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Can’t wait to tend to my home and plants 🪴 properly once I graduate. #houseplants #home #gardening

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I love working in greenhouses (and tending to my plant collection), but at heart, I’m a big kid who just wants to play outside with her friends all day. Am happy to have a play day today. And how cool to have some new planters for epiphytes! #tevaplanter #getoutside #cyclamen #bloomscrolling

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Everything I do, I do it for you. Felix my familiar.

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Winter Jewels hellebores with friends. Still can’t believe I’m helping with this line of plants.

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Still can’t believe this all happened and was so much fun. Thanks @thetortoiseproject.bsky.social for the pic. 🪱 🌱 #nwfgf #nwfgs

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Thank you Philadelphia!!! Can’t wait to back in the City of Brotherly Love soon.

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I sowed most of these agaves last fall from seed. A team of planters planted up the babies into plug trays. They’ll be planted one more time in pots and then they can be made available to wholesale vendors. I love it when the system works so smoothly. #agave #horticulture

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Organic farmers in Cyprus have recruited hundreds of retired hens to fertilize olive groves in a pilot project they say boosts yields, counters disease, and helps to manage food waste reut.rs/4keYJ5m

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Cuphea cyanea 'Copper Cricket'. #Cuphea #batflower #secretgardengrowers

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Two amazing landscaper/gardening friends from Portland with me after my Vermicomposting presentation at the NW Flower and Garden Festival/Show. #soil #soilforward.org #vermicomposting #nwfgs #nwfgf #horticulturist #gardening #friends

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My Vermicomposting presentation is today on the DIY Stage at the #NWFGS at 3:15pm. What a show it has been. So many beautiful spaces and lots of get booths to shop through. #NWFGF #gardening #gardenshow

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Been so busy helping behind the scenes at the #NWFGS I haven’t posted many photos. I hope to later today! But for now, here are a few…

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Free fruit tree pruning book download till Feb. 25. It’s new, and Susan Poizner knows her stuff! Get yours here. orchardpeople.com #gardening #garden 🌱 #gardenfeed #canadagardens #growingfruit #fruittrees #freedownload

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One of the most wonderful evenings of my life was spent in the home and garden of Ernest Batchelder. There was a launch party for a magazine there, and I snuck away from the FLW Conservancy group that I was with to be in a garden. Much reflection that night alone amongst strangers.

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3 years ago yesterday on my way to Seattle for the NW Flower & Garden Festival/Show. I almost always stop in at the Rhododendron Species Botanical Garden but this year I went before winter term. Here I am with Steve Hootman—checking out the fun stuff in back. Always educational. #horticulture #RSBG

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Paying homage to flowers in art, the new Saatchi Galley exhibition 'Flowers' examines their depiction in art and as symbols of love, birth, death, hope & human emotion... read more on thedirt.news (Image La Fleur Morte, Rebecca Louise Law, Saatchi Gallery) #exhibition thedirt.news/its-spring-a...

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Snow is still melting as I wrap up preparations for Basic Propagation and Vermicomposting presentations at the NW Flower and Garden Fest in Seattle next week. (Feb 19-23.) Can’t wait to see the gardens and meet folks!

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The National Park Service has removed references to transgender and queer people on its web page for the Stonewall National Monument, which marks the site of the New York City inn where LGBTQ rioters – including now-legendary transgender activists – galvanized a movement for LGBTQ rights.

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Whoa! James shipped that fast! #startseeingsoil #soilfoward.org

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Hand-pollination in the Winter Jewels Hellebore House at work yesterday at Little Prince of Oregon. So proud to continue the work of Marietta O'Byrne—such a great plantswoman. #horticulture #horticulturists #handpollination #plantbreeding #littleprinceofor #plantswoman

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Hope to see lots of folks in Seattle next week. Let me know if you’d like a free electronic ticket. I have a few left to giveaway. Will be on the DIY stage twice. Wednesday: Propagation Sat: Vermicomposting #nwfgs #nwfgf #propagation #vermicomposting www.gardenshow.com

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Two rare black wolves, likely siblings, were spotted on camera crossing a stream in a Polish forest, a conservation organization said Sunday.

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Kind of spent a long time today cleaning out my 2 Worm Factory farms 🪱. Killed them all last winter. Not going to do that again. #Vermicomposting is fun. 🤩

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A few hours at home in the garden. The winter garden need not be dull. But so much work yet to do before spring. Thank goodness I graduate in June. #horticulture #wintergarden #gardening #microbiotadecussata #arctostaphylos #camelliayuletide #felix

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Spent the day at work. #secretgardengrowers While it’s chilly outside, the plants in the greenhouse are slowly waking up a bit. Spring will be here before we know it! #bloomscrolling #garden #horticulture #berberis #camellia #daphne

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Felix the Diva. Just can’t share the spotlight with Alfie. #catlady

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Tractor day at school

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Another day at school in the horticulture department at Clackamas Community College.

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Explore the fascinating world of owls! The Short-eared Owl prepared for hunting. 📸 unkown #Nature #Bird #Owl #Photography

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Ubuesque!! Yes!!!!

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📰 New important blog by our Secretary General @bgci. Discussing study on botanic garden living collections led by @CUBotanicGarden. #plants #conservation Well worth a read: "A rude awakening."👇

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Kiah was set to join our faculty at Howard Law School in the Fall. She was a dedicated, brilliant civil rights lawyer poised to make a powerful difference in our world. Our hearts are broken & we pray for her family & friends. www.kwch.com/2025/01/30/c...

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