GreenBeanJackie
@greenbeanjackie.bsky.social
Posts about flowers, bees, vegetables, Edinburgh, rural Scotland, buses, gardening, wild swimming, cats, small beauties. Blogging about gardening at www.reclaimingparadise.wordpress.com and swimming at https://swimmingat60.wordpress.com/swims
On Bluesky for the bees and the flowers and the vegetables, with a side order of cats, wild swimming and public transport. Here's a bee on a buddleia #bloomScrolling
Hello #GardensHour 4 whites and a pattern for this week's #SixWeeksOfColour theme. Starry white garlic chive flowers, cosmos 'Fizzy White' , sweetpeas 'ice cream' and raspberry ripple border on a white carnation
A rainbow of August colours for #SixOnSaturday Asiatic lillies, bee on buddleia,sweetpeas and runner beans growing together, rose 'Shropshire Lad', tiny but glorious garlic chive flowers, courgette flower
Lots of path choices for #FingerpostFriday on a wee trip to East Lothian. We only walked a short bit, otherwise using the trains to get around. Will be back.
Trip to Dunbar in the rain at the weekend. Tide was out so no swimming but suitable for #TidesOutTuesday
Hello #GardensHour here are some reds from my garden recently: red fringed carnation, runner bean flowers, redcurrants
A lot of the garden is going over just now but the pinks and sweet peas are at their best for #SixOnSaturday #BloomScrolling
When the story of why humanity didn't stop climate change is written, it will feature front pages like this. Even as the skies blacken with climate change-induced wildfires, right wing media continue their relentless crusade against measures to tackle it.
The Bumblebee Conservation Trust @bumblebeetrust.bsky.social reports today that numbers are declining and some species are near to extinction. Of the UK's 24 species a third are in serious trouble as wildflower meadows and hedgerows disappear. Go to their site to see how you can help. #Bees #ECK
Bees and flowers for #SixOnSaturday cornflower, carnation, sweet peas 'ice cream', bees on phacelia, bee on flowering teasel head, California poppy and cosmos 'sonata'
Garden and allotment salad: potatoes, nasturtium, onion, rocket, mint, chives #SmallBeauties #summerJoys #growYourOwnFood
People are being advised to avoid the Glenmore and Loch Morlich area today due to the ongoing large wildfire. Campsite, ski area and road closed.
Lovely butterfly 🦋 in the garden. Maybe a small pearl bordered fritillary? Feeds on dog violets apparently, tick. Lives in scrubby damp land, tick. So my garden is messy but attracts these #SmallBeauties
Faded sign near Coniston Water for #FingerpostFriday- pointing to Beacon Tarn where I had a lovely swim 🏊♂️ a few days ago. Planning another dip in today's heatwave
6 flowers that made it into bouquets and table displays for my son and daughter in law's wedding this time last year. All coming back this year. #SixOnSaturday cosmos 'Fizzy white' and 'Sonata', lady's bedstraw, astrantia, rose ' boule de neige', pinks
This time last year I grew and organized the flowers for my son and daughter in law's wedding. This year they are just a little but later but promising a summer full of joy #FlowersOnFriday cosmos fizzy white and sonata, astrantia, carnation 'chaubad', sweet pea Kingfisher
Hello @gardenshour.bsky.social one word for this week 'Midsummer' here in the summery chaos round my garden pond
Sad to see the passing of Penelope Keith. I've spent most of my adult life channeling the Goods from 'The Good Life' and ever relieved that I don't have neighbours like the Leadbetters.
Just enjoying June and the joys of midsummer sun and rain reclaimingparadise.wordpress.com/2026/06/28/m...
Midsummer sun and rain
While the rest of the country has been sweltering in a heat wave, here, in Edinburgh, we have had warm sun alternating with heavy rain. Good for the garden if a little tricky for the gardener. As a…
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Just the glorious profusion of flowers that is my pond at midsummer: bog cotton, campion, water lily, water buttercup, poppies, Canterbury Bells #SixOnSaturday
