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Jane Powers

@powersflowers.bsky.social

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Nature writer; award-winning garden writer; book author; evening knitter and crocheter; tomato 🍅 fancier; grudging patron of feral pigeons. Living in Ireland 🇮🇪 https://linktr.ee/janepowers

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Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 8d

Production designers: “But we used chronologically correct references!”

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Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 8d

I lasted ten minutes. The green Fenians milling around as if they were Punch caricatures did it for me.

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Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 13d

A superb nature book by Chloe Dalton. The writing is so simple and *restrained*, leaving space for the reader’s own feelings and imagination. You become as intimate as any human can with the curious workings of a hare’s fragile but joyous life.

How anyone can support hare-coursing beats me.

Book cover: Raising Hare by Chloe Dalton. Sunday Times bestseller. Winner Wainwright prize 2025.

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 15d

You’d better tell us…

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 16d

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Aaron Rupar @atrupar.com · 16d

Trump: "Asceda -- well, let's see how we say that. Ascenem -- enophin. Acetaminophen. Is that okay?"

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 16d

Quite a gorgeous day for the autumn equinox in #Dunlaoghaire Harbour.

Beautiful day’s sea and sky. Sea is blue-green and lightly rippled, sky is clear except for a series of benign puffy clouds above the horizon. Two arms of the harbour can be seen in the distance, with lighthouses on each side.

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Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 16d

ViTamiN B cuRes iT. BiGLy 🤭

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Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 17d

Yes! Essential equipment now. You can’t duplicate that rice texture and flavour with simple pots and pans.

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 18d

Oh, the kernels are very pretty! It’s good we had a warm summer — so the Mexican corn felt at home.

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 18d

Ok! This is all good info.

We have yoghurt and berries at the ready.

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 18d

Nooooo. I have nightmares about carob being used as chocolate substitute when I was living in Minnesota as a wannabe hippie teenager.

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Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 18d

Do you know what variety the sweetcorn is? It looks delicious. There’s nothing to compare with it!

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you! I’ve made them already — recipe looked similar to yours, but smaller quantities in case we hate them 😆

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Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 18d

Oh lord! Yes. That sounds familiar. Probably had them with carob milk 😕

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Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 18d

Oh wow! That sounds amazing. Thank you.

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you, Mr Sock! I think of you often when we use rice cooker I got on your recommendation 😊

Actually, we fried original one recently. We changed hob from gas to induction and forgot that rice cooker was also induction. Oops. Magnets not happy. Bought a new one immediately. Expensive mistake.

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 18d

Thank you! Well explained.

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 18d

Overnight oats! I’m bombarded by ads for them on social media. Now I’m going to have to try them. What’s the best recipe?

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · 26d

Excellent skies up there today and that's only right, seeing as it is #cloudappreciationday #lookup

Rows of Victorian chimneys march underneath a busy sky with lots of different kinds of clouds.

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · Aug 24

Oh wow! I didn’t know you were working there. Are the Annesleys still there in the smaller house?

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · Aug 24

My brain is tuned mostly to nature writing these days, but I still love writing garden visits (especially when the gardener is mad for nature). Here's my latest effort in Country Life www.countrylife.co.uk/gardens/coun...

Ballynure House: The magical estate that transformed its bramble-covered historic garden into a pollinator paradise

Where brambles once engulfed the historic gardens at Ballynure House in Co Wicklow, Ireland — home of Clare Reid Scott — colourful flower borders now hum with pollinators. Photographs by Jonathan Hess...

www.countrylife.co.uk

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Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · Jul 25

Flower crab spider (Misumena vatia) tucking into a hoverfly for dinner. Isn't she just gorgeous? 😍

#urbannature
#irishnature #speirgorm #spéirgorm

Bright yellow spider sitting in centre of purple hardy geranium flower, with small hoverfly in its jaws.

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · Jul 21

Saw you on the news too!! You don’t look a bit like your profile pic.

Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · Jun 30

Seven-spot ladybirds making more ladybirds 😍🐞 Lots of aphids to sustain them on this teasel 😊

#urbannature
#irishnature #speirgorm #spéirgorm

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Jane Powers @powersflowers.bsky.social · Jun 24

Eristalis pertinax hoverfly doing her grooming routine: getting all the pollen and other garden detritus off her elegant wings and legs. Isn’t she a beauty? The looped vein in her wing denotes that she was once a rat-tailed maggot, bless her.

#urbannature
#irishnature #speirgorm #spéirgorm