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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 1d

Tree Peony, Hesperantha and Greensleeves apples 😍🍏

#Gardening #GardeningUK

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh these are absolute beauties! 😍🍄

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 2d

That sounds DELICIOUS. There's definitely worse factory smells to have wafting through a town 😄

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 2d

Ooh interesting, I definitely have spots like that in the garden, so if I see one going cheap I'll definitely give it a go. Thank you!

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 2d

Hesperantha and Aster 💜

#BloomScrolling #Gardening

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 2d

Went in for a closer look 👀

#Fungi #Gardening

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 3d

I tried to grow one like this, and spectacularly failed! I assumed it would want a dry, sunny spot, but that virtually killed it. Can I ask what conditions yours seems to like? Because it looks STUNNING, so whatever you're doing must be working!

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 3d

A selection of the strawflowers I grew this year. The colour palette reminds me of Fruit Salad sweets from when I was a child. Each cost a few pence from the corner shop.

#Gardening #FlowersOnFriday

Collage of 12 strawflowers in shades of deep pink, light pink, orange, yellow, cream and white.

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 3d

Look what I found hiding under the Osmathus - Shaggy Parasols!

#FungiFriday #Fungi

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 4d

Same! Our garage smells VERY appley 😄

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 4d

Apples with lunch. Apples for supper. I feel like I'm composed of about 87% apples by this point!

#Gardening

Collage of 4 pictures - first one is my Greensleeves apple tree, second is 3 containers full of just-harvested apples, third is dozens of apples on the wooden bench waiting to be sorted, last is a close-up of some of the apples

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 4d

Yew berries in the sunshine, and the weird and wonderful Tree Peony seed pods 🖤

#Gardening

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 8d

Apples, Asters, Berries, and Mushrooms - it's definitely feeling autumnal in the garden this week 🍂

#SevenOnSunday #Gardening

A collage of 7 photos - shaggy parasol mushrooms, greensleeves apples, river lilies, a pale purple aster with a yellow centre, a tree peony seed pod which is open showing black seeds, and yew berries on a fastigiata yew tree.

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 10d

In the space of an hour it's gone from light drizzle and a breeze, to lashing rain and wind so bad that the conifers are being blown every which way 😬 yikes! Definitely NOT gardening weather today.

#Gardening #StormAmy

Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 10d

Present me is currently very grateful to past me for deciding to harvest the last of the apples a few days ago, when it was dry and still. I'm currently watching everything in the garden being blown at quite an alarming angle, and getting absolutely soaked.

#GardeningX #StormAmy

A big plastic crate of greensleeves apples, along with two smaller crates of apples, sat on my lawn, with my legs in shot (burgundy tights, black and white stripy shoes)

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 14d

Dustbin mushrooms! My dustbin silver birch now has some mushroom friends 😄 maybe milkcaps of some sort?

#MushroomMonday #Fungi

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 15d

Ooh great find! I had them on my cherry tree last year - I've been keeping an eye out but it seems they might not be making an appearance this year. They're such fun/weird-looking things.

Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 15d

My shieldbug highlights from the garden this year - Juniper Shieldbug, which we've had for a few years, but this year I've seen quite a few of them, and Blue Shieldbug, which I've never seen in the garden until this year. Very exciting! 😄

#Gardening #Shieldbugs #Insects

Juniper Shieldbug resting on my hoodie, which I had on the bench

Blue shieldbug sat on a strawberry flower in the strawberry patch

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 15d

I don't know what it is about me and nasturtiums, but I struggle to get them to grow, and the few that I have only seem to get going in September. I wish I could achieve a flowing mass of flowers all summer like I see elsewhere, but this will have to do!

#SundayYellow #Gardening

Yellow nasturtium flower with red markings in the centre

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 15d

My chaotic veg patch 💜

#BloomScrolling #Gardening

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 15d

Sunflowers and nasturtiums still in flower ❤️🧡

#BloomScrolling #Gardening

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 22d

I have things like that in my garden too - every so often I need to get in with a bit of brute force and show them who's boss 😂 (I'm looking at you, river lilies!!)

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 22d

A late-season sunflower 🌻

#BloomScrolling #Gardening

A red sun sunflower with a background of blue sky

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 23d

Some hot colours on what is (at least here) a very cold, wet, windy day!

#Gardening #BloomScrolling

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Daphne Meadows 🌱 @daphnemeadows.bsky.social · 23d

Yesterday was the last warm (ish) day here, so I spent all day in the garden. Finished pruning the Portuguese Laurel, did a few other odd jobs, and took some photos of things before they all became soggy and sad-looking!

#Gardening #BloomScrolling

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