#SmallBeauties River lilies and an orange peel clematis I love September.

Andrea Hayes, textile artist based in Co. Tyrone, Northern Ireland, known for her textile landscapes #WomensArt

Margaret Preston (1875-1963), Australian painter/printmaker, regarded as one of Australia's leading modernists of the early 20thc, was influenced by Japanese printmaking #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

A slightly surprised green man with acorns

Bees in a courgette flower

Mr Biscuit among the wildflowers

#SmallBeautiesHour A lovely gargoyle

It's a good job that Loyalists marching the streets of Belfast brandishing Ulster Volunteer Force flags don't carry Palestine Action placards, or people might think they were terrorist sympathisers

#SmallBeautiesHour A fat poppy seedhead

#SmallBeautiesHour Butterflies and vibrant colours

Contemporary UK artist Priscilla Watkins, known for her paintings of swimmers at Brockwell Lido, London #WomensArt

I love a transom and this is a favourite

#SmallBeautiesHour She's starting to flower!

#SmallBeautiesHour Pink poppies and seedheads

#SmallBeautiesHour All the bumbles on the echinops

#SmallBeautiesHour Erigeron in a tiny jug

Another garden visitor has discovered the joys of catnip. #gardens #cats

#SmallBeautiesHour After two months of scraping, scorching and sanding, the garden furniture is finally painted. Just in time for the rain. I still had a G&T under the parasol to celebrate.

#SmallBeautiesHour Mr Biscuit totally enthralled by a tiny bit of ham.

#SmallBeautiesHour A pale pink poppy

#SmallBeautiesHour Bumbles love the hosta flowers

'In my garden' by Mariann Johansen-Ellis, contemporary printmaker #ReframingWomenPrintmakers

The printmaking work of Agnes Miller (1895–1980) Scottish engraver, illustrator and painter #WomensArt

#SmallBeautiesHour Big yellow inula

#SmallBeautiesHour All the shastas

#SmallBeautiesHour The loveliest cherries

I have decided to cool off in the spring. No matter what the air temperature is, this spring water (filtered through layers of basalt) is always icy cold.

#SmallBeautiesHour Sunflower bouquet

#SmallBeautiesHour All the daisies

Perpetua furnishing fabric design, 1953, by Lucienne Day, influential 20th century British textile designer #womensart