Backlit yellow-green Acer shirasawanum 'Jordan' leaves with small red flowers, water droplets visible

Juvenile Acer shirasawanum 'Jordan' in a pot, bright lime-green spring foliage

Acer palmatum 'Kinshi' with long narrow drooping leaflets in evening light

Pink crab apple blossom with deep burgundy foliage against rough bark

Japanese maples unfurling in three very different moods, plus the crab apple doing its annual show-off.

Acer shirasawanum 'Jordan', Acer palmatum 'Kinshi', Malus sp.

#JapanesMaple #CrabApple #SpringGarden #LondonGarden #AcerPalmatum #AcerShirasawanum #Malus #London

Spring stirs in the greenhouse. Wollemi pine seedling, grapevine setting its first berries, ginkgo unfurling, and cephalotaxus putting out fresh needles.

Wollemia nobilis · Vitis vinifera · Ginkgo biloba · Cephalotaxus sp.

#londongarden #botanica #spring #greenhouse

Japanese maples waking up in rainbow colours #japanesegarden #londongarden #acerjaponica

Spring buds: Koji-no-mai Prunus incisa (cherry), Crataegus (hawthorn), Malus (crabapple) and Larix (larch) pollen cones #londongarden

A colour photograph of a small white downy feather caught on some brown grass with a dark background

#phtotographersofbluesky #naturephotography #feather #londongarden #fineartphotography #birds #trace #presenceofabsence #blueskyartshow

this morning began
balmy enough for PJs
out in the garden
with newly opened roses
ignoring the calendar

#tanka #poetry #Novemberroses #Londongarden

Juniper bonsai & lantern #londongarden

Roses, chillies and quince #londongarden #londonallotment

Linne's rose #roses #londongarden

Aeoniums #londongarden #indoorplants

the scent of roses
passing our garden may some
stranger feel at home

#haiku #poetry #Londongarden #welcomestranger

the garden trembles
boisterous breezes at play
stealing rose petals

#haiku #endofsummer #poetry #Londongarden

What a greeting this morning! The rain the last few days has been a gift, and the roses and penstemons have drunk it eagerly. At bottom right of this picture is a gorgeous spray of soft raspberry Comte de Chambord, a beautiful multpetalled old rose with big, soft green leaves. To the left a chime of bells from penstemon Hidcote Pink, a shade or two softer and streaked inside each bell with baby pink. Bees love them. More of those in the centre of the frame, and spreading above them two sprays of pink-flushed golden Peace roses in full bloom with buds crowding among their glossy dark green leaves. A world of beauty and life on two square metres of London clay.

feeling like perfume
smelling like satin tasting
like joy - roses riot

#haiku #poetry #Londongarden #highsummer #roses

Pretty Speckled Wood butterfly hanging out in the garden
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#insect #insectphotography #flutterby #butterfly #delicatebeauty #insects #speckledwood #commonbutterfly #mrflowerman_ #nectarcollector #pollenators #wildlife #london #england #londongarden #summer25 #macrophotography #macrophotographyworld

A black and white photograph of an aerial view of goldfish in a shallow pond

#blackandwhitephotography #pondlife #koi #goldfish #fish #londongarden

hot today
marigolds burn like
minisuns

#haiku #poetry #Londongarden #heatwave

Honeysuckle cascading down the fence between our house and our neighbour. I open the back door and the scent envelops me like a warm shower.

honeysuckle tints
thé warm air purest amber
perfume as flavour

#haiku #poetry #Londongarden #summertime

purple spires dreaming
of kisses from hungry bees
sage in full flower

#haiku #poetry #Londongarden #Mondaymorning

The rose bush my family gave me for a big number birthday is crowded with blooms, each one unique, each one beautiful. This is a closeup shot of three fully open pink roses against their own soft dark green foliage.

hugs on hugs
petals on petals
rose kisses

#haiku #haiga #poetry #Londongarden #roses

dry bamboo
thin brown fingers reach
for the rain

#haiku #poetry #climatechange #Londongarden

Y’day but today I’m thankful for all the rain. #mygarden #londongarden #roses

ordinary day
but a nest in the hedge has
freckled blue-green eggs

#haiku #poetry #blackbirdsnest #Londongarden

A black and white photograph of a spider on a web and a shadow of the spider

#spider #spiderwarning #blackandwhitephotography #pinholefilter #londongarden

this morning roses
opening in the garden
like perfumed kisses

#haiku #poetry #roses #Londongarden

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A colour photograph of the fallen petals of a camelia, formed to look like a butterfly

#flora #nature #entropy #londongarden #stilllifephotography

echoing Tudor
velvet russet and bronze
by my red brick wall
a pageant of wallflowers
trumpeting their rich perfume

#tanka #poetry #LondonGarden #TudorLondon

... an extra poem today in case I miss tomorrow's while travelling, and because this spring's wallflowers are so sumptuous.

spread at the feet of
the pale perfumed magnolia
the richest carpet
wallflowers running riot in
Renaissance velvet colours

#tanka #poetry #Londongarden #PrincessofSpring

star magnolia
a perfumed song from heaven
drifts through my windows

#haiku #poetry #springtime #LondonGarden