🌱Linda Dolan💙

#proudtobewoke The definition: alert to injustice in society, especially racism.

Any of my followers on Bluesky. I am having such a peaceful and gentle time there and NO ads!!!!! I am @lindacdolan.bsky.social.

I am struggling to justify staying on this site as we learn more about EM and his links to Russian money. Much as I enjoy the community I have found here, I think I am heading more and more to IG and Bluesky. I will miss the hashtags but will post here for now. #Tuesdayblue

#magentaMonday with the tiniest friend.

Such a lovely morning volunteering @RHSWisley . Every week I take pictures of what is in flower in the Hilltop gardens but this morning I took this one before it flew away and I had to share it with you! What is it thinking????

Well my tiny garden got a proper soaking yesterday but the forecast predicts a couple of lovely weeks to come. Today I am off to Hilltop and looking forward to seeing my colleagues and the visitors. #SundayYellow

It’s a bit scruffy but I am sure being outside Holborn station, it is well used. #PostboxSaturday

Luckily I took the pictures for #sixonSaturday yesterday. It looks like an indoors day for me, sheltering from the rain. My six includes Dahlia, Phlox, Sedum, white Flower Carpet rose, a couple of delicious tomatoes eaten straight after the photo and Calendula.

Something different for #FlowersOnFriday, the beautiful, aging flower of a Speckled Swan Gourd. If only I could age as prettily! If you want me, I will be in my tiny garden!

It’s #clematisThursday! I nearly forgot. I have been working hard to fill my green bin because Monday is collection day and I always feel it’s a waste of money if it isn’t full. The clematis is in one of my neighbour’s gardens.

As well as the amazing design and wonderful plants in @springy_steve garden, I spotted this spider, going about its business and ignoring the crowds of happy visitors. #insectThursday

Thank you Jo for hosting our visit to the Barbican Wildlife garden. It was such a pleasure to meet you and the volunteers and to see what the garden has to offer. We would love to return in a different season. @BarbicanWLG

This gorgeous rose was blooming in one of my neighbour’s gardens that I visited last Sunday. #RoseWednesday. Today I am going on an exciting garden visit with my Bestie. More of that later!

Echinops for #Tuesdayblue. I was out with a friend yesterday and came back to new neighbours! I am so happy because the house next door has been empty for months.

Our neighbour garden event yesterday was a great success. We visited 10 gardens in my road and ended up having a tea party in the last garden. The gardens were all very different but it was clear how much we all enjoyed our outside space. #magentaMonday

Sunday again and happily I am off to Hilltop to volunteer after missing last week. Later, we have our neighbour garden visits and then a tea party in one of my neighbour’s gardens. I hope you have a lovely day. For #SundayYellow, one of my Dahlias plus a friend.

Thank you @springy_steve for publicising your open garden here or I would never have known about it and I would have missed something extraordinary! I pride myself on my plant knowledge but met plants I have never seen. Oh and I bought 3 begonias.

My #sixonSaurday captured from my tiny garden before I go on an exciting garden visit. It includes Hydrangea, Verbena, Abelia (oh no, that is definitely a sign of the end of summer!), two Clematis and a Largerstromia, a gift from my Bestie. Enjoy your Saturday!

Sent to me from Falkirk in Scotland by someone I have trained well! #postboxSaturday

Back to sunshine today after some more welcome rain. Neighbours are visiting my tiny garden on Sunday so I shall be spending the day making it as presentable as possible. Hope your Friday is full of flowers! #FlowersOnFriday

On my Basingstoke canal walk I saw this gorgeous Clematis flowering the lock keepers garden. #clematisThursday