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Jo
@jowelfare.bsky.social
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Plants make me happy 🌱
Parent/carer, Gardener, Optimist. Love music, art, nature and environment.
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Poor you! Here’s a better one 😃
English countryside near dusk, cloudy sky catching the last rays of sun. Fields, trees and hedgerows. No houses in sight. South Downs in the background.
November 30, 2025 at 10:53 AM
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Inside an Acer, ❤️ Autumn 🌱
Vibrant red seen looking inside an Acer, with black stems and hazy sky between the leaves.
November 6, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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Rottingdean beach, West Sussex
Tide out showing eroded limestone and flint pebbles covered in seaweed and limpets. Makes a beautiful landscape almost alien looking. Colours matching the clouds in the sky
November 2, 2025 at 5:58 PM
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From the South Downs in Sussex above Westmeston. The trees forming Victoria’s V just turning for autumn. Plumpton College in the mid ground. Looking North East.
Undulating Downland fields with sheep in. Patchwork of fields, woods and farms. Trees turning orange and brown and a moody sky in the distance.
November 1, 2025 at 3:55 PM
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#PointlessThings : a style in the middle of a massive field. #SouthDowns
Daughter sitting on a wooden style in a large Downland field with no fences around for miles.
October 25, 2025 at 5:01 PM
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Autumnal 🌱
Ripe black grapes hanging down from a frame with vine leaves just turning red, festooned with spider webs covered in dew.
September 29, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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More snaps from our walk. It was a beautiful day for it.
A hedgerow full of Haws shining bright red in the sun, with blue sky and clouds behind. Gentle clouds in the sky, but enough to make a huge difference while walking. Jumper was on and off the whole way round. There was a deer seen from the footpath. It didn’t look real until it moved! Fields, trees and hedgerows looking lush and green after the rain we’ve had. You can see for miles across the Sussex Weald
September 13, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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Some snaps of our walk today. England at her finest 😍
Saxon church, rebuilt in the 13th century of flint and stone, with shaped Yew Avenue and old grave stones, backlit by the sun peaking from behind a cloud. St Peter’s Church, Henfield. Front entrance Tudor cottage with topiary and a white picket fence. View across fields of the Sussex Weald from under an oak tree, with blue sky and clouds.
September 13, 2025 at 5:25 PM
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It’s been raining lots so there are loads of Trumps about.
Fat Orange Slugs
September 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
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There are times when being a gardener is not fun. #soggy 🌱
Wrinkly hand from working in soggy gloves in the rain.
September 2, 2025 at 1:54 PM
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Seven sisters in Sussex, Uk. Beautiful day for it and even had a paddle 😎
August 10, 2025 at 3:31 PM
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My first car 😍
Me as a teenager in the garden with my red 2CV in the background.
July 16, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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Chalk downland #wildflowers on the #SouthDowns. So many species of flowering plants and different grasses, and loads of butterflies and insects despite the stiff breeze at the top. @southdownsnp.bsky.social @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Foreground showing chalk Downland wildflowers including: scabious, centuary, bellflower, bedstraw etc. View across the Sussex Weald towards Burgess Hill in the background, with blue sky and lots of fluffy clouds. Everything looking refreshed after the morning’s rain.
July 7, 2025 at 7:17 PM
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Some roses enjoying a summer shower, had a little dance in it myself whilst dead heading.
Roses and herbaceous plants around a small lawn
June 21, 2025 at 2:50 PM
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Some calming sounds for you: skylarks and a summer breeze. Happy #Sussex day. St Richard’s day, patron saint of Sussex. 🌞
June 15, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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She loves it when I Chelsea chop the Nepeta 😎😆
My cat sitting in a trug in the kitchen on a bed of Cat mint prunings, high as a kite 😄
May 28, 2025 at 8:07 PM
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Brambles colonising and old Ash wood plantation ravaged by Ash dieback disease.
Four foot high bramble thicket in the foreground and many dead young (25 years old or so) ash trees covered in lichens. Blue sky and clouds behind.
May 26, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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Raindrops on roses
Lovely pink and white rose with raindrops on the petals.
May 21, 2025 at 8:31 AM
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The last of the spring show before weeding out the forget me nots to make room for summer annuals.
Small lawn surrounded by forget me nots tulips and perennials.
May 17, 2025 at 5:35 PM
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REALLY loved these pieces at a visit to the Saatchi gallery in London today. Annoyingly photo too blurry to read the artist details and I have the memory of a goldfish. Want to say 👏🙌
May 10, 2025 at 8:33 PM
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A lovely English Oak for #ThickTrunkTuesday from just north of Haywards Heath in Sussex.
A large Oak tree in a field of cows, unusual shape because all of the basal and epicormic growth has been grazed .
May 6, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Rescued this little darling from my cat the other day. It sat on my hand until its heart rate returned to normal. It looked at me, winked and flew off 😁
Goldcrest on my hand, it was so tiny.
May 2, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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Just now 😄
April 29, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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First crop of the season 😃
ASPARAGUS 😋
April 23, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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More bluebells and lambs 😍
Carpet of undisturbed bluebell flowers seen through a hedge So many bluebells - peak season with the tree canopy only just unfurling. Lambs and their mums jumping about in a field surrounded by trees on a cloudy afternoon.
April 21, 2025 at 4:30 PM