Polly
@potteringpolly.bsky.social
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
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
I don’t know its name but obviously it’s now called ‘mums rose’ & will be a lovely reminder 🧡🌿
#rosewednesday #mum #roses
Just think of all the goodness in this one plant of Candy-floss Kale 🥬💕Plus it’s travel miles are measured in steps 🚶♀️
Sown last year, eaten, cut down & here it is again, magic ✨
#HomegrownSunday What do you grow?
#growyourown #kitchengarden #food #veg
Sown last year, eaten, cut down & here it is again, magic ✨
#HomegrownSunday What do you grow?
#growyourown #kitchengarden #food #veg
November 9, 2025 at 9:32 AM
Just think of all the goodness in this one plant of Candy-floss Kale 🥬💕Plus it’s travel miles are measured in steps 🚶♀️
Sown last year, eaten, cut down & here it is again, magic ✨
#HomegrownSunday What do you grow?
#growyourown #kitchengarden #food #veg
Sown last year, eaten, cut down & here it is again, magic ✨
#HomegrownSunday What do you grow?
#growyourown #kitchengarden #food #veg
I have a whole hedge of Choisya ternata, common name Mexican orange, variety ‘Sundance’.
Well it was dancing in yesterday’s sunshine 🌞 against the blue sky 💙 #sundayyellow #mygarden #Yellowsunday
Well it was dancing in yesterday’s sunshine 🌞 against the blue sky 💙 #sundayyellow #mygarden #Yellowsunday
November 9, 2025 at 9:21 AM
I have a whole hedge of Choisya ternata, common name Mexican orange, variety ‘Sundance’.
Well it was dancing in yesterday’s sunshine 🌞 against the blue sky 💙 #sundayyellow #mygarden #Yellowsunday
Well it was dancing in yesterday’s sunshine 🌞 against the blue sky 💙 #sundayyellow #mygarden #Yellowsunday
The flowers on my Fatsia Japonica were covered in wasps, flies & a lone Red Admiral in today’s beautiful sunshine 🌿🪰🦋🐝 What a wonderful sight 😍 #wildlifegarden #butterfly #SaturdayVibes
November 8, 2025 at 6:01 PM
The flowers on my Fatsia Japonica were covered in wasps, flies & a lone Red Admiral in today’s beautiful sunshine 🌿🪰🦋🐝 What a wonderful sight 😍 #wildlifegarden #butterfly #SaturdayVibes
This is from early summer, but the anemones are coming up again. I’ve only grown them for a couple of years so didn’t realise they came up a second time,I’m sure they haven’t before. How wonderful 🌿🧡💕🧡🌿 #flowersonfriday
November 7, 2025 at 5:46 PM
This is from early summer, but the anemones are coming up again. I’ve only grown them for a couple of years so didn’t realise they came up a second time,I’m sure they haven’t before. How wonderful 🌿🧡💕🧡🌿 #flowersonfriday
November 6, 2025 at 1:38 PM
I love it when the leaves come off & reveal who’s been living in your garden this year 🪺🌳🍂
#trees #birdsnest #birds #Autumn
#trees #birdsnest #birds #Autumn
November 6, 2025 at 8:36 AM
I love it when the leaves come off & reveal who’s been living in your garden this year 🪺🌳🍂
#trees #birdsnest #birds #Autumn
#trees #birdsnest #birds #Autumn
Last week’s garden diary - edible plants, gifted plants & weird new plant names!
#blog #gardenblog
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#blog #gardenblog
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Garden Diary – Making Pesto & discovering Beardtongues
I love learning new little facts, especially things to do with plants and gardening. I’d only just said this to someone, when up popped a post, saying Penstemon were also called Beardtongues, love it!
walnutkitchengarden.co.uk
November 5, 2025 at 9:39 PM
Last week’s garden diary - edible plants, gifted plants & weird new plant names!
#blog #gardenblog
walnutkitchengarden.co.uk?p=5161
#blog #gardenblog
walnutkitchengarden.co.uk?p=5161
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadow
Our rather chubby cat-woman , is now a shadow of her former self, living an ‘even more’ sedate life as an elderly feline 😻#cats #cat #CatsOfBluesky
Our rather chubby cat-woman , is now a shadow of her former self, living an ‘even more’ sedate life as an elderly feline 😻#cats #cat #CatsOfBluesky
November 5, 2025 at 8:54 AM
#AlphabetChallenge #WeekSforShadow
Our rather chubby cat-woman , is now a shadow of her former self, living an ‘even more’ sedate life as an elderly feline 😻#cats #cat #CatsOfBluesky
Our rather chubby cat-woman , is now a shadow of her former self, living an ‘even more’ sedate life as an elderly feline 😻#cats #cat #CatsOfBluesky
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Good morning
Hopefully my brain will work today!
Can someone remind me i have my MOT on Thursday please
I need to try and finish off identifying and labelling the Chrysanthemums today, a few have got mixed up.
I'm pretty sure this beauty is Corngold
Have a particularly excellent day! 🤗🌱
Hopefully my brain will work today!
Can someone remind me i have my MOT on Thursday please
I need to try and finish off identifying and labelling the Chrysanthemums today, a few have got mixed up.
I'm pretty sure this beauty is Corngold
Have a particularly excellent day! 🤗🌱
November 5, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Good morning
Hopefully my brain will work today!
Can someone remind me i have my MOT on Thursday please
I need to try and finish off identifying and labelling the Chrysanthemums today, a few have got mixed up.
I'm pretty sure this beauty is Corngold
Have a particularly excellent day! 🤗🌱
Hopefully my brain will work today!
Can someone remind me i have my MOT on Thursday please
I need to try and finish off identifying and labelling the Chrysanthemums today, a few have got mixed up.
I'm pretty sure this beauty is Corngold
Have a particularly excellent day! 🤗🌱
Reposted by Polly
Possibly Princess Alexandra of Kent's last flower of 2025 #RoseWednesday 🌱
November 5, 2025 at 7:30 AM
Possibly Princess Alexandra of Kent's last flower of 2025 #RoseWednesday 🌱
I had to rescue this little cutey🦎 as she was right where I was digging plants up.
It was so lucky I spotted her as newts play dead extremely convincingly.
She did eventually swim off but bluesky can’t cope with a video clip that long 🤣💦🦎💦 #WildlifeWednesday #newts #pond #wildlife
It was so lucky I spotted her as newts play dead extremely convincingly.
She did eventually swim off but bluesky can’t cope with a video clip that long 🤣💦🦎💦 #WildlifeWednesday #newts #pond #wildlife
November 5, 2025 at 8:18 AM
I had to rescue this little cutey🦎 as she was right where I was digging plants up.
It was so lucky I spotted her as newts play dead extremely convincingly.
She did eventually swim off but bluesky can’t cope with a video clip that long 🤣💦🦎💦 #WildlifeWednesday #newts #pond #wildlife
It was so lucky I spotted her as newts play dead extremely convincingly.
She did eventually swim off but bluesky can’t cope with a video clip that long 🤣💦🦎💦 #WildlifeWednesday #newts #pond #wildlife
I picked pretty much the last of the tomatoes at the weekend. Always a sad feeling, but lots of tomato sauce in the freezer & we’ve enjoyed these for the last couple of days 😋🍅🌿
#TomatoTuesday #tomatoes #kitchengarden
#TomatoTuesday #tomatoes #kitchengarden
November 4, 2025 at 8:25 PM
I picked pretty much the last of the tomatoes at the weekend. Always a sad feeling, but lots of tomato sauce in the freezer & we’ve enjoyed these for the last couple of days 😋🍅🌿
#TomatoTuesday #tomatoes #kitchengarden
#TomatoTuesday #tomatoes #kitchengarden
I took this in the beautiful sunshine on Sunday. The last few flowers on Penstemon ‘garnet’ 🌿🩷🌿🩷🌿
I meant to post it yesterday, but as it’s still Monday in Baker Island (USA) I think it can still be #MagentaMonday 😁
I meant to post it yesterday, but as it’s still Monday in Baker Island (USA) I think it can still be #MagentaMonday 😁
November 4, 2025 at 8:42 AM
I took this in the beautiful sunshine on Sunday. The last few flowers on Penstemon ‘garnet’ 🌿🩷🌿🩷🌿
I meant to post it yesterday, but as it’s still Monday in Baker Island (USA) I think it can still be #MagentaMonday 😁
I meant to post it yesterday, but as it’s still Monday in Baker Island (USA) I think it can still be #MagentaMonday 😁
Mini yellow chrysanthemums 🌿🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼
Given to me years ago by a proper old gardener I admired, that was lucky enough to still be gardening into his 90’s 👨🌾
#GardeningInspiration #SundayYellow #YellowSunday
Given to me years ago by a proper old gardener I admired, that was lucky enough to still be gardening into his 90’s 👨🌾
#GardeningInspiration #SundayYellow #YellowSunday
November 2, 2025 at 9:08 AM
Mini yellow chrysanthemums 🌿🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼🌿🌼
Given to me years ago by a proper old gardener I admired, that was lucky enough to still be gardening into his 90’s 👨🌾
#GardeningInspiration #SundayYellow #YellowSunday
Given to me years ago by a proper old gardener I admired, that was lucky enough to still be gardening into his 90’s 👨🌾
#GardeningInspiration #SundayYellow #YellowSunday
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
The pollinators loved it & the keen eyed will spot one in flight, top right corner 🐝🐝🐝 #InsectThursday #ThrowbackThursday
October 30, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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
The pollinators loved it & the keen eyed will spot one in flight, top right corner 🐝🐝🐝 #InsectThursday #ThrowbackThursday
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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October 29, 2025 at 9:45 PM
Last week’s garden diary. At least I remembered about the extra hour in bed this year!
walnutkitchengarden.co.uk?p=5149
walnutkitchengarden.co.uk?p=5149
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
Penstemon are known as Beardtongues 🌿🩷🌿
Many of you probably already know that, but it’s new to me 🙂
#Factoid #PlantFactoid #plantnames
October 29, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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
Penstemon are known as Beardtongues 🌿🩷🌿
Many of you probably already know that, but it’s new to me 🙂
#Factoid #PlantFactoid #plantnames
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
It’s funny to think that trapped sugars produce these bright leaf colours in autumn 🍂 #autumn #trees #autumnfall
October 29, 2025 at 8:18 AM
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
It’s funny to think that trapped sugars produce these bright leaf colours in autumn 🍂 #autumn #trees #autumnfall
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
October 29, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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
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
#pesto #recipes #basil #Homegrown #homemade #scratchcooking #food
October 28, 2025 at 8:14 AM
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
#pesto #recipes #basil #Homegrown #homemade #scratchcooking #food
Campanula having another flush in the wilder area 🌿💜🌿
#tuesdayblue #campanula #blueflowers #purpleflowers #bloomscrolling #mygarden
#tuesdayblue #campanula #blueflowers #purpleflowers #bloomscrolling #mygarden
October 28, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Campanula having another flush in the wilder area 🌿💜🌿
#tuesdayblue #campanula #blueflowers #purpleflowers #bloomscrolling #mygarden
#tuesdayblue #campanula #blueflowers #purpleflowers #bloomscrolling #mygarden
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
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
October 27, 2025 at 8:22 AM
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
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
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
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
October 26, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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
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
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
It lasts all winter long before I take the hedge trimmer to it in spring 🌿🌾🌸🌾🌿 #gardening #pinkflowers
October 25, 2025 at 7:09 PM
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
It lasts all winter long before I take the hedge trimmer to it in spring 🌿🌾🌸🌾🌿 #gardening #pinkflowers
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
Yes, that is how blue our sky has been today 🌿💙🤍💙🌿
And btw I built that wall 🙂
Happy #FlowersOnFriday
October 24, 2025 at 7:15 PM
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
Yes, that is how blue our sky has been today 🌿💙🤍💙🌿
And btw I built that wall 🙂
Happy #FlowersOnFriday