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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 8h

Another lovely sunset. The scent of woodsmoke in the air as the owls began calling from the woodland by the stream.

netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 18h

Before I get to the end of this year's tomatoes I need to make tomato jam for savoury jam tarts. It is fabulous! 6lb (3kg) ripe tomatoes, 10 Tbs lemon juice, rind 2 lemons, 5lb (2.5kg) preserving sugar, 8oz (250g) ginger in syrup drained & chopped. Make into jam in usual way 🍅😋 🍽 #HomeCooking

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Look at my homegrown melons! These are 'Petit Gris de Rennes', a small hierloom Breton Charentais variety cultivated in the gardens of the Bishop of Rennes c 1636. Small with grey-green skin the flesh is orange, juicy & very sweet. I have just eaten one for lunch 😋

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

For lovers of Old Roses, Trevor White Roses have a Flash Sale of 30% off potted roses including Centifolia De Meaux, Gallicas including Belle Sans Flatterie, China La Belle Marseillaise, Moss, Hybrid Perpetual, Damask & Scots Roses: trevorwhiteroses.co.uk/product-tag/po… Ends Monday. 🌹🌱

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

Bramley's Seedling apples picked this morning. Peeled, cored & chopped. I am making apple sauce with them to eat alongside pork roasts, chops, sausages etc. Will be steam canned in pint jars along with some lemon juice. 🍏🍏🍏

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

For #RoseWednesday 🌹 the pretty Bourbon 'Kathleen Harrop'. A sport of Zépherine Drouhin (Bizot, 1868) discovered by Alexander Dixon, 1919. Seashell pink large semi-double fragrant blooms on a thornless stems. Can be grown as a large bush or a 10ft climber. Blooms from June into winter. 🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Winter food crops have germinated well in this autumn warmth. Asian greens, mustards, turnips, cold hardy lettuce, collard greens & mooli. I have a few more to sow today - cabbages, chard, beetroot & spring onions. Let us hope they all thrive to give me fresh greens til spring 🌱

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Today's Old Rose is the miniature China 'Rouletti' (before 1801). Discovered in the villages around Mauborget, Switzerland by Henry Correvon & Dr Roulet, where it had been traditionally grown in windowboxes. Double lilac pink flowers "the size of a sixpence". Reaches 2ft 🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Sunset sky. Bats flitting about the trees as the tawny owls start hooting. Cool enough for me to put long sleeves on to finish the chores

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Today's #rose is the pretty Hybrid Rugosa 'Sarah Van Fleet' (Dr Walter Van Fleet, 1922). Mid pink cupped medium to large double flowers which fade to light pink with age. A lovely very fragrant old rose perfume. Typical leathery rugosa foliage & very disease resistant. 5ft 🌹 #Roses 🌱

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

For #RoseWednesday 🌹the fabulous dark red to crimson Hybrid Perpetual 'Duke of Wellington' (Granger, 1864) is flowering again. It has enjoyed the change in the weather & is covered in buds. Strong delicious fragrance with upright, high centred blooms on dark green foliage. #Roses 🌱

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 29/08/2026

Rainy day preserving. With food prices only going up I am trying to eat what I grow & can harvest, buying in as little as possible except meat from the butcher & dairy from the milkman. Today is all about prepping green & runner beans for the freezer & damsons for jam

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Oh no! Poor Uppingham. The very precious Norton & Sons Ironmongers is up for sale. Please let it be saved as an ongoing business. I go there weekly for all the myriads of things they always stock. This town needs proper shops who serve the community & Norton's has been superb.

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Mickey Numbers @mickeynumberz.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

A tribute to Barbara McClintock and her "jumping genes"! (Another female scientist who was met with "skepticism and dismissal" until she was found to be right) www.uclsciencemagazine.com/sss6/

A picture of Barbara McClintock holding a multi-coloured ear of corn

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

We have rain, yipee. It will be a big relief to thirsty plants who prefer fresh rainwater to my attempts to keep them alive with tap water. Meanwhile I pulled my first ear of Fiesta popcorn. Just look at the lovely rainbow of colours! ☔️🌈 🌱

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

For #RoseWednesday 🌹the lovely Hybrid Tea 'Pink Martini' (Kordes, 1999). Very large double light pink blooms which turn silvery blush with time. Upright growth with dark green leaves. A strong sweet fragrance. Almost always in flower in my garden & does well cut for a vase. 4ft. 🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Today's Old Rose is the historically important beauty 'La France' (Guillot, 1867). The first rose to be classed as an Hybrid Tea. Light pink with silvery shading it has medium full petals in a classic tea shape & a delicious strong lemony rose perfume. A stunning plant. 3-4ft 🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 19/08/2026

For #RoseWednesday🌹 the striking Tea rose 'Lady Hillingdon' (Lowe & Shawyer, 1910). Apricot yellow blooms with long pointed beds appear in flushes until the frosts arrive. The foliage is olive green trimmed with red veining & new growth emerges coppery red. Strong tea fragrance. 🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Today's Old Rose is the gorgeous Hybrid Perpetual 'Sidonie' (Dourisy, 1846). Sometimes described as a Bourbon, it has globular buds opening to double quartered candyfloss pink blooms with a button eye. A lovely strong lemony Damask fragrance. A vigorous healthy bush. 5ft 🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 11/08/2026

Today's Old Rose is the stunning Bourbon 'Mrs Paul' (George Paul, 1891). Very large blush pink scalloped double blooms with a strong, sumptuous fragrance. One of my favourite roses. On its third flush despite the unrelenting heat & drought. Raised in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

This morning's basket of homegrown goodness. I have the next batch of basil & parsley to harvest & preserve, carrots, beans & rhubarb to pick & the first of the sweetcorn & aubergines will be ready this week. 🌱

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

Today's Old Rose is the fabulous repeat-flowering Portland Damask 'Amande Paternotte' (Vibert, 1845). Currently on her second flush of very fragrant deep pink blooms. Unusual incurved petals add a ruffled feel to the flowers which is very endearing. A treasured 4ft bush 🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

For #RoseWednesday 🌹one of the strongest most floriferous roses in my garden Hybrid Tea 'Lady Capri' (Rosen Tantau, 2021). A fabulous plant full of large apricot blooms with a strong citrus fragrance. Resistant to black spot & powdery mildew. Continuous flowering. Just gorgeous. 🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Today's Old Rose is the Hybrid Musk 'Queen of the Musks' (George Paul, 1912). Pretty small to medium sculpted double blooms of pink, blush & white with a strong fragrance. Blooms in clusters, repeating until the frosts. A vigorous bush reaching 6-8ft 🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Today"s Old Rose is the Hybrid Perpetual 'Star of Waltham' (William Paul, 1875). Bred at Cheshunt Nursery, Waltham Cross, Hertfordshire it is an upright very fragrant thorny bush with repeat flowering deep pink, crimson to magenta double blooms. One of my favourite roses. 5ft🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Delivery! The very best kind 🌹. Rose of the Year 2027 🏆 Floribunda 'Art Deco'. Bred by Kordes Rosen. Thank you so much @rosesuk.bsky.social it is so fabulously kind of you. I have just the perfect spot for it 🥰

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

The meadow is full of small jousting blue butterflies

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 29/07/2026

For #RoseWednesday 🌹 a few lemon to creamy white blooms. Nelson's Pride (Amanda Beales, 2006), Crème de la Crème (Gandy, 1995), Tea Noisette William Allen Richardson (Marie Ducher, 1878) & very fragrant Hybrid Tea White Parfum de Provence aka Jeanne Moreau (Meilland, 2005) 🤍 🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Today's Old Rose is the repeat-flowering Tea 'Archiduc Joseph' (Nabonnand, 1892). Rose pink cupped double blooms can open peach or copper shades & fade to crimson. Healthy dark green foliage with red tinted stems. A good tea fragrance. Makes a lovely 5ft bush 🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

Today's Old Rose is the richly scented Bourbon 'Boule de Neige' (Lacharme, 1867). Camellia-like double white globular blooms stand on glossy dark green foliage. Mine is climbing around a pillar but doesn't exceed 7ft. Does well in partial shade. Buds are tinged with crimson🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

For #RoseWednesday 🌹 the repeat-flowering 'Quatre Saisons Blanc Mousseux'. An ancient mossy rose which is a natural sport of the Autumn Damask 'Quatre Saisons'. Brownish green moss on stem & bud & a profusion of small double white flowers with a blush tint. Sweet fragrance 🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

The most stunningly fragrant rose in my garden is Hybrid Tea 'Fragonard' (Delbard, 2001). An upright bush with glossy dark green leaves & large double silvery pink blooms whose intense rich fruity old rose perfume scents the whole garden around it. Fabulous as a cut flower.🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

A watched tomato never ripens 🌱🍅

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

First of the courgettes. My favourite Trieste White (a Cousa type zucchini) & Goldrush 🌱

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

For #RoseWednesday 🌹 the diminuitive China 'Irène Watts' (Guillot, 1896). Double creamy blooms which open shades of salmon, peach or apricot with a sweet fragrance. A dwarf bush of around 2ft, the leaves may be tinged with bronze. Fabulous for a pot or the front of a border. 🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

Today's Old Rose is the classic Bourbon 'Souvenir de la Malmaison' (Beluze, 1843). Very large pale to blush pink quartered blooms that open flat & are strongly fragrant. A superb, free flowering rose that forms a short bush. Her one weakness is a tendency to ball in the rain. 🌹 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Today's rose is the superb 'Old Velvet Rose', the Gallica 'Tuscany'. Described by the herbalist John Gerard, 1596 it is dark carmine red to mauve with the gorgeous sculpted petals of the Tudor Rose. To my mind better than its offspring Rivers' Superb Tuscany ('Tuscany Superb').🌹🌱 #Roaes

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Today's Old Rose is 'Shailer's White Moss' (discovered by Henry Shailer, 1788). A white form of Old Pink Moss (R. centifolia muscosa). Lovely mossy buds, highly scented full flat & quartered flowers which have a blush tint in the centre passing to pure white. Summer flowering. #RoseWednesday🌹🌱

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

Today's Old Rose is Rosa centifolia Muscosa 'Old Pink Moss'. A natural sport of R. centifolia discovered circa 1696. Medium to large full double pink blooms which fade slightly as they age. Mossed buds & strong thorny arching growth. Lovely strong fragrance. A 4ft shrub 🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Today's Old Rose is the Autumn Damask (Rosa damascena semperflorens) 'Quatre Saisons'. An ancient rose thought to be R. gallica x R. moschata. Loosely double flowers, sometimes quartered, which can look a little crumpled. Strong fragrance. Flowers from June til October 🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 27/06/2026

Today's Old Rose is the gorgeous 'Crimson Boursault' climber 'Amadis' (Laffay, 1829). One of the few Boursault roses (R. pendulina x R. chinensis) still commercially available. Long arching thornless stems (10-12ft) with sculpted pink flowers. No perfume but I forgive her🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 25/06/2026

Today's Old Rose is the Bourbon 'Louise Odier' (Margottin, 1851). A strongly scented vigorous bush full of very double pink to lilac medium-sized blooms. Almost continuous flowering, the scent is sublime. 🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

Today's Old Rose is the compact hybrid Gallica the 'Rose de la Maître-École' (Coquereau, 1831). Named after a district of Angers where Coquereau lived & ran his nursery. Rose pink fading to lilac & mauve quartered double blooms with a strong old rose fragrance. #RoseWednesday🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

Today's Old Rose is a highly fragrant Alba 'Mme Legras de St Germain'. Of unknown origin (pre 1840) she has large cupped blooms of exquisitely ordered ivory white petals fading to a clotted cream centre. Tall for a shrub & almost thornless with a heady lemony citrus perfume.🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 22/06/2026

Today's Old Rose is an old cottage garden favourite 'Bourbon Queen' ('Reine de L'ile Bourbon'; Mauget, 1834). Double deep pink to magenta, crinkled & beautifully veined blooms. A strong sweet fragrance. A vigorous bush or small climber. Summer flowering. A rose to stop & inhale🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Today's Old Rose is the Gallica 'Tricolore de Fandre' (Parmentier, 1844). An eye-catching compact 3ft bush with intensely striped medium double blooms of blackberry purple & raspberry pink on cream. Very pretty & sweetly fragrant. I am surprised it is not more widely known. 🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 18/06/2026

Today's Old Rose is the fragrant Damask 'Gloire de Guilan'. Of unknown antiquity it was collected in the mountains of Iran where it was used for making attar by plant hunter Nancy Lindsay. Introduced 1949. Large, pretty open blooms which stand up well to rain. Summer flowering 🌹🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

For #RoseWednesday 🌹 the pretty Bourbon 'Honorine de Brabant' (a sport of Commandant Beaurepaire: Remi Tanne, 1916). Informally cupped & quartered fragrant blooms of creamy white to blush pink striped with cerise, violet & mauve. The striping varies in each bloom. Few thorns. 🌱 #Roses

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netherfield @netherfield34.bsky.social · 16/06/2026

Today's rose is 'The Wax Rose' - the Gallica 'Duchesse d'Angoulême' (Vibert, 1836). Delicate soft pale blush pink flowers with a deeper pink centre, sometimes tinged crimson from the buds. Strong old rose perfume. A delightful, refined 3ft bush with few prickles. Summer flowering 🌱 🌹 #Roses

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