I think it's perfectly reasonable to take over the dining room table for seedlings...don't you? 🌱

Scaffolding now required! 😮 🌱

Kerpow! Subtle it is not, but lovely in deepest darkest January. Never had a five flower one before! 🌱

The hellebores are coming! Yaaay! 🌱😀

Was gifted this canna by a colleague, and it's overwintering on a cool indoor windowsill. Now it's beginning to flower! Are there any canna experts out there? Should i just leave it? I've never overwintered tender plants like this before. 🌱🙏🙂

Thing 1...and thing 2. Same aspect, bought at same time. 🤷‍♀️🌱

And so it begins...the 'how do I keep the poinsettia alive past january' challenge. 🌱

Morning all. Good to be on Bluesky. Seems a bit calmer than that other place. If you don’t know me then here’s what I mostly do #topiary

#OnThisDay 1215 Rochester Castle surrendered to King John after a seven-week siege. "Living memory does not recall", said a contemporary writer, "a siege so fiercely pressed or so staunchly resisted."

And now we wait... 🌱

Word of the day, though I’m sure no one will need it, is ‘eye servant’ (16th century): an individual who only pays attention or works hard when the boss is looking.

*Peeks in* This is better than the bad place, right?

Took this a few days ago, last of the dahlias here in Wiltshire as sub zero temperatures in the last two days has done for all the remaining flowers in the garden. Anyone else in the UK still have any? Can't complain s'pose as it is the end of November!

'Seasons of mist and mellow fruitfulness.' 🌱

Less and less to see in the garden but in the forest the leaves and logs are lovely. 🌱

When's it's not soggy and brown, autumn light is really great! 🌱

Strange women lying in ponds distributing swords seems increasingly appealing as a basis for a system of government.

And another random nasturtium....in November of course, haven't planted any here for two years...this may be the beginning of a nasturtium uprising! 🌱

Just cut down lots of brown soggy stuff in the garden, but the good news is the Mahonia is just getting ready to bloom 🌱

Random nasturtium! Didn't plant this here. Haven't planted nasturtium here since last year but here it is anyway, at the start of November 🙂🌱

If you want to listen to an American politician who restores your faith in politics do listen to the latest Rest Is Politics Leading with Senator George Mitchell. A remarkable man and a remarkable life, not least for his role in bringing peace to N Ireland alastaircampbell.org/2024/11/105-...

The garden might be getting a bit brown and soggy now autumn is here, but the dog walking route is making up for it. 🌱

The single nigella flower has a friend... 🌱

Could be a fatsia japonica flower head... could be an alien egg sac...who knows? 🌱

Well, hello there! I sprinkled nigella seed on a bare patch in spring, but the ground got totally covered with nepeta as it grew. I cut back the nepeta a few weeks ago, and this little fellow has popped out.

A few of my cactus pink dahlias are still going despite some cold nights. A few bees are still visiting and quite happy about that. 🌱

🌱Good morning #CheeringUpMondays 🌞💕

Good morning 🌱💮🌸

It's definitely autumn in Wiltshire. 🌱

Rosa Graham Thomas...amazingly still chucking out the odd bloom!

Asters, asters, asters...as far as the eye can see. Well, actually, only two plants, but in October in England, that's a lot. 🌱

See? I told you wonky-dahlia-day was a thing. 🌱🙂

A brief interlude between biblical rain here in Wiltshire. The asters are beginning to flower just as the first frosts are arriving 🙄. 🌱

To celebrate the first day of autumn, here’s a poem called ‘The Problem of Writing Poems in the Shape of Deciduous Trees’

Anemones. My pink ones flower in August, and this little one peeks out in September.

Happy wonky dahlia day...its definitely a thing. 🌱

The last of the crocosmia here. Hasn't been a great year for them, but then actually, I don't think they like my heavy clay soil as I don't get a great show most years.🌱

Hello lovely gardening peeps. Just to prove the seasons have totally gone to pot here in Wiltshire, here is a Welsh poppy blooming today in my garden. They usually bloom in late spring. 🌱🤷‍♀️

Hello lovely gardening peeps. The early chill that has set in in Wiltshire has done for my late summer flowers. This is the only aster to actually make it to flowering. 😕🌱

"The rain it raineth everyday" 🌱

Hello lovely gardening peeps. The '...season of mists and mellow fruitfulness' is here. I like it. 🌱

Hello lovely gardening peeps. A shy and retiring dahlia in my garden. Orange thingamjiggy. I've lost the label, so I can't remember 😬 🌱

Hello lovely gardening peeps. Marigolds, be they ever so humble. Always overlooked them before but grew a whole bunch from seed this year, and they are still looking cheerful. 🌱

Hello lovely gardening peeps. Here's a dinky dahlia 🌱

Hello lovely gardening peeps. Cosmos, always cheerful. 🌱

A return to normalcy? What do the 2024 GCSE History exam results reveal? Some analysis of the latest GCSE History exams and what lessons we can take. Now with some tentative unit level analysis. Strap in for some data fun! #edusky #historyteacher #ukedusky www.andallthat.co.uk/blog/a-retur...

Hello lovely gardening peeps. It's raining cats 🐈 and dogs 🐕 here. Here's a red floribunda ground cover rose that is bearing up remarkably well despite it all. 🌧🌱

Hello lovely gardening peeps. The wind has died down a bit here in Wiltshire and there's actually some sun! 🌞 Here's a little potentilla thurberi that's still valiantly cracking on. 🌱

Hello lovely gardening peeps. Geranium? Pelargonium? You say potato, I say potato. Either way, on this madly windy weather day, it still looks nice. 🙂🌱