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Michael Stefani
2 years
Some of my quince crop….
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Michael Stefani
2 years
Hellebores still going strong…
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Michael Stefani
3 years
Blackthorn walk....
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Michael Stefani
4 years
The exquisite Galanthus, Lady Elphinstone....a very special snowdrop 😍..⁦ @MorlasPlants
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Michael Stefani
7 years
The exquisite jewel-like flowers of Eucomis bicolor, a little tender, but happy outside with me #Scotland #gardens
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Michael Stefani
8 months
Happy Valentine’s to everyone, from me and Lady Elphinstone… #Valentine2024 #snowdrops
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Michael Stefani
8 months
Anyone fancy some right royal purple #beauty ?
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Michael Stefani
9 months
A wee vase of Snowdrops is a delightful thing…. #beauty
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Michael Stefani
8 months
Another shot of the lovely snowdrop, Lady Elphinstone…after all, she has great #beauty !
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Michael Stefani
1 year
Geum…..what can I say? Well, only that it’s beautiful…
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Michael Stefani
4 years
One of the splendid Greatorex hybrids...Galanthus Cordelia....such a neat double..... #snowdrops
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Michael Stefani
2 years
A very old cultivar..Galanthus ‘Sam Arnott’…and still one of the best. Sweetly scented too… #snowdrops
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Michael Stefani
6 years
Discovered away back in the mists of time..1890 in fact...the gorgeous Lady Elphinstone, from ⁦ @CSnowdrops #Snowdrops
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Michael Stefani
6 years
The unfolding leaves of Veratrum nigra
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Michael Stefani
2 years
How about this for an ancient variety? Goes back to around 1890, Galanthus ‘Lady Elphinstone’. #snowdrops
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Michael Stefani
4 years
A wee peek into my garden....and it’s goodnight from me..and it..
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Michael Stefani
7 months
I wonder, if I slept for 20 years, like Rip Van Winkle…would the weather be better when I woke up? Sleet, mist, cold, bleak and dreich, that’s today’s weather. Here’s Narcissus ‘Rip Van Winkle’, been around since the 1880’s…still surviving, so I guess I will too.. #Spring 😂
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Michael Stefani
7 years
The exquisite Galanthus Lady Elphinstone, another very old variety, this one from 1890, from @CSnowdrops #snowdrops
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Michael Stefani
2 years
First snowdrop to flower in my garden this year…Galanthus elwesii ‘Snow Fox’.
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Michael Stefani
3 years
Paeonies rescued from the rain….
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Michael Stefani
9 months
Warm, glowing colour from this fungi… #beauty
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Michael Stefani
7 years
One of the loveliest yellows, Galanthus Primrose Warburg #snowdrops
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Michael Stefani
3 years
Tulipa Parrot King...bowed, but not broken...
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Michael Stefani
6 years
Inspiring talk by @Andrew_Adonis in Perth today, spelling out clearly the undeniable fact of the foolishness of Brexit. There is no argument for leaving.....we must, must stay in the EU
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Perth4Europe
6 years
Thanks to @Andrew_Adonis for an excellent talk tiday giving urgency to Remaining in EU for the sake of the economy, the Irish Border, the young who are predominantly #Remain and peace, which was the original purpose of the EU. For those who missed it @INDYBroad has filmed it.
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Michael Stefani
5 years
I have a feeling someone lives here.....
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Michael Stefani
7 years
The regal blooms of Cardiocrinum giganteum receding into the leaves of Acer #flowers #foliage #gardens
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Michael Stefani
3 years
Stumbled upon this nest of Dunnock, or Hedge Sparrow, eggs in my garden…..
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Michael Stefani
4 years
Stars fell down....
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Michael Stefani
8 years
Helleborus niger, in all its exquisite perfection #winter flowers #hellebores
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Meconopsis Maggie Sharp
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Michael Stefani
3 years
I can never resist having a posy of snowdrops…
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Michael Stefani
2 years
Another shot of the bloodroot, Sanguinaria canadensis Plena…fully open in the sun yesterday…
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Michael Stefani
6 years
More blues? How about Meconopsis backed up by Corydalis flexuosa #blueisthecolour
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Michael Stefani
7 years
Perfect design....Iris ‘Katherine Hodgkin’ #colour_harmony
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Michael Stefani
2 years
And just to raise our spirits higher…Crocus! Is this joy in a flower? I think so..
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Oh well, they say patience is a virtue.....my Cardiocrinum giganteum has taken a few years to produce two flowering spikes...but oh...the scent and the beauty...so worth the wait...
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Michael Stefani
6 years
Sunset progression #skies
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Iris sibirica
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Michael Stefani
3 years
Contented bumble bee on Inula hookeri….
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Michael Stefani
1 year
A lovely apple this one….Blenheim Orange…dates back to the 1740’s.
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Michael Stefani
5 years
A family gathering....
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Michael Stefani
4 years
If this Campanula doesn’t give you sweet dreams......goodnight and good sleeps...
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Michael Stefani
4 years
Aerial views of a country garden in a vase...
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Michael Stefani
7 years
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Michael Stefani
7 years
The very striking Galanthus Magnet, a hybrid with staying power..over 100years old..and still as handsome and elegant as ever #snowdrops
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Michael Stefani
6 years
Something really cheerful for Monday morning #winterflowers
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Michael Stefani
7 years
Some gold on a cold snowy day...Galanthus plicatus ‘Wendy’s Gold’ #snowdrops #winterflowers
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Michael Stefani
9 years
Iris ‘EyeCatcher’ another of Alan McMurtrie’s new hybrids @ScottishRockGC Dunblane - I bought it.
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Michael Stefani
2 years
Crocus tommasinianus, full of the joys…. #crocus
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Michael Stefani
4 years
Narcissus Irene Copeland..raised by Mr FM Copeland during World War I, and named after his daughter...
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Michael Stefani
7 years
It was great to see my namesake, Rip van Winkle, welcoming me after my long sleep last week #sleepy
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Michael Stefani
7 years
A bit of beauty for our poor world, Eucryphia x nymanensis #powerofflower #Branklyn #Perth #Scotland
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Michael Stefani
6 years
It’s hard not to love crocus in the sunshine #winterflowers
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Walk this path with me.....
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Michael Stefani
4 years
Anyone else love.....a foxglove...?
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Michael Stefani
3 years
Pelargonium Mr Wren…⁦ @gartnerkenneth
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Acer shirasawanum
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Michael Stefani
7 years
This casual indifference to sexual predators is far too prevalent, making such a *joke*speaks volumes about how Gove sees it
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Will Black 🍓
7 years
Another truly awful thing about Michael Gove joking about women being raped is it sounds like he'd planned it. So insensitive & misjudged
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Michael Stefani
7 years
This pic by Peter James @ambientabbot is so full of movement, grace..the River Tay flowing like silk
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Michael Stefani
4 years
Sanguinaria canadensis Plena...the bloodroot...
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Michael Stefani
7 years
Graceful ferns unfurling
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Michael Stefani
7 years
Attention! Leopard spotted Lilium pardalinum landing! #Branklyn #Perth #Scotland #gardens #Flowers #Lilies
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Frosty Cardiocrinums.....seedheads keeping closed shop....
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Michael Stefani
7 years
The trumpets shall sound! Lilium regale scenting the air, brought by Ernest Wilson from S. China #Branklyn #Perth
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Michael Stefani
7 years
Another of the Heyrick Greatorex hybrids, Galanthus Dionysus, aka Sybil Roberta, a very lovely double snowdrop #winterflowers #snowdrops
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Anyone like Meconopsis?
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Primula ‘Blarney Castle Red’
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Prunus padus..a cherry for the birds..also known as the Mayday tree
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Michael Stefani
8 years
Can't get enough of witch hazels #scent #shrubs #winterflowers
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Michael Stefani
7 years
Perhaps I painted them? The astonishing berries of Clintonia andrewsiana at #Branklyn ,known as the Bluebead, wonder why? #Perth #Scotland
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Michael Stefani
4 years
My first Primula vulgaris of the season... #primrose
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Michael Stefani
2 years
An old favourite from summer…some brightness on a cloudy, mizzly November day…
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Michael Stefani
2 years
I don’t know of a neater and fuller double than Galanthus ‘Hippolyta’, one of the excellent Greatorex hybrid #snowdrops @karenme73499895
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Michael Stefani
3 years
David Austin climbing rose, Teasing Georgia…starting to open a bloom…. #roses #february
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Michael Stefani
2 years
It’s been chucking it down all night, and it’s dreich, misty and wet. What better time to see this combination of Narcissus, Forsythia and Ribes…always speaks loudly to me of Spring…
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Michael Stefani
5 years
My one and only daylily, Hemerocallis Catherine Woodberry, has made a welcome appearance after a couple of years absence...fragrant too...
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Michael Stefani
8 years
@JueRobWilPo clearly has no ikea what he's doing
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Primula Marie Crousse....
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Michael Stefani
3 years
So cold just now, the oak tree has kept its coat of moss, with lichen highlights...
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Michael Stefani
4 years
Good morning everyone...from me and Tulip Apricot Parrot...
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Michael Stefani
7 months
This is the lovely old double, Narcissus ‘Irene Copeland’, dating from around 1915. I don’t have many of these, so they are a real treat.. #Spring Named after the raiser’s daughter..
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Michael Stefani
4 years
The flamboyance of poppy....
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Michael Stefani
6 years
A touch of Pulsatilla beauty perhaps?
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Michael Stefani
2 years
Another old variety of daffodil, rescued from dereliction…you’d think I spent my life raking about in old gardens…🙄🚶‍♂️
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Michael Stefani
7 years
The stunning blue of Tecophilaea cyanocrocus..the so called Chilean Blue Crocus, although not related to the crocus. Growing in the alpine house @TheBotanics in Edinburgh
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Michael Stefani
4 years
Yesterday, it rained, and it rained, and....the apples liked it...
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Michael Stefani
4 years
You don’t often see a white Primula vialii....
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Michael Stefani
3 years
Paeony rockii, the tree Paeony named after the Austrian plant hunter, Joseph Rock...strongly scented...
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Michael Stefani
7 years
Iris ‘Katherine Hodgkin’ , unperturbed by the ‘Beast from the East’ #winterflowers #spring ?
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Michael Stefani
4 years
Good morning from me and Allium christophii....the star of Persia....
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Michael Stefani
5 years
The gorgeousness of the Bourbon rose, Mme. Isaac Pereire, dating from 1880, still going strong....luscious scent....
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Michael Stefani
6 years
Fritillaria meleagris..aka Snake’s-Head fritillary....an interesting fusion of two flowers, with two pedicels from one stalk...haven’t seen this before
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Michael Stefani
7 years
Snowdrops still looking very fresh, prob helped by recent cold and snowy weather..here, Hippolyta, Sam Arnott, Yvonne Hay and Magnet #snowdrops #spring2018
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Hydrangea petiolaris...fertile flowers like spiders webs
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Michael Stefani
7 years
The neat, tidy and very double flower of snowdrop, Galanthus Hippolyta, one of those raised by the eccentric, Heyrick Greatorex in his Norfolk garden #Snowdrops
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Michael Stefani
5 years
Meconopsis sulphurea
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Michael Stefani
4 years
Busy making jam....Raspberry, Blackcurrant, Redcurrant, Gooseberry...
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Michael Stefani
2 years
I have no name for this lovely, joyful daffodil. Many years ago, I found it in the ruins of an old garden…long-abandoned. Anyone recognise it?
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Michael Stefani
10 months
Thanks to @dracos for his amazing postbox maps, and to @RoofyDoodle for alerting me to it, I’ve tracked down a few more postboxes in Perth. This one, in Kinnoull St. It’s amazing how easy it is to take them for granted. #PostboxSaturday
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