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Mary Ann Dimand
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Pissed-off nature poet, modern metaphysical. Any pronouns.
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Pink-flowered rhododendrons. I have to confess that English gardeners as a class seem to love rhododendrons more than I do.
December 7, 2025 at 6:27 AM
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Young oak leaves and oak flowers in May
December 7, 2025 at 6:24 AM
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A hummock in the stream at Valley Gardens, with Indian-rhubarb in flower
December 6, 2025 at 4:49 PM
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White-flowered and light blue-flowered Spanish bluebell amid various green perennial leaves.
December 6, 2025 at 4:47 PM
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This is a shelf in the new-book store Waterstones. It is also a monument to British railway culture, showcasing Simon Bradley’s Bradley’s Railway Guide and containing a Lonely Planet focused on trains, and two reproduction 19th century Bradshaw’s.
December 6, 2025 at 7:59 AM
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Horse chestnut blossoms
December 6, 2025 at 7:55 AM
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Harrogate is alive with laburnum in spring. I love looking at it, though it’s too poisonous for me ever to grow it myself.
December 5, 2025 at 5:32 PM
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Lily magnolia, Harrogate, May
December 5, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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My favorite private Harrogate garden in May. Tall red tulips, Japanese , pinks, sea thrift, anemones, eryngium, grape hyacinth, and more.
December 5, 2025 at 10:51 AM
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Copper-leaved Japanese maple and pink-flowered Japanese anemones
December 5, 2025 at 10:47 AM
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Yellow corydalis and light blue Spanish bluebells against a tree, with some bedstraw (or cleavers) leaves in the foreground
December 4, 2025 at 5:41 PM
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Sempervivums in flower in a clay trough just outside a Harrogate row house
December 4, 2025 at 5:37 PM
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Wisteria framing Harrogate windows
December 4, 2025 at 8:20 AM
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Candytuft, campanula, cranesbill in bloom, and Kenilworth ivy leaves growing out of and spilling over a stone brick wall
December 4, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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Green alkanet growing and flowering in pavement cracks
December 3, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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A sharply dressed woman in black and white stripes enjoys breakfast at Manna
December 3, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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Men standing at easels painting on a sunny May Day, on Victoria Avenue in Harrogate
December 3, 2025 at 6:36 AM
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A look at Tap and Spile in Harrogate, which looks rather like the Prancing Pony at Bree.
December 3, 2025 at 6:34 AM
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A street corner flower bed in Harrogate wilding out a bit. Includes a rose bush, Spanish bluebells, yarrow and crocosmia leaves, dumb nettles and dandelions.
December 3, 2025 at 6:33 AM
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A large window advertisement shows a young woman cuddling what seems to be a giant scent bottle, surrounded by more giant pears, while sitting on a white wire frame atop a car whose windows are covered by white blossoms. The caption urges the viewer to “Celebrate with English pears.”
December 2, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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Part of the front face of Betty’s, Harrogate’s famous tea place. Gold touches on black wood trim and faccia, and a giant gold samovar in the window.
December 2, 2025 at 4:24 PM
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The green Yorkshire Dales ice cream stall on the Stray
December 2, 2025 at 6:06 AM
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A May Day on the Stray. The sun, the lawn, and the avenue of trees reminds me of the last chapter of Christopher Robin and Pooh.
December 2, 2025 at 6:05 AM
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Quince blossoms and leaves
December 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Colorado mallards
December 1, 2025 at 9:38 PM