Linda

A collage of six pictures from my tiny garden this week. The large picture on the left shows a ladybird on a leaf in sunshine. The two small pictures on the top are blue Anemone blends and green flowers of Smyrnium olusatrum or Alexanders. The small pictures on the bottom are a tulip open in the sunshine and closed when it is cloudy and a white Primula. The large picture on the right is a blue Hyacinth.

🌱 #sixonSaturday from my tiny garden. The wonderful sunshine this week has made a real difference in the garden ad it is so lovely to see all the colour.

Bright pink flowers if Prunus Kursar, an early flowering variety.

🌱 #flowersonFriday
It’s the beginning of Cherry Blossom season and the gorgeous, sun filled recent days have spurred on their flowering. Not much sun forecast for today sadly. I have a busy day ahead, travelling to Brighton to meet friends and celebrate a life sadly cut short.

A pure white crocus viewed from above. In the middle are orange stamens and perched on top of them is a tiny black beetle

🌱 #insectThursday
A beautiful Crocus with the tiniest critter which I think might be a pollen beetle.
I am off to Wisley for a staff and volunteer update from the DG. Then because the sun is shining a long walk to forget about the world!

Excellent! The weather was kind too!

Absolutely beautiful!

A perfect red rose.

🌱 #roseWednesday
As the news continues to dismay and depress, I will continue to post things of wonder and beauty. Wisley, my tiny garden, stitching, friends and family have become my world.

#BirdoftheDay #SideView
Two of the Wisley ducks posing beautifully.

Bare, pendulous branches making a filigree pattern against blue sky.

🌱 #thicktrunkTuesday
Isn’t this tree beautiful? It is in Wisley’s Arboretum and is a Betula pendula Youngii. I really like the patterns of the bare branches.
Yesterday’s sunshine was definitely mood enhancing.

I will be thinking about you and hope it all goes as smoothly as mine did.

Haggerston school in Hackney. Building designed by Goldfinger and is a grade 2 listed. The collage of photos show the outside of the four story building, the original tannoy system, the view from the roof showing all the new London buildings and a menu from the canteen. It wasn’t like that when I taught there from 1969 to 1974

It was amazing but I recognised very little. The building is now Grade 2 listed so nothing can really be done to it. Thank you for asking.

I did mine today in glorious sunshine.

Cardamine quinquefolia or Cuckoo flower with cut leaves and delicate pink flowers.

I have my copy and this morning celebrated a new find in my back garden.

Lovely to see you! Sorry I didn’t instantly recognise you. I will next time!

Petition: Nationalise water companies to make water a non profit publicly owned asset To make water a non profit making national asset that ensures we have a secure water infrastructure that ensures our water security for future generations.

Who’s watched Dirty Business? C4 shocking story of the state of our rivers and the deliberate cover-ups ongoing. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/75...

Signed and shared.

👎 I hope you feel better soon.

A particularly beautiful Hyacinth. Each flower is pink on the outside and pale blue near the stem.

As the world becomes a more dangerous place because of decisions made by corrupt people, my world shrinks to what I can manage and enjoy so today as the sun is shining, I will spend time in my tiny garden.

I downloaded the pattern and made my donation but I find interpreting patterns really difficult. Let us know how you get on.

A photo showing legs of two small children dressed in bright yellow wellies. One is standing in the water flowing in the rill.

Something different for #SundayYellow. Properly dressed to play happily in the rill in Wisley’s Hilltop Wellbeing Garden last Sunday. It’s going to be a grey, damp day so I might have another quiet volunteering shift,

A GR postbox with a knitted or crocheted top.

A close up of the knitted or crocheted top showing it is a white cat with brown ears.

A local suitable for #postboxSaturday and #Caturday.

Thank you. It will be very nostalgic! After leaving in 1974, I never went back so this will be my first visit. So many memories!

A collage of six photos from my tiny garden this week. The two large pictures are a blue Pulmonaria and my first Tulip, cream and red. The small pictures are slowly emerging white Iberis, blue Rosemary, a pink bulb but I can’t remember which one and a self seeded daffodil looking a bit nibbled in my lawn.

🌱 #sixonSaturday from my tiny garden where spring is hovering and I am waiting in keen anticipation!
An early start for me as I am joining a Hackney Society visit to Haggerston School which is described as a Goldfinger’s Modernist. It is where I began my 19 year teaching career in 1969!

The back view of a pigeon standing in a flower bed next to a couple of blue pansies. The feathers on its back are mottled dark and light grey.

#BirdoftheDay #PigeonsandDoves
Often ignored because they are so common, pigeons have beautiful markings on their feathers.

Botanical name Flavoparmelia caperata this lichen has a bobbly appearance with wrinkled lobes. It is growing on the bark of a tree.

🌱 In celebration of all things Green, beautiful lichen which a search suggests is Common Greenshield Lichen. #fungifriends

That is absolutely stunning! So good to wake up to some good news for a change!

As another vegetarian, I found some of the findings troubling.

Already have!

A picture of a robin from below. Its wings are spread wide and each wing feather is visible. The background is a tree trunk covered with ivy.

#BirdoftheDay #WideopenWings
I was attempting to take a second picture of a robin sitting on my fence but it flew off!

So lovely to see you back. I so enjoy your posts about your garden and creativity.

A bee visiting stunning blue Pulmonaria flower.

A Ladybird sitting on bright green foliage.

🌱 It’s #insectThursday and I’m starting to see some very welcome critters returning. I spotted these two on my visit to the Garden Centre and had to buy the Pulmonaria for its glorious colour.
Today thanks to @ianvisits.co.uk who alerted me to tickets being available I am off to Battersea Dogs!