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Jean E Teall

@finchduck.bsky.social

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Gardener, watcher of wildlife, reader, cake baker, European 🇪🇺, 🇺🇦, she/her, LGBTQ Ally 🏳️‍🌈, cat servant🐈, retired Uni Admin. Wrestling S.A.D. South Berkshire, UK

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Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · May 14

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 5h

Volunteer gardening today at Thrive. A mix of here and there in this collage. #sixonsaturday #Gardening 🌱

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 1d

A Lunar Underwing refreshing itself in the glow of a dahlia after a night in the moth trap. #Teammoth #Mothsmatter #Gardening🌱

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 1d

Chocks away! #Teammoth

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 1d

Merveille du Jour, revving up for take off. #Teammoth #Mothsmatter #Gardening🌱

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Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 2d

South Berkshire, UK. About 40 miles west of London. Ivy is happy but not invasive, but some people hate it. They don't know what they are missing!

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 2d

The Merveille du Jours turned up. Thought I was going to miss out. They, and most of the moths in the garden last night, were ivy flower nectar feeders. Gardeners, leave ivy alone! #Teammoth #Mothsmatter #Gardening

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Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 4d

A Cinnamon bug spotted on a buddleia in my garden. #Bugs #Gardening

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 4d

Just one moth from last night's trap. A Red-line Quaker. A new one to me. A moth and a bunch of staggering honey bees who looked like they had been partying! #Teammoth #Mothsmatter

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 7d

My one Autumn crocus has survived the upheaval of the re-landscaping. It's huge and was a souvenir of a trip to Leiden Botanic Garden. #Gardening🌱

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 7d

Bishop's Child - grown from seed. Late colour is zingy. Wonder if it is forming a tuber. #Dahlia #Gardening🌱

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 7d

Going to have to get the leaves out of our new water features. #Autumn #Gardening🌱

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 7d

Definitely Autumn now. Massive numbers of acorns. In today's wind it's quite dangerous under the oaks. It can be painful when a whole fusillade of acorns drop on you from a height! Holly berries; Christmas is coming - groan. #Sixonsaturday #Gardening 🌱

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Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 7d

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 8d

Seed heads. #Gardening 🌱

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 8d

White Dead-nettle is a brilliant wildflower for shade and a magnet for insects. Cow Parsley seems happy in quite deep shade in my woodland garden. Plantains, and sorrel too.

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Jay 🦋 @jay.bsky.team · 9d

“It actually doesn’t take much to be considered a difficult woman. That’s why there are so many of us.”
― Jane Goodall

💙 RIP to a real one. My childhood hero

Jane Goodall with monarch butterfly scarf

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Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 9d

Katsura tree, whose autumn leaves emit an aroma of toffee apples - yummy! Cercidiphyllum japonicum. #Trees #Gardening 🌱

Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 9d

The colourful exterior of the Towner Gallery in Eastbourne. They have rehung their Eric Ravilious works. Beautiful in themselves and redolent of a period of time. #Art