John Jackson
@treefern41.bsky.social
Naturalist and chalk stream defender. Book collector, restorer and poet. Born 1940s
This beautiful Cucurbit just by New Malden car park behind the new Chinese Loon Fung supermarket yesterday. Any one know it’s name very pretty leaves. Squash maybe?
October 19, 2025 at 1:01 PM
This beautiful Cucurbit just by New Malden car park behind the new Chinese Loon Fung supermarket yesterday. Any one know it’s name very pretty leaves. Squash maybe?
Garsons farm maize crop ploughed in and now attracting many hundreds of birds. At least 100 Canada geese, Egyptian geese with wood pigeons, stock doves, magpies, crows and jackdaws feeding on the fallen maize cobs. Amazing.
October 8, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Garsons farm maize crop ploughed in and now attracting many hundreds of birds. At least 100 Canada geese, Egyptian geese with wood pigeons, stock doves, magpies, crows and jackdaws feeding on the fallen maize cobs. Amazing.
My sister Sarah Hunt, her beautiful Cabinet of Curiosities, the result of a life time of obsession with little, beautiful, strange and unusual things. Lovely
September 27, 2025 at 10:32 AM
My sister Sarah Hunt, her beautiful Cabinet of Curiosities, the result of a life time of obsession with little, beautiful, strange and unusual things. Lovely
Pair of swallows over Squires Ditton near Surbiton. Overflying now, often sits on wire nearby the Buddhist temple.
August 9, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Pair of swallows over Squires Ditton near Surbiton. Overflying now, often sits on wire nearby the Buddhist temple.
Sunset off the A3 in Kingston, Surrey this evening.
August 4, 2025 at 7:53 PM
Sunset off the A3 in Kingston, Surrey this evening.
A very clean Jersey Tiger in the gardens at Pembroke Lodge.
July 27, 2025 at 6:29 PM
A very clean Jersey Tiger in the gardens at Pembroke Lodge.
Butter and eggs, Lotus corniculatus and Taro Alocasia in my greenhouse in Kingston. Roots from Asian shops in our are planted in a water trough in my carp tank setup. This keeps the water clean for the fish, huge plants removing the nutrients for their growth.
July 27, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Butter and eggs, Lotus corniculatus and Taro Alocasia in my greenhouse in Kingston. Roots from Asian shops in our are planted in a water trough in my carp tank setup. This keeps the water clean for the fish, huge plants removing the nutrients for their growth.
A savage looking Bromeliad on the corner of Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. Dykia spines will rip you to pieces, a species from Texas I believe. A very large one in the corner of the dry section of the Wisely glass house.
July 27, 2025 at 12:51 PM
A savage looking Bromeliad on the corner of Pembroke Lodge, Richmond Park. Dykia spines will rip you to pieces, a species from Texas I believe. A very large one in the corner of the dry section of the Wisely glass house.
At least 3 plus Jersey Tigers today in a cool corner of Waitrose car park Surbiton today Saturday.
July 12, 2025 at 5:22 PM
At least 3 plus Jersey Tigers today in a cool corner of Waitrose car park Surbiton today Saturday.
A bromeliad, norolegia species. Close ups for you, one of my favourite greenhouse plants. Hoya carnosa a south eastern aisian climber. Ferns are an important part of my plant collection too. A nice Helix from my garden as well on a hart’s tongue fern.
July 7, 2025 at 4:11 PM
A bromeliad, norolegia species. Close ups for you, one of my favourite greenhouse plants. Hoya carnosa a south eastern aisian climber. Ferns are an important part of my plant collection too. A nice Helix from my garden as well on a hart’s tongue fern.
This is for Carol Klein thank you, great interview on Desert Island Disks. Thoughtful and touching areas of great concern to me. Skylarks at Hampton Court did it for me too.
July 6, 2025 at 12:58 PM
This is for Carol Klein thank you, great interview on Desert Island Disks. Thoughtful and touching areas of great concern to me. Skylarks at Hampton Court did it for me too.
Mt Etna broom in Esher car park in flower, lovely.
June 30, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Mt Etna broom in Esher car park in flower, lovely.
Marbled white and reed bunting present today. Chessington Garden center water reclamation reed bed.
June 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Marbled white and reed bunting present today. Chessington Garden center water reclamation reed bed.
This is Nick Bagenals fruit book. Barbara Hyles a member of the Bloomsbury group was his wife. As a family we knew him well. A wonderful character of the Wye College horticultural Dept.
June 17, 2025 at 11:07 AM
This is Nick Bagenals fruit book. Barbara Hyles a member of the Bloomsbury group was his wife. As a family we knew him well. A wonderful character of the Wye College horticultural Dept.
Boxhill from the river Mole up from the weir. Lovely green on the scarp a consequence of the recent rain so looking beautiful through the gaps, my favourites.
June 15, 2025 at 4:02 PM
Boxhill from the river Mole up from the weir. Lovely green on the scarp a consequence of the recent rain so looking beautiful through the gaps, my favourites.
Why am I excited?
Swallows and martins at Denbies.
Buzzards over Dorking with thrushes and blackbirds singing in the trees round the garden center there.
Swifts chasing each other over Tolworth.
Each special birds.
Swallows and martins at Denbies.
Buzzards over Dorking with thrushes and blackbirds singing in the trees round the garden center there.
Swifts chasing each other over Tolworth.
Each special birds.
June 15, 2025 at 3:25 PM
Why am I excited?
Swallows and martins at Denbies.
Buzzards over Dorking with thrushes and blackbirds singing in the trees round the garden center there.
Swifts chasing each other over Tolworth.
Each special birds.
Swallows and martins at Denbies.
Buzzards over Dorking with thrushes and blackbirds singing in the trees round the garden center there.
Swifts chasing each other over Tolworth.
Each special birds.
Today under Denbies service area where at least 3 pairs of swallows are nesting. High up on the long roof horizontal structure safe indeed from predators. @denbies
June 15, 2025 at 12:42 PM
Today under Denbies service area where at least 3 pairs of swallows are nesting. High up on the long roof horizontal structure safe indeed from predators. @denbies
This is the hardy Puya spathacia from the highlands of Patagonia living in my Kingston garden suffering -7 frosts. 5 years on the back addition and doing well. There are a number of beautiful hardy species you can see in gardens in Devon and Cornwall.
June 12, 2025 at 5:47 PM
This is the hardy Puya spathacia from the highlands of Patagonia living in my Kingston garden suffering -7 frosts. 5 years on the back addition and doing well. There are a number of beautiful hardy species you can see in gardens in Devon and Cornwall.
These are interesting plants seen at Pembroke Lodge today. The spiky Bromeliad is i think Dykia a semi hardy species at the back corner of the new tropical bed. The other looks like an exotic figwort 3 plants have appeared in the dry garden beds after 5 years.
June 10, 2025 at 3:37 PM
These are interesting plants seen at Pembroke Lodge today. The spiky Bromeliad is i think Dykia a semi hardy species at the back corner of the new tropical bed. The other looks like an exotic figwort 3 plants have appeared in the dry garden beds after 5 years.
The R Mole at the Leatherhead bridge looking down, absolutely a chalk stream at its best, lovely.
May 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The R Mole at the Leatherhead bridge looking down, absolutely a chalk stream at its best, lovely.
Chessington Garden Center. This is the water reclamation wetland more than 10 years old and now full of aquatics that have just arrived. Both reed warbler & reed bunting have bred there I believe. Kite, kestrel, buzzard to be seen there but not today. Chiff chaff and blackcap in the woodland strip.
May 17, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Chessington Garden Center. This is the water reclamation wetland more than 10 years old and now full of aquatics that have just arrived. Both reed warbler & reed bunting have bred there I believe. Kite, kestrel, buzzard to be seen there but not today. Chiff chaff and blackcap in the woodland strip.
These are views from Pembroke lodge gardens through gaps very nice atmosphere.
Last two from Poets Corner.
Last two from Poets Corner.
May 6, 2025 at 3:39 PM
These are views from Pembroke lodge gardens through gaps very nice atmosphere.
Last two from Poets Corner.
Last two from Poets Corner.
Ashtead common, distant cuckoo heard today plus usual fare. A beautiful place but very cold and windy. This is the path by the farm, sadly no lapwings now. View out to the rough fields, can’t tell what is happening there. Is it a crop or not? Whatever it is very uneven on a thin dry soil.
May 4, 2025 at 3:18 PM
Ashtead common, distant cuckoo heard today plus usual fare. A beautiful place but very cold and windy. This is the path by the farm, sadly no lapwings now. View out to the rough fields, can’t tell what is happening there. Is it a crop or not? Whatever it is very uneven on a thin dry soil.
Denbies Dorking today, house martins back around the eves of the southern gable. Not going to their nests yet. This is the only place I know where I can be guaranteed the sight & sounds of swallows & martins, the martins have been at the vineyard for a fortnight now. My annual pilgrimage. #denbies
May 4, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Denbies Dorking today, house martins back around the eves of the southern gable. Not going to their nests yet. This is the only place I know where I can be guaranteed the sight & sounds of swallows & martins, the martins have been at the vineyard for a fortnight now. My annual pilgrimage. #denbies
Stone pine and laburnum M&S car park Ashtead?
May 3, 2025 at 1:09 PM
Stone pine and laburnum M&S car park Ashtead?