🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling The weather has been odd, inconsistent and unhelpful, the rabbits and slugs voracious but the flowers keep battling on

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱There is apparently no normal anymore, after two dry weeks of 30+ degrees it’s been cold with torrential downpours, wind and hail, the flowers are resisting better than the vegetables.

#SundayYellow #Bloomscrolling The simple, joyous beauty of the Welsh poppy

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling #Roses The garden is dripping with roses and it smells divine

I may sound mean but I am genuinely excited by the prospect of the World Cup being an unmitigated disaster because it will highlight both the corruption of FIFA and the state of the US’s organisational skills

It’s fascinating how we are talked into confusion. Take climate change for example. Climate already changed. We are now trying to survive by using infrastructure that was built for a climate that no longer exists. But there’re still debates on whether climate change is real. Fascinating.

🌱 #FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #Roses Basking in the sunshine

🌱 #Bloomscrolling #Roses Passage to the garden smelling its best

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 a few warm days after the rain brings a growth spurt

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling The flowers are keeping to their schedules even if the weather isn’t.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekTForTime The passing of my time

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 A wet and chilly week that felt more like March than May, but the flowers are sticking to their schedule and have withstood hail, torrential rains and wild winds

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 purity among bustle of the border

Brilliant from Olga Tokarczuk, feeling sorry for people who only speak English as they have no private realm to retreat to, where they can speak among themselves without being overheard. “I heard there were plans in the works to get them some little language of their own, one of those dead ones.”

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSForSong Love is like butterfly

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 the irises are now stepping into the limelight as the borders fill out.

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 Forget Christmas, this is the most wonderful time of the year, anew present unwraps itself each morning

"Make Art Not War" #Art #War #VivRus

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

'Rooks' by Jackie Morris, contemporary artist, author and illustrator based in a little cottage near the sea in Wales #Womensart

#smArtist #ArtYear Pieces of Memories 🎨 Iris Scott

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekRForReflections

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling A garden of tiny flowers.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekQForQueen Queen lime red zinnia

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling May Day morning flowers

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling A transitional moment in the garden, last tulips and first roses, the wisteria and irises are just entering the scene and the aquilegia are taking shape

Lilian May Miller (1895-1943) was a US woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, who was influenced by a Japanese printmaking styles of strong colours and bold design #Womensart

🌱 #FridayFlowers #Bloomscrolling The tulips are beginning to fade now, the irises and aquilegia are waiting in the wings to take centre stage

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekPForPurple Up close and purple

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling The first irises have opened, and the tulips keep on coming. Still chilly but at least there is some sunshine

🌱 #FridayFlowers #FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling Pink tree peony

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOld Old graffiti in Laon Cathedral, on an 11th century made of really old stone

#MondayMagenta #Bloomscrolling Merlot tulips

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Peak tulip in actual sunshine!

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekNForNonsense

🌱 #FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling Peak tulip

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Another chilly, wet week, barely breaking double figures, the tulips don’t mind and are keeping their colours, but the seedlings seem to ne on strike

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekMForMovies Best exotic marigold hotel

Jessie Marion King (1875-1949), Scottish illustrator, jewellery/fabric designer, one of the artists known as the 'Glasgow Girls' #womensart

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling A chilly week but things are happening in the garden

#AlphabetChallange #WeekLForLayers

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling The tulips are starting to flower, all is right in the garden!

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling It’s all about the bulbs for the next few weeks, the first tulips are colouring up, and the crown imperials are getting ready for easter.

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekJForJuxtaposition

UK based stained glass artist Harriet Love #Womensart

Trump´s strategies are those of an eleven year old playing Risk, forgetting that the other players also get reinforcements and troop movements, and indeed turns.

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Frosty mornings and sunny days and a garden full of potential

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 promiscuous primroses popping up everywhere