Good morning! Wishing you a wonderful day, whatever you’ll be up to!

As the temperature continues to drop, I’m thinking spring! 💚💛💜 Happy #twosday to you 💜 #flowers #violets #plants #gardening #gardens #bloomscrolling #spring #photography

Today’s rose is a scarlet red hybrid tea with a lovely fragrance- it’s aptly called Romeo

I promised Graham @oldmanrambling.bsky.social I would post a Robin a day for a week in memory of his beloved wife, Janet. As she loved Roberto who is their little garden visitor. So for the second day #WinterRobin #ForJanet #birds #EastCoastKin

Poppy! #art #photography #macro #flowers

Yellow hybrid tea - diamonds forever

Ok folks going to get through as many #BirdOfTheDay entries as I can. Bear with me. Here’s one for #MacroMonday #photography #EastCoastKin

Bottle brush still flowering at Lyme Regis, and bees still out collecting nectar. Not bad for the second half of December.🌱

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It’s official, 125 plants and 65 fungi were named NEW to science in 2025! Every year, our botanists & mycologists work with partners across the world to officially name & describe new species to science 🧪 See our list of the top ten! 👉 https://ow.ly/J7LY50XT51M

Alongside their parent plants there are up to 20 million shiny black English Bluebell seeds on our woodland floor, & each has now extended their taproot in search of moisture Many will not be successful, & even the ones that are take 5 years to form into a bulb & produce flowers

Looks like our Madonna Lillie’s ( Lillium Candium) should open this week

Today’s rose is from my garden Sheila’s perfume- yellow and red hybrid tea - with you guessed it a lot of fragrance.

The hydrangeas are still flourishing

We have the first of the gladioli Pretty in pink

Today’s rose has a name I love - Bee 🐝 Scene It’s a floribunda- it has a yellow centre which graduates to orange then red at the edge of the petals. And YES bees love it - it opens up beautifully to give them good access to its pollen

BREAKING NEWS, LITERALLY As the mature English Bluebell leaf shoots break ground, last years shiny black seeds lying on the surface around them, extend their first ever roots

The world is an uncertain place at the moment- this rose is a reminder of what’s gone before and a reminder of old men in power and what they can do to young fit men and women This is Poppy - named after those famous flowers in the fields of France. Scarlet red floribunda

Today’s Rose is Wonderland- A rose where the colour is stunning 😍 A brilliant magenta / purple coloured rose. It’s a floribunda that’s lightly scented

Opened my lunchbox today full of freshly picked lettuce leaves 🥬 and hubby had placed one of the last of the billington plums on top. It was a lovely surprise for the first Monday back at work 🥰🥰🥰

More camellia and Viola blooms in the garden today. #gardening #bloomscrolling #eastcoastkin

Looks like either candy can or scentimental

Post something beautiful to combat the awful. This is called Poppy - in memory of those French fields.

We went to the Wellington Botanical Gardens recently. This one is specifically bred for NZ- it’s called Massey University Salmon pink - hybrid tea and fragranced.

Today we have one of my roses - this is solitaire. A couple of years ago it almost died. I struggled to keep the scale of it. Since we moved to our new house - it has flourished- even though it’s in a pot It’s almost as tall as me

We’ve had heaps of wind overnight here in Wellington and a few of the net bags have come off the plums - so I’m busy renetting as they are getting ripe. These are black Doris plums.