🌸🌿💜In today's high winds & rain a bit of a challenge to catch Herb Robert #Geranium robertianum 🌿 (or in #Folklore known as Stinky Bob) sitting still for #MagentaMonday #flowerphotography 🌸Wishing all the #Flowers Team much Monday #flowerpower 💜🌿🌸

A close-up of the incredible tufted fruits of a dandelion, sitting atop the seed head amongst the forget-me-nots in my garden. If you zoom in, does anyone else think they look like a cityscape of miniature Chrysler buildings? #WildflowerHour #DandelionChallenge

#Walpurgisnight takes place on the night of 30th April, #MayDay Eve, when witches meet on the Brocken Mountain in Germany & hold revels with the devil. #FolkloreSunday #FairyTaleTuesday #Beltane #WalpurgisNacht Image: Joseph Tomanek

💜On #Walpurgisnight 30 Apr to #beltane #MayDay 'tis traditional to hang blessed sprigs of foliage or #spring #Flowers frm houses to ward off bad spirits. #bluebells are beloved by #witches & #fairy fae so good choice for #MythologyMonday #WalpurgisNacht #FairyTaleTuesday 💜🌿🧙🏼‍♀️

💟Congratulations to Dr. Jo Blackwell leading out the #research team w/ Adam B. Evans Dr Hannah Henderson New article in latest issue QRSEH : exploring socio-cultural influences on adherence to #cardiac #rehabilitation tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10… #sociology #bourdieu Routledge Sport, Leisure, and Tourism

☀️🌿A rare day of spring #sunshine here today, so an opportune moment to recall 'Golden Celebration' by David Austin #rose s (from the summer #rose #garden ) to wish all the #Flowers #Flowers OfTwitter folk happy #RoseWednesday ☀️🌿🏵️ #flowerphotography 🌸🌿

A special touch of #TuesdayBlue 🩵🌿💙to wish speedy healing to Christopher Barter D and a return to good health 🩵🌿💜🙋🏼‍♀️⚕️😘

💙🌿 #Bluebells are beloved by #fairies A #child alone in a #bluebell wood risks being whisked away by the #fae & never seen again. Adults too can be lost for days even years 'til the #fairy spell is broken. For #FairyTaleTuesday theme of children 💙🌿🧚🏻‍♀️ #TuesdayBlue #Flowers 🩵

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💜🌿🌸A tad in advance of our #April #PINKMOON2024 #fullmoon rising 23 April, but making a timely appearance for #MagentaMonday is this little #WildFlower bouquet of honesty whose Latin name is #lunaria or #moon -shaped 💜🌿🎑🌕to send all #FlowersOfTwitter Team #MONDAYMAGIC 🎑

🌸🌳In #Japanese #folklore a #myth tells of the Milk Nurse #Cherry Tree that #blossoms on the anniversary of the death of a devoted wet nurse who gave her life & soul to save a child she nursed. She lives on in the #tree spirit🌸🌿👩🏻‍🍼 #FolkloreSunday #flowers #cherryblossom 🌸

Jacquelyn Allen-Collinson 🏞️🌼🇪🇺🎸 Thank you so much Jay 🙏 Still a cool breeze here but the sun is definitely feeling stronger into the last third of April 🌞💪🌸🌾🙋‍♂️😘

“Have you seen an apple orchard in the spring…
An English apple orchard in the spring?
When the spreading trees are hoary
With their wealth of promise-glory,
And the mavis pipes his story
In the spring!” - ‘Apple Blossoms’ by William Wilsey Martin (1833-1913). #poetry #nature

🩷🌿'tis still too early for the lovely Rosa Gertrude Jekyll by David Austin #rose s to make her entry💃🏻 for an #April #RoseWednesday so here's a #Throwback to summer #rose #gardens - to wish all the #Flowers folk happy Wednesday wanders 💜🌿🌹 #Flowers OfTwitter

In #Dartmoor #Legend an old lady tended her bonny #garden 🌷🌿 One night she heard music & looking out saw #pixies dancing on the lawn by swaying #tulip s 🌷🎶Looking closer, each #tulip held a sleeping pixie baby rocked in its #flower cradle 💜 #MythologyMonday #MagentaMonday 🌷

💙🌿In European #folklore to find out if someone is truthful, hang a wreath or bouquet of #bluebells over a doorway they must enter. The longer someone has bluebells around them, the more the truth will out! Happy #FolkloreSunday to all #wildflower folk 💜🌿💙 #wildflower hour

The Spring-flowering #wildflower Greater Stitchwort (Stellaria holostea) is also called 'Jack-in-the-Lantern', after the goblin that carries the 'ignis fatuus' or 'foolish fire', a ghostly light seen by travellers at night especially over bogs, swamps and marshes. #FolkloreSunday

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🌷🌿🩵 A touch of #TuesdayBlue courtesy of the #Bluebells backing, to accompany the raspberry ripple (not their official name) 🍧 #TulipGarden 🌷🌿💙Wishing happy #TulipsTuesday to all the #tulips Team 🌷💋Stephanie Holt🦊 VenetiaJane's Garden Lisa Sutch 🌱Christine DeMarco Cher Norris❤️🇺🇸🌻 🌷

🌷🍃Following in the footsteps 🐾of VenetiaJane's Garden 's storm ruffled #Tulips ... here's an old favourite windswept #froufrou damsel from the campus #tulip #garden to wish all the #Flowers folk happy #MagentaMonday 💜🌱🌷 #flowerphotography