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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 1d

The first year of a gardening job is a voyage of discovery, seeing the garden change throughout the year. Previous gardeners at Beechgrove have made some lovely choices and planting combinations! #autumn #Scotland #horticulture 🌱🍁🔥📸

Autumnal scene, looking through an archway formed by the red leaves of Acer palmatum ‘Osakazuki’ and Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida’. There are other lovely colours of shrubs on either side of the gravel path. There is a lawn in the distance with dappled sunlight.

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Karin B @tinykarin.bsky.social · 2d

The last rose
#flowers #garden

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 2d

This is just perfect

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wynterrayven.bsky.social @wynterrayven.bsky.social · 2d

Such a beautiful day for a hike
🥾🌲🧡💛
#Fall
#Nature
#Photography

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 2d

The sweetest fly agaric 🍄 #autumn #Scotland

Looking at a lawn from ground level - trees in the distance and a small red topped fly agaric in the foreground

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 2d

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

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #Autumn

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Robin and Arlene Karpan @r-and-a-karpan.bsky.social · 4d

When photographing fall colours don't forget to look down as well as up. The forest floor can be just as colourful. This view is from the Height of Land viewing tower in #PrinceAlbertNationalPark #Saskatchewan #PrinceAlbertNP #ParksCanada #TMACtravel #satw #landscapephotography

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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · 3d

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Catherine Hartmann 🇪🇺 🇨🇵 🇧🇪 🇮🇪 @cathhart.bsky.social · 3d

It was a very miserable day, but it made my picture a bit more dramatic!
Lofoten, Norway

#Stunday #EastCoastKin
#photography 📷
#Lofoten

The image features a striking, yellow wooden house set against a dramatic mountainous backdrop under a cloudy sky. The house has white trim around the windows and roofline, providing a stark contrast to the golden yellow of the wood. It sits near a body of water, with a small dock and railing extending from its side. The mountains in the background are imposing and rugged, with their peaks disappearing into the ominous clouds. The overall mood of the photograph is somewhat somber, with the dark clouds and craggy landscape contrasting with the bright color of the house.

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Meikie @meikiecakie.bsky.social · 3d

Good morning. A little #SundayYellow from earlier in the year.
I’m struggling to be positive at the moment. I know I’m not the only one. So maybe a bit of bright yellow helps.
#bloomscrolling
#flowers
#iris

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 4d

#Relax #BlueSkyArtShow 📸🌳🌸
The Old Wood of Drum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

A soothing photo of an ancient woodland in summer. Everywhere is green - trees, feens and grass. In the centre is a group of foxgloves growing out of a stump.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 4d

In today’s #SixOnSaturday autumn is in question with these pink beauties! #Beechgrove #Scotland Info in alt text 🌱🌸📸💕

Clockwise from top left: fluffy pink blossom-like flowers of Calluna vulgaris H E Beale, two-tone pink flowers of perennial Sweet pea, ‘red’ campion Silene dioica, the two-tone pink and green leaves of Vaccinium corymbosum ‘Pink Flamingo’, Nerine and deep pink Cosmos.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

A recent photo of a starling murmuration as if smoke from a chimney has been called a "fluke" by its Yorkshire based, UK photographer, Anna Tosney #WomensArt

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 4d

Autumn painting by US modern impressionist Erin Hanson #WomensArt

Painting with a view of trees with orange leaves and twisted branches in a landscape

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Peggy Brava @peggybrava.bsky.social · 5d

Siberian crab-apple. GORGEOUS! ❤️

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Coral King @rocketcoral.bsky.social · 5d

A marmalade #hoverfly having a whale of a time amongst the ragwort 😍

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Rike ✨ @rikebnw.bsky.social · 6d

Memories, just fading realities 🖤 #shotoniphone #mobilephotography #natureinspired

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 6d

Euonymus colour changes to brighten a dreich day. Info in alt text. 🍁🌱📸 #Beechgrove #Aberdeenshire

4 photos of the leaves of Euonymus alatus taken on the same day. The leaves range from green with a tinge of pink; pink with a hint of green, full on cerise pink with faint white leaf veins visible and knock-your-socks-off magenta red.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 7d

When you’re a head gardener and you forget all about the plants, because you are focusing on the REALLY sexy stuff like gutters and slabs 🌱 🔧

Collage of drab photos showing bits of gutter, leaking ceilings, roofing felt, slabs and gravel

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Mr Natural @neilmatheson66.bsky.social · 8d

Debbie Criswell - Autumn Glory.
Acrylic on canvas.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 8d

I’m certain these roots are a portal to the underworld #ThickTrunkTuesday #Crathes #Aberdeenshire 📸🌳

Looking up into a majestic Fagus sylvatica. The roots are spilling over rocks - in the centre is a dark hole big enough to crawl into - or out of!

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Edward Elderman @elderman.bsky.social · 12d

This only happens to you once

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Oxford Biology @biology.ox.ac.uk · Jul 21

"As roses fill gardens and hedgerows this season, there is a story, millions of years in the making, unfolding beneath their petals."

Whether you're a gardener or just a lover of roses, here's their hidden history, from @alexmcbowles.bsky.social 👇
theconversation.com/the-hidden-h...

The hidden history behind every rose blooming this summer

Roses don’t look beautiful by accident - humans and nature have shaped them.

theconversation.com

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 18d

Holding on to the memory of summer as the rain comes down in torrents, #SixOnSaturday highlighting what's still flowering in and around my garden this week (see alt-text for details). Have a good weekend everyone 🌱📷

#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #FlowerReport #UKGardening

Verbena bonariensis, snapdragon, Japanese anemone, geum, hypericum, hardy fuschia

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Louise Tulloch @lougulltull.bsky.social · 11d

First Saturday at home for a couple of weeks.
Profusion of pink clinging on to summer colour. Last of the many apples. Roses, hesperantha, cosmos, hibiscus. 🌱🌹🍎🌸
#SixOnSaturday

Collage of garden photos. Five pink varieties of flowers and an apple handing from a branch.

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