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Librarian, gardener, sports watcher - YNWA. All views my own and of those I agree wholeheartedly with. Be kind, be funny, it all helps.📚
White hellebore flowers emerging from leaf cover
A surprise from under the leaves in #MyFenlandGarden #Hellebore 🇬🇧🌱🌲
19.12.2025 18:36 — 👍 6 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
2 Pink climbing roses
Picked raspberries
1st November in #MyFenlandGarden we still have roses and raspberries 🌱🇬🇧
01.11.2025 15:11 — 👍 10 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Peace rose
Group of 4 yellow roses
Final roses of the year in #MyFenlandGarden The single is a Peace and the unknown cluster is the only rose I've ever grown from a cutting. 🌱🇬🇧
10.10.2025 16:04 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sunflower
Last hurrah of summer in #MyFenlandGarden 🌱🇬🇧
20.09.2025 15:03 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Figs in September
And now I have a whole new crop of figs at exactly the wrong time in #MyFenlandGarden Far too big to last until next year, not enough time to ripen this year . WHY?🌱🇬🇧
07.09.2025 11:45 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Peace rose bud
Peace rose flower
Uninvited cat
My Peace rose is on it's third bout of flowering in #MyFenlandGarden and I seem to have acquired a 🐈 🌱🇬🇧
06.09.2025 17:52 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Sweetcorn plant with 2 cobs
Zepherine Drouhin battling on
Black 2 spot ladybird and a more usual one
Very droughty in #MyFenlandGarden not much colour, but the sweetcorn looks promising 🇬🇧🌱
08.08.2025 17:59 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
2 hours 21 minutes in an AI expert tells us why AI is better than librarians.
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#UKLibraries #Libraries #UKPublicLibraryPeople
Sunflower about to open
Sunflower with petals emerging
Sunflower petals half open
Sunflower in all its glory
4 days on the life of a sunflower in #MyFenlandGarden 🇬🇧🌱 #PrayingForRain
18.07.2025 19:04 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Blackbird fledgling and feeding parent
Peppers grown from a seed from Tesco's Finest
Butterflies feeding on an allium
Cucumbers are on their way
We've had a smidgeon of rain in #MyFenlandGarden the veg and fledglings are doing well. I have blackbirds and wrens feeding their young this week.
06.07.2025 17:43 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Purple allium
Best sweet peas for years
Feathery red poppy
Pale pink and white poppy
Back into searing heat in #MyFenlandGarden the greenhouse is covered again and I'm watering morning and night. The figs didn't make it...
29.06.2025 10:34 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Plastic greenhouse with tarpaulin cover
Emergency greenhouse shading in #MyFenlandGarden. Second life for a filthy old tarpaulin
20.06.2025 19:24 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Calla lily
Peace rose
Driveway red poppy
Blackbird fledgling
Back to searing heat in #MyFenlandGarden with added fledgling
20.06.2025 19:22 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Why thank you😁 They are fabulous this year, I’m racing the birds and slugs to get to them first.🐌🐦⬛
15.06.2025 07:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Strawberries
Climbing cucumbers
Blue Geraniums
Blue campanula
Peak fruit picking in #MyFenlandGarden this week and the cucumber growth spurt.
14.06.2025 21:17 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Rain on alchemilla mollis
Penstemon I believe
Raspberry picking time.
Sweet peas
Torrential wind and rain in #MyFenlandGarden this week. The figs are clinging on... 🌱🇬🇧
06.06.2025 13:03 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Canna lily
Gooseberries
Albertine
Campanula
The longed for rain arrived in #MyFenlandGarden might need 2 posts this week 🌱🇬🇧
30.05.2025 14:08 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Peace rose
Cucumber plant
Pink foxgloves
Pigeon having a spa day
We've had a smattering of rain in #MyFenlandGarden 🌱🇬🇧
25.05.2025 13:45 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Foxgloves amongst honeysuckle and figs
Tiny water feature with watering and a solar fountain
My Zepherine Drouhin pink thornless rose
The mystery yellow rose against the irises
We could really do with some rain... #MyFenlandGarden 🌱🇬🇧
17.05.2025 14:08 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Tentative figs against foliage and a blue sky
Apparently not watering the figs was where I was going wrong... #MyFenlandGarden 🇬🇧🌱
17.05.2025 14:03 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 01 of 3 water butts empty here in Fenland🌱🇬🇧
10.05.2025 12:16 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Another week in #MyFenlandGarden with another guest appearance from my assistant gardener. 🌱🇬🇧
09.05.2025 17:07 — 👍 9 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I would try it and see. My white lilac is a thug constantly sending up shoots.
03.05.2025 08:38 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0I am this year😁
02.05.2025 22:03 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Every year it does this to me. I can count 90 tiny figs. And every year they last a little longer before they drop off... 🌱🇬🇧
02.05.2025 16:09 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Today in my Fenland garden 🌱🇬🇧
02.05.2025 16:07 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Primulas and primroses
Tulips pretending to be peonies
Tulip buds
Ever hopeful robin.
Spring in the Fens and my constant companion 🐦
#Gardeningsky #UKGardens 🌱🇬🇧
My secondary school labelled me as a communist-I was demanding equal education for all…
08.03.2025 21:50 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0#FactsMatter that’s it, that’s the nub of it.
19.02.2025 22:17 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
