Jan Hen...🌻💙

Long time amateur Christian.🕯Nature watcher/wildflowers/birds/insects.💚 Art, drawing, watercolour painting, poetry. #MEcfs

[Jan Hen...🌻💙 @JanHenMe]

@jeennnyi Pugwash.

[gregorio catarino @gregcatarino1]

"Lighthouse in the Village" Artist-Liliana Gori.

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@renabaddie_ 116

[Jan Hen...🌻💙 @JanHenMe]

@realninawysocka None of the above.

[Brigit Strawbridge @B_Strawbridge]

This horrifies me, too.

How can you think it is ok to liberally spray #Glyphosate like this on residential streets, or anywhere else for that matter, @SheffCouncil ?

And in case you're wondering, @TimBirchWild had confirmation from the guy spraying that this IS glyphosate.

[Jan Hen...🌻💙 @JanHenMe]

@TheMeldrew I was told that fairies lived in the irises that grew in our garden. I spent many a May morning before school searching in the iris flowers. I almost convinced myself that I had seen one.

[Give A Shit About Nature @giveashitnature]

Spraying one dandelion with Roundup can kill over 100 bees.

The flower doesn't die instantly. Bees will keep visiting it for days, taking the poison back to their nests and hives.

Never spray dandelions in spring and summer.

They're one of the first major food sources for emerging pollinators.

Let them bloom or remove them by hand.

[ALEXIS ™I ❤️🇷🇼• @dufitalexis1]

Britain has lost around half its hedgerows since the Second World War. The wildlife that depended on them has followed a similar trajectory. 🌿

The old field boundary — a strip of blackthorn, hawthorn, dog rose, and elder two to five metres wide between cultivated ground — was not wasted agricultural space. It was a functioning ecological system that maintained pollinators, pest predators, and farmland birds across centuries of working land.

Each hedgerow is a nesting corridor for grey partridge and skylark, a foraging habitat for brown hares and hedgehogs, a site for solitary bee colonies, and a windbreak for the crops alongside it.

The field cultivated to its very edge gives the maximum return this season. It removes the populations of beneficial insects, farmland birds, and small mammals on which stable long-term production depended.

The field with a hedgerow yields a few percent less per cultivated hectare — but remains productive across decades without compensatory chemical inputs. The documented declines in grey partridge, lapwing, and skylark across the British agricultural landscape since the 1970s are directly linked to field consolidation and hedgerow removal.

Practical equivalents for the garden or smallholding:
- A strip of wildflower meadow at least one metre wide at the plot boundary
- A clump of nettles in a shaded corner as a habitat base for red admiral, small tortoiseshell, and peacock butterflies
- A native mixed hedge of blackthorn and hawthorn in place of post-and-wire fencing
- A section of uncut grass between rows of fruit trees

#HedgerowHabitat #FarmlandWildlife #NativeHedge #GardenWildlife

[Jan Hen...🌻💙 @JanHenMe]

@HWarlow Thinking of you today Helen, bless you.💞🫂

[Hamilton 🇺🇸 @Watchman_motto]

Crazy amount of work, but it sure pays off.

Gardening is peak.

[Jan Hen...🌻💙 @JanHenMe]

@goodreads M C Beaton and Alexander McCall Smith

[Jan Hen...🌻💙 @JanHenMe]

@Nigel_Farage Petty.

[Jan Hen...🌻💙 @JanHenMe]

@BBCSteveR Thank you, that was lovely. It's my birthday today too.😊

[Jan Hen...🌻💙 @JanHenMe]

@Shirley82829043 @djmth1010 He's so rude.🙄

[Jan Hen...🌻💙 @JanHenMe]

@Acyn Don't be ridiculous!

[Antony Wren @BeachHutBirder]

Please find another way of telling Stew how much he's missed... This could easily get a bird tangled up; so many animals die because of balloons. This was one of 4 that I found along the beach this week

[Christine Bagot @cm_bagot]

today, sewage at Grannies bay/ Stanner Bank. also yesterday, disgusting @A_J_Snowden imagine people letting their dogs in this water (they did) often see children playing on the beach here.

[John E. Irby @etunner]

. . . and 25 years later we have a general, a dentist, a veterinarian and a locksmith. Boys will be boys, but we do grow up. j

[Glevum glass eels @leerust1966]

Urgent: Baby Eels in Crisis – River Severn 2026 Migration Underway

Millions of critically endangered baby eels are already stranded along the River Severn, cut off and exhausted during their annual migration. Without help, millions of young eels will perish again

This is a recurring ecological emergency that demands attention. We need to raise awareness and protect these vulnerable creatures.

Please share & repost to help expose the crisis and support conservation efforts.

[Hayley Draws Churches @HayleyFern4]

Church drawing on tour! For my first offering of the year, here's St Materiana's Church in Tintagel. I hiked along the coastal path with my sketchbook to relish an afternoon drawing. My winter hibernation is over so back to Leicestershire churches very soon!! 😁