First time back on my bike for really quite a long time. Glad I made the effort and hoping I can keep it up 🚴‍♀️ #pop26

At the @pedalonparliament.org rally. Hundreds of cyclists out in the sun 🚴‍♂️🚴‍♀️🚴

Roses everywhere for #FlowersOnFriday cultivated boule de neuge and Gertrude Jekyll, wild rose hedge,

🙋 #PedalOnParliament Sat 30 May --> pedalonparliament.org 🙋 visit our #cargobike stall with #SpokesMaps etc, from 11am @edi.bike @chdot.bsky.social @edfoc.bsky.social @stephenjenkinson.bsky.social @chasbooth.bsky.social @davidfkey.bsky.social @jackrmcaldwell.bsky.social @johnrobson87.bsky.social

Bella is out in the evening sunshine, doing her annual modelling for an Elizabeth Blackadder painting #SmallBeauties

Also #GardensHour May has brought roses - this is Maigold - and the Welsh poppies

Hello #GardensHour May has seen a slow start here as it's been cold but now it's not so everything's coming to life. Mostly I'm excited by the frogs which are sitting in my pond like a hot tub - at least 3 last night

At least three frogs in the pond tonight. #SmallBeauties 🐸🐸🐸

So that's who's been squashing my broad beans #caturday

Welsh poppies everywhere, buzzing with bees, and a frog in the pond for #SixOnSaturday

Raindrops on roses 'Rosa Rugosa' for #roseWednesday

2 foxes in the garden this evening- seemed to be fighting. One hiding under the garden bench. The other prowling about #FoxOfTheDay

Roses coming into bloom for #SixOnSaturday Boule de Neige, Benjamin Britten, Gertrude Jekyll, Rosa rugosa along with chives and violas

Still a bit nippy out there today but the #bees are rolling around in the poppies #SmallBeauties

A sea of blue forgetmenots for #FlowersOnFriday I'm going to have to dig these out at the weekend to make my runner bean bed but there are plenty more around the garden

reposting in honour of my Mum, a lifelong NHS nurse, and now nearly 90, supported by hardworking nurses and other care professionals

More about Diary Day here: massobs.org.uk/2026/04/08/g...

Also #GardensHour looking for to all the long light evenings in May and June when I can get to the allotment after work. On my way home just now, listening to all the twilight birdsong 🐦🐦🐦🐦

@gardenshour.bsky.social hello #GardensHour May is all about planting. Tomatoes lining up on the windowsill waiting for slightly warmer nights to go outside and to the greenhouse

#BirdoftheDay bullfinch eating dandelion seedheads on my weedy patio #SmallBeauties

Chive flowers just about to open. #FlowersOnFriday #bloomscrolling

#I'veVoted #ScottishElections. #FlowersatPollingStations

Managed a dip in the sea for May Day last week. 🏊‍♂️ Possible even at low tide at Wardie Bay. Beautiful, calm but cold sea. #TidesOutTuesday

Things bringing me joy in my May garden #GardensHour

#gardensHour #StarWarsDay theme - here is a droid - from the time many years ago when my water butt froze solid - and cracked. Now in use as a compost bin.

For #gardenshour #starWarsDay theme - here is some kind of space monster

I copied some old photos from a usb stick to my laptop and it's sharing them with me as a screensaver. It's a bit bizarre - old, poignant, family photos, mixed with random cats and vegetables. I'll have to adjust the settings so these don't appear at important work meetings. #smallbeauties

Dandelion seed heads and forgetmenots Self-seeding all over my front garden for #wildFlowerHour

I don't know if many of these are wild as such but I am revelling in the selfseeded flowers in my garden just now: forgetmenots, dandelions, rosa rugosa (not self seeded but definitely self spreading), California poppies #wildFlowerHour

For #SixOnSaturday here is a collage of joyous May selfseeders, fruit blossom and a ladybird 🐞 in my front garden

A great mass of selfseeded flowers in my front garden for #1stMay #FlowersOnFriday aquilegia, forgetmenots, dandelions

First rose, rosa rugosa, for #roseWednesday Also a pair of ladybirds 🐞 multiplying away on the rose bush to help with the aphid invasion

@gardenshour.bsky.social got the sowing season going Here are some peas Mice have we been eating ny broad bean seeds 🐭

Peak #blossom time for #SixOnSaturday apples: red Falstaff, Howgate Wonder, Christmas Pippin and Sunset. Bird cherry and pear.

#FlowersOnFriday (edible) cherry #blossom 🍒 the blackbirds usually get to the cherries before I do but the blossom is extra special for this fruitful promise

Got some peas planted in the sunshine. Handwritten labels had faded so no idea what variety. Think one lot is Blauschocker - a lovely purple podded pea. Will just have to wait and see

Bella on patrol in the garden, checking out traces of invading cats and foxes, which have been passing through her territory. Largely oblivious to the pear blossom and wallflowers.. #SmallBeauties

It's the time of year when all the selfseeded flowers start appearing in my garden. I don't know why I bother growing anything else. Honesty, violas, wild violets, Welsh poppies, forgetmenots, dandelion clock #SixOnSaturday

Apple blossom for #FlowersOnFriday

#BirdoftheDay reflections. Heron on ice on Inverleith Pond a couple of years ago. A shadow rather than a reflection I suppose

Hello #GardensHour just the one mighty gardening challenge. The only way to cope with them is to make art 🐌🐌🐌🐌

Sitting in my #allotment shed, sheltering from the rain, one year on from taking on the plot reclaimingparadise.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/h...

A second #SixOnSaturday from my son and daughter in law's tiny patio garden - where I am cat sitting this morning. Hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, rhubarb and cat with dandelions

Blossom time in the garden for #SixOnSaturday pear and plum, first apple blossom, a special Alpina clematis, gorgeous wallflowers and a single tulip

Pear blossom, with daffodils and wallflowers in the background #FlowersOnFriday #blossomWatch

First sea dip of the year 🏊‍♂️ at Wardie Bay. Bracing but a warm wind coming out.

Hello #GardensHour it's all happening in my garden just now: fruit blossom coming out, snakeshead frittilaries everywhere, still lots of daffodils, a lone overwintered broad bean flowering

How nice to be home in daylight (no bank holiday for me) and time to pot up my cress (tomato) seedlings which had got a bit leggy 🍅🌱

Spotted these tiny self seeded violas in a a hanging basket on my shed #SmallBeauties

Lots happening in the garden for #SixOnSaturday snakeshead frittilaries and daffodils still coming, camellia, plum blossom, a beautiful white frittilary and, most exciting, overwintered broad bean flowers