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Salmon pink river lily flowers

Clematis flower with thick yellow petals that look like orange peel

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River lilies and an orange peel clematis
I love September.

Shouldn't she be at home?
This is fucking gruesome.

Oh! That is a thing of beauty.

Ah, no. Heartbreaking. Sending hugs.

Absolutely! Someone should tell his face though.

Happy anniversary!

Pictorial textile artwork featuring a landscape with fields and distant mountain next to the sea

Andrea Hayes, textile artist based in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, known for her textile landscapes #WomensArt

I am so furious about this. We are not a civilised country. Our glorious leaders are doing nothing. Some of them are actively allowing one of our greatest assets to die. And as for the 'owner'. Well, I shall refrain from comment.
As I said. Furious.

Print featuring a pink vase filled with colourful flowers

Margaret Preston (1875-1963), Australian painter/printmaker, regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20thc, was influenced by Japanese printmaking #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

Oh, big fat Henry? That's OK then.

A green man sculpture

A slightly surprised green man with acorns

A bright yellow courgette flower with two fat bumble bees inside

Bees in a courgette flower

A hairy scottie dog, Mr Biscuit, smiling among the wildflowers

Mr Biscuit among the wildflowers

A stone grimacing cat gargoyle on the market cross in Newtownards

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A lovely gargoyle

It's a good job that Loyalists marching the streets of Belfast brandishing Ulster Volunteer Force flags don't carry Palestine Action placards, or people might think they were terrorist sympathisers

I'm so sorry those ignorant bigots have been hounding you. It's not easy. Sending hugs and solidarity.

Waving frantically from just below Napoleon's nose. Those buzzards are amazing.

I do beg your pardon.

A fat poppy seedhead

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A fat poppy seedhead

A red admiral on a pink cone flower

A painted lady butterfly on a verbena bonariensis

All the pink flowers

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Butterflies and vibrant colours

Contemporary UK artist Priscilla Watkins, known for her paintings of swimmers at Brockwell Lido, London #WomensArt

Stained glass transom over tbe door of a now defunct and much lamented nightclub in Ann Street, Belfast

I love a transom and this is a favourite

My builder said that when he was laying the patio. 'You don't want weeds growing in the cracks'. I showed him the bags of erigeron seeds I'd saved to brush into the cracks. He thinks I'm crazy. I know I'm not.

A stone head with trailing plant for hair

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She's starting to flower!

Pink poppies in a patio pot

A fat poppy seedhead

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Pink poppies and seedheads

Four fat bumble bees on an echinops flower

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All the bumbles on the echinops

Daisy-like pink and white erigeron flowers in a tiny jug

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Erigeron in a tiny jug

They don't scare me!

When I was little, my dad would take us out to the garden to watch them pop open. I thought it was magic, not light levels and timing. I've loved them ever since.

A young black and white cat getting high on my supply of catnip.

Another garden visitor has discovered the joys of catnip.
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