from an acquaintance. I haven't been able to identify the genus/species so far, but love the crested pups and unusual colors. #cactus #crestedcactus #succulents #plantsky #gardeningfeed

submitted 14 hours ago • 2 comments

I see we're on countdown for the start of this years BBC #GardenersWorld with a series of 'Best of 2024' specials. Spring is on the way! 🌱 #gardening #helleboreheaven #bloomscrolling #FlowersOnFriday

submitted 12 hours ago • 1 comment

Oysters and a slug! #fungifriends #mycology #slug #iseemoss

submitted 16 hours ago • 3 comments

Slime mold, Willkommlangea reticulata. When fully mature, this one will be brown in colour. Northwest Territories, Canada. #slimemould #fungifriends

submitted 15 hours ago • 3 comments

Camelias also just getting going round here 🌱📷 #FlowersOnFriday #Gardening #bloomscrolling

submitted 15 hours ago • 4 comments

Did my best to surround our home with cold hardy #flowers, and it pays off especially in January & February when we need it the most. This is a King Henry Violet. We also have hyacinth starting to bloom and daffodils leafing out. #garden 🌱

submitted 18 hours ago • 3 comments

A close shot of the entrancing 'Cahokia' from 1948. Heavily diamond dusted, it just sparkles in the sunshine. Such a pale blue it is practically white. 🌱 #iris

submitted 18 hours ago • 2 comments

A shaggy poppy 🌱

submitted 16 hours ago • 2 comments

Love finding old photos of gardens so you can compare them to the present. These are taken from 30 years ago, after just a few years from when the raised beds were installed. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening

submitted 16 hours ago • 6 comments

Video: 9 clips from the documentary Israel doesn't want you to see - and the BBC deleted. Here's a little that might show why Israel wanted 'Gaza: How to Survive a Warzone' off the air - if you know of more, drop them in the replies...

submitted 18 hours ago • 1 comment

The prime minister has failed to produce any evidence to back up “baseless” and “poisonous” claims in a newspaper article that large numbers of young disabled people are pretending they are not fit enough to work.

submitted 1 day ago • 5 comments

Good morning, Feb 21st, 2025. 13C at 0720. These crocus that have emerged through the paving are a real joy. 🌱

submitted 1 day ago • 3 comments

At last there's a bit of warmth in the air, though wet and windy. Flowers appearing for #FlowersOnFriday #SignsOfSpring 🌱

submitted 23 hours ago • 0 comments

🌱 💐 📸 If you want nine Cosmos in February, plant in October. #nature #garden #homestead #photography #flower

submitted 22 hours ago • 0 comments

Friday fungus 🌱🌿🍄📷 #fungifriends #moss #nature

submitted 20 hours ago • 1 comment

The first crocuses of the year starting to pop in my garden now, I wonder why it's always the yellow ones that turn up first? #FlowersOnFriday 🌱📷 #bloomscrolling #gardening

submitted 21 hours ago • 4 comments

Les fleurs du moment 🌱 #aujardin

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Trying to find joy in the little things today. Like cell walls,weed blooms, spores,and slime molds🌱

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

Finding Balance

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

Iris reticulata 🌱📷 #bloomscrolling #gardening

submitted 1 day ago • 11 comments

Who doesn’t like the idea of laughter as medicine but that section on #wato about social prescribing just now struck me as rather naive. We need evidence-based services for people with even mild-moderate depression. Also…👇

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Here’s would-be MAGA Thatcher and silver medalist to a salad vegetable Liz Truss jumping on the Donald Trump gravy stain train in yet another episode of ‘What drugs is Liz on this week?’ Absolute gift to Labour and too radicalised to understand or even care

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments