“Start where you are, use what you have, do what you can.” ― Arthur Ashe till next time🤗🧡
Rick M
@rickmartin.bsky.social
Plants, flowers, gardening, growing. Always my own pic (android phone cam) from my garden, botanical gardens, other people's gardens, garden centres, woods, fields, parks, car parks, cracks in the pavement... I repost a lot too North West England
A seven-spot ladybird hanging out on some rosebay willowherb, photobombed by an incoming bumblebee 🌱 #WildWebsWednesday #BugSky #UKWildlife #UKWildflowers #Bloomscrolling #InsectThursday
I love sunflowers. Here's my watercolor painting of some beauties.
“I can call [the climate crisis] out as a political leader, but you [the media] also has a role to play... the contrast between how much we hear about whatever Nigel Farage or Reform want to talk about versus how little we hear about the climate and nature crisis is pretty glaring.” Quite.
Burnham failing public over heat threats, says Green leader
Zack Polanski has accused ministers of a "dereliction of duty" in response to this summer's heatwaves.
bbc.co.uk
Good morning. Some pretty 🌱 Petunias growing under the Tomatillos to start our day.
Beautiful in the morning light. Happy #RoseWednesday 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling
This is the first time I seen a painted lady in my garden. This one’s been through some wars. 🌱🦋
Black strawberry tomatoes, so good, prolific, mysterious… 🌱🍅
I'm not sure whether they are there any more and I'm not good at non-native plants but back in 2017 we saw this magnificent stand of what I think, is Saracenia purpurea, at Philliols Bog (part of Wareham Forest) OS grid ref SY88000/91742. They were probably 30 inches tall
My wife’s been collecting the seeds for many years, but this year is the first time we’ve seen crazy mutations. This 2 headed zinnia is another oddity.🤷♂️
#Basil (Ocimum basilicum) shot this morning in Grays Ferry. #Pavementplants #GardenPlantsGoneWild #Gardening
Another of several impressive thick trees that I came across on a trail along a forest service unpaved road above Hope Valley, #California, off of Highway 88 in the #SierraNevada mountains. For #ThickTrunkTuesday. #ECK #landscapephotography #hiking #trails #nature #outdoors #trees #WestCoastKin
Lost in drifts of hydrangea. Well, not "lost" lost. We'll find our way out eventually. Probably ... #hydrangeas #bloomscrolling #gardening #flowers #pnw
Good morning. Find a peaceful happy place in your mind to escape the demands of your day even for just a few minutes. 😊💙🦋🌱
North Georgia Candy Roaster update, I know you’re all here for them. The vine of one plant now stretches 6 m across one of our plots and then takes a right turn at the edge and carries on for a bit. So far it’s produced seven 2-3kg squash, the other plant has four. #Allotment #UKGardening 🌱
Goodnight Bluesky Folks My Last post Features a beautiful Garden Dhalia Called Winnie the Pooh that I Captured back in 2024 it was Taken with my Canon EOS R50! #GardeningFeed🌱 #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #PlantSky #UkGardening #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Dhalia
A corner of my garden dedicated to succulent and spiky plants 🌱🌵 #PlantSky #Cacti #Succulents #FantasticFoliage #UKGardening #GardensHour
Saracenia Purpurea, this truncated variety seems to do better as a houseplant than most of the others I grow, and the pitchers have a large enough bore to take out a reasonably sized house fly too 🌱 #PlantSky #Houseplants #CarnivorousPlants #FantasticFoliage
Kleines Gartenglück.🦋🌸🐝 Little garden bliss. #eastcoastkin #macromonday #eck #bloomscrolling #insectthursday
Good Afternoon Bluesky Folks! Sorry for the spotty posting; I’m in a low-signal area. Here’s a 2024 photo of a garden dahlia taken with my Canon EOS R50! #GardeningFeed🌱 #NaturePhotography #PhotographersOfBluesky #PlantSky #UkGardening #Bloomscrolling #Flowers
After flitting around like a demented mosquito desperately following the butterfly determined to get a photo, so pleased when it finally landed. My first Clouded Yellow sighting in 9 years. #Aberffraw #Anglesey #WildWebsWednesday @savebutterflies.bsky.social @cofnod.org.uk
