A very hot #SummerSolstice here in Birmingham but the golden hour was truly spectacular! These Chandos Beauty roses also have glorious scent. And a solstice visit from this beautiful Hummingbird Hawkmoth 😍 #GreenHeart #Gardening #Moth #BloomScrolling #Roses #UrbanWildlife #RedValerian

I finally understand why it's called a Tulip Tree! This is a tree flower that makes a statement... It is in our therapeutic gardens, but can be seen from the main park of Kings Heath park. #LiriodendronTulipifera #BloomScrolling #GreenHeart #Gardening #TulipTree

Hey #Bloomscrollers - how about this selection of coastal wildflowers in Corsica? What a beautiful walk - wish I could send the smell to you too 💚 #Bloomscrolling #Corsica #Maquis #Wildflowers

Our beautiful Handkerchief tree is in full bloom with its gorgeous white bracts - have you found it yet?

Welcome to Blue sky @highburyprkfriends.bsky.social 💚💚💚 Here's a photo taken in the park at 7am this morning. Just a couple of friends hanging out... #Corvids #Parakeet

The wisteria is out in the Thrive garden! I don't think I've ever appreciated it properly before - the scent is just gorgeous 💜 Not the best photo as I was too close, sniffing 😂 #BloomScrolling #GreenHeart #Gardening #Wisteria

Spring flowers have arrived in force! #BloomScrolling #EnglishGarden #Spring #GreenHeart #Gardening

Word of the day is ‘foxy’ (19th century), used of weather that misleads you into thinking it’s extremely warm when in reality it’s pretty chilly.

Inspection time! A Chaffinch has dropped by your feed to keep an eye on things... 👀 📷 @kiransimpson.bsky.social

A lovely birthday spent visiting the 1000+ year old Major Oak in Sherwood Forest. Yes, the one where Robin Hood is supposed to have hidden out. Spectacular tree, and ancient oaks galore in the forest around 💚 #AncientTrees #Oak #EnglishOak #QuercusRobur #RobinHood

Look at this absolute beauty! Not entirely sure what it is - the closest I can find is Narcissus Cassata. Never seen one like it 💛 The gardens and park are full of #daffodils and #narcissus, big and small - it's a joyous sight after a long cold winter. #BloomScrolling #Spring #GreenHeart #Gardens

The forget-me-nots are on their way! 💙 #GreenHeart #Garden #Gardening #SpringFlowers #ForgetMeNot

I love #crocuses; probably the most important reason is that they're packed full of pollen for early bumblebees. This buff-tailed bumble was excitedly diving into flower after flower. #Bumblebees are struggling with the climate - try @katebradbury.bsky.social for tips to help them out! #Gardening

I am stuck in my kitchen working, but what a view! Planting bulbs in autumn is an activity which encapsulates the hope involved in #gardening ...all done in anticipation of how much joy those flowers might bring in many months time 💚 #GreenHeart #bloomscrolling #Iris #Spring #Bulbs

What a day! Finally a day of the backdoor open and being outside most of the day. Irises filling the pot, the first cherry blossom and clearing out the bird box with wonder at the Great Tits' work from last year. Rewarded with the first evening black bird song of the year 💚💚💚 #Greenheart #Garden

Seedlings and more seedlings! The joy of gardening in February is the hope of what's to come. All of our client gardeners sow seeds and watch them develop so there is a complex system of labelling! #STH #GreenHeart #TherapeuticGardening #Garden #Hope #Spring

A little walk round the gardens today to lift the spirits on this grey old day. Spring flowers and robins serenading us at every corner #GreenHeart #Gardening #Gardens #BloomScrolling #Spring #Robin

It was a bitterly cold lunchtime dog walk at Holders Woods, but as well as this blackbird who sat observing me for some time, I watched some woodpecker territory action high up in the canopy. Only one counts for my @ecorecord.bsky.social Feb bird count though! #Birmingham

A beautiful show of aconites and cyclamen in the gardens this morning. Just the cheer we need on this grey and bitter day. #aconites #cyclamen #SpringFlowers #greenheart #gardening #Birmingham #GardeningForWellbeing

I've taken @ecorecord.bsky.social up on their 28 Birds Later February bird spotting challenge. Prepare for blurry camera phone photos...No 1 today - one of the many Carrion Crows of Highbury Park, who then proceeded to hassle the dog! #birds #CityPark #Birmingham #Corvids

I love buying seeds from @higgledygarden.bsky.social - it's all about the personal touch. And I couldn't resist trying out some "Rainbow Hippy Lovechild" as I definitely fall into that category myself 😍 #GreenHeart #Gardening #Seeds #Rainbow

Birds that came to our during garden the @rspb.bsky.social #BigGardenBirdwatch - 8 house sparrows, 2 each of blue tits, great tits, robins, coal tits, wood pigeons, 1 blackbird, 1 dunnock, 1 wren and 1 goldcrest! I was pretty pleased for a suburban garden in Brum altho' no sign of 3 other regulars 🙂

The rhubarb's on its way! We've got about 3 times this much in the gardens, and some is now being forced. I love rhubarb so hoping there will be some spare 😁💚 #GreenHeart #Gardening #Rhubarb #STH

What a weird wether day. Drove through alternating thick fog and blue sky from Brum to Nottingham. Stopped at the Attenborough Nature Reserve expecting to see lots of birds, but instead it was ice in many different spectacular forms! #Ice #Weather #Winter

An icy but beautiful start here today at our therapeutic gardens in Birmingham. Phlomis seed heads, tall grasses and silver birch looking spectacular. Even the walk down to the gardens was pretty stunning 😍💚 #GreenHeart #Garden #Gardening #TherapyGarden #STH #CityPark

A glimpse of colour in our therapeutic gardens today. Some gorgeous cyclamen are popping out of the rockery, with hellebores close behind 💚 #GreenHeart

One of the hidden green gems of Birmingham - the Harborne Walkway. Surrounded by allotments, Chad Brooke, huge gardens and a nature reserve it's an amazing green corridor and part of what makes this a City of Nature. #LoveBrum

Today's spots in Highbury Park.

I love working with gardening folk. We had our Christmas do for staff and volunteers in the office where we debated the point of celery for about 20mins. Although more about the eating than the growing! #GardenThread #GreenHeart

Some gorgeous old man's beard along the Worcester and Birmingham canal yesterday. #GreenHeart

Morning from Birmingham! A beautiful crisp dawn in Highbury Park with wrens singing and crows cawing #Dawn #CityPark #Birmingham

A lovely little autumn montage from my walk today in Highbury Park.