🌱Ilena Gilbert-Mays🌸
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#SundayFunday
#butterflies
#gardening
The lantana was definitely the hot spot in
#mygarden
yesterday for a butterfly party 🎉 🦋
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#SundayFunday
#hydrangea
#gardening
Most of my hydrangeas got cold damage from a
#spring
cold snap but this beauty was sheltered and is now starting to bloom now😃🙌
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These are my seed grown cornflowers called classic romantic 💘 I so fell in love with them online and had to have those seeds. They definitely do not disappoint 💖💖💖
#GardeningTwitter
#Flowers
#Plants
#Gardening
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#gardening
#dahlialove
#flowerreport
My Gallery Art Deco dahlia is really putting out the blooms now.😃🙌
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#RainyDay
#Passiflora
#gardening
I walked out to the gardens yesterday and immediately caught a heady scent in the air and knew my Passion flower incense was in bloom 💜💜💜💜
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#SundayMotivation
#butterfly
#summertime
#zinnias
#gardening
Even though the zinnias are about done this summer, they are still attractive to the swallowtail butterflies 🦋 😁
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#tuesdayvibes
#DahliaLove
#Gardening
I love this light lavender Dahlia with it’s intricately cut petals. I’ve lost the tag on this one but it is a second year beauty in my garden.
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I had just put the chickens up for the night, turned around and saw this huge hummingbird hawk moth enjoying the fragrant, nectar filled moon flowers. What a sight it was🥰🤍
#365DaysWild
#GardeningTwitter
#Nature
#Flowers
#MothsMatter
#Gardening
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#mondaythoughts
#dahlialove
#gardening
#ILovePink
This absolutely beautiful dahlia is blooming now in my garden, unfortunately I don’t have the tag for it. The blooms are huge and it has done very well for me.💕💕💕
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#ButterflyCount
#butterfly
#FlowerReport
#Gardening
The swallowtail butterfly came to visit the Phlox again. It seems to be the favorite flower at the moment and I really enjoy watching the butterfly to flower enjoyment 🦋
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#rosewednesday
#roses
#gardening
I’ve had this cute miniature rose in a pot for a couple of years now and it looks more beautiful every year 😃❤️
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#FridayFeeling
#flowers
#GYO
#gardening
I have went all in on
#Zinnias
this year, absolutely all grown from seed, and I have tons more to bloom😁
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#FlowerOnFriday
#roses
#gardening
This is what a winter of constant rain will get you, my Rosa banksiae has never been more beautiful and smells absolutely amazing 💛🙌🥰
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#ThursdayThoughts
#summer
#flowersofsummer
#gardening
#lilies
These tiger lillies scream summer to me with their hot color and cute freckles 😊🧡
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#FridayFeeling
#savethebees
#gardening
The
#bees
were really enjoying my obedient flowers yesterday in the breeze. They are a great perennial for pollinators. 😁🐝
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#ThursdayMotivation
#Savethebees
#zinnias
#gardening
I loved watching Mr Bee enjoying my zinnias so much 🐝🧡💛❤️
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#dahlialove
#HappyFriday
#FlowerReport
#gardening
Even after two years, Dahlia Mirella is looking as beautiful as ever. I love the cut work look of the petals 🥰
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#thursdayvibes
#lilies
#gardening
#FlowerReport
Asiatic liliy Black List😎she’s a real deep dark beauty in my garden.🖤
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#FlowerReport
#DahliaLove
#gardening
My Dahlias have exploded with blooms right now. I love how long the big beautiful blooms last😍
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#flowerhunting
#gardening
#spring
It’s poppy time! I’ve planted several varieties but these cuties were the first to bloom😃🌸
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#wednesdaymorning
#Butterflies
#Zinnas
#gardening
#summerflowers
After the storm passed yesterday the butterflies came out to play, even a bee joined the party🦋🐝
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#MondayVibes
#Spring
#gardening
My
#Caladiums
are doing great in the shady area. I love the beautiful heart shaped leaves and pink color.💕
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I love this
#Clematis
out by my mailbox💜It will bloom all the way into fall with various shades of lavender depending on the temperatures🌞
#GardeningTwitter
#Spring
#Flowers
#Gardening
#Plants
#SpringFlowers
#FlowerLove
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#WednesdayThoughts
#gardening
#Amaryllidaceae
Hippeastrum Splash is a real showoff in my garden. She screams Look At Me! to anyone who comes near ❤️🤍
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#FridayMotivation
#savethebees
#butterfly
#passiflora
#gardening
My passionflowers are really popular right now🦋🐝
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#gardening
#Echinacea
#ILovePink
My powwow wild berry coneflowers are really beautiful this year and the plant is huge💕💕💕
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#TuesdayThoughts
#FlowerReport
#Hibiscus
#Gardening
#ILovePink
I absolutely love the huge fluffy pink blooms on my perennial Hibiscus Moscheutos. You really can’t have too many Hibiscus in your garden🥰💕
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#MondayMotivaton
#Flowers
#lillies
#gardening
I decided to try some tree lillies this year. These are Altari tree lilies. Since this is their first year they are not quite trees, but the blooms are large, a beautiful color and smell amazing 😁
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#rainysunday
#Alstroemeria
#gardening
#flowers
Over the past year and a half I discovered that Alstroemerias are hardy in my garden. I absolutely love them and now have a growing collection 😃
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#thursdayvibes
#gardening
#flowers
New plant Alert! I bought these Malva sylvestris zebrina in the early spring and the flowers are absolutely beautiful. I have been very happy with them🥰
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#WednesdayVibes
#passiflora
#FlowerReport
#gardening
This Passion flower incense is my all time favorite Passion flower. When these blooms open I can smell them all through my garden, heavenly 💜🥰
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#MondayMotivation
#spring
#gardening
I love it when the flowering almond is in bloom. The blooms look like fluffy pink pompoms 💕
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#SundayFunday
#FlowerReport
#gardening
My Asclepias tuberosa is blooming and open for business, now all I need is some butterflies to visit 🦋😁
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#sundayvibes
#30DaysWild
#LILIES
#gardening
My tree lilies have enticed my favorite pollinator to the party😌
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Even though it got singed on the very top the
#Thunbergia
blushing susie is still putting out lots of flowers and it has flowered nonstop since early summer.
#Flowers
#Gardening
#FlowerGardening
#Plants
#Autumn
#FlowerPhotography
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I bought this gorgeous hibiscus over six years ago and every year it rewards me with these huge blood red blooms. I so look forward it. This is my idea of firework😃
#IndependenceDay
#July4th
#Hibiscus
#SummerTime
#DailyBotanicalBeauty
#Flowers
#Gardening
#GardeningTwitter
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#ThursdayMotivation
#moths
#ginger
#gardening
I was out at my potting bench yesterday evening potting up some cuttings and listening to all the birds when this cutie paid me a visit.💕
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#ThursdayThoughts
#hydrangea
#gardening
I love the colorful lush blooms of hydrangeas. You can make them whatever color you want by adjusting the Ph of your soil. 💙💖💜
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#FrostIsComing
I was rushing around making sure I covered or brought in my plants and I had to take a moment to enjoy the splendor and smell of my
#Brugmansia
on
#Halloween
#Gardening
#Autumn
#ColdIsComing
#Flowers
#Plants
#HappyHalloween
#GardeningX
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#MondayVibes
#FlowerReport
#gardening
I grew these beautiful yellow ballerina Datura from seed and I am quite in love with them. They look amazing 💛💛💛🌞
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#FridayVibes
#Hemerocallis
#gardening
My daylilies have started blooming so early I feel like I could get a second round of flowers this year 😃
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#tuesdayvibe
#poppies
#ILovePink
#gardening
I love these large poppy plants. I grew these beautiful double pink poppies from seeds. They are like pink puff balls in my garden 💖
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#flowersonfriday
#Iris
#gardening
. My absolute favorite spring flowers are bearded Iris. They were one of my mothers favorite flowers and she tended to them very well🥰
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#SundayThoughts
#sunnyday
#ILovePink
#gardening
My stargazer lilies are in bloom now. I love the was they perfume the air. They are very prolific bloomer with cute freckles 🥰
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#Mondayvibes
#lilies
#gardening
#flowerreport
I love these beautiful orange Asiatic lilies. They have lots of flowers and multiply very well.🧡🧡
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#SundayFunday
#FlowerHunting
#Clematis
#gardening
The first of my Clematis has started bloom. This one is definitely the brightest 😃😎
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#MondayMotivaton
#FlowerReport
#gardening
I just have to share the beauty of one of my Brugmansia (angels trumpet) in full bloom. The air around it was full of perfume 🥰
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#thursdayvibes
#ILovePink
#Fall
#gardening
We are getting our first frost this week so I took a few photos of my confederate rose mallow or
#Hibiscus
mutabilis.🌸🐝
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The Asiatic lilies have started to bloom😍
#Gardening
#Flowers
#Lilies
#flowerphotography
#plants
#mygarden
#summeriscoming
#flowerreport
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#Hibiscus
#FlowerReport
#SummerFlower
The only Hibiscus I grow in a pot is Hibiscus Schizopetalus or Japanese Hibiscus. The flower is unusual enough to earn a spot in my winter greenhouse anytime.
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#gyo
#pineapple
#plants
#gardening
I’m just waiting for my tasty homegrown pineapple to turn yellow so I can eat it 😋
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#SundayMotivation
#butterflies
#gardening
#summerflowers
Tithonia is definitely a butterfly favorite in my garden every summer. 🦋🧡
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#SundayYellow
is this beautiful yellow Lilly with a brushstroke red center. This is the first time blooming for me🔥😃
#GardeningTwitter
#Lilly
#Flowers
#FlowerGardening
#FlowerPhotography
#Gardening
#SundayFunday
#DailyBotanicalBeauty
#TodaysFlower
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#Flowersonfriday
#dalhialove
#gardening
This is one of my favorite dahlias. I love the single flowers with a beautiful shade of pink and a yellow center 💕💛
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#ThursdayThoughts
#Butterflies
#summerflowers
#gardening
#zinnias
The gulf fritillary butterflies are enjoying the zinnia flowers in my garden. 🦋❤️🧡💛
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#SundayThoughts
#lilies
#FlowerReport
#gardening
The heat is really bringing out the liliy blooms now. You seriously can never have too many lilies 😂
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#HappyMonday
#AlphabettyBlooms
today is the letter K for Kalanchoe These make a great
#houseplant
and come in a rainbow 🌈 of colors ❤️🧡💛💖🤍
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#WednesdayMotivation
#savethebees
#gardening
My cha cha cherry penstemon calls all the bees to the party. 😁🐝
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#SundayThoughts
#hydrangea
#gardening
#summerflowers
I love the flowers on my Paniculata hydrangea Limelight. The flowers look refreshing in the summer heat.
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#flowersonfriday
#gardening
#spring
Here are just some of the beautiful plants blooming in
#mygardens
right now.
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#flowerhunting
#ILovePink
#gardening
I love rain lilies with their large pink flowers and I have a large pot of them living in my garden. Once the
#spring
rains come the lilies pop right up💕🌸
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#MondayMotivation
#gardening
#fall
The yellow Tithonia plants grew huge over the summer and are still covered in blooms well into
#Autumn
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#SundayMorning
#summer
#hummingbird
#gardening
I managed to catch a hummingbird visiting the flowers in my garden yesterday. They are so quick!
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#WednesdayVibes
#gardening
#Hemerocallis
Now that another week of tropical rain has started, I walked around yesterday to enjoy my daylillies before the rain set in.💦💦💦They are really beautiful this year. 😊
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#tuesdaymotivation
#Azaleas
#Gardening
It is peak Azalea bloom season here. These are not even all the colors I have. 😃
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#summertime
#flowers
#echinacea
#gardening
Coneflowers do very well in my gardens and I love all the rainbow colors they come in. These are Baja Burgundy 😃🔥
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#SundayFunday
#Autumn
#ILovePink
#Gardening
After the cool down here, my dianthus is blooming and growing again.💕💕💕
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#wednesdaythought
#gardening
#FlowerHunting
This lone snapdragon is going it’s own way living in the amaryllis/garlic bed, it’s been here blooming on and off for two years now.😃
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#HappyTuesday
#savethebees
#gardening
The
#bees
have finally started to visit my
#spring
garden and better yet, it’s a honey bee 🐝🍯😃💛
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#SundayMotivation
#flowergarden
#gardening
Some of my canna lillies have started blooming now. They come in so many different colors, and I love them all💕❤️💛🧡
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#sixonsaturday
#gardening
#August1st
#summerflowers
.This week a hurricane is coming,so here is my six before the storm 🌧🌧💨💦Please visit, read and enjoy the other entries on the SOS hashtag thanks to
@cavershamjj
for the beautiful and interesting hashtag 😃
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#FlowerReport
#Zinnias
#mygarden
I love volenteer flowers, this zinnia is happy living in my vegetable garden with my tomato plants. 😃
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#gyo
#impatiens
#gardening
#FridayFeeling
#summerflowers
I grew these impatien balsamina from seed and all the colors are like a festive party in my garden. 🥳
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#ThursdayThoughts
#Schlumbergera
#cactus
#houseplants
My crab cactus or Schlumbergera truncata cactus is blooming for a second time in three months. They have really been enjoying the cool end of
#mygreenhouse
😃🤍💕
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#ThursdayMotivation
#dahlialove
#gardening
Dahlia gallery art deco is starting to bloom. I love the two toned petals and this one overwintered in the ground and came back like a champ 💪
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#flowerhunting
#gardening
#spring
I raised these tutti-frutti snapdragons from seed. I love the contrasting stripes on them.😃
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#firstdayofspring
#gardening
#FlowerHunting
I love this grouping of purple flowers with a background of garlic 😃💜
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#FlowerHunting
my tiger eye violas, these are so very different from other violas I have grown. I love the patterned flower faces😃💛🖤
#GardeningTwitter
#Violas
#Flowers
#Winter
#Gardening
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#SundayFunday
#HappyMothersDay
this gorgeous
#Peony
represents five years of waiting ⏰
#gardeners
have a ton of patience while we wait for a
#flower
to bloom. It was so worth the wait🥰💘💖
#GardeningTwitter
#Flowers
#Plants
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#MondayMotivation
#fall
#butterflies
#gardening
The firespikes may be one of the last flowers to bloom, but the sulphur butterflies are glad to show their appreciation 😀🦋
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I was out by the vegetable garden yesterday and spotted some bees enjoying the
#Honeysuckle
blooms.😃🐝
#GardeningTwitter
#Spring
#Flowers
#Bees
#365DaysWild
#SaveTheBees
#Gardening
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The violas have really been pretty this winter but with the temperatures rising they will begin to fade out. Now will be the time to collect seed for next year 😃💜🤍
#GardeningTwitter
#Spring
#Flowers
#Gardening
#Violas
#Plants
#GotToBeNC
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I sowed a whole packet of Laurans Grape poppy, so very beautiful! Don’t look for any more, there was only one😂🤷🏼♀️
#GardeningTwitter
#poppies
#Flowers
#Gardening
#flowerphotography
#MagentaMonday
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#gardening
#flowerreport
#hemerocallis
The blooms on this gorgeous dayliliy are huge and I love the yellow centers 😃
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#HappyFriday
#FlowerHunting
#spring
My walk around yesterday was really nice with the warm sunshine and this gorgeous magnolia in my
#garden
💕💕💕
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#mondaythoughts
#SaveTheBees
#Gardening
My goldflame honeysuckle is still blooming and getting plenty of attention from the bees🐝
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#FlowersOnFriday
#gardening
here are the
#Dahlias
I grew last year and I have ordered more for this year. I’ve tried to expand my color range this year. 😃🌈
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My pineapple lilies are really beautiful this year. I moved them to where they get shade in the heat of the day.😃
#DailyBotanicalBeauty
#GardeningTwitter
#Flowers
#SummerTime
#FlowerGardening
#Plants
#Lilies
#FlowerPhotography
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#HappyWednesday
#Helleboreheaven
#gardening
. Not all my Hellebores are going to bloom this year, I’m not sure why but I will just enjoy the ones that did choose to bloom for me.
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#thursdayvibes
#gardening
#spring
I fell in love with
#Calendula
flowers last summer and I made sure to have plenty of seeds. I just sprinkle the seeds in pots and they come right up.😃
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#GoodFriday
#gardening
#Azaleas
#ILovePink
Out of all the colors of Azaleas I grow this pink one with cranberry freckles is my very favorite 🥰
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#AlphabettyBlooms
#gardening
today is Echinacea. The bees and the butterflies really enjoy these in my summertime garden and they come in a rainbow of beautiful colors 🌈
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#FlowerReport
#gladiolus
#gardening
POW💥Gladiolus Primulinus Atomic is exploding in my garden. This is the second year for these beauties 🥰
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#happymonday
#gardening
I was out
#FlowerHunting
in my garden yesterday and saw lots of beautiful
#spring
blooms 😃
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#MondayMotivaton
#Alstroemerias
#FlowerHunting
#Gardening
A new addition to my flower garden is Alstroemeria rock and roll. Even when it’s not in bloom the foliage provides plenty of color.
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