Aspiring Greener

Allotment gardening. Overland travel. Science and nature. Sustainability. Trying to reduce my carbon footprint, while living in a city, with a toddler.

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

New blog! Campaign to save allotments as we know them in bristol.

@CllrEllieking
#bristolallotmenteersresist
#allotment
#rentrises
#bristol
#bristolcouncil

https://t.co/LSMYwf68xC

[Tamara Evans Braun @TamaraEBGreen]

What does it say about the state of the NHS that leaving patients in corridors is an improvement to services?

#fundthenhs #NHS
@NHSMillion @RishiSunak @theRCN
https://t.co/JJKt4joRZd

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

Don't forget to vote today! I'm voting Green 💚 and would love it if you did too, but whoever you support, go out and get your voice heard.

Remember to take your ID!

#LocalElections2024 #VoteGreen #LocalElections #Bristol

[bristol allotmenteers resist @BrisAllotResist]

Anyone else object to the allotment community being referred to as just "private food growers" in a "gated community" ?

[bristol allotmenteers resist @BrisAllotResist]

The allotment rent rises make carrots sad 😔

#bristolallotmenteersresist

[bristol allotmenteers resist @BrisAllotResist]

Snow and ice on the allotments here in Bristol this morning.

Can we freeze the allotment rents too @CllrEllieking ?

#snow
#snowday #bristolallotmenteersresist

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

Anyone also on instagram, I'm running a giveaway with a couple of other Bristol businesses. You can win one of my handmade ceramic beakers plus some lovely coffee and chocolate. UK only. https://t.co/b44Qb7tHsL

#GiveawayAlert #BristolBusiness #HandmadeInTheUK #NotOnAmazon

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

POV: when you laid black plastic over a bed having forgotten you'd transplanted some rhubarb there and then peel it back in the spring 😀

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

@pvt_ak Physalis are one of our favourite things to grow. Productive, trouble free, delicious and really beautiful 😍

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

With a few simple actions you can turn your garden or community space into a haven for bees:
🐝 Say no to weedkillers and pesticides
🐝 Make a bee bowl
🐝 Let wildflowers grow
🐝 Don’t over-tidy
🐝 Grow nectar-rich flowers
🐝 More https://t.co/cB3TCMVxTE
#SaveTheBees

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

@ThePhotoHour Fountains in Seville!

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

@MooreMoorePlant I think i often disbelieve that the dry shrivelled looking seeds could possibly be alive!

[bristol allotmenteers resist @BrisAllotResist]

Now's the time for sowing onions
Not these seeds of discontent
Let's grow fruit and happy gardeners
Climbing beans not climbing rent

#bristolallotmenteersresist
#GardeningX
#bristol

Pic credit: @browne_jc

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

@ChattyGardener mine were out on the 9th feb!

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

9th feb. Must be a record for my first tulips.

I really don't want to be out in this cold and wet, what are they doing?

Retreat!! Retreat!!

#springflowers
#containergardening
#tulips
#springbulbs
#GardeningX

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

@ChattyGardener My first tulips are already going over 😬

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

@Saralimback Urgh. Shingles is horrible! Feel better soon! @BrisAllotResist needs you :)

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

I've often zoomed past this beach on the South Devon Mainline. This half term we saw it from the other perspective.

#travelbytrain #overlandtravel #carfree

[bristol allotmenteers resist @BrisAllotResist]

Allotment rents are due to rise here in Bristol. The increases vary from 7% to 492% depending on the plot.

Follow, share, help us fight the changes.

#gardeningX #GardeningTwitter #growyourown #GardenersWorld
#nodig #allotment #vegetablegarden #organicgardening

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

Primroses are out in my front garden 😀 #signsofspring

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

Another hellebore, isnt it luxurious?! This one is in my garden and it hasn't been eastan by snails at all (yet) 😍

#Helleborus
#winterrose
#springflowers
#gardening

[Aspiring Greener @AspiringGreener]

Went to see the snowdrops at @colesbournepark. They were very lovely but for me it was really about the hellebores!

#hellebore #winterroses #snowdropwalk