Graeme Edwards

@graemeedwards1

Part time garden potterer, wildlife watcher, occasional writer of short stories & archivist. Full time drinker of coffee and eater of cake 🌱🌻

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Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· 29d

Some of the Linaria, grown from seed, have made it to flowerhood! #GardensHour 🌱

A clump of small white-lipped Linaria flowers with pale yellow centres

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· 29d

To this! The blackbird fledglings have grown up! #GardensHour 🌱

A brown speckled young black bird behind a garden bench with plants on it.

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· 29d

From a flightless stumpy thing... #GardensHour 🌱

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· 29d

Evening all. The garden is looking increasingly frazzled, especially the Phlox which end up all droopy in the heat. I'm watering them occasionally but may have to sacrifice them to eek out the water in the remaining two water butts for the Hydrangea and newly planted cosmos #GardensHour 🌱

A globe of pink flowers with white splashes at their centres

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jul 11

In today's #SixOnSaturday... Linaria, baby blackbirds, Phlox, Crocosmia 'Lucifer' & a small Buddleia 🌱 onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2026/07/11/s...

A collage of six photographs of flowers and birds, comprising: a clump of small white-lipped Linaria flowers with pale yellow centres; two young speckled brown blackbird fledglings sitting on a wooden bar with bluey-green Coronilla leaves behind them; a globe of white Phlox flowers; a globe of pink flowers with white splashes at their centres; a stem of exotic looking vivid red Lucifer flowers; a pyramid of tiny red-pink Buddleia flowers.

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jul 8

If there are any green fingered Somerset folk on Bluesky, the Somerset Heritage Centre, near Taunton, is putting on a pop-up exhibition on gardening this coming Saturday (11 July) from 10am to 12pm. More info can be found here swheritage.org.uk/events/plant... 🌱 #Gardening #Archives

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jul 6

There's something rather pleasing about the way Scabious flowers open... #GardensHour 🌱

A pincushion of small red buds - those on the outside have begin to open revealing small pink Scabious flowers

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jul 6

'Miss Belgium,' a small Hydrangea, is struggling for a second summer in a row, despite fairly regular watering. The flowers are much smaller than usual & the leaves pretty frazzled. The paniculata 'Vanille Fraise' has faired much better though #GardensHour 🌱

A cluster of white and pale green Hydrangea flowers

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jul 6

A drumstick allium 🥁 🌱 #GardensHour

An allium flower, resembling an egg-shaped globe made up of small pink and green flower buds

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jul 6

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Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jul 6

Two blackbird fledglings are being far too casual about life, especially as cats tend to visit the garden at night. Why the daft things have taken to sitting on the swing seat rather than hiding in a tall shrub who knows #GardensHour 🪶 🐦‍⬛

Two speckled brown fledgling blackbirds sat on the wooden frame of a swing seat with ear like feather tufts.

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jul 6

Evening all. The garden is parched at the moment but there's plenty of fresh water for the hedgehogs & birds in trays & bird baths... and a small pond with Lily pads for insects to land on to take a drink #GardensHour

Water lily flower with white pointy petals and a yellow centre, floating on a pond covered with green duckweed

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jul 4

A pink & white themed #SixOnSaturday featuring... a 'Miss Belgium' Hydrangea, a Drumstick Allium, a dwarf Water Lily, a Scabious, Hydrangea paniculata ‘Vanille Fraise’ & Purple Loosestrife 🌱 onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2026/07/04/s...

A collage of six photographs of flowers, comprising: a mophead of pink Hydrangea flowers; an Allium flower, resembling an egg-shaped globe made up of small pink and green flower buds; a water lily flower with white pointy petals and a yellow centre, floating on a pond covered with green duckweed; a pincushion of small red buds - those on the outside have begin to open revealing small pink Scabious flowers; a cluster of white and pale green Hydrangea flowers; spires of bright pink Loosestrife flowers.

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jul 1

Terry Wogan's diminutive but fragrant 'Tog Meister' Rose has done much better this year #RoseWednesday 🌱

A yellow multi-petalled rose with dark green leaves, some nibbled. An unopened bud can be seen near by.

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 29

New Dawn has staged a come back after looking bit ropey last year. Roses have done really well this summer #GardensHour 🌱

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 29

Unlike me, the selfseeded California Poppies enjoyed the heat last week #GardensHour 🌱

Three bright yellow disk-like California Poppies

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 29

Hoping for some rain tomorrow - enough to freshen up the garden & replenish some water butts after last week's heatwave, but perhaps not too much... in remembrance of the fantastic Penelope Keith #GardensHour

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 29

These fragrant Mallow have been a pleasant surprise this month. I'd forgotten I'd sown them. They smell almost like Sweet Peas #GardensHour 🌱

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 27

In today's #SixOnSaturday... A fragrant Mallow, Roses, a California Poppy & a new acquisition! 🌱 onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2026/06/27/s...

A collage of six photographs of flowers and an ornament, comprising: a cluster of pale pink Mallow flowers; a peachy ruffly rosette-like Rose; a yellow Rose with an unopened yellow bud nearby; a pale pink unfurling Rose; three bright yellow disk-like California Poppies; a metal silhouette of a blackbird holding a worm in it's beak.

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 24

Gerty doing her thing #RoseWednesday 🌱

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 22

The Wax leaf Privet flowers have been proving popular with the six legged wingy things, including a comma flutterby #GardensHour 🌱

An orange and black striped bumble bee and a black and yellow striped hoverfly feeding from small white flowers

An orange and black spotted butterfly with jagged wings feeding on small white flowers

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 22

I had the pleasure of visiting the lovely Chideock Manor Garden, located between Lyme Regis and Bridport in Dorset, last week #GardensHour 🌱

A collage of views of a garden & flowers

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 22

Evening all. I've been enjoying the fragrance of the new Philadelphus ‘Petite Perfume Pink’ flowers - although it's got rather swamped by the Japanese Anemones #GardensHour 🌱

3 white four petalled Orange Blossom flowers with pink centres

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 20

'Tis #SixOnSaturday time... This week we have a petite and pink Philadelphus, a hairy caterpillar, a Scabious flower bud, a Comma Butterfly, 'Gerty' & Penstemon 'Garnet' 🌱 onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2026/06/20/s...

A collage of six photographs of flowers and insects, comprising: 3 white four petalled Orange Blossom flowers with pink centres; a hairy yellow, black & red caterpillar on a purple leaf; a bobbly pale green Scabious flower bud with thin leaves, almost resembling a green spider or octopus; an orange and black spotted butterfly with jagged wings feeding on small white flowers; a ruffly pink Rose; a stem with red-pink trumpet-like Penstemon flowers branching off it.

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 17

The mango scented 'Tropicana' #RoseWednesday 🌱

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 13

In today's #SixOnSaturday ... a flowering Waxleaf Privet, a Perennial Cornflower, Roses, a Rock Rose & an Astrantia onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2026/06/13/s... 🌱

A collage of six photographs of flowers comprising: small white funnel shaped flowers with a black & orange striped bumble bee & black & yellow striped hover fly feeding from them; a Perennial Cornflower with delicate long blue petals radiating out from a pink & black centre; a mass of rosette like red petalled Roses; a cluster of rounded peach petalled Roses; a mass of rounded red-pink Rock Rose flowers with yellow centres; three pale pink Astrantia flowers made up of narrow pointed petals at the base of a dark pink dome-like centre made of up of tiny flowers on fine stems.

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 10

'Boscobel' looking rather elegant #RoseWednesday 🌱

A globe-like pink rose with rounded petals.

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 8

An Allium doing its shiny metallic petally thing #GardensHour 🌱

A mass of spikey star-like lilac metallic allium flowers

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 8

The best water feature for a garden has to be a bird bath! Endlessly entertaining! #GardensHour

Graeme Edwards@graemeedwards1· Jun 8

Aquilegias are go! #GardensHour 🌱