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I sometimes wonder if it is only people who have known nothing but peace and stability who could wilfully and deliberately endanger that precious and rare gift without direct personal experience of the alternative that so many others suffer daily.
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Move over Holly. Beginning to wonder if we'll have Dahlias at Christmas. 🌱
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
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This has to be one of the most spectacular views I see as the autumn leaves fall, it’s on my regular dog walking route so I get to see the colours progress #thegardenjungle #autumn #fall #autumncolours
October 28, 2025 at 1:19 PM
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Autumn sunset in the Clun Valley, South Shropshire #thegardenjungle #Landscape #Shropshire #ClunValley
October 20, 2025 at 5:25 PM
Squashes that look like a colouring in project. 🌱 #growyourown #gardens
October 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Another of Nature's artworks, leaning in, sketched with light and shadow. Time captured in quiet growth, leading the eye beyond.
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Plumped up, cropped and ready. 🌱
October 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Prequel to more quince jelly. Recent top tip adopted - microwave them for 30 secs before chopping. They are very hard. 🌱 #growyourown
October 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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Pavementplant Zinnias shot yesterday.
#Bloomscrolling
October 8, 2025 at 11:56 PM
Or, in this case, give us a lift. #joydivision
October 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Spirit lifters. Trying to balance, leaving them to flower slightly longer in the garden, with the chance to really appreciate the forms and colour up close. 🌱 #gardens
October 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
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🌱Good morning🌞💕💛🧡💚 #DailyDahlia #Bloomscrolling
October 6, 2025 at 12:12 PM
#Quince and cardamon, fragrant sunlight in a jar, ready to help brighten darker days. 🌱
October 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
And the beets go on.🌱Baked beets with garlic, rosemary and butter coming up - courtesy of @nigelslater.bsky.social #growyourown #gardens
October 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Inside a yew hedge. Sometimes what's hidden from view is more interesting.🌱 #gardening #hedges
September 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Solar powered flower turbine, generating beauty in the border. 🌱 #bloomscrolling
September 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Feels like a good time to know your onions... and er.. to know your onions. 🌱
September 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
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🎨: Angie Lewin
September 11, 2025 at 2:21 PM
There's flowering and just plain showing off. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #gardens
September 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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🦋〜 📸🐒♪
September 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Removing predators from the landscape alters plant communities because of the unchecked grazing/browsing of expanding populations of hungry herbivores.

Here's an example with wolves and aspen trees from western mountains in the US.
🧪🌍🌱
August 4, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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New report shows that bees choose to visit flowers to meet specific nutritional requirements, and those requirements change over the bees' life-cycle.

Another reason to keep/plant a wide diversity of native, pesticide-free flowering plants to support pollinators.
🧪 🌍 🌱 🐝

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Bumble bees balance their diets with surprising precision
Bumble bees aren’t random foragers – they’re master nutritionists. Over an eight-year field study in the Colorado Rockies, scientists uncovered that different bee species strategically balance their i...
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August 28, 2025 at 4:43 PM
Evil plum 🌱.
September 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Saw these cards in a great arty shop in Grasmere and thought of all you dahlia lovers. #gardening #gardeninglife
September 4, 2025 at 6:24 PM