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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

The Plant Room, which barely has enough space for a human! New acquisitions: a Hoya linearis and two Huperzia (H. phlegmaria, H. squarrosa) on vertical pole planters. Huperzia are lycophytes (clubmosses): no flowers or seed, they reproduce via spores. #Houseplants #Hoya

A small conservatory with a glazed roof, filled with potted trees and plants on a yellow wooden floor with a red rug. Rusted arched metal window frames lean against the left wall, with two tassel ferns mounted on a pole beside them. Open doors lead to a garden.

A Hoya linearis in a pale green pot mounted high on a pole in a white corner, its thin, soft, needle-like green stems hanging in a long curtain. A rusted arched mirror frame and an out-of-focus branch are in the foreground.

A tassel fern in a ribbed pale green pot mounted on a steel pole, its dark green stems of flat, pointed, overlapping leaves hanging down with lighter green tips. A rusted metal window frame and potted plants are behind.

A tassel fern with bristly bright green stems in a ribbed pale green pot on a white pole-mounted tray, some stems upright and others trailing and forking below the pot. A rusted metal window frame and a room full of potted plants are behind.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 08/10/2026

Kusamono (companion plantings) at Twickenham Bonsai Club. Wall pennywort, creeping thyme with campanula, horse chestnut with moss and ivy.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

The bees are loving the ivy flower, the fence is abuzz 🐝🐝🐝 #londongardens #autumn #apis

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Impressive Giant Polypore (Meripilus giganteus) at the back of the garden, explaining the sad state of the Beech tree there. #fungus #fagus #autumn

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

Epic leaves in the greenhouse: Colocasia esculenta, 33cm; Clerodendrum trichotomum, 12cm (bonus: the leaves really smell of peanut butter); Eucalyptus caesia, 12.5cm #GardeningBluesky #LondonGardens

Three-image composite. Left: a large, glossy, bright green heart-shaped taro leaf with radiating veins, in a greenhouse with pots and a hose on the floor. Top right: a soft, pale green, heart-shaped peanut butter tree leaf with toothed edges, over a black pot. Bottom right: rounded grey-green silver princess leaves on red stems.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

Geranium (cranesbill), Hylotelephium (stonecrop), Fuschia and Aster brightening up a wet garden today. #londongardens #bloomscrolling

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

There are many contenders but this is definitely one of my favourite plants inside the house. Platycerium superbum, bought as a petite single frond. It's mounted on a massive piece of wood with a bundle of coir and soil to wrap around. #indoorplants #staghorn

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

The strawflowers (Xerochrysum bracteatum) at Kew are incredible, so vibrant and colourful! They are beautiful under the macro lens. Couldn't resist making them into the stars of their own video. #kewgardens #everlastings #australianflora

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

Late allotment padrons sweating before they get their miso dressing

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Alpine fire pit, end of August. Malling toadflax (Chaenorhinum origanifolium), ice plant (Delosperma sp.), thrift (Armeria sp.), silver saxifrage (Saxifraga sp.), alpine geranium (Erodium reichardii), stonecrop (Sedum sp.) #Bloomscrolling

A rusted metal fire pit planted as an alpine garden in gravel, with five close-ups: lilac toadflax flowers and pink ice plant daisies among dried thrift seedheads; a rosette of silver saxifrage beside a white flower veined pink; a mound of green rosettes with toothed leaf tips; a silvery low mat of small paired leaves; a spreading cluster of small bead-leaved stonecrop.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Yes it was raining but this meant Kew was deserted! A lovely Passiflora (passionfruit) in the greenhouse.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

New purchase Aloe polyphylla, which grows into an amazing spiral shape. Native to Lesotho.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

Nymphaea 'Pygmaea Rubra' (water lily) in a copper basin in the garden #londongardens #smallponds

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

Bougainvillea surprises you with bracts at unexpected times. Here is an apricot-coloured one I propagated from a cutting this summer. #londongardens #bractsnotflowers

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 20/08/2026

Chelsea Flower Show purchases settling in well. Scented-leaf Pelargonium sp., Aeonium 'Sunburst', Aeonium tabuliforme, oxblood Pelargonium cultivar. #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky #ChelseaFlowerShow #Pelargonium #Aeonium #Succulents

Clockwise from top left: finely divided, hairy, scented pelargonium foliage; variegated Aeonium 'Sunburst' rosette with pink and cream margins; Aeonium tabuliforme flat rosette with ciliate edges on gravel; cluster of double, near-black oxblood-red pelargonium flowers.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

Kew Gardens was apocalyptic yesterday, parched earth & dead trees everywhere. This Henry Moore sculpture in the Shirley Sherwood Gallery is made of Elm wood - now unavailable in XL Henry Moore sizes due to ascomycete fungi (Dutch elm disease). Hoping for rain 🌧️ #globalwarming #londongardens

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

Kusamono workshop, Twickenham Bonsai Club. Macro lens. Hare's-foot clover, Trifolium arvense; verbena, Verbena sp.; snowdrop, Galanthus sp.; stonecrop, Sedum sp. #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky #Kusamono #Bonsai #Macro #Galanthus #Wildflowers

Four macro photographs. Top left: a soft cylindrical silky flower spike of hare's-foot clover with trifoliate leaves. Top right: a domed head of small pink and white verbena florets with browning older florets. Bottom left: two pink-flushed white snowdrop bells with green tips on dark red stems. Bottom right: a fuzzy blue-green stonecrop growing among pale granite grit in a green-glazed kusamono pot.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

Strange illuminations on our fake boulder during the eclipse tonight, possibly reflections from glass doors which are off to the left. As normally at this time the shadows go the opposite way! #eclipse #londongarden

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

University of Latvia Botanic Garden, Riga no.2; a pink bobble dahlia in a sea of white ones, strawberry bobble fields, and Dahlia 'Moor Place', 'Willi Aramis', 'Lisonette', 'Cornel'. #SixOnSunday #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky #Riga #Latvia #Dahlia

Composite of six dahlias from the University of Latvia Botanic Garden, Riga. Large: a pink ball dahlia with white-tipped petals amid white blooms. Then a bed of red ball dahlias; a purple-magenta ball with open yellow centre; a yellow-orange bloom flecked red; a red-and-yellow semi-cactus; a deep pink-red ball.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

University of Latvia Botanic Garden, Riga; the amazing dahlia collection. Dahlia 'Harvey Koop', 'Tartan', "Rebecca's World", 'AC Inara', 'Mrs Swanee Hunt', 'Labyrinth' #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky #Riga #Latvia #Dahlia

Composite of six dahlias from the University of Latvia Botanic Garden, Riga. Large: cream petals striped and speckled deep red. Then a dark maroon bloom with white petal tips; a magenta flower with a white flash; a magenta-and-white bicolour; a clear pink bloom with yellow-tipped petals; a peach-and-coral flower with buds.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Riga. Hibiscus at the botanic garden glasshouse; pelargoniums and begonia on an Art Nouveau windowsill; quince swelling; foxtail millet at the Central Market stall. Hibiscus sp., Pelargonium sp., Begonia sp., Chlorophytum comosum, Cydonia oblonga, Setaria italica. #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

Macro of a hibiscus interior, pale pink petals with deep magenta bases radiating from the centre.

Apartment windowsill crowded with potted pelargoniums, a bronze-leaved begonia, spider plant and Christmas cactus, an ornate Art Nouveau facade beyond the glass.

Downy unripe quince fruit with green leafy calyx lobes, nestled among large quince leaves.

Dense bucket of cut foxtail millet with bristled green seedheads at a market stall, paving underfoot.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Saulkrasti beach & forest. Native: Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris), sand butterbur (Petasites spurius), lyme grass (Leymus arenarius). Naturalised: blue lettuce (Lactuca tatarica). #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky #Saulkrasti #Latvia #BalticSea

Close-up of flaking orange-brown Scots pine bark with resin.

Broad triangular leaf with white-felted underside on a purple stem, dune grass behind.

Stand of blue-grey lyme grass at a woodland edge, pine and maple behind.

Lilac daisy-like flowers with narrow ray florets on branching stems, on sand.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Vilnius. Botanic garden and old town streets. Climbing Hydrangea anomala subsp. petiolaris, Ginkgo biloba, and street planters of Gaura lindheimeri, Mandevilla sp., Festuca glauca and Stipa tenuissima. #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

A whitewashed cottage almost entirely covered by climbing hydrangea in flower, with an ostrich fern and hosta in the foreground and a weeping willow overhanging.

A window box packed with pink gaura, white euphorbia 'Diamond Frost', pink mandevilla trumpets, red begonia, cream roses, trailing ivy and fountain grass against a shuttered window.

A rusted Corten steel planter bearing the Vilnius coat of arms, planted with blue fescue, feather grass, variegated carex, a blue succulent and purple ageratum.

A young ginkgo tree with fresh green fan-shaped leaves standing in front of a clipped box hedge and mature woodland.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Delightfully eclectic selection at this plant shop in Vilnius Old Town. Abutilon sp., Bougainvillea sp., Nerium oleander, Ginkgo biloba, and mixed potted herbs. #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

A six-image composite from a plant shop in Vilnius Old Town. Large tile: the green shopfront 'Gėlės ir manufaktūra' with dormer windows and pavement plant displays. Smaller tiles: a pendent orange veined Abutilon flower; a cluster of gold-orange Bougainvillea bracts; a window display with pink oleander, an ornamental red chilli and potted olives; a young Ginkgo biloba against a green wall; and pots of lavender, mint and variegated sedge on paving.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

More from Tallinn Botanic Garden. Astilbe bed (Astilbe sp.), monkshood (Aconitum sp.), scabious (Scabiosa caucasica), culver's-root (Veronicastrum sp.) with bumblebee, yarrow (Achillea millefolium), meadow-rue in seed (Thalictrum sp.). #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

Composite of six images from Tallinn Botanic Garden. Large image: curved border bed of astilbe in red, pink and cream plumes beside a pond, conifers behind. White monkshood flowers with violet-tipped hoods against blue sky. Single pale lilac scabious flower head with fringed petals. Tapering lilac veronicastrum flower spike with a bumblebee feeding. Cluster of small magenta-pink yarrow flowers. Green and pink-flushed meadow-rue seed heads on slender stems.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Glasshouse plantings at Tallinn Botanic Garden. Vanda sp., Nepenthes sp., Thunbergia mysorensis, Anigozanthos sp., Hibiscus rosa-sinensis, Rotheca myricoides, Aechmea fasciata, Brachychiton sp. #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

Eight-image mosaic from a botanic glasshouse, arranged in two columns and four rows. Row 1: a deep purple Vanda orchid; red-and-cream striped Nepenthes pitchers. Row 2: hanging red and yellow Thunbergia mysorensis flowers; a woolly grey-green kangaroo paw (Anigozanthos) with orange buds. Row 3: a large red Hibiscus rosa-sinensis; blue butterfly bush (Rotheca myricoides) flowers. Row 4: a pink urn-plant inflorescence (Aechmea fasciata); the branching trunk of a Brachychiton tree in leaf.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

It's green & lush in Tallinn and the roses are still in bloom #tallinnbotanicgarden Rosa 'Ingrid Bergman', 'Pink Paradise', 'Maurice Utrillo', 'Ebb Tide', 'Marc Chagall', 'Berthe Morisot' #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

Six-panel composite of roses at Tallinn Botanic Garden. Top-left: solid deep red rose. Then clockwise: pink rose with yellow-orange centre; red-and-cream striped rose; magenta ruffled double bloom; pink, cream and apricot ruffled rose; crimson-and-white streaked bloom.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

My greenhouse brand perfectly focused onto a Marri tree seedling leaf.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

Roof garden, Southbank Centre. Passiflora caerulea, Eupatorium cannabinum, Lathyrus latifolius, Daucus carota, Knautia arvensis, Lunaria annua seed pods. #SixOnSaturday #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

Composite of six roof-garden plants: a blue passionflower with a honeybee; hemp-agrimony with a honeybee; magenta everlasting pea; white wild carrot umbel; lilac field scabious; and translucent honesty seed pods.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Visitors to our kitchen today. Emperor dragonfly (Anax imperator) and gatekeeper butterfly (Pyronia tithonus). #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

Male emperor dragonfly clinging vertically to plant stems, wings spread, blue-and-green body against a green garden background.

Male emperor dragonfly resting on blue garden netting, apple-green thorax, blue abdomen, large green eyes, wings outstretched.

Gatekeeper butterfly at rest on grey concrete, wings closed, orange-and-brown underwings with a black twin-pupilled eyespot, casting a shadow.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Allotment bonsai sapling bed: ginkgo, cedrus, acer, ulmus, taxodium, malus, diospyros, pinus, crataegus all in there somewhere #foliage #trees #londonallotments

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

From the garden, Geraniaceae: three pelargoniums and one true geranium. Near-black double pelargonium, pink-veined Geranium × oxonianum, red zonal pelargonium, scented-leaf pelargonium. #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky #LondonGarden

Close-up of a near-black double pelargonium flower with dark red buds, green foliage and a red flower blurred in background.

Single pink Geranium x oxonianum flower with darker pink veining and five petals, foliage behind.

Cluster of bright red zonal pelargonium flowers with visible leaves and rosemary in background.

Two pale pink scented-leaf pelargonium flowers with dark pencil markings, crinkled green leaves behind.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

Eucalyptus and Corymbia grown from seed: Corymbia citriodora (lemon-scented gum), Corymbia maculata (spotted gum), Eucalyptus caesia 'Silver Princess', Corymbia calophylla (marri), Eucalyptus camaldulensis (river red gum), Corymbia citriodora (lignotuber). #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

A six-panel grid of eucalypts and corymbias grown from seed. Large panel: hairy juvenile Corymbia citriodora leaves on a red-petioled stem. Clockwise: juvenile Corymbia maculata foliage with hairy red-brown stems; a backlit Eucalyptus caesia 'Silver Princess' leaf showing red margin; a potted Corymbia calophylla seedling with paired juvenile leaves; glaucous lanceolate Eucalyptus camaldulensis leaves; and a Corymbia citriodora lignotuber resprouting at soil level.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

Lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) in the octagon pavilion of the Temperate House at Kew. #SixOnSunday #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

A six-panel grid of sacred lotus (Nelumbo nucifera) at Kew. Large panel: a green seed head with blue-green seeds set in the receptacle. Clockwise: an open cream-white flower with a yellow receptacle and stamens; a pink double-form bloom, cupped and not fully open; a green pointed bud with a young green seed head behind; a round blue-green leaf viewed from above; and a dried brown seed head with empty carpels.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Allotment baking - Blackberry & apple tart and a Plum Torte using the excellent New York Times recipe: cooking.nytimes.com/recipes/3783... #rubus #prunus #malus #londonallotment

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Amstelpark. Globe thistle (Echinops sp.), rambling rose (Rosa sp.), black cohosh (Actaea racemosa), mophead hydrangea (Hydrangea macrophylla). #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

Spiky blue-grey globe thistle flowerhead against green foliage.

Clusters of red rambling rose flowers on a pergola.

White bottlebrush flower spikes of black cohosh against dark foliage.

Dense pink mophead hydrangea flowerhead.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Landscape architect after my own heart ❤️ Ginkgo, Nothofagus and conifer sp. Amsterdam Zuid. Ginkgo biloba, Nothofagus sp., conifer sp. #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

Ginkgo tree with fan-shaped leaves against a red and cream patterned brick building.

Close-up of small, glossy, serrated Nothofagus leaves on a thin branch.

Nothofagus tree with airy, feathered branches against the same brick building.

Unidentified conifer with needle foliage and small cones against a red brick building.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Amsterdam canal banks, wildflowers. Mullein (Verbascum sp.), tansy (Tanacetum vulgare), chicory (Cichorium intybus), mallow (Malva sp.), common poppy (Papaver rhoeas), evening primrose (Oenothera sp.). #SixOnTuesday #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky

Six-image grid of summer wildflowers from Amsterdam canal banks: mullein with a foraging bumblebee, tansy, chicory, mallow, common poppy, and evening primrose.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Canal-side gardens, Amsterdam. Oakleaf hydrangea (Hydrangea quercifolia), blazing star (Liatris sp.), wild carrot (Daucus carota), catmint (Nepeta sp.) #Bloomscrolling #GardeningBluesky #Amsterdam

White lacecap flowerhead of Hydrangea quercifolia against lobed oak-shaped leaves

Purple spike of Liatris sp. opening from the top, with unopened buds below

White compound umbel of Daucus carota backlit in evening light

Close-up of a Nepeta sp. flower spike with small blue-purple flowers and hairy grey-green calyces

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Twickenham Bonsai Summer Show at St Richard Reynolds Catholic College today. Acer palmatum · Buxus sp. · Pinus sp. · kusamono accent planting · Morus sp. · Betula sp. #Bonsai #BonsaiShow #Twickenham

Six-panel bonsai show composite. Top left (hero): Japanese maple bonsai in grey oval pot on burr wood slab. Top right: box bonsai in ishizuki rock planting on driftwood with lantana accent pot. Middle right: pine bonsai on wooden stand with Japanese scroll and ivy accent. Bottom left: birch bonsai with wide canopy in oval pot on wooden stand. Bottom centre: mulberry bonsai with gnarled trunk in green glazed pot. Bottom right: kusamono planting with thrift, verbena and sedum in shallow dish.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Saturday pond at the end of the heat wave. Nymphaea sp. (white & yellow), Taxodium distichum, Mentha sp., Acer palmatum. #SixOnSaturday #WaterLily #Nymphaea #GardenPond #Taxodium #AcerPalmatum

Six-panel garden pond composite. Hero image: white water lily in full bloom with orange stamens on dark water, surrounded by lily pads. Top right: yellow water lily with orange centre. Middle right: swamp cypress (Taxodium distichum) sapling with feathery green foliage, pond behind. Bottom left: overhead pond view with lily pads, white lily in bloom, Japanese maple foliage. Bottom centre: water mint (Mentha sp.) stems emerging from pond surface. Bottom right: garden view through Japanese maple canopy, stone lantern, ornamental grass, pond with lily pads.

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Walled garden, Sibton Estate, Suffolk. Fan-trained cherries, almond and plum ripening against the walls. Prunus avium, Prunus dulcis, Prunus domestica, Buxus sempervirens #WalledGarden #StoneFruit #PrunusAvium #PrunusDulcis #PrunusDomestica #SuffolkGarden #LondonBotanica #Bloomscrolling

Fan-trained cherry (Prunus avium) against red brick wall, fruit in mixed stages of ripening from green to red

Close-up of a single immature almond (Prunus dulcis) — green, flattened and densely downy — on a short stem against soft-focus foliage

Two smooth green plums (Prunus domestica) hanging from a spur against a brick wall

Thatched oak summerhouse in a walled garden with clipped box hedging and espalier fruit trees on red brick walls

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Wildflower meadow at Wilderness Retreat, Suffolk. Daucus carota · Rumex acetosa · Leucanthemum vulgare #wildflowermeadow #Suffolk #wildflowers #NativePlants #UKWildlife

View through a steel-framed window onto a wildflower meadow with oxeye daisies, sorrel and wild carrot, trees beyond

Close-up of a pink-tinged Daucus carota umbel just opening, with spiky bracts, grass stem alongside

Red-stemmed Rumex sp. in fruit, small reddish achenes on branched panicle, meadow background

Single Leucanthemum vulgare flower head, white ray florets around yellow disc, meadow background

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

A freebie from a wrong order, this one possibly better than the one we actually bought! #roses #londongarden

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London Botanica @londonbotanica.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Another satsuki azalea bonsai. Pot unknown.

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