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Rick M

@rickmartin.bsky.social

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Now 90% #Bloomscrolling . I grow plants of all kinds indoors and out and take pics of them wherever I find them*, always my own pic, usually but not always my own garden. Socialist. Skint. North West England. *my mandate also includes weird bugs.

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lauren e💙 @learls.bsky.social · 3h

Fall reflections on #BlueSkyMonday
Wishing you a lovely start to your week.

#EastCoastKin #trees #treescape #geese #photography #photograpersofbluesky #Michigan

Four elm trees in various stages of senescence (green, orange, red) stand next to a pond which reflects them and the blue sky above them. Mist rises from the green grass behind them and from the pond. Several greese stand under and near the two trees on the left.

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Celium of the Forest @justsomeschmuck.bsky.social · 3h

Monday's are rough. First, it is happy because #MacroMonday, but then they are Monday's, so we are back at it. Anyway. here are some cactus needles. Kinda fits the brief. #Macro #CloseUp #Photography #Photo #Art #EastCoastKin

close up pick of a prickly pears needles

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 2d

“Then I sally forth, half sad, half proud,
And I come to the velvet, imperial crowd,
The wine-red, the gold, the crimson, the pied—
The dahlias that reign by the garden-side."
- Edith M. Thomas (1854-1925).

#DailyBotanicalBeauty #Photography #flowers

Collage of nine dahlias in vivid colours: wine-red and white bicolour, star-shaped crimson with gold centre, spiky deep wine-red, bright crimson with bee, crimson and gold pied, golden apricot ball, rich magenta, soft yellow with crimson centre, and crimson-white pied bloom.

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Cloudymamma @cloudymamma.bsky.social · 5h

Baby Porcelain mushrooms for #MushroomMonday

Just saw lots on my dog walk 🐾 👣🤍

#Fungi #mushrooms #Mycology

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Mr Garden @mygardenuk.bsky.social · 6h

Wet Stuff On Green Stuff. 😊💧🌧️

#Love #Peace #Nature #Leaves #Seasons
#ukGarden #BlueSky
#ColoursOfLove #ColoursOfNature
#BloomScrolling
#NaturalArt #art

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Dave Johnson @dcjohnson.bsky.social · 10h

Why doesn't the UK media talk about Farage and Russian money?

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Endless @extraunknown.bsky.social · Aug 6

Cuties
Everywhere
💛🖤

An extra fuzzy bumble bee atop an echinops bloom. Coated in yellow fluff

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 1h

Prog for plants 🤣🌱🪴🌴🌵🌿

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Open Culture @openculture.bsky.social · 2h

The 1976 Synth Album That Promised to Help Your Plants Grow: Discover Mother Earth’s Plantasia

In 1973, Peter Tompkins and Christopher Bird's The Secret Life of Plants became a bestseller.

www.openculture.com

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 2h

Apparently so, but only when they're very fresh (like this one).

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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 6h

Purple hibiscus (I think) from back during The Pollinating for #MacroMonday. What have you been sticking your nose into?
#photography #gardening #macro

Closeup photo of a purple hibiscus plant showing the pollen falling on the petals

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Minnie Rahman @minnierahman.bsky.social · 5h

Terrifying

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 8h

The right-wing campaign group that helped topple Roe v Wade in the US is now working to roll back abortion laws in the UK, with the help of Nigel Farage.

Its first step? Trying to create a debate around "free speech"
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 6h

Araucaria araucana 🌱🌳

#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #TreeClub

A suburban monkey-puzzle tree against an azure blue sky

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🍄Christina Roland 🇺🇦 @christinaroland.bsky.social · 21h

#FungiFriends 🍄📷 #Paddospam Bundelmycena - Mycena arcangeliana

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 6h

Zoinks! A shaggy ink cap I spotted yesterday, the first fresh fungi I've spotted locally since quite early spring! 🌱🍄

#MushroomMonday #FungiFriends #nature #autumn

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Trudy Taylor @trudyt.bsky.social · 8h

#MushoomMonday. Hope your week’s a good one.

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Craig wanders (mostly) around Norway @any-port-ina-storm.bsky.social · 13h

It was a ridiculously beautiful autumn day in Oslo yesterday. I went to a lovely sauna by the river and walked back through Vålerenga park. The light of the sunset took it to another level....

#BlueSkyMonday #autumn #fall #høst #Oslo #Vålerenga #Norway #Monday #photography #nature #EastCoastKin

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 10h

Helenium seedhead, for #MacroMonday 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #PlantSky #EastCoastKin #UKGardening #Autumn

A fully pollinated helenium flower developing into a seed head awaiting dispersal

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 11h

Certainly not!

(Whats green apple licorice 😀?)

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Foutsphotos @foutsphotos.bsky.social · 1d

#photography #eastcoast #stunday #bloomscrolling #flowers #dahlia #photography

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Gray @grays.art · 1d

Female Dilemma Orchid Bee
(Euglossa dilemma)

on Firebush (Hamelia patens)
yesterday afternoon visit
to the Naples Botanical Garden

#stunday #eastcoastkin #bees #pollinators #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #gardening #naplesBontanicalGarden #insects #macro #photography #macroPhotography #art 🐝 🪴

Emerald bee with yellow pollen saddlebag, nectaring long orange trumpet flower.

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Venetia @venetiajm.bsky.social · 9d

October. Time for firework chrysanthemums. A visual kaboom

Close-up of a chrysanthemum flower. Deep red and gold. Kaboom

Another red and gold chrysanthemum flower

The third red and gold chrysanthemum flower

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EdinburghGary @photoscotland.bsky.social · 1d

The Giant.

#Photography #Nikon

Massive tree with a line of much smaller trees in background...

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Andrew 📷 @vixcomplex.bsky.social · Apr 29

Monterey Cypress
SF Botanical Garden
2023
Monterey cypress (Cupressus macrocarpa) is endemic to two groves on California's central coast, where it thrives in windy, humid conditions. This one stands more than 100 ft tall.
#ThickTrunkTuesday
#Scape #EastCoastKin #Photography #風景#LandscapePhotography

An enormous tall Monterey Cypress tree with a textured thick trunk and dense green foliage stands in the middle of the Conifer Lawn in San Francisco Botanical Garden, against a clear blue sky. The sun is setting on the left, casting long shadows to the right of the trees

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Sucs for You! 🌵👈🏽 (& other plants too) @sucsforyou.bsky.social · 4d

Aloe suprafoliata, also known as Book Aloe, now in a proper pot!

🌱 #succulents #plants #gardenfeed #plantsky

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