Anyone know what kind of shrooms these might be? Sprouting on the lawn in a garden i look after... they're in a rough circle so was wondering if it's a fairy ring? 🍄🍄🍄 #fungi 🌱 #gardening

Here's a lovely bit of peace and quiet amid all the madness... Lemon Queen perennial sunflowers are the best thing in my garden this time of year. Kudos to my daughter Ruby for filming & editing 🥰

The entire gardening industry is looking at Labour wondering when they will act - the legislation is agreed and waiting to be signed off! Over a year of inaction. Democracy shouldn’t be this hard.

Damson vodka made & brewing nicely 😄 recipe: 1kg damsons 500g sugar 1 litre vodka ...err, that's it 😋 Stab the damsons all over with a skewer, load into Kilner jars, add sugar pour over vodka & seal. Shake daily for 2 weeks then weekly for 2 months. Decant into bottles, enjoy #recipe #homegrownbooze

Well that's one approach to fencing 👀 as seen in a local woodland #treetorture

Carnivorous plants are creepy 😱 this Venus flytrap had been so successful in the greenhouse it was studded with the dried husks of digested flies 🤢 we pulled them out with tweezers. Anyone know why they don't get rid of the carcasses by themselves? #dionaea #venusflytrap #gardening 🌱

In the depths of winter two years ago I planted a bare root damson tree specifically so I could make damson vodka. And now..... 😋 god I love gardening #nomnom #bringonthebooze #gardening 🌱 (recipe incoming at some point soon 😊)

Black #tomatoes are my faves for rich, mouth watering flavour 🍅 it's sometimes difficult to know when to pick tho: green immature fruits turn black but wait a little longer and you'll find a tinge of red creeps in - once most of the fruit is red it's ripe 'n' ready 😋 #gardening 🌱 #vegetablegrowing

Spending time with botanists is hilarious and inspirational in equal measures. Yesterday I spent hours covering around 300 metres, mostly on my knees, gazing in wonder at the most beautiful #wildflowers - all just a few centimetres tall. Normally I'd have marched past without noticing #stopandstare

This is where all that's exciting in #gardening is happening at the moment 💚 new ideas, new approaches, new thinking to sweep away all the old tired #peat, #plastic & #pesticides models of the past. Bring on a kinder, greener future www.wildinggardens.co.uk

"All the determination has evaporated" - my blog post on massively disappointing 2023 #peat use stats in #horticulture showing progress to #peatfree has all but stalled due to lack of legislation peatfreepartnership.org.uk/silence-on-legislation-stalls-peat-free-progress/ #gardening 🌱 #endpeatsales

So sad to see this... the garden has been in trouble for a while but you always hope it might recover. One of the loveliest English landscapes, steeped in history: I do hope someone sweeps in and saves it 🤞 #hestercombe #somerset #historic #garden 🌱 www.somersetcountygazette.co.uk/news/2536674...

I’m looking forward to this, from so many beautiful writers

Talking #peatfree plant shortages on HortWeek: "It's a big opportunity for growers - there isn't stock available... because there's no [peat-free] stock overseas, so it's an opportunity because the UK is further down the road with peat-free than everybody else" #endpeatsales @marycreagh.bsky.social

Gardeners and allotment growers really need a way to show others they’ve gone #peatfree. Suppliers (or the RHS/NAS) should sell us signs or stickers we can all display on our plots! In the meantime, @allotmentnews.bsky.social and I have gone ‘DIY’. deborahburn.me.uk/peat-free-al...

Still silent on when to end #peat sales in horticulture @marycreagh.bsky.social? Latest figs show progress stalled - 2022-23 reduced peat use by 1% in retail (bagged) compost & 4% growers. UK hort still uses 760,000m3 peat every single year & will keep doing so without legislation to #endpeatsales

Peat use stats are in (well overdue) for 2023. Progress has slowed almost to a halt: retail (bagged) compost managed a measly 1% reduction over the year while professional horticulture used just 4% less #peat. This is glacial: we need legislation *now* @marycreagh.bsky.social #endpeatsales #peatfree

Aren't carnivorous plants amazing? This pitcher plant in the greenhouse is flowering its socks off but note the flower is held high above the plant itself - that's to ensure visiting pollinators are well away from the pitchers and don't accidentally become lunch 😊 #gardening 🌱 #naturalpestcontrol

It's 17 July, and our #Peat extraction counter has surpassed half a million cubic metres. ⚠️ #DEFRA have yet to release the Growing Media Monitor peat use stats, so our data is from 2022 - three years of unknowns. #Horticulture is changing, but legislation is necessary to deliver a #PeatFree UK.

Love this cheap & funky idea for #plasticfree plant labels i found at the SkoolBeanz allotment 😍 leave your wooden spoon natural... or paint it in colours that make you smile. Write on the spoon, stick it in the ground, & at the end of the season just sand off & start again #gardening 🌱 #sustainable

Daylilies brightening up the garden beautifully at the moment 🧡 despite the name (the flowers last only a day) they repeat flower for ages, especially if you dead head regularly. I like to eat the unopened buds sometimes too - they taste like lettuces 😋 #gardening 🌱 #edibleflowers #bloomscrolling

I love a garden full of colour 💚 SkoolBeanz is a riot of upcycled art where jam jar lids are chandeliers and wheelbarrows sport painted flowers. Among the veg are rows of brilliantly colourful dahlias, sweetpeas & sunflowers. You can't help but smile 😍 #gardening 🌱 #inspiration www.skoolbeanzcic.com

So excited to be spending the day at the amazing Skool Beanz allotment today - kids' garden run by Lara Honnor near Yeovil. I'll be learning how to set up a similar community garden for children in my local town - we are right at the start, can't wait to get stuck in 😍 #gardening 🌱 #communitygardens

Time to pick apples 😊 far too early to harvest yet but my trees are laden - if I leave all these it will stress the tree I'll only get small apples & they'll be prone to disease. So I am reducing clusters over 3 fruits and removing the smallest to leave room for the rest 💚 #gardening 🌱 #veggrowing

One small compensation in my fried vegetable garden: the salsify have run to seed, big sculptural fluffballs around 8cm across like dandelion clocks on steroids. I'll pick one or two, save the seed and sow later when the weather is damp again #gardening 🌱 #veggrowing #seedsaving

Today's the day! Are you meeting your MP at the #ActNowChangeForever mass lobby? Get ready for a day of action, connection, and inspiration for peatlands 📢 #EndPeatSales #PeatFree #Nature

1) see how peatland restoration works thanks to @yorkshirepeat.bsky.social in my latest visit to Fleet Moss www.wildway.info/p/plant-life...

Back home after a few weeks away to find... my lovely housesitter read the bit about watering pots, but skimmed the bit about the veg garden 😭😭😭 greenhouse & well mulched courgettes survived the heatwave but the rest is carnage. Now on a rescue mission 😪 #startingover #gardening 🌱 #veggrowing

Feeling the dahlia love on the @peatfree.bsky.social Living Throne at #RHSHamptonCourt 🧡💛💚💙💜🤍 #bloomscrolling #gardening 🌱 #flowers

Dozens of these beauties fluttering about the #peatfree @peatfree.bsky.social Living Throne today at #RHSHamptonCourt, tiny things just a few centimetres across. I thought they were day flying moths but turns out they're Essex Skipper #butterflies 🦋💚🦋💚🦋💚🦋 #gardening 🌱 #sustainability #pollinators

Lots of visitors to the @peatfree.bsky.social Living Throne this morning - before #RHSHamptonCourt Flower Show even opens! Best thing is knowing that as these flowers are all #peatfree we're helping feed #pollinators without destroying a unique habitat to do so 💚 #gardening 🌱 #flowers #biodiversity

Here it is! 😍 the Living Throne is made entirely from #peatfree plants and cut flowers - proof that peat-free horticulture is just as beautiful and abundant as the alternative. If you're at #RHS #HamptonCourt Flower Show come and take a seat for peat #endpeatsales 🌱 #gardening @peatfree.bsky.social

So nice to be back at the #RHS #HamptonCourt Garden Festival 💖 here to chat all things #peatfree with anyone who drops by to take a seat for peat on the @peatfree.bsky.social Living Throne 😍 #endpeatsales

This summer, we're saving the ecosystem no one's talking about... We've got a lot coming up very soon - are you subscribed to our newsletter for all the details? Sign up now by scrolling down our website! ⬇️ peatfreepartnership.org.uk #EndPeatSales #Gardening #PeatFree #Peat

The amazing Godalming Flower Co. are full steam ahead at #RHSHamptonCourt 👑 Come say hi and take the #PeatFreePledge by taking a photo in our Living Throne! 💖 Tell the Government it's time to #EndPeatSales surrounded by 100% #PeatFree sustainable floristry 💐 #Bloomscrolling #Florist #Gardening

Male & female squash/courgette flowers: bud with straight stalk = male, the one with baby courgette behind is female. You need both: common cause of fruit failure is flower imbalance, often in young plants or in drought. Be patient it usually rights itself in time 😊 #vegetablegrowing 🌱 #gardening

We are feasting on these at the moment 😍 best thing about being a veg grower: you can eat luxury expensive veg every day & lots of it, organic, plastic and #peatfree, and costing pennies 😋 these are mangetout 'Oregon Sugarpod', my fave variety and prolifically generous #veggrowing 🌱 #gardening

In a 5 min tea break, you can tell your MP ⬇️ 1. We don't need peat to grow successfully 2. #Peatlands are vital #carbon stores & mitigate flooding 3. They need to speak up on peat in gov Choose from two 5 minute actions here: peatfreepartnership.org.uk/get-involved #Climate #Gardening

Need some #MondayMotivation? >2000 people are signed up to speak with their MP on 9 July for climate & nature! Join us and ask your MP to support legislation to #EndPeatSales 💪 All the information you need is right here: peatfreepartnership.org.uk/act-now-chan... #Gardening #Climate #Nature

Poppies in the greenhouse? Don't mind if I do 💜 #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #gardening 🌱

Progress so far.... they've now raked off the top layer and are replacing with new reed. You avoid removing all thatch as the lowest layer packs down over time forming a thick matted weatherproof layer - my underlayer could be over 200 years old this end of the house 😍 #ruralcrafts #thatchedhouses

Another quoted deadline to #EndPeatSales that doesn't exist... Good to cover importance of #peatlands, but too much confusion from UK Gov., which haven't set a deadline yet. UK Gov. must take decisive action to commit to legislation & give #horticulture clarity!💯 #Countryfile #Gardening #PeatFree

Peat-free #TuesdayBlue Meconopsis at Macplants in #Scotland 💙 Many think Meconopsis cannot be grown #PeatFree but we took Min. Jim Fairlie along to see how businesses are thriving without peat. These businesses need legislation to #EndPeatSales so we can level the playing field for #Horticulture.

And so it begins... scaffolding up, chimney guy arriving tomorrow, thatchers here from next week. Paint job soon after. Isn't it ironic we get around to sprucing up the house for the first time in over a decade just in time put it up for sale 🙄😅 #movinghouse #buildingworks #bigchange

There are road closures... and then there are #Somerset road closures 😂 whenever I see a road closed sign here I assume it is at best hypothetical 😉 #normalforsomerset

Delighted to see that we've been recommended as a top UK nursery to buy plants online by @theguardian.com . May explain why we've had a lovely flurry of orders this morning :-). All being picked now and will be despatched Mon/Tue next week. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

I'm doing #30DaysWild this month - first time and loving it so far 💚 Day 1: walk in the woods, but really paying attention (moss, fungi & interesting holes 👀) Day 2: wildflowers in my garden... so many! 🌸 It's Day 3 now and raining so I'm thinking water saving 💦 #wildlife #nature 🌱 #gardening

You can't really improve on the beauty of a simple hedgerow dog rose, can you? 🤍 #naturewalk #wildlifegardening #30dayswild #bloomscrolling 🌱

It's elderflower time! Looks like it's a good year too 💚 selecting ripe flowers is all about the pollen - pick on a dry sunny day (rain washes out pollen) selecting just opened flowers which smell sweet - you shd see golden pollen on the anthers if u look closely 🌱 #elderflower #gardening #foraging

Sweet rocket fills the air with perfume and self seeds obligingly so from one sowing ages ago I now get plants popping up every year - never too many and always welcome. It's usually pink but for some reason I get the much more refined white version 😍 bees love it too 🐝 🌱 #gardening #bloomscrolling