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franlough.bsky.social
@franlough.bsky.social
Live in Ireland, love gardening and our Collie. We have a full garden and over 300 pots of various sizes.
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It's sunny and will be up to 17° today so before we go out to garden we need to make sure we are properly attired. Peleş is all ready. 🌱🌿🐕🌞
#gardening #dog's
This is our #SixonSaturday currently in the garden. Nice to see colour coming back.🌱 #Gardening #BloomScrolling
January 31, 2026 at 7:45 PM
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In today's #SixOnSaturday... a snowdrop, Viburnum buds, fragrant Coronilla flowers, a blackcap, a rose cutting & some rusty metal ferns onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2026/01/31/s... 🌱
January 31, 2026 at 7:55 AM
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🌱 #sixonSaturday from my tiny garden. Things are definitely starting to happen but spring hasn’t properly arrived. Full description in Alt text
January 31, 2026 at 9:57 AM
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How is this doing numbers?
Welp.
I'll be in Cork this weekend, get your character commissions booked I'm as early as possible etc.

#🎨sketch
I'll be at Warpcon 36 this weekend at UCC!
I'll have some new goodies and (hopefully) pumping out your DnD character commissions this weekend, so I'll see ye there 👍👍👍

#warpcon #ucc #UniversityCollegeCork #commissions #commission
January 29, 2026 at 1:47 PM
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A real mixture today for #SixOnSaturday with flowers, foliage and berries. We have Winter Berry, Crocus flower, Grass seed-heads, Clematis, Hellebore and Iris reticulata flowers.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the respite from the rain.

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
January 31, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Despite frosts, heavy rain and storms, nature struggles on in the garden today. 🌱🌹
#RoseWednesday #BloomScrolling #Gardening
January 28, 2026 at 1:00 PM
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I've extolled the benefits of empty toilet roll inners as plant pots. Packed in a tray like this is ideal. Roots start pushing through the cardboard and teasing bottom roots apart is easy. Just sink the pot below soil surface to prevent moisture loss.🌱
January 28, 2026 at 9:33 AM
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Morning Bluesky

A rare sunny and dry day's been forecast. I better make the most of it. As yet more rain is due tomorrow and for several days after. Which is about the last thing anyone affected by the floods needs.

Have a good day everyone
#flower #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling
January 28, 2026 at 9:12 AM
In the middle of Storm Chandra here but we still have this little bright spot now flowering. #BloomScrolling #Gardening #Iris #StormChandra
January 27, 2026 at 12:03 PM
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January 26, 2026 at 10:16 AM
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There's life in death. This decaying Alder is home to several suckered, a young Holly, assorted fungi, lichen, grasses and the millions of tiny organisms we can't see. Never knock life!🌱
January 24, 2026 at 10:34 AM
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This week’s #SixOnSaturday continues with the start of spring them. We have daffodils, cyclamens, hellebores, crocus and Camelia flowers.

Have a great weekend and enjoy the sunshine

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScolling
January 24, 2026 at 10:39 AM
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A break from the leaf clearing to do a bit of plant division on some Lily Turf (Liriope muscari)

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #PlantPropagation
January 7, 2026 at 4:19 PM
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I won’t be writing any new articles until the new year, but if anyone wants to something to read during the Christmas period. Please check out an article I wrote last year on my favourite festive plants

bournetogarden.substack.com/p/my-favouri...

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
December 22, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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A conservation ecologist who is in charge of logging each native seed in Ireland has described the project as like "Noah's Ark" for plants - a vault for renewal after ecological disasters
'It's like Noah's Ark' - Man logs every native Irish seed
A conservation ecologist who is in charge of logging each native seed in Ireland has described the project as like "Noah's Ark" for plants - a vault for renewal after ecological disasters.
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December 21, 2025 at 1:37 PM
Even after a very heavy frost last night the Campanula is still in flower. 🌱 #Gardening #BloomScrolling
December 16, 2025 at 4:05 PM
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This week’s article is out on Saturday and is about when and how to cut back your herbaceous plants.

As always, if you want to read it before anyone else, please subscribe to my newsletter below

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🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
December 11, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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Finding it harder to find colour in the garden for #SixOnSaturday, but there’s still some out there. This week we have holly, mahonia, beech leaves, a frosty lawn, the last of the roses and highly scented viburnum flowers.

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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I keep saying this should be the last rose flowers, but as we are starting to prune our roses tomorrow it’ll definitely be my last #RoseWednesday

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #BloomScrolling #FlowerFeed
November 26, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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The advantage of becoming a paid subscriber to my newsletter is that you get full access to all my previous articles.

Including this one I wrote last year on pruning climbing roses:
bournetogarden.substack.com/p/pruning-cl...

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening
Pruning Climbing Roses
Getting to grips with your climbing roses before it gets too cold!
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November 22, 2025 at 11:15 AM
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Isn’t this gorgeous? I don’t expect to see the Jade Vine flowering in November but it really is in the Wisley Glasshouse and is looking even more spectacular with the lights of Glow around it. #flowersonFriday 🌱
November 21, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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Just out our farm charity video by Kirsty Clinch ‘Best Christmas Ever Ever’ please share, comment, follow Kirsty & like. Yes we love you more ❤️ youtu.be/XuIQxbAxOf0?... @kirstyclinch.bsky.social
The Best Christmas Ever - Kirsty Clinch & Caenhill Countryside Centre Christmas Songs Country Songs
YouTube video by Kirsty Clinch
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November 15, 2025 at 9:36 AM
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This week’s #SixOnSaturday include a Salvia, a Bee feeding on a Mahonia, the fruit of a Magnolia, a fun fungus, and a Robeckia.

Have a great weekend all!

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
November 15, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Each month has its own quiet beauty — snowdrops in January’s pale light, sweet peas in June’s warmth, sunflowers glowing through late summer. My 2026 slim wall calendar gathers these moments together, with a plant photograph and a seasonal quotation for every month.

#Calendar2026
November 15, 2025 at 9:30 AM
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This week’s article is out on Saturday and I will be giving some tips on how to plant some spring flowering bulbs.

If you want to read it before anyone else, please subscribe to my newsletter below:

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🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #SpringBulbs #BulbPlanting
November 13, 2025 at 10:51 AM