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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Sunflower ‘Little Dorrit’ - small in stature, large in personality 🌻 🌞 🌱

Large headed sunflower with bumblebee and honeybee

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

When you didn’t get the memo about the dress code 🌱🌷☀️ #gardening #spring #OddOneOut

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

It feels like winter, but it looks like spring 🌸 🌱 🩷 #BloomScrolling #Spring #Scotland

Spring blooms in blues, yellows and white.
Clockwise from top left: Scilla forbesii, Scilla bifolia rosea, Narcissus ‘Elka’, Muscari latifolium, Prunus sp., Scilla siberica, Narcissus ‘Little Emma’, Scilla ‘Pink Giant’, Erythronium dens-canis

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

After 20 years, 5 allotments and two cities, I’m saying goodbye to plot-life. On my first day, I sat on the steps of the shed and cried with happiness. It was allotmenteering that started me on the path to becoming a gardener - and now I’m head gardener for the TV show The Beechgrove Garden! 🌱

Grid of 9 allotment photos. From top left: strawberry harvest, nasturtiums growing rampantly through my fence, pumpkin plants planted in a compost bin, winning sweet peas, giant Potimarron pumpkin, newly dug pond, a profusion of flowers, plastic bottle cloches, and me, weeding

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 26/02/2026

Ooh, aren’t twigs amazing? Names in alt text #gardening #nature #winter #colour 🌱🧡🌲❤️❄️

9 different willows - stems and catkins in shades of yellow, green, scarlet and purple. Clockwise from top left: Salix aegyptaica, S. alba ‘Chermisina’, Cornus alba ‘Elegantissima’, Salix melanostachys, Cornus alba sibirica, S. daphnoides, Cornus ‘Midwinter Fire’, C. stoloifera ‘Flaviramea’ and C. alba ‘Kesselringii’

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Iris reticulata ‘Clairette’ I just adore these late winter Iris, so dainty and vivid 🌱 #Scotland #bloomscrolling #winterooms

Two small blue iris in the late winter garden

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

It was bonny at work today. Chionochloa conspicua in the foreground ❄️🌱🌲☀️ #Beechgrove #Scotland #Grasses

View across a snowy garden, looking at some large clumps of grasses in the foreground and greenhouses behind. The sky is blue with some fluffy clouds.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 05/02/2026

I needed this today. The year so far: snow snow snow snow snow snow cloud snow snow cloud rain wind rain cloud rain cloud rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain rain hail rain rain rain rain sleet rain sleet sleet #winter #Scotland #Aberdeen 🌱 ❄️ 🌧️

Snowdrops, cyclamen and a wee bit of winter aconite in amongst some leaf litter in the garden

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

So very fed up with the endless rain, but cheered a little by these lovelies. “This little globe of yellow’s brightest shade, as though upon a nest of scanty green a fairy bird its magic egg had laid.” Robert Henry Forster 🌱 💛

Winter aconites (Eranthis hyemelis), bursting out of the ground. Their zesty lemon yellow buds and green leaves contrast against the mottled browns of the ground beneath them.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 13/01/2026

On a dreich day I found some beauty. Plumed Tussock Grass, Chionochloa conspicua sparkling in the setting sun. 🌾🌱🍁🌞 #Beechgrove #Aberdeenshire #Scotland #winter #garden

Close up of a plume of ornamental grass. There are drops of rain at the end of each spikelet, the sky behind is a warm, gold.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 09/01/2026

Taking ‘Silver Birch’ to the next level ❄️ 🥶 🤍 🌲 📸 #winter #snow #nature #Scotland #Aberdeen

A large Birch tree completely covered in frozen snow.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 31/12/2025

Natures fireworks. Happy Hogmanay and have a great 2026 BlueSkyers! 🌱❄️🥂🎇 #Hogmanay #Scotland #2026

Almost verical lines in black and white: Broom (Cytisus praecox) stems covered in frost and snow.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 24/12/2025

From a year when I had a bit more time to be creative - posting this intentionally to make more time next year. Have a good one everyone! #CreativeChristmas #BirdsOfBlueSky 🎨🎄❄️

Lino printed robin standing on a snowy branch- all in black and white except for its red breast

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 20/12/2025

A year ago today I brought our garden bothy cat home for the Christmas holidays… and she’s still here. Ok, so she’s still nervous, does the occasional naughty pee and makes me sneeze, but she does look very sweet when she’s sleeping #Caturday

Close up of a black cat sleeping on the back of the sofa

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 17/12/2025

Same view on 3 consecutive days, just as the sun is setting at 3.30pm. 🌱🌳❄️📸 #BeechgroveGarden #Aberdeenshire

3 photos of the same view of a pond in winter with trees behind. The sun is setting. The one on the left has a fiery red sunset, the middles is a cool blue, with a hint of yellow - the pond is frozen, and the one on the right is a cloudy blue

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 15/12/2025

The fire before the darkness. Sunset at 3.30pm and it’s not even midwinter yet 🌞 🔥 🌚 📸 🌲 #Scotland #Aberdeenshire #Winter

Photo of a fiery sunset over a pond. The sky is shades of orange and red. The scene is reflected in the still pond, including the leafless weeping Birch.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 11/12/2025

When winter comes and you find out you had neighbours 📸🌱🌳❄️🐦‍⬛

Black and white photo of an arch through a Hornbeam hedge. It’s winter and the branches are bare. Above the arch and to the side is a birds nest, which was hidden when the leaves were on.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 06/12/2025

Red sky in the morning, shepherd’s warning #BlueSkyArtShow #Sky 📸🌱🌳

It is a winter morning and we are looking at a shabby shed. There is melting snow all around - on the path, the roof, the hedge beside us. A large ivy-clad sycamore towers over the shed and behind it’s bare branches is a pink-purple-blue, bruise-coloured sky.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

If you’re ever feeling down, just take a look at this cheery wee face 🌱📸🙂

A smallish rectangular stone with a smiling face carved into it, sitting on a moss-covered wall.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 22/11/2025

Walking through the melting snow, I saw this and felt a little warmer 📸 🎨🌳 #art #streetart #Aberdeen #Scotland

A door in a stone wall, on a northern city street (you can’t see, but h the recent snow is melting). The door is painted - blue sky fading to white, dry, cracked yellow-ochre ground and a striking Baobab tree in the centre. There is also, what seems to be a flying whale in the sky.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 14/11/2025

First frost! Brr, it was nippy this morning, but this iced rose was beautiful 🌱 🥀 📸 ❄️ #BloomScrolling #Rose #Aberdeenshire #Scotland

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 09/11/2025

Autumn gold 🌱🌳🍁📸 #StunDay #Autumn #Scotland Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen

Fine Acer palmatum leaves in warm shades of brown, amber, copper and gold. The leaves in the foreground are in focus, those behond are blurred with a blue-grey background

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 04/11/2025

A magnificent Beech in Gight Wood - one of the last remnants of ancient woodland in Aberdeenshire, Scotland #ThickTrunkTuesday 🌳🍁📸

Looking up at a large, mature Beech tree. The trunk is wide and the branches are thick and almost horizontal. It’s autumn and the leaves are beginning to turn, the ground underneath is covered with copper coloured leaves.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Take a seat among the falling leaves #Autumn #BlueSkyArtShow 🌳🍁📸 Cruickshank Botanic Garden, Aberdeen, Scotland

View of a garden. A wooden bench in the foreground, behind and to the side is an Acer in the sunshine. Some leaves have fallen, giving the grass a golden glow.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 27/10/2025

My absolute favourite tree, the fern-leaved Beech, Fagus sylvatica ‘Asplenifolia’ 🌳🍁📸 #CruickshankBotanicGarden #Aberdeen #Scotland

A beech tree wider than it is tall. The sun is shining on its autumn leaves which are a golden-orange. The leaves are deeply toothed than the usual Beech, giving it a shimmering light quality.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

Some more autumn loveliness for #SixOnSaturday Photos from Falkland Palace gardens and the Japanese Garden at Cowden #Scotland 🌱🌳🍁🔥 Names in alt text

Collage from top left: dusky pink ‘petals’ of Hydrangea paniculata, golden autumn leaves of Acer shirasawanum, large glossy deep rich burgundy leaves of Vitis coignetiae, red leaves in the sunlight of Acer palmatum, Acer leaves in the distance, small yellow fruits of Malus x zumi ‘Golden Hornet’

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 18/10/2025

‘Skylight’ from Andy Goldsworthy’s 50 year retrospective in Edinburgh this summer. An intimate, natural cathedral, he apparantly made this work in the hope that the skylight would be cleaned… #Vertical #BlueSkyArtShow #Art #EnvironmentalArt #LandArt

Looking up at a skylight in a ceiling. The surrounding walls are clad in tiers of stems of reed mace (Typha latifolia) hung vertically.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 16/10/2025

Sorbus commixta looking gorgeous in the autumn sun 🌱🌳🍁🔥 #JapaneseGarden #Scotland #Autumn

Photo taken of a Japanese garden, looking across a lawn with a stone bench. The surrounding trees are green, but in the centre is a vivid red Japanese Rowan (Sorbus commixta) tree

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

A fine day to visit the restored Japanese Garden in Fife. Dating from the early 1900’s, adventurer Ella Christie hired designer Taki Handa making it the first and only garden of its size and scale to be designed by a woman. 🌱🍁🌳💪 #autumn #Scotland #GardenHistory #JapaneseGardens

View over a small lake. The sky is blue and the day is still so the landscape is perfectly reflected in the water. In the distance there is a footbridge and a pagoda. The trees and shrubs are all different shapes, sizes and colours, and in the background you can see some hills.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquifolia) in the sunshine #Glow #BlueSkyArtShow 🌱🍁🔥📸

Sunlight through Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquifolia) in autumn. The leaves are a fiery red

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 11/10/2025

Can I please live in a tree house of these 🌱🌳🍂🍁🔥📸 #Autumn #Scotland #Beechgrove #SixOnSaturday Names in alt text

6 stunning autumn colour leaves. Clockwise from top left: Parrotia persica (orange/yellow), Acer palmatum ‘Osakazuki’ (coral/ pink/red), Physocarpus ‘Ruby Wine’ (deep red), Acer palmatum ‘Dissectum’ (golden), Physocarpus (burnt orange), Parthenocissus quinquifolia (vivid red)

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

And the heat goes on… can’t believe I’d already packed my shorts away for winter, what a mistake 🥵🌱📸 #Autumn #GardeningInScotland #Beechgrove

View across a lawn, looking at the sun through a Birch and red-leaved Oak tree. The shadows are long and the sky is blue.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 07/10/2025

The first year of a gardening job is a voyage of discovery, seeing the garden change throughout the year. Previous gardeners at Beechgrove have made some lovely choices and planting combinations! #autumn #Scotland #horticulture 🌱🍁🔥📸

Autumnal scene, looking through an archway formed by the red leaves of Acer palmatum ‘Osakazuki’ and Hamamelis x intermedia ‘Pallida’. There are other lovely colours of shrubs on either side of the gravel path. There is a lawn in the distance with dappled sunlight.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

#Relax #BlueSkyArtShow 📸🌳🌸 The Old Wood of Drum, Aberdeenshire, Scotland

A soothing photo of an ancient woodland in summer. Everywhere is green - trees, feens and grass. In the centre is a group of foxgloves growing out of a stump.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

In today’s #SixOnSaturday autumn is in question with these pink beauties! #Beechgrove #Scotland Info in alt text 🌱🌸📸💕

Clockwise from top left: fluffy pink blossom-like flowers of Calluna vulgaris H E Beale, two-tone pink flowers of perennial Sweet pea, ‘red’ campion Silene dioica, the two-tone pink and green leaves of Vaccinium corymbosum ‘Pink Flamingo’, Nerine and deep pink Cosmos.

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