The free #Auckland Botanic #Gardens are beautiful and have a rose garden. It showcases a diverse range of more than 10,000 plants from New Zealand and around the world. Have you been here and how did you like it? #NewZealand https://backpackandsnorkel.com/Auckland/#botanical

A beautiful Katsura tree in a garden we visited yesterday.
#Trees #Northumberland #Spring #gardens

Fu Garden in Taipei, Taiwan

A Greek-inspired memorial garden to commemorate a former university president and a liberal influential intellectual#memorials #gardens #section-Atlas
Fu Garden

My container display is doing well (gifted). On the blog, there's a round up of what's happening in my garden. We've been forced into a major renovation project and I've got a voucher code for pots from British Flowerpots. Read about it here: https://bit.ly/44fl5y4

Really nice #nature #artwork, made by local #artist friends of mine; msg me if interested in any of these large beautiful creations below ---

With the warmer weather, the wee folk will be back in the gardens. Remember not to use pesticides or weed killers, which will lead to the extinction of our small friends. (These houses are from Ripple Pottery in Rumney, NY, near where we vacation each summer.) #Gardens #Gardening #NativePlants #Pottery #NoPesticides

It’s a good year for blossom - let’s hope we don’t get frost.

This is the ‘Pershore Yellow Egg’ plum. It produces huge yellow plums that are terrible raw but cooked produce fruit with a great flavour and clear, golden juice. Pershore isn’t far from me so almost a local variety.
#gardening #gardens #plants #flowers #trees #cotswolds #HomegrownFood #photography

some really fine floral pieces that are in need of interiors
msg me if you see one you like & want to inquire about
all're affordable & easy to order

#PacificNorthwest's ‘#forest #gardens’ were deliberately planted by #Indigenous people

https://www.science.org/content/article/pacific-northwest-s-forest-gardens-were-deliberately-planted-indigenous-people

A throwback to RHS Chelsea for this week's Cheering Up Mondays flower. My press pass is approved and I'm counting down the days.

More on the blog: https://bit.ly/4hVd30G
#roses #CheeringUpMondays #flowers #plants #gardens #gardening #BloomScrolling #MondayMotivation #photography

Weeds - "We need to go and make sure you can't buy them anymore."

The ecological damage already caused by weeds that had 'escaped' household gardens was tiny compared to the potential threat posed by plants sold at gardening retailers.

"We've introduced so many plants into Australia now that, when you go for a walk in your local bush, one in eight of the plant species you see there have been introduced. At least three-quarters of weeds established in the Australian environment have come from escaped garden plants, according to a 2004 report by biosecurity strategist John Virtue."
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https://www.abc.net.au/news/2025-04-06/garden-stores-selling-plants-that-could-be-next-invasive-weeds/105128092
#plants #flora #weeds #gardens #culture #BushDumping #dumping #horticulture #industry #markets #regulation #Bellingen #InvasiveSpecies #NSW

Sunday in the Garden! It's that time of year again. Here's how Garden 2025 is going...

https://substack.com/home/post/p-160737324

https://www.spetchleyparkestate.co.uk/events/plant-fair

I've just bought us some early bird tickets for the Spetchley Gardens specialist plant fair on the 27th of April.

Ooh, exciting!

#plantfair
#gardens
#flowers
#alwaysroomformoreplants
#bestdayout

Howdy folks!
I’m in an early kinda humour.
If you’re enjoying the good weather in your garden/yard/patch keep an eye out for bumblebee queens out and about presently and resist the urge to tidy up. #Nature thrives in messy wild.
#gardens

#theBeeAt3

Basic bee facts every day at 3pm.

# 85

Forage Basics 101:

Nectar = Carbohydrates = Sugar = Energy.

Pollen = Protein + Nutrients + Fats.

‘Bees need flowers need bees need flowers need…’
- The Bee Guy
…and you can quote me on that!
#bees

Rock-Splitting Cherry Tree in Morioka, Japan

A 360-year-old cherry tree grows out of a granite boulder.#courtyard #gardens #rockformations #rocks #naturalhistory #naturalwonders #trees #section-Atlas
Rock-Splitting Cherry Tree

Spring's balm quickly fades
Summer blisters the garden
Sunflowers show some skin
Thick and radiant through Fall

#mastoprompt - blister

https://fineartamerica.com/featured/basking-in-the-glory-sharon-cummings.html

the blistering sun
threatens the purple iris
clinging to the spring

#dailyhaikuprompt - plum
#mastoprompt - blister

ART
https://fineartamerica.com/featured/enchanted-irises-purple-flower-art-sharon-cummings.html

#iris #irises #flower #flowers #floral #floralart #purple #garden #gardens #gardening #gardener #spring #springtime #springflowers #lavender #fresh #fun #art #artwork #patterns #pattern #flowery #buyintoart #homedecor by #SharonCummingsArt #poetry #poet #poets #poem #poems #shortpoem #shortpoems #smallpoem #smallpoems #haiku

Got potatoes?

Planting the ‘Cosmic Gold’ variety. This will be for our early use.

For our main crop and storage I will plant ‘German Butterball’ later this spring. We are still using these from last year’s garden.

For anyone in the greater Seattle area, Flower World near Maltby has a great selection of seed potatoes. There is a generous amount in one of the bags so you will likely be able to share some with a gardening friend.
#Gardens #Gardening #GrowYourOwn #PNW #Seattle