Alison 🌱🥾🧘‍♀️📚

Collage of a close up photo of a pale yellow nasturtium in the central circular cutout of a watercolour background of raindrops in different shades of dusky blue.

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Collage of seven photos of flowers, foliage and fruit. Clockwise from top left: white campion; hedgerow prunus, heavy with rosy apricot coloured fruit; purple and pale yellow petunias; golden yellow nasturtium; deep red berberis; fiery orange nasturtium. Centre: scarlet pelargonium.

Good afternoon! For #SevenOnSunday 5.10.25, colour in my garden and in the hedgerows this week #BloomScrolling

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Collage of four flower photos, all with raindrops. Clockwise from top left: lilac pink cosmos; rose pink cyclamen; fuchsia Dark Eyes (magenta and purple); fuchsia Ballerina (pale pink and white).

Shades of pink in my garden today for #FlowersOnFriday and #PinkFriday 3.10.25 #BloomScrolling

Beautiful arrangement, Ken 🤩

Collage of three photos. Top: Saint Peter’s, Tickencote (originally Norman, rebuilt in the late 18th century). Bottom left: carved and painted wood ornamental village sign outside Empingham, depicting thatched cottages, a church spire and white dove, with a sail boat on Rutland Water in the background. Bottom right: in Stretton, a red telephone box (now housing a defibrillator) next to a tall cast iron village hand pump, painted green.

Good afternoon! Our #ThursdayHike was leg 4 of the #RutlandRound - Empingham to Stretton via Tickencote, Great Casterton and Pickworth. Dry underfoot and mostly easygoing. Pheasants galore, gangs of blue tits in the hedgerows and a charm of goldfinches feeding on thistle seeds.

Collage of a close up photo of a yellow nasturtium with deep red splashes and raindrops, against a backdrop of teardrops in shades of muted watercolour blue.

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#SundayYellow

Collage of seven photos of nasturtiums in shades from pale yellow through apricot and fiery orange to deep brick red.

Good evening! For #SevenOnSunday 28.9.25, nasturtiums still brightening my garden and producing seed that I’ll collect and dry for next year #BloomScrolling

Thank you ☺️

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Photo of a country road between hedges bounding green fields with sheep, looking towards an old stone bridge and up the hill to an ancient church.

#TheRoad #BlueSkyArtShow From 2024’s hike along the #Hadrian’sWall long distance footpath

Happy Birthday, Sophie! 🎉

The cover of my first book 100 Birds featuring a Puffin flying towards the camera carrying fish in its beak

Good news everyone...I'm having more of my original book, '100 Birds' printed!😀
I sold out last Christmas & hadn't planned to re-print, but have decided having it available again will also help the follow up '100 More Birds' to sell too.😊
You can pre-order here;
www.carlbovis.com/product-page... 🐦

Beth pears in a blue and white bowl

The UK offers ideal pear-growing conditions – but only around 8% of pears sold here are home grown. Traditional orchards are excellent habitats for wildlife, but they're now rare – so planting pear and apple trees can really help boost biodiversity.
More: littlegreenspace.org.uk/features/pea...

Collage of three flower photos. Top: deep magenta cosmos. Bottom left: mid pink cyclamen. Bottom right: fuchsia Ballerina (palest pink and white).

Good evening! For #FlowersOnFriday and #PinkFriday 26.9.25, pink blooms in my garden this week #BloomScrolling

Collage of four photos, taken on a sunny day with blue skies. Clockwise from top left: Saint Mary the Virgin, Ketton (14th century, central square tower and tall spire, 15th century chancel); Saint Peter’s, Empingham (14th century, tall square tower with short spire); Normanton Church (deconsecrated church originally built in 14th century, rebuilt in the Classical style in the 18th, saved when Rutland Water was created, located on a stone platform that projects into the reservoir); 15th century stone bridge over the River Welland at Duddington, with the old water mill in the background.

Good afternoon! Our #ThursdayHike was leg 3 of the #RutlandRound - Duddington to Empingham via Ketton and Rutland Water, 10.3 miles. Breezy, sunny intervals, dry underfoot. Red kites, dragon flies and a grey heron.

Good evening, Ken. Sorry to read about your pot - it’s a shame when a beautifully shaped piece of terracotta bites the dust 😕

Collage of a close up photo of a lemon yellow nasturtium in the central circular cutout of a watercolour blue background.

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#SundayYellow 21.9.25

Collage of seven flower photos, including five of nasturtiums in shades of yellow and orange plus one of rose Polar Star (white) and a small yellow coreopsis.

Good evening! For #SevenOnSunday 21.9.25, colour in my garden this week is mostly provided by nasturtiums, now going great guns after a slow start #BloomScrolling

Collage of four photos of cyclamen in shades of pink and magenta.

Good afternoon! For #FlowersOnFriday and #PinkFriday 19.9.25, cyclamen that I’ve planted this week for autumn colour (and food for the bees still visiting the garden) #Bloomscrolling

Collage of three photos. Top left: pyracantha overhanging a stone wall, so densely covered with small red berries that leaves and branches are completely hidden. Top right: in the foreground, a field of wildflowers including wild radish, fiddleneck, red clover and tree mallow. Centre right: ripe maize cob on the plant. Bottom: rear elevation of the Grade 1 listed medieval/Tudor Bede House in Lyddington.

#ThursdayHike 18.9.25: leg 2 of the #RutlandRound. Lyddington to Duddington, 9.5 miles, firm underfoot, dry but incredibly humid. Berries in abundance and ripening maize.

Pair of palest pink climbing roses photographed from a low angle.

Good morning! For #RoseWednesday 17.9.25, two roses from a late flush of Madame Alfred Carrière, yesterday before the rain arrived #BloomScrolling

Thank you! ☺️

Collage of a close up photo of a golden yellow nasturtium in the central circular cutout of a deep blue watercolour frame.

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#SundayYellow 14.9.25

Collage of seven photos of nasturtiums in shades ranging from pale yellow, through apricot and orange to deep red.

Good afternoon! For #SevenOnSunday 14.9.25, nasturtiums still brightening up the garden this week #BloomScrolling

Thank you! ☺️

Collage of three flower photos. Top left : deep magenta cosmos. Top right: lilac cosmos. Bottom: cluster of pink cyclamen coum.

Good afternoon! For #FlowersOnFriday and #PinkFriday 12.9.25, cosmos and cyclamen in my garden this morning #BloomScrolling

Collage of a close up photo of a sunflower in the central circular cutout of a watercolour blue background.

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#SundayYellow 7.9.25

Collage of seven photos of flowers and seeds. Clockwise from top left: Hedgerow dripping with rose hips; pair of golden yellow nasturtiums; pink cosmos; creamy white bracket fungus; trio of fuchsia Dark Eyes (magenta and purple); orange rose after rain. Centre: quintet of teasel heads.

Good afternoon! For #SevenOnSunday 7.9.25, flowers from my garden and fungi, seeds and fruit from the Rutland countryside #BloomScrolling

Thank you! ☺️