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Peter Gibbs

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4 years

Just a 17th century church playing Bowie #Amsterdam

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3 years

So sick and tired of this.

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1 year

3pm on a January afternoon. Solar panels generating 1.8kW, enough to provide most of the power to the heat pump keeping the house at a comfortable 21C. Solar thermal system pre-heating the hot water tank to 30C. Surprising what you can do on our cold, cloudy, rainy little island.

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Peter Gibbs

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4 years

A vast plume of Saharan dust is blowing across the Atlantic towards the Caribbean. The dust can suppress hurricane formation by reducing sunlight. It's also known to carry nutrients from dried lake beds in Africa which fertilise the Amazon rainforest.

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Peter Gibbs

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6 years

Thames Estuary to the Isle of Wight. Southeast England this morning from our balloon at 98,000ft. (Note - curvature mostly due to wide angle lens)

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8 years

The most beautiful iceberg I've ever seen #IceStation

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5 years

Coming down like dinnerplates!

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8 years

Ok, you want penguins.... #IceStation

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7 years

My wife retired from teaching today, latterly with special needs kids. This is one of her leaving gifts

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11 months

Interesting discontinuity in the cumulus clouds today extending northwards from the Isle of Wight. Doesn't fit with any topographic feature.

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

Hard as nails amelanchier blossom laughs in the face of frost. Not like them namby-pamby magnolias.

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Peter Gibbs

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9 months

Clouds for connoisseurs this evening

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4 months

A stunner tonight

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

Gardeners - don't underestimate the severity of this arctic blast heading our way next week. Wish my plum tree had held off for a few more days 😕

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

Walking through the woods today I heard a rustle in the dried beech leaves, and turned to see this little beauty tucking in at the base of a tree. Hissed impressively as I leant in to take its picture!

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Peter Gibbs

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2 years

This just happened in Antarctica #SolarEclipse

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5 months

Running high at Bradford-on-Avon

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Peter Gibbs

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6 months

Fantastic Moon halo out there tonight!

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Peter Gibbs

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5 years

The fine wave structures in this #noctilucentclouds display are stunning

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Peter Gibbs

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6 years

You can see the growth rings. A layer of ice is added each time the hailstone is recycled by strong updraughts inside the storm

Rob Lennox

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6 years

Bonkers hailstones in #York #thunderstorm .

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7 months

The calm in the eye of #StormCiaran

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Peter Gibbs

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6 years

How about these beauties I saw in New Zealand earlier this year #GardenersWorld #shoutyhalfhour

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Peter Gibbs

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7 years

Where chocolate began. First ever sample of cacao plant, collected by Sir Hans Sloan in Jamaica in 1680s. @NHM_London collection

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Peter Gibbs

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1 year

This one means business 😬

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Peter Gibbs

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4 years

Well this has been my biggest tweet ever. Must have struck a chord.....

Peter Gibbs

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4 years

Just a 17th century church playing Bowie #Amsterdam

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3 years

Birds foot trefoil, wild thyme and the wonderfully named squinancywort making a perfect miniature garden on Lodge Hill #Chilterns #wildflowerhour

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Peter Gibbs

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4 years

Landing at Luton airport in #StormDennis Great job @easyJet Captain!

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Peter Gibbs

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7 years

20 years @bbcweather man and boy, but time for a (partial) change. Thanks for all the lovely messages.

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2 years

Common poppy glowing in the low October sun #wildflowerhour

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

#wildflowerhour First bluebells are out in the local woods

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Peter Gibbs

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5 months

One of the highlights of my broadcasting career, reading the Shipping Forecast on @BBCRadio4 (even when it did come in significantly over the agreed word count)

Prof Richard Betts

@richardabetts

5 months

Happy 100th birthday to the Shipping Forecast! First broadcast on New Year's Day 1924 My initial @metoffice training included a day with the forecaster preparing the Shipping Forecast. It felt quite special to hear him rehearse aloud carefully-worded drafts to get it just right

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Peter Gibbs

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2 years

#wildflowerhour #favouritefind My favourite find of 2021 is this mini-tapestry on a Chiltern chalk hillside in June. Nature is the best gardener! @wildflower_hour @BSBIbotany

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Peter Gibbs

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8 years

Only 14,000km to home.....

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2 years

Think I'm becoming orchid obsessed. Chalk fragrant, bee, fly and military orchids all spotted in the last couple of days - what a treat @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour

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Peter Gibbs

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4 months

It's #BigGardenBirdWatch weekend, so the birds that normally inhabit the garden are again hiding in the shrubs and laughing at me. Joke's wearing a bit thin, guys.

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Peter Gibbs

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4 years

Spent the best part of 6 hours meandering around @RHSWisley today and still didn't manage to see all the autumn delights

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Peter Gibbs

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4 years

Apple blossom coming out just in time for tonight's widespread frost. Watch out, gardening friends!

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Peter Gibbs

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2 years

Started my mini-meadow during #NoMowMay a couple of years ago. Speedwell looking good, but might have overdone the Yellow Rattle seeding! #wildflowerhour

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Peter Gibbs

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8 years

All looking shipshape. Snow levelled and station raised up on it's jackable skis #IceStation

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Peter Gibbs

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5 months

Spare a thought this Christmas for reporters across the land, sent to stand alone on motorway bridges to recite solemn warnings of the big holiday getaway, as traffic flows unhindered below.

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Peter Gibbs

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6 years

It's been all downhill since 1969...

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Peter Gibbs

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6 years

I did this today, because I've had enough of the amplified voices of hate, extremism and ideology. Today, the quiet voices joined together to make themselves heard.

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

Thanks #wildflowerhour for making me look out for tree flowers on today's Chiltern tramp. Crab apple, beech, oak and 'I don't know' #wildflowerID

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

Warm fronts are red Cold fronts are blue When fronts combine They are occluded too

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Peter Gibbs

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4 years

First ever scheduled flight from Sao Paulo to Mount Pleasant #Falklands leaving soon. Could be a game changer for business and tourism access to the islands through this major hub.

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Peter Gibbs

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9 months

The rather depressing side of conservation work. Every one of the canes in that pile represents a failed sapling. Enthusiastic tree planting is great, but targeted aftercare is vital to avoid wasted effort.

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Peter Gibbs

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5 years

Extreme gardening BBC News - China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout

China's Moon mission sees first seeds sprout

The seeds, inside a sealed container, are the first plants ever grown on the Moon's surface.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Gibbs

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6 years

What a day! Thanks for all your lovely messages, it's very much appreciated Now where's the bar....

University of Leeds

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6 years

Weather forecaster Peter Gibbs @PeterGWeather becomes a Doctor of Laws today. Congratulations!

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

A blue haze of speedwell across my 6 sq m mini meadow, started last year. Delighted to see yellow rattle sprouting from the seed I scattered last autumn! #WildFlowerHour #LawnFlowers #NoMowMay

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

Just been jabbed. Phew!

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Peter Gibbs

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1 month

#SolarEclipse2024 from our balloon-borne 360deg camera at an altitude of 17km/55,000ft over Texas. A first, as far as we know! 20x normal speed, with orientation switched through 180deg at midpoint to show shadow moving away.

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Peter Gibbs

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5 years

The grass is always greener when it's fake turf - but what's the environmental impact? My investigation for @Costingtheearth

BBC Radio 4 - Costing the Earth, Plastic Gardens

What impact is the trend for fake turf and artificial plants having on the environment?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Gibbs

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4 years

Nearly off the scale. Could see record breaking atmospheric pressure today.

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

Flakes like dinnerplates

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Peter Gibbs

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2 years

#StormEunice is displaying the classic double-headed cloud structure of an explosively deepening mid-latitude cyclone

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Peter Gibbs

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10 months

It's such a shame that the topic of 'garden rewilding' has become unnecessarily polarised. My garden today has scores of bumblebees, hoverflies and butterflies flitting around the beds. Dragonflies, newts and toads in the pond. Does it look like a neglected wilderness? No.

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Peter Gibbs

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7 years

Translation: autumn weather to start in autumn

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

7 years

Saturday's Express: "Wild storm to blast Britain" (via @BBCHelenaLee ) #tomorrowspaperstoday #bbcpapers

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

IT'S ACTUALLY WARM OUTSIDE!!!

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Peter Gibbs

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2 months

Anyone else finding that a lot of the flowers on their spring bulbs, especially the smaller ones, are being chomped to oblivion? Just the base of these scylla left, snowdrops were also badly hit and some narcissi. Slugs and snails awake earlier due to mildness?

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

Frost ferns on the cold frame lid this morning

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

Skating the canals of Amsterdam. The city authorities closed the locks in advance of the cold snap to stop water flow and increase the chance of solid ice.

Hugo Stienstra

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3 years

Er wordt #geschaatst op de #Prinsengracht , hoe bijzonder en mooi om te zien #Amsterdam #schaatsen #westerkerk

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Peter Gibbs

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1 year

When I said back on 28th February that we could really do with some rain ............

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Peter Gibbs

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8 years

Cool green in bedroom block gives the eyes some relief from the blank white outside #IceStation

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Peter Gibbs

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6 years

Aerial views of some of yesterday's thunderstorms over NE England, showing classic anvil shape of mature cumulonimbus. Impressive overshooting tops too!

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Peter Gibbs

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8 years

Ship uses thrusters to push alongside. I'll be helping to dig moorings soon #IceStation

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Peter Gibbs

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6 years

It's official. Drier than 1976 UK weather: Driest start to summer on modern record -

UK weather: Driest start to summer on modern record

A build-up of high pressure has led to drier conditions than in previous UK scorchers in 1976 and 2013.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Peter Gibbs

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7 years

Can you see the vertical lines? They're shadows cast by the 'bumps' on the decaying contrail, lit by a low sun angle. A first for me

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Peter Gibbs

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2 years

If it wasn't for the fact that I live 60 miles from the sea as the crow flies, I'd swear my windows are covered in salt spray following #StormEunice

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Peter Gibbs

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2 years

The journey towards a lower carbon energy future continues. 5.3KW of generating potential now up and running on our roof.

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Peter Gibbs

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4 years

How's this for you @Matthew_Pottage ?

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Peter Gibbs

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3 months

Can tell the sun is getting stronger. Enough surface heating to produce cumulus clouds from ground-based convective currents today.

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Peter Gibbs

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8 years

Destination reached - and it's awesome

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Peter Gibbs

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4 years

The longest running radio programme in the world needs your help to keep our record unbroken. You know what you need to do....

BBC Radio 4's GQT

@BBCGQT

4 years

Sadly we’ve had to cancel audience recordings of GQT. But the show must go on! We’re going to be answering your gardening questions remotely, so send them to us via email or Twitter and you may have your question answered on @BBCRadio4 in the next few weeks👇🥬🍅🌲🌵🍀🌻

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Peter Gibbs

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8 years

Like a Turner painting. Our first sunset in weeks last night over Weddell Sea pack ice #IceStation

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Peter Gibbs

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2 years

Day 1 of our transition to low carbon heating #heatpump

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Peter Gibbs

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1 year

So which one is the right way up?

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2 years

Top of the world...

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Peter Gibbs

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6 years

Have to say, this is a particularly fine edition of @GWandShows this evening. Loads of solid practical advice, intriguing and inspirational gardens and their gardeners, and cracking features on roses and hydrangeas - bravo!

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Peter Gibbs

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6 months

The beeches are wearing their autumn coat of gold

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Peter Gibbs

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6 years

Moon and Venus over Lake Geneva

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Peter Gibbs

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4 years

Chalk grassland in the #Chilterns was full of miniature gems today. I know the wild thyme, but what about the others? #wildflowerID #wildflowerhour

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

The moss people are gathering

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Peter Gibbs

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3 years

#Eclipse2021

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Peter Gibbs

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2 years

I was chuffed to pick up 23mm (nearly an inch) of rain for the garden yesterday, but scratch the surface and the moisture only goes down a few cm. Shows how much is going to be needed to counteract the effect of the drought.

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Peter Gibbs

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5 years

They built the nursery business after their farm was devastated by foot and mouth. Internationally important plant collectors and conservationists. So hope they make it through the turbulence.

James A Wong

@Botanygeek

5 years

The wonderful @crugfarmplants , probably the most cutting-edge, dynamic nursery in the country, talking openly and honestly about the impact brexit could have on her business. So much on the line for UK horticulture. Via @sturdyAlex

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Peter Gibbs

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6 years

How does it look?

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Peter Gibbs

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2 years

Found this little beauty next to a woodland track, which I think is a violet helleborine (epipactis purpurata). #wildflowerhour #wildflowerid @BSBIbotany @wildflower_hour

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Peter Gibbs

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4 months

Doesn't seem like anyone fancies a go at Dublin - just lots of aircraft going round in circles #StormIsha

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Peter Gibbs

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7 years

One for the geomorphologists - post-glacial beauty

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Peter Gibbs

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4 months

😂 Very glad I came in after that era

BBC Breakfast

@BBCBreakfast

4 months

It's 70 years since the first on-screen BBC TV weather presenter. On #BBCBreakfast Matt had a go at explaining the weather as it used to be done 🌧️🌞☁️🥶

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Peter Gibbs

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2 years

Frost flower

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Peter Gibbs

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1 year

The radiators are ticking along at 40C and the heat pump is drawing around 2kW to keep them that way. It's generating around 3 times as much as it's using. So basically heating a 4-bed detached with the equivalent of a 2-bar electric fire on one of coldest days of winter.