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Book #5 is the perfect weekend companion on a snowy day. Dreamy pictures and garden inspiration for the new season. Get it at your local bookstore. 🪴 #gardening #bloomscrolling #books #inspiration #englishgardens

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February 7, 2026 at 5:08 PM
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#Bloomscrolling
#Spring
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For a time today I was out of reach of the internet in my hunt for #Snowdrops but then as I climbed the hill at Emmetts Garden @nationaltrust.org.uk in Kent I was rewarded with this sight. Uplifting. Hopeful. Please share
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#NaturePhotography
Bright white Snowdrop flowers shining in the sunlight. In the main portrait on the left a single flower hangs from a thin green stalk in front of brown fallen autumn leaves. The other frames:Top right and centre, feature several more of the flowers set against the green leaves of their plant. The final picture, bottom right, is a slatted wooden bench, casting a shadow across the grass verge where more Snowdrops are growing in front of trees, just visible at the top of the frame. Camera: iPhone 15 Pro
January 28, 2026 at 4:59 PM
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Happy new year from a very frosty Surrey. I decided to go back to those sunny summer days today to cheer me up as I imagine the heat of June or July and the scent of the garden as bees buzz about their business.

#Bloomscrolling #InsectThursday #EnglishGardens
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin
A Bee works away on the pollen-laden flower of a Hypericum bush surrounded by the plants glossy green leaves and some red berries.
January 1, 2026 at 11:00 AM
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#BlueSkyMonday
#ColorADay #BlueMonday
#FestiveRobin #HolidayRobin
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#PhotographersOfBluesky #photography #EastCoastKin
I took a loop shot of Roberto today, launching himself from a blue terracotta plant pot but it won’t transfer to Bluesky, so here’s the still version.
A European Robin perches on the rim of a blue-glazed terracotta pot, about to launch itself in flight. The background is a household green waste container and red brick wall of a house.
December 29, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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The annual Spring pilgrimage to one of the local bluebell woods at Emmetts Gardens in Kent run by @nationaltrust.org.uk an English charity. There is also a lovely big tree for #NationalTreeWeek
#PalacesAndGardens #People #Spring #Bluebells #EnglishGardens
#PhotographersOfBluesky
#EastCoastKin
On a beautifully sunny May day, visitors walk down a dusty path next to banks of English bluebells, growing among trees yet to get their leaf cover. One tree on the left has already started to get its light green Spring foliage. Some people stop to take photographs while others chat. The large pine tree in the foreground provides dappled shade. Its long branches reach out across the paths.
November 27, 2025 at 10:34 AM
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#Winter
#Birds
So, after yesterday’s frost, it snowed this morning. Good job I had topped up the bird feeder. This Great Spotted Woodpecker seemed to appreciate it.
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#Nature
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November 19, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTforTelevision
#Bloomscrolling
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Flowers 2016-18
The last posy from the garden before the rains.
A hand holding a posy of flowers and autumn leaves freshly picked from the garden - Cosmos, both white and pink, plus red Persicaria.
November 14, 2025 at 3:21 PM
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#BlueskyMonday #Bloomscrolling #EnglishGardens
Blue Cranesbill Geraniums.
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A cluster of delicately shaded Cranesbill Geraniums in a garden bed near the shop at the Ightham Mote National Trust medieval mansion in Kent. The geraniums spread like weeds and their spindly stalks and bright green leaves can be seen on the ground behind the blue/purple blooms.
October 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM
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When the sun is out, the garden glows with reds and golds in early October and it makes choosing a #Stunday photo harder. This is my favourite today but by tomorrow, who knows. I love the way #Autumn shifts its colours.
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The almost unreal purple-red narrow leaves of a Virginia Creeper rest on top of an unpainted wooden garden fence. A few green pyramid-shaped Ivy leaves poke through the fence behind it. Overhead, the sky is blue with a hint of wispy white cloud to form the perfect backdrop.
October 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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#MagentaMonday #Autumn #EnglishGardens #Bloomscrolling #Mobilephotography
These autumn mornings are so invigorating … even on a Monday. Our Acer Palmatum (Japanese Maple) has turned a delicious shade of rusty purple and the morning dew glistens on its leaves. Have a great day.
The long serrated leaves of a Acer Palmatum (Japanese Maple) have turned a shade of rusty purple and the morning dew glistens on its leaves in the early sunlight. Behind the tree, which is planted in a large pot, and over the garden fence you can glimpse a large tree in a neighbouring house in our row of terrace homes. To the right of the Acer a blurred out green shrub peeks into frame. The sky is clear blue, contrasting perfectly with the Acer.
September 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM
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Summer seems to be stretching into autumn this year, so the
#SixOnSaturday selection from our garden plus a guest Hollyhock from a neighbour’s front drive is still very colourful. *info in alt text
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From top left, clockwise: crimson petals of a Cosmos with yellow centre, grown from seed, in a border right next to our driveway and the pavement with roadway in the background; deep purple Salvia Rock and Bloom in front of pink Sedum in green border; spiky red Persicaria flowers, aka Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, stand erect in the sunshine above their green-leaved plants; two luscious pink candy-coloured Hollyhocks growing near the pavement in a neighbour’s driveway; a small Astrantia peeks out from beside an old terracotta flower pot where it has seeded itself in a crack on the patio; tiny purple Verbena bonariensis flowers cluster atop their stalks against a grey wood fence past a retaining wire in the afternoon sun.
September 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM
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#ColorADay #CyanTues
#Bees #EnglishGardens #MacroPhotography
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These little Aster flowers are a beautiful shade of blue/cyan and shine in the morning sun by our front door. The bee, however, is not interested in colour, just pollen. One for @soph0517.bsky.social
A honey bee sits on the yellow centre of a small blue/cyan coloured Aster flower with its tiny petals spread out in the sun. The blurred out background has more of the flowers and green leaves in a border next to a front garden path.
September 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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#SundayYellow
#Bloomscrolling
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#EastCoastKin #PhotoHour #photography #nature
Evening Primrose flowers. Despite the name, they glow by day.
Large yellow flowers with spiky, crown-like leaves above glow in the sunshine next to a gravel path on a sunny afternoon. The sky is partly cloudy with some blue. Oenothera glazioviana is a species of flowering plant in the evening primrose family known by the common names large-flowered evening-primrose. It originated in Brazil but is now found all over the world. I took this photo on a visit this week to Standen House and garden in Sussex, an Arts & Crafts movement inspired home now run by the National Trust charity.
September 21, 2025 at 3:14 PM
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One more for this very wet #RoseWednesday as our Scarborough Fair from David Austin is having a second flush. A distinct touch of Raindrops on roses but no sign of whiskered kittens in our little Surrey garden. #Roses #Flowers #EnglishGardens #BloomScrolling
A delicate pink rose, its petals covered in raindrops, sits almost sheltering another flower to its right that looks red in its bud form. The rose plant’s glossy green leaves are also covered in raindrops.
September 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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#SundayYellow #Bloomscrolling
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Soaking up the sun before autumn. A pale yellow flower in the gardens of Chartwell National Trust near Westerham, Kent, once the home of Sir Winston Churchill.
The sun shimmers on the pale yellow of a flower, possibly a California Poppy, casting shadows of its orang-like stamens. The background is the plant’s spidery green leaves.
September 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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Today’s #SixOnSaturday comes after a week when it finally rained and, oh, how it rained. Biblically. Most things appreciated the abundant rainwater but some of the wild garden flowers, already wilting, got a battering. Still some sun, though. Idents in alt text.
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From top left: pink Lichnis; unidentified peachy pink rose against blue sky; bright pink Cosmos; light purple Calicarpa berries; bright red Cotoneaster berries on green bush against blue sky. Finally a crabapple tree near the village church laden with orange-coloured fruits and soft green leaves.
August 30, 2025 at 4:52 PM
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#MagentaMonday
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #EnglishGardens
A Butterfly bush in a neighbour’s garden continues to bloom as she deadheads each day; one of our Cosmos flowers; an Angelica by our path and the Salvia Rock and Bloom that has flowered all summer.
A deep purple Butterfly bush aka Buddleja davidii droops over the pavement by a garden wall by a parked blue car. A bright deep pink Cosmos flower with yellow central pollen-filled stamens opens its face to the sun. Another Cosmos, this time white can be seen to the left and a wooden grey garden fence is in the background. A light purple coloured Angelica flower head rises above the purple stalks of the plant in a green border. The distinctive dragon-like deep purple flower heads of a Salvia Rock and Bloom on a tall dark stalk rise in front of a grey wooden fence, casting shadows in the morning sun.
August 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM
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Today’s #SixOnSaturday is back on home turf after a difficult week of cluster headaches kept me indoors and made it difficult to oversee Big Will, the new gardener, tackling the tough lopping and pruning jobs. Today I tidied and snapped. Idents in alt text.
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From top left in clockwise fashion: a late-flowering purple Plume Thistle struggles forth from its green prickly “cup”; a light purple Hibiscus with its five petals open to the morning sun; a deep purple Salvia against a background of thin green leaves and fading Kniphofia blooms; purple berries of a Callicarpa or American Beauty Berry plant against a light brown wooden fence with blue sky; a mix of pink and red Cosmos grown from seed and which continue to thrive as I deadhead each day. Again the background is the fence and blue sky. Finally, the last few white Astrantia flowers in a green leafy border.
August 23, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Today’s #SixOnSaturday is shamelessly brought to you from our morning stroll to the village millpond past some neighbour’s gardens. Enjoy. We did. Info in alt text.
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From top left, clockwise: a peach-coloured Hollyhock; bright crimson Everlasting pea blossom; purple Verbena bonariensis, glimpsed through railings; white Everlasting pea; a stunning yellow and red Tigridia pavonia, which has many common names but my favourite is Jockey’s Cap Lily and finally pink and red Poppies, growing in weeds near a field gate.
August 16, 2025 at 3:34 PM
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English gardens have so many little treasures. This is Blowin.

#photography #englishgardens #statues #piper #edelleye
August 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM
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#FlowersOnSunday #InsectsOfBluesky
#SundayYellow
#Flowerphotography
#Gardening
#Bloomscrolling
#EnglishGardens
A bee gets to work in the sunshine on one of the Rudbeckias that grow almost wild at the top of our little cottage garden near the apple tree.
A small bee gets to work in the sunshine on one of the bright yellow Rudbeckias that grow wild at the top of our little cottage garden near the apple tree.
August 10, 2025 at 7:26 AM
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#SixOnSaturday
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#Photography
The grey clouds are gone and it looks like sunshine all the way with a heatwave forecast, so our patch needs watering morn and night. However, things are doing well and I found a half dozen again - with one outsider. Captions in alt text.
From top left, clockwise: A pink and white Cosmos flower with yellow centre against a clear blue sky; fading purple Globe Thistle in the shade of the wild section of our garden; a lovely little self-seeded pink Wild Angelica next to the garden path; a neighbour’s deep purple Butterfly Bush aka Beddleja, flops over their garden wall on to the pavement; a trio of delicate pink Anenomes, gathered together like ballerinas ready to go on stage, in front of our pergola. Finally the rusty red leaves and seeds of our Acer Palmatum glisten in the morning sunlight. The background is green and some more Cosmos flowers.
August 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM
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Day three and it seems to be repetitive
But eagles seem to be everywhere we are
Today they were quite vociferous
Diving from the trees
Toward the Assiniboine River
And to keep one grounded
Some deep rich colourful flowers

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#assiniboinepark
#Eagles
#flowers
August 5, 2025 at 4:41 PM
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#FlowersOnSunday
#SundayYellow
#Flowerphotography
#Gardening
#Bloomscrolling
#EnglishGardens
Our Sunflowers, grown from a free packet of seeds, are looking a bit raggedy, maybe as a result of the constant attentions of the bees. However, as this was the object of planting them, we can’t complain.
A bright yellow Sunflower with brown seed-laden centre spreads its petals towards the afternoon sun against the garden’s green borders. Some pink and white Cosmos flowers can be seen behind and a glimpse of blue sky and white clouds above the garden fence.
August 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM
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"Grazing in the Garden."
#england #peacock #bird #englishgardens
July 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM