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🤗 Query kind motive, even if max reason I follow engages, you will be outbid to appreciate jazz 🎺🎹🎷reading 📚orchids🪻nature 🌈🕊🌺🐨baths 🛁
#Scrabblegram #haiku
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S is for Stanhopea saccata a delightful species donated by the Hartley’s and part of the National Collection. Do you have any Stanhopeas or other S orchids to share today? 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 19, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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R is for Rossioglossum grande - sometimes known as the clown orchid that forms part of the Oncidium alliance. Thanks everyone for sharing all your alphabet photos - do share any R orchids today! 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 18, 2025 at 12:16 PM
kapukamum.bsky.social
R is for Red helleborine - Cephalanthera rubra
A favourite find on an alpine holiday…

#AtoZ #orchid
December 18, 2025 at 11:20 AM
kapukamum.bsky.social
Quintessential Q
Questionably quite Quince-y
Quality quotient

#AtoZ #Hi-Q #haiku

youtu.be/u2hqgJGVMEk?...
December 17, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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P is for Pleione Hendrelien Peters AM/RHS named after our valued expert volunteer. Pleione’s come in a variety of colours most flowering in Spring with some Autumn flowering. Do you have a P orchid to share today? 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 16, 2025 at 4:10 PM
kapukamum.bsky.social
P is for Paphiopedilum currently flowering. ‘Audrey’ (the pair of slippers) has produced a smaller offspring this year 🤗
#AtoZ #Orchid
December 16, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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I know a place where wild flowers grow
It was once a path, then I forgot to mow
It's now the home of a fine orchid
Popular with bees it seems, but not this kid
It's a fraud, a cheat, a con artist
It grows the bees itself, you see, it's taking the

#BeeOrchid
December 15, 2025 at 4:22 PM
kapukamum.bsky.social
O is also for the Ophrys genus of orchids #AtoZ (was pleased to have spotted this wasp orchid a while ago)
December 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
kapukamum.bsky.social
Aconteceu
Varios arco-íris
Obrigada, ciao

It’s been happening
A multitude of rainbows
Thank you and goodbye

#SevenOnSunday #LuzesDeNatal🎄 #Emilia 🌊 #SharingMadeira 🌈
Meu primeiro haiku em português @madeiraisland.bsky.social 😇
A collage of Funchal Christmas lights and rainbows
December 14, 2025 at 5:30 AM
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L is for Lycaste AB Little Scatterbrain - one of the orchids from the Hartley’s. So grateful for everyone who continues to support us as we conserve these fantastic collections 🌿 Any L orchids to share today?

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 12, 2025 at 11:44 AM
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A poem in response to the #PoemsAbout #YouShouldn'tHave for @thebrokenspine.co.uk and @alanparrywriter.co.uk
#poetry
December 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
kapukamum.bsky.social
L is for Lilies
as well as musically
Chet Baker - “Leaving”

#AtoZ #AteBreveMadeira #FlowersOnFriday 💛🎺
youtu.be/DKVWp_Ekl44?...
December 12, 2025 at 6:35 AM
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glawrence.bsky.social
#NewRelease!

Egypt, 58 BCE
Ptolemy Princess Cleopatra grows up in a palace of wonders, delights & dangers

Through peril & politics Cleopatra's fate unfolds, leading her to the throne

The Last Queen
£2.99 or #Free #KindleUnlimited!
#Histfic #Ancient #Booksky 📚💙📚💙

www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0G66Y7D3...
December 11, 2025 at 10:00 AM
kapukamum.bsky.social
Other than ‘Keyflowers’ K is for Kalmia #AtoZ
December 11, 2025 at 11:26 AM
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Masdevallia velifera (Rchb.f 1874) a welcome distraction on a stormy day. This 'Veiled Masdevallia' is native to the cloud forests of 🇨🇴 . For me, the malodorous fragrance is only really discernable when the blooms first open #Orchidaceae
December 9, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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J is for Oncidium Janus, a historic hybrid registered in 1910. This one is a remake by the renown hybridizer, Bob Hamilton and is late flowering each year. Do share your J orchids too? 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 10, 2025 at 9:52 AM
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glawrence.bsky.social
Poems on Medium

How We Survive

#poetry #poetrysky #booksky #indieauthor #supportindieauthors #poems #poet

📚💙📚💙📚💙📚💙📚💙📚

medium.com/@tudortweep/...
How We Survive
Sometimes, something just seems to open,
medium.com
December 10, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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Just so many Js to enjoy if no J orchids @mathersfoundation.bsky.social Jacaranda, Jasmine, Jade plant (mine never flowers at home) and Jade vine #AtoZ #SharingMadeira
December 10, 2025 at 9:10 AM
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THE YETI SPEAKS (whose two halves use the same letters, in the same order):
December 9, 2025 at 7:19 AM
kapukamum.bsky.social
I is also for Indian Shot #AtoZ #SharingMadeira
December 9, 2025 at 8:52 AM
kapukamum.bsky.social
Having no H orchids H has to be for Hibiscus 🌺 happily blooming here #AtoZ #SharingMadeira
December 8, 2025 at 9:50 AM
kapukamum.bsky.social
#SevenOnSunday from along the seafront #SharingMadeira
December 7, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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G is for Gomesa flexuosa a species native to Brazil and Argentina with petite bright yellow flowers. 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 7, 2025 at 8:23 AM
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#EmojiSounds
#MusicChallenge
@lagrume.bsky.social

06/12 : 🕊️ 🖖

McCoy Tyner
"Search for peace"
youtu.be/9XVNzU9OqMc?...
December 6, 2025 at 11:23 AM
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F has been tricky with very unusual species! To keep the alphabet and joy here is Cymbidium Fliquet from our new National Collection of Cymbidiums. Registered in 1990 you can see the strong influence of sanderae. 🌿

#orchids #orquídeas #nature #conservation #orchidalphabet🌱
December 6, 2025 at 7:56 AM