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Jillybean
@jhammerstone.bsky.social
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I believe in gardening. I believe in humanity and kindness - books, education, candles, dirt, salt, roots, music, animals and their rights. I am firmly against fascism and a government that is not for the people. 🚫 MAGA, 🚫 Trump.
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Mountains, trees and reflections of a blue sky in the marsh 🌱🌳 🦋

#nature #trees #mountains #mountainscape #naturephotography
Beautiful blue sky reflected in the marsh - against a backdrop of bare autumn trees and mountains waiting for snow.
November 26, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Trees climbing on the mountain under a blue sky - have a beautiful day 🌱🌳 🦋

#nature #trees #mountains #mountainscape #naturephotography
Green trees climbing up a jagged pale brown mountain side with a beautiful blue sky above
November 25, 2025 at 9:37 AM
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Kind words cost nothing
November 23, 2025 at 6:27 PM
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A final citrus but not citrus, and also a tenuous excuse for posting something totally out of season, geum 'totally tangerine' 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #Flowers
Closeup of an orange geum flower
November 23, 2025 at 8:48 PM
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G’nite all. Canterbury Bells down in the #Brookside garden waiting for spring!

#GardenGrewPeas
#Gardening 🌱
November 24, 2025 at 2:28 AM
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Good morning
We are fully into snowdrop season
I have peter gatehouse & 3 ships in flower at home
This is Dryad Gold Sovereign

Saw a list of snowdrop prices that were based in fantasy yesterday
Careful of buying from disreputable sellers. Contact a snowdrop grower for advice
Have a great day 🌱
November 24, 2025 at 6:57 AM
jhammerstone.bsky.social
“I say that the strongest principle of growth lies in human choice.”🌱 ~ George Eliot

#flowers #nature #gardening #flowerphotography #dahlia #bloomscrolling
Beautiful burgundy dahlia, looking pink in the sunlight, against a backdrop of green garden vegetation.
November 24, 2025 at 9:43 AM
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“Life doesn't have to be perfect to be wonderful.”🌱🌻 ~ Annette Funicello

#flowers #gardening #sunflowers #flowerphotography
Slightly squished yellow sunflower with green vegetation in the background in the fall of 2025
November 19, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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Looking up

#bluesky #lighthouses #skyscape #photography
View of beautiful blue sky from below a lighthouse off the coast of Maine
November 18, 2025 at 9:54 AM
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Puppies make everything better - these sleeping faces. ❤️🐶 Patton and Molly had a very lovely day filled with shenanigans and deserve even lovelier naps.
Patton,yellow English Labrador, sleeping after a fun day of shenanigans Molly, Brindle English Mastiff, sleeping after a fun day of shenanigans
November 15, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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This beautiful tree outside my house just glows in the sun and still has her leaves. 🌱
November 12, 2025 at 2:35 AM
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Today's harvest. 🌱
Tomato salad with croutons made from yesterday's bread for #dinner
🍜
I'll pickle the jalapeños
Fresh tomatoes and jalapeños
November 12, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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Still flowering in a communal garden along the Thames path near Imperial Wharf for #roseWednesday 🌱
I’m off to see an embroidery exhibition in Kingston.
A beautiful white rose poking through the blue bars of a fence in front of an apartment building.
November 12, 2025 at 6:56 AM
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I’ve been stewing apples in the slow cooker today. Apples picked near this tree last month. (The house smells amazing) 🌱🍎

#trees #nature #November #apples
Aged apple tree in a peaceful orchard and a beautiful Autumn day.
November 9, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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Hello gorgeous 🌱
A ladybird on a green leaf with a small pool of water at the bottom of the leaf
November 9, 2025 at 12:43 PM
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cyrinne.dev
This Japanese Maple was planted by the gardeners this spring. 🌱

Picture from Wednesday when we had sunshine.

#organic-gardening
A Japanese Maple leaf (which is smaller and more palmated / hand-shaped than other maples) that is glowing in a rich fall red thanks to sunlight shining through the leaf. Blurry leaves and a blurry brick wall in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 12:50 PM
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November 8, 2025 at 6:48 AM
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🌱🌾🌍🌺🍄🧪🌳🐝What was the Third Student Botany Festival like? See the highlights video on our YouTube channel!

Lively, informative, scientific, FUN!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=YmfO...

#BUC2025 #plants #loveplants
November 8, 2025 at 9:07 AM
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Sharing this beautiful blue sky sitting above the trees - and wishing you a safe and peaceful weekend.

#trees #nature #November #autumn
Trees in all their autumnal beauty sitting in a park below a beautiful blue sky
November 8, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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"Be the reason someone smiles. Be the reason someone feels loved and believes in the goodness in people."🌱🌻 ~ Roy T. Bennett

#flowers #nature #gardening #sunflowers #November #kindness #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling
Bright orange and yellow sunflower enjoying a lovely sunny day in the garden - September 2025
November 5, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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#MacroMonday #Bloomscrolling #BugSky #nature #flowers 🌱🐝
A picture from about a month ago, a small hoverfly perched on a burnt orange yellow and black helenium flower
November 3, 2025 at 6:10 PM
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🌱blooming through fascism
Blood before the fall. Harkness memorial Park, New London, Connecticut.
November 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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For #WildflowerHour:
Bright-eyed Green Alkanet, peeping out at me from the roadside verge today. Though often passed by, its flowers beckon, glinting like tiny sapphires — blooming well into autumn, and sometimes through winter too. A quiet companion at the edge of things, whispering resilience.
A close-up of a Green Alkanet flower (Pentaglottis sempervirens), its sapphire blue petals and white centre standing out against the soft greens of surrounding leaves. It grows at the edge of a pavement, catching the light like a wildflower jewel.
November 2, 2025 at 7:57 PM
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Feeling a bit battered by life. This week's Cheering Up Mondays is for my father-in-law.
More: bit.ly/3JyzJbY
#RIP #CheeringUpMondays #Cornwall #MondayMotivation 🌱 #UKGardening
November 3, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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"Never look down on anybody unless you're helping him up”🌱🌻 ~ Jesse Jackson

#flowers #sunflowers #nature #gardening #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling
Bee feasting on a tiny, lopsided, yellow sunflower in the garden.
November 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM