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Fred
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Gardens, insects, seeds, nature and science ...(photography is a hobby-most of posts are in English for fun ...and from my French garden in Normandy ).
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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · Mar 9
Crocuses and birdsong from my garden
#crocus 🌱
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Finding it harder to find colour in the garden for #SixOnSaturday, but there’s still some out there. This week we have holly, mahonia, beech leaves, a frosty lawn, the last of the roses and highly scented viburnum flowers.

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
November 29, 2025 at 10:00 AM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
Black bulgar (Bulgaria inquinans) 🌱🍄

#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #mushrooms #fungus #moss #Autumn #nature
A cluster of black, thick-fleshed, disc-shaped, gelatinous fungus on a mossy tree trunk
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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ilenagm.bsky.social
#FlowersOnFriday this week is my largest #Tillandsia aka air plant. I love them and have several in my collection. When it’s winter they live in south facing windows.

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Tropical #GulfOfMexico #AirPlants #FlowerReport
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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venetiajane.bsky.social
“Many a tree is found in the wood
And every tree for its use is good:
Some for the strength of the gnarled root,
Some for the sweetness of flower and fruit;
Some for a shelter against the storm,
And some to keep the hearthstone warm”
- from ‘Salute to the Trees’ by Henry Van Dyke #NationalTreeWeek
A collage of woodland and orchard scenes, including gnarled tree roots, dark sloes on a twig, a cow eating from a snow-covered hedge, clusters of red apples, pink apple blossom, white pear blossom, and a smoking campfire surrounded by cut logs.
November 29, 2025 at 9:12 AM
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a1isonmoore.bsky.social
The week when I planted my tulip bulbs #SixonSaturday #mylittlegarden
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My Little Garden 29th Nov 2025
My Little Garden 29th Nov 2025 The last week of November has been a bit of a mixed bag. The weather was dry and frost free on Monday and Tuesday, so the rest of the tulip bulbs were planted. Phew! On ...
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November 29, 2025 at 8:07 AM
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In today's slightly damp #SixOnSaturday... a Viola, a 'Summertime' climbing Rose, Viburnum berries, rosehips, Hellebore flower buds & Photinia foliage 🌱
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A collage of six photographs of flowers, berries and leaves, comprising: a Viola flower with pale pink-purple and yellow petals and a dark centre, covered with water droplets; a pale yellow rose resembling a rosette, small bluey-purple berries; clusters of small red rosehips; two plump pale pink oval Hellebore flower buds; red and green oval leaves with white/pink margins.
November 29, 2025 at 7:45 AM
frdvil.bsky.social
#sixonsaturday 29-11-25 in which you’ll find : frosty calendula and strawflowers, a pretty salvia, a bird feeder, the last of the cherry tomatoes and hedychium fruit
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November 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
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Mine was just getting started blooming yesterday on Thanksgiving.
Red Thanksgiving Cactus first bloom of the year on Thanksgiving Day.
November 28, 2025 at 1:53 PM
frdvil.bsky.social
Forgot yesterday but ready for Thanksgiving!
#schlumbergera 🌱😅
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Nepenthes veitchii ‘Big Mama’ x ‘Pink Candy Cane’. Young plant with juvenile pitchers, but it is starting to color up nicely.

When I started growing Nepenthes in the 1990s, there were only 2 mediocre clones of N. veitchii available. Now, colorful line bred seedlings and clones are everywhere. 🌴🌱
A tropical pitcher plant with pink pitcher body and yellow, flared peristome with red stripes. The pitchers will grow larger, and the peristome broader and more intensely striped, as the plant matures.
November 27, 2025 at 2:12 AM
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loujnicholls.bsky.social
Good morning!
Yesterday was an opportunity for some really beautiful frosty photos with a start of -4.5
It was really lovely!
A much warmer cloudier day ahead as we cut down and weed the herbacous borders
Hopefully staying dry
Have a wonderful day 🌱
November 27, 2025 at 6:44 AM
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venetiajane.bsky.social
“Magical things happen every day, if we allow it. Think of daylight, of the stars at night, a flower. A dandelion is a miracle.” - P. L. Travers (1899-1996). #Thanksgiving #nature
A collage of close-up photographs of dandelion seed heads. The images show the pale, spherical seed heads in detail, with their fine white parachute seeds radiating from the central disc. One photo shows a partly dispersed head with seeds blowing away, and another shows a meadow filled with many dandelion clocks.
November 27, 2025 at 8:26 AM
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ilenagm.bsky.social
Well right on time⏰here is the first of my Thanksgiving cactus in bloom 😍#HappyThanksgiving #Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Autumn #November #MyGreenhouse #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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ilenagm.bsky.social
#Snapdragons are a great winter flower here in my zone. I make sure to keep some growing every Autumn for winter blooms 😃

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GYO #November #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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ilenagm.bsky.social
My favorite mailbox #Clematis really suffered over the summer but now she’s making a comeback 😃🙌💜

#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #Plants #Autumn #November #FlowerReport #GYO
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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ilenagm.bsky.social
Starting off the week with a California poppy in bloom. I have three pots of them now and they do well for me😃🙌💛

#Flowers #Gardening #Poppies #Plants #GYO #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Autumn #November
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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ilenagm.bsky.social
#SevenOnSunday #Violas starting to bloom, Acer on fire, sharphead #cabbage halfway there, Thanksgiving #cactus almost, #Kalanchoes budding and I am forcing my own #Amaryllis and #Rainbow 🥰

#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #Plants #GYO #FlowerReport #RetirementLife
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
frdvil.bsky.social
Frozen beauties, frozen leaves and frozen damage… 🥶 🌱
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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venetiajane.bsky.social
Nothing feels more personal and special than opening a card with someone’s own handwriting inside.

Nature-themed Christmas cards, created from my photography, are now available on my website. Please see the thread for the link.

#ChristmasCards #SmallBusiness #ShopUK
A four-panel winter collage: frosted red crab apples on a branch; a robin perched in falling snow; two deer standing alert in a snowy meadow; and a close-up of a snow-dusted carrot umbellifer seed head.
November 22, 2025 at 8:41 AM
frdvil.bsky.social
#sixonsaturday 22-11-25 with winter tasks: harvesting sweet potatoes, yacon and taro, overwintering red banana tree, raking leaves, hakonechloa and miscanthus, and a pretty pelargonium flower 🌱: fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/s...
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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In today's #SixOnSaturday ... rose hips, Honesty, Winter Honeysuckle, Snapdragons, a patio climbing Rose & Strawflowers 🌱
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A collage of six photographs comprising: three small round red Rose hips; translucent flat silvery-white circular Honesty seed pods; oval white Winter Honeysuckle flower buds with dark green leaves; four two-lipped pink and white Snapdragon flowers; two pale pink Roses with yellow stamens; two multi-petalled yellow and red Strawflowers.
November 22, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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a1isonmoore.bsky.social
The week when we had the first frost of winter #mylittlegarden
#SixonSaturday
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My Little Garden 22nd November 2025
My Little Garden 22nd November 2025 After our annual jaunt in search of winter sun, I’ve been feeling a little chilly back at home. When I left there were leaves on the trees, and a few flowers …
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November 22, 2025 at 8:04 AM
frdvil.bsky.social
The warm colours of this #lagerstroemia also known as crape myrtle. 🔥 🌱
Perfect for these cold days, isn't it?! 😀
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
A honeybee making the most of the ever popular ivy flowers 🌱🐝

#InsectThursday #BugSky #Inverts #MacroPhotography #Bloomscrolling #UKWildlife #nature #autumn
A side on close up of a honeybee, with a fully loaded pollen basket on her leg, as she feeds on ivy flowers, this was taken just before the weather changed from mild and damp to wet and windy and now cold and frosty so probably the last flying critter of the year
November 20, 2025 at 11:48 AM
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ilenagm.bsky.social
It’s been a great year for toad lilies🐸 but they are almost finished blooming for the season now

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #Autumn #November #FlowerReport
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM