In today's chilly #SixOnSaturday... frosty moss & Daphne, a confused Photinia, Iberis, a fluffy Clematis seedhead & two pots of Violas - one lot shredded, the other untouched... so far! 🌱 onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2026/01/03/s...

Record year for wind and solar electricity in Great Britain in 2025 #Kent #BBCNews 🔗: https://www.bbc.com/news/arti...

🌱The spring-blooming toad lily🐸 #flowerfeed #gardening

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Looks like it’s going to be a good season for the hellebores 🌱

Nerines 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #PinkMon #ColorADay #EastCoastKin

#ColorADay #PinkMon #MacroMonday Pink begonias inside the Biltmore Garden Conservatory. #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Begonia #Flowers

Wildlife gardening: stealth mode! Sometimes it’s counterproductive to mention wildlife gardening not everyone is ready for it but we can do it anyway. Sneaking native plants, leave Wild bits at the back, a pile of sticks behind the shed, a Belfast sink in the bed. 🌱🦋🌎

Flowering right now right outside my door, stinking hellebore (which only stink if you crush the foliage) 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #UKGardening #Flowers

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🌱 Good morning🌞 Gaillardia in June 🌼💚 #gardening #flowerfeed #bloomscrolling

It's been a year of weather extremes that has pushed nature to its limits, but there have been some wins along the way. From drought to deluge, find out how the UK’s wildlife was tested in our 2025 review: buff.ly/24LdwL0 Photos: Hanne Siebers, Sarah Davis, Paul Harris, Laurence Perry

Anyone for ‘Peach Melba’? Climbing rose, free flowering, light fruity scent, healthy foliage. A former Rose of the Year. I do believe it’s Monday! Have a good day, take care. #roses 🌱

A massive old oak, wrapped in ivy, down by the shores of Bantry Bay, West Cork. So many people still believe ivy is a 'parasite', or 'kills trees', but in Europe it's a natural and vital part of forest ecosystems, providing food, shelter, and cover to a great range of wildlife.

🌡️ A cooler feel to things of late 📍 Italian Gardens, Kensington Gardens 📸 Chris O'Donovan

Monday

🌱 #magentaMonday I spent Christmas near Imperial Wharf in London and enjoyed walking along the Thames. Apparently that area is called Sands End and it was fascinating to see how many plants (including this Hebe) were in flower. I even spotted some Agapanthus!

Heat, drought and fire: how extreme weather pushed nature to its limits in 2025

The first flowers of Green Hellebore are starting to open, part of a thriving population in a wood in deepest east Kent #wildflowerhour

Beautiful winter jasmine 🌱🙂 #FlowerFeed

Sedum sexangulare, the six-sided stonecrop 🌱🌵 #SundayYellow #SucculentSunday #Bloomscrolling #PlantSky #Macro

Seasonal colours on a Sacred Bamboo (Nandina domestica)

Purple Matthiola aka stock blooming now from seeds collected last year. It’s going to be freezing for the #NewYear so I am bundling up a few things today and tomorrow including my almost ready cabbages🙏 #Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Winter #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #GYO

🌱 #SundayYellow My last volunteering session at Wisley’s Hilltop for the year. We have had a week of bitterly cold weather so it will be interesting to see if any flowers have survived. This little fig was bravely holding on in the World Food Garden last week.

☀️ December delights 📍 Richmond Park 📸 James Kliffen

Hellebores are starting to flower

it's 'rejuvenating spent compost' time again. Last years compost from pots & tubs gets mixed with freshly made compost and sieved rotten woodchips. 3/4" of each and thorough mix & repeat. Do this every Winter and don't/won't buy compost 🌱. Takes a while but should have 3 big bags this year.

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It’s always my habit to prune my fruit trees between Christmas and New Year, a tradition I picked up from one of my old head gardeners. I’m really happy how my espalier trees are coming along since they were planted nearly 5 years ago 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #VegetableGarden

11 of the UK’s best winter walks – all ending at a cosy pub

Fairy umbrellas #FungiFriday #FungiFriends #mushrooms #ForestFriday

Today’s pictures. -2.5°C this morning and a beautiful winter sun. ☀️❄️🌱

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Snake like bark of Stewartia.

Whether you're getting out in nature today, staying home, or heading back to work, we're wishing you a peaceful day with this glorious winter scene from Longmeadow 🌾

We understand that this time of year can be both full of fun and sadness ❤️ One thing for sure is that a walk in one of the Royal Parks can help with our mental health 🌳 Head outside today to blow off the Christmas cobwebs 🚶 Learn how it can help ▶️ https://bit.ly/3tuFYp7.

Cowslip (Primula veris) in our garden in East Lothian today. This plant has been in flower for at least five weeks. Nice to have its yellow flowers brightening up the lawn (albeit a very tiny part of the lawn) at this time of year.

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground. Wonderful!

All done for the year at work, so I’m signing off. I hope you all have a great Christmas with your friends and family, and I’ll see you all in the new year! 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening

Last job of the year is to do some wisteria pruning and training. Not fun to do when it’s this cold, but it’ll definitely mean it won’t bleed any sap. 🌱 #Gardening #UkGardening #WinterGardenJob

Coppery orange hybrid tea-rose, possibly 'Just Joey' 🌱🌹 #RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling

Just a handful of months away... 😊🩷💛🌸🌼 #flowers #flowerphotography #bloomscrolling #nature #NaturePhotography #gardening #gardens #beauty #hope #peace 🕊

Love the blue of our Hydrangeas 😍 #bloomscrolling 🌱

Don't have time to see all your favourite people over Christmas? Arrange a snowdrop walk together next year. Here's a link to my Calendar of #SnowdropGarden Openings, Snowdrop Talks & #Snowdrop Plant Sales: www.pumpkinbeth.com/2021/09/snow... #MerryChristmas #Galanthus #Snowdrops #Family #Friends

Still some beautiful Geraniums in flower. 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

This year’s Presidential Christmas card.

Christmas Gingerbread house constructed and decorated under strict supervision from my daughter.

Salvia patens 'Blue Angel' 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #TuesdayBlue #BlueTue #ColourADay #EastCoastKin

🌱 #thicktrunkTuesday You can’t see all of the tree but I promise it does have a thick trunk. It is one of the oaks on the green around the corner from my house in my village.