Mel 🍂🍄
@thequietplace.bsky.social
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Mel 🍂🍄
@thequietplace.bsky.social
· Apr 21
Been away for two weeks so I’m back to a somewhat wild and crazy garden with a long list of jobs. But look, tulips! 🥰🖤 🌱 #GardensHour
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Poppy is linked to gods of sleep (and death) like the twins Hypnus and Thanatos. It was also a component of “dwale” if mixed with vinegar. A sleep inducing recipe from the 12th century. The Middle English word (pronounced dwahluh) comes from Old Norse “dwol” meaning sleep or trance #FolkyFriday 🌱
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Poppy is linked to gods of sleep (and death) like the twins Hypnus and Thanatos. It was also a component of “dwale” if mixed with vinegar. A sleep inducing recipe from the 12th century. The Middle English word (pronounced dwahluh) comes from Old Norse “dwol” meaning sleep or trance #FolkyFriday 🌱
Poppy is linked to gods of sleep (and death) like the twins Hypnus and Thanatos. It was also a component of “dwale” if mixed with vinegar. A sleep inducing recipe from the 12th century. The Middle English word (pronounced dwahluh) comes from Old Norse “dwol” meaning sleep or trance #FolkyFriday 🌱
November 14, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Poppy is linked to gods of sleep (and death) like the twins Hypnus and Thanatos. It was also a component of “dwale” if mixed with vinegar. A sleep inducing recipe from the 12th century. The Middle English word (pronounced dwahluh) comes from Old Norse “dwol” meaning sleep or trance #FolkyFriday 🌱
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This page of my PaperStage art journal was inspired by @thequietplace.bsky.social
For a fresh scoop of outsider art I submit this offering to the culture war correspondents. Let it be known that I am on the side of flowers and magic. Poetically licensed creatives drawn to express over depress. ✌️🙏🏼✊🏻
For a fresh scoop of outsider art I submit this offering to the culture war correspondents. Let it be known that I am on the side of flowers and magic. Poetically licensed creatives drawn to express over depress. ✌️🙏🏼✊🏻
November 8, 2025 at 3:39 PM
This page of my PaperStage art journal was inspired by @thequietplace.bsky.social
For a fresh scoop of outsider art I submit this offering to the culture war correspondents. Let it be known that I am on the side of flowers and magic. Poetically licensed creatives drawn to express over depress. ✌️🙏🏼✊🏻
For a fresh scoop of outsider art I submit this offering to the culture war correspondents. Let it be known that I am on the side of flowers and magic. Poetically licensed creatives drawn to express over depress. ✌️🙏🏼✊🏻
Just a couple of Saturday snaps! 🌱 #bloomscrolling
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
Just a couple of Saturday snaps! 🌱 #bloomscrolling
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The wicker man (this is the Alton Towers version) is mentioned by both Caesar and Strabo as a method of Celtic human sacrifice. With the ashes scattered to help crops grow. Diodorus also said Celts would burn animals and captives with the first fruits of the harvest or in wooden boxes #FolkyFriday
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The wicker man (this is the Alton Towers version) is mentioned by both Caesar and Strabo as a method of Celtic human sacrifice. With the ashes scattered to help crops grow. Diodorus also said Celts would burn animals and captives with the first fruits of the harvest or in wooden boxes #FolkyFriday
The wicker man (this is the Alton Towers version) is mentioned by both Caesar and Strabo as a method of Celtic human sacrifice. With the ashes scattered to help crops grow. Diodorus also said Celts would burn animals and captives with the first fruits of the harvest or in wooden boxes #FolkyFriday
November 7, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The wicker man (this is the Alton Towers version) is mentioned by both Caesar and Strabo as a method of Celtic human sacrifice. With the ashes scattered to help crops grow. Diodorus also said Celts would burn animals and captives with the first fruits of the harvest or in wooden boxes #FolkyFriday
November means bulb planting! Was out adding crocus and fritillaries to some community spaces over the weekend and I’ve ordered myself more “Midnight Sky” hyacinths for home today too because they’re just stunning 🌱 #GardensHour
November 3, 2025 at 9:07 PM
November means bulb planting! Was out adding crocus and fritillaries to some community spaces over the weekend and I’ve ordered myself more “Midnight Sky” hyacinths for home today too because they’re just stunning 🌱 #GardensHour
Happy Halloween and blessed Samhain everyone! Wishing you a wonderfully spooky day. I’ll hopefully be planting my tulips bulbs (I usually do!) 🥰🎃💀🪦🖤 🌱 #halloween
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
Happy Halloween and blessed Samhain everyone! Wishing you a wonderfully spooky day. I’ll hopefully be planting my tulips bulbs (I usually do!) 🥰🎃💀🪦🖤 🌱 #halloween
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Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
October 31, 2025 at 9:24 AM
Birds but they get spookier each time. 🎃👻
Enter if you dare...🚪
Enter if you dare...🚪
Halloween theme you say? 🎃🖤 here’s some of my own black plants from over the year and a lovely display I saw this week at a cafe using a gorgeous dahlia! #GardensHour 🌱
October 27, 2025 at 9:13 PM
Halloween theme you say? 🎃🖤 here’s some of my own black plants from over the year and a lovely display I saw this week at a cafe using a gorgeous dahlia! #GardensHour 🌱
Definitely most proud of the recycled/reused plants (also grown from my own seed) and donated pots I’ve slowly added to a local churchyard. As part of a plan to improve a quiet, unloved area there. Put in 5 unwanted yarrows last week from our local In Bloom summer bedding scheme too 🥰👍 #GardensHour
October 20, 2025 at 8:15 PM
Definitely most proud of the recycled/reused plants (also grown from my own seed) and donated pots I’ve slowly added to a local churchyard. As part of a plan to improve a quiet, unloved area there. Put in 5 unwanted yarrows last week from our local In Bloom summer bedding scheme too 🥰👍 #GardensHour
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Alongside @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk & @wclnews.bsky.social, we’ve responded to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 's piece on the Planning Bill.
He’s right: it’s a grave threat to nature.
But we’ve never been silent.
We’ve challenged it at every turn & we won’t stop now.
He’s right: it’s a grave threat to nature.
But we’ve never been silent.
We’ve challenged it at every turn & we won’t stop now.
Environment groups are anything but ‘mute’ on the planning bill | Letters
Letter: Craig Bennett, Hilary McGrady, Dr James Robinson and Richard Benwell say they have never stopped campaigning on the planning and infrastructure bill’s flaws
www.theguardian.com
October 20, 2025 at 6:20 AM
Alongside @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social, @nationaltrust.org.uk & @wclnews.bsky.social, we’ve responded to @georgemonbiot.bsky.social 's piece on the Planning Bill.
He’s right: it’s a grave threat to nature.
But we’ve never been silent.
We’ve challenged it at every turn & we won’t stop now.
He’s right: it’s a grave threat to nature.
But we’ve never been silent.
We’ve challenged it at every turn & we won’t stop now.
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Most goblins were said to be malicious. Causing problems in homes by banging pots and pans, moving furniture or tapping on walls and doors. Hobgoblins are more friendly! They happily help humans in exchange for gifts. These are the guys I like to think I have in my garden! 😂 #FolkloreSunday 🌱
October 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Most goblins were said to be malicious. Causing problems in homes by banging pots and pans, moving furniture or tapping on walls and doors. Hobgoblins are more friendly! They happily help humans in exchange for gifts. These are the guys I like to think I have in my garden! 😂 #FolkloreSunday 🌱
Most goblins were said to be malicious. Causing problems in homes by banging pots and pans, moving furniture or tapping on walls and doors. Hobgoblins are more friendly! They happily help humans in exchange for gifts. These are the guys I like to think I have in my garden! 😂 #FolkloreSunday 🌱
October 19, 2025 at 1:33 PM
Most goblins were said to be malicious. Causing problems in homes by banging pots and pans, moving furniture or tapping on walls and doors. Hobgoblins are more friendly! They happily help humans in exchange for gifts. These are the guys I like to think I have in my garden! 😂 #FolkloreSunday 🌱
I always see posts like this getting attention but they confuse me because it’s really not that hard to buy any of those flowers or grow them for yourself. I’ve grown them all this year! 😂 🌱 #FlowersOnFriday
October 17, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I always see posts like this getting attention but they confuse me because it’s really not that hard to buy any of those flowers or grow them for yourself. I’ve grown them all this year! 😂 🌱 #FlowersOnFriday
Over on the the old bird app people seem to be claiming that girls can’t like Star Wars which is totally ridiculous. I like it so much I even grow the “Star Wars” dahlia! Take that guys 😝😂 🌱 #StarWars
October 15, 2025 at 1:12 PM
Over on the the old bird app people seem to be claiming that girls can’t like Star Wars which is totally ridiculous. I like it so much I even grow the “Star Wars” dahlia! Take that guys 😝😂 🌱 #StarWars
It’s monkshood season in my garden at the moment and they really do look like little cloaks or hats don’t they! #GardensHour
October 13, 2025 at 8:15 PM
It’s monkshood season in my garden at the moment and they really do look like little cloaks or hats don’t they! #GardensHour
Spotted some gorgeous mushrooms at Alton Towers too! Haven’t seen a amanita that big before in a car park 😂😍🍄 #fungi #fungifriends
October 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
Spotted some gorgeous mushrooms at Alton Towers too! Haven’t seen a amanita that big before in a car park 😂😍🍄 #fungi #fungifriends
Overall a suitably gloomy day was had! 🖤
October 11, 2025 at 7:28 AM
Overall a suitably gloomy day was had! 🖤
The frogs have got their hats on! Had loads of fun at Scarefest yesterday, hadn’t been to Alton Towers in a while but the 3 mazes they’ve got now are pretty great 🥰🎃
October 11, 2025 at 7:23 AM
The frogs have got their hats on! Had loads of fun at Scarefest yesterday, hadn’t been to Alton Towers in a while but the 3 mazes they’ve got now are pretty great 🥰🎃
Still recovering from the storm here (hope nobody else has sustained any real damage) but the Dracula dahlias are loving spooky season so far! They’re having another flowering session in honour in the vampire’s favourite month! 😂🩸🦇🧛🏻♂️ #GardensHour
October 6, 2025 at 8:07 PM
Still recovering from the storm here (hope nobody else has sustained any real damage) but the Dracula dahlias are loving spooky season so far! They’re having another flowering session in honour in the vampire’s favourite month! 😂🩸🦇🧛🏻♂️ #GardensHour
This week I made brooms from garden off cuts (hawthorn and herbs mostly) and bought (not grown sadly 😂) a gorgeous pumpkin! First of the year 🥰🎃 🌱
October 3, 2025 at 12:37 PM
This week I made brooms from garden off cuts (hawthorn and herbs mostly) and bought (not grown sadly 😂) a gorgeous pumpkin! First of the year 🥰🎃 🌱
It’s nearly October! So have a handful of dark flowers from my garden (and rose hips) that are still going strong and a massive pumpkin I saw at the garden centre 😂🎃 🌱 #GardensHour
September 29, 2025 at 8:17 PM
It’s nearly October! So have a handful of dark flowers from my garden (and rose hips) that are still going strong and a massive pumpkin I saw at the garden centre 😂🎃 🌱 #GardensHour
I missed #GardensHour last night but I actually had a bulb delivery this week so I am posting about them anyway! Better late than never? 😂 I’m adding crocus “Panda” which look fun and “Ronaldo” and “Nightmare” to my collection of dark tulips @gardenshour.bsky.social 🖤🥰 🌱
September 23, 2025 at 3:09 PM
I missed #GardensHour last night but I actually had a bulb delivery this week so I am posting about them anyway! Better late than never? 😂 I’m adding crocus “Panda” which look fun and “Ronaldo” and “Nightmare” to my collection of dark tulips @gardenshour.bsky.social 🖤🥰 🌱