🌱it’s supposed to rain today. Still waiting. Its been breezy and the cottonwood flowers are bad for my allergies. Here are some double pink poppies, all puffy and gorgeous! Some volunteers are growing near my lettuce!

🌱Hope you’re ready for the long weekend. The red corn poppies are now flowering. I wore matching red socks to celebrate!

Hegseth's Pentagon is doubling down on secrecy over a video reportedly showing it killing defenseless survivors at sea. @pogo.org is fighting in court to make this video public through a #FOIA lawsuit www.pogo.org/press-center...

🌱 The Egyptian walking onions are starting to show off. It’s such a weird plant, I loved it! Have now planted all the tomatoes in the ground. I had to get more eggs to complete my planting. Anyone else here crack raw egg in a hole before planting their tomatoes?

Pansies 💜

Offerings of calendula, limnanthes & allium flowers are all currently helping to lure our pollinator pals in to the allotment where they can then get on with the serious business of maximising our broad bean harvest. #UKGardening 🌱

Here's some of my favorite bee pics for #WorldBeeDay including the endangered Southern Plains Bumble. I've only seen one of these guys.

A friend who lives in the North told me she never tasted mangoes, the nectar of the gods, the king of all fruits. I wish I could send these to her! 🌱❣️😊

It’s World Bee Day 🐝 Show us your pollinator gardens/plants! #worldbeeday #bees #conservation #environment #nature #gardening 🌱💚🌸

In front of the committee chair is a plaque: "No money shall be drawn from the Treasury, but in Consequence of Appropriations made by Law." See my potato photo below.

What we are growing at the community garden. Every ounce of food goes to seniors in need. Well except all the native plants outside that mostly feed wild life. Merlin captured 26 species in 10 minutes last week. 🌱🌿

🌱🐝 Happy #WorldBeeDay to those who celebrate! Here’s a buzz buzz in the garden’s California poppy patch having a blast! #bees #SaveTheBees #Pollinators

It’s #WorldBeeDsy! They come in an impressive array of colors and sizes. This fuzzy friend is enormous! #invertebrates 🌿 🐝

🌱🦅 I wrote about the pair of bald eagles nesting near me and often seen from my garden. Hoping to see eaglets soon. #birds #wildlife #eagles

...and the weight of the world evaporates #bloomscrolling #peace #calm #flowers #gardens #photography #oo-oo,thatsmell #can'tyoursmellthatsmell

#Marigolds are beautiful, useful, & attract pollinators. In Florida, now is a good time to plant a cover crop of marigolds in vegetable beds to reduce the nematode damage to future crops. Read my article on the history and uses of marigolds. greengardeningmatters.blogspot.com/2022/11/mari...

🌱 Things that went into the ground yesterday: all but 3 tomatoes, green beans, peppers, the kales- scarlet, redbor, lacinato, thousandhead, siberian; swiss chard, some cosmos, tithonia, marigolds. Im going to wait a bit to plant the garleek, eggplant, cucamelons, and oh, I’ve forgotten the potatoes!

🌱 All the russian kale volunteers had bolted with the parent plant 😱. They shared an internal clock! It’s a good thing I started some new kale this year — redbor, scarlet, siberian, lacinato and thousandhead. Looking forward to a variety of new leaves to eat.

I thought maybe this could have been fragrant, but it wasn’t Phalaenopsis hybrid (noID) #orchid #flower #gardening #bloomscrolling #photography #naturephotography 🌱🌴🪴sky

🌱 I like to have back ups of my tomato plants in case catastrophe strikes. I just snap off a sucker and instead of composting it, I pop it into water until roots form. Potted this one on today. This is 'Lava Flow.'

🌱 Im seeing a few ants in my fava beans thats flowering. Should I be worried? I hosed them down with water but they will likely be back.

🌱 Peony Duchess de Nemours My favorite. Smells like a rose. Begs the argument… why not just plant a rose? We have. Quite a few. And some are in bloom. But oddly… this peony smells more like “rose” than our roses. Go figure.

These kale plants went dormant when we were under 6" of ice but they popped right back up with a little spring sunshine and warmer weather 🌱

Shown everywhere else but home.

Burrowing owls turn food delivery into a work of art. 🪶

🌱This is the enchanting Thunbergia Mysorensis also known as clock vine, I think. Not from my garden, photo taken in the tropics during a quick trip last year. I understand this grows in zones 10-11?

Good Morning from the Poppy Patch 🌱🧡🤭

🌱 The Christmas light stopped working on this deer so it now oversees the onion patch. Hoping to plant vine nasturtiums next to this at some point and have a flower deer maybe …

Finally solved this mystery. Fleabane turns pink after it is pollinated and the nectar is no longer available. Can also turn pink due to cooler weather. Fleabane emerges white like a daisy, then turns pink, and some turn purple as they age. And they are deer resistant and great for pollinators. 🌱🌸🚪

If you don't see me around this place as often as I used to, it's because of mango season. 🌱😄

5.5 weeks until the Summer Solstice and we're kicking our heels - waiting to put sooooo much stuff into the ground! Can't recall such a cool Spring for many-a-year! We're 3 wks behind last year. #Allotment tomorrow AND Brassicas 🌱 ARE going in, regardless!

Sorry, should have alt texted that.

🌱Sending well wishes to Bluesky friends. The first sweet peas are here. I wish i could send you the aroma that fills the greenhouse. Hoping to see more blooms all the way to fall. 🤞

🌱Im looking forward to this coming back this year.

💔On this Mother’s Day, not everyone is celebrating. Many of us have lost the people we love.

6 years ago, I wrote that John Roberts, who craves to be ranked w J Marshall (or CE Hughes or E Warren) as greatest, institutionalist, consensus-building Chief Justice.. ...would instead challenge Roger "Dred Scott" Taney as worst + most partisan-hack chief. Now, no contest. Roberts beats Taney.

I wish these bloomed more than once a year! 🌱

Happy Saturday, friends. #The_Eco_Spiritual_Experience 🌱💞

This is Tracy Arm fjord in Alaska, near Juneau. (Photo by Noël Zia Lee). It's a beautiful, tranquil place, and it sees a lot of cruise ships. Thank heavens none of them were around at 5:26 AM, August 10, 2025, when a landslide flung around 64 million cubic meters of rock down into the fjord. 2/

After 12 years, the EU flag is back on Hungary’s Parliament building — the new Speaker’s very first decision. A happy Schuman Day indeed.

A proud and joyful moment for Hungary after 16 long years. Best wishes for a bright future as a new day arrived with Peter Magyar.

Péter Magyar has been sworn in as prime minister of Hungary. Hungary's Viktor Orbán era is officially over.

🌱 I mentioned to a friend that I’m building a potting bench next to the greenhouse. He made me a couple of hooks, painted green so I’ll be able to hang by garden tools too. He’s 82yo and has double my energy. #awesomefriends

🌱 My snail rolls were doing really well. I did about a dozen rolls and Im still waiting for 3 rolls to sprout. Some rolls I have already repotted. One roll had a dozen chard. Others are still too small to move. But happy with the result😊

Oh dear! He should record himself then listen to his whine in perpetuity. Not political actors? Excuse me, I’ll have to 🤮

🌱 The poppies are starting their show. It should last till mid June 🤞. They are the happiest plants but can take over an area if allowed to freely reseed.

🌱 Looks like it’s going to be another hot day in spring! The greenhouse was 104 yesterday. With fans on, it was down to 95. 😱 I already took out the seedlings this morning. Some plants — eggplant, green beans, tithonia, etc are loving it🤞. Ah, the weeds, too …

#bulbwatch the Common Camas is starting to flower, as is the Allium Ostara. The couple of warm days have really accelerated some of the plants. *Sigh* including the weeds. 🌱 #bloomscrolling

🌱 I have never planted peppermint Swiss chard before. This year, I’m going to have them in the vege garden, and in the front yard instead of flowering plants. Im excited!