Canal Club Community Garden

Glorious day today under the wild cherry trees at the Canal Club Community Centre bees are buzzing - have a great day wildlife folks 🐝🐝🐝🌸🌸🌸 #wildlife #communitygarden #bethnalgreen

Sorry we’ve been so quiet spring always takes us by surprise and it’s a gallop to keep up! Beautiful tulips appearing and the wildlife growing so fast after all the rain! Gardening is on Tuesdays from 2-4pm let us know if you’d like to come along and give a hand! Happy Easter Weekend everyone 💚🌱🌱🌱

More regular visits from our neighbour the robin and becoming more emboldened which is wonderful to observe in this glorious sunshine. Have a lovely day everyone 💚

#robin #communitygarden #wildlifegarden #bethnalgreen

Which Cosmos are the best for a cut flower garden? I believe it was the Greeks who first named the flower Cosmos. They saw the well-ordered petals around the center and considered it similar to how they believed the Cosmos to be. ‘Cosmos’ means ‘ba…

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Good morning!

YouTube video by Glastonbury Gabriel The bells of Whitechapel

Film of The Whitechapel Bell Foundry
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#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 40

#Bumblebees have four wings.
The two back wings are smaller and are usually attached to the bigger front wings by a row of hooks.
This can sometimes lead to the mistaken impression that they only have two wings.
#bees
#nature

FletchervPrentice to complete our five Consistently beautiful work.
Back later. Helen

Country diary: Nobody loses in the robin game | Josie George Stoke-on-Trent, Staffordshire: We go out to see how long it takes until a robin comes close – really close. Thanks to their genetic memory, we don’t wait long

Brighten up your day with Josie George's beautiful @theguardian.com country diary and a robin 'wide, wide awake, warm fire on his breast, sunshine in his voice.'

#countrydiary #naturewriting

Jack Frost has been busy creating beauty in the garden but brrrrr keep warm folks! ❄️

Linda expressing herself beautifully and with passion - don’t demolish our community spaces! Refurbish don’t demolish! 💃🏼 photo by Jonathan Moberly ❤️ #saveourspacee2

A fuzzy green blanket that resembles moss is being crocheted. In the bottom right corner you can see Nicole’s hand holding an orange crochet hook.

My deep desire to just live in a forest has once again driven me to make a moss blanket. You can’t have too many moss blankets.

The most vital thing for every Earth citizen to understand, and act on.

Get into THE fight of all time: for your mother planet.

Every one of us has a part to play, you just need to find it.
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A knot dangles and swirls downwards.

And on an uneventful weather day you find yourself once again wandering around the garden and becoming completely mesmerized by grapevine swirls again….✨

Tiny brown parasol fungi growing amongst moss and purple plants

There are more than 15,000 species of fungi in the UK, and they play a vital role in healthy ecosystems. But fungi - like all life on earth - rely on healthy soil. Help save soil with these tips:
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#biodiversity #organic #wildlifegarden

Female kingfisher on a branch.

Lunchtime visit to Regents Canal and the adult female was on one of her regular perches.

#LondonBirds #nature #wildlife #kingfisher #kingfishers #ukbirds #birds #ornithology #eastlondon

JUMBLE SALE! Who doesn’t love a jumble? More info on the flier - come and meet our amazing community and have a rumble in the jumble ❤️

@thegentleauthor.bsky.social @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social @towerhamlets24.bsky.social #bethnalgreen #community #jumblesale

Word of the morning is ‘williwaw’ (19th century): a sudden violent squall or a toppling gust of wind.

Goes well with ‘thunderplump’: a sudden downpour that soaks you to the skin in seconds.

Photo taken in the early morning looking across hills into the distance. The sky is red and orange.

My good friend John took this from his walk this morning. A great "calm before the storm" picture, looking across the Clwydian Range in North Wales 😍🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
#outdoors #walking

Peace on earth ❤️

An outline of a fox on white paper. A pencil lies over top.

There am I starting to draw a fox and I look up and there’s a real fox in the snow!!! So beautiful but I didn’t get a picture…my pencil is obviously magical…what shall I draw now..a giant bar of chocolate…🤔

Rivers support a remarkable variety of life, from tiny insects to mighty mammals. They use our precious waterways for homes, navigation, food and more.

🎈To celebrate 20 years of The Rivers Trust, we've rounded up 20 of the UK & Ireland’s most iconic river species:
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An alder tree with two main trunks and myriad branches against a pale blue-grey sky.

For day two of my tree advent calendar, I've chosen this graceful twin-topped alder. When I see it, I get that dose of oxytocin that tells me I'm relaxing. I'm safe. I'm close to home.

What #trees signpost your homecoming?

Pink rose just opening from bud against a green vegetation background.

Is this wise, Jacqueline du Pres?

Anyone else's roses still braving the cold? #gardening

Frosty lawn with white cables on the ground illustrating mycelium networks

White cables around a tree illustrating mycelium networks

Night time view of illuminated cables to show mycelium networks around a tree

This Edinburgh Botanics light show installation is designed to illustrate mycelium networks. It’s almost as impressive in daylight as when lit up!

‘Walk up to town’ ink, watercolour and charcoal

A late winter view of the walk up to town. Come June and July we spot glow-worms displaying in the bank on the right during the walk back home from the pub on warm evenings
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#watercolourartist #sketchbook #pleinairartist

So why do we live on on a boat on the canals in London? Its close to nature and calm and an amazing connected boat community. Pic taken at dawn Bethnal Green 2024 🏴‍☠️❤️

This is my Green Woodpecker on the Hill linocut print, inspired by sightings of green woodpeckers over at Rayleigh mount, near my home in Essex, UK 💚❤️

On this wet and grey day we’re looking at some of our summer filled days from yesteryear - keep warm and dry Bluesky folks! 💚🌱🏴‍☠️

Yes we’ve ordered from our local library and we’re first in the queue! Will read and report back! 🌸

Morning Bluesky friends and fellow wildlife lovers! It’s a pleasure to be on this platform so much friendlier and more connected to nature here’s a pic of our home moored up to the community garden Happy Saturday everyone! #wildlife #nature #boatlife #regentscanal #community