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MikeInTheGarden@toot.wales
<p>Lover of gardens, gardening, and plants. There will be loads of flower pictures... plus anything else that sparkles. ๐</p><p>Good listener.<br />Loves a good cup of tea or coffee. Milkshakes are lush too.</p><p>I don't always write <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/alttext" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>alttext</span></a>, so if you find this unacceptable, then maybe this isn't the profile you are looking for.</p><p><a href="https://toot.wales/tags/wildlife" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>wildlife</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/writing" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>writing</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/gardening" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>gardening</span></a> <a href="https://toot.wales/tags/archaeology" c
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Post #4423985
#XFiles #Lego, anyone? Only ยฃ179.99. โบ๏ธ๐ฝโบ๏ธ๐ฝโบ๏ธ๐ฝโบ๏ธ
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Post #4421607
How about some eastern European Gothic bat music? I bet you didn't anticipate that today? ๐ฆ๐ฆ๐ค๐ฆ๐ฆ https://www.facebook.com/share/v/1DHKeMXVWs/
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Post #3932065
Good morning. โบ๏ธ This is a #silentsunday, #stonecircle & #standingstonesunday from a while ago. This is the Druid's Circle or Maen Hirion, & is located above the village of #Penmaenmawr. Driving up a dangerously narrow lane to the carpark is scary but the views are definitely worth it. Some say that this may be the remains of a long lost Bronze Age landscape known linked to Dinas Affaraon. An ancient city that Ceridwen may have visited & seek the wisdom & magic of nature....
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Post #3860824
Me, and me. ๐ High Victoriana outfit optional.
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Post #3465895
Happy #Monday, y'all. โบ๏ธ
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Post #3426366
Brunch has arrived...๐
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Post #3366181
Oh, do not tell the Priest our plight, Or he would call it a sin, For we have been out in the woods all night, A-conjuring Summer in! And we bring you news by word of mouth, Good news for cattle and corn, Now is the Sun come up from the South, By Oak, and Ash, and Thorn! Sing Oak and Ash and Thorn, good souls, All of a Midsummer's morn, Surely we sing of no little thing, In Oak and Ash and Thorn! ~ Rudyard Kipling, excerpt from A Tree Song โ๏ธ/|\โ๏ธ
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Post #3309560
I have just been looking around my SM platforms and noticing the tirade of anti LGBTQ comments almost everywhere nowadays. I know this isn't new. Most commenters proudly show their own colours or badges of allegiance as if we should be frightened into submission by their ill informed and generally irrelevant issuings... There is much noise about why Pride exisits, yada, yada. I came across a handy little visual earlier with simple words and phrases for the homophobes to be able to read....
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Post #2511935
Nighty night... ๐
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Post #2270120
We are off to the Malvern Flower Show tomorrow. ๐ธ They call it a festival nowadays, and it incorporates lifestyle stuff such as cooking demonstrations &amp; other such nonsense. It was much better when it was just a flower show. Why do folk have to mess with things? Anyhoo, many of our favourite specialist nurseries will be there to tempt us. I will probably end up buying far too many plants, but you are only fabulous once &amp; those plants need me to take care of them... Hones...
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Post #2185303
Nighty night. ๐
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Post #2174443
Just a thought...๐
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Post #2082236
Good morning. ๐ #rhododendrons #red #japanesemaples
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Post #2082232
Having worked at a few large garden centres and being responsible for buying the plants, I got to visit some amazing nurseried all over the UK. And with this privilege came the chance to procure some quite rare things. Here is a very rare rhododendron called Hawk that is still growing in my mother's garden. It is classed as a dwarf, however it is now over 8 feet tall and around 30 years old. It has amazing waxy primrose yellow flowers held in bunches and glossy green leaves.
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Post #1913238
May the Star of Bethlehem bring you sweet dreams and keep the spiders from peeing on your face. โบ๏ธ๐๐๐
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Post #1913212
#SilentSunday #Hosta #Foliage
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Post #1854392
Rhododendron Jean Marie Du Montague is probably my favourite red rhody in the garden. Rh, Half Dan Lem is also a good doer but JMDM is neater in habit and flowers a week or so earlier.
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Post #1811072
Hosta Lake Superior is such a beautiful thing. A seedling from Mary Chastain's fabulous breeding programme. One of the largest hostas we have but kept at bay in a pot for now. This reminds me of a cuttlefish being all wibbly in warm tropical seas.
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Post #1806738
Having a fab time at the Borough Theatre in #YFenni. The warm up act were Angharad and Patrick from the amazing band Calan. They wete amazing. Now we are waiting for Mari Mathias and her band. #FfablasIawn
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Post #1806730
Mari Mathias and her band were amazing. โบ๏ธ They are in tour and will be at the Muni in Pontypridd tomorrow and Y Galeri in Friday in Caernarfon. Next week, they will be in Aberystwyth on the 6th, Wrexham on the 7th, Swansea in the 8th and Ystradgynlais on the 9th. I bought a limited edition gatefold double album and the CD version. The @druid@toot.wales and moi both love her new album. โบ๏ธ
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Post #1806724
Happy May Eve to those who celebrate. Tonight is one of a few ysbryd nos or spirit nights when the veil between this world and the other ones is so thin that you poke your little witchy fingers through it. Another, more well known one is All Hallow's Eve. You could dress up, or down and dance with the gayest of gay abandon around the Coelcerth or sacred fire. Or you could just have a nice cup of tea and marvel at the glorious bounty of the natural world. Whatever works for you. Enjoy!...
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Post #1773520
Some of our ever expanding #Jellycat family are having a lovely #Wednesday so far. โบ๏ธ
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Post #1773518
We are so lucky to live just ten minutes away from our very own #bluebell woodland. Well, not ours as such, but you know what I mean. โบ๏ธ
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Post #1754248
We saw this very unusually coloured #bluebell at #Westinbirt over the weekend.
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Post #1753040
Good evening. โบ๏ธ๐๐
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Post #1726461
Happy #Monday, y&#39;all. โบ๏ธ
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Post #1437326
Everything in the garden is now bursting into life. This is a rhododendron that I must have bought around 10 years ago as a very small plant. It is called Berg's Yellow and these are the first flowers. I am hoping that it is going to be a clear and strong yellow. I have another one growing on called Golden Coach which I used to have but sadly died many years ago now. No flowers yet. My 'go to' yellow for small gardens is one called Nancy Evans, so we'll see which has more...
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Post #1328825
Good evening. I have spent the day in our offices on an exhausting and overwhelming training course, and my brain is now fried. And I have to do the same thing again tomorrow... A few years ago, I was lucky enough to buy some bulbs of a #daffodil called Teal that really glows in the evening light. This photo is from a few years back but illustrates the point nicely. โบ๏ธ
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Post #1177410
Nighty night. ๐
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Post #1164520
Remembering the great Kenneth Williams today who sadly died on this day in 1988, aged 62. โฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธโฅ๏ธ