Fun, nature, etymology, garden, daily trivia to brighten up your feed from the grind of daily claptrap, garbage & piffle 🌿 Cheltenham, UK & occasional Norway 🌿 Trigeminal neuralgia 💪🥳💗 All my photos, no pilfering🏆
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🌿☕ Poppies .. everywhere in Gloucestershire at the moment & just glorious
The word poppy originates from the Old English or Anglo Saxon word popig
Popig, a glorious & wonderful word for you to enjoy along with my popigs 🐖 🐷 🐖 💐🌸💐🤗
🌿☕ What do you think this delphinium looks like 🐬?
Yup, a dolphin
The word delphinium comes from the Ancient Greek delphínion or delphis 🐬
Botanists including Carl Linnaeus, adopted the New Latin genus name as the spurred shape of the unopened flower buds resemble a dolphin's nose or curved body🌊
🌿☕The oxeye daisy: Dedicated to Artemis, Greek goddess of the moon🌙 staying open at night unlike it's smaller lawn cousin, known also as 🌙 penny or 🌙 daisy
The game "He loves me, he loves me not" began with the Oxeye Daisy
Used by 🐝 🦋 🐜 🪲 it serves a pivotal ecological function
I definitely 💕 it!
🌿☕Paeon, student of Asclepius god of medicine & healing, discovered uses of the peony root after Leto the goddess of fertility told him it soothed childbirth pain
Asclepius threatened to jealously kill him. To save him Zeus turned him into a peony 🌺 so he could continue to alleviate childbirth pain
🌿☕ Deeply saddened to read Anthony Head has died. Gave great joy to not only my generation but my daughter's too as the re runs of Buffy took hold for her generation.
For me, always the Gold Blend man ☕♥️
Rest in peace and fly your wings 💗
🌿☕ I don't know who did this, but whoever you are thank you. It is genius 🍄 😂 💥
🌿☕ Morning🌞
Roses are out out!! 🥂
Sending floriography love for 35 million years 🌹
♥️: Romance, deep love, desire & passion
🤍: Purity, innocence, reverence & new beginnings
🩷: Gratitude, joy, grace & admiration
💛: Jealousy or friendship, joy & warmth
🧡: Enthusiasm, fascination & desire
Enjoy 💃🌹🌹🌹
🌿☕ With very many thanks to @plantlifeuk.bsky.social for opening the door for me to happily walk through every year - 4th year now and seeing things like this in my lawn fills me with joy 💃
#NoMowMay just very lovely really 🌿
#bloomscrolling #nature #gardening
🌿☕ We have a new little family in our garden
#greatit #nature #birds #wildlife #cotswolds #cheltenham
🌿☕ An adult ladybird 🐞 can eat 50 to 60 aphids a day, eating up to 5,000 aphids over a lifetime
Impressively, a hungry ladybird larva can eat between 100 & 400 aphids a day whilst growing
Natures natural pesticide.. Keep going kids xx 🤗 ♥️🐞
#nature #environment #gardening #cotswolds #ladybug
