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Day 3 of #InsectAdvent
For our Nativity themed posts what about a specimen from Natal (Portuguese for Christmas) that comes equipped with the best drinking straw!
Prosoeca ganglbaueri (Nemestrinidae) could even steal your drink from across the room
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
For our Nativity themed posts what about a specimen from Natal (Portuguese for Christmas) that comes equipped with the best drinking straw!
Prosoeca ganglbaueri (Nemestrinidae) could even steal your drink from across the room
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
December 3, 2025 at 4:51 PM
Day 3 of #InsectAdvent
For our Nativity themed posts what about a specimen from Natal (Portuguese for Christmas) that comes equipped with the best drinking straw!
Prosoeca ganglbaueri (Nemestrinidae) could even steal your drink from across the room
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
For our Nativity themed posts what about a specimen from Natal (Portuguese for Christmas) that comes equipped with the best drinking straw!
Prosoeca ganglbaueri (Nemestrinidae) could even steal your drink from across the room
@royentsoc.bsky.social @dipterists.bsky.social
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🧪 A UKCEH Countryside Survey study provides the first evidence of recovering national soil organic carbon in British croplands, after decades of decline.
See a blog post by the British Society of Soil Science: tinyurl.com/y86w5nme
Full paper: bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
See a blog post by the British Society of Soil Science: tinyurl.com/y86w5nme
Full paper: bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
UKCEH Countryside Survey provides the first evidence of recovering national soil organic carbon in British croplands, after decades of decline - British Society of Soil Science
A new study from the UKCEH Countryside Survey on soil carbon has been published in the European Journal of Soil Science. The study provides the first evidence of recovering national soil organic carbo...
soils.org.uk
July 18, 2025 at 2:29 PM
🧪 A UKCEH Countryside Survey study provides the first evidence of recovering national soil organic carbon in British croplands, after decades of decline.
See a blog post by the British Society of Soil Science: tinyurl.com/y86w5nme
Full paper: bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
See a blog post by the British Society of Soil Science: tinyurl.com/y86w5nme
Full paper: bsssjournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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The results show that blooms that reek of faeces, rotting meat and other things that humans find off-putting are surprisingly popular in the plant kingdom
https://go.nature.com/3SuF5po
https://go.nature.com/3SuF5po
How skunk cabbages and other smelly plants brew their foul odour
Nature - A small tweak to a common enzyme gives plants the ability to make smelly sulfurous molecules.
go.nature.com
May 11, 2025 at 11:14 AM
The results show that blooms that reek of faeces, rotting meat and other things that humans find off-putting are surprisingly popular in the plant kingdom
https://go.nature.com/3SuF5po
https://go.nature.com/3SuF5po
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Amazing number of cockchafers around - from in and around the moth traps set last night in the Wye Valley
May 7, 2025 at 9:21 AM
Amazing number of cockchafers around - from in and around the moth traps set last night in the Wye Valley
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Quince Meeches Prolific is blooming well this spring! Such a pretty tree that we have it planted in a flower border.
April 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
Quince Meeches Prolific is blooming well this spring! Such a pretty tree that we have it planted in a flower border.
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Did you ever see so much bloom on a Japanese Quince (Chaenomeles)?
Great pruning regime ensuring spur flowering has created this profusion of flowers!
This is probably the variety ‘Crimson and Gold’ but there are many!
#gardentips
Great pruning regime ensuring spur flowering has created this profusion of flowers!
This is probably the variety ‘Crimson and Gold’ but there are many!
#gardentips
April 16, 2025 at 9:54 AM
Did you ever see so much bloom on a Japanese Quince (Chaenomeles)?
Great pruning regime ensuring spur flowering has created this profusion of flowers!
This is probably the variety ‘Crimson and Gold’ but there are many!
#gardentips
Great pruning regime ensuring spur flowering has created this profusion of flowers!
This is probably the variety ‘Crimson and Gold’ but there are many!
#gardentips
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Lots of Lady’s Smock or Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratense) in this poorly drained field.
This is an especially important food plant for orange tip butterfly caterpillars.
#wildflowers
This is an especially important food plant for orange tip butterfly caterpillars.
#wildflowers
April 12, 2025 at 4:31 PM
Lots of Lady’s Smock or Cuckoo Flower (Cardamine pratense) in this poorly drained field.
This is an especially important food plant for orange tip butterfly caterpillars.
#wildflowers
This is an especially important food plant for orange tip butterfly caterpillars.
#wildflowers
Not snow, but magnolia petals as early flowers fade at The Savil Garden, Windsor Great Park on a blustery day.
April 5, 2025 at 2:12 PM
Not snow, but magnolia petals as early flowers fade at The Savil Garden, Windsor Great Park on a blustery day.
Perfect weather - often look so rain/frost bedraggled - wish I had bought some now.
We’re so impressed with these Stella polyanthus! Planted in January they have a great colour range, large blooms strong scent and dark leaves! What fantastic performers!
April 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Perfect weather - often look so rain/frost bedraggled - wish I had bought some now.
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Spring has come inside the Lindley Hall for the RHS Spring Press conference! 🌸🌱🌿🌼
I took part in the #sustainability panel, talking #pollinators and #slugs and hearing about #water, #peat (free) and #RHS garden practices and support for sustainable gardening.
I took part in the #sustainability panel, talking #pollinators and #slugs and hearing about #water, #peat (free) and #RHS garden practices and support for sustainable gardening.
March 31, 2025 at 2:15 PM
Spring has come inside the Lindley Hall for the RHS Spring Press conference! 🌸🌱🌿🌼
I took part in the #sustainability panel, talking #pollinators and #slugs and hearing about #water, #peat (free) and #RHS garden practices and support for sustainable gardening.
I took part in the #sustainability panel, talking #pollinators and #slugs and hearing about #water, #peat (free) and #RHS garden practices and support for sustainable gardening.
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Snakes head #fritillaries looking great at nearby National Trust #garden Lytes Cary right now.
March 29, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Snakes head #fritillaries looking great at nearby National Trust #garden Lytes Cary right now.
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The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social & the #RoyalHorticulturalSociety are championing hoverflies! Finally the light is shining on the Diptera, highlighting the pollinating adults, & the predatory/decomposer larvae within Syrphidae
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/wild-ab...
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/wild-ab...
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
Wild about Gardens campaign asks us all to become hoverfly heroes | The Wildlife Trusts
Humble hoverfly needs our help, say Royal Horticultural Society and The Wildlife Trusts
www.wildlifetrusts.org
March 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
The @the-wildlifetrusts.bsky.social & the #RoyalHorticulturalSociety are championing hoverflies! Finally the light is shining on the Diptera, highlighting the pollinating adults, & the predatory/decomposer larvae within Syrphidae
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/wild-ab...
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
www.wildlifetrusts.org/news/wild-ab...
@dipteristsforum.bsky.social
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I’m really impressed with #Camellia japonica Dr Burnside which I bought as a very small plant from #thegardensgroup. Look at that rich colour and all those #flowers on a compact plant!
March 11, 2025 at 2:08 PM
I’m really impressed with #Camellia japonica Dr Burnside which I bought as a very small plant from #thegardensgroup. Look at that rich colour and all those #flowers on a compact plant!
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A little taste of spring today at Oxford Botanic Garden 🌞
February 25, 2025 at 6:25 PM
A little taste of spring today at Oxford Botanic Garden 🌞
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It's almost certainly a bee and potentially a Dahlia. Thanks to RHS Wisley for both of these models 🐝 🌺
#Photography #Bee #Flower #TexturesOfNature #FineArtPhotography #Surrey #GardenWildlife #Dahlia #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #BritishWildlife #BeePhotography #BugLife #EastCoastKin #RHS
#Photography #Bee #Flower #TexturesOfNature #FineArtPhotography #Surrey #GardenWildlife #Dahlia #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #BritishWildlife #BeePhotography #BugLife #EastCoastKin #RHS
February 20, 2025 at 4:02 PM
It's almost certainly a bee and potentially a Dahlia. Thanks to RHS Wisley for both of these models 🐝 🌺
#Photography #Bee #Flower #TexturesOfNature #FineArtPhotography #Surrey #GardenWildlife #Dahlia #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #BritishWildlife #BeePhotography #BugLife #EastCoastKin #RHS
#Photography #Bee #Flower #TexturesOfNature #FineArtPhotography #Surrey #GardenWildlife #Dahlia #NaturePhotography #MacroPhotography #BritishWildlife #BeePhotography #BugLife #EastCoastKin #RHS
Excellent, my Oregon Sugar Pods are in a tub under a bell cloche, germinating slowly, cat on notice that she will back to Cat Protection if mice arrive.
First mange tout peas sown into plastic gutters to germinate on the greenhouse rafters out of reach of pesky mice!
Destined to grow in an unheated polytunnel for earliest crop.
@guybarter.bsky.social
Destined to grow in an unheated polytunnel for earliest crop.
@guybarter.bsky.social
February 14, 2025 at 8:59 AM
Excellent, my Oregon Sugar Pods are in a tub under a bell cloche, germinating slowly, cat on notice that she will back to Cat Protection if mice arrive.
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The hardest thing about the RHS level 2 as a veg gardener is the existence of flowers & learning Latin names
My hack is to go to garden centres trying to spot them & buying the ones you get wrong in class
Expensive but should have a nice ornamental garden next year
Skimmia japonica ('Rubella')
My hack is to go to garden centres trying to spot them & buying the ones you get wrong in class
Expensive but should have a nice ornamental garden next year
Skimmia japonica ('Rubella')
November 18, 2024 at 10:56 AM
The hardest thing about the RHS level 2 as a veg gardener is the existence of flowers & learning Latin names
My hack is to go to garden centres trying to spot them & buying the ones you get wrong in class
Expensive but should have a nice ornamental garden next year
Skimmia japonica ('Rubella')
My hack is to go to garden centres trying to spot them & buying the ones you get wrong in class
Expensive but should have a nice ornamental garden next year
Skimmia japonica ('Rubella')
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New book by Lucy Chamberlain - RHS Grow Food Anywhere... read more on the dirt.news #DK #LucyChamberlain #RHS #growingfood #GYO #vegetablegarden #gardeningbook #gardening
thedirt.news/rhs-grow-foo...
thedirt.news/rhs-grow-foo...
November 17, 2024 at 10:17 AM
New book by Lucy Chamberlain - RHS Grow Food Anywhere... read more on the dirt.news #DK #LucyChamberlain #RHS #growingfood #GYO #vegetablegarden #gardeningbook #gardening
thedirt.news/rhs-grow-foo...
thedirt.news/rhs-grow-foo...
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Words not really needed!
RHS Wisley last week
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RHS Wisley last week
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November 18, 2024 at 4:47 PM
Words not really needed!
RHS Wisley last week
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RHS Wisley last week
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It's been a perfect evening to start Glow at RHS Wisley.
November 21, 2024 at 6:41 PM
It's been a perfect evening to start Glow at RHS Wisley.