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It's Crocus time at the allotment. #Flowers

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Have looked at this picture 50 times and just spotted the cute little nugget dusted in pollen hiding within. 🤭🐝 #pollinators #bees #gardening 🌱

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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

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🌱 Good morning🌞 #FlowersOnFriday 💜💚

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After a very cold week, suddenly it’s like spring today. A great day for #gardening Removed most of the verbena bonariensis from these borders, they are lovely, but also taking over a bit too much. I’m giving them to a neighbour. Not tidied too much, because actual spring is still a few weeks away 🌱

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More rose pruning today. I’m systemically going round all our shrub roses, removing all the dead/diseased and any stems crossing each other causing congestion. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening Before After

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#FlowersOnFriday 🌱 This Amaryllis is just outdoing itself while it is icy and 20 degrees F outside, fantastic!

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And also there is a considerable difference in the colour, ranging from the usual pale lavender to a really fine deep purple. (According to William Robinson, this richly coloured variety would appear to be speciosa). #gardening #garden powo.science.kew.org/taxon/urn:ls...

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Sometimes camellia flowers go brown and horrible in damp conditions. Other times they look like this… 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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So lovely to see some spring flowers in the Hilltop gardens at #Wisley. Spring is on the way although it doesn’t feel like it today! 🌱 #flowersonFriday

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Iris reticulata 🌱📷 #bloomscrolling #gardening

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Time to start pruning the roses, and first up are the climbing roses on the obelisks. Though they should have been done in November, I wasn’t employed then 😉. The process requires unravelling the stems, and then wrapping them around the frame at an angle to encourage side shoots. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening

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This week’s article will be on #SpringBulbs. If you want to read it before anyone else, please subscribe to my free newsletter here: bournetogarden.substack.com 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening

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Today's Flighty's plot blog post is Marking time - flightplot.wordpress.com/2025/02/20/m...

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It has been a very cold and anxious night. The alarm to tell me the power has went out sounded at 3:15 this morning and I jumped up to run a propane heater to the greenhouse. Still no power as of this moment. Very cold #Flowers #Gardening #FlowerReport #GardeningFeed #Plants

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The Organic Gardening feed has 100 users now - thanks everyone for joining and sharing such lovely content! 🌱 Feel free to sign up and start posting (see the pinned post for instructions) yourself if you haven't already. Beginners and organic farmers are very welcome, too! bsky.app/profile/did:...

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The catkins on the Purple Filbert (Corylus maxima Purpurea) are looking amazing this morning. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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Good morning! This teeny tiny delight is Narcissus hedraeanthus, who comes from Spain I'm absolutely drained, I got home last night, had a bath, cooked dinner, then went to bed Hopefully not as wet today as predicted, have a great day 🌱

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For #insectThursday a tiny spider on the flowers of Halesia carolina. I have included it because on last week’s training, Jonathan told us about the man the plant is named for, Stephen Hales who lived from 1677 to 1761 and made huge scientific contributions. It is worth looking him up. 🌱

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Think solar farms are bad for nature? Think again. Those designed for nature in East Anglia are teeming with birdlife - including threatened species. A new study reveals why. ⤵️

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This loamstack, stacked in late spring has really produced some wonderful stuff. Produced by stacking turf upside down and letting nature do its thing, it is full of earthworms and is beautifully crumbly, my little red breasted friend was having a ball #GardeningThreads

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Good morning Back to normality with #rosewednesday , im so looking forward to seeing some blooms again now! I need to check my seeds and then finish the wisteria ASAP! Hopefully everything else has gone well in my absence, I'm sure it has 🤗 Have a great day!🌱

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A rose enjoying the winter sunshine in London today. 🌱🌿💚 #RoseWednesday #Gardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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This light-hearted growing guide has been brightening the rather gloomy days. (Review copy. Not paid.) A glimpse into the horticultural life of @ladymuckstyle.bsky.social by writer Catherine Saunders, it's a mix of humour and practical advice. Full review: bit.ly/41qIXgJ 🌱💚#Greenheart 💙📚

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Today was spent expanding some of our tree circles to protect their roots and give them some more nutrients. Using a string line and my memory of using a compass at school, a perfect circle can be cut with the tree at its centre. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening

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The well-named 'Patent Leather' from 1971. Shiny! #iris 🌱

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#RoseWednesday timeline cleanse: an unusual lavender rose from my archives. #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport 🌱 #flowers

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Welcome to Bluesky Ian @iancarter67.bsky.social ! For those who do not know Ian from other platforms, he is a naturalist, and author of some wonderful books about the Natural World. Also... Red Squirrels visit his garden!!! 🐿️ Worth a follow! #nature #naturewriting #wildlife

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🌱 #RoseWednesday Deeply smitten on first sight. China rose 'Louis XIV' Guillot Fils 1859. Small stature, repeat flowers, scented, prone to blackspot and dropping its leaves late summer, (probably prefers warmer climes). One nurserywoman refused to sell me the one she had as he looked so forlorn.

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‘Sweet Pretty’ (Meiguimov) repeat flowering shrub rose and Red Admiral butterfly. Happy Rose Wednesday! Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

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And another beautiful crocus in flower. The range of colours you get from them is amazing. 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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Don’t forget to tune into The Potting Shed BBC Radio Lincolnshire Wednesday lunchtime - to find out which Lincolnshire connection I caught up with, in London! @GIMA (Garden Industry Manufacturers' Association) @gardenmediaguild #gardenpressevent2025 🌱🌿💚 #gardening #radiogardener

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FYI for all new Scottish horticulturalists. 🌱🌿💚 #Gardening scotlandsgardens.org/bursaries/?f...

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