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It’s proving a great year for our apple espaliers - these Cox’s orange pippins are deep orange-red and just now coming into their ripe fruitfulness #apples #autumn #fruit #growyourown #gyo #gayGardeners #GayGardenersOfMastodon

Espalier apple tree about 5.5ft high, with many red-orange ripe fruit, the leaves are still deep green. Behind and above is deep blue sky, with lower grey clouds

A good year for Painted Ladies (Vanessa cardui) several having been spotted locally, having arrived with the heat waves to N Wales from southern climes. Gives me a thrill to welcome them 🥰

#lepidoptery #butterflies #butterfly #PaintedLady #vanessa #BigButterflyCount #lepidopterist

a Painted Lady butterfly feeds from a lavender flower. it is mainly orange above, with black tips to the forewings that are adorned with white spots, and black spots on the hindwings and forewings

Last year’s birthday present from my husband, now flowering just in time for this birthday coming up. It’s called ‘Hot Chocolate’. Mmmm
#rose #HotChocolate #happybirthday #BloomScrolling #GayGardener #GayGarden #gaygardenersofmastodon

a complex, many petalled rose just starting to open. It is red, but the red has a browny, burnt, chocalatey tinge.

The burnt-orange colour of our day-lilies suggest mid-summer heat. Day-lilies. These hemerocallis seem to thrive in the heatwaves
#InMyGarden #BloomScrolling #DayLily #lily #GayGardener

a burnt orange colored single day lily, with its five large petals curled at the end, and four huge stamens with pollen at the ends

one of nine different butterfly species sighted in my neighbourhood today - the highest number this year in a single day. This is a female Meadow Brown, ‘maniola’ genus, the only one spotted, sheltering in a hedge from a strong summer breeze.
#today #butterflies #butterfliesuk #MeadowBrown #BigButterflyCount

a Meadow Brown butterfly sitting on a beech hedge, its wings closed, brown and beige colour bands, with one eye just visible on upper wing

#inMyGarden just a single spectacular flamboyant bloom from our clematis this year so far - but it is one more than last year! So gay!
#clematis #BloomScrolling #gaygardeners #GayGardener #today #spring

a large Pale purple clematis flower, six very large outer petals in a circle and smaller inner ones around a central large bud

Can anyone help identify this creature we’re seeing more around the house in this warm weather. Here it’s clinging to the outside door.

sitting on a wooden doorframe is a beetle, about 2cm long
.Black head and neck. Brown body that looks wood-like. Long Brown legs sticking out

My lepidoptery season began properly yesterday with the sighting of three species of butterfly in one day. Here’s one of them, one of two speckled woods flitting in pools of warm spring sunshine in Fairy Glen.
#SpeckledWood #butterflies #butterfly #lepidoptery #spring

on the left on a shiny beech leaf sits open-winged a speckled wood butterfly, deep brown with rows of creamy speckles, and one row of three brown ‘eyes’

well, this is going to be an interesting first, a bread I’ve not made before - linseed and date. Will this combination work?
#bread #today #breadmaking #baking #bakeyourown #homeMade

a freshly baked loaf of bread- dark crust, well risen, standing on a wire rack and wooden bread board on an oak table too

The first species to arrive #InMyGarden this year, always newly emerging in April, has been the orange-tips. This male is bright and colourful…. and hungry for food from our purple phlox.

#butterflies #lepidoptera #today #GayGardenener #OrangeTip #bloomscrolling

a male orange-tip butterfly, with furry white body and white upper wings with orange tips, mottled green underside, sits atop a tiny purple phlox flower, feeding.

for Iris lovers everywhere - the Royal Yellow spotted at Bodnant in the N of Wales #today #bloomscrolling #iris #yellow #GayGardening #cymru #wales #spring #bodnant

an short iris with two flower heads - each with yellow lower half and white upper

Grape hyacinths popping up all over #InMyGarden this Spring - here in a dry stony bed at the foot of an apple tree.

#GrapeHyacinth #BloomScrolling #today #gaygardeners #gaygardenersofmastodon #GayGarden #spring

two tiny grape-hyacinth plants in a dry stony weedy soil bed - around eight blue flower heads

Our flowering quince - Chaenomeles speciosa 'Kinshiden'- making its glorious appearance this spring #today
#BloomScrolling
#FloweringQuince #SpringGarden #InMyGardenToday #YellowFlowers #MacroPhotography #macro #macros #flowers #gardenLife #garden #gardening #gardens #gardenLove #GardenFlowers #GayGardens #gardenShrubs #GayGardener #GayGardening

single pale yellow quince flower with multiple petals, surrounded by bright green leaves and thin dark brown branches

Our quince hedging is always the first fruiting shrub to blossom. I love the profusion of cardinal red.
#today #InMyGarden #todayInMyGarden #blossom #quince #red #bloomscrolling

a quince flower - bright cardinal red flower with cupped petals, and cluster of very short yellow stamens inside

What is going to happen this Spring with the blossom buds on our fruit trees? This is a Williams pear. At this stage of March last year, the weather turned arctic as the flowers opened, there were no insects to cross-fertilise, and consequently we had very few pears later. Now we’re wondering if there will be a repeat in 2025 as we enter another arctic-cold few days. Fingers crossed by the time the blossom is fully open, the air will be warmer and we will see bees and wasps visiting us.

#GayGardener #GayGarden
#fruit #blossom #growYour Own #GrowYourOwnFood #spring #today

Close up of the ends of two branches of a pear tree. the bark is dark brown. There are many blossom buds not far from opening, pale yellow in colour. Behind, not in focus, is a hedge, leafless trees and blue sky with a single large white cloud.

Primulae veris
Some of our hedgerow cowslips thriving in a sheltered spot
#bloomscrolling #primula #cowslips #worldphotoday #today #spring #gaygardeners #gaygardenersofmastodon #GayGarden

two small cowslip plants, tiny yellow tubular flowers, sitting erect in a brown hedgerow bottom

our cherry blossom seems to be the first out in this neighbourhood - so pink, so gay
#bloomscrolling #blossom #cherryblossoms #spring #gayGardener #GayGarden #pink

a bunch of deep pink cherry blossom flowers on a barren branch, with green hills and blue sky behind, out of focus

Charles Lamont' (aka our pink viburnum) just springing to life - all around looks bare
#BloomScrolling #viburnum #GayGardeners #GayGarden #blossom #spring

tight pale pink viburnum flowers on the end of branch, white sky background and twigs

tight pale pink viburnum flowers on the end of branch, blue sky background and trellis

Flourishing in an unlikely spot #InMyGarden by a fence, beneath a hedge, on the roadside
#spring #bloomscrolling #GayGardener #narcissi #daffodils #February #today

A cluster of about a twenty dwarf deep yellow narcissi, by the trunk of a hawthorn hedge, wire fencing behind

These purple lenten rose are coming to their peak as Lent approaches (next Wednesday) - all the while the hedgerow ground cover that surrounds them is still almost lifeless.
#lentenrose #hellebore #lent #winter #spring #bloomscrolling #gaygardeners

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