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Sarah Griffiths
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Head gardener and neglectful allotmenteer in Aberdeen, Scotland. Knits and sleeps a lot.
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Winter and summer 🌱📸🌸🌳❄️
#gardening #winter #Scotland
#Aberdeenshire #Beechgrove
2 photos of the same view - a pathed oath runs between glasshouses and potting shed. The left inage is taken in late November, snow is melting and the view is a winter monochrome; the left photo is taken in July and the area is full of colourful pots of dahlias, cosmos, agapanthus and scabious.
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Walking through the melting snow, I saw this and felt a little warmer
📸 🎨🌳 #art #streetart
#Aberdeen #Scotland
A door in a stone wall, on a northern city street (you can’t see, but h the recent snow is melting). The door is painted - blue sky fading to white, dry, cracked yellow-ochre ground and a striking Baobab tree in the centre. There is also, what seems to be a flying whale in the sky.
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The changing of the seasons
🌱 🌸 ❄️ 📸
#SixOnSunday #BloomScrolling
#Scotland #BeechgroveGarden
Frosted flora clockwise from top left: Cornus canadensis leaves in shades of red and green; amber rose leaf; blue Salvia curled flower spike; pale pink rose; small green Hebe leaves and seedhead of Phlomis russeliana.
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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First frost! Brr, it was nippy this morning, but this iced rose was beautiful 🌱 🥀 📸 ❄️
#BloomScrolling #Rose #Aberdeenshire #Scotland
An orange-pink rose edged with frost
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Autumn gold 🌱🌳🍁📸 #StunDay #Autumn #Scotland Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen
Fine Acer palmatum leaves in warm shades of brown, amber, copper and gold. The leaves in the foreground are in focus, those behond are blurred with a blue-grey background
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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November fireworks #SixOnSaturday #BloomScrolling 🌱🍁📸 Names in alt text #BeechgroveGarden #Scotland
Clockwise from top left: Some late flowering chrysanthemums - they all have very thin petals, looking like a firework - pale cream Chrysanthemum ‘Capella’, the red autumn leaves of Prunus ‘Snow Showers’, pale yellow C. ‘Cheapeake Primrose’, small vivid yellow flowers of Mahonia x media ‘Charity’, orangy tones C. ‘Coral Reef’, yellow centre, red petals with yellow tips C. ‘Goshu Penta’
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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A magnificent Beech in Gight Wood - one of the last remnants of ancient woodland in Aberdeenshire, Scotland #ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳🍁📸
Looking up at a large, mature Beech tree. The trunk is wide and the branches are thick and almost horizontal. It’s autumn and the leaves are beginning to turn, the ground underneath is covered with copper coloured leaves.
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Take a seat among the falling leaves #Autumn #BlueSkyArtShow 🌳🍁📸
Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen, Scotland
View of a garden. A wooden bench in the foreground, behind and to the side is an Acer in the sunshine. Some leaves have fallen, giving the grass a golden glow.
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Bringing up baby 🐞 🌱 📸
#Ladybird #GardenLife #Scotland
A small cluster of ladybirds sheltering in a dry oak leaf. There are 3 red 7-spot ladybirds with a much smaller golden ladybird in the centre.
October 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM
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Dreamy autumn Hydrangea 🌱 🌸 📸 #BloomScrolling
#Aberdeenshire
#Scotland
Close up of the sterile florets of Hydrangea macrophylla. The petals, originally white have become a dusky purple-mauve-plum.
October 28, 2025 at 11:15 PM
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My absolute favourite tree, the fern-leaved Beech, Fagus sylvatica ‘Asplenifolia’ 🌳🍁📸 #CruickshankBotanicGarden #Aberdeen #Scotland
A beech tree wider than it is tall. The sun is shining on its autumn leaves which are a golden-orange. The leaves are deeply toothed than the usual Beech, giving it a shimmering light quality.
October 27, 2025 at 8:37 PM
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Some more autumn loveliness for #SixOnSaturday Photos from Falkland Palace gardens and the Japanese Garden at Cowden
#Scotland 🌱🌳🍁🔥
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Collage from top left: dusky pink ‘petals’ of Hydrangea paniculata, golden autumn leaves of Acer shirasawanum, large glossy deep rich burgundy leaves of Vitis coignetiae, red leaves in the sunlight of Acer palmatum, Acer leaves in the distance, small yellow fruits of Malus x zumi ‘Golden Hornet’
October 18, 2025 at 8:58 PM
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‘Skylight’ from Andy Goldsworthy’s 50 year retrospective in Edinburgh this summer. An intimate, natural cathedral, he apparantly made this work in the hope that the skylight would be cleaned… #Vertical #BlueSkyArtShow #Art #EnvironmentalArt #LandArt
Looking up at a skylight in a ceiling. The surrounding walls are clad in tiers of stems of reed mace (Typha latifolia) hung vertically.
October 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Sorbus commixta looking gorgeous in the autumn sun 🌱🌳🍁🔥 #JapaneseGarden
#Scotland #Autumn
Photo taken of a Japanese garden, looking across a lawn with a stone bench. The surrounding trees are green, but in the centre is a vivid red Japanese Rowan (Sorbus commixta) tree
October 16, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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A fine day to visit the restored Japanese Garden in Fife. Dating from the early 1900’s, adventurer Ella Christie hired designer Taki Handa making it the first and only garden of its size and scale to be designed by a woman. 🌱🍁🌳💪 #autumn #Scotland #GardenHistory #JapaneseGardens
View over a small lake. The sky is blue and the day is still so the landscape is perfectly reflected in the water. In the distance there is a footbridge and a pagoda. The trees and shrubs are all different shapes, sizes and colours, and in the background you can see some hills.
October 15, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquifolia) in the sunshine
#Glow #BlueSkyArtShow
🌱🍁🔥📸
Sunlight through Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquifolia) in autumn. The leaves are a fiery red
October 11, 2025 at 3:41 PM
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Can I please live in a tree house of these 🌱🌳🍂🍁🔥📸
#Autumn #Scotland
#Beechgrove #SixOnSaturday
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6 stunning autumn colour leaves. Clockwise from top left: Parrotia persica (orange/yellow), Acer palmatum ‘Osakazuki’ (coral/ pink/red), Physocarpus ‘Ruby Wine’ (deep red), Acer palmatum ‘Dissectum’ (golden), Physocarpus (burnt orange), Parthenocissus quinquifolia (vivid red)
October 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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And the heat goes on… can’t believe I’d already packed my shorts away for winter, what a mistake 🥵🌱📸
#Autumn
#GardeningInScotland
#Beechgrove
View across a lawn, looking at the sun through a Birch and red-leaved Oak tree. The shadows are long and the sky is blue.
October 10, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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All the colours 🍁🔥🌳🌱
#ScottishGardens
#Beechgrove
#autumn
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A colourful garden scene in autumn. A wooden fence with vivid red leaves of Parthenocissus quinquifolia and henryana and Pyracantha ‘Saphyr Orange’; behind is the orange hues of Acer palmatum ’Osakazuki’ and yellow Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida’
October 9, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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The first year of a gardening job is a voyage of discovery, seeing the garden change throughout the year. Previous gardeners at Beechgrove have made some lovely choices and planting combinations! #autumn #Scotland #horticulture 🌱🍁🔥📸
Autumnal scene, looking through an archway formed by the red leaves of Acer palmatum ‘Osakazuki’ and Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida’. There are other lovely colours of shrubs on either side of the gravel path. There is a lawn in the distance with dappled sunlight.
October 7, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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The sweetest fly agaric 🍄 #autumn #Scotland
Looking at a lawn from ground level - trees in the distance and a small red topped fly agaric in the foreground
October 6, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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#Relax #BlueSkyArtShow 📸🌳🌸
The Old Wood of Drum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland
A soothing photo of an ancient woodland in summer. Everywhere is green - trees, feens and grass. In the centre is a group of foxgloves growing out of a stump.
October 4, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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In today’s #SixOnSaturday autumn is in question with these pink beauties! #Beechgrove #Scotland Info in alt text 🌱🌸📸💕
Clockwise from top left: fluffy pink blossom-like flowers of Calluna vulgaris H E Beale, two-tone pink flowers of perennial Sweet pea, ‘red’ campion Silene dioica, the two-tone pink and green leaves of Vaccinium corymbosum ‘Pink Flamingo’, Nerine and deep pink Cosmos.
October 4, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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Euonymus colour changes to brighten a dreich day. Info in alt text. 🍁🌱📸 #Beechgrove #Aberdeenshire
4 photos of the leaves of Euonymus alatus taken on the same day. The leaves range from green with a tinge of pink; pink with a hint of green, full on cerise pink with faint white leaf veins visible and knock-your-socks-off magenta red.
October 2, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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When you’re a head gardener and you forget all about the plants, because you are focusing on the REALLY sexy stuff like gutters and slabs 🌱 🔧
Collage of drab photos showing bits of gutter, leaking ceilings, roofing felt, slabs and gravel
October 1, 2025 at 4:30 PM