The Chatty Gardener

A bird sit on a dried teasel plant

Let’s all plant something for nature in our garden next year. You never know who might come to see it.

You are My Sunshine, bred by Fryer, and Golden Beauty, bred by Kordes. Both seen at @RHSWisley in June.
Have a good day everyone, take care. #roses 🌱

A close-up shot of a pale green hellebore in bloom. Shiny green prickly leaves are spread out below.

The first hellebore of the winter blooming in my garden today. #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Garden #GardenPhotography 🌱📸

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Lavender blue iris flower.

This week's #CheeringUpMondays flower was a bit of a surprise. More here: bit.ly/3XNQZxk

#UKGardening #MondayMotivation #BloomScrolling #flowers #Cotswolds 🌱

Snowdrop flower buds showing through ivy and geranium leaves.

Spotted under the geranium leaves. A much needed sign of hope.

#snowdrops #cotswolds #photography #FlowerRecord #UKGardening 🌱

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a fiery sunrise over a frosty landscape

we are, once again, having another morning

Small pool of water with boulders and plants. A path leads to it and there is a metal grid over part of the water.

The front cover of Waterwise Garden by Tom Massey. It has a yellow sun, the outline of plants, and yellow writing over a blue background.

After summer drought, we've recently had torrential rain. It makes knowing what to grow tricky!
I've been reading Waterwise Garden by Tom Massey which outlines ideas of how to garden with weather extremes. (Ad. Book given. Not paid.)
Review: bit.ly/4ompOET
📷 DK - Mike Powell
📚💙🌱#UKGardening

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Like an English country garden. The perfect floral arrangement for mum's funeral created by Bristol's The Wild Zinnia, found through Farewell Flowers.

Mum was a gardener so the flowers had to be right and I wanted them to be British and arranged without floral foam.
#Bristol 🌱 #UKGardening

Violet blue rosemary flowers.

Rosemary for remembrance. More on the blog: bit.ly/4oMuvsp

#CheeringUpMondays #photography #UKGardening 🌱

White, orange and pink dahlias on a stone wall.

Sleet this morning so I'm glad I picked these yesterday. The last of the dahlias ahead of temps plummeting tonight.

They had a slow start - a couple decided to skip 2025 altogether - and then a late flurry of blooms. I'll be digging up the tubers this weekend.

#UKGardening #photography 🌱 #flowers

Penstemon going strong for #MagentaMonday

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #BloomScrolling #FlowerFeed

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Orange kniphofia flower.

This week's cheerful flower has been providing some much-needed late colour. More on the blog: bit.ly/486nNrd

#UKGardening #CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation #photography 🌱

Crop of mushrooms.

How easy is it to grow mushrooms? I've been putting a couple of kits to the test. More on the blog: bit.ly/3JuGkUW

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Part of a magazine article entitled how to plant bare-root roses with pictures of rose flowers.

I’m looking at roses in the current issue of Amateur Gardening magazine and talking to a leading rose nursery about top varieties.

#roses #UKGardening #GardeningFeature #journalist 🌱

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Pink rose with autumn leaves in the background.

This week's Cheering Up Mondays flower is a last glimpse of summer. More on the blog: bit.ly/4qQuvsY

#MondayMotivation #BloomScrolling #FlowerRecord #UKGardening #Cotswolds #photography 🌱

Red field poppy.

Thinking of two uncles who died in the wars. One just 18.
#lestweforget

There's always more to learn about gardening and le Manoir in Oxfordshire was the perfect schoolroom.

I recently joined a veg growing course set in the Oxfordshire hotel's beautiful kitchen garden. Discover what I was taught in this month's @cotswoldlife.bsky.social
#UKGardening #Oxfordshire 🌱

Yellow leaves on trees next to a path.

Yellow larch needles.

Orange-red leaves on an acer tree with grass and larch in the distance.

Red autumn colour on acers planted under larch that are showing their yellow autumn tones.

Nature can’t heal the pain of the past week but a walk around Westonbirt Arboretum has helped.

It was good to meet up with the curator and talk all things trees for a future feature.
#trees #WestonbirtArboretum #autumncolour #Gloucestershire 🌱

Feeling a bit battered by life. This week's Cheering Up Mondays is for my father-in-law.
More: bit.ly/3JyzJbY
#RIP #CheeringUpMondays #Cornwall #MondayMotivation 🌱 #UKGardening