Linda

Totally delusional!!

The mainly yellow but with a couple of red tiny fruits against green foliage.

Thank you for naming it. I spotted this one in the car park at Wisley but couldn’t find a label. The odd red fruits confused me.

Good morning from RHS Wisley

An olive tree with a short, thick trunk and a rounded head of narrow, green leaves.

A close up of the trunk showing gnarled and twisted bark with many cracks and fissures adding character.

I spotted this Olive Tree growing in Pimlico, London and thought it was an ideal subject for #thicktrunkTuesdau

How do I join????

A group of three mushrooms which I think are Shaggy Inkcaps. They have a tall white stem and the caps are grey with mottled markings. One has split open and the black gills are visible.

Very happy to find these beauties in Wisley’s Hilltop Wildlife garden yesterday. #mushroomMonday #fungusfriends 🌱

Such an amazing picture! Thank you for sharing it.

A bright yellow flower with an unusual brown insect, possibly a hover fly feasting on the stamens.

Storm Amy has happily disappeared so I am off to Wisley’s Hilltop for a morning of volunteering. Wonder what I will spot? This was from last Sunday. #SundayYellow 🌱

Mine is next Saturday. It’s the one advantage of being very old!

Unusual flowers described as bell shaped. The open flower is bright orange which contrasts well with the grey fleshy foliage.

Sadly no #sixonSaturday as Storm Amy keeps me indoors but here is an Echiveria flower looking gorgeous!
I shall huddle indoors while the storm rages. This afternoon one of my neighbours is hosting a get together.

I have one in my garden which I grew from seed about 30 years ago. Every year I have about 4ft pruned off it to keep it from annoying the neighbours too much. It hardly ever flowers as a result.

Stay safe!

A brooch made from a curtain ring covered with grey bobbly yarn surrounding stitching using beads and threads to represent moss, lichen and fungi.

Oh no no no no no!!!!!!!! Storm Amy has thrawted my plans to volunteer at Wisley’s Fungus Day tomorrow because the whole site is closed. I am so sorry @jassydrak.bsky.social that I won’t be seeing you as I had made a moss lichen and fungus brooch for you.

Neither am I! Hope my poor old brain still has the capacity to learn though.

Some fungi growing on a tree stump. Some are grey growing flat on the top of the stump and others growing out of the side are shades of brown, green and grey.

🌱 #fungiFriday #fungifriends The season has started and it makes me happy. Today’s rain will help too.

A spider with striped legs and body in a web There is a tiny snail trapped in the web with it.

I know that technically neither of these fits into #insectThursday but how about this for #wildlife spotted at Wisley. I thought it was fascinating.
It’s the last day of fine autumn weather before a deluge tomorrow.

I’m really enjoying that trial!

Yellow rosebud with one petal leaning away from the rest.

🌱 Happy #roseWednesday. It looks like we are going to have a couple of lovely days before heavy rain on Friday.
Off to Wisley for the staff and student update and then for a walk at Painshill Park with my Bestie.

A small part of a mixed media piece combining a strange grey figure surrounded by shells and beads.

Wall paper designed for the exhibition. It has a pink background with grey horizontal branches and fantastical shapes, some filled with faces.

Grayson Perry’s interpretation of a famous painting of Madame Pompadour which is in the Wallace Collection. He has used mixed media including threads, buttons and beads and found objects.

Part of a ceramic piece showing Victorian ladies, one of whom is saying “I am so happy “. In between is a Victorian gentleman saying, “I know best”.

Thanks to @cookieaob.bsky.social who posted about it I have been to the Grayson Perry exhibition at The Wallace Collection. I would thoroughly recommend it!

Such an interesting thread. Thank you for posting it.

A tree trunk with many “lumps and bumps” giving it a distinctive appearance. It is twisted and gnarled and growing on a slope surrounded by other young trees.

How about this for a characterful subject for #thicktrunkTuesday? It is one of the magnificent trees growing on Wisley’s Battleston Hill. I was so taken with it I forgot to make a note of its name! 🌱
Off to London today.

A Euonymus shrub covered by a spider’s web. It shows up because it is covered with dew.

Yellow and green foliage is covered with a spider’s web web. Dew shows up the intricate design of the web.

I love how autumn highlights spider webs. Frost will make them look even better but the dew shows how much work is needed to create a web.

Such a stunning place to visit. I have only been once but was overwhelmed by what they achieve.

Thank you for the information about Grayson Perry. Somehow I had missed it and have now booked to go. Hope you enjoy it!

A wall of leaves shining in autumn sunshine. They have turned from green to shades of red and purple.

Autumn is on the way! There were definite signs of it in Wisley’s Hilltop gardens yesterday. 🌱 #magentaMonday
A quiet start to my week and a chance to complete my stitching project.

That’s so interesting! Thank you

The flowers apparently.

Bright yellow flowers that look like little cones or buttons against green leaves.

Another one of the unusual plants growing in Wisley’s Hilltop World Food Garden. This one is the “Electric Daisy” or Acmella oleracea. Apparently it produces a tingling, numbing and fizzing sensation in the mouth when eaten but I haven’t tried it! 🌱 #SundayYellow.

A collage of six photos from my tiny garden. The two big pictures are an orange Dahlia and the pure white flowers of Linaria or Toadflax. The small pictures are the turning leaves of Cercidiphyllum, a cluster of round, red fruits of Arbutus or the Strawberry Tree, the white bell like Arbutus flowers and yellow Verbascum flowers.

🌱 #sixonSaturday from my tiny garden. There are definite signs of autumn. Leaves are turning and summer flowers are past their best. My garden is bone dry and there is no rain predicted for many more days. There is still much to appreciate though.

They are edible but not very interesting, just slightly sweet.