First of this year's crop of casa blanca lilies has bloomed. #flower #gardening

Billy, the music loving dog is taken to the music hall filled with musicians practicing and listens for the sound that pleases him the most. It’s the cello. 🎻 He lays down basking in the waves of sounds he chose out of all the others. Music is the universal language. #DogsofBluesky #MusicSky

Update: Meryl has 2 front tootsies 🐾 #pets #GuineaPig

Growing eryngiums for the first time this year. Bees loving them! #plants #gardening #bees

Meryl showing a hint of paw 😊 #pets #GuineaPig

Heat waves seem to be causing some early autumnal leaf colour changes in our rowan tree. Some welcome rain has been forecast 🤞🏻 #gardening #plants #trees #globalheating #climatechange

A fan of fatsia leaves #plants #gardening

Little nasturtium munchers 🐛🐛🐛🐛🐛 #gardening #plants #flowers #bugs

I grow nasturtiums primarily as sacrificial plants for bugs to eat, but they also look nice, bees love them, and they are tasty for humans, too. #gardening #plants #flowers

For the first time ever, thrushes are visiting our garden and feeding on snails and slugs. Lots of shattered snail remnants all over the place. I've only ever seen thrushes in big parks before so this is quite exciting for our scruffy wee backyard #gardening #birds #wildlife

Teasel grows like crazy in our back garden, though it requires a lot of propping up with bamboo canes. I love how little pools of water form among the leaves when it rains. #teasel #plants #gardening

Pigeons outside the attic window, looking lustrous in the sunshine #pigeons #birds #wildlife

Foxglove after the rain #flowers #gardening

Got a baby rowan tree last year, that is producing abundant flowers this year. Bees if multiple species are loving it - saddlebags filled to bursting with pollen! 🐝🐝🐝 #gardening #bees #spring

First peony of 2026 #flowers #gardening

Micro moth on a hart's tongue fern, likely Psychoides filicivora. #moths #bugs #gardening #plants

Magnolia flowers have opened up 🌸 #gardening #plants

Richard@rdfallis.bsky.social · 3mo ago

This magnolia never flowered while kept in a pot, but it has started doing so since I put it in the ground in a raised bed. Looks like a bumper crop of blooms this year 🌸🌸🌸🌸 #gardening #plants #flowers

Aerial view of the back garden, trying to make it as green and varied as possible, with a good number of native species and scruffy corners where "weeds" are left to do their thing. #gardening #plants

This magnolia never flowered while kept in a pot, but it has started doing so since I put it in the ground in a raised bed. Looks like a bumper crop of blooms this year 🌸🌸🌸🌸 #gardening #plants #flowers

It's dandelion o'clock 🌼 #gardening #plants

First magnolia stellata flower of the year #flowers #gardening #plants

Here it is, my annual reminder: don't spray spring dandelions with roundup. One flower can be visited by 100+ bees in a day, and your chemicals will kill all of them. 🌻

Baby fatsia japonica leaf looking like a little alien hand 👽🖖🏻 #gardening #plants #aliens

Front garden cherry blossom. #gardening #tree #sakura

Renovation works continuing in Buoy Park. Heavy machinery has excavated around all the trees, leaving them standing on the islands of their own root systems. #tree #Belfast

Tattoo parlour sign on a rainy Belfast night.

The menagerie: Pru and Oonagh...

Cats in advertisements always catch the eye #cats #tattoos #Belfast

Meryl's so sleepy she has lost her legs