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GreenBeanJackie

@greenbeanjackie.bsky.social

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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

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 2h

Been tidying up the long grass round the pond. We have a frog house, looking a little battered now but I lifted it up and a huge fat frog jumped out splashed into the pond 🐸 nice to know it's being used. #SmallBeauties

Rather battered pottery frog house, surrounded by long grass and mint

GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 1d

Summer and autumn soup (well all autumn actually). Wonky tomatoes and 1 giant Howgate Wonder apple with a hint of chilli. #growYourOwnFood

GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 1d

Summer hanging on and autumn coming in for a sunny #SixOnSaturday rose Gertrude Jekyll, oak leaves, wallflower, rowan leaves, cherry tree leaves, teasel seed heads

Collage of a pink rose, oak leaves trending yellow, a tiny yellow wallflower, autumn coloured rowan leaves, orange cherry tree leaves, teasel seed heads.

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 2d

I don't know why people spend money on cat toys. Bella is quite happy with a couple of cardboard boxes and a piece of string #Skycats #catsOfBluesky #catsInBoxes

Collage ofblack cat playing with a piece of string, jumping in and out of a couple of cardboard boxes

GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 3d

And then it will say 'no internet access', which is why I want to save it to the device and NOT to one drive. I tried to explain this to a tech person and they did not believe that the internet would ever go off. Never been in my house obviously

GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 4d

Been for an evening walk and spotted a curlew, oystercatchers, Swans, mallards and some very chirpy adolescent moorhens, complete with great big green feet. All very classic #RubbishBirdPics I'm afraid but delightful nevertheless #SmallBeauties

Very blurry pic of a curlew on a green playing field

4 oyster catchers on a green playing field

Brownish grey young moorhenwith big green feet

Adult and juvenile swan on a pond, reflected in the water.

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 6d

Some of these guys ate one of my books. It had been 'delivered' by some idiot during lockdown, hidden behind some pots in my front garden. I found it months later, well chewed by the slimies and their friends 🐌🐌. Don't let them near the library!

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 6d

#Allotment haul after the storm. Windfall apples from neighboring tree- fell into my greenhouse, damaging the plastic panes so reckon they're fair game - very fat green Italian tomatoes, a few red ones and some teeny tiny courgettes

White cotton bag full of large apples, green and red tomatoes and some tiny courgettes.

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 7d

Autumnal colours in the sky. Hate the arrival of the dark nights but this helps a bit #SmallBeauties

GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 8d

thanks!

GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 8d

Autumn colours for #SixOnSaturday a bit windblown but bringing joy: rowan berries, rose hips,tiny scented viburnum flowers, pyracantha berries, cotoneaster berries, forsythia leaves

Collage if red rowan berries, fat red rose hips, pink viburnum flowers, orange pyracantha berries, red cotoneaster berries, fiery orange forsythia leaves.

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe it's a UK thing. Here's one complete with a butterfly

Orange and black striped Red admiral butterfly on pale purple Michaelmas daisies

GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 11d

Flowers for my mum's birthday 1st October. Will take them to her later today. Cosmos, asters, Michaelmas daisies and mint

Glass vase with pink, white and purple flowers

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 13d

Bleugh 😒

GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 13d

I was attacked by this massive pyracantha overflowing onto the pavement this morning. It's a little anti-social but wow! #SmallBeauties

Massive pyracantha bush, dripping with orange berries, blue sky behind

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 13d

It's a bit messier than I would like, but, yes 🙂

GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 14d

Spot the cat in the jungle that is my garden #catsOfBluesky #SmallBeauties

Very jungly garden, with white cosmos, a runner bean wigwam, teasel heads, tomato plants dripping with green tomatoes, long grass. In amongst this chaos there is a black cat staring into the camera.

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 14d

They're amazing. I hope they bring back good memories for you

GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 15d

Autumn fruitfulness for #SixOnSaturday apples: red Falstaff, Howgate Wonder, Christmas Pippin, sunset. Tomatoes: tigerella and the massive weirdly shaped costoluto fiorentina.

Collage of 3 tyoes of bright red apples, large orange striped apples, red striped tomatoes, large crinkly tomatoes, still green but with a tinge of yellow

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 15d

Roses ( Gertrude Jekyll, Boule de Neige and Silver Wedding)and a raspberry rippled dianthus in my garden for #FlowersOnFriday

Collage of 4 flowers: a raspberry tinged white dianthus, pink rose, white rose with a peachy tint, pure white rose

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 17d

Robin at my allotment at the weekend, sitting on a hand fork in a newly dug bed

Robin sitting on a hand fork in newly dug soil

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 18d

Several.conkers in my coat pockets

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Robert Saunders @robertsaunders.bsky.social · 19d

Why are the American president's claims about autism the first item on British news bulletins?

He's not our president, the advice doesn't apply here and he's not presented any evidence to support his assertions.

So why spread these claims? What make this the biggest story in the UK?

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 19d

So long as the fruits are ok. The thing is that its been warm and sunny during the day so they are ripening nicely. Will probably bring them all in at the weekend

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 19d

#GardensHour Very cold here last night. Temp dropped to 2.7 degrees c. ❄ my tomatoes are still outside so praying they'll survive 🍅🍅🍅

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