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GreenBeanJackie

@greenbeanjackie.bsky.social
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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

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 1h
Fantastic walk up in the Lake District hills, travelling by bus. View down to Sprinkling Tarn. Didn't manage a swim this time but it's a beautiful place #PublicTransport
Beautiful little tarn nestling in hillside
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
A bit late for #FingerpostFriday but this shows one with two impossible, in fact impassable, choices. We gave up in the end
Fast flowing mountain stream beside rocky footpath. Sign beside it reads 'Danger falling rocks. Public footpath over stream' with arrow pointing to stream which looks impossible to cross.
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
It's getting a bit nippy at night so I harvested all the outdoor #tomatoes. I'll leave most of them to ripen indoors now. The big fat ones are the Italian plum 'San Marzano'. The smaller ones, which have not done so well this year, are mostly costoluto Florentino.
Three plastic ounnets full of mostly plump green Italian tomatoes
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
#Heron in the rock pools at Granton. #TidesOutTuesday
Heron standing in a rock pool, reflected in the water. Rocky shore and more pools all around
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Blooming cold tonight so have had to resort to the old woolly blanket and cat winter regime ❄🐈‍⬛
Black cat sitting on a stripy knitted blanket
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
#GardensHour delighted my sweet peas are still flowering. These are 'Earl Grey'
Pale pink sweet peas with a dark purple stripe
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Hello #GardensHour had my first broccoli and last runner beans for tea today. Seasons turning.
Small pan with lightly cooked broccoli and chopped runner beans
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Thanks yes. It's from a seed variety called 'chaubad' which has a range of beautiful dark red and white flowers. This one should have flowered a couple of months ago.
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 04/10/2026
It's been a bit of a tricky day but look at this little carnation that appeared in my garden this morning #SmallBeauties #bloomScrolling
Tiny carnation, white with pink striped edges, in a grassy flower bed.
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 03/10/2026
Slightly chilly first October #SixOnSaturday . Tiny violas, everlasting cosmos, beautiful asters, a big yellow courgette flower, Welsh poppies still attracting bees
Collage of white and purple viola, white and pink cosmos, bright yellow courgette flower, pink aster, yellow Welsh poppy
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Quick nippy dip in the sea 🏊‍♂️ then watching oyster catchers and herons on the shore #SmallBeauties #1stOctober
Rock pools with heron
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Trying to catch this supremely chunky bumblebee as it flitted around the cosmos flowers. Mostly failing. #SmallBeauties
Collage if five photos of a white cosmos flower with a very fluffy bumblebee
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Thats true
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I got an email from one of my tiny pots , 'now you no longer work for this employer you may wish to decide what to do with your pension' . I left said employer no less than 25 years ago.
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I had one in my hair a couple of days ago. The height of fashion!
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
I take it he's had a wee chat with Greyfriars Bobby
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Oh yes. Got together with my now 42 year relationship person over a shared joy of letraset
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Yes. It has sulked all summer in the relative dryness we've had here and rented produced all these flowers after some recent rain
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Pink, white and purple flowers in the late summer sunshine for #sixonSaturday pink and purple asters, white sweet peas and cosmos, late flowering rose, Shropshire Lad and a fluffy bee on some lavender
Collage of pink aster, white sweet peas,  white cosmos, orange bumblebee on purple lavender,  purple aster, pink roses
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Out along the East Lothian coast and its fabulous beaches earlier this week for #FingerpostFriday
Finger post, pointing in one direction 'John Muir Way Yellowcraig' and in the other 'John Muir Way Dirleton' . Behind it a mown hay field and blue sky. In the middle is the pointy peak of North Berwick Law.
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Thanks for your advice.. Putting on my cat mask to beat imposter syndrome this morning. It doesn't get easier with age.
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Lovely swim yesterday at mid tide, Yellowcraig Beach, East Lothian #TidesOutTuesday 🏊‍♂️
Rocky beach, with small riverulet running along sandy shore to blue sea. Bass Rock in the distance
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
something funny happening with the picture - but if you click on it, it appears 😶
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Hello #GardensHour joy in the garden this week has mostly been harvesting: runner beans, courgettes, potatoes, cucumber, tomatoes. Also late summer flowers- mostly cosmos. Tomatoes coming along nicely. Not sure what to think about this half ripe one though
Crinkly tomato: half red and half green
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Signs of autumn among the late summer flowers for #SixOnSaturday pink and white cosmos, orange pyracantha berries, tomatoes, turning red, purple aster, red rowan berries, cherry tree leaves turning red
Collage of six late summer colours: pink and white cosmos, orange pyracantha berries,  red and green tomatoes, purple aster, red rowan berries, red cherry tree  leaves
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Tonight's tea: mostly home grown roasted veg - onions, 2 kinds of courgettes, apple, tomatoes, rosemary, runner beans, with some bought garlic and lime. Will be served with home grown new potatoes #SmallBeauties #growYourOwnFood
Roasting tin full of multicolored veg
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
#curlews on police hq playing fields - an autumn joy #SmallBeauties
Quite blurry photo of 5 or 6 curlews on a grassy field
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Had the first edible pear from my laggard pear trees (no edible pears in 8 years). This was a windfall, slightly crunchy but provides promise of success with those still on the tree. 🍐
Perfect looking pear, green, with a reddish tinge,on a red tablecloth
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Where did the day go? Anyway here's a late flowering Boule de Neige rose for #roseWednesday
White rose with pink tinged edges
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Sorry to have missed #GardensHour last night. My garden pond is completely overgrown but lots of tiny creatures live in it, including newts and frogs
2 frogs in long grass
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Also bring back the 42 bus 🚌
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Tiny frog in the long grass in my garden #SmallBeauties I've seen a couple of those today while out tidying up
Tiny brownish yellow frog in long grass
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
They're great sprinkled on home grown tomatoes 🍅
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Did you have a book called, I think, 'The little Dutch girl' where the main character is chased by giant bells for skipping church? We had this and it was terrifying
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Thanks. Hoping they'll all do well. This is the first year that the pears have been any use at all (only ever 1 inedible fruit each) so hoping I'll catch them at the just right stage this year
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
Apple and pear season incoming for #SixOnSaturday howgate wonder, red Falstaff, Christmas Pippin, sunset, pear doyenne de comice, red Williams. We've had a few windfalls but plenty more just ripening nicely
Collage of 4 different apples and two pears, still on the trees
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Cosmos 'Fizzy White' with visiting bumblebee for #FlowersOnFriday
White cosmos flowers, with visiting bumblebee
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Like the clocks at the Balmoral Hotel for Waverley, and Haymarket station in Edinburgh. Deliberately 5 minutes fast to get people to the trains on time. So useful.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 10/09/2026
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Maybe you need to plant a new one 🍎
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 09/09/2026
Just biting into the first eating apple of the season (Red Falstaff) and, wow, a reminder of the difference in taste between a home grown apple and one from the shops. Plenty more to come too 🍎🍎🍎 #AutumnJoys #SmallBeauties
Snall reddish green apple with a bite taken out of it
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
#wildFlowerHour #fruits enormous red spherical hips of the wild rosa rugosa
Big fat red spherical rose hips
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Marrow pickle. Reading the novel on the bus is a great way of avoiding doomscrolling as well as being a huge advantage of public transport
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Took some fruit and veg and jam to a garden show, bought some flowers at said show and took them to my Mum's care home. Sitting on buses for hours to accomplish this, I read quite a lot of a novel. Came home and started making pickle.
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Thanks!
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
Quick dash round the garden to see what I could enter for the local veg show. These are all too bendy, quirky, knobbly or insufficient in number: beans, cucumber, pear, tomatoes, apple sunset and apples Howgate Wonder #SixOnSaturday . Off to the show with jam, chutney and more apples
Pile of fruit and veg: about a dozen bendy runner beans, 4 large apples one small apple, a pear, a round yellow cucumber and 2 wonky tomatoes
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
Oh no.
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
This crow swooped down on the outdoor table I was sitting at and swiped a discarded wooden fork, left behind by a previous littering occupant #SmallBeauties #litterpicking
Slightly scruffy crow standing on a wooden table
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Mine was drinking rain water off the plastic cover on the patio table - wild water always infinitely preferred to water in a dish 🐈‍⬛☔
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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
#FromARailwayCarriage East coast mainline, sun over the sea on the border coast #TidesOutTuesday
Big sky with dark clouds and pale yellow sun above a grey sea. In the foreground, a cliff and a little beach.
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