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Keith Barker

@keithfortheplanet.bsky.social
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Love nature, gardening and science. Appreciate integrity, honesty and kindness.

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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
The devastating fire at Dunwich Heath & RSPB Minsmere is heartbreaking to see. Thinking about the wildlife and conservation heroes who have done such great work helping ecosystems to recover and thrive at those sites. Nature WILL recover again but we must help. #nature #rspb #climatechange
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 19/04/2026
Unusual low tree with blossom in the Cotswolds. #bloomscrolling #nature #trees #blossom
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Incredible bluebell display this year. Abbott Street Copse, Pamphill. Happy Friday. #bloomscrolling #bluebells #woodland #flowers #nature
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 10/04/2026
Happy Friday everyone. Glorious tulips at Bourton House Garden. #gardens #gardening #cotswolds #bloomscrolling
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Apple blossom nearly ready! NT Hidcote today. #bloomscrolling
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
This Dicentra is just beautiful. Grows back each spring and never fails to bring joy with its delicate flowers. #gardens #gardening #spring #bloomscrolling
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 20/03/2026
Happy Friday! #gardens #gardening #bloomscrolling
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
Tulips early this year! #gardening #spring #tulips
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
So good that it’s time for Gardeners’ World again! Can’t wait to see how Adam progresses with his new garden. #gardenersworld #gardening #spring
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Beautiful! … and in sunshine! #daffodils #narcissi #nature #gardening
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Snowdrops for your enjoyment, today at NT Kingston Lacy. #snowdrops
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 04/02/2026
Beautiful snowdrop scene at NT Kingston Lacy. #snowdrops #nature #nationaltrust #flowers
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 28/01/2026
Spectacular flooding around Ringwood (Bickerley Millstream / Hampshire Avon) today. Stay safe. #rivers #Ringwood #flooding
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Grass is just the most resilient plant! This was almost totally brown a few weeks ago, but after some rain ….. #gardens #gardening
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 19/07/2025
The purple loosestrife (Lythrum Salicaria) is thriving this year. Obviously likes having its feet wet in the pond in this hot weather. #gardens #gardening #ponds #nature #bloomscrolling
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Gorgeous Yellowhammer with food for its young, somewhere in the hedge. 😍 Taken a few evenings ago in my Somerset village. 😀 Have you ever seen a Yellowhammer? 🐦 #birds 🪶
Male Yellowhammer in a bush peering over his shoulder with seeds in his beak
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
This Jasmine smells incredible, especially in the evenings. #flowers #gardens #gardening #bloomscrolling
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 23/06/2025
Beautiful sunlight this evening. This lovely plant regrows from ground level each year - I’m fairly sure it’s a type of Cosmos, but not the annual, self-seeding kind. #flowers #gardens #gardening #bloomscrolling
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Delphiniums doing their thing. #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardens #gardening
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Got to love a rose. This beauty is a new addition to our garden, called ‘For Your Eyes Only’, but I’m sharing it with you anyway! #gardens #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling
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VenetiaJane’s Garden @venetiajane.bsky.social · 16/05/2025
Just walking up the garden and, oh joy! I’ve spotted the most beautiful Painted Lady butterfly flitting around the Alliums amongst the lavender bushes that line the rose walkway. I managed to capture a quick #phonepic to share with you! I didn’t see any at all last year!#nature
Close-up photograph of a painted lady butterfly with orange, black, and white patterned wings, perched on a cluster of vivid purple allium flowers.
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
Pond looking good with plenty of activity. Newts! Really happy with that. Thanks @katebradbury.bsky.social for the advice in your lovely book How To Create a Wildlife Pond. #gardening #nature
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Wow. Planted a a Dicentra a few weeks ago, but I wasn’t expecting this level of beauty. Have a lovely weekend. #flowersonfriday #gardens #gardening #nature #gardenersworld
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Thrilled to get my best ever Dartford Warbler photo today! 😀😍 Taken on the Quantock Hills in Somerset. 😊🐦 #birds 🪶
Singing male Dartford Warbler perched on the top of a gorse bush
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Sunshine on a rainy day. #tulips #flowers #gardening #bloomscrolling
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Taken yesterday at the wonderful Bourton House Gardens in the Cotswolds. #gardens #gardening #tulips #flowersonfriday
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Beautiful blossom against a blue sky. #nature #blossom
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Here’s a lovely spring ground scene. Have a nice evening. #nature #spring #gardening #bloomscrolling #flowers
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Another visit to NT Hidcote today. Always a joy. #gardens #gardening #hidcote #nationaltrust #nature
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Nature's_bounty @natures-bounty.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Both #lavender and #peach tones in the rocky path through the heather. #AcoloradAyPRIL #RockinTuesday #Seasonal #SmArtist #ArtYear #nature #onlybeautifulthings #thelittlethings
A rocky sandstone path through heather on the heathland.
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George McGavin @georgemcgavin.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
This is what roadside verges should look like in April. These are not weeds - they are wildflowers essential to the survival of early Spring bees.
Roadside verge with a mass of dandelions.
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Awesome Ed @edsadventures.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Down the Tunnel … #FootpathFriday #Scape
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Gorgeous colours in this pot (including the green!). Have a nice evening. #spring #gardens #gardening #tulips
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James Gilbert @jamesgilbertmr.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
The local brook; somewhere only I know. My new go-to place. A hideaway. I slow to its rhythm, lose modernity. A sweet precious meditation.
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Over the moon to get my best ever photo of a Merlin today! 😍😀 Within seconds of this photo, it was chasing a Skylark high in the sky above my head! 😮 Taken at the Huntspill seawall in Somerset. 😊🐦 #birds 🪶
A Merlin on a post with its head turned towards the camera
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
First tulips. Have a good day. #spring #tulips #flowers
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
This mahonia is one of the only original plants remaining from when we moved in over 20 years ago. I’m glad it’s still here - wonderful display this year. #flowers #gardens #gardening #nature #spring
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Stephanie Graham @logicaphotography.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Seeing double: it will soon be time to head out and look for this years babies
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💛💜JB💛💜 @msjulesb.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Good morning and happy Friday BS 🦋👋… have a great day and a wonderful weekend ☕️🌿☀️🌳💛🌱✨
A woodland filled with tall, green-leaved trees. A narrow dirt path winds through the undergrowth, surrounded by ferns and small shrubs. Sunlight filters through the canopy, creating light and shadow patterns on the ground.
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Tony Beales @tonybeales.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
There's just enough of #WaderWednesday left for this great white egret to slowly and stealthily wade in. #UKwildlife #birds
Great white egret wading slowly and stealthily through the water in front of a reed bed with one foot raised above the surface.
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 14/03/2025
It’s the new series of Gardeners’ World! What a day. #gardenersworld @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social #gardens #gardening #nature
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
Here are some lovely daffs. You’re welcome. Have a nice evening. #daffofils #spring #springtime #nature #gardening #gardens
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
A Geum already in flower in mid-March! That’s early, right? #climatechange #gardens #gardening #flowers
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 08/03/2025
What a lovely day in the garden. Sun shining, birds singing, plants growing. #gardens #gardening #spring #nature
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Birds of Poole Harbour @harbourbirds.bsky.social · 05/03/2025
More great news from the Poole Harbour area. Well done to all involved in making this possible. Top, top work. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Photo: @beavertrust.bsky.social
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Carl Bovis @carlbovisnature.bsky.social · 01/03/2025
... and you can keep your beak shut!' A Robin grabs a Chaffinches beak today at RSPB Greylake in Somerset. 😮😅😍🐦
A Robin in the air grabbing hold of a male Chaffinches beak
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Keith Barker @keithfortheplanet.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
OK, who’s ready for March? Bring on the Spring! #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #gardens #gardening #nature
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