🌱 Emma Marsh
@emmamarsh5.bsky.social
Gardening and nature buff. Conservationist. All things comms campaigns and tech for @rspb.bsky.social. Love #birds, #wildlife and #gardening. Mostly to be found on my plot. Midlander. The views I express here are mine alone
Can’t believe so much is still in bloom in November. On the one hand, a late Autumn day spent turning the compost and tidying the brassica cage. On the other, admiring the flowers in the warm sun!
#bloomscrolling #Gardening 🌱
#bloomscrolling #Gardening 🌱
November 8, 2025 at 5:06 PM
Can’t believe so much is still in bloom in November. On the one hand, a late Autumn day spent turning the compost and tidying the brassica cage. On the other, admiring the flowers in the warm sun!
#bloomscrolling #Gardening 🌱
#bloomscrolling #Gardening 🌱
Used a wet and windy Sunday to put our windfall apples to good use and made apple juice. 30 bottles made and pasturised. Looks a bit brown as the pulp oxidised before I could press it but tastes fab... 🌱 #UKGardening #Gardening
October 19, 2025 at 6:13 PM
Used a wet and windy Sunday to put our windfall apples to good use and made apple juice. 30 bottles made and pasturised. Looks a bit brown as the pulp oxidised before I could press it but tastes fab... 🌱 #UKGardening #Gardening
Last of the tomatoes ripening in the polytunnel. Chadwick Cherry and Purple Ukraine from Real Seeds. Rest of the tunnel now planted up with winter salads. Just a few peppers left to ripen... #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
October 12, 2025 at 6:30 PM
Last of the tomatoes ripening in the polytunnel. Chadwick Cherry and Purple Ukraine from Real Seeds. Rest of the tunnel now planted up with winter salads. Just a few peppers left to ripen... #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
Nothing quite like a home-grown salad! 🌱
September 1, 2025 at 6:17 PM
Nothing quite like a home-grown salad! 🌱
So the grapes are ripening early this year. Also very juicy given how little water we've had! Couple of weeks and we might be harvesting ready for wine time 🍷🍇 🌱 #UKGardening #Gardening
August 26, 2025 at 6:49 AM
So the grapes are ripening early this year. Also very juicy given how little water we've had! Couple of weeks and we might be harvesting ready for wine time 🍷🍇 🌱 #UKGardening #Gardening
Mammoth job this afternoon blanching much of the sweetcorn harvest (Lark & Swift) for freezing. This is batch 2 and I've barely dented the crop. From unpromising beginnings of poor germination to probably best crop in years... 🌱 #UKGardening #Gardening
August 17, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Mammoth job this afternoon blanching much of the sweetcorn harvest (Lark & Swift) for freezing. This is batch 2 and I've barely dented the crop. From unpromising beginnings of poor germination to probably best crop in years... 🌱 #UKGardening #Gardening
Polytunnel's not looking too shabby either...Love taking my summer holidays at home. Time to really just 'be' in the garden...watching the wildlife, listening to the birds, growing my own food... #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
August 3, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Polytunnel's not looking too shabby either...Love taking my summer holidays at home. Time to really just 'be' in the garden...watching the wildlife, listening to the birds, growing my own food... #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
Best year in a while for fruit and veg in my garden now we've finally had some rain and lower temperatures. #FabulousFour #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
August 3, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Best year in a while for fruit and veg in my garden now we've finally had some rain and lower temperatures. #FabulousFour #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
Just a few of my favourite plants right now in the flower garden ... #FabulousFour #Gardening #UKGardening
August 3, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Just a few of my favourite plants right now in the flower garden ... #FabulousFour #Gardening #UKGardening
Thrilled my trained peach tree actually has peaches this year, and we're so close to them ripening. Peach leaf curl absolutely trashed any hope of a crop in last year's wet cold summer. #FingersCrossed #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
July 12, 2025 at 9:02 AM
Thrilled my trained peach tree actually has peaches this year, and we're so close to them ripening. Peach leaf curl absolutely trashed any hope of a crop in last year's wet cold summer. #FingersCrossed #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
Bees and wild marjoram... 🌱 #UKGardening #Gardening
July 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM
Bees and wild marjoram... 🌱 #UKGardening #Gardening
Gooseberries and blackcurrants harvested (with enough left on the plants for the wildlife) and blackcurrants about to be on their way to becoming cordial... #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
July 5, 2025 at 1:29 PM
Gooseberries and blackcurrants harvested (with enough left on the plants for the wildlife) and blackcurrants about to be on their way to becoming cordial... #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
Not a bad cherry haul from the garden even if I do say so myself, especially given the desperate lack of water here in the Midlands. Enough left for the blackbirds and their brood too on the tree... Now to the blackcurrants and gooseberries... #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
July 5, 2025 at 9:11 AM
Not a bad cherry haul from the garden even if I do say so myself, especially given the desperate lack of water here in the Midlands. Enough left for the blackbirds and their brood too on the tree... Now to the blackcurrants and gooseberries... #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
Had such a great time at Hampton Court showcasing the wonder (travel up to 2 million miles in their lifetime) and decline (down 68% since 1995) of Swifts on behalf of RSPB and RHS. And got to spend time with the brilliant Bill Bailey and meet the fab Adam Frost #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
July 2, 2025 at 12:58 PM
Had such a great time at Hampton Court showcasing the wonder (travel up to 2 million miles in their lifetime) and decline (down 68% since 1995) of Swifts on behalf of RSPB and RHS. And got to spend time with the brilliant Bill Bailey and meet the fab Adam Frost #UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
Very excited to be at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival press day today... 🌱
June 30, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Very excited to be at RHS Hampton Court Palace Garden Festival press day today... 🌱
I think my 'Christmas' Cactus is slightly confused about the time of year...
#UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
#UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
June 26, 2025 at 6:34 AM
I think my 'Christmas' Cactus is slightly confused about the time of year...
#UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
#UKGardening #Gardening 🌱
Best time today at @rspb.bsky.social Bempton Cliffs nature reserve in North Yorkshire with my team. As one of the stars of that team said 'come for the Puffins, stay for the Gannets'
June 12, 2025 at 6:44 PM
Best time today at @rspb.bsky.social Bempton Cliffs nature reserve in North Yorkshire with my team. As one of the stars of that team said 'come for the Puffins, stay for the Gannets'
June 6, 2025 at 12:29 PM
Community action can play a big role in tackling the #nature crisis & often has many other benefits such as combatting loneliness.
Love this feel good story about a community in Greater Manchester that's put up more than 100 #Swift nest boxes on their own homes.
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
Love this feel good story about a community in Greater Manchester that's put up more than 100 #Swift nest boxes on their own homes.
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
May 19, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Community action can play a big role in tackling the #nature crisis & often has many other benefits such as combatting loneliness.
Love this feel good story about a community in Greater Manchester that's put up more than 100 #Swift nest boxes on their own homes.
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
Love this feel good story about a community in Greater Manchester that's put up more than 100 #Swift nest boxes on their own homes.
www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
Even though we've only had 9mm of rain since March, the flowers in the garden 🌱 are really going for it. Grass paths look like it's August in drought however, but the mining bees are loving the sandy conditions #ukgardening
May 13, 2025 at 6:34 PM
Even though we've only had 9mm of rain since March, the flowers in the garden 🌱 are really going for it. Grass paths look like it's August in drought however, but the mining bees are loving the sandy conditions #ukgardening
A good cuppa in the garden always gets me ready for early morning BBC & C5 media interviews!
Very grateful to be talking one of my favourite topics – Big Garden Bird Watch. The results are in!
It’s great to be able to help others connect to #Nature too!
More here www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
Very grateful to be talking one of my favourite topics – Big Garden Bird Watch. The results are in!
It’s great to be able to help others connect to #Nature too!
More here www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
April 11, 2025 at 10:22 AM
A good cuppa in the garden always gets me ready for early morning BBC & C5 media interviews!
Very grateful to be talking one of my favourite topics – Big Garden Bird Watch. The results are in!
It’s great to be able to help others connect to #Nature too!
More here www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
Very grateful to be talking one of my favourite topics – Big Garden Bird Watch. The results are in!
It’s great to be able to help others connect to #Nature too!
More here www.rspb.org.uk/whats-happen...
Just popped out between online meetings and delighted to see the beautiful blossom on the Amelanchier has come out this afternoon
April 7, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Just popped out between online meetings and delighted to see the beautiful blossom on the Amelanchier has come out this afternoon
Blossom on the sweet cherry is almost ready to go... 🌱
April 4, 2025 at 3:13 PM
Blossom on the sweet cherry is almost ready to go... 🌱
Beautiful flowering cherry - just came out today - standing proud in the middle of my veg plot- amidst very stormy skies this evening 🌱
March 28, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Beautiful flowering cherry - just came out today - standing proud in the middle of my veg plot- amidst very stormy skies this evening 🌱