🌿☕Good morning🐞 Haribo stands for “Hans Riegel Bonn” after the founder & city where the company began in 1922 First called Tanzbären, dancing bears, popular in Europe at the time🐻😢 A single factory makes 100million a day, they've also been sent to space🚀 Ladybirds 🐞 like them too.. 🤦

🌿☕Good morning🌞 Beautiful wasn't it? ❤️ 🌝🌙 Last night was the BEAVER moon🦫 Many 🌙 names come from Native American culture, lunar phases were used for timekeeping It is thought that the 🦫 moon is named after setting 🦫 traps or from their activity building winter dams www.rmg.co.uk/stories/spac...

🌿☕ I've broken.. 🎄 Sorry, not sorry 🥳 Damn you @sainsburys.bsky.social 😂🤣😂 #christmasisnotinnovember #mincepie #xmas

🌿☕Morning 🌄 I have a box of 1000 bulbs ready 🤗 one of my favourite garden jobs🌷 Did you know bulbs grow even if planted upside down as they have statocytes with statoliths that sense gravity (gravitropism) guiding shoots up & roots down, while light (phototropism) & stored energy help correct it🌷

🌿☕Morning🌞 Hverdagslykke is Norwegian for everyday happiness & contentment in daily life Like a warm cup of ☕, taking a deep breath, a walk in nature, having family time A cultural concept encouraging being present in life's routines rather than major events to be happy @susiedent.com #etymology

🌿☕ This was posted on a local website recently, reported by Lloyds Weekly in 1844 I wish journalists would write in this eloquent way now, it sounds so.. jolly🎈💃 When hot air ballooning was all the rage for those of a gentlemanly distinguished disposition🕴️ #chrisbeer #cheltenham #hotairballoon

🌿☕Morning🌞 Nothing I like more than to watch jumping squirrels with my morning☕ they give my family hours of entertainment🐿️🌿 Sciurus carolinensis is Latin for grey squirrel 🐿️ meaning "shadow tail", Carolina NA Funny little things had great fun today in my garden🪻🌻🌼 #cheltenham #nature #outdoors

🌿☕ #foxoftheday enjoy 🦊 🌿

🌿☕Good morning🌄 It's the time of year for my favourite Japanese word to be unleashed upon us once more: komorebi 木漏れ日 Literally translating as "sunlight leaking through the trees" Enjoy this leaky light filled autumnal🍂 🍁shot🧡 📸 #photograph #nature #autumn #fall #etymology #words @susiedent.com

🌿☕ Wonderful memories of Summer 🌞 #flowers #nature #bloomscrolling #gardening #outdoors

🌿☕Autumnal colours🍂🍁 It's all to do with anthocyanins, xanthophylls, carotenoids & stuff like that... The chlorophyll is masking🎭 Want to know more👇 www.forestryengland.uk/blog/why-do-... @forestryengland.bsky.social @naturalengland.bsky.social @lakedistrictnpa.bsky.social #cheltenham

🌿☕ Good morning 🌞 ⏰ Just popped by to remind you ⏰: Want to know more? 👇 www.bbc.com/newsround/ar... *Unsure who to credit this to.. but thank you 🙏 #clockchange #october #extrahourinbed

🌿☕I've just spent time chatting to some of the other wonderful charities on site #cheltlitfest A big shout out to Tim who spends 11 hours in the cold each day @faunaflora.bsky.social talking about conservation & the threat to animals & habitats ❤️🦍🌿 I've found a friend🥳 www.fauna-flora.org/our-work/

🌿☕ Morning 🌞 I'm quiet at the moment as I have been lapping up #cheltlitfest #benelton #richardcurtis #joannalumley #emmafreud #markcavendish #almurray #jamesholland #markcavendish #kalebcooper #davidshrigley #katebryan I'm out of breath!! Still loads more to attend.. I am a total bookaholic 📚🌿👏

🌿☕Morning 🌄 I love walking around Cheltenham I posted a Judas tree in Sandford Park in the Spring, it had beautiful pink flowers all up it's branches🌺 Yesterday I took a walk around Naunton Park & saw another Judas Tree, this time wearing it's autumn 🍂colours 🍂 Look at those seed pods! 🫛

🌿☕ "Avocado" derives from the Aztec Nahuatl word, āhuacatl 🥑 It is also used as an Aztec euphemism for testical The purchase of an avocado is also an indicator of having arrived into the epitome of the British Middle Class system No discerning shopping trolley is seen without one💃🌿 @susiedent.com

🌿☕One more sleep to Cheltenham Literature Festival 2025🥁 🎂And Happy 80th Birthday🎂 Well over 100,000 tickets sold at Cheltenham Festivals every year & c.25% tickets given free to schools & outreach organisations🙏 I think I've bought most of them 🤦 so many brill speakers!📚 youtu.be/6XuJmYWGWQw?...

🌿☕Good morning🌅 I've been digging in daffodil bulbs.. nothing fancy, just a bag from the supermarket I'm glad of the 📸 I take of my garden, they remind me where others are so I don't over plant for next season🌿 It's name (narcissus) derives from the Greek ‘narco’ as in narcotic😵‍💫 #bloomscrolling

🌿☕Morning☀️ I spent yesterday afternoon digging in young agapanthus & horse 💩 in the round bed at the back of the house Literally ladycows everywhere, hundreds of them!! Like 1976!! There are 26 types of 🐞 in the UK, you can id them on this link 👇 www.woodlandtrust.org.uk/blog/2021/03...

🌿☕Morning☀️ Congratulations to the 🏆 of the Golden Spurtle World Porridge Making Championship in Carrbridge, Scotland www.goldenspurtle.com Did you know, only the right ✋should be used for spurtle stirring & only in a clockwise direction.. as stirring widdershins was believed to invoke the devil 😯🍃

🌿☕Good morning🌞 Wild 🌬️🍃across Cheltenham, we've hunkered down at home. Looking through photos of last year I came across this of Montpellier Gardens. The leaves were so autumnal🍂🍁 Autumn is derived from the Latin autumnus related to the Etruscan "autu"🍂🍁.. A little bit of Tuscany 🌞 in Cheltenham💐

🌿☕Good morning🌞 This is arctoparmelia centrifuga lichen Lichen means "licker" from the Greek to lick. It's literally licking the glacial boulder, I can 👀 that! Lichen is a symbiotic complex life form partnership of a fungus & an alga. The dominant partner is the 🍄‍🟫 Fascinating!🌿 @susiedent.com

🌿☕ Jane Goodall RIP 🙏 Gorilla's In the Mist, the second film that made me cry. The first being Dead Poets Society. She will always be remembered - a truly incredible scientist 🐵 BBC News - Dame Jane Goodall remembered as a 'true hero for the planet' www.bbc.com/news/article...

🌿☕ Good morning 🌞 * It is Wild Haggis season * This is all you need to know. Be safe out there little ones 🙏 youtu.be/BSbEUBogAqM?...

🌿☕ Good morning 🌞 ☀️ Heofoncandel ☀️ Anglo Saxon, meaning heavenly candle or 🌞 sunlight 🌞 🍂 🍁 🕯️ ✨ ⭐ @susiedent #lexicography #words

☕🌿Good morning to all cheeky squirrels🐿️ The word squirrel comes from the Greek skiouros meaning shadow tail 💕 referring to it's bushy tail I prefer the old English word for 🐿️ "acweorna" deriving from āc (oak) & weorna (weaver). I can just picture 🐿️weaving through ancient broad oaks @susiedent.com

🌿☕There are very few descriptive words for dew in non English languages that I can find, but there is a beautiful Hawaiian word "Līhau" describing the cool, gentle rain or dew that makes plants look fresh & moist 🌺 Lihau was considered lucky for fishermen & a mountain on Maui is named after it🌧️

🌿☕Morning🌞 Enjoy these 📸 of Imperial Square, Cheltenham. Gorgeous vibrant planting with a little bit of Gustav Holst conducting the skies If you've not tried classical music The Planets is a great 'in' to listen to. Holst was born in Cheltenham in 1874 🇦🇹🇬🇧🎵 cheltcivicsoc.org/achievements...

🌿☕Thank you for the birthday wishes yesterday🙏 The 🌞 shone, it was all lovely & we sat in Montpellier Gardens, Cheltenham care of FOMBAG (Friends of Montpellier Gardens) Throughout the summer they put on music on this, the oldest used bandstand in the UK 💕 gloshistory.org.uk/sites/reprin...

🌿☕ Well it's my birthday today, another year on this wonderful planet of ours 🌎... My daughter bought me this book (she knows me well) Now reading about 30m high giant club mosses that used to grow in New York in the Middle Devonian Period Happy Sunday 🥳🎂💐

🌿☕ No idea where I got this from.. however thank you to whosoever... Enjoy 💐🍷 The wonders of the English Language 🥳

🌿☕Happy Saturday🌞 World Cup Rugby Finals today, golf & for me #hennigwein tonight at #cheltenhamtownhall ... Must also get my tickets for next month's cheltenham literature festival! It's all go - a little like my Pyracantha, it's name from the Greek pyrakantha: Pyr "fire" & akantha "thorn" 🔥

🌿☕ Are you a bit poody? From the Welsh pwdu, meaning to sulk, (from the English pout) An example of a "boomerang word" meaning it has been borrowed from English into another language & then back again Great word! 💯 www.bbc.com/news/article...

🌿☕Good morning🌄 Friluftsliv: Norwegian for the experience of physical & mental wellbeing in the outdoors regardless of the season or weather Meaning "free air life" coined by playwright Henrik Ibsen in 1859 to describe a deep spiritual, simple connection with the natural world @susiedent.com

🌿☕ Good morning 🌞 We have beautiful low summer morning light here today. I took these photos of white cosmos & Queen of Sweden 🌹 to try and capture it at around 7.30 am No filters or fancy things used.. I particularly like the shadows on the rose 💕 Enjoy 💐 #bloomscrolling

🌿☕Morning☀️ Imperial Gardens, Cheltenham💐 Once described as a swampy unpassable area, only crossable by the unsteadfast footing of a plank, an uncultured marsh, offensive to sight, stagnant with no wholesome exhalations! 25,000 🌺s now produce wonderful floral displays for marvelous exhalations!💃🌿

🌿☕Good evening & happy weekend🌿 Hopefully this will calm the mood.. Gorgeous graceful Sudeley Castle, Winchcombe nr Cheltenham 🥰 I could happily sit here and while away my time.. The castle is the final resting place of Queen Katherine Parr. The only English Queen buried on private land 🙏

🌿☕Morning👋 Discovered in 1690 by Charles Plumier, the begonia was named after his sponsor Michel Begon Related to pumpkins, many are edible & the stems taste of rhubarb 🎃🌱 Tuberous begonias like Begonia x tuberhybrida & wax begonias like Begonia x semperflorens are known for their edible flowers🌺

🌿☕Good morning☕🌿 Planting trees in Cheltenham goes back to the 18th century Captain Henry Skillicorne, the founding father of Cheltenham spa, began planting forest trees within the town. In winter 1739 he planted elm & lime, creating avenues that still exist today That tradition continues❤️🌿

🌿☕ Good old Lidl has brought Plopp to the UK. I had to get some of course 😂 For the uninitiated they are small bars of chocolate with a chewy caramel centre 😋 Plopp is nothing new, it has been ingratiating our wonderful planet since 1949 Over 95% of Plopp bars are sold in Sweden - not any more👌🎉

🌿☕ Good afternoon☀️ The word meadow comes from Old English mædwe meaning mown land or land used for hay, not just a wild grassy field Originally a meadow was a place managed for hay, not just an untouched field The meaning expanded to include natural grassland, particularly rich in wildflowers🌸🥀💐🌿

🌿☕ Good Morning☀️ 💐Hollyhocks💐 Holly derives from holy (as in Holy Land) ⚔️ Christian Crusaders are thought to have encountered them in their crusades, and are thought to have used them to make a salve to treat the Crusaders' horses hind legs or 'hocks' Hence the portmanteau: Hollyhock 🐎🌿

🌿☕Morning🌞 Not all rainforests are tropical🌿 The UK is home to rare temperate rainforest, even more threatened than tropical rainforest This deciduous woodland is wet & humid & one of the UK's most biodiverse environments giving habitat for lichens, liverworts & mosses & other flora and fauna🌿💚💚💚

🌿☕Morning☀️ Hydrangea, comes from the Greek meaning hudro: water & angeion: vessel C.40 million yrs old, Hydrangea Alaskana was found in rock in Alaska, USA in a rock from the paleogene period Did you know they have no petals! They have sepals, small leaves protecting the flower bud🌿💐 #frogmillpub

🌿☕ Good morning Pretty Lavender 🪻 at Snowshill, Cotswolds 🥰 From the mint family perhaps from Latin lividus "bluish, livid" 😡 & associated with the latin lavare to wash because it was used to scent washed fabrics & as a bath perfume Bath bomb anyone? 🪻🌿 #bloomscrolling

🌿☕ I was just having a #bloomscroll on my feed & I came across this one from 5 months ago.. It is fantastic that after all this time both this African Daisy & the fuchsia are still blooming in September 🌿

🌿☕Biophilia is the term for humans’ innate 💕 of nature Research shows that time in natural spaces lowers stress, improves mood & boosts cognition Studies of Japanese forest bathing (Shinrin-yoku) found reduced cortisol, lower blood pressure & strengthened immunity linking direct benefits to heath

🌿☕ Good morning.. I give you Brian Bilson.. beautiful 🌧️ ☔ @brianbilston.bsky.social #bloomscrolling

🌿☕ Late summer garden flowers 🌺 I think my favourite is the sunflower, as it seeded itself having dropped from the bird feeder above 🌻 🌻 🌻 #bloomscrolling

🌿☕ Good morning 🌞 Rain and blustery all sorts here today 🌧️ ☔ 🌧️ we need that rain.. Dead nettles (Lamium album) are thriving in the hedgerows, not to be confused by stinging nettles (Urtica) even though they look similiar- they're actually related to the mint family & flower right up to December🎄