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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling #Dahlias 🌱 It’s beginning to feel like early autumn with fresh mornings and falling leaves. The afternoons are still hot and still no rain to speak of, so stil not ideal, it’s impossible to get a trowel into the soil.

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Another relentlessly hot and sunny week means much of the garden is crispy, some of the losses, like a small acer, will be permanent. The pasture behind the garden is bleached white and I have never seen the river so low.

Dahlias, cosmos, phlox and zinnia from the garden

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling Rudbeckia and valerian have managed to withstand six weeks without rain

Rudbeckia and valerian, two pants that have proven themselves drought resistant this year, although the
Rudbeckia is less profuse than other years.

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱The garden is looking exhausted, only the area around the house fed with saved grey water is doing well. The raspberries are coming of the canes dehydrated, if this is the new normal radical rethinking is needed

Some dahlias, cosmos and a second flush from the roses nearest the house

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱soft pinksand creamy yellows belie the toughness of these survivors

Cosmos, scabious and dahlias in creamy yellows and sugar pink tones

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 slightly cooler for the last couple of weeks but still no rain, much of the garden is parched but some tenacious flowers are still doing well, surviving on saved shower and washing up water.

Albizia flower, like a pink feathery fan, the creamy flowers of scabious « fata morgana » and a selection of dahlias from the garden

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling Another apocalyptically hot week, a lot of the garden looks September tired, but a few gems keep shining through

A collage from the garden, a deep red pompom dahlia with a burgundy centre, a pale pink and buttery yellow pompom dahlia, peach rose, yellow cephalaria gigantica, purple phlox and a violet carpenter bee on echinops

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling #Dahlias The dahlias that survived the slugs, the rabbits, the cold, the heat and the wind are deservedly smug

A collage of dahlias in the garden this morning

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Japanese artist Naomi Okubo, Camouflage #3, 2017 #womensart

Painting of a Japanese girl in a colurful patterned floral dress laying on patterned cushions, in front of a colourful floral patterned wall

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

by Yutaka Murakami (Japanese, b. 1957)

A vertical painting by contemporary Japanese artist Yutaka Murakami (b. 1957) features a charming, whimsical illustration of a cat wearing a garment. The composition highlights the artist's signature playful style, combining an expressive animal portrait with bold, traditional textile design motifs.

The central figure is a fluffy black-and-white tuxedo cat standing upright against a warm, unadorned cream-colored paper background. The cat has wide, round yellow eyes with dark pupils, a small white muzzle, a white chest, and white "mittens" on its front paws. Its thick black fur is rendered with soft, textured brushstrokes along its rounded lower body and its curved tail, which extends to the right.

The cat is dressed in a short, cream-colored robe or yukata, fastened at the side with a simple tied cord. The fabric design features an eye-catching, avant-garde pattern composed of large, sketchy crimson-red circles representing camellia blossoms (tsubaki), interspersed with oblong, deep blue leaves highlighted by white sketchy veins.

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱The shade of early morning allows the pollinators to work, it is even too hot for bees. I know gardeners always complain about the weather, but it really is apocalypticly hot

The path into the garden shaded in the early morning light, it’s the only reasonable time to be outside. Hydrangeas, alchemilla, and stachys flop lazily, because what else can you do in this heat?

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling The weather has been odd, inconsistent and unhelpful, the rabbits and slugs voracious but the flowers keep battling on

A collage from the garden, an orange zinnia, clematis against the sky, a foxglove standing tall, sweet William and a rose

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱There is apparently no normal anymore, after two dry weeks of 30+ degrees it’s been cold with torrential downpours, wind and hail, the flowers are resisting better than the vegetables.

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

#SundayYellow #Bloomscrolling The simple, joyous beauty of the Welsh poppy

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling #Roses The garden is dripping with roses and it smells divine

A collage of roses from the garden this morning

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

I may sound mean but I am genuinely excited by the prospect of the World Cup being an unmitigated disaster because it will highlight both the corruption of FIFA and the state of the US’s organisational skills

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Olga Nesterova @onestpress.onestnetwork.com · 29/05/2026

It’s fascinating how we are talked into confusion. Take climate change for example. Climate already changed. We are now trying to survive by using infrastructure that was built for a climate that no longer exists. But there’re still debates on whether climate change is real. Fascinating.

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 26/05/2026

🌱 #Bloomscrolling #Roses Passage to the garden smelling its best

Old roses, dark pink, very double and deeply scented unfortunately they only flower once a year, but that time is now

Single, fragrant roses that start pale creamy yellow and fade to white

Creamy white roses making an archway to the garden

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 a few warm days after the rain brings a growth spurt

Roses in shades of pink and clematis, centaura and the first zinnia

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling The flowers are keeping to their schedules even if the weather isn’t.

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 A wet and chilly week that felt more like March than May, but the flowers are sticking to their schedule and have withstood hail, torrential rains and wild winds

A perfect peacock blue damsel fly resting on a rose, a peony after the rain, lychnis, foxgloves, camassia and verbascum from today’s garden

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Jo Wolff @jowolff.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Brilliant from Olga Tokarczuk, feeling sorry for people who only speak English as they have no private realm to retreat to, where they can speak among themselves without being overheard. “I heard there were plans in the works to get them some little language of their own, one of those dead ones.”

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

#SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 the irises are now stepping into the limelight as the borders fill out.

A collage of the garden this morning. Purple irises in a variety of shades and one of the big beds

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

#FlowersOnFriday #Bloomscrolling 🌱 Forget Christmas, this is the most wonderful time of the year, anew present unwraps itself each morning

The path into the garden, bordered by aquilegia, irises, alchemilla, stachys, lychnis and more

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Rasta @rastasack.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

"Make Art Not War" #Art #War #VivRus

This painting is titled "Make Art Not War" by the London-based artist Viv Rus.

Oil on canvas painting featuring a female figure wearing a military helmet with paintbrushes tucked into the side, blueish waves of hair rising under the helmet.

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Mayor Zohran Kwame Mamdani @mayor.nyc.gov · 05/05/2026

While the world’s eyes are on fashion’s biggest night, we’re turning ours to the garment, retail, and warehouse workers who keep the industry running. From true love found on the picket line to a free tailoring school out of a Brooklyn basement — meet the New Yorkers who make it all possible.

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

'Rooks' by Jackie Morris, contemporary artist, author and illustrator based in a little cottage near the sea in Wales #Womensart

Painting of the the upper halfs of two rooks facing each other against a gold background

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mjlinde.bsky.social @mjlinde.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

#smArtist #ArtYear Pieces of Memories 🎨 Iris Scott

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling A transitional moment in the garden, last tulips and first roses, the wisteria and irises are just entering the scene and the aquilegia are taking shape

The first red rose, the last of the tulips, euphorbia polychromata, Solomon’s seal, the first purple iris and wisteria from the garden this morning

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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 25/04/2026

Lilian May Miller (1895-1943) was a US woodblock printmaker and poet born in Tokyo, who was influenced by a Japanese printmaking styles of strong colours and bold design #Womensart

Print featuring four people walking with coloured umbrellas in rain on a Japanese tradition bridge

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 24/04/2026

🌱 #FridayFlowers #Bloomscrolling The tulips are beginning to fade now, the irises and aquilegia are waiting in the wings to take centre stage

Orange lily shaped tulips on the foreground with white and salmon tulips behind them

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 18/04/2026

🌱 #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling The first irises have opened, and the tulips keep on coming. Still chilly but at least there is some sunshine

A collage of garden flowers, lily flowered tulips in lipstick pink and orange, the first iris in pale yellow and a pale pink tree peony

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

#AlphabetChallenge #WeekOForOld Old graffiti in Laon Cathedral, on an 11th century made of really old stone

Pencil written graffiti on a stone column in Laon Cathedral, the column dates from the11th century, the graffiti covers a long period, offering prayers and asking for help, and gets denser in war time

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Mrs. Betty Bowers @mrsbettybowers.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The shared excitement over NASA’s recent mission compared to the general indifference to SpaceX missions speaks to the power of something seen as the product of communal human effort rather than just the ego and avarice of one obnoxious dork.

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