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I sometimes wonder if it is only people who have known nothing but peace and stability who could wilfully and deliberately endanger that precious and rare gift without direct personal experience of the alternative that so many others suffer daily.
November 11, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Move over Holly. Beginning to wonder if we'll have Dahlias at Christmas. 🌱
November 11, 2025 at 10:53 PM
Squashes that look like a colouring in project. 🌱 #growyourown #gardens
October 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
Another of Nature's artworks, leaning in, sketched with light and shadow. Time captured in quiet growth, leading the eye beyond.
October 17, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Plumped up, cropped and ready. 🌱
October 10, 2025 at 6:43 PM
Prequel to more quince jelly. Recent top tip adopted - microwave them for 30 secs before chopping. They are very hard. 🌱 #growyourown
October 10, 2025 at 10:52 AM
Or, in this case, give us a lift. #joydivision
October 7, 2025 at 9:44 AM
Spirit lifters. Trying to balance, leaving them to flower slightly longer in the garden, with the chance to really appreciate the forms and colour up close. 🌱 #gardens
October 6, 2025 at 8:25 PM
#Quince and cardamon, fragrant sunlight in a jar, ready to help brighten darker days. 🌱
October 5, 2025 at 1:09 PM
And the beets go on.🌱Baked beets with garlic, rosemary and butter coming up - courtesy of @nigelslater.bsky.social #growyourown #gardens
October 5, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Inside a yew hedge. Sometimes what's hidden from view is more interesting.🌱 #gardening #hedges
September 17, 2025 at 9:51 AM
Solar powered flower turbine, generating beauty in the border. 🌱 #bloomscrolling
September 15, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Feels like a good time to know your onions... and er.. to know your onions. 🌱
September 11, 2025 at 2:42 PM
There's flowering and just plain showing off. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #gardens
September 8, 2025 at 11:01 AM
Evil plum 🌱.
September 7, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Looking like a whirling wind spinner frozen in the frame. #dahlia of the day. 🌱 #bloomscrolling
September 4, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Shrugging off the night and shaking out those petals. Peak purple, #dahlia of the day. 🌱 #gardens #bloomscrolling
September 2, 2025 at 8:17 AM
Confident quilt, with a strong sense of self.
Artful soft furnishing exploring mental health.

Bold, colourful, playful, laid out and merry.
Stitched with style and whimsy by the great #Graysonperry.
August 31, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Dahlia of the day. Bee stop and showstopper, frothing with flower. 🌱 #bloomscrolling
August 29, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Rampant Rudbeckia, a roaring lion of a flower with a petal mane. Worth the wait. 🌱 #gardens #bloomscrolling
August 26, 2025 at 10:09 PM
Gusty, golden, candy striped pie and soup on the vine. Turks turban squash finally putting on some growth. 🌱 #gardening #growyourown
August 24, 2025 at 7:34 PM
Costoluto kept us waiting. First of the fabulous, fissured flavour bombs. 🌱 #gardening #growyourown
August 23, 2025 at 4:47 PM
Pears a plenty... um.. now what..... 🌱 #gardens #homegrown
August 22, 2025 at 2:05 PM
Keep still and make like a flower. 🌱 #gardens #Dahlias
August 21, 2025 at 10:07 AM
And to think I didn't used to like Dahlias. 🌱 #gardens 🦋
July 26, 2025 at 6:42 PM