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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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Adelita for Congress @adelitaforcongress.bsky.social · 1d

Speaker Johnson, you ready to swear me in?

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Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social · 7d

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.

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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 3d

🌼 From our walk this afternoon, Perennial Sow-thistle - Sonchus arvensis 🔆
#WildflowerHour 🌱
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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 3d

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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 3d

For #WildflowerHour
Hope in their very petals 🌼
OxEye Daisy is *still* here, joined by a second bright face!
Fungi added, which someone may please identify? 🍄‍🟫
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@bsbibotany.bsky.social 🌱

Single magenta flower of Knapweed, very bright against dried grasses

Bright OxEye Daisy is still fresh! Yellow centre & white petals - and now a new bloom has opened beside the first.

Cluster of fungi looking like sweet cakes or bread rolls, in long dry grass

Two fungi, beige/brown - not sure what variety?

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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 4d

Thank you for clarity. Helps to understand in one way. But as human beings? No words …
Love to all living with this terror.

Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 4d

Are these *thugs* recent recruits? There must be some huge incentive to enlist? $$$ Their behaviour is alarming, violent & appalling (watching from UK 🇬🇧)

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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 6d

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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 9d

She’s still here 8+ days on! Bright as ever ✨🪔🤍💛✴️ #WildflowerHour

Bright OxEye Daisy flower with yellow centre and new flower bud to the side. Still fresh as a daisy 8+ days since first pic

Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 9d

🌱 #BloomScrolling
New appreciation for a grey day. Plant family enjoyed warm sunshine yesterday, while I struggled with low energy grumps …
Thankful to focus on their cheery faces🌈🥰

Colourful terracotta pot painted with ochre, red & blue swirly flowers.
In the pot is a small Rosa x odorata ‘Bengal Crimson’ - wavy slender stems & darling tiny rosebuds. Irresistible, from Great Dixter plant fair at weekend.

In a rusty old metal plant stand (had since 1980s) a terracotta bowl sits within remnants of a twiggy hanging basket.
In the bowl are various succulents.
Behind is a wild grassy bank with purple asters

Tall sprays of mauve aster flowers - a pink Old Blush China rose leans into an Elder bush

Coral pink flower spikes of Persicaria/Bistort on a bank of mostly dry grasses.

Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 10d

Sort-of #WildflowerHour 🌱🌼
Feverfew, Aster + bee, Borage and a tiny Newt.
Without my specs, I first thought it was an exposed root? 🤓
Delighted ✨🦎

Flower cluster of Feverfew. Daisy-like with white petals & yellow centres. Lime green feathery foliage.

Mauve flowers of Aster - some have yellow centres, some have turned brown. A bee is visiting - s/he is amber/brown almost like the spent flowers.

Bright blue star-shaped Borage flowers, downy buds, leaves & stems

Underneath green OxEye Daisy foliage - a tiny newt on dark soil

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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 13d

💜Cardoon seedhead, cut before the arrival of Storm Amy 🌬️
Grown from seed a couple of years ago, happy that their sturdy stems withstand strong prevailing winds here. A good do-er, very bright in the Summertime 🌞
#FlowersOnFriday 🌱

Cardoon seedhead, like very fluffy blonde hair. Stalk is balanced in a red tin plantpot

Upside-down view of a Cardoon seedhead - circular rays of dry brown triangular scales with fluffy seed visible

Purple flowerhead of Cardoon in high Summer. Like an enormous thistle. Sunshine

Close-up of Cardoon flower, a beautiful spray of slender purple petals on top of a spiky pine cone-like bud

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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 14d

Thank you 🙏 @chrischirp.bsky.social Fully support trusted independent sources.
I’ve also been watching @donlemonofficial.bsky.social daily in past months ⚖️🕊️

Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 15d

🌸🌱🌼💕🐻‍❄️✨All the pretty ones in beautiful late Sept sunlight 🕊️
Ox Eye Daisy shining brightly
‘Daisy’ the tap-dancing ewe 🍏
Hesperantha coccinea
Rosa Old Blush China
#BloomScrolling

Sheep staring through wire fencing at sunset

Hesperanthus coccinea, pretty pink petals & grassy foliage

Sugar pink rose leaning on Elder bush. Blue sky

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The Secret Barrister @barristersecret.bsky.social · 15d

If you don’t like being called a racist, maybe don’t make a career of saying things that appeal to racists, don’t create a political party that keeps attracting racist candidates, don’t fawn over racist world leaders, and don’t make a convicted racist the guest of honour at your party conference.

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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 17d

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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 17d

All best wishes to you for ongoing solutions 💕

Mauve purple Aster flowers in a yellow vase

Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 17d

🌼 Hello to precious Ox Eye Daisy for #WildflowerHour
Cheery, like a little lamp in the grey sky evening gloaming 🪔🕊️
Pics taken 7pm 🌱
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White petals of a single OxEye Daisy flower glowing in dusk gloom. Golden centre

OxEye Daisy flowering in the garden. So welcoming to the pollinators

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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 17d

In previous years there were many more blooms 🤔 Could Summer’s drought be responsible for their no-show this year? Or did resident bank voles eat up all the bulbs? 🐭🌸🌱

Clump of Autumn Crocus flowers groing in sunny grass bank - lovely mauve pink petals

Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 19d

Thank you Roger - now recall you helped with same ID earlier this year. Apologies - memory! 🌸

Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 20d

My late sister’s birthday yesterday, played all her favourite tunes. Born UK 1942, Caroli migrated to Geneva 1964 then to Boston MA where she lived 33 years. Her thoughts sit with me via song lyrics & poetry...

Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 21d

🌸 Solo Autumn Crocus beside Erigeron karvinskianus flowers.
Located in grassy garden bank at the foot of an old Willow stump, maybe more blooms to come?
Is that a Red Dead-nettle - has a white leaf stripe? #wildflowerhour 🌱

Pale pink mauve Autumn Crocus with orange stamens. Just one bloom in the grass with a couple of erigeron karvinskianus daisy flowers. Located in garden bank at the foot of an old Willow stump.

Pale mauve pink Autumn Crocus flower in a grassy bank next to a tiny daisy

Red Dead-nettle? Magenta flowers, 2 are open showing spotted entrance. Downy green leaves with white central stripe.

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Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 22d

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#BloomScrolling between rain showers today while paint dried in the kitchen 🎨💧

Banana yellow Nasturtium flower with peach pink veining on its petals. In a pot with Herb Robert leaves behind

Pale mauve Aster flowers with gold stanens at their centre, growing through tiny pale yellow leaves of Lonicera nitida

Brilliant purple Aster flower, radiant petals with yellow gold stamens at the centre

Single peachy apricot flower of Osteospermum. Vibrant magenta/deep purple at the middle with tiny gold stamens?

Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 23d

Thank you Moira! 👍

Martina Farrow @martifarrow.bsky.social · 24d

New to me too, just reading this @jeremybartlett.bsky.social ⬇️
It’s a fun name - not really a grass?! 🤔🌱
www.jeremybartlett.co.uk/2017/09/29/g...

Grass of Parnassus, Parnassia palustris | Jeremy Bartlett's LET IT GROW blog

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