Paddy Tobin

Gardening, Wildflowers (esp. native Irish orchids), photography and blogging.

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Glechoma hederacea. Ground-ivy

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@WexfordBotany1 @BSBI_Ireland Nice patch of Hoary Cress at Woodstown Beach today, as you enter beach from main carpark.

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@GuyPeadar @BSBI_Ireland Peadar, I photographed the very same orchids today and went to the inside of that ditch where there are a few more but in a lot of briars.

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@gardenngather With poached salmon and hollandaise sauce!

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Bluebell and Bumblebee...Bombus hortorum.

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First Early Purple Orchids, Orchis mascula, of the season. Waterford.

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An uncommon one: Lepidium draba, Hoary Cress. Woodstown, Co. Waterford. @DomMcGrath47 @DorothyHeaphy

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"The Bubbles in the Glass of Champagne" - A Year Full of Pots https://t.co/C3x2TlcbzV

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@ScottishRockGC The snowdrop world has gone completely to the dogs now!

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Lesser Celandine into flower:

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@ScottishRockGC And I was staying quiet about it! I hope it grows well now!

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A gathering of Long-tailed Tits on the bird-feeder this morning.

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A River Runs Through It. https://t.co/8v2MLioPAV

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Two views from this morning with winter light coming in.

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What a Difference a Day Makes! https://t.co/mTJUBhWfP3

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Mount Usher Gardens, Ashfor, Co. Wicklow with the river in flood, though with level well down on previous days.

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Iris unguicularis 'Kilbroney Marble' is flowering especially well this year.

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The Undergardener has Left Us. https://t.co/jFYTp4aRuz

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Soapwort, Saponaria officinalis, sand dune in Co. Cork.

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Bittersweet on a sand dune in Co. Cork.