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#FlowersOnFriday is photos from yesterday’s frozen flowers and branches also a cardinal grabbing a bite from the bird feeder #Flowers #Gardening #Birds #Plants #FlowerReport #GardeningFeed #Winter #BloomScrolling

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#FlowersOnFriday 🌱 This Amaryllis is just outdoing itself while it is icy and 20 degrees F outside, fantastic!

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#Amaryllis pinkolo is now in her full glory😍the next two days here are weather alert 🚨 days with freezing rain and or sleet 😬❄️ #Gardening #Flowers #Plants #FlowerReport #GardeningFeed #GYO #BloomScrolling

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A few February garden flowers to bring you some cheer on a chilly Wednesday evening! #DailyBotanicalBeauty

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🌱Soon it will be time for #FlowersBiggerThanYourHead - are you ready? "A" (over 10") Semi Cactus (SC) Dahlia 'Dr. Les' (Almand, 1975; 🏆Derrill W. Hart Medal, 1974) and an impostor.😎 Dahlias in storage now waking up, plus available at retail & online. Asteraceae.

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Rose gold pussy-willow, salix gracilistyla, for a pink Valentines Day #FlowersOnFriday 🌱📷 #gardening #bloomscrolling

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🚀And we have LIFTOFF! Allium cepa (Onion) 'Ailsa Craig' - the famous British exhibition variety for BIG AS YOUR HEAD Onion competitions (also for eating, of course) and that American gardeners can only dream of growing as well - has now officially cleared the LaunchPad!🌱 Sown on February 6th.😎

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💕🌱"WHOSE CALENDAR? WHOSE HOLIDAY?" demands Schlumbergera russelliana (Christmas Cactus) - who cares little about such Human attributed constructs. This specimen in an East window is busier with bloom than a separate specimen of the same species in a South window. Cactaceae

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A slime mold I presume, possibly brefeldia maxima, spotted on a wet log this weekend. #SlimeMoldSunday #fungifriends 🌱🍄📷

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Another Amazing Amaryllis for #MonochromeMonday 🌱

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Look at this AMAZING Lemon Star #Amaryllis I went to a garden center 30 miles away to buy this bulb in Autumn. After potting and storing in #MyGreenhouse this plant has three stalks🤯 two blooming with one starting to open😍👏👏 #Gardening #Flowers #Plants #BloomScrolling #FlowerReport #GYO

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🌱 200+ Viola x wittrockiana (Pansy) 'Frizzle Sizzle Mixed' sown. At 80-90 days seed to bloom, a month late to the seed starting party 🥳 but you can blame me.🙈 Carefully picking up & sowing the tiny seeds into cells now, to avoid pricking out & interim transplant later, a pain but worth it. Violaceae

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Another cycle of 🌱GROW YOUR OWN. My seed starting begins with Onions, both Long Day (forms bulbs N of 37th-40th parallel) & Intermediate (will bulb on either side of 37th parallel). Start seeds before 💘Valentine's, for plants large enough approaching 🌞Solstice to trigger bulbing. Amaryllidaceae

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🌱💕ABUNDANCE OF DOTS! A husky Kohleria x 'Longwood' emerges from a slight midwinter slump, blooms & buds to spare - a favorite rhizomatous Gesneriad that loves to Summer outdoors. Photobomb courtesy of an orange-headed Gymnocalycium mihanovichii (Moon Cactus) graft.😃 Gesneriaceae & Cactaceae

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🌱Seems to be a thing that bathrooms are for Phalaenopsis Orchids & Tillandsias.😃 And in this case, a bunch of Eucalyptus twigs, some Edward Hopper prints - and some of my random handmade jewelry that I (almost) never wear.😎 Orchidaceae, Bromeliaceae, & Myrtaceae

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Still -8°F/-22°C as I head to the office - meanwhile Monstera deliciosa, Begonia x 'Sinbad' and over a hundred other friends are safe and warm. Araceae & Begoniaceae 🌱😎

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🌱Possibility of -5°F to -10°F/-20°C to -23°C Monday in Chicagoland with no snow cover.🥶 These Narcissus (Daffodils) are on it - after melting their way up through already frozen soil with heat generated by cell division, Plant Antifreeze Proteins protect them once above ground. 💪

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Hello and welcome to this week’s #GardensHour As we’re all from different parts of the world, why not celebrate all the seasons of the year and how your garden changes throughout? Do you have a favourite season? If so, why?

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🌱Always nice to have homegrown Petroselinum crispum (Italian Parsley) to snip into a recipe - a few crops rolling in from the gently heated 3-Season Room. Meanwhile won't say too much about last week's Lettuce harvest that was full of Aphids 😱 - other than you win some and you lose some!😅😎 Apiaceae

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🌱Sorry all you seed companies - just completed inventory after stacking up a few saved online carts - will now peel those back to only what's missing. But 2 tubs of stored seed proves you've had plenty of my business already - just won't see as much in fresh orders this season! 🍅🌶🫑🥒🥬🥦 🌻🌸🌼🌺🏵🌹

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Seeds are rolling in, along with a new catalog. Thanks @gardenopus.bsky.social for introducing this one to me. 🌱

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🌱Fringed Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Ascot' (Barnell L. Cobia, 1992), an advanced generation S. russelliana x S. truncata hybrid, has actinomorphic floral symmetry & bloom time of the former, clawed phylloclades of the latter. Fimbriation is an exploitable mutation that comes from neither.😃 Cactaceae

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🌞💕🌱GOOD MORNING on a cold Winter day from Schlumbergera russelliana (Christmas Cactus). Note smooth phylloclades, actinomorphic (radial) symmetry, stigma flush with anthers, & later bloom time - which distinguish it from S. truncata. The same features of hybrids between can vary widely. Cactaceae

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❤️WHAT CALENDAR😅 Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Coral Red' (Randy Whitton, 2011) - typically a Christmas bloomer, but this season scouts arrived by Thanksgiving. Then a long gap, now Party Time!🥳 Upright and petite, with characteristics of both S. truncata & S. russelliana. 🌱Cactaceae

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🌱Always a favorite arrival - J.L. Hudson, Seedsman - for decades a go-to source! 95 densely packed pages of inspiration and wisdom. www.jlhudsonseeds.net

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🌱💕 As I head out the door for a couple days of Holiday travel Pereskia grandifolia (Rose Cactus) greets me from the 3-Season Room. This and related genera of ancestral Cacti bear true leaves akin to Citrus or Magnolia - and this one also bears a few sharp thorns. Cactaceae - Cactus Family

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🌱💕 Oldest Schlumbergera x buckleyi in my current collection is this broad petaled NOID, a possible Cobia registration. ID task would include parsing through all his reds for "comparison grow" candidates. Has influence from both S. russelliana & S. truncata, & grows upright & shrub like. Cactaceae

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MerryChristmas to all my social media friends. I love to see your gardens, chat about our plant successes and failures, seed trades and wisps of rootstock sent through the mail. 🤗🎁🎄🎅🏻 #Flowers #Gardening #Christmas #Friends #Plants #FlowerReport #Winter

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Right on cue, my Christmas cactus Schlumbergera russelliana, is about to flower. Not a patch of it’s former self after a difficult year of mealy bug infestation. This plant started as a cutting from my grandmother’s plant over 50 years ago. @gardenopus.bsky.social

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The week when the days were very short #SixonSaturday #mylittlegarden #wintersolstice renaissancegd.medium.com/my-little-ga...

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❤️🌱All about lighting & angle when it comes to Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Ascot' (Barnell L. Cobia, 1992). "Ascot"? you ask, "What about 'Red Aspen'?" Turns out latter name, a synonym, popularized after Cobia's 2003 death, as fimbration resembles his 'Aspen' (1989) pic 3. Cactaceae

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🌱Schlumbergera x buckleyi 'Chelsea' (Barnell L. Cobia/Brindley's Nurseries, >2002). A pale yellow fimbriated cv blooming on a small young plant, thus fringes in hiding, maybe next try.🌞After 2002 death of innovator B.L. Cobia, most seedlings were destroyed, this among several recovered.😃 Cactaceae

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