Adopted gardener

Plantoholic, wife, mother, physicist, did I mention adopted? Coming out of the fog: like a car; going a little too fast and really should have fog lights on! 😎

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

Everyone needs a go to place for their mental health. As I battle through the adoptee fog I find, as it has always been, mine is my garden and allotments and the wildlife around them. Unabashedly obsessive but healing. #mentalhealth #gardens #pollinators #adoptionmeans

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@JudiRich4 Amen!

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@neithskye I hear you:Try explaining to your Chinese teacher “I have 4 parents “( even if half are dead and a quarter of the remainders wishes I was)! 😎... 😂especially when you say no, they’re not step parents!! Mind blown

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@wendykfabulous Well I don’t know about you but I’m obviously a hereditary Jedi! 😁 ( Reunion was a bit of a let down on that front)!

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

That moment when you realise your tub of cow manure that you’ve bringing home to do a germination aminopyralid test has emptied into your rucksack as you cycled home 🤦‍♀️#checkthelidnexttime #allotment #compost

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@Steph_Hafferty And there was me thinking all my flowers to encourage pollinators were having the added side effect of increasing the yields of my fruiting crops and decreasing some pests by encouraging predators eg hover fly larva but no, apparently I just want to feel good about myself 😒

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@bagshawsophie @Skull_Bloke To be fair it’s not exactly what you’d expect to turn up in a uk compost heap!! I wait with bated breath for what will appear in it next 😂

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

Turning out compost and found the brown skull in the heap, thinking grey squirrel as so much larger than my rat and mouse skulls? Any thoughts @Nadinemi13 @bagshawsophie @katemacrae @BBCSpringwatch @ChrisGPackham ?

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@bagshawsophie @Skull_Bloke Excuse the fingers!

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@Skull_Bloke @Nadinemi13 @bagshawsophie @katemacrae @BBCSpringwatch @ChrisGPackham Ah that explains the way the line of the molars go into a v shape as opposed to being more parallel - just had a quick image google. Thank you!

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@bagshawsophie @Skull_Bloke It doesn’t have any sign of the second row of incisors that rabbits have either ... it’s a conundrum 🤔

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@bagshawsophie @Skull_Bloke Ah yes I see what you mean... rabbit hadn’t occurred to me🤓

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@laterskater__ @themouthyoufeed @iamadopted Same. When I saw the psychiatrist with post natal depression and she brought up my adoption I was very much “I have no problem with adoption “. She was rather “umm really?” Disbelievingly...😏

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

My giant ginger decides this is the right time of year to flower...can’t feel it’s left it a little late (for the uk)😏 #ginger #gardens #greenhouse

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@MaeveKelly11 And it then took another 20 odd years of them growing to see anything of myself in my children cos you know, family likeness is just not something I’d ever got my head around in relation to myself 😏

[How To Be Adopted @howtobeadopted]

* Adoption economics *

80% of services for adopted people in the UK have been cut. We have to pay £££ of own money to get support.

If you believe #adoptees should have free/subsidised support please RT so I can find funding to get amazing projects off the ground.

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@sarahnmcbee Unforgivable 😢

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@lisa_e8 Hi!! If it was attached to them I’d have definitely said a yarrow but 🤷‍♀️ otherwise!! I hate an unfinished identification!! 😂

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

@lisa_e8 Looking at the blurry leaves below it, is it some type of yarrow, or was it not with those leaves - the fluffy looking ones?!

[Adopted gardener @Adoptedgardene1]

Beautiful beefsteak fungus today for #UKFungusDay