🌿☕ Some houses in Norway have grass roofs (torvtak) Dating back to prehistoric times they were used by Vikings Historically farm goats used to be allowed to climb up & graze to keep the them trimmed I've just trimmed mine with kitchen scissors✂️😂🌿 I'm unsure how this would go down in Cheltenham..

🌿☕ Highland cudweed/ Norwegian arctic cudweed 🌿 Cudweed derives from the middle English cudde (cud: the food cattle regurgitate to chew) Historically, farmers believed eating it could help cure cattle that had stopped ruminating) 🐮🥛 Amoozing 💥 #bloomscrolling #nature @susiedentwords.bsky.social

🌿☕ The beautiful brimstone butterfly 🦋 camouflaged cleverly on a leaf❤️🌿 The brimstone lives up to 12 months unlike many other butterflies It survives freezing winter temperatures by storing glycerin, which acts as a natural antifreeze in its body enabling it to "wake up" at first warmth🦋🌿 #nature

🌿☕ Norway is home to c. 211 bee species 🐝 172 wild solitary bees 35 bumblebees .. & domesticated honeybees It also has a conservation programme for the Nordic brown bee Oslo pioneered a 🐝 highway network of rooftop gardens to protect urban pollinators 🌺🌿 #bees #norway #pollinators #autumnhawkwit

🌿☕ Had a lovely walk along Kvitåvatn lake near Gaustatoppen. I saw many large fluffy white reindeer lichen They only grow a little over 3mm a year - it is an air quality spy, absorbing air pollution & dying off when the air is toxic Not only is this old but it is a measure of Norwegian clean air❤️🇳🇴

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🌿☕ Morning 🌞 Red admirals 🦋 are common because the caterpillars eat nettles, abundant almost everywhere The males guard territory c.30x per hr. If you see 2 fluttering & looping, they aren't playing or dancing ⚔️ Females mate with boys that maintain territory so they need to keep up the action!🐛🦋🌿

🌿☕Pre football post🥳 We are blessed in Cheltenham & surrounds with beautiful places to walk. Today I went to Crickley Hill, Birdlip🌲 I was intrigued to seen Robin's pincushion, the Bedeguar Gall. Not a plant part, but created chemically by the wasp Diplolepis rosae to grow its developing larvae🐛🐝🌿

🌿☕A Kakistocracy is government by the worst least qualified, most unscrupulous people First used in the C17th century from the Greek kákistos & krátos Bees govern through decentralized democracy The Queen's job is to lay eggs, but power & decision making is with the collective of female worker 🐝s

🌿☕ Good morning 🌞 Plenty of butterflies 🦋 on the wing in the UK heat 🌞🌞🌞 scorchio 🌞🌞🌞 This is a gatekeeper or a hedge brown as it likes scrubby areas & can be found, yes, near farm gates.. Females lay between 100 & 200 eggs, usually in the shade or somewhat bizarrly ejecting eggs into the air 🌬️🍃

Addendum.. and this is what the Chancellor of the Exchequer had to say about it:

🌿☕ Good morning🌞 Wild flowers, weeds, whatever you call them.. I often leave them in the garden - a weed can be life giving for others For example ragwort, survives the heat & gives a home to the cinnabar moth caterpillar which turns into my favourite moth that we playfully call Darth Maul💥🌿

🌿☕ Good Morning🌞 Bumblers, after labradors & hover flies are my favourite garden companions after my husband of course when he brings me tea Bees 🐝 even have facial expressions www.keysnews.com/news/nationa... And are adept at the box & banana problem www.theguardian.com/environment/... #beekind

🌿☕ Morning ☀️ Lots of coffee required this morning.. Saturday becomes a tricky one for me England v Norway, would have preferred them not to meet 💥🇳🇴🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 Today I am going to pin back some roses & don my "long gloves" to remove brambles.. Have a lovely day 🌹 🌹 🌹 #bloomscrolling #hangover #football

🌿☕ A big & beautiful good luck from me to Norway today in the World Cup 🇳🇴⚽ Did you know Norway is the only country to have never been beaten by Brazil 🇧🇷⚽ winning 2 & drawing 2 of their men's international football games Lykke til, og ro, ro, ro!! 💥💥💥 #football #haaland #scandinavia

🌿☕ I enjoyed the Bergs v Fery match at Wimbledon today 🎾 Reminded me of an old use of yarrow to heal wounds & stop bleeding, in the 16th century the crushed leaves were used to stop nosebleeds & literally known as the nose bleed plant! Best of luck Arthur, you played a blinder💥 #tennis

🌿☕ Morning☀️ Crocosmia 'Lucifer'👿 It's European name comes from Greek krokos (saffron) & osme (smell). When the crushed leaves or flowers are steeped in water, they emit a strong saffron aroma In it's native South Africa they are known as umlunge & udwendweni (isiZulu) & khalal-ea-bokone (Sesotho)

🌿☕ ☀️ day today in Cheltenham, my car attracted this lovely fat moth🦋 There are many moths on the wing currently, not all nocturnal Moths outnumber butterflies by 10:1, with over 160,000 species these ancient insects, outdating dinosaurs are vital pollinators, some species more efficient than bees🐝

🌿☕ Calendula derives from Latin calendae meaning little calendar or clock It has many mythological properties such as the ability to strip a witch of her will!🧹 Placing it under the bed is said to offer protection from thieves & induce dreams if you've been robbed so you can identify the culprit 🚨

🌿☕ Finally found out the meaning to WTF What tomfoolery There. Fixed it. Have a lovely day 🪻 ☀️😎🌿

🌿☕ Phew 🥵 today... Done my bit for nature & put up an RSPB swift box Shockingly swifts are red listed with a 70% population drop between 1995 & 2024 with only 40,000 breeding pairs in the UK left @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social @rspb.bsky.social @rspbengland.bsky.social #cheltenham #birds

🌿☕ I don't normally do this but I am going to signpost a bit of a girl crush after having watched Hannah Bourne-Taylor on Clarkson's farm Season 5, Episode 7 Amazon Prime Do follow, she's awesome 😎 🕊️ 🐦 @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social Makes Merlin Bird ID look pedestrian 😂💥🌿

🌿☕ Morning🌞 I'm so happy with this 📸 a climbing rose I dug by my fence is festooned with flowers & hover flies 🐝 colours are beautiful & the sheen on those wings😍 Don't be fooled by the wasp stripe, its Batesian mimicry, where a harmless species imitates a dangerous one to trick predators Clever🤓

🌿☕Black Jack, buckhorn, cat's cradle chimney-sweeps, cock grass, cocks, dog ribs, English plantain, headsman, hen plant, jack straws, kemps seed, klops, knock-heads, lamb's tail, leechwort, narrow-leaved plantain, ram's tongue, rat tail, ribgrass, ribwort, ripple grass, windles, lllwynhidydd Phew💥🌿

🌿☕ 5 years on & I have my 1st mulberry! Even it's Latin name Morus comes from morón, Greek for slow😂 William J Bean a curator of Kew Gardens said.. "Nothing gives to a garden fortunate enough to possess it a greater sense of old world charm & dignity than a rugged old mulberry standing on a lawn" 🌿

🌿☕ Morning 🌞 This 📸 was once a warm, shallow tropical sea during the Jurassic Period 178-166m yrs ago.. but it is changeable cooler weather today #cheltenhamracecourse Supported hubby yesterday at #cheltenhamrunningfestival & doing what I do best 📸 beautiful self seeded oxeye daisies! Joyful 🥰🤗

🌿☕ A very good morning🌞 Genomic studies suggest the oldest roses from 30-40 million years ago were yellow with a single row of petals, with pinks coming next millions of years later through natural genetic mutation Whilst human have adapted many varieties the yellows & pinks give so much joy🌹🌹🌹

🌿☕The oxeye daisy: Dedicated to Artemis, Greek goddess of the moon🌙 staying open at night unlike it's smaller lawn cousin, known also as 🌙 penny or 🌙 daisy The game "He loves me, he loves me not" began with the Oxeye Daisy Used by 🐝 🦋 🐜 🪲 it serves a pivotal ecological function I definitely 💕 it!

🌿☕ What do you think this delphinium looks like 🐬? Yup, a dolphin The word delphinium comes from the Ancient Greek delphínion or delphis 🐬 Botanists including Carl Linnaeus, adopted the New Latin genus name as the spurred shape of the unopened flower buds resemble a dolphin's nose or curved body🌊

🌿☕ Poppies .. everywhere in Gloucestershire at the moment & just glorious The word poppy originates from the Old English or Anglo Saxon word popig Popig, a glorious & wonderful word for you to enjoy along with my popigs 🐖 🐷 🐖 💐🌸💐🤗