Jillybean

The view of tree trunks and branches stretching up and into a blue sky, while standing on the forest floor.

Don’t forget to look up every once in awhile🌱🌳

#nature #scape #ThickTrunkTuesday #naturephotography #trees

The bottom trunk of a Fraxinus ornus mottled grey and brown. Instead of growing straight up from the ground, it looks like it has “toes”

🌱 #thicktrunkTuesday
Today is our first Tour Guide Training with Jonathan for the year (he was on holiday in January) and we will be looking at some of Wisley’s trees. This beauty however is one of Leanardslee’s Champion trees.

A wall of ice cascading down in layered waves and textures.

A cascade of winter ice❄️💙

#nature #winter #ice #scape #naturephotography #texture

A wall of February ice caught cascading down the side of a mountain.

A wall of nonviolent winter ice ❄️💙

#nature #winter #ice #scape #naturephotography

Blue Iris, with a brush of yellow on the petals ,is the standout in this photo, with a pink rose and pink snapdragon lurking just behind it.

A patch of blue - have a peaceful day 🌱💙

#flowers #nature #DreamingOfSpring #flowerreport #MondayFlowers
#bloomscrolling #gardening #iris

A gum tree in early sunlight.

#DailyTree

Acacia tree bringing much needed colour to the gardens this week. #SundayYellow

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

Beautiful yellow Gerbera Daisy

A splash of yellow🌱🌼

#flowers #nature #DreamingOfSpring #flowerreport #SundayFlowers
#bloomscrolling #gardening

Blue paper hydrangea, on rose patterned paper

Tis the season for making paper flowers

#PaperFlowers #flower #crafts #homemade 🌱💚🌷

A Swan in Bonn (Germany that is)
#birds
#birdoftheday
#portrait

Pink hibiscus flower blooming inside in February ❤️

A brilliant Hibiscus bloom - in February - in the upstairs bedroom 🌱🌺☮️💙

#flowers #nature #gardening #hibiscus #DreamingOfSpring #bloomscrolling

Post owl excitement, Ted & I are planning a day in the garden. Although heavy frost & cold, the sun is shining. I’ve some in the green snowdrops to plant. A lovely birthday gift from a friend. The little birds are busy collecting nesting material & enjoying the new bird feeder. 🌱

Photo of a small, globose cactus in situ with buds and a single open, pink flower.

The definition of serotiny is sometimes expanded to include seed retention of any sort. Mammillaria pectinifera expels fruits in wet years & retains them in dry years—a bet-hedging strategy to ensure seedling establishment. 📷: Noemí Velasco Rubí CCBYNC4. #Cactaceae #serotiny #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Crocus bud shooting up from the soil, along with a multitude of tiny mushrooms.

Crocus has a few fungi friends now… have an amazing day🌱🍄‍🟫

#flowers #nature #gardening #fungi #DreamingOfSpring #crocus #bloomscrolling

Good morning 🌱

For #FlowersOnFriday I give you the sounds of June 😎🌱
#Gardening #Pollinators

Black eyed Susan in the garden

“Flowers always make people better, happier, and more helpful; they are sunshine, food and medicine for the soul.”🌱 ~ Luther Burbank

#flowers #nature #gardening #FridayFlowers #DreamingIfSpring

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Good afternoon. Highly recommend Black Mesa State Park, OK, for family camping- tent or RV. There's so much to do.

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Explore trails and creeks.

Kids can learn about dinosaurs that lived here.

If you look close you can see flurries of plum flower petals from neighbor’s tree blowing in the wind. 🌱

Sequoia bonsai in training planted in a dark earth coloured oval pot with moss covered soil surface.

Sequoia bonsai in training.

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Purple bergamot, a yellow bee and pink phlox - surrounded by green leaves - 2025

Bergamot, bee and Phlox - have a lovely day 🌱🐝☮️

#flowers #nature #DreamingOfSpring #bloomscrolling #bees #gardening

Crocus that I planted in a pot inside has sprung up through the dirt.

Gardens are covered in snow - but there is a crocus that has sprung up inside🌱☮️

#flowers #nature #DreamingOfSpring #bloomscrolling

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Just a reminder that a 5 year old boy in a bunny hat spent more time in jail than anyone in the Epstein files - other than Ghislaine Maxwell who is trying to blackmail her way into a pardon.

Do not trust a Trump defender with your child: being a pedophile does not cross their moral line.

A group of trees surrounded by Snowdrops. The nearest tree has a knobbly trunk.

🌱 #thicktrunkTuesday
Surrounded by Snowdrops, the trees, like me are waiting for spring. I feel it’s close but just out of reach.

Long stem of borage with many branches - 3 have beautiful blue flowers- several others have buds, in the garden one August morning in 2025.

Borage in the garden, 2025 - what a versatile, and beautiful, herb - have a peaceful Tuesday 🌱☮️

#flowers #nature #herbs #peace #DreamingOfSpring #bloomscrolling

When politicians will not speak - people must. The city belongs to all voices. #publicsydney

One of the hedgehogs living in the garden. This pic was actually taken at night, it set off the garage light. If you see any check they’re healthy. In UK they’re vulnerable to extinction & on the red list. They need connected green spaces so make a little space in your fencing. 🌱 #GardensHour

Snowdrop loveliness 🌱 #GardensHour