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202d

Garlic update: we're 5-6 weeks from harvest, after which I pile on more compost and plant bush beans to milk our long summer/fall for all it's worth. #gardening #garlic

A wood-framed raised bed filled with tall, leafy garlic plants in a 5 x 16 grid. Rhubarb lurks on the back left, zucchini on the right.

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The roses are going to fade in the coming hot temps so I tried to capture their beautiful spring colors in the early morning light today
#BloomScrolling #gardening #RoseCity #pnw #Cascadia

Three creamy yellow blossoms in varied blooming stages. The rose is called Jude the Obscure

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I love the garden in early summer. #BloomScrolling #Gardening

Daisies ripple through a garden. Some are in focus others are blurred. Lilac salvia flower spires are reaching upwards in the middle. A couple of white tailed bumblebees are feeding on the flowers. The pollen basket on the bee’s hind leg is orange in colour.

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169d

Compost maturing in the pallet bays. I find making compost a very therapeutic process. #Compost #Composting #Gardening #Allotment

Five pallets form three rudimentary bays on an allotment plot. The first bay is full of water butts and bags of wood chip. The other two bays contain compost. Two planters made from an old water butt are also filled with sieved compost and stand in front of one of the compost bays.

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167d

My lavender is filled with snoozing little fluffy male bumblebees snuggled up against the flowers this evening. It’s too darn cute. So, yet again, my harvest is postponed.

#bees #gardening

A fluffy bumblebee snuggled up with a lavender flower.

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190d

#3GoodThings #DogsOfMastodon #Gardening

1. After 4 years of encouraging the growth of white clover over grass, I have finally achieved more than 50% clover in my backyard. (photo attached)

2. My dog is often fearful of what lurks in our tiny backyard--usually bunnies and robins. But today, she pranced out there like a fearless champ! (photo attached)

3. My mini wildflower meadows are blooming. It will last through Autumn, with different flowers emerging over time. (photo attached)

A strip of soil in the backyard, against a red wooden fence is bursting with wildflowers, mostly pink and white Sweet Williams, some Coreopsis are popping up, and Echinacea are on the cusp of blooming.

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Close-up of the white clover in my backyard looking lush and healthy. I kept throwing down seeds every Spring, and it's finally taking hold and out-competing the grass.

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Black and white Pitbull is sitting in the clover, looking very relaxed and content. She is staring at the camera.

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190d

I finally got around to moving the compost pile for the first time in 6 weeks. I started making this compost in December and it’s looking pretty nice. It will make a good mulching compost for some of the beds next spring.

The hot compost has hit the red zone so🤞will continue to stay above 55°C for two more days when it will be turned again. #Compost #Composting #Mulch #GrowYourOwn #Gardening #Allotment

Two piles of home made compost either side of a plum tree on an allotment plot. Beyond the tree is a mini wall of comfrey which will be cut once it has stopped flowering. A selection of lidded dustbins are being used to store tapped water and allow it to chlorinate off. A wheelbarrow is next to the bins. The plot is surrounded by greenery. Trees and a hedge are to one side with trees in the distance. The compost piles are in the shady side of the plot. Sunshine hits the other side.

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A compost thermometer is in the red zone marked hot. The temperature is almost hitting 58°C. Grass and wood shavings make up the outer layer of the compost pile which the thermometer has been placed into.

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167d

I've been feeling helpless in the face of *waves hands* everything but I finally realized I AM doing something. I've been doing something for 20+ years, in spite of limited time and energy and nearly no budget.

I'm creating habitat.

There was nothing here when I arrived in 2003. I had ambitious permaculture plans, but quickly realized a "proper" project was well beyond my resources. So I've done my best, and I'm working with what thrives here – humble plants like wild daisies and day lilies, and spirea.

Red clover, lupins, and dandelion help improve the soil. I planted apple, plum, and pear trees (the hazlenut aren't doing terribly well, so I hope I can figure them out).

The rock walls I built attract snakes. I have at least one hare (found some droppings in the garden just a few minutes ago). The birds love it here. I have a small vegetable garden, even though I'm not great at growing vegetables. But still.

The garden evolves as I do. This is one section near the compound gate, a.k.a. Outer Space as far as the cat's concerned.

#Gardening #Bloomscrolling

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162d

I must have picked twenty #tomatoes from one #plant over the past two weeks. I wish I had someone to #share them with, because they're perfectly ripe and super flavorful.

My great-great-grandfather grew tomatoes for #survival money after he immigrated from #Sicily. The #FarmersMarket he sold them at is still around and one of my favorite places, but it's in a different place. It turns out that the local #DSA chapter meets near where it used to be.

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#BloomScrolling #Gardening

There is a volunteer tomato plant growing in my wildflower garden. I've never grown tomatoes in that space. I'm letting it stay. Maybe it will be productive, but it will have to outcompete the nearby purple coneflowers that are reaching maturation. (photo attached)

The photo is focused on a young tomato plant that is surrounded by a dense array of wildflowers in various stages of maturity. The first to bloom are Sweet Williams that are visible behind the tomato plant. There are light pink, dark pink, and white varieties of Sweet Williams.

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185d

Turk’s Cap (Malvaviscus arboreus) now blooming in the back garden.

#SilentSunday #Stunday #photography #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening

Color photo of a red flower with petals curled in a spiral shape with a long stigma extending up from the center with a crown at its tip. .

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157d

Finally got around to visiting the gardens of my local National Trust property, Llanerchaeron, yesterday. The walled gardens are inspiring. Not that I can aspire to having a walled garden but there are some great ideas for planting combinations, techniques for growing fruit and veg etc. and a cutting garden I can only dream of but maybe could replicate on a very small scale. I also came over all emotional. It was so beautiful.

#gardening #BloomScrolling

Photo of a border in a walled garden full of colourful blooms that resemble a fireworks display. Yellow echinacea and day lilies, red crocosima, something very pink (phlox maybe) and ditto something white. Green foliage of a climbing rose (I think) smothers the red brick wall behind

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149d

The corn is growing well!

#gardening 🌽

A dense field of tall corn plants, featuring green leaves and tassels at the top, with some undergrowth visible at the base.

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#Gardening #Wildflowers #BloomScrolling

This is the second season of my mini wildflower meadow on our front yard extension. It used to be just weeds and now it's covered in flowers. My neighbors thought I was crazy but now they are very complimentary.

A view of a profusion of Black Eyed Susans (Rudbeckia hirta) with saffron-colored petals and very dark (nearly black) centers.

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The focus is on a single Indian Blanket Flower (Gaillardia pulchella) with red petals that are ringed in bright yellow, and a red and yellow center. There are more growing elsewhere in the mini meadow.

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I think this is False Sunflower (Heliopsis helianthoides), as identified by the iNaturalist Seek app. It is over 6 feet tall and has taken over the mini meadow this year. It did not make any appearance last summer.

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#Lavendar & #catmint in #PollinatorGarden. Good companion #herb plants. Both draw in thousands of #pollinators 🐝🦋

#Bloomscrolling #florespondence #floral #Summer #Wsanec #flowers #botanical #gardening #perennials #nature #Saanich #gardens #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Zone8 #plants #photography

A low-angle, medium shot of several lavender plants. The composition is dominated by the lavender in the foreground. Small violet flowers are in full bloom at the top of the stems. The background includes a clear, blue sky with a few green trees and reddish-pink flowers. The image is brightly lit, with strong contrasts between the purple blooms, green foliage, blues sky and earth tones.

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A ground-level shot of vibrant green foliage with tall stalks of purple-pink catmint flowers extending towards a clear, bright blue sky. The flowers are in full bloom, creating a dense, natural setting. Overlapping foliage and treetops appear in the background.

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174d

I have a personal gardening goal to have ripe tomatoes by July 4 every year. This year I have ..technically... succeeded. 🤷🏻‍♀️
#Gardening

Closeup of four fingers holding one single ripe yellow cherry tomato.

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In this handmade abstract watercolor painting, two oak leaves in warm orange and yellow fall colors dance in an autumn breeze that drifts and swirls them through the sky.

Oak leaves in autumn Art Print: https://karen-kaspar.pixels.com/featured/oak-leaves-in-autumn-karen-kaspar.html

#leaves #autumn #foliage #MastoArt #art #painting #FediGiftShop #artist #arte #MastodonArt #TraditionalArt #kunst #contemporaryArt #watercolor #watercolour #creativeToots #aquarelle #BuyIntoArt #gardening #garden #nature #tree #forest #NatureLover #natur