✨🌞 Spring has sprung! ✨😍These Daffodils are from my Granny's yard. She loved flowers and her woodland garden. It warms my heart each spring when her Daffodils emerge and jump start the growing season. They are always exciting to watch grow and bloom! 🌱🌷💕
#FamilyHeirloom #daffodils #3rdgeneration #gardener
🌸👇 Seed Harvesting Info Below 👇🌞
🐝 Allow the Pansy flowers to bloom and fade. Seed pods will form within pollinated blooms.
👀 Monitor the pods as they swell up, turn brown, and start to open. When they start to open the seeds are mature and ready to be collected.
🕒 Time to Harvest:
1) ✂️ Carefully snip the seed pods from the plant with scissors or gardening shears.
2) 💰 Gently shake out the seeds into a container.
3) 🏡 Store the seeds in a cool, dry place until you are ready to plant them.
📝 Note: If you have more than one type of Pansy planted nearby the seeds are likely cross pollinated. This means your seedlings will be half the mother plant you are gathering from and half another father Pansy of your local bees choosing. 😎🐝💛🌼
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Music: They Don't (Instrumental Version) by Alder from Epidemic Sound
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#pansy #pansyflower #diy #viola #seeds #seedsaving #seedstarting #seedlings #harvesting #gardening #gardenlove #nature #naturetherapy #naturelovers #natureisbeautiful #garden
✨ Blue Blotch Pansy ✨
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✨ Orange Jump Up Viola ✨
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✨Happy Thanksgiving✨
🦃🍠🧅🧄🌽🥂I hope you are able to spend time with loved ones, feeling grateful for our blessings. 🍗
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#thanksgiving #thanksgivingdecor #thanksgivingdinner #grateful #gratefulheart #gratefulthankfulblessed #family #familytime #dinnertime #tabledecor
🌞 Zone 8 Citrus 🌞 Window Shopping List:
1) 🍋 Meyer Lemon Tree
2) 🍊 Satsuma Mandarin Tree
✨ What’s growing on gardeners? ✨ How is everyone feeling about the updated USDA zones? I admit when I first saw our updated zone, I had a small identity crisis. I’ve lived and grown in zone 7 my entire life. Now we’re zone 8! What is this? It makes sense but feels weird.
Then I started thinking about what new plants I might be able to grow. Oh my gosh, Citrus!!! 🌳 We’ve always been on the wrong side of the cut off for growing most citrus outdoors. Now we’re zone 8 and growing citrus sounds great! 😉
Lemons and Tangerines are at the top of my wish list.
😎 Meyer Lemons are a wonderful cross between a mandarin orange/lemon and produces sweeter, thinner-skinned fruits than store bought lemons. 🍋 They are known as the most cold-hardy lemon, which is perfect for gardeners in zone 8. Even better, these trees can begin producing bright yellow fruits within two years of grafting.
😎 Satsuma Mandarin Trees are evergreen, drought-tolerant, and disease-resistant. They produce delicious tangerine-like fruits that are easy to peel. 🍊 Satsuma Mandarins can tolerate frost down to 15 degrees Fahrenheit, which makes them a great choice for outdoor planting in zone 8.
🌎 I would love to know if your USDA hardiness zone changed this year and if you are thinking of adding anything new to your garden. Comment below! 👇
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#citrus #citrusfresh #lemon #lemonade #lemoncookies #lemonchicken #lemoncake #lemoncleanse #lemoncleaner #mandarin #tangerine #orange #fruit #fruitjuice #fruitsnack #gardening #gardenideas #gardeninspiration #gardenlove #garden #zone8a #usda #USDAupdate #happysillyjoy
✨ Butterfly on Icy Blue Violas ✨
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✨Deer at Stevens Creek Nature Preserve✨
😎 It was so neat seeing this family of deer while on our walk.🥰
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🐐Such a cute kid goat! We love feeding all the goats and piggy’s hay! 🐖😁
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This was from a trip to Wise Acers Farm in Indian Trail, NC. 📸💚
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✨New Guinea Impatients✨
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🥰These are such gorgeous prolific bloomers and require very little maintenance. I love these plants! I love this color combo too! The white contrast really makes the bright colors pop!
🌸The October cooler temps means I'll be saying goodbye to my summer annuals soon and replacing them with my cool weather favorites: Violas and Pansies! 😎 Looks like I need more plants... oh no!! 😀😎
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✨Inchworm✨🐛
😎🐛 While getting cuttings from my Cigar Plant, I ran into this little Inchworm. 🐛🦋😊 What a great surprise! I enjoyed his company for a bit and then put him back with the Cigar Plant he came from.
I am so glad to have cuttings from this awesome hummingbird attracting plant before switching it out for cool season Pansies and Violas. Propagation and cutting progress updates to follow! 😊
👉Double tap if you think this little guy is cute!!🐛
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#worm #inchworm #catepillar #propagation #propagationfascination #cigarplant #nature #naturelovers #naturephotography #natureisbeautiful #naturetherapy #gardening
✨Pony in Autumn✨
😎This little guy lives right next to my favorite greenhouse. There are a few horses in the pasture with him. They are all very friendly and love to say hello. 🥰
👉Follow me if you like nature! Lets be friends! ❤️
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#pony #ponylove #horse #horselove #nature #naturelover #naturetherapy
🌸 Fuchsia Propagation 🌸😍😎🌱🌿🪴
I am taking cuttings of my beautiful Fuchsia and propagating them in water.
👉Follow for progress along the way. 😊
🌱 Steps used for water propagation: 🌿
1. Choose a stem of relatively new growth that hasn’t become woody yet.
2. Cut the stem just below a set of leaves. The area where leaves emerge from the stem is referred to as a node. This is where the plants' energy is concentrated. Cuttings can most easily grow new roots from a node at the bottom of the cutting.
3. Remove the lower leaves. Your cutting will have more water and energy to put into growing roots with fewer leaves to keep alive. Also, since leaves will rot in water only bare stems should be submerged in the water.
4. Trim large upper leaves. This will help conserve energy for the cutting to grow roots.
5. Place the cutting in water. Make sure only the part with no leaves is underwater.
6. Replace the water every 4 - 7 days to prevent bacteria build-up.
7. Roots should grow in about 3 to 4 weeks. When you have a good inch or more of root growth you can plant the cuttings into soil.
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🪴#fuchsia #fuchsiaflowers #propagate #propagation #propagatingplants #gardening #gardeningtips #nature #naturelovers #naturetherapy
✨Morrow Mountain State Park✨
😎 It was perfect weather at the Morrow Mountain State Park this weekend and we really enjoyed the beautiful yellow and orange leaves mixed with green. I love this stage of Fall color when there are still green trees mixed in.
🍁This is the view from the summit. It is the biggest “Mountain” in the area and from the top you can see for miles in every direction. 🤩
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👉Lets be friends #NatureLovers! Follow me! 😎
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🌸Fall Flower Standouts! ✨Pansies, Violas, & Mums✨
😀Mums are a beautiful Fall classic, but I am going to stick to Pansies & Violas only this year. 🌺Mums are beautiful for a few weeks before tossing them. Pansies & Violas are beautiful all Fall, Winter, and Spring in many zones, including ours 7b. They grow best with air temps between 40 to 60 degrees, will tolerate 25 to 80 degrees, and can even survive to regrow after single digit temps.
🌟 I went for this preview a couple weeks ago and they are beautiful!!! I'm due to go back to get our cool weather treasures before our first frost. It's a little bittersweet changing out the annuals. It's sad to say goodbye but great to say hello again to some of my favorite flowers! Plus, I love a good reason to buy pretty flowers. 🌸😀
What are your go-to fall blooms? Share your favorites below! 👇
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#pansies #violas #farm #greenhouse #nature #autumnblooms #FallFlowers #naturelovers
✨Field of Mums✨
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🎃What a sight! These Mums are full of buds ready to burst with color! It brings me back to growing up in our family greenhouse business. We had fields full of these every year when we were little.
🍂The most memorable plant for the number of times we moved them from one place to another. There was also something we used in the pots that would squish if you put your finger in it.
✨Numerous Mum moves meant lots of opportunity to stick your fingers right in the squishy gross mess.✨Good Times!😎🥰💖
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#mum #mums #chrysanthemum #chrysanthemums #chrysanthemumflowers #greenhouse #greenhousegrown #nature #naturelovers #natureisbeautiful #autumn #autumnvibes #autumn2023 #autumnmood #autumnmagic #autumncolors
✨Grasshopper on Flowers✨
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🌼Let me know in the comments!
🐝This is an impressive patch of gorgeous red blooms at the Coastal Maine Botanical Gardens in Boothbay, Maine. 🌷🌻
🐛🦋 I didn't check the marker on these beauties and it took me a while to find something similar to identify these online. I'd love to hear your thoughts and see if my guess is correct. 😃
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✨Wakefield Wildlife Sanctuary, Maine✨
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This little stream is a rock hoppers dream! It is just one of the many beautiful things to see on the hiking trail in Wakefield Wildlife Sanctuary, Maine.
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🐌 Snail eating a mushroom😎
✨We ran across this little snail, sitting on a cute white mushroom, munching away at his throne. The moss underneath looks like dense tiny ferns and we could see ants running around in their little moss forest. What a neat mini ecosystem!
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✨Goodnight Animal Posters✨
I am so excited about these! This Goodnight Piglet, Giraffe, Duckling, and Elephant are just a few in the series I'm working on. Coming soon! I will be offering these as posters on my website. 😍
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