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Martina Farrow
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Job was illustration, before accident disabled my right arm. Learning to be a left-handed gardener 🌱 East Sussex 🇪🇺
#nomow #mowsaic #wildgarden #wildlife #wildflowers #meditation #illustration
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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · Dec 22
Late for #WildflowerHour
Scarlet berries of Stinky Iris, starry OxEye Daisy, an old Rose branch with new Lichen & nice dark Ivy.
Peace 💫🕊️
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Why am I rehashing all this?

So the next time a Republican simp asks you why the “Biden DOJ” did not release the Epstein files, you can answer with the following:

“Ghislaine Maxwell’s court cases, that’s why.”
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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#WildflowerHour Berries looking bright now 🍎🍂🍒
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Warm orange berries of Iris foetidissima. The old flower stems are papery-dry with some darker blotches Hearty red Holly berries shining on a part of the shrub with deep glossy un-spiked foliage Matt purpley Ivy berries, clustered on their stems Ivy berries, still plump and green. A clustered posy of little spheres against its deep green foliage
November 16, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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💜🌸💚Early for #WildflowerHour Sweet tiny late flowers still visible this week
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Violet flower with heart shaped green leaves in grass with fallen Ash tree leaves. Mist droplets on all surfaces Little pink flowers of red dead nettle? Fresh green foliage, very bright for November Herb Robert flowers, cheery pink in bank of dried grass stalks Beloved Self Heal, a purply coronet of petals
November 16, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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“Our oaths did not expire simply because we took off the uniform.”

Former Navy pilot Ken Harbaugh shares a powerful Veterans Day message about service, sacrifice, and what real patriotism means — inspired by Marine Master Sgt. Mike “Top” Washington.
A Different Kind of Patriotism
Today, more than ever, America needs its veterans to remember that their oaths to the Constitution do not expire.
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November 11, 2025 at 4:45 PM
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At the going down of the sun, and in the morning, we will remember them 🌹

Today, as the nation falls silent, we remember the stories behind the names, the ancestors who served, and those who never returned.
Remembrance Day image - group of World War I soldiers sitting together behind sandbag barricade, smiling and equipped with gear.
November 11, 2025 at 9:00 AM
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🍈🌾🎃Grass heap experiment produced one Crown Prince squash! Gardening friends advised removing other flowers so the plant could focus on this solo beauty.
Today I’ll roast astonishing coloured squash (with walnuts added later), to make a pasta dish + Sage butter 🌱
#garden #bloomscrolling
Upon the 1970s olive/khaki kitchen worktop are 2 white bowls. One has peelings & seeds from Crown Prince squash. The other contains its beautiful orange flesh, cubed. In sunshine & supported on a thin wooden platform grows a pretty pale green squash. Pic from earlier this Summertime. Its vine and a couple of leaves also rest on the surrounding grass Happy to revisit this pic from Summer of beautiful mango-coloured yellow/orange Crown Prince squash flower. Arranged in a jam jar of water on outdoor table with Red Valerian, OxEye Daisy, pink pelargonium & hay-scented Melilot flowers Solitary Crown Prince squash growing on its vine, which emerges from a grassy compost heap. I made an attempt to weave little twiggy fences to contain the heap, mostly blown sideways by our Sou’Westerlies! A couple of Field Maple saplings are sheltered by the heap. Mix of long & shorter grass behind + gate
November 11, 2025 at 10:11 AM
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“The BBC didn’t get January 6 wrong. It should be brave enough to say so. Whoever wrote the internal report seen by The Telegraph is either malign or mistaken. The way it has been weaponised to attack the BBC shows the folly of trying to appease Team Trump, or to negotiate with them in good faith.”
The BBC was right about the Capitol riots. In a sane world, Trump would be in jail
Trump faced impeachment over the riots, and in a world where Republicans had more courage, he would have been found guilty
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November 4, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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Riot women!!!! My gosh soo many layers. It is fantastic!!!! Hard hitting in ya face! I'm going to watch again and then do a proper review.

I'm soo overwhelmed by it.
November 9, 2025 at 8:10 PM
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🌺Very much need to post for #WildflowerHour in memory of my dearly missed Dad (army WW2).
His inner war never ceased, but thankful my childhood inspiration was sparked by our little strolls, clutching the Ladybird book of British Wildflowers 🐞
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Two heads of gorgeous Red Valerian flowers, fresh in November! Feverfew flowers like clusters of little daisies, in November sunshine Starry blue flowers of Borage and their downy leaves Training at Sandhurst in WW2, my late Dad in a group photo
November 9, 2025 at 7:25 PM
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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🍂🌸🍂 Think this is Prunus x subhirtella ‘autumnalis rosea’? Planted by previous resident, its blossom is sparse but the bees love it 🐝 Pics taken on Saturday for
#treesontuesday 🌱
Close-up of pink blossom cluster on autumn flowering cherry tree. Still has its leaves, some are turning. Blue sky Very blue sky with branches of autumn flowering cherry - prunus subhirtella autumnalis rosea? Full-frame autumn flowering cherry tree is characterful with dark green ivy growing thickly from the bank, around its trunk and up one limb. Blue sky, distant Italian poplars - populus nigra ‘Italica’ and a field gate
November 4, 2025 at 2:13 PM
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🤍 Late for #WildflowerHour - White Campion still flowering 🕊️
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Three flowers of White Campion in a patch of dark green glossy Common Ivy. Also a feathery leaf of Yarrow
November 2, 2025 at 10:41 PM
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Early sunrise view this morning. Beauty draws focus away from anxiety. Love to all
#trees 🌱
Across the field a large long shadow breaks into sunlight on golden Autumnal trees Golden autumn sunlight this morning, tree leaves turning orange in the lane
October 30, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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🍁🍄‍🟫🍂 Resembling Yorkshire puds, reposted from 12 Oct for #WildFunghiHour
🌼🌸 Also Gorse, Herb Robert & a lone Buttercup for #WildflowerHour
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Love to all 🌱
Close up of a yellow Gorse flower upon blue/green spiky foliage. In the distance, a Weeping Crab Apple tree laden with amber fruits Little pink flowers of Herb Robert. Bright fresh green leaves. Beside is a garden plant with purple-bronze leaves Solo flower of vivid yellow Buttercup Group of funghi, looking like doughy golden buns or Yorkshire puds?!
October 26, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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Picking these before temps drop tonight.
#UKGardening 🌱 #dahlias #cotswolds
Hand holding pink, yellow, white and purple dahlia flowers.
October 25, 2025 at 1:09 PM
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#Bloomscrolling 🌱
Enjoying every drop of sunlight & colour & every petal 🌈✨💕🌸
Downward facing rose in sunshine after stormy rain. Old Blush rose, delicate sugar pink petals, slender stems. Wild grassy bank behind with possibly a Violet flowering? Late bloomer - Hesperantha coccinea has a cluster of beautiful pink flowers on a tall stem. In a pot shared with Cotoneaster & other plants from way back in our previous home Peachy pink Begonia flower in sunshine with succulents around same pot Swishy copper coloured grass, blown horizontal by storm winds - can’t recall its name? Pink flowers of Oxalis, magenta Dianthus flowers + Mexican fleabane daisies tumbled all together in sunlight.
October 25, 2025 at 9:58 AM
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🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 Plaid Cymru WIN Caerphilly
💚 Plaid Cymru yn ENNILL Caerffili.

Llongyfarchiadau Lindsay Whittle - the new Member of the Senedd for Caerphilly.

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October 24, 2025 at 1:17 AM
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Mona Caron, contemporary Swiss-born, San Francisco-based artist, known for her large scale murals #WomensArt
Photo of a cityscape with a focus on a large multistorey building with a huge mural of a winding plant with pink blossoms against a brown background
October 17, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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#RoseWednesday
Love from the garden 💕🌹🌺🪴💐
My hand holding a late flower of a very pink Rose. Blue sky between light clouds and trees behind Colourfully painted terracotta pot contains tiny plant of Rosa x odorata ‘Bengal Crimson’ - delicate wavy stems with slender crimson rosebuds. Behind are white Asters and palm fronds beyond. Beside is a woven bamboo cloche placed over a small square terracotta pot, home to a Salvia cutting (needs attention!)
October 22, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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NEWS: Arizona Attorney General Kris Mayes and Rep.-Elect Adelita Grijalva have SUED the U.S. House of Representatives in federal court in Washington, D.C. over Speaker Mike Johnson’s refusal to swear in Grijalva.

Grijalva would be the 218th vote for the Epstein Files discharge petition.
October 21, 2025 at 10:06 PM
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Late for #GardensHour
Rose rescued before big rains yesterday, on Mum’s orange linen tablecloth - unironed, Mum won’t mind 😇
Moved rose beside Mum’s pic as we’re upside-down, painting walls 🎨🪜💧
Rose was planted by previous residents 1970s? No idea of variety but a tough-as-old-boots *tree*
A single Coral pink rose in a vase on an orange linen table cloth. The same coral pink rose (in my grandmother’s yellow vase) moved next to Mum’s black & white photo is in a gold frame. Mum is maybe age 22? In wartime 1940, portrait of her smiling face. Blessings. Window behind has white floral motifs. Mum + flowers = joy xx Rose *tree* maybe seven+ feet tall? Two coral pink roses high up. Beside is a Holly bush with red berries. Above is a deep blue sky.
October 21, 2025 at 10:30 AM
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🩷✳️ Bloody Cranesbill - still flowering for #WildflowerHour 🌱
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Magenta flowers of Bloody Cranesbill in a magic carpet of starry green foliage. Some leaves are autumnal crimson
October 19, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?
October 15, 2025 at 12:46 AM
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The Speckled Wood is unique in its ability to spend the winter as either a chrysalis or a caterpillar 🐛💤

Letting your grass grow long and leaving some dead plants is a great way to support this beautiful species throughout its lifecycle.

📷: Iain Cowe, Bob Eade, Andrew Cooper
Speckled Wood butterfly resting on a yellow leaf Green caterpillar with white stripes along its body, clinging to a dead plant stem Speckled Wood chrysalis showing the brown and yellow speckled wings of the newly-formed butterfly inside.
October 9, 2025 at 11:24 AM
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🌼 From our walk this afternoon, Perennial Sow-thistle - Sonchus arvensis 🔆
#WildflowerHour 🌱
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October 12, 2025 at 7:59 PM