Miserable Monday 🌧 - Gazanias (Treasure Flower), I've been saving this wet pair for a real rainy day (like today)! - Calendula (Pot Marigold), nearby & also damp 3 weeks ago. - More cheery, adjacent gazania opened since: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 201

Shallow Focus Sunday - SLR shots from last weekend: - Veronica (speedwell) variant (Hebe?), new to me, opposite the cows. - Hot lips and... - Fuchsia variant, still hanging on in the weakening light, at the top of our garden. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 200!

Scruffy Saturday - from our neighbourhood on various SLR bike rides: - Dahlias, even look cool disintegrating. - Snapdragon, somehow comfy growing in a high wall! - Michaelmas daisies, big patch, small heads. - Ours in back garden. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 199

#FarmFriday - Excited to finally catch some cows, last weekend, on a flat slow 7km SLR ride reaching the edge of an adjacent village. - Calendula officinalis, in a front garden opposite. (Glad I don't live with that manure smell.) #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 197

#ThrowbackThursday - sedum (stonecrop): - I found some of a variety that had fully opened up, on bike across the main road in September. - Our back garden & corner house's plants just got deeper red. Vs: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 197

#HedgerowWednesday - we are definitely a nation fond of extreme plant shaping. Two of the neatest examples I've spotted (phone pics): - Evergreens cut so sharp & angled they look fake. - Huge bulbus mass of fine-leaved holly. - Bonus cat! (July) #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 196

1/2 #TreeTuesday, or leaf & branch Tuesday? Not so catchy... SLR shots: - Liquidambar (Sweet-gum). - Oak with bonsai-like spiral branch, over pasture field. - Oak leaves of a different variety, wind-swept into the corner of a play-field, elsewhere #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 195

Autumn sun SLR ride 2, a long road I've seldom self propelled along since high school cross-country runs: - Ridge & furrow field, medieval strip farming see [ALT]. - Double tree-lined prettiness. - Sun-haloed weeds, hedge. - Some fool on 2 wheels. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 194

1/2 Shallow Focus Sunday: - Bushgrass/Feathertop (Calamagrostis epigejos), epitomising what I'm after with these weekly SLR shots. Unique long row besides a driveway. - Geraniums by our back door still very red, after the rain, last week. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 193

#SkySaturday - awing to look out/up at these ponderous giants looming overhead: - Stratocumulus, billowing over, heading out Thursday. - Cirrus, I watched this huge feathery structure unfurl returning from a ride. - I miss my bedroom's sunsets. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 192

#Halloween - what better day to do as the Boo Radley's sang "You have to put the death in everything": - Blackberries(?), lovely rusted leaves with small spider web. - Nigella damascena, skeletal seed pods, nothing like the blooms. MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 191

#ThrowbackThursday - this bizarre plant sprang from a neighbour's dense front border, early June. Disappeared days later... On my bike, late summer, I found several smaller examples (eg shot 3): Yucca plant inflorescences! #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 190

Sunny SLR ride Vol 9: - Purpletop vervain, another Verbena variant, in a front garden... - ... And a whole bed, way up the main road, 1km and 1 month away. - Seaside petunias (Calibrachoa), little shrub with two-tone blooms. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 189

#TreeTuesday - Sunny SLR bike ride Vol 8, with some subtle autumn leaf shades: - Ginkgo biloba(?!), next door. - Various (+ clouds), in a grassy space between houses. - Acer (Japanese Maple), up the hill the other side. - Rowan, turning very red. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 188

Dahlia Monday..? Dahlias any day!! A couple novel looking varieties from a front garden at the bottom of the hill besides the main road, where I don't normally slow down to look. Sunny SLR bike ride Vol 7 #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 187

Shallow Focus Sunday - SLR ride Vol 6: - Veined verbena, looking prettier than our potted Verbena (DNP 89). - Snapdragon (Antirrhinum), verging on 'scruffy'. - Bowden lily (Nerine bowdenii W.Watson), new found bunch (prev DNP 170). #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 186

Scruffy Saturday - from Monday's ride: - Wilted pink rose. - Zinnia flowers, other side of Dahlia ally front garden. - Hydrangea serrata, different spot to the one I'd snapped in August: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 185

Fruit Friday: - Our fence-adjacent cordons eventually bore a couple of apples. - Pair of pairs, eaten a month ago. - Rosehips on Monday's ride. #MEcfsEgress Sorry, no 6 month special DailyNaturePics 184

1/2 #ThrowbackThursday - apparently Mexican Orange Blossom bushes (Choisya ternata Kunth) can flower a second time! - Far out on Monday's SLR ride... - The full shrub. - Late April, up the road on my first little SLR outing. - ... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 183

#RoseWednesday - Sunny Autumn SLR Shots Vol3. Found on the edges of new territory. Fresh, budding and wilting. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 182

#TreeTuesday - Autumnal ride SLR shots Vol2!: - Big Oak & Cedar (on left) in a public field where I chased the rainbow. - Old-Oak leaves & fake-old timbers. - Stag-horn's Sumac (Rhus typhina), most orange! - Acer/Maple, stood out by main road. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 181

Much anticipated Autumn sun appeared with a rainbow! Over-excited, I biked for over a hour taking too many SLR shots to sort before midnight. Some belatedly: - Front garden tree - Dahlia ally - Wild Alcea setosa? - Bee still about! #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 180

Five pointed stars, both! Could these be related..? Sadly no, heh: - Jerusalem Sage, dried seed heads in the corner house back garden. - Cosmos bipinnatus Cav, a front garden far beyond the main road. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 179

Apologies, I've been grappling with OAT shipping bureaucracy more baffling than this peculiar front garden plant... Gemini keeps calling species of Cypress (evergreens). While PlantNet is quite sure it's a NewZealand native "Veronica hectorii". #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 178

The recording for our clinician’s roundtable on GLP1/GIP RA with doctors Kaufman and Dempsey is now available on our YT chanel. youtu.be/lC3caaV7WP0?...

Fruit Friday: - Blackthorn (or Sloe?), by a cut-through path. - Siberian crab apple, near local shops. - Yellow Rowan (Mountain Ash) berries, in a series of trees with red. - Silver Cotoneaster, front of our house, mostly been eaten I think. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 177

#ThrowbackThursday - June, when Mum was sorting out some flowers to give away at an event, I think (not seen in garden later): - Mauve Nemesia (fruticans)? - Common fanflower (Scaevola aemula) - Comfrey (Symphytum asperum Lepech) #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 176

- Red Bistort (Bistorta amplexicaulis), on bike safari, days ago. - Hot lips (Salvia microphylla), late September, over the main road. Those in background of first shot also more as expected vs ours (May): bsky.app/profile/z3r0... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 175

#RoseTuesday - A few October blooms on my bike loop. The last phone pic from late August. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 174

#MossMonday - chill damp dingy October air today: - Stones, end of our garden, Heath star-moss? - Thickly covered tree "crotch" around the corner (May). - I made sealed moss gardens during my 2013 remission. - Nice patch: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 173

Shallow Focus Sunday in Autumnal green-greys: - Himalayan ivy or a pointy leaf variety of English ivy? I love this greenery but it looks very distinct to these: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... - Anemone, alone next door. - Bonus Begonia #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 172

Scruffy Saturday - from the corner house shoot: - Primula hybrid - Pineapple lily And on yesterday's suburban flower safari bike, alternate varieties of: - Begonia - "Florists' Chrysanthemum" but different petals & going smushy #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 171

1/2 My brain's been on a go-slow. But fine biking around to find new blooms around the old neighbourhood this afternoon!: - Bowden lily - Florists' Chrysanthemum, yellow variety this time. - Gazania, still opening. - Snapdragon #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 170

1/2 #ThrowbackThursday: - B-roll poppies from May and... - Seed pods from June of the 2nd and 3rd shots of these: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... - Buddleja, below... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 169

1/ #WeedsWednesday - PlantNet says not mere "dandelions"?!: - "Field Sowthistle"? With Common drone fly, exceeding it's name in appearance. - "Weedy Hawksbeard" (Crepis vesicaria), I thought a mutant dandelion! - Autumnal Hawkbit. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 168

1/ #TreeTuesday - one of my great fortunes has been a garden surrounded by beautiful trees. Vid below. SLR shots: - White Cedar, Arbor-vitae or Lawson Cypress(..?) evergreen (wallpaper worthy gradient). - Common white (or silver?) Birch. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 167

Pleasant evening bike ride without coat & hat (becoming novel). Roundabout-side wild flowers: - Musk-mallow - Helianthus - View from a little way down a public path beside farm field. - Common gorse, by building site. Phone pics. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 166

Shallow Focus Sunday - Common/English Ivy (Hedera helix) budding & 'flowering' everywhere!: - Umbels under back garden evergreens. - Bridle paths, on bike rides. - Road side, by farm field. - End of garden after heavy rain, Friday. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 165

Scruffy Saturday - three from the corner house garden and the last across the main road (phone pics): - Japanese Anemone, wilted but enjoying the sun - Rhododendron, of some kind - Garden roses, cream colour - Cranesbill Geranium #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 164

Fruit Friday - the Horse Chestnut husk of these conkers is technically a fruit (so I'm told). SLR shots at the end of next door's garden. Bonus Crown Barberry blooms (and shy fruit), down the hill, back in August. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 163

1/2 #ThrowbackThursday - Our artichokes, previously photographed in early August..: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... ... Have now been cut down. Their heads turned very fluffy: 'pappus', ready for seed dispersal (I'm told). Also... #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 162

#RoseWednesday - I was wrong, summer's over, but there are still loads more fresh blooms to catch! - Wichura? - Mandarin/Moyes, both far over main road. - "Rose" (useful ID PlantNet!), corner house. - Double cinnamon, end of road. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 161

1/2 Mum invited me to photograph our friend's (corner house) back garden she's been looking after (holidays). They still have many blooms!: - Dahlia pinnata & fish pond - Bougainvillea (Paper-flowers) in greenhouse - More Dahlias! #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 160

Today was the Christian feast of St. Michael and All Angels, for which these American plants were named upon UK introduction, ~1700, blooming concurrently. Michaelmas daisies! Or more correctly, "New England Asters". See [ALT]s. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 159

Shallow Focus Sunday - SLR shots, back garden, July/Aug: - Pendulous sedge, chilling by the shed. - Fuschia, different colour variety I'd not spotted behind garden furniture. - Snowberry, reprise of shy little blooms, shady border. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 158

Subdued Lighting Saturday - overcast ventures to front gardens across the main road: - Alcea setosa, huge single unique bloom atop a dead-end hill. - Dahlia pinnata - Florists' Chrysanthemum - European hornbeam, neat shaped tree. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 157

1/3 Fruit Friday - red berry season!: - Firethorn plant (Pyracantha)? Poking out to the pavement. - Rowan trees all around here & vid below. - English/common holly, crematorium car-park. - Lords and Ladies (Arum cylindraceum), weird berry sticks. #MEcfsEgress DailyNaturePics 156

#ThrowbackThursday - Hydrangeas turning russet ahead of Autumn: - On road explored in August, I first thought different breed/soil pH. - Besides our house, previously blue: bsky.app/profile/z3r0... - Next door recently & ... - June before full bloom. #MEcfsEgress #BloomScrolling DailyNaturePics 155

Hilarious SMS from @VirginMedia this morning (no email received) to tell me how reliable they are..! When I've been monitoring a dozen or so annoying little internet drop-outs per day. Can't cope with their support-hell after Herculean effort for compensation of 2 week outage.

5 Month-iversary of DailyNaturePics (154)! I'm spoiled for pretty sights. But I kind of wish I could transport you all to this understated wood, for that tree-bathing feel wondering the warren of little paths. #MEcfsEgress See [ALT]s. Water mint. Blackberries? #BloomScrolling