GreenBeanJackie
@greenbeanjackie
Posts about flowers, bees, vegetables, Edinburgh, rural Scotland, buses, gardening, wild swimming, cats, small beauties. Blogging about gardening at www.reclaimingparadise.wordpress.com and swimming at
A lot of the garden is going over just now but the pinks and sweet peas are at their best for #SixOnSaturday #BloomScrolling
Actual #rain and loads of #frogs hopping about round the pond. #SmallBeauties
Sweet peas: 'ice cream' and 'kingfisher', growing happily with my runner beans for #FlowersOnFriday
I've been deadheading the yellow poppies so that they keep on coming to keep the #bumblebees happy
Bees and flowers for #SixOnSaturday cornflower, carnation, sweet peas 'ice cream', bees on phacelia, bee on flowering teasel head, California poppy and cosmos 'sonata'
Garden and allotment salad: potatoes, nasturtium, onion, rocket, mint, chives #SmallBeauties #summerJoys #growYourOwnFood
Lovely butterfly 🦋 in the garden. Maybe a small pearl bordered fritillary? Feeds on dog violets apparently, tick. Lives in scrubby damp land, tick. So my garden is messy but attracts these #SmallBeauties
Rose 'Silver Wedding' for #roseWednesday. We've had this for, ehm, quite a few years.
Faded sign near Coniston Water for #FingerpostFriday- pointing to Beacon Tarn where I had a lovely swim 🏊♂️ a few days ago. Planning another dip in today's heatwave
6 flowers that made it into bouquets and table displays for my son and daughter in law's wedding this time last year. All coming back this year. #SixOnSaturday cosmos 'Fizzy white' and 'Sonata', lady's bedstraw, astrantia, rose ' boule de neige', pinks
This time last year I grew and organized the flowers for my son and daughter in law's wedding. This year they are just a little but later but promising a summer full of joy #FlowersOnFriday cosmos fizzy white and sonata, astrantia, carnation 'chaubad', sweet pea Kingfisher
A lot of busy #bees in the poppies this morning #SmallBeauties
Hello @gardenshour.bsky.social one word for this week 'Midsummer' here in the summery chaos round my garden pond
Just the glorious profusion of flowers that is my pond at midsummer: bog cotton, campion, water lily, water buttercup, poppies, Canterbury Bells #SixOnSaturday
First peas! The lovely purple podded blauschocker #SmallBeauties
For those of you still scorching in the heat, here are some raindrops on roses from my damp Edinburgh garden, where we have had thunder and lightning and lots of rain #FlowersOnFriday
Hello #GardensHour. Lots of very mixed weather here in Edinburgh but mainly it is the long evenings that are bringing me joy. Here are some Canterbury Bells and foxgloves still shining brightly at 10.45pm last night
White flowers in my #solstice garden, 10.45pm Do admire the mad white foxglove which has grown in the paving, blocking the door and bringing joy
Midsummer glories for #SixOnSaturday bog cotton, butterfly on escallonia, clematis seed head, bank of pinks, flag iris, escallonia covered in bees
Snails don't like prickly things, supposedly - but maybe they do Here's a snail on a thistle 🐌
Sitting in my #allotment shed, watching the rain. Feels like an urban rainforest
Sorry we missed #gladdersYoga tonight. We were out in the garden picking redcurrants and chasing string
Out in the garden and I found garden jewels: first of the redcurrants and the best cherry harvest in years. Love this time of year.
Hello #GardensHour here is a rainbow from my garden in the last week or so: purple pea, lilac sage flowers with bee, first broad bean crop, yellow rose, orange ladybird, red rose