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@urbaneclectic87.bsky.social
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Prof gdnr Spkr/Writes/Draws Urban Env Plants. Wildlife ❤ dogs. Gay. Environment matters to me. . 2 many pots & tubs. Way 2 little ground. Ex clubber & gym bunnie. House, Funk, Trance etc. Birds, plants, bumble bees, bees. Hates Reform Labour, & Tories

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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Euphorbia Miners Merlot. My garden
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
The Dave Austin Wife of Bath x Rosa spinosissima hybrid.Rosa Rsaa Robbie Burns.Hard rosource
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
On .my plot Shoulldj have attached
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Yet another early rose. Rosa Jens Mink. On plot Just now. A Rugosa/Explorer Canadian bred from
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHKh...
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Dasiphora/Potentilla fruticosa Primrose Beauty. My garden just now.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
A Red Mustard. Growing on a compost heap. As pretty as any foliage or flower
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
A Ceanothus hybrid this afternoon. #americanlilac #ceanothus
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Ceanothus arboreus Trewithen Blue. Local back garden. The Tree Ceanothus. Native to the Californian Channel Islands. Home of very dwarf Gray Foxes, this Ceanothus and the tree that is Lyonothamnus asplenifolius floribundus. One ceanothus that you can prune h
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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Cerrone - Supernature (1977) Single - Tv - 16.12.1978 /RE
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Local Thames side Subtropical feel courtyard. But this weekend it was been grey and cold northerlies and easterlies.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
One of several clumps I have of the tulip Tulipa Prinses Irene. All are in pots It is a bit on the short side but very tolerant of gales. Happy Easter All
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Close up of flowers of a tree-sized Winter bark -Drimys winteri latifolia. Taken en route to Post Office yesterday. #drimys #winterbark
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
Tulipa linifolia. In my garden. Do love these.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 19/04/2025
A Rosa x xanthina rose in flower just now. I do love these early Chinese roses and similar near hybrids. They don't reflower but sometimes bhear hips. Back ones.
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Nice @channel4news.bsky.social coverage of our "pet flea treatments turn up in bird's nests" research, starring my dog Poppy :) www.channel4.com/news/scienti...
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Scientists warn chemicals in pet flea treatments are killing wildlife
The government says it's time to look again at the sale of pet flea treatments after scientists warned the chemicals in them kill wildlife including songbirds.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Mid-blue Ceanothus hybrid this morning.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The earliest Lilac. Syringa x chinensis. Local front garden. Does seem to reflower. #chineseliilac #syringa
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Sweet/Edible Cherry a few days ago. Quite early on the morning and on a neighbouring plot. A simple beauty well able to compete with current ubiquitous Japanese cherries.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Wisteria sinensis 'tree' locally. Sunday morning. #wisteria #wisteriasinensis
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
Seed raised Amelanchier alnifolia from an Alpine Garden Society seed distribution. A dwarf form. Shrublet. On my plot, in flower now. Quite like this. Sets berries but I never get any. Wood pigeons eat the lot.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Very well maintained Chinese Windmill Palm - Trachycarpus fortunei. Below it a Jelly Palm - Butia capitata odorata. On morning walk today.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Much more dull and cloudy early on. Two front yards. To the fore some kind of Restio family plant. Can't say I like them. Ordinary grasses more elegant. European Fan Palm - Chamaerops humilis. Furthest away Chamaerops humilis cerifera - N African 'blue' version.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
It is Mexican Orange Blossom time From the originall species Choisya ternata to the various hybrids. Siuch as this Choisya x dewitteana Aztec Pearl as here. Grows well in sun or shade. Scented. May flower 3 times in one growing season. #choisya #aztecpearl
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
By a front door planting. Euphorbia characias wulfenii in electric lime. White blossom and bronze foliage of Prunus x cistena. Budding Choisya ternata.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Malus Profusion I think. A street tree. I do like the dark leaves and flowers. On a more dull start than most of late.
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Dave Goulson @davegoulson.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Support Sian Berry’s #GoPesticideFree bill, scheduled for debate 25th April, which would ban local councils in England from using pesticides in public spaces. No more poison in our streets and parks! Contact your MP using the link below: pan-uk.eaction.org.uk/edm-urban-pe... @sianberry.bsky.social
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Front garden hedge that includes Viburnum tinus, Euonymus japonica, Choisya ternata and these large heads of carnation-scented Viburnum x burkwoodii.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Prunus x cistena. Very floriferous. This year it has been spectacular.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Detail of a Wild Cherry - Prunus avium. This morning.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=DSfj... I just love this.
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Electronic - Getting Away With It (1990 Official Music Video) [HD Upgrade]
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Double flowered Gean or Wild Cherry. Prunus avium Plena. Street tree.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Some kind of Red-bud/Judas Tree Cercis sp/hybrid/selection. #cercis #judastree
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Rosa (Hybrid Musk) PENELOPE. Always among the first to flower around here. Dates from 1924 and bred by Pemberton in Essex, England UK. NOT out yet. Late this year relatively.
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Rosa x alba MAXIMA & Sweet Cicely - Myrrhis odorata. Seeds a natural sweetener. Allows reduction 2 sugar 2 sweeten sour 'fruits' like rhubarb. Does better in the North. Ancient Alba rose does in most places. Often outlives a garden. Here @ Newton & Cowper Museum Olney, Bucks. Early in long-gone June
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A pink plethora of Prunus KANZAN. One street tree. The one behind older and on a gatden. Seen this morning. #prunus #kanzan
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Clivia miniata DARUMA WIDE-LEAVED. Mine. In flower now. #clivia #orange
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Ceanothus arboreus Trewithen Blue. A medium tree sized Californian Lilac. One of the very few ceanothus that can cope with a fairly hard prune. This morning. Early walk. #ceanothus #trewithenblue
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Most fastigiate trees eventually bush out. Here we have a Prunus AMA-NO-GAWA locally. That has done just that. #japanesecherry #cherryblossom #flowering #blossom
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Hedge including Holly, Ivy, Hawthorn and the shiny Chocolate bronze of these new Purple Filbert leaves Corylus Maxima Purpurea. #hedge #purplefilbert
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Wild cherry or Gean This morning. #cherryblossom
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SzY... As we might say back in the day Choon. For Friday Night. I miss going out. London nightlife is dire. Manchester was the place.
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Jonas Rathsman - Skepparkrans (Original Mix)
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Tulipa praestans SHOGUN. In a terracotta pot in my front yard. Just now. Bulbs from @farmergracy.bsky.social. I think it is possibly best to replant. Yes they come back, but not as floriferous as the first year. Last year's bulbs are being these. #tulip #tulipa #tulipapraestans #shogun
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Cowslips - Primula veris this morning on my walk in local linear park. Rather more drought resistant than the Primrose - Primula vulgaris. I went through quite a long phase of raising these from seed. Often the red versions. #primula #cowslip #primulaveris
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Wallflowers -being wallflowers - on an old wall locally. Have always been a big fan. The colours. The scent. Their toughness. #erysimum #wallflowers
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Cowichan Garnet Polyanthus. My front yard. Yesterday. Thanks for these @plantpref.bsky.social They are deeper in hue and more velvety in texture in reality. Sunshine bleaching them. #cowichan #primula #cowichan #garnet
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Berrying Myrtle -Myrtus communis Variegata. This morning. #myrtle #variegated #berries #tw
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urbaneclectic @urbaneclectic87.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Very large thicket oh blackthorn - Prunus spinosa. Coming into bloom. #blossom #bloom #blackthorn #tw #prunusspinosa
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