GreenBeanJackie
Posts about flowers, bees, vegetables, Edinburgh, rural Scotland, buses, gardening, wild swimming, cats, small beauties. Blogging about gardening at www.reclaimingparadise.wordpress.com and swimming at swimmingat60.wordpress.com/swims
- #SmallBeautiesHour seeing family at the weekend, some very good value daffodils, curlews for #RubbishBirdPics, remembering that it is 5 years since my son sent us surprise coffee and pastries, bringing us joy in deep miserable lockdown
- Reposted by GreenBeanJackieThe Time Ball at the top of the Nelson Monument has been restored recently - that's the wee black ball there not the huge big yellow one. #SnowMoon #Edinburgh
- Welcome #February
- Heron posing beside Water of Leith @wolct.bsky.social @everyheron.bsky.social
- Last January #SixOnSaturday Mostly snowdrops, witchhazel still shining brightly, yellow winter jasmine and just a touch of colour on a single crocus. Plenty of spring joy to come.
- Reposted by GreenBeanJackiePlease spread this far and wide, as stories don't get much bigger than this. When the government blocks even the intelligence services from telling us we're heading for environmental catastrophe, you know we have a problem. A very big problem. Thank you. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Hello #GardensHour I've been enjoying the snowdrops at last
- #BigGardenBirdWatch final count in my garden on a grey January day when its been almost dark since about 3.30pm - 1 Robin (a good one though), 2 magpies, 1 blackbird and even only 1 woodpigeon
- Settling down for the #BigGardenBirdWatch Not sure the 30 #curlews on the police HQ playing fields count though. Too far away to photograph but stunning to see
- Mostly snowdrops, daffodils appearing and a friendly garden Robin for #SixOnSaturday
- #GardensHour searching the vaults for summer blues for #BlueMonday Here are some lovely self-seeded borage flowers
- Frosty witchhazel for #FlowersOnFriday on another chilly morning ❄
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- Hello @gardenshour.bsky.social not much happening in the garden just now but we had some beautiful frost last week. Snowdrops just peeking through now #GardensHour
- Various birds in the frost and snow for #SmallBeautiesHour- very fluffed up robin (same one I think) and blackbirds eating fallen apples. Back to cold and wet now for the rest of January so will be needing all the #SmallBeauties we can find.
- #SixOnSaturday from yesterday's snowy garden. Mostly gone today but still chilly: snowy pond, rainbow chard, snow on the oak tree, robin in the hedge, viburnum, osteospermum
- #FlowersOnFriday and ny osteospermum continues to flower, even in the snow
- The north wind doth blow and we shall have snow and what will poor Robin do then? Just a sprinkling here but Robin huddling in the hedge. #SmallBeauties
- -4.4c out there this morning ❄ 🥶 beautiful frost and raindrops frozen in time #SmallBeauties
- Taking the Xmas deccies down (we do it on the 6th- that's our tradition - no arguments). New tradition to slaughter the Xmas herby wreath and eat some of it in a pasta sauce
- -4 c this morning ❄ defrosted the bird bath and the garden Robin hopped straight in. A pair of magpies are building a nest in a tall tree behind the garden 🤔 #breakfastBirdWatch
- Blackbirds eating fallen apples on neighboring allotment in a slight dusting of snow #SmallBeauties
- -3c in the garden this morning, watched by a super fluffed up robin ❄
- A #frosty first #SixOnSaturday for 2026: tiny green shoots of crocus and snowdrops, frosty leaves, bright witchhazel, frozen bird bath and a silly flowering osteospermum
- Bit nippy today so have on my lockdown project yarn stash legwarmers, paired with red puffin socks. #knitting
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- We had a debate about how best to decorate this Hogmanay dinner roast. Not HNY (cos it isn't yet), not Happy Hogmanay(cos just wrong). We settled on this. #Hogmanay
- As 2025 comes to an end, I've been celebrating all that has gone well (and some things that haven't) in my garden and allotment over on my gardening blog reclaimingparadise.wordpress.com/2025/12/31/r...
- Frosty end to 2025. ❄ make the most of the last day of the year
- Coffee and Christmas cake at the allotment with my son, fixing my tumbledown greenhouse. All set for spring now! 🌱 may hibernate for a bit longer first though
- Ice on water in a bucket this morning. -2 degrees ❄ but the sun is coming up.
- A chilly midwinter last #SixOnSaturday for 2025: witchhazel, wallflower, viburnum, wintersweet, a randomly growing broad bean, yellow chard. I've covered up the bean to protect from forecast frost.
- Hosting #duvetKnowItsChristmas this year with a grown up son and a brother-in-law in relatively comfortable beds, but they will have to fight over the cat, who seems rather unimpressed at the invasion
- Sun setting on Christmas Eve
