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Graham Jones

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#BlueskyMonday #Bloomscrolling #EnglishGardens
Blue Cranesbill Geraniums.
#ArtChallenges #EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky

A cluster of delicately shaded Cranesbill Geraniums in a garden bed near the shop at the Ightham Mote National Trust medieval mansion in Kent. The geraniums spread like weeds and their spindly stalks and bright green leaves can be seen on the ground behind the blue/purple blooms.

October 6, 2025 at 5:39 PM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

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When the sun is out, the garden glows with reds and golds in early October and it makes choosing a #Stunday photo harder. This is my favourite today but by tomorrow, who knows. I love the way #Autumn shifts its colours.
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersUnited #PhotographersOfBluesky #EnglishGardens

The almost unreal purple-red narrow leaves of a Virginia Creeper rest on top of an unpainted wooden garden fence. A few green pyramid-shaped Ivy leaves poke through the fence behind it. Overhead, the sky is blue with a hint of wispy white cloud to form the perfect backdrop.

October 5, 2025 at 7:57 AM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

#MagentaMonday #Autumn #EnglishGardens #Bloomscrolling #Mobilephotography
These autumn mornings are so invigorating … even on a Monday. Our Acer Palmatum (Japanese Maple) has turned a delicious shade of rusty purple and the morning dew glistens on its leaves. Have a great day.

The long serrated leaves of a Acer Palmatum (Japanese Maple) have turned a shade of rusty purple and the morning dew glistens on its leaves in the early sunlight. Behind the tree, which is planted in a large pot, and over the garden fence you can glimpse a large tree in a neighbouring house in our row of terrace homes. To the right of the Acer a blurred out green shrub peeks into frame. The sky is clear blue, contrasting perfectly with the Acer.

September 29, 2025 at 8:17 AM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

Summer seems to be stretching into autumn this year, so the
#SixOnSaturday selection from our garden plus a guest Hollyhock from a neighbour’s front drive is still very colourful. *info in alt text
#Bloomscrolling #EnglishGardens

From top left, clockwise: crimson petals of a Cosmos with yellow centre, grown from seed, in a border right next to our driveway and the pavement with roadway in the background; deep purple Salvia Rock and Bloom in front of pink Sedum in green border; spiky red Persicaria flowers, aka Kiss-me-over-the-garden-gate, stand erect in the sunshine above their green-leaved plants; two luscious pink candy-coloured Hollyhocks growing near the pavement in a neighbour’s driveway; a small Astrantia peeks out from beside an old terracotta flower pot where it has seeded itself in a crack on the patio; tiny purple Verbena bonariensis flowers cluster atop their stalks against a grey wood fence past a retaining wire in the afternoon sun.

September 27, 2025 at 8:04 AM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

#ColorADay #CyanTues
#Bees #EnglishGardens #MacroPhotography
#EastCoastKin #PhotographersOfBluesky
These little Aster flowers are a beautiful shade of blue/cyan and shine in the morning sun by our front door. The bee, however, is not interested in colour, just pollen. One for @soph0517.bsky.social

A honey bee sits on the yellow centre of a small blue/cyan coloured Aster flower with its tiny petals spread out in the sun. The blurred out background has more of the flowers and green leaves in a border next to a front garden path.

September 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

One more for this very wet #RoseWednesday as our Scarborough Fair from David Austin is having a second flush. A distinct touch of Raindrops on roses but no sign of whiskered kittens in our little Surrey garden. #Roses #Flowers #EnglishGardens #BloomScrolling

A delicate pink rose, its petals covered in raindrops, sits almost sheltering another flower to its right that looks red in its bud form. The rose plant’s glossy green leaves are also covered in raindrops.

September 17, 2025 at 11:25 AM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

#SundayYellow #Bloomscrolling
#Gardening #EnglishGardens #PhotographersOfBluesky #EastCoastKin
Soaking up the sun before autumn. A pale yellow flower in the gardens of Chartwell National Trust near Westerham, Kent, once the home of Sir Winston Churchill.

The sun shimmers on the pale yellow of a flower, possibly a California Poppy, casting shadows of its orang-like stamens. The background is the plant’s spidery green leaves.

September 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

#SixOnSaturday
#Bloomscrolling
#EnglishGardens
#Photography
The grey clouds are gone and it looks like sunshine all the way with a heatwave forecast, so our patch needs watering morn and night. However, things are doing well and I found a half dozen again - with one outsider. Captions in alt text.

From top left, clockwise: A pink and white Cosmos flower with yellow centre against a clear blue sky; fading purple Globe Thistle in the shade of the wild section of our garden; a lovely little self-seeded pink Wild Angelica next to the garden path; a neighbour’s deep purple Butterfly Bush aka Beddleja, flops over their garden wall on to the pavement; a trio of delicate pink Anenomes, gathered together like ballerinas ready to go on stage, in front of our pergola. Finally the rusty red leaves and seeds of our Acer Palmatum glisten in the morning sunlight. The background is green and some more Cosmos flowers.

August 9, 2025 at 2:16 PM Everybody can reply

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Molly Anderson

@mollytheauthor.bsky.social

This beautiful honeysuckle is in bloom and brightening up our garden.
Writing takes a back seat at this time of year. I'm just gathering ideas. Maybe Honeysuckle could be a character name.
#honeysuckle #gardenlove #englishgardens #notwriting #fictionalcharacters

May 4, 2025 at 11:46 AM Everybody can reply

the dirt horticultural news

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Fifteen new unique gardens (across the UK, France and Italy) become Royal Horticultural Society Partner Gardens in 2025. #EnglishGardens #FrenchGardens #gardens #ItalianGardens #RHSPartnerGardens #Visitinggardens
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December 5, 2024 at 11:28 AM Everybody can reply

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Up The Garden

@upthegarden.bsky.social

The April Garden 🌻
www.upthegardencompany.co.uk
#flowers #flower #aprilflowers #aprilgarden #englishgardens #gardeninglife #gardeninspo #gardeninspiration #gardendesign #gardenplanting #gardenlife #gardensofinstagram #flowersofinstagram #englishgarden #gardeners #gardens #gardenersworld

April 26, 2025 at 3:10 PM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

#MagentaMonday
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #EnglishGardens
A Butterfly bush in a neighbour’s garden continues to bloom as she deadheads each day; one of our Cosmos flowers; an Angelica by our path and the Salvia Rock and Bloom that has flowered all summer.

A deep purple Butterfly bush aka Buddleja davidii droops over the pavement by a garden wall by a parked blue car.

A bright deep pink Cosmos flower with yellow central pollen-filled stamens opens its face to the sun. Another Cosmos, this time white can be seen to the left and a wooden grey garden fence is in the background.

A light purple coloured Angelica flower head rises above the purple stalks of the plant in a green border.

The distinctive dragon-like deep purple flower heads of a Salvia Rock and Bloom on a tall dark stalk rise in front of a grey wooden fence, casting shadows in the morning sun.

August 25, 2025 at 5:52 PM Everybody can reply

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Anne Welsh

@annewelsh.bsky.social

Had a great time at the RHS Hyde Hall Flower Show yesterday. The rose garden at Hyde Hall was looking every inch the picture of quintessential English summer, and the old barn was open and serving afternoon teas. #goodtimes

#englishgardens #gardeninspiration

August 3, 2024 at 6:36 AM Everybody can reply

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Edelleye

@edelleye.bsky.social

English gardens have so many little treasures. This is Blowin.

#photography #englishgardens #statues #piper #edelleye

August 10, 2025 at 4:27 PM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

#FlowersOnFriday
#Bloomscrolling
#Tulips
#EnglishGardens
OK, I said no more tulips but I was taking in the bins this morning and just couldn’t resist one last photo of these as I came back. Sorry.

Two terracotta pots, one beige, the other blue, containing orange and red tulips stand in an area in front of a terrace cottage. The shadows of a trellis fence can be seen to the left across the paving slabs in front of a partially open light-green front door. To the right of the door there is a small ironwork lantern, house number and slate sign in Welsh with a dragon reading Croeso or Welcome. Around the corner of the porch is a brass bell next to a window and below that a clematis is beginning to climb a frame. Under the other window a Wintersweet. Above is a climbing Hydrangea petiolaris, yet to flower.

May 2, 2025 at 9:33 AM Everybody can reply

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UrbanCruiser

@urbancruiser.bsky.social

Original photo of mine.... #photos #photography #photographer #flowers #photoediting #plants #englishgardens #flowering #nikond7200

February 14, 2025 at 5:55 PM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

#Gardening
#EnglishGardens
#Bloomscrolling
#FlowerPhotography
#Surrey
Little stars … the Periwinkle or Vinca herbacea gives great ground cover. The zinging purple flowers seem to glow in the Spring sunshine against the green leaves. Beware, though, they can take over. They have thuggish tendencies.

April 9, 2025 at 3:33 PM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

#FlowersOnSunday
#SundayYellow
#Flowerphotography
#Gardening
#Bloomscrolling
#EnglishGardens
Our Sunflowers, grown from a free packet of seeds, are looking a bit raggedy, maybe as a result of the constant attentions of the bees. However, as this was the object of planting them, we can’t complain.

A bright yellow Sunflower with brown seed-laden centre spreads its petals towards the afternoon sun against the garden’s green borders. Some pink and white Cosmos flowers can be seen behind and a glimpse of blue sky and white clouds above the garden fence.

August 3, 2025 at 12:41 PM Everybody can reply

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Cynthia Bergsbaken

@cynthia-bergsbaken.bsky.social

"Grazing in the Garden."
#england #peacock #bird #englishgardens

July 9, 2025 at 4:54 PM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

#Bloomscrolling
#FlowerPhotography
#EnglishGardens
#Spring
#Daffodils
#Spring
This little gem of a double Narcissus was planted along with other bulbs in a pot on our patio last year and did nothing. I left it alone and this week’s sun has persuaded it to bloom. The name tag has faded, so no ID.

Bright yellow petals of a double Narcissus sit on a green stalk in an earthenware pot reflecting the Spring sunlight.

Bright yellow petals of a double Narcissus sit on a green stalk in an earthenware pot reflecting the Spring sunlight. On the right another bud sits ready to burst out. Fingers crossed.

March 27, 2025 at 3:36 PM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

#photography
#bloomscrolling
#nature
#EnglishGardens
#Surrey
#FlowersOnWednedday
The hellebore that seeded itself in a crevice next to the wall surrounding our small back yard pond is thriving and glowing again after a week of sun. I think plants often choose their own environment.

March 12, 2025 at 11:03 AM Everybody can reply

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Graham Jones

@oldmanrambling.bsky.social

#ArtsAndCraftsMovement
#NationalTrust
#EnglishHouses
#EnglishGardens
#Sussex
The first day of Spring and temperatures of 19°C, so we visited nearby Arts and Crafts house Standen in the care of the National Trust. So many William Morris designs and fine furniture plus gardens beginning to bloom.