Bassenthwaite is one of my favourite swimming spots. Looks lovely today.

Brick edged raised bed with wigwam made of old sticks. Pea plants at each corner

Got some peas planted in the sunshine. Handwritten labels had faded so no idea what variety. Think one lot is Blauschocker - a lovely purple podded pea. Will just have to wait and see

Black cat sniffing the air, surrounded by yellow and orange wallflowers and two pear trees, covered in white blossom

Bella on patrol in the garden, checking out traces of invading cats and foxes, which have been passing through her territory. Largely oblivious to the pear blossom and wallflowers.. #SmallBeauties

Yes they are all amazing

Oh yes the Nigella will come later. Lots to look forward to

Collage of 6 flowers: purple honesty, yellow viola, purple violet, yellow poppy, blue forgetmenots, fluffy dandelion seed head

It's the time of year when all the selfseeded flowers start appearing in my garden. I don't know why I bother growing anything else. Honesty, violas, wild violets, Welsh poppies, forgetmenots, dandelion clock #SixOnSaturday

Pale pink apple blossom

Apple blossom for #FlowersOnFriday

Grey heron standing on icy pond, a black shadow double of the heron reflected in the ice

#BirdoftheDay reflections. Heron on ice on Inverleith Pond a couple of years ago. A shadow rather than a reflection I suppose

Raised bed with wire freezer baskets to keep cats off seedlings

Freezer baskets. Not pretty but they do the trick

Lino print of a beautifully patterned brown and gold snail against a green grassy flowery background

Hello #GardensHour just the one mighty gardening challenge. The only way to cope with them is to make art 🐌🐌🐌🐌

Yellow daffodils and orange primula flowers

Sitting in my #allotment shed, sheltering from the rain, one year on from taking on the plot reclaimingparadise.wordpress.com/2026/04/12/h...

Any blossom with the promise of fruit has the edge for me

Collage of 6 pictures: dark pink and white hyacinths, dark pink tulip, pale pink tulip, rhubarb emerging, yellow daffodils, black and white cat looking at a clump of bright yellow dandelions

A second #SixOnSaturday from my son and daughter in law's tiny patio garden - where I am cat sitting this morning. Hyacinths, tulips, daffodils, rhubarb and cat with dandelions

Collage of flowers: clouds of white plum blossom, a purple clematis Alpina, bright yellow wallflowers, red apple blossom just opening, white plum blossom, single pink tulip

Blossom time in the garden for #SixOnSaturday pear and plum, first apple blossom, a special Alpina clematis, gorgeous wallflowers and a single tulip

Great bunches of white pear blossom on a pear tree, with yellow and orange wallflowers and bright yellow daffodils in the background

Pear blossom, with daffodils and wallflowers in the background #FlowersOnFriday #blossomWatch

Bright red apples on a tree

Bright yellow daffodils

Apple trees, oh and daffodils

Stony Beach and calm sea

First sea dip of the year 🏊‍♂️ at Wardie Bay. Bracing but a warm wind coming out.

The most exciting moments

Pale pink pear blossom just opening up

Purple chequered snakeshead frittilaries and one pure white one

Beight yellow daffodil flower

Black and white broad bean flowers

Hello #GardensHour it's all happening in my garden just now: fruit blossom coming out, snakeshead frittilaries everywhere, still lots of daffodils, a lone overwintered broad bean flowering

Tray of 5 pots, each with one tiny tomato seedling

Tray of 6 pots, each with one tiny tomato seedling

How nice to be home in daylight (no bank holiday for me) and time to pot up my cress (tomato) seedlings which had got a bit leggy 🍅🌱

Pale purple and pink violas with yellow centres

Spotted these tiny self seeded violas in a a hanging basket on my shed #SmallBeauties

MY problem is putting the lid back on the compost bin without squashing the worms wriggling around the top 🪱

Pear blossom 🍐

Collage of purple chequered snakeshead frittilaries, among mini daffodils, pink camellia flowers, bright yellow single daffodil, pure white snakeshead frittilary, pink tinged white pearl blossom, black and white broad bean flowers

Lots happening in the garden for #SixOnSaturday snakeshead frittilaries and daffodils still coming, camellia, plum blossom, a beautiful white frittilary and, most exciting, overwintered broad bean flowers

Two purple checked snakeshead frittilaries and one white one

The Snakeshead frittilaries have all come out for #FlowersOnFriday

Sun shining on a bright yellow daffodil with sn orange trumpet

Has to be daffodils from last week when the sun was shining

Large Egyptian goose, with orange markings and big pink feet, watching 6 very fluffy brown and white goslings at the edge of the water on a concrete path

I don't usually do #BirdoftheDay but couldn't resist these Egyptian goslings for #AdultsWithChicks taking a dip in the Serpentine, Hyde Park London.

My, now grown up, musician son spent most of his childhood doing this kind of thing (still does in fact)

Tiny seedlings in a plastic plant pot

Hello #GardensHour I've never had much luck with pots, other than for starting seedlings. Sowed some at the weekend so no seedlings yet. Here's one from this time last year.

Shocking. And assisted by AI slop.