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Fred

@frdvil.bsky.social

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Gardens, insects, seeds, nature and science ...(photography is a hobby-most of posts are in English for fun ...and from my French garden in Normandy ).

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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · Mar 9

Crocuses and birdsong from my garden
#crocus 🌱

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 3h

Good morning everyone, this week’s #SixOnSunday include Japanese Anemone, Virgina Creeper, Winter Jasmin, a fun fungus, and Rosa ‘Twiggy’s Rose’

Have a great weekend!

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 5h

“Then I sally forth, half sad, half proud,
And I come to the velvet, imperial crowd,
The wine-red, the gold, the crimson, the pied—
The dahlias that reign by the garden-side."
- Edith M. Thomas (1854-1925).

#DailyBotanicalBeauty #Photography #flowers

Collage of nine dahlias in vivid colours: wine-red and white bicolour, star-shaped crimson with gold centre, spiky deep wine-red, bright crimson with bee, crimson and gold pied, golden apricot ball, rich magenta, soft yellow with crimson centre, and crimson-white pied bloom.

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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · 3h

What an original colour, these pansies: I don't often see them like that

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Alison Moore @a1isonmoore.bsky.social · 5h

The week when the missing bulbs turned up #sixonsaturday #mylittlegarden
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My Little Garden 11th Oct 2025

My Little Garden 11th Oct 2025 I may have mentioned my annoyance with Yodel last week after they seemingly lost my tulip bulbs. They still hadn’t found them at the start of last week and after …

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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · 5h

#sixonsaturday 11-10-25 : hydrangea paniculata, eucalyptus, storm damage, alstroemeria, lemons, and autumn picking 🌱

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Graeme Edwards @graemeedwards1.bsky.social · 6h

In today's #SixOnSaturday ... 'Bowles’s Pink,' a Strawflower, Linaria 'Canon Went,' a little Aster, another Strawflower & 'Whirlwind' onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/s... 🌱

A collage of six photographs of flower, comprising: a large deep pink 5-petalled Anemone flower with a yellow centre & dark stem; yellow & red multi-layered petals of a Strawflower; a cluster of pale pink 2-lipped petalled flowers; a mass of daisy-like mauve Aster flowers with yellow centres; white & pale pink multi-layered petals of a Strawflower with a yellow centre; large white multi-petalled petals of an Anemone flower with a green centre surrounded by a yellow halo of stamens.

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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · 23h

Mid-October and there are still beautiful #dahlia flowers in my garden. 🪴🌱

#FlowersOnFriday

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 1d

“Autumn carries more gold in its pocket than all the other seasons.” - Jim Bishop, American journalist and author (1907-1987). #photography #autumn #nature

Collage of autumn scenes featuring golden and red foliage. Images include yellow and russet maple leaves, crimson-tinged bramble leaves, golden ferns, and red viburnum berries. At the centre, a delicate spider’s web glistens, capturing the golden hues of the season.

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 1d

The petals on this Japanese Anemone are almost translucent #FlowersOnFriday

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 1d

Astrantia, still sparkling 🌱

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling #FloralFriday #EastCoastKin #GardenersWorld #UKGardening #FlowerFeed

Inverse pink chandeliers of astrantia Major flowers

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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 1d

#FlowersOnFriday We are expecting a nor’easter this weekend to the point of the Mullet🐟Festival being cancelled last minute🤯the wind💨will break my 12 ft Tithonias so the butterflies are saying goodbye 😢👋🧡

#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #noreaster #Plants #Butterflies

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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 2d

Autumn embers Azalea never disappoints 😍

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #Autumn #FlowerReport

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 2d

Žemyna, the Lithuanian goddess of the Earth, embodies all living things that grow from her soil. Oaks, lindens, and spruces are sacred to her, and in their highest branches, it is said, the secret of life itself is hidden. #FolkloreThursday #trees #nature

Collage showing three sacred trees linked to the Lithuanian earth goddess Žemyna: the oak, linden, and spruce. Images include mature trees, acorns, linden blossoms, and spruce saplings, symbolising strength, renewal, and the life hidden in their highest branches.

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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · 2d

A month earlier than last year, I'm already harvesting the first red stigmas of my #saffron crocuses from bulbs my boys gave me. ( crocus sativus)
An original idea that continues year after year, it's fantastic! 😀🌱

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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 3d

October roses in warm hues for #RoseWednesday

A collage of nine close-up photographs of roses in soft pastel shades of cream, peach, pink, and white. Each bloom varies in form, from single and semi-double flowers to full, ruffled blossoms, all set against green foliage.

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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 3d

#RoseWednesday is the last pink and red bicolor rose for the year🌹

#Flowers #Gardening #Roses #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Autumn

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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · 3d

Oh yes ! 😫

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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 4d

🌱morning glories! 💙💜💚🌞 #bloomscrolling #TuesdayBlue

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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 4d

The wild sunflowers are blooming now! I have a couple of different varieties on our land. They also fill the roadsides with Autumn beauty 😃💛🌻

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #WildFlowers #GotToBeNC #FlowerReport #GulfOfMexico

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 4d

The striking purple berries of a Callicarpa americana (American beautyberry) #MagentaMonday

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #Autumn

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 4d

Hesperantha coccinea 🌱📷

#bloomscrolling #EastCoastKin #ColourADay #PinkMon

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Devon Subtropical Garden @devonsubtropical.bsky.social · 5d

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Lots of great colour from the #passiflora in the greenhouse.
P. ‘Scarlet Flame’,
P. ‘Pretty Tina’
P. ‘Pura Vida’
P. ‘Buzios’ (a form or hybrid of P. princeps - used to be called P. racemosa)
All lovely but none are scented.

P. ‘Scarlet Flame’ a beautiful hybrid of P. vitifolia with brighter and bigger flowers which is also more tolerant of lower winter temperatures (testing this year but hopefully as low as +7C)

P. ‘Pretty Tina’ is a cross of P. tarapotina and P. caerulea by Martin Drews and is glorious

P. ‘Pura Vida’ a hybrid by S. Kamstra, a breeder from the Netherlands in the 1990s. Utterly gorgeous!

The second form of P. ‘Buzios’ that we have with slightly darker and smaller flowers. A truly top plant!

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Devon Subtropical Garden @devonsubtropical.bsky.social · 5d

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Some great scented passionflowers n the greenhouse today.
Here is one of our latest seedlings, an open pollinated seedling from P. ‘Fata Confetto’ so far free flowering,robust and well scented. We will see how it overwinters
&the glorious P. ‘Byte’ one of the best scented #passiflora you can grow

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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · 5d

Sichuan #pepper sharp thorns (and red berries ready to pick up !)
(Remember that the dry pepper is only the outer shell of each berry, not the black seed inside, which is inedible.)
#sichuanpepper 🌱

(zanthoxylum piperitum )

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 5d

Cyclamen nestled among ferns, for #MagentaMonday 🌱📷

#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #GardensHour

Magenta cyclamen flowers amidst various green foliage

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