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Always dreamt of a walled #KitchenGarden🍒🌻 2013 bought a blank canvas in #NorthWales Built the walls & planted 🪴🍎🌸🍐🌼🍒🥕🍅 Love gardening, the under gardener, cats, food & wine 🥂 All on the #blog www.walnutkitchengarden.co.uk

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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · Jun 11

This beautiful rose was sent to mum last year for her 95th birthday, sadly it was her last, but she’d had a good long life & we were lucky to have her for so long.
I don’t know its name but obviously it’s now called ‘mums rose’ & will be a lovely reminder 🧡🌿
#rosewednesday #mum #roses

A beautiful apricot coloured rose with a small pink blush around the outside.
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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 12h

This was taken last year when a fennel plant went mad…🌼🌼🌼
The pollinators loved it & the keen eyed will spot one in flight, top right corner 🐝🐝🐝 #InsectThursday #ThrowbackThursday

Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 23h

Last week’s garden diary. At least I remembered about the extra hour in bed this year!
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Garden Diary – A rejigged hosta bed & an extra hour in mine!

I’m so pleased with the hosta bed after having to dig most of it out in the spring - well at least the gardeners mate had to dig it for me.

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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 1d

I love it when I learn something new & today’s factoid (as Steve Wright would say) is…
Penstemon are known as Beardtongues 🌿🩷🌿
Many of you probably already know that, but it’s new to me 🙂
#Factoid #PlantFactoid #plantnames

Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 1d

Morning sunshine peeping through my Acer leaf. 🍁☀️💙
It’s funny to think that trapped sugars produce these bright leaf colours in autumn 🍂 #autumn #trees #autumnfall

Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 1d

A beautiful sunny day yesterday with intense blue skies, & it looks like today is going to be the same. All the better to enjoy the autumn trees 🍁💙☀️🍁 #Autumn #autumnfall #trees

Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 2d

If you grow your own Basil, you’ll know it goes mad. But when you can just pop it into the liquidiser with Parmesan, Pine nuts, Olive oil, Garlic & Lemon, to make pesto. You have to ask yourself, can you have too much Basil? 🤔🌿🧀🍋🌿

#pesto #recipes #basil #Homegrown #homemade #scratchcooking #food

How to make Pesto.
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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 2d

Campanula having another flush in the wilder area 🌿💜🌿
#tuesdayblue #campanula #blueflowers #purpleflowers #bloomscrolling #mygarden

The purple bell flowers of Campanula.
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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 3d

I’ve been growing Erysimum ‘bowles mauve’ for years 💜
Classed as a perennial, it’s more like a tiny shrub. Evergreen & flowers all year round.
Gets too spindly after a few years, but so easy to take cuttings 🌿💜🌿💜🌿💜
#MagentaMonday #purpleflowers #bloomscrolling #flowers

Erysimum ‘bowles mauve’.
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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 4d

Lovely. I can’t make my favourite apple crumble at the moment as we’re in the middle of renovations & I have no oven, just an air-fryer. Enjoy yours.

Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 4d

I hope everyone in the UK enjoyed a lie in this morning. 😴
It’s been one of my best cucumber seasons to date & still going. With more little fruits coming behind their attractive yellow flowers 🌿🌼🥒 #sundayyellow #yellowsunday #cucumbers #yellowflowers #bloomscrolling

Cucumbers growing.
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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 5d

Thank-you 🌿🤍🌿

Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 5d

The carnations are still perfuming the patio, against Calamagrostis × acutiflora 'Karl Foerster' now with its golden hue.
It lasts all winter long before I take the hedge trimmer to it in spring 🌿🌾🌸🌾🌿 #gardening #pinkflowers

Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 6d

I bought this begonia tuber early in the year, & I thought it was never going to grow. But boy was it worth waiting for! 🌿🤍
Yes, that is how blue our sky has been today 🌿💙🤍💙🌿
And btw I built that wall 🙂
Happy #FlowersOnFriday

White begonia flowers.
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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 6d

Looking back to the heat of June & a hover-fly enjoying Cupid's dart 🌿💜🐝🌿
#ThrowbackThursday #insectthursday

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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 6d

Last week’s Garden Diary - Thank goodness for the apple turnover to cheer me up!
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Garden Diary – Grey days cheered up with Apple turnover

What a lot of grey days we had last week. It makes it so much harder to get up in the morning, but luckily the thought of breakfast usually does the trick for me.

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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 8d

My neighbours dazzling tree leaves 🍁🍁🍁🍁 and…
Blue sky 💙💙💙💙 although, Bram is apparently turning up tomorrow to spoil the party! 💨😕
#Autumn #autumntrees #trees

Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 9d

You don’t get bluer than this blue salvia, still flowering it’s little head off for #TuesdayBlue 💙💙💙
And we have some blue sky too 😁💙😁💙

Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 10d

Earlier in the year we had to re-plant the hosta bed as it was overtaken with Lily-of-the-valley, I didn’t realise it was so invasive!!
Anyway I moved Geranium ‘Patricia’ in. She wasn’t happy in the border, but she’s loving her new home 💕💕💕💕💕🌿
#MagentaMonday #bloomscrolling #pinkflowers

Pink flowers of Geranium ‘Patricia’.
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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 11d

What’s yellow in the garden this week 💛
Helianthus (from a friend) 🥰, Rocket flowers (the bees love) 🐝, Chilli ‘yellow blaze’ 🌶️🔥& Chrysanthemum (from a proper old gardener) 👨‍🌾🌼 #SundayYellow #YellowSunday #yellowflowers #bloomscrolling #chilli

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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 12d

Funnily enough Andrea, the thought had crossed my mind. Probably even seeds! All too depressing!
But knowledge is power so we can change our habits going forward.

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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 12d

Exactly how I felt ☹️😡

Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 12d

The Fatsia japonica is starting to flower, at a time in the garden when most other plants are starting to fade 🌿🤍🌿
#shrubs #gardening #foliage

Fatsia japonica.
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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 13d

#FoliageFriday
Looking a little brighter today after such greyness 🩶🩶🩶
Actual gardening going to get done this morning 🤗👩‍🌾🌿
#gardening #foliageplants #ferns

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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 13d

Dahlia ‘Honka pink’ bringing some brightness to what has been a really grey (but dry) week 🩶💕💛💕
#flowersonfriday #pinkfriday #pinkflowers #bloomscrolling

Dahlia ‘Honka pink’.
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Polly @potteringpolly.bsky.social · 14d

I wish I’d known before planting this year. Thank you so much for letting me know.