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Happy new year from the North West of England sky-folk, best of luck with 2026 🤣🌱

#Bloomscrolling #InsectThursday #GardensHour #EastCoastKin
A comma butterfly on verbena bonariensis, orange against purple
January 1, 2026 at 12:00 AM
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No mate, that was yesterday!

#Caturday
A hrey amd white cat sits in a box for boxing day
December 27, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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December 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
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December 19, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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A large bumblebee riding a dandelion like it's a bucking bronco, yee-haw! 🌱🐝

#InsectThursday #Bloomscrolling #BugSky #YellowThu #ColorADay #EastCosstKin
A large bumblebee on a yellow flower, her middle leg is flicked out and raised up in a gesture that I believe means 'piss off mate, you're too close' in bumblebee. Bloody paparazzi.
December 11, 2025 at 6:11 PM
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Turn the bass up, RIP Mani.
The Stone Roses - I Wanna Be Adored (Official Video)
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November 20, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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A painting of a bird beside the text "i'm fuckin exhausted from being angry all the time"
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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It's the weekend, baby
Star Trek Voyager scene. Seven of Nine (tertiary adjunct of unimatrix 01) is pictured. She has a dolphin shaped metal robotic implant around her left eye because she is a borgs. Closed caption reads, "Fun will now commence."
November 14, 2025 at 11:53 PM
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I've been expanding my collection of ferns just recently, my bogey plant for quite a long time, hope I'm starting to get the hang of them now! 🌱

#GardensHour #Houseplants #PlantSky #Bloomscrolling
Lemon button fern Blue star fern Birds nest fern Boston fern
November 10, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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Ask not for whom the bell tolls 🌱🍄

#MacroMonday #FungiFriends #MushroomMonday #MossMonday #Nature #Autumn #EastCoastKin
A tiny but deadly orange capped mushroom growing in a patch of pale green moss on a fallen tree branch
November 10, 2025 at 10:19 AM
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Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛
November 8, 2025 at 2:55 PM
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Hey!
Calling all Wonder Women!
We all are sisters…pulling together with one spirit.
50 years ago today the first episode of the series Wonder Woman aired.
November 8, 2025 at 1:33 AM
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Shelfie 🌱🌵🪴

#PlantSky #Succulents #Houseplants
A potted arrangement of haworthia limifolia and pachyphytum oviferum,, a dracenia trifasciata (snake plant) iin a terracotta pot and sedum burrito planted in a metal canister, all sitting on a shelf together
November 6, 2025 at 7:51 PM
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Primula vialii with backing vocals from kniphofia 'papaya popsicle'. 🌱

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday #EastCoastKin #FlowerReport #GardenersWorld #UKGardening
Primula vialii and kniphofia 'papaya popsicle'. This was taken in my garden last November, last summer was very late to start and consequently flowering plants persevered much further into autumn than they have this year.
October 31, 2025 at 2:07 PM
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Nae King,
Nae Quin,
Nae laird,
Nae master,
We willnae be fooled again!

#NaeKings
Nac Mac Feegle wha hae! #NoKings
October 18, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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It’s World Menopause Day. We can’t pretend to know what you’re going through, but we can try to show you we care.

#WorldMenopauseDay #Menopause
MENOPAUSE HOT AND COLD FLUSHES, IRRITABILITY AND NIGHT SWEATS, ITCHY SKIN AND A WORSENING OF ALLERGIES; CLAMMY FEELINGS WITH MOOD SWINGS, FATIGUE AND TROUBLE SLEEPING, DIZZINESS, VERTIGO AND TINGLING EXTREMITIES. HAIR LOSS AND THINNING, EARS SOMETIMES RINGING, A FAULTY MEMORY, LACK OF FOCUS, AND POOR CONCENTRATION; ACHING JOINTS, MUSCLE TENSION, AND THINGS TOO SENSITIVE TO MENTION, HEADACHES, ANXIETY, DEPRESSION, FEELINGS OF DREAD, AND HEART PALPITATIONS. BLEEDING GUMS, BURNING TONGUES, A CHANGE OF ODOUR AND BREATH, INCONTINENCE, BLOATING, DIGESTIVE ISSUES AND FACIAL HAIR; FINGERNAILS WEAKEN, A LOSS OF LIBIDO, POSSIBLE OSTEOPOROSIS, WE CAN'T PRETEND TO KNOW WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH, BUT WE CAN TRY TO SHOW YOU WE CARE. @allontheboard
October 18, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Platycerium bifurcatum, staghorn fern 🌱🪴📷

#Houseplants #PlantSky
A potted staghorn fern on a shelf
September 30, 2025 at 6:59 PM
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Went to Derian House Children's hospice in Chorley today to help work on their gardens. Such a beautiful place and a wonderful charity. Had an amazing day. 🌱
The reflecting pool at Derain House Chorley. 3 tiered hexagonal pools suround by stones and a hexagonal newly planted bed.
September 19, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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Completed piece: I decided it needed an extra element so have added some pachyphytum oviferum to the haworthia limifolia (both very hardy down to quite low temperatures and do OK in part-shade). All now quite solidly rooted too! 🌱🪴🌵📷

#Succulents #PlantSky #GardenersWorld #GardensHour #UKGardening
A tall terracotta pot cracked in half along the vertical axis, containing a steep banked slope, densely planted with spiky dark green haworthia limifolia and bulbous, succulent, glaucous leaved pachyphytum oviferum. #Bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin
September 12, 2025 at 5:10 PM
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Dicksonia Antarctica 🌱🌴📷

#FernFriday #FoliageFriday #ForestFriday #MacroPhotography
#EastCoastKin
One individual segment a pinna, of a tree fern frond as iit begins to unfurl
August 29, 2025 at 2:35 PM
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Happy day sky-folk, its a bank holiday weekend (but curiously not the last #SixOnSsturday of August) and I hope you all have a good'un. Six pics of what I've got growing right now (see alt-text for details).

#UKGardening 🌱🌵🪴📷
#ColourADay #GreenSat #EastCoastKin #PlantSky #ferns #succulents
Top left, String-of-turtles (peperomia prostrata) growing quite vigorously in a terrarium. Top right, the last of this batch of spring onions. Middle left, a yellow fern with sori (spore producing bodies) on the underside of its leaves. Middle right, zebra haworthia. Bottom left, turmeric root growing happily in its little tropical bubble. Bottom right, lilly pads (nymphaea pygmaea) in my pond.no flowers yet but the plant has bulked up considerably this summer.
August 23, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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Happy Caturday 🐈‍⬛🤍
August 16, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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Wishing you all a very pleasant #SixOnSaturday from my garden, geranium praetense, orange dahlia, cosmos anonymous, gailardia, calendula and another dahlia which occasionally throws out these random two-tone blooms. Have a good weekend sky-folk!

#Bloomscrolling #UKGardening #Flowers 🌱📷
Flower collage
August 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
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Brand new to me and just opened this evening, (after weathering Storm Floris with considerable aplomb) - dahlia 'Tartan' 🌱📷

#Bloomscrolling #DailyDahlia #Flowers #UKGardening
A very large dahlia bloom in white and a purple so deep it's amost black, Dahlia 'Tartan' in my back garden this evening
August 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
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A now fully opened mammillaria cactus flower, its the first time one of my home grown cacti has flowered so I'm really quite pleased 🌱🌵🪴📷

#Bloomscrolling #succulents #macrophotography #JuneBlooms
Magenta cactus flower amidst a mass of spines
June 18, 2025 at 7:13 PM