Mabelmary

@mabelmary

Married, retired teacher & gardener living in Berlin, Germany. (she, her) Learning about bees and butterflies. Pollinators are essential for our survival. Dare to let your grass grow. Photos that I post are taken with my iPhone.

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Mabelmary@mabelmary· 3d

A cluster of white roses with a lovely fragrance.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· 11d

This hedgehog came to our garden party.

This European Hedgehog sits on a brown brick terrace and next to a wooden brown fence. The hedgehog’s back is covered by
brown spines with white tips and black stripes. Light brown fur covers the hedgehog’s pointy face which has a black nose and black eyes.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· 20d

My Cosmos flowers make me happy.

Nine open cosmos flowers of varying shades of pink are surrounded by their delicate green, fern-like leaves. They make me happy.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· 22d

Purple Morning Glory

A morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea) with purple and crimson ruffled petals and a pink to white throat is supported by a gray wooden fence in my garden.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· May 29

A busy pollinator buzzing in and out of little purple lupine flowers. This fluffy bumblebee is a Common Carder Bee (Bombus pascuorum).

Mabelmary@mabelmary· May 15

Purple Phlox The mats of purple creeping phlox are from a small plant that I got from a friend 20 years ago. I just love how they look this year. Lots of bees and pollinators love them, too. #FloweronFriday #CreepingPhlox

My perennial flower garden bed filled with various green plants. The focus of this photo is the border with five mats of purple creeping phlox.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Apr 27

The Moon sits above our neighbor’s Popular tree in a blue sky at 20:00 tonight.

The almost full white Moon sits above our neighbor’s Popular tree in a blue sky at 20:00 on April 27, 2026.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Apr 19

I love tulips that are not yet opened in my garden. #Flowers #Tulips

I love tulips that are not yet opened in my garden.
Red-yellow tulips with green leaves dominate the bottom of the photo. Two purple-white tulips are in upper center. Blue-white grape hyacinths are in upper right corner.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Apr 17

My Grape Hyacinths (Muscari) are starting to bloom in my garden. #Flowers

Three Grape Hyacinths sit on short stems and are surrounded by their green leaves. Each flower has tightly-packed florets that are just starting to open up. The bottom third of each bloom has small open blue florets that look like tiny grapes with a touch of white.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Mar 31

Taken Saturday for #ThickTrunkTuesday A Sycamore tree is surrounded by yellow daffodils near the German State Opera (Deutsche Staatsoper) in Berlin, Germany.

Yellow daffodils surround the base of the lower half of a Sycamore tree with bare branches. In the background is the pink-painted German State Opera (Deutsche Staatsoper) in Berlin, Germany.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Mar 28

At the #NoKings in Berlin, Germany, the wannabe emperor wasn’t wearing any clothes.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Mar 2

Crocuses popping up near my bus stop this morning give me hope that spring is coming soon.

About a dozen purple crocuses with orange stamens are in the center of the photo. They are surrounded by dark soil, very small pebbles and brown leaves.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Mar 1

The moon at 18:12 on the 1st of March.

The moon shines brightly through tree branches. The sun has set, but the sky is still blue.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Jan 7

The sun shines over Lake Müritz (Müritzsee) in northern Germany, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern.

The sun shines in blue skies over Lake Müritz in northern Germany, Mecklenburg-Vorpommern. On the right are ice-covered rocks and a snowy beach with a lone walker in the distance.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Nov 21

Frosty red rose in my garden this morning.

Red rose petals covered with white frost is attached to frosty green stem and leaves.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Nov 5

My garden continues to surprise me with colors. White chrysanthemums contrast with fallen Red Japanese maple leaves.

Three white flowered chrysanthemum plants with green stems and leaves are surrounded by fallen red Japanese maple leaves. In the upper right corner is the tree trunk and a grayish stone.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Oct 2

View of English Bay, Vancouver, BC, Canada

View of English Bay in Vancouver, BC. On the right is a rocky shore separates a walkway and a stand of trees and the bay. People are walking on the trail. In the background are blue colored mountains below a sky with white and blue clouds.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Sep 28

Mute swans #swans #waterfowl #nature #LakeTegel #TegelerSee #Berlin #Reinickendorf

Two white mute swans float on lake water.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Sep 17

Red Rose with two rosebuds from my Garden for #ColorADay #RedWed #RedRoseWednesday #Flowers

In the photo, there is a blooming red rose and two rosebuds that are still protected by green sepals. One rosebud is above the rose. On the right side is another rosebud on a long green stem. The rose is surrounded by green leaves that are blurry.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Sep 8

Oh how I loved watching this honeybee buzzing around the Sedum ‘Autumn Joy.’ #MacroMonday #Honeybees #pollinators #Bloomscrolling

A honeybee gathers pollen from the tiny pink and white flowers on a Sedum ‘Autumn Joy’ bloom.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Aug 25

Getting ready to pick our plentiful purple plums (Prunus domestica).

A cluster of eight purple plums are hanging on a thin woody branch surrounded by green leaves. The sun peeks through the leaves on the top left with blue sky on the right side.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Aug 11

A black carpenter bee with shiny wings lands on the yellow center of a pink cosmos flower. #PinkMon #MacroMonday #Pollinators

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Jul 30

I discovered this lovely Painted Lady (Vanessa cardui) resting on my terrace this morning. #butterflies #nature

A Painted Lady butterfly (Vanessa cardui) is resting on a brown stone paver. The butterfly has a brown body. Its wings are orange and black with white spots near the wingtips.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Jul 22

The first purple morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea) looking very velvety in my garden this morning.

A morning glory (Ipomoea purpurea) with purple and crimson ruffled petals and a pink to white throat peeks through two slats of a wooden fence. Three green heart-shaped leaves on stems can be seen above the flower.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Jul 14

I love my cheery clump of Blue Balloon Flowers (Platycodon grandiflorus). #bluemonday #blueflowers

In the center of the photo is a clump of Balloon Flowers (Platycodon grandiflorus). Each green stem has green leaves at the bottom and includes blue, bell-shaped flowers with white centers plus many unopened buds
that look like small silver balloons.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Jul 10

I was excited to finally get this photo of a very energetic Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia) on my Annabelle Hydrangea this morning. #insectsThursday

The Silver-washed Fritillary (Argynnis paphia) is orange with black spots. It sits on a large, creamy-white Annabelle Hydrangea flower. At the bottom of the photo are green leaves and a little bit of the orange clay pot.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Jul 7

Tart cherries after the rain.

Three red cherries - each attached to a thin, green stem to a tree limb. A raindrop clings to the bottom of the middle cherry and the cherry on the right. Three cherry leaves are on the right.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Jul 5

European Peacock Butterfly (Aglais io)

Mabelmary@mabelmary· Jun 16

My peonies and two rose bushes putting on a spectacular show of blooms together this June. #gardening

At the bottom right is one pink peony bloom surrounded by dark pink roses in the middle and dark red roses at the top.

Mabelmary@mabelmary· May 28

My purple clematis bloomed between rain showers today.