#gardens
#Found on the street, attempting to resurrect for use at one of the #schools. They need outdoor sitting areas near their #gardens. Might paint with designs if I can get everything solid. Was told these benches are 50 years old 🤷🏼, there are 3 that I brought to repair.
#Upcycle #reuse #volunteer #artist #WoodWorking
Vegetable Garden Therapy! It’s hard to let go completely. https://www.diningandcooking.com/782796/vegetable-garden-therapy-its-hard-to-let-go-completely/
#Annuals #cottage #cutflowers #garden #gardeningathome #gardens #homegardener #nasturtiums #peppers #perennials #pinemulch #pineneedlesasmulch #plants #raisedbedgarden #raisedbedgardening #soilandmargaritas #tomatoes #VegetableGarden #VegetableGardenVideos #VegetableGardening #VegetableGardeningVideos #Vegetables
Diving into sea…ascending into sky…
Excited to delve into my latest read, titled, you guessed it…BLUE.
And from my garden, lovely in the morning sun, Evolvulus.
#BLUE #color #ColorHistory #science #flowers #gardens #FlowerPhotography #reading #KaiKupferschmidt
A day off in the garden. The attempt at a wild flower meadow weeded, the front garden tamed, the pond tidied and some new pots planted up.
All accompanied by the Great Tit chicks chirping away as their hard working parents bring them endless morsels
#gardening #gardens
Something from last week's RHS Chelsea for this week's Cheering Up Mondays flower. More on my blog: https://thechattygardener.com/cheering-up-mondays/cheering-up-mondays-373/
#CheeringUpMondays #Mondaymotivation #flowers #plants #gardens #gardening #RHSChelsea #photography
Our hotel near the Arenal volcano has the most amazing gardens, full of wildlife. I got up at 5:30 am to take photos before breakfast. Each room was an individual cabin nestled in the garden.
Here are photos of some of the plants from this garden.
Arenal volcano, Costa Rica.
After more than a month without touching my sketchbook, I feel too happy resuming what I'm passionate about!
The process on my :instagram: :
https://www.instagram.com/p/CszUA2JO3xY/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==
#SilentSunday #gardens #wildflowers #gouache #painting #illustration #mastoart #art #ayearforart #artistsonmastodon #traditionalart #nature #naturelover
#FediArt #MastodonArt #creativetoots #landscape #artreference
As the rainy season approaches Japan, the excess water is set to bring life to green spaces and gardens across the nation. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/life/2023/05/29/general/rainy-season-japanese-gardens/?utm_content=buffer4514b&utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=bffmstdn #life #life #flowers #gardens #longform #horticulture
Just some pictures of RHS Bridgewater on a very sunny day!
#gardening #gardens #RHSBridgewater
I have compiled all the resources that I use when designing #wildlife #FoodForest #gardens, and I have put them onto one page for you.
Enjoy!
https://www.natureworks.org.uk/resources/
#NativePlants #WildFlowers #ForestGarden #Gardening #GardenDesign
Mangroves, Singapore Botanic Gardens, Singapore. August 2019, Canon PowerShot.
#singapore #botanic #gardens #mangroves #park #nature #reserve #vintagestyle
Creeping Jenny certainly does!
All of this is from two 4-inch pots I put in 2 or 2.5 years ago. Soil isn't great here and I just stuck these into the ground.
It's a pond plants masterclass on P&T this week, Martin chats to Dawn Fisher of Lincs Pond Plants about all the tricks of the trade!
#pond #plants #garden #gardening #aquaticplants
Live Show 6pm June 1st: potsandtrowels.com
New gardening advice videos every Thursday!
#GrowYourOwn #gyo #blooms #sowing #GardenersOfMastodon #gardens #garten #growing #shoots #GardeningHelp #GardeningTV #GardeningHintsAndTips
TFW you get text updates from your wife about the status of the lilly in the pond! It opened today!! 🙌 🌸 Weeeee. #pandemicPond #Gardens #Pond #Flowers #LillyPads #PortAlberni
Dudleya pulverulenta? So other worldly and gorgeous.
May you always have the things that nourish you, close to hand.
I got home at 2 am, a little tired 😊.
This morning I went out to the backyard to check if my veggies had survived while I was gone, and... 😳😱
Eggplants, Armenian cucumbers, banana peppers, different kinds of tomatoes, green beans, Shishito peppers. Not shown, the herbs are also doing great.
I don't think I need to drive to Sprouts right away...
Sacro Monte di Varallo Sesia in Varallo, Italy
A 15th-century park that recreates a bit of the Holy Land in Italy.
Sacro Monte di Varallo Sesia
Looking around the Great Pavilion at RHS Chelsea is dangerous! I've added far too many things to my plant list. This iris is just one.
To read about it and the other things I found, head over to my blog: https://thechattygardener.com/shows/rhs-chelsea-2023-the-plants/
#rhschelsea #gardens #gardening #plants #flowers #blogpost #photography
A little farm and garden update for the homies:
One of my favorite things about the #farm is that every day is pretty much a different experiment.
The mason jar filled with flowers is my attempt at making lilac oil using the #enfleurage technique. After steeping for a few weeks, it should be ready to go.
The meat photo? #capicolla! It's going to be vacuum sealed for a week, and then it shall go hang in my cellar with the #bresaola I've had hanging for two weeks now.
And the garden-- I've got everything in this photo planted except those buckets along the back wall. I'm building a raised bed for watermelons back there, but right now the buckets are back there as storage because I don't know what I'm going to use them for (or plant in them) yet. They'll probably end up going between the back fence and the big bed in the middle. If you have any ideas, let me know!
The next step aside from the watermelon bed is to finish laying cardboard out to kill weeds, and then cover it with wood chips and level everything, so it doesn't look, well, like it does in the photo.
Also, if you havent figured it out yet... I'm in my cottage core era now.
#gardening #gardens #homestead #homesteading #homesteader #dailyexperiments #experiments #experimenting #foodscience #food #selfreliant #selfreliance #selfsufficient #selfsufficiency #howdoesyourgardengrow #foodforest #wisconsin #southeasternwisconsin #farmtotable #healthy #growyourownproduce #growyourownfood #knowwhatsinyourfood #supportfarmers #supportyourlocalfarmer #supportyourlocalfarmers #federated #fediverse #outdoors
Exuberant azaleas showing off at Brooklyn Botanic Garden.
I’m more of a wisteria sort person…but the azalea show was undeniably dazzling!
#gardens #flowers #azaleas #wisteria #Brooklyn #gardening #BotanicGardens #color #LandscapePhotography #FlowerPhotography #dazzling
Bristol trucker spends years crafting Japanese-inspired garden
The fog is ruining my sunrise.
#GoodMorning Usually I have breathtaking colors at twilight hours. But not today.
It's too early for running a rototiller, but I have a garden to prepare.
"The Abundance" by Pietro Tacca and Sebastiano Salvini (1636), Boboli Gardens, Florence, may 2023. #sculpture #art #florence #italy #gardens #Art #publicart #artphotography #photography #artwork
The year I grew Anemone flowers. I love them :)
https://pixels.com/featured/lovely-anemone-renata-natale.html
#nature #naturelover #Flowers #Anemone #gardens #mastoart #art #buyintoart #ayearforart #beauty #photo
El 31/5 a las 12 hs santiaguinas lanzamos JARDIN y otros títulos de la colección Perdidos en el espacio! #jardines #gardens #books #libros #literatura #arte #arquitectura
Good morning. Well it's not Chelsea, but I love the explosion of sweet rocket and iris in the border at this time of year.
When we used to visit the Chelsea show, (the ticket price now!) I always noted that I had many of the plants in the show gardens, but not the design skills.
Foot is on the mend so a lot of catching up at the allotment to do.
#gardens
#gardening.
#floralfroth
North Devon Hospice unveils serene gardens and enchanting children's trail
https://www.devonlive.com/news/devon-news/north-devon-hospice-unveils-serene-8461694
#NorthDevonHospice #Gardens #ChildrensTrail #Serenity #OpenGardens #NorthDevon #Devon #Events #Cancer
#gardens #EastDevon #phototuesday
My garden this morning at 6am. It’s a simply wonderful place.
Started to create my own #sustainable #zerowaste #garden and it's even #vegan because I do not use it as a toilet for the crap of animals from factory farming.
Currently working on the fourth bed, which is around 12m (~40ft) long and I am trying to put in stuff, which likes each other (#symbiosis) and all of it is #organic of course!
#gardening #growyourown #plants #gardens #soil #vegetables #mixedcultivation
I’ve had a busy first day of a three-day stint at RHS Chelsea. There’s lots to see. On the blog, my pick of the gardens. Read it here: https://thechattygardener.com/shows/rhs-chelsea-2023-the-gardens/
#gardens #gardening #rhschelsea #plants #flowers #photography
Oh, what a day, what a day. The children's food #gardens are growing so well, as are their pollinator gardens.
Also started a rock pathway from the students' painted stones that have been resting under a redbud tree for a year. Tired but satisfied. ☺️
Our #lilacs are just lovely in Saskatoon too. Love their scents. They are just starting to bloom. Hardy enough to withstand Saskatoon winters too.
#gardens #gardening #canada #saskatchewan
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/lilacs-sign-of-spring-british-columbia-prince-george-1.6849741
My parents have spent 40 years building up the soil in their main garden which was clay with actual bedrock up on the top left. It now has a good 3-4ft of soil thanks to annual truck loads of horse manure and various other supplements and a lot of work. #gardening #PortAlberni #soil #gardens #pacificnorthwest
A selection of some of the garden flowers I take for granted will be there and I rarely take photos of. The nepeta, tradescantia, alliums and choisya.
Happy #WorldBeeDay everyone! On May 20th, we celebrate these tiny pollinators and their utmost importance to the ecosystem in #nature. Though our imprint is very small in my part of the world, it's been an absolute joy to see not just #bees but other #pollinators hum about our #gardens. We now see luscious lawns full of dandelions and the bees are loving it! Even as a city dweller, do your part and host a few plants outside with #flowers!
It's taken a while but the back garden is finally taking shape.
#NotMyGardenReally #PollokCountryPark #photography #garden #gardens
The difference between #NightAndDay around our front yard/porch. We have lots of #SolarLights all around the #gardens & up porch stairs. Safer for walking at night.
Many folks stop their cars in front of our home to take photographs of our front gardens & also of my decorated little free library for community sharing 🥰🙌
#AsianMastodon #HomeSweetHome #Wsanec #Saanich #VictoriaBC #yyj #OurHome #YYJgardeners #Gardening #GardenDecor #vanisle #VancouverIsland #PNW #PacificNorthwest #OutdoorLighting
Today, a friend and I drove toHillsborough, NC, to a garden sculpture event.
"The sculpture gardens include acres of intimate garden settings, winding paths, and open spaces. The perfect setting for garden art and garden sculptures. Smaller sculptures and garden art are uniquely situated in intimate settings, and larger sculptures are placed in more open spaces."
#gardens #gardening #art #sculpture #nature #saturday #northcarolina
You can grow Bougainvillea in Connecticut if you are willing to lug an 80lb pot in and out of the house twice a year.
COMPLEX CORAL BELL HARMONY - The harmony of nature is challenged with this abstraction of a clump of variegated leaf Coral Bell. Is this more in tune with your home color palette than my Perfect Plant Puzzle? I appreciate both Jazz and Classical. Which suits your style? #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #HomeDecor #Gardens #WallArt #beautiful #photograph #AppArtist #JigsawPuzzle
BUTCHART DAHLIANCE -Butchart Gardens in British Columbia is a wonder of beauty, plant diversity and ecological reclamation. White and pink dahlias are the stars of this picture, but a photo-bombing cottage steals your attention and blends perfectly with the lush greenery. Prints of this and other beautiful art images are available at https://gene-mckelvey.pixels.com.
#BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #Canada #Butchart #HomeDecor #Gardens #WallArt #beautiful #photograph #AppArtist
A clump of colorful, variegated Coral Bell leaves provide interesting color in a shady garden. Delicate white blooms adorn a single stem in an effort to attract hummingbirds and other pollinators. #BuyIntoArt #AYearForArt #HomeDecor #Gardens #WallArt #beautiful #photograph #AppArtist #JigsawPuzzle
12 years ago today, the French Compagnie Carabosse made Jardin Flambeau in a local park. The gardens were filled with giant moving fire sculptures and fiery installations, hanging ropes with burners, braziers and fire carrying jugglers. There were no barriers apart from the existing low fences, which were few. Fire was everywhere. The only concession to safety were a couple of signs saying 'Be careful'. It was wonderful.
#Brighton #BrightonFestival #Fire #park #gardens #artinstallation #art
Don't mow your lawn - enjoy the wildflowers!
Daisies watercolor painting - find it here:https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/daisies-watercolor-painting-karen-kaspar.html
and here: https://www.artheroes.de/de/motiv/Margeriten-Aquarellgemaelde/1151401/132
#noMowMay #wildflowers #daisies #MastoArt #art #AYearForArt #painting #FediArt #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #InteriorDesign #MastodonArt #ArtistsOnMastodon #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt
#watercolor #watercolour #ArtCollector #BuyIntoArt
#flowers #flower #gardening #garden #floral #nature #NatureLover #blumen #environment #gardens #lawn
I love this border this time of year. Genistas in flower attracting the bees with the clematis and honeysuckle foliage out of sight higher in the background and nepeta growing in between with a screen of chamomile. A few white and yellow irises dot the foreground. Elsewhere in the garden the spent daffodils and tulips are being replaced slowly by the growth of the daisies, flox, delphiniums and salvias.
Another tulip for Cheering Up Mondays but I couldn't resist this - spotted on a recent trip to Great Dixter garden. Read more here on my blog: https://thechattygardener.com/cheering-up-mondays/cheering-up-mondays-370/
#tulips #flowers #plants #gardens #gardening #photography #CheeringUpMondays #MondayMotivation
New plants in!
Added 3 to types of goldenrod, 2 to types of chokeberry, a mountain laurel, a low red cedar, an iris, a lupine, a pussytoes, an inkberry, sunflowers, and an early meadow rue.
This is one of a few versions of irises I've done with a stained glass effect. (Not real stained glass!)
Artwork is here = https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/stained-glass-irises-peggy-collins.html
#flowers #iris #art #color #flowerart #floral #gardens AYearForArt #ArtMatters #MastodonArt #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #FediArt #BuyIntoArt #PeggyCollins
"At the start of the 19th century the Laird, William Watt, employed Lochaber man and experienced gardener, Hugh Ross, to lead the team of gardeners at Skaill House. The gardens had to be not only pleasing to the eye but also productive growing fresh fruit and vegetables for the Laird’s table." #Orkney #gardens #gardening #gardeners
https://theorkneynews.scot/2023/05/07/the-lost-gardens-of-orkney-12-hugh-ross-gardener/
A neighbor down the block described my front yard as "kind of a garden".
What say you?!
The Gotelli Garden at Harrison Park Towers in East Orange (the gardens are actually across the border in Orange) is a great little hidden gem! Perfect weather for a tour today. 😍
https://essexnewsdaily.com/headlne-news/local-garden-to-be-part-of-national-tour
#KnowledgeByte: In #Bangladesh, farmers are planting native #Floating #Gardens - to combat against floods and build climate resiliency. #Climate #Solution #Adaptation
It's #BeeFactFriday ! 🐝❤️
Here is a good follow-up article: https://tinyurl.com/ecjyrrb4
#bees #gardens #pollinators #PollinatorGarden #rewilding #flowers #plants #nature #biodiversity #cities #GreenSpaces #gardening #AuthorsOfMastodon
Now that I'm retired, I list things that need to be done in a small spiral notebook - stuff in the house and in the yard. Looking through it I realize the yard and garden items are crossed off very quickly! The things like "follow up on your denied Dental claim," or "clean the bathrooms," sit there for a long, long time. 😂 😂 Priorities, right?
"Dandelions are a lifeline for bees on the brink – we should learn to love them"
I've been so focused on taking care of my seedlings, and harvesting, I completely missed what else was going on in the garden. 😮
not wanting to
remove these eyes from wonder
spring gardens
#amwriting #nature #observations #haiku #senryu #3lines #10WordJournal #spring #gardens #wonder
Food forests – essentially, edible parks – are small but impactful gathering spaces that can transform cities for the better.
#climatechange #conservation #environment #foodsecurity #gardens
The wild herb #Geranium robertianum was introduced early in #gardens because of #FolkMedicine. It's rich in tannins and essential oils. Therefore I love it for #EcoDyeing and #EcoPrinting. As a child, I believed that its seeds can fly like a bird. In German it's named stinkender #Storchschnabel, stinking stork beak, for the form of the fruits. Geranium's #cranesbills are also bec de grue (crane) in France, but in Alsace bec de cigogne (stork)! #florespondence #WildHerbs #NatureMatchCuts
2/ I learned about a new #tree the Katsura. What a truly beautiful beast!
And then the little glimpses of semi-open privacay: a little bank of tulips; the many lovely lilacs; the cherry laurens in crazy bloom.
This is a community where #gardens really matter and #gardening is meaningful.
The pond corner. The barrel will hold #peas later, but now it's #tulips (starring the double orange Orca), plus purple honesty that I dug up from where it had self-seeded. Behind it, #hellebores obscure the tiny pond, which is tucked into the corner and supports a few #frogs and #newts. A neighbor offered me her Victorian fireplace surround so I put it here with a mirror tucked behind, a trick from garden designer Mirabel Osler.
I built a mini JohnsonSu bioreactor this morning to have biologically rich compost ready for this time next year. It has an outer skin of wire mesh covered in mypex. This is placed on a pallet and downpipes with air holes drilled in them are placed over the gaps in the pallet.
Then add each layer of compostable material and regularly water it as you go. I alternated wood chip layers with grass cuttings and garden weeds.
Tomorrow I’ll remove the downpipes to leave air holes where they were in the pile to allow air flow throughout.
I’ll monitor the temperature over the coming days. It should build to above 55°C and above for at least a few days then start to fall.
When the temperature drops below 27°C I’ll add two or three hundred worms from my worm bin. Then it’s a question of keeping it watered.
#Compost #JohnsonSu #Allotment #GrowYourOwn #GYO #Gardening #Gardens #Compostodon #Allotments #SoilHealth #Soil #SoilLife #Biodiversity #Fungi
The tomato plant I put in our garden: [dies]
The tomato plant that grew from a seed in a roadside drain:
I had 2 to 3 bees yesterday, this evening I count around 30 in my new bee bath. I’m so happy it has worked 🐝. I’m no expert by any stretch, but it goes to show that small things can make a big difference. #bees #gardens #nature #environment #photography
First sprouting seeds of the season!
From seeds collected of last summer’s Hyacinth Bean Vine… looking closely, the foliage and stem color hues are already there…
#gardening #FlowerPhotography #spring #seeds #UrbanGardens #flowers #vines #gardens #PayingAttention #MyJoyfulPlace
The session itself won't be available online, but here's a QR code for our presentation on Google Drive:
#NYC #NewYorkCity #Gardens #Gardening #CommunityGardens #CommunityGardening
#iNaturalist #EcoFlora #NYBG #Stewardship #Weeds #GardenEcology #Ecology #Pollinators #NYCPWG #NYCPollinators #GTGT2023
OMW to the 39th annual NYC GreenThumb GrowTogether Community Gardening Conference. #GTGT2023
https://www.nycgovparks.org/events/2023/04/01/39th-annual-greenthumb-growtogether-conference
#NYC #NewYorkCity #Gardens #Gardening #CommunityGardens #CommunityGardening
Friends, please welcome FILOSOFÍA EN EL JARDÍN, the Spanish translation of my PHILOSOPHY IN THE GARDEN.
It’s been ten years since it was first published in English, and it’s so gladdening see new editions still appearing in the world.
Thanks to my agents at Zeitgeist Agency for their continued support of my work, and to translator Julio Hermoso Oliveras.
#booksInTranslation #newBook #literature #philosophy #gardens #gardening #translation #espanol #español #research #writingCommunity #writing
a gentle breeze blows
the scent of plumeria
Heaven is calling!
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/pretty-pink-plumeria-flowers-sharon-cummings.html
#artwork #artist #AYearForArt #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #artists #writers #poets #poems #poem #poet #poem #writer #springtime #flower #flowers #colorful #colorfulart #pink #plumeria #tropical #coastal #beach #beachlife #beachy #beaches #botanical #grief #love #garden #gardening #gardener #gardens #floral #Spring #springthings #plant #plants
I walked through Tucson Botanical Gardens yesterday. Here is your #thicktrunktuesday #trees #gardens #Arizona #photography
my heart is blooming
tender as pink baby feet
Flowers spring to life!
#dailyhaikuprompt - bloom
ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/soft-pink-tulips-flower-art-sharon-cummings.html
#artwork #artist #AYearForArt #mastoart #fediart #haiku #poetry #writing #writingcommunity #smallpoems #artists #writers #poets #poems #poem #poet #poem #writer #springtime #flower #flowers #colorful #colorfulart #pink #tulip #tulips #botanical #grief #love #garden #gardening #gardener #gardens #floral #Spring #springthings #spring #springthings #floral #fun
Happy Thursday
"When the world wearies and society ceases to satisfy, there is always the garden." -Minnie Aumonier
Babs E Photography
"Respite"
#gardens #green #photography #travelphotography #England #garden #flowers #rollinghills
Thread.
We had a #homesteading mindset from 1977, when we married, but not until 2009, when shonin retired, was it possible for us to expand the #gardens and #orchard to cover even half of our acre. These images are from 2008, and represent some of our best effort from when we were still both working full time (in libraries). It was a much easier climate to #microfarm in, for sure.
Broken Thread!! Part II: https://mastodon.world/@shonin/110068118976052132
(2/4)
Raised-field agriculture has also been used in countries like #China, #Mexico, and #Morocco.
#WaruWaru also stems #desertification and could create a cooling #microclimate when combined with the #SolarPanels, similar to the #irrigated #gardens created by the Muslims, e.g. in the #Alhambra in #Andalucia. In combination with the solar panels. Jointly with the building of #Roman type #cisterns, #agriculture might even be extended to years without rainfall for some time,...
Hello. Here's to a peaceful week with a bit of fun thrown in.
Have a good day.
#PhotoAU #Photo #Dahlia
#GardeningAU #Flora #Flowers #FlowersOfMastodon #Nature #NatureAU #Gardens #Canberra #NaturePhotography #Gardening #Australia #Photography
I've given my irises a stained glass effect, trying to make my 2D artwork look 3D.
Artwork is here - https://peggy-collins.pixels.com/featured/stained-glass-irises-peggy-collins.html
#flowers #flowerart #floral #floralart #iris #garden #gardens #gardener #art #artist #artists #colorful #stainedglass #canadian #canadianartist #color #colorful #colorfulart #AYearForArt #ArtMatters #MastodonArt #FediGiftShop #MastoArt #FediArt #peggycollins #peggycollinsgallery #purple
Good gentle morning peeps. 👋 :ablobcatcoffee:
Still getting organised so a cheeky recycle of this gorgeous pansy for #SilentSunday.
Have a good day.
#PhotoOz #Photo
#GardeningAU #Flora #Flowers #FlowersOfMastodon #Nature #NatureAU #Gardens #NaturePhotography #Gardening #Australia #Photography
Woo, yeah, let's hear it for inertia!
This pot of Iris reticulata Katharine Hodgkin, planted in late 2021, completely failed to grow last year. At all. Not a shoot.
Being me, I did nothing whatsoever about it. And now look!
"Scientists have urged people to stop “spraying their gardens with poison” in order to halt bird decline and adopt instead wildlife-friendly practices."
#Gardens #Gardening #Birds #Pesticides
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/feb/06/garden-pesticides-british-songbird-decline-study