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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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𝙲𝚑𝚞𝚛𝚌𝚑 𝚂𝚝𝚛𝚎𝚎𝚝 𝙸𝚖𝚊𝚐𝚎𝚜 @churchstreetimages.com · 3h

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 · 3h

Terrifying

Henry Mance @henrymance.ft.com · 5h

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 · 3h

Araucaria araucana 🌱🌳

#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #TreeClub

A suburban monkey-puzzle tree against an azure blue sky

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🍄Christina Roland 🇺🇦 @christinaroland.bsky.social · 18h

#FungiFriends 🍄📷 #Paddospam Bundelmycena - Mycena arcangeliana

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 3h

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 · 5h

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

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Craig wanders (mostly) around Norway @any-port-ina-storm.bsky.social · 10h

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 · 7h

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 · 8h

Certainly not!

(Whats green apple licorice 😀?)

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Foutsphotos @foutsphotos.bsky.social · 22h

#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 · 8d

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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BS Photography @explorerviews.bsky.social · 2d

Cyathea treefern in my #garden 🌱
#bloomscrolling #plantsky #Garten

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Jo @artsyjo.bsky.social · 1d

I got this mystery succulent from my husband’s late grandmother several years ago, and it is putting on ENORMOUS buds for the first time. The internet tells me it is a carrion plant, and it will smell like rotting flesh when it blooms. (Maybe in time for Halloween?!?) 😳 #plantsky

Several potted plants on a cluttered porch table. One, a succulent with clusters of long, thin, spineless fingers, has sprouted bulbous buds. I believe it may be a stapelia gigantea, aka carrion plant, aka Zulu starfish plant. Excited to see it bloom for the first time!

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🦇Ash the Ninth🎃 @tractorgoth.bsky.social · 22h

My native asters are about tapped out but the zinnias are still going strong and the neighbors appreciate the backup options. Need to explore more fall blooming natives next year. 🌱

A bright orange zinnia flower with two giant sleepy bumblebees napping on it

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Darran Jaques @darranjaques.bsky.social · 1d

Happy Sunday!

The roses keep flowering, here is Rosa 'For Your Eyes Only' basking in some soft October sun.

@rosesuk.bsky.social

#Garden #Gardening #Flowers 🌱

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debbifiggy.bsky.social @debbifiggy.bsky.social · 1d

Today’s #BloomScrolling is also courtesy of my mother’s garden. 🌱

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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 1d

🌱Good morning 🤍💙💛💚
#gardening #bloomscrolling

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🇬🇧PhotographyFunGuy🇬🇷 @photographyguy28.bsky.social · 1d

#Gardeningfeed 🌱
#NaturePhotography
#PhotographersOfBlueSky
#NatureLover#Photography
#UKGardening
Good Afternoon,Bluesky fam!
Check out this Stunning Cosmos flower that I saw a Few days ago while Wondering Around My neighbourhood,
Captured on a Canon EOS R50

The picture shows two pink cosmos flowers with yellow centers, growing on slender green stems. The flowers have delicate, layered petals that radiate outward. One flower appears slightly damaged or wilted, with some petals bent or missing. The background is a dark, blurred green, likely indicating foliage, which contrasts with the bright colors of the flowers. The lighting suggests it was taken during the day, with soft sunlight illuminating the petals.

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Natalie @abookandadog.com · 1d

“The poetry of the earth is never dead.”

~John Keats ❤️🌱

#gardening #photography

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 22h

For a few hours his afternoon, the sun was shining 🌱

#SundayYellow #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #MacroPhotography

Hypericum hidcote, shrubby St John's Wort, golden yellow against a blue sky with close up detail of the pistils and stamen

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Certainly a close cousin, both in the aizoaceae family 😀🌵