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Sarah Griffiths
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Head gardener and neglectful allotmenteer in Aberdeen, Scotland. Knits and sleeps a lot.
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I needed this today. The year so far:

snow snow snow snow snow snow cloud snow snow cloud rain wind rain cloud rain cloud rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain hail rain rain rain rain sleet rain sleet sleet

#winter #Scotland #Aberdeen
🌱 ❄️ 🌧️
Snowdrops, cyclamen and a wee bit of winter aconite in amongst some leaf litter in the garden
February 5, 2026 at 6:09 PM
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So very fed up with the endless rain, but cheered a little by these lovelies.

“This little globe of yellow’s brightest shade, as though upon a nest of scanty green a fairy bird its magic egg had laid.” Robert Henry Forster

🌱 💛
Winter aconites (Eranthis hyemelis), bursting out of the ground. Their zesty lemon yellow buds and green leaves contrast against the mottled browns of the ground beneath them.
January 27, 2026 at 7:10 PM
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On a dreich day I found some beauty. Plumed Tussock Grass, Chionochloa conspicua sparkling in the setting sun. 🌾🌱🍁🌞
#Beechgrove #Aberdeenshire #Scotland #winter #garden
Close up of a plume of ornamental grass. There are drops of rain at the end of each spikelet, the sky behind is a warm, gold.
January 13, 2026 at 8:56 PM
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Taking ‘Silver Birch’ to the next level
❄️ 🥶 🤍 🌲 📸
#winter #snow #nature
#Scotland #Aberdeen
A large Birch tree completely covered in frozen snow.
January 9, 2026 at 5:56 PM
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It just gets more beautiful ❄️🌲📸🤍
#snow #forest #trees #winter
#Aberdeen #Scotland
Snowy view of trees in the sunshine. The branches in the foreground are thickly covered with snow and the distance shows the sun casting a faint golden light on other snow-clad trees.
January 5, 2026 at 6:35 PM
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We have reached peak Narnia
❄️ 🌲 📸
#Stunday #winter
#snow #nature
#Scotland
Snowy photo of a jumble of trees. The snow is so thick the photo is mostly white with just traces of the trunk and branches visible
January 4, 2026 at 4:23 PM
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A winter’s moment ❄️🌲📸
#winter #snow #Scotland
A drop of water at the end of a branch. You can see an inverted landscape of snow and trees in the droplet
January 2, 2026 at 7:19 PM
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Natures fireworks. Happy Hogmanay and have a great 2026 BlueSkyers!
🌱❄️🥂🎇
#Hogmanay #Scotland #2026
Almost verical lines in black and white: Broom (Cytisus praecox) stems covered in frost and snow.
December 31, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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From a year when I had a bit more time to be creative - posting this intentionally to make more time next year. Have a good one everyone! #CreativeChristmas #BirdsOfBlueSky
🎨🎄❄️
Lino printed robin standing on a snowy branch- all in black and white except for its red breast
December 24, 2025 at 4:11 PM
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A year ago today I brought our garden bothy cat home for the Christmas holidays… and she’s still here. Ok, so she’s still nervous, does the occasional naughty pee and makes me sneeze, but she does look very sweet when she’s sleeping #Caturday
Close up of a black cat sleeping on the back of the sofa
December 20, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Same view on 3 consecutive days, just as the sun is setting at 3.30pm.
🌱🌳❄️📸
#BeechgroveGarden #Aberdeenshire
3 photos of the same view of a pond in winter with trees behind. The sun is setting. The one on the left has a fiery red sunset, the middles is a cool blue, with a hint of yellow - the pond is frozen, and the one on the right is a cloudy blue
December 17, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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The fire before the darkness. Sunset at 3.30pm and it’s not even midwinter yet 🌞 🔥 🌚 📸 🌲
#Scotland #Aberdeenshire #Winter
Photo of a fiery sunset over a pond. The sky is shades of orange and red. The scene is reflected in the still pond, including the leafless weeping Birch.
December 15, 2025 at 6:44 PM
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Goodnight BlueSky from GreenSky
✨ 📸 💚
#Aurora #Winter
#Aberdeen #Scotland
Looking over the sea to the aurora. The. Nothern lights are a green strip of light above the horizon, with vertical smudges running vertically up into the sky. The lights of north Aberdeen can be seen underneath
December 12, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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When winter comes and you find out you had neighbours 📸🌱🌳❄️🐦‍⬛
Black and white photo of an arch through a Hornbeam hedge. It’s winter and the branches are bare. Above the arch and to the side is a birds nest, which was hidden when the leaves were on.
December 11, 2025 at 6:21 PM
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Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning #BlueSkyArtShow #Sky
📸🌱🌳
It is a winter morning and we are looking at a shabby shed. There is melting snow all around - on the path, the roof, the hedge beside us. A large ivy-clad sycamore towers over the shed and behind it’s bare branches is a pink-purple-blue, bruise-coloured sky.
December 6, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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If you’re ever feeling down, just take a look at this cheery wee face 🌱📸🙂
A smallish rectangular stone with a smiling face carved into it, sitting on a moss-covered wall.
December 5, 2025 at 8:21 PM
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Winter and summer 🌱📸🌸🌳❄️
#gardening #winter #Scotland
#Aberdeenshire #Beechgrove
2 photos of the same view - a pathed oath runs between glasshouses and potting shed. The left inage is taken in late November, snow is melting and the view is a winter monochrome; the left photo is taken in July and the area is full of colourful pots of dahlias, cosmos, agapanthus and scabious.
November 25, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Walking through the melting snow, I saw this and felt a little warmer
📸 🎨🌳 #art #streetart
#Aberdeen #Scotland
A door in a stone wall, on a northern city street (you can’t see, but h the recent snow is melting). The door is painted - blue sky fading to white, dry, cracked yellow-ochre ground and a striking Baobab tree in the centre. There is also, what seems to be a flying whale in the sky.
November 22, 2025 at 5:03 PM
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The changing of the seasons
🌱 🌸 ❄️ 📸
#SixOnSunday #BloomScrolling
#Scotland #BeechgroveGarden
Frosted flora clockwise from top left: Cornus canadensis leaves in shades of red and green; amber rose leaf; blue Salvia curled flower spike; pale pink rose; small green Hebe leaves and seedhead of Phlomis russeliana.
November 15, 2025 at 3:08 PM
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First frost! Brr, it was nippy this morning, but this iced rose was beautiful 🌱 🥀 📸 ❄️
#BloomScrolling #Rose #Aberdeenshire #Scotland
An orange-pink rose edged with frost
November 14, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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Autumn gold 🌱🌳🍁📸 #StunDay #Autumn #Scotland Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen
Fine Acer palmatum leaves in warm shades of brown, amber, copper and gold. The leaves in the foreground are in focus, those behond are blurred with a blue-grey background
November 9, 2025 at 5:21 PM
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November fireworks #SixOnSaturday #BloomScrolling 🌱🍁📸 Names in alt text #BeechgroveGarden #Scotland
Clockwise from top left: Some late flowering chrysanthemums - they all have very thin petals, looking like a firework - pale cream Chrysanthemum ‘Capella’, the red autumn leaves of Prunus ‘Snow Showers’, pale yellow C. ‘Cheapeake Primrose’, small vivid yellow flowers of Mahonia x media ‘Charity’, orangy tones C. ‘Coral Reef’, yellow centre, red petals with yellow tips C. ‘Goshu Penta’
November 8, 2025 at 11:07 AM
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A magnificent Beech in Gight Wood - one of the last remnants of ancient woodland in Aberdeenshire, Scotland #ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳🍁📸
Looking up at a large, mature Beech tree. The trunk is wide and the branches are thick and almost horizontal. It’s autumn and the leaves are beginning to turn, the ground underneath is covered with copper coloured leaves.
November 4, 2025 at 6:29 PM
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Take a seat among the falling leaves #Autumn #BlueSkyArtShow 🌳🍁📸
Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen, Scotland
View of a garden. A wooden bench in the foreground, behind and to the side is an Acer in the sunshine. Some leaves have fallen, giving the grass a golden glow.
November 1, 2025 at 8:47 PM
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Bringing up baby 🐞 🌱 📸
#Ladybird #GardenLife #Scotland
A small cluster of ladybirds sheltering in a dry oak leaf. There are 3 red 7-spot ladybirds with a much smaller golden ladybird in the centre.
October 30, 2025 at 6:53 PM