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Guinea in the fog. Singing into the gloom 🎵🎶🎵

@SheilaHarries Egyptian geese. The female has a loud repeat cronking sound & the male sort of whispers.

This pair of ducks has appeared on our river. I can't identify it from my bird book. Any ideas?

Today's newly blooming #rose is the Hybrid Musk 'Penelope' (Pemberton. 1924). Perfumed flowers open a creamy seashell salmon pink & fade to white. As with the other Hybrid Musks bred by the Rev Joseph Hardwick Pemberton & his sister Florence, they flower non-stop til the frosts🌹

@rosesukroses @papaver @Malvernmeet @charbhardy I can smell it from here! Happy May Day 🎉

May 1st - May Day, La Fête du Muguet, Festival of Flora, Beltane - call it what you will. We’ll just say Happy #Friday - have a good day! Lily of the Valley (Muguet de Bois). #MayDay #FlowersonFriday #GardeningX

Beautiful May Day. A light breeze ruffling hedge & trees. Awoke to the sweet sound of a goldcrest singing in the garden apple tree (they nest in a nearby thick yew hedge so I see them frequently).

@RijckRoos Thank you. I will tackle it in the morning

@NetherfieldV2 It will surely be a beautiful wreath.✨️Good luck.🍀

Sun setting over the sheep troughs. The first #cuckoo of the year calling down towards the river 🎶; such a lovely sound. I have cut some willow withies to make a May Day wreath. Never tried it before but how hard can it be? I am not hopeful but God loves a trier. ✨️

@cumbriaoldrural a knitted cat & a small hand sewn fabric owl. I still have them both. Treasured possessions.

#ThrowbackThursday what doll did you all have #Childhood ?

@IanTeresaMoss that's hard work. Bet you'll sleep well tonight 💤

Three tonnes of top soil and one tonne of horse manure put on our borders today. 💪 💪 Who needs a gym subscription!!😂😂

@tutty352 you have such faith 😊 Hope so

@NetherfieldV2 It will be fine. You have a knack with things like that.

@c_cwzwart she is glorious isn't she? I hope yours thrives & gives you lots of blooms this year despite her slow start 🌹

@NetherfieldV2 Our Moonlight is still starting up from the winter. It was cold, windy and still is very dry in the northern part of the Netherlands. But we have this rose for more than 30 years now and she is beautiful 😍

Newly bloomimg #roses today - bushy Hybrid Musk 'Moonlight' (Pemberton, 1913) & 'Slater's Crimson China', a rather twiggy very old rose transported to Europe from China in 1792 by Gilbert Slater. Both repeat flowering 🌹

@fugitiveink yes, one & the same. Small crimson flowers; mine have a creamy white centre to them making them exquisitely beautiful. Flowers all summer until we get hard frosts. I have mine in a bed with Bengal Crimson (1792) & Grüss an Tepliz (Gerschwind, 1897) & Louis XIV (Guillot, 1859) 🌹

@NetherfieldV2 So beautiful! Do you think Slater's Crimson China is the same as Old Crimson China at Peter Beales, or is that different? (Not that you have once again made me want to order a rose or anything ... ) peterbealesroses.com/old-crimson-ch…

@TycjanC that's the fun isn't it? They could be any colour so it's lovely to wait in anticipation. Mine won't flower til next year but I have the lovely one in the photo that self-seeded itself.

@NetherfieldV2 I’ve got a couple of hollyhocks that have grown from seed and managed to survive the frozen wastes of winter and am wondering what colour they’re going to be, if they ever flower 😺

A beautiful start to the day. Mason bees buzzing in & out of the ironstone walls. Harold, the wood pigeon that lives in the garden apple tree is quietly cooing to his mate on her nest. He has no fear of me & sits on the wall watching as I plant out hollyhocks grown from seed

@rosesukroses @papaver @Malvernmeet @charbhardy @GeeTeeBulbCo beautiful 🥰

Have shared this collection of #tulips a few times - once more with feeling! They have been amazing - opening in bright sunshine then closing demurely overnight. Standing tall despite being buffeted by blustery winds, Blushing Lady, Mariette, Artist. Have a good day! #GardeningX

@RakiaAndSausage a day for sowing seeds & planting out chillies in the polytunnel. Bliss! Have a lovely day despite the cold & rain

@NetherfieldV2 Morning N Sounds like a perfect day. Glad I got mine plants sorted yesterday in the sunshine

@mostlyswimming @Sharpr1966 awful

@Sharpr1966 @NetherfieldV2 Just watched the council spraying weed killer along the verges. Huge fires on Llanllwni where sky larks nest. Elan valley on fire, full of ground nesting birds. Great start to the day.

Walked to Reeth and watched the strimmer man killing all the dandelions. On the walk home a charm of goldfinches had found a tiny remaining patch of dandelion seed heads to feed on. Once you see how hell bent we are on destroying food chains you can’t unsee it.

@RijckRoos Thank you ✨️

@NetherfieldV2 Lucky peacock.😍Beautiful description of the end of the day.✨️

Sunset with a hungry peacock hassling me for bedtime peanuts (of course he got them). A very blustery day ends with a clear sky & carpets of fallen blossom. The bats are out early too.

English painter Jean Cooke, The Greenhouse (1955) #WomensArt #RoomArtWeek

@RakiaAndSausage how wonderful ✨️

@NetherfieldV2 I love a rhododendron, we had 3 under our oak trees when we lived in Lancs. I've found 2 more roses after mowing the long grass so 38 & some narcissus have appeared

This is one of my lime-tolerant rhododendrons - Duftheke Yellow, flowering for the first time. It is a fragrant variety on INKHARO rootstock which was developed from a rhododendron found growing wild in a German lime quarry. So pretty & planted directly in my limestone-rich soil.