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Clare Unwin
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Gardener 🌱 traveller✈️ Yorkshire Lass but home is Shropshire.

Kindness & Contentment are underrated skills.

I ❤️ crafts, music, books, art, history, dogs, cats & horses.

Fiat Pandas 🐼 are brilliant cars.

Looking after the 🌍 as much as I can.

❤️🇹🇷🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿🇺🇦🇳🇿🇬🇧🇲🇹🇪🇦
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I wonder if he's pissed off at London because he didn't get a parade there during his royal visit? They should have let him so we could have showed him exactly how we feel. 😉
December 9, 2025 at 4:42 PM
It appears that Storm Bram has caused a tree casualty in my Christmas Village 😳🤣

Seriously drive safely.
December 9, 2025 at 8:35 AM
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IT'S THE BIG GREEN BOOKS CHRISTMAS RAFFLE!

Tickets are just £2 each!

You can win all these SIGNED books + £50 to spend.

More importantly, every ticket you buy will help buy books for two amazing schools.

JUST TWO POUNDS.

More here.

www.biggreenbookshop.com/big-green-ex...

Please share.
December 8, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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We did it! Over the weekend we raised £120,000 and hit our target in #TheBigGive's #ChristmasChallenge! 🎉 Every pound raised will help support EJS ACT-PD, the world's largest clinical trial for #Parkinsons. The campaign is still open - donate now: buff.ly/72bYgxu
December 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
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Check out The Perlan Museum if you're ever in Reykjavik.

It has a cool restaurant that rotates on the top. It gives you a really great view of the city and landscape.
December 7, 2025 at 8:26 PM
Happy Monday! My little Christmas village is ready. The reindeer is waiting for fly agaric and obviously due to climate change there isn't as much snow as usual!
December 8, 2025 at 9:56 AM
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I’m not expecting to see many flowers or critters in Wisley’s Hilltop gardens this morning after all the rain and heavy frost but I will be looking! Meanwhile, here is a memory from warmer days for #SundayYellow 🌱
December 7, 2025 at 7:53 AM
I have a festive afternoon and evening lined up. Wreath making this afternoon followed by mulled wine, dinner and then a movie night. We will be watching The Holiday.
What's your favourite Christmas Movie?
#Christmas25
December 6, 2025 at 2:22 PM
One of our wonderful clients gave us a beautiful Christmas Gift. We are very happy gardeners. They have a website if anyone needs bespoke tiles.
victorianceramics.com
December 5, 2025 at 7:11 PM
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Fieldfare enjoying the bumper crop of berries this winter #photography #birds #Nature #wildlife #ukwildlife #shropshirebirds #birdphotography
December 3, 2025 at 8:03 AM
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🌱 #thicktrunkTuesday
One of my tree memories from December 2009. I can’t remember where it was because it was before my phone helpfully recorded places but I think it might have been Scotland. It is such a beautiful tree.
December 2, 2025 at 7:57 AM
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2 Dec: In #Norse lore, Frigg watches over marriage, fertility & motherhood. When her son Baldr fell to a mistletoe arrow, she knelt beside him in grief. Her tears touched the bare sprig that struck him, and each drop turned into a white berry—a reminder to cherish those we love.
December 2, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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Good morning
A much brighter day today so back onto the borders giving them the love they deserve

Today's plant is
Anemone x hybrida 'Honorine Jobert'
introduced by Robert Fortune in 1844 or 1858 dependingon sources, verdun, France
Aka windflower

Have a brilliant day 🌱
December 2, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Yesterday we had a surprise delivery from one of our gardening clients. Afternoon tea with prosecco in a box. ☺️ What a lovely thoughtful gift we really have some lovely clients.
#Christmasgift
December 2, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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This week's #CheeringUpMondays flower was a bit of a surprise. More here: bit.ly/3XNQZxk

#UKGardening #MondayMotivation #BloomScrolling #flowers #Cotswolds 🌱
December 1, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Make your Christmas cards even more special by slipping a packet of seeds inside 😊
Our packets of seeds are just the right size and will also make the wildlife happy🐝🦋🌱🦇🐛
Most are only £2 each, available from www.jemimasgarden.co.uk
#MHHSBD
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Windows in the Shire! Harp Lane Deli for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekWforWindows Taken at this weekend's Ludlow Winter Festival. A food emporium selling tasty homemade food, savouries, organic sourdough and other deli fare. Great coffee too... #Advent #EastCoastKin #Ludlow #Shropshire #Lumix #GX8
December 1, 2025 at 7:22 AM
Morning it's a slightly soggy start but I am sure the reservoirs need the rain. I love how Mahonia brightens up a corner in a garden. Some clients don't like yellow and orange in the garden but what do you think?
#gardeningfeed 🌱
December 1, 2025 at 8:01 AM
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Good morning sky-folk, Jasmine Nightshade (Solanum laxum 'Album') among the last of what's still flowering locally on this final #FlowersOnFriday of autumn.

#Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday #EastCoastKin 🌱
November 28, 2025 at 8:34 AM
Good morning a dull but mild day here in Shropshire after yesterday's cold crisp day.
Have a good day it's nearly the weekend.
#gardeningfeed 🌱
November 27, 2025 at 7:04 AM
Morning from Shropshire it's currently -4 degrees I am off to work shortly. Wishing I could stay home today.
November 21, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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Also! Chainmail jewellery in custom colour-schemes is a wonderfully distinctive #SecretSantaAoNZ gift and I am happy to wrap/personalise for you, etc.

Range of prices available but for a light touch consider keyring (felt.co.nz/listing/5963...) or trio earrings (felt.co.nz/listing/5555...)
Chainmail keyring
A bright and cheerful accessory to keep your keys together! Chain is 5cm long + keyring, in a doubled-up version of Byzantine weave. Or hang it on a bag for a splash of colour. Available in rainbow or...
felt.co.nz
November 20, 2025 at 8:00 AM
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🌱Good Morning Gardeners🌱 Still popping in late November ☘️💪☘️
November 20, 2025 at 9:23 AM
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The Rock’n’Roll Doctor is IN
November 20, 2025 at 7:12 AM