After the rain the garden feels so replenished 💚

Rose ruffles 💜

Softness 🌿

Brightness 💛

Lilac hues 💜

Today's performative clampdown on migrants will gut our care homes of desperately needed staff. We are *already* short of over 150k carers. Banning foreign care workers will only exacerbate this - increasing suffering of society's most vulnerable members & pressures on the NHS. It's madness.

A wee blog about early modern dogs which I wrote for @edinburghup.bsky.social 🐕🐾 euppublishingblog.com/2025/05/12/m...

That comforting tap-tap at the window 💜🐦

Rest 🧡

The moon is lovely tonight 🤍

Horse chestnut flowers for the first Sunday of May. This beautiful old tree is laden far and wide with these bright candles 🌿💛

So glad you all enjoyed it! Can't quite believe this is actually open now! 💚🌿 #naturenurture

Grass and greenworld all together' - Hopkins, 'The May Magnificat' 💚🌿

A sprig of garden lilac for precious #MayDay 💜🌿

Rain and birdsong in the wee garden 🌿

Iris 💙

'the peace of wild things' - Wendell Berry 💚

The lilac is coming into flower now 💜

This grief is making the greening and the beauty of the woods even more vivid 💚

Matthew G. Dunnigan. 14.7.31 - 18.4.25. My dearest, loveliest Dad, and a wonderful doctor all his life.

Wildflowers on Holy Island 🤍🌿

You can now sign up to attend the excellent Nature Nurture symposium organised by @sarahdunnigan.bsky.social. Details below ⬇️ www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/nature-nur...

Little gold stars of the woods 💛

So looking forward to this, tying in with @selcie.bsky.social new exhibition at Museum of Edinburgh opening May 1 💚

Falling sunlight on our evening walk by a field near Duns 🤍🌿

The sugar pink cherry blossom is flowering in the wee garden 💗

Little white stars of the wood 🤍 First sight of anemones this spring, Flass Vale nature reserve, Durham.

Scottish & Irish Gothic 11 April @edinburgh-uni.bsky.social – free Papers from Christina Morin, @dalegothic96.bsky.social, @mjrsangster.bsky.social, @madelinepotter.bsky.social, & @claireconnolly.bsky.social www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/swinc-scot...

New life 💚 #spring #budding #naturetherapy

Magnolia tree, Edinburgh Princes St Gardens, heavy with blooms 🤍

In other news, all the peace lilies are starting to flower - simultaneously for the first time 🤍

This is one to bookmark because it is comprehensive, updated regularly and helps us see the overall picture in UK university attrition.

This is so moving - about dialect, culture, memory 💜https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/videos/cg5dn7101nlo

"I walked listlessly and almost hopelessly along, till I arrived one day at a small spring; which, bursting cool from the heart of a sun-heated rock, flowed somewhat southwards from the direction I had been taking. I drank of this spring, and found myself wonderfully refreshed..."

A sky of early blossom 💙🌿

A wee bit blossomy in the garden this morning 💜

Between world book day & international women’s day, I want to say trans women are women, their womanhood is not in doubt or up for debate. Read the incredible books they are writing, buy their work if you can afford to, borrow it from libraries if you can’t. None of us are free until we are all free

Cold and grey today but signs of new life everywhere in the wee garden 💜🌿 #spring #naturetherapy

“The earth smiles snowdrops and crocuses to let us know that she will dance again as the light returns” The Lightbringers

At the edge of the woods, in sunlight 🧡

Tiny white stars in the garden 🤍🌿

The Worship of Cats, created by Janet Parker, c.1966 in the art therapy studio at Netherne hospital, Surrey, where she was compelled to live. This is the only surviving work by her & no biographical information is currently known to us

The birdsong seems louder and longer now in the late afternoon ❤️

To mark #lgbtplushistorymonth we are sharing our collaboration with The Edwin Morgan Trust. Alasdair & Edwin were close friends with much of their work connecting through themes of sexuality and love. Recently researcher Domenico Di Rosa has been mapping these connections, read more on Instagram

Flight 🩵 We watched this beautiful heron soar up from the wetland in Cammo #nature #birds #beauty

Lovely piece by former MSc 'Fairy Tales' student, Calvin Goh @uoe-llc.bsky.social Grateful and delighted that Calvin launches our new blogpost series in the run-up to the 'Nurture through Nature' exhibition 🍃

It's a coorie-in kind of evening 💜

A blossoming branch for anyone who needs it 🤍🌿 Princes St Gardens, #Edinburgh #naturetherapy

For #WorldRadioDay we are sharing how AG liked to listen when small to BBC dramatisations on his radio including ‘Faust in his Study’ inspiring him to create his own artworks & stories. In the 1960s & 70s he wrote plays for radio & TV such as 'The Fall of Kevin Walker' for London BBC Television.

Grey skies but a delicate fretwork of pussy willow in Princes Street Gardens 🤍🌿