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Eileen O'Neill

@eileenoneill.bsky.social
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Indexer, gardener, avid reader

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Roisin Meaney 💙📚 @roisinm.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Now listen up: words to live by in 2026 (and beyond). Be what the sad world needs. "So many gods, so many creeds So many paths that wind and wind, While just the art of being kind Is all the sad world needs." ~ Ella Wheeler Wilcox
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Rashi Grover @lavendermist15.bsky.social · 21h
Still blooming into October #purplefriday🪻 #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #ruellia
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Roses UK @rosesuk.bsky.social · 14h
Tis autumnal but mild, we’re heading towards the last rose blooms of the season… Crepuscule, Sweet Pretty, Felicia, Perle d’Or. Have a good weekend everyone, take care. #roses #FlowersonFriday 🌱
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misheleneous Handmade Gifts | Home & Hound @misheleneous.bsky.social · 14h
#WeekNforNeon #AlphabetChallenge A beautiful, bright, bouquet of flowers a lovely friend sent to me for my birthday in June. As close to neon as the plant world can get 💐 #FlowersOnFriday #Gerbera #BloomScrolling #Flowers #Photography #GardenSky
A white bee print vase holding a bouquet of very bold gerbera flowers on a porch window sill
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Dr Francis Young @drfrancisyoung.bsky.social · 11h
Thank you to Warwick Words History Festival for hosting a great event on the history of fairies - excellent audience questions, and all my books sold out! 📚🧚‍♀️
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Xela Hart @xelahart.bsky.social · 23h
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Georgie Bowden @georgiebowden.bsky.social · 10h
A honeybee trying to join a bumblebee on a flower. #bees #flowers "Excuse me, is this seat taken?"
A close up of a bumblebee facing the camera sitting astride the yellow centre of a white zinnia flower. A honeybee is flying in from the right preparing to land.
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R. Pangan @rmpangan.bsky.social · 10h
Nature's perfect geometry dressed in her favourite autumn coat. (Its summer blooms are predominantly vibrant red.)✨️🫶 #FlowersOnFriday #Scape #MyGarden #dahlias #bloomscrolling #coloraday #colouraday #Flowers #ECK #gardening #autumngarden 📸 Sept. 28, 2026
Two photos of one dahlia showing off its autumn colours. In summer, she is mainly red. Multi-layered flower with incredible geometric symmetry typical of big dahlia flowers.
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 12h
Voilà 🌱 #FlowersOnFriday #PurpleFriday #FloralFriday #Flowers #EastCoastKin
Purple viola
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Chapters Bookstore, Parnell St, D1 @chaptersbookstore.bsky.social · 10h
Rock ’n’ roll came calling! 🎸 Dónal Gallagher popped in to sign Edged in Blue, his account of life with his brother Rory, from Irish showbands to the world’s stages - touring adventures, music history and a brother’s perspective. Signed copies instore & online 💚🎸
Dónal Gallagher smiles outside Chapters Bookstore on a sunny day, holding his book, Edged in Blue: A Rock ’n’ Roll Odyssey with Rory Gallagher. He wears an olive-green jacket and trousers. The green shopfront displays Chapters’ name and Bookshop of the Year 2025 signage.Dónal Gallagher leans over a table inside Chapters, signing the title page of Edged in Blue with a blue pen. Copies of the book and gold signed-copy stickers sit beside him, with book displays and the bright shop entrance in the background.
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AltYellostoneNatPar @altyellonatpark.org · 08/10/2026
Somebody somewhere Needs flowers tonight
Wid Iris
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Bob @bobsegel.com · 08/10/2026
Bob's Picture of the Day: Red Hibiscus #Photography #BloomScrolling #BskyTogs #Hibiscus 🌸
Red Hibiscus. ©️BobSegel
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Crystal @crystal-photo.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Eastern carpenter bee on butterfly bush #macro #nature #photography #insect #purple #photographersofbluesky #wings #bloomscrolling #flowersky #bloomsky #bugsky #flowers #pollinatorpals #ECK #insectthursday #blueskyphotography #pollinators Canon EOS Rebel T5 50mm f/5.6 ISO 640 1/500s
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aaaawells.bsky.social @aaaawells.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
A crisp Fall morning in the Wells garden The Floribunda Roses Citscape, Oh My and Orchid Romance and Star of the garden this year the David Austin Rose Bathsheba @missjoy1965.bsky.social @cabofun.bsky.social @mariecarnes.bsky.social @flutterbyflora.bsky.social @downmydirtroad.bsky.social
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Painted Lady butterfly on dahlia 'Bishop of Canterbury' in my garden a few weeks ago 🌱🦋 #InsectThursday #BugSky #FlyDay #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #ECK
Butterfly with orange, black, and white spotted wing patterns, on a red dahlia bloom
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City Mouse Garden @citymousegarden.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Another new flush of divinely scented blooms from ‘Purple Tiger’ for #RoseWednesday. #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #SmallJoys #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱
A beautiful rose in dark burgundy steamed with all kinds of red, pink & white spots and stripes.
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fredarock2.bsky.social @fredarock2.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Sing with me just for today.. My nextdoor neighbors' rose leaning into my garden again. I don't mind and she's welcome to visit anytime. She made my heart sings! #pinkrose #neighborsrose
A beautiful pink rose and a small rose bud  underneath it on a gloomy morning. The rose n bud are leaning into my garden
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Paul @paulst001.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Our latest rose after early morning rain
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JBC @johnbcaddell.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
a #PurpleFriday #iris for #FloralFrday #flowers 🌱 #JBCFlowers
closeup view of a dew-laden purple bearded iris
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aaaawells.bsky.social @aaaawells.bsky.social · 02/10/2026
A few more yellow. David Austin Roses The Poet’s Wife, The Lady Gardner, Charlotte and Roald Dahl @joyf.bsky.social @cabofun.bsky.social @mariecarnes.bsky.social @flutterbyflora.bsky.social @downmydirtroad.bsky.social #Bloomscrolling #Roses #Gardening
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R. Pangan @rmpangan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Grateful for every bloom, every flutter, and every sweet summer memory. 😊 #InsectThursday #MyGarden #monarchbutterfly #zinnias #pollinators #bloomscrolling #coloraday #colouraday #ECK #gardenshour 📸July & Aug. 2026
Collage of monarch butterflies on the zinnias from my summer garden. The zinnias are in various shades of orange and pink and are either singles or fully double. The monarchs were captured in several angles, mostly side views while gathering pollen and nectar on the centre part of the zinnias.
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Paul @paulst001.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Autumn is starting to arrive in our local park
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The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Petunia 'Black Velvet' (Petunia × atkinsiana), really not a true black, but a deep maroon colour, spotted in a neighbour's #garden last weekend. Not sure yet if it's my cup of tea, but it would be great in a spooky #Hallowe'en window box or hanging basket 🎃 #Flowers #BloomScrolling #Gardening
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Aintright @aintright.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Bertie the Bullfinch #vivid #BirdOfTheDay #birds #nature #photography #ECK
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johnormrod.bsky.social @johnormrod.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
A benefit of growing roses is that there are usually some to pick and bring into the house. Even if it is raining outside. The scent is fabulous. #roseWednesday #gardening #roses
Three rose blooms in a vase on a table; ‘Strawberry Hill’ and ‘The Churchill’
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Dr. Owen O'Shea @owenoshea.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
BOOK NEWS: Delighted to share the cover of my forthcoming biography of Austin Stack which will be published by Merrion Press in November. Details of book launches will be announced in due course. The book can now be pre-ordered here: www.irishacademicpress.ie/product/unch...
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Mairéad Hearne | Swirl and Thread Book Blog @maireadhearne.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I felt the exact same ❤️ 'This novel had one of the most perfect endings that I have ever read. I was smiling but with tears in my eyes and I didn’t want it to end.' via @steph07.bsky.social
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🇨🇦JOY 🇨🇦 @joycomes.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Long-eared Owls chicks 4 weeks old leave the nest at 26 days and climb and huddle together on branches fed by their parents. They develop flight feathers and are able to take short flights at 5 weeks of age. They will be 15 cm when full grown. Live across the North America, Europe, Asia, N Africa
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🦋 C.G., PhD 🐸 (🪖"Prima" AKA "Battle" to One)🌻 @tcrg2012.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
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Eileen O'Neill @eileenoneill.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy #PurpleFriday #Bloomscrolling #FlowersonFriday #gardening
Purple pansies with dark centres
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Rashi Grover @lavendermist15.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Happy #purplefriday friends …🪻 #flowersonfriday #ruellia #bloomscrolling
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mjlinde.bsky.social @mjlinde.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
#ColorADay #RedWed #ChocolateCherrySunflower #gardening 🌱 #bloomscrolling @luciecatnip.bsky.social
Close up capture of a burgundy red sunflower.. gorgeous!
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R. Pangan @rmpangan.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just a common blue, making an ordinary day extraordinary. 🌦🦋 #BlueSkyMonday #MacroMonday #MyGarden ##bloomscrolling #roses #raindrops #commonbluebutterfly #nature #macro #coloraday #pollinators 📸 Aug. 19, 2026
A common blue butterfly on a coral pink rose in my Aug garden after the storm. This tiny butterfly has bluish body and antennae, black spots with white rings and crescents-shaped marking  along the outer edges of both front and back wings. The edge of wings are white.
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💙 Gigi @gwlupo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
💙 Same beautiful colors. Breath taking. And how about the elegant shape? Can't beat it.
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💙 Gigi @gwlupo.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
💙 I have no idea what kind of flowers these are. I just know they're so gorgeous, especially the colors, that they deserve to be good morning flowers. They're not just flowers - they are glowers. So, good morning, dear Blueskyers. May you find such happiness today that you glow.
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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘Busman’s Holiday’.
Busman’s Holiday


I had always wanted to go 
on a busman’s holiday
so I saved up for ten years

and then five holidays
came along at once.


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Brian Bilston @brianbilston.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Today’s poem is called ‘Love is a Skin’.
Love is a Skin

love is a skin
that protects you,
a warmth that spreads 
from the tips of your fingers
to your heart

sorry – not love –
glove, i meant glove


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Tim Hannigan @timhannigan.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Obligatory author copy unboxing photo.
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Bob Fry @bobfry.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Couldn’t resist posting another view of the ancient holloway. It’s part of a very old route from Gloucester to Cirencester called the Bisley Path.
A deep holloway worn through a beechwood. Golden September sunlight in the trees overhead.
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Eoghan Daltun 🌍 @irishrainforest.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
It's now extremely hard for Irish people to conceive what a wild tree even looks like, with mostly only domesticated, tamed versions remaining. This rainforest holly gives an idea. Rewilding is how we allow not only wild trees back, but the entire ecosystems of which they're meant to be a part.
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Last day of August: “… The turn has come; Night-hidden messengers have touched the scene; And, in the morning, when we greet, we say 'My love, my dear, the summer days have been.'” — from ‘The Turn of Summer’ by Augustus Radcliffe Grote (1841-1903).
Collage of colourful late-summer flowers in a garden: a golden-yellow daisy-like bloom, orange Heleniums with rounded brown centres, pink-purple coneflowers, rich violet-purple roses, and a loose planting of pink, cream, yellow and orange everlasting flowers. Lush green foliage and softly blurred flowers fill the backgrounds, capturing the garden at the end of August.
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
Here is ‘The Turn of Summer’ in full, by Augustus Radcliffe Grote (1841–1903), capturing that subtle moment when summer is still all around us, yet the first signs of autumn have begun to appear.
A vintage printed copy of the poem ‘The Turn of Summer’ by Augustus Radcliffe Grote. The poem describes the subtle transition from summer towards autumn: fading flowers, fruit beginning to form, spider webs among the grass, birds preparing to fly south, and the almost imperceptible change of the season. It ends: “My love, my dear, the summer days have been.”
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R. Pangan @rmpangan.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
A splash of lavender in the green. ✨️ #BlueSkyMonday #MyGarden #liatris #blazingstar #macromonday #bloomscrolling #gardening #coloraday #colouraday #mondayblues
Blazing star or liatris with its vertical vertical flower spikes rising like purple wands above its tidy grass like foliage and other green leaves sorrounding it from late July to mid-Aug in my garden.
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Rashi Grover @lavendermist15.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
Thank you all for participating in #purplefriday for dignity and inclusion…thank you for taking me to 1k followers on #bluesky. I almost left it many times, but now I’m here to stay 🪻☺️🥰
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kyllrelf 🇨🇦 01.bsky.social @kyllrelf01.bsky.social · 28/08/2026
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Middle Age Riot @middleageriot.bsky.social · 26/08/2026
Republicans are in charge of the Senate. Republicans are in charge of the House. Republicans are in charge of the Presidency. Republicans are in charge of the Supreme Court. Republicans are to blame for everything.
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Petra Michaela @petramichaela.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
We talk a lot about progress and innovation, but at what point does it cost too much? Data centers consume enormous amounts of water and energy. They clear land. They fragment ecosystems. Meanwhile, bees are disappearing, aquifers are dropping, and forests keep shrinking. 🐝
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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
A somewhat spectral and spooky looking poppy 'Amazing Grey' (Papaver rhoeas) 🌱 #FlowersOnFriday #PurpleFriday #Bloomscrolling #UKGardening
a poppy with ruffled, delicate, tissue-thin petals in a smoky lavender and slate-grey colour gradient surrounding a dark central seed pod and stamens.

Pictured at RHS Bridgewater
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Rashi Grover @lavendermist15.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
The purple ruellias make my day each morning 💜 #purplefriday🪻 #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #ruellia
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Nick @gardenwizard.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Gothic petunia #bloomscrolling #gardening 🖤
A very dark red petunia appearing to be almost black
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