Fox Cottage Garden

[Fox Cottage Garden @thefoxcottage]

For the last few nights a cricket - or grasshopper? - has been chirruping away loudly for hours. Don’t remember hearing them here in urban Oxfordshire in previous summers. Identification help please?

[Fox Cottage Garden @thefoxcottage]

@wren_and_paper @DickensShows Thanks so much @wren_and_paper that’s really kind!

[Fox Cottage Garden @thefoxcottage]

Can anyone tell me please what this amazing tree is? The colour at this time every autumn is incredible.

[Fox Cottage Garden @thefoxcottage]

Anyone recognise this lovely wallpaper please? It’s used at IKEA Reading in one of their show rooms and I’d like to try and buy some, or similar. #botanical #wallpaper

[Liz Hayes @lizhayespiano]

Bumblebees smothering the rue this afternoon, though with a blustery wind they’re sometimes finding it hard to cling on.

[Liz Hayes @lizhayespiano]

First posies of spring flowers from the garden, it feels more like April than February, with huge bumblebees buzzing around.

[Liz Hayes @lizhayespiano]

January 10th, and a rose bud popped open this morning. Strange anyway this early in the year, but why a pink flower on Claire Austin, usually cream tinged with yellow?

[Fox Cottage Garden @thefoxcottage]

A properly dank, unfriendly day. But surprisingly the garden is still hanging on, with roses, cosmos, a tangle of dark clematis viticella and sulphurous evening primroses all bringing cheer.

[Fox Cottage Garden @thefoxcottage]

Happy Easter!

[Biscuiteers @BiscuiteersLtd]

Eeek, it's nearly father's day! To celebrate give us a retweet & follow to #win one of our Football table biscuit tins - #Competition ends on Wednesday (8.1.18) Good luck!

[@constantgardener.bsky.social @gardener_the]

Anywhere. In. The. World.
#shameful
#SaveSheffTrees https://t.co/onvM6jRZZg

[Little Green Space 🦋 @LGSpace]

Dear councils,
If left to grow - and cut annually like traditional hay meadows - 1000s of miles of #roadverges could be beautiful wildflower havens! You'll save taxpayers cash too 🐝
More: https://t.co/rqTICmTPRI
(Pictured is a verge in Dorset, courtesy of @Love_plants)

[Fox Cottage Garden @thefoxcottage]

@gardener_the @gardener_the we’ve had a couple of starlings too in our apple tree in the last couple of days, argumentative and blustering. Amazing to think my mother used to chase starlings away, I was thrilled to see some, first time in many years.

[Fox Cottage Garden @thefoxcottage]

@mycharlibrown @montysdognigel I'm so very sorry. We loved your tweets about him.

[Jenny Linford @jennylinford]

Hi @waitrose if you can offer paper bags for mushrooms why not offer them for other produce instead of flimsy plastic bags? @aplastic_planet

[The London Library @TheLondonLib]

"Over the land freckled with snow half-thawed
The speculating rooks at their nests cawed
And saw from elm-tops, delicate as flower of grass,
What we below could not see, Winter pass."

Hoping for Winter's end soon as we celebrate poet #EdwardThomas, who was born #onthisday 1878

[Chris Manton @ElmTreeBees]

40 of our hives STOLEN! Taken from near Fringford/Bicester. Gutted! Most of our strong stock back from moors in winter spot. See before and after pics. They left a few with dodgy lids. Please RETWEET. #BeeFarmer #honey #honeybees #Bees

[@constantgardener.bsky.social @gardener_the]

How I love @LucyMangan

https://t.co/K9ml5MDyzg

[My Modern Met @mymodernmet]

Handwritten 19th-century color guide poetically describes where shades are found in nature https://t.co/oCmrBO5tBh

[@constantgardener.bsky.social @gardener_the]

Fantastic. A good #NatureTable is a joy to behold. https://t.co/636jVyhGUe