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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

October 7, 2026 🌱 Fall color coming in on the purpleleaf sandcherry.

A closeup photo of purpleleaf sandcherry foliage. Most of the leaves are a dark red-green, and a few are bright red.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

October 6, 2026 🌱 “Wait, didn’t I use to have a culver’s root?” I had to move a lot of frost aster, but I found it 😂

A culver’s root seedhead over a boulder, under frost aster.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

October 5, 2026 🌱 The grape hyacinth leaves are such an interesting contrast, growing in in the fall, all fresh and lush, while everything around is drying out and turning earth tones and settling down for the winter.

A row of thick, bright green grape hyacinth foliage lining a sidewalk.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

October 4, 2026 🌱 “It’s so fluffy, I’m gonna die!”

Fuzzy white Canada goldenrod seeds galore.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 03/10/2026

October 3, 2026 🌱 Evening primrose has a peculiar pattern of having just a couple leaves turn bright red in fall. Here’s a dramatic example.

An evening primrose basal rosette with two bright red leaves and the rest an ordinary green.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

October 2, 2026 🌱 A showy evening primrose flower gathering raindrops.

A side view of a pale pink showy evening primrose flower covered in drops of water.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Even when photographing the world exactly as it is, there is artistry in what you choose to photograph, where in the frame you place it, and how much of the surroundings you include.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

October 1, 2026 🌱 There’s a carpet of first-year bellflower plants where the bellflower bloomed last year. Two of them didn‘t have the patience to be biennial, and they skipped ahead to the second-year form. They’re very short and blooming out of season, but they are blooming. Here’s one of them.

A miniature tall bellflower plant in bloom, surrounded by bellflower groundcover.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

September 30, 2026 🌱 Early sunflower in an autumn rain.

Early sunflower foliage shiny with rain, and dark round seedheads.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

September 29, 2026 🌱 What the big-leaved aster lacks in grace, it makes up for in enthusiasm.

A big-leaved aster plant with quite a few active and fading flowers.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Errands. School to bank to home to bank to home to school.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

September 28, 2026 🌱 Forgot to take a garden pic again. Have some more sky drama.

A sky at sunrise, orange in one corner, blue in the opposite corner, and covered with gray clouds in between.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I traveled five and a half miles by kick scooter.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

September 27, 2026 🌱 I was sitting on the porch, and the birds were all atwitter in the maple tree. I couldn‘t see them, though. After a bit they stopped. Guess I’ll never know what the ruckus was about.

A close up photo of a silver maple trunk and foliage.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

September 26, 2026 🌱 I don’t get many butterfly visitors, so I hope you’ll excuse this fella for the blurriness.

A very blurry white butterfly with a dark spot, next to blurry frost aster flowers.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

September 25, 2026 🌱 Posting the blue-stemmed goldenrod a third time, because it sparks joy in me.

A close up of blue-stemmed goldenrod in bloom, with clusters of small yellow flowers.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

September 24, 2026 🌱 Someone thought the woodland sunflower was delicious 😬

Several woodland sunflower stems eaten bare of their foliage.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

September 23, 2026 🌱 A late-season burst of new growth on one poppy mallow stem. No idea why.

A faded stem of rose mallow with bright green new growth and a magenta flower.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

It doesn’t have a noticeable smell, so only when crushed I guess.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

September 22, 2026 🌱 A gorgeous squash (?) blossom in the compost bin. I get volunteer cucurbits on the regular and they often bloom, but so far none have set fruit.

A large yellow flower on a mystery cucurbit growing in a compost bin.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

Angie, check out calscape.org for a database of plants native to California, including many species of aster.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Mine mounded but on stilts 😂

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

September 21, 2026 🌱 Aromatic aster in bloom. This plant has the weirdest shape. Bare stem for over half its height, then a lush ball of foliage and flowers. There’s a second aromatic aster nearby, with the same shape. Both plants have their lush crowns lying on the ground, because physics 😂

Aromatic aster covered in flowers and buds.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

September 20, 2026 🌱 Forgot to take a garden pic before it got dark today, but I did catch this lovely sunrise a few days ago.

A dramatically lit and clouded sky at sunrise over silhouetted trees.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

September 19, 2026 🌱 The smooth blue aster is starting to fade, while the frost aster is just coming in.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

September 18, 2026 🌱 A mix of little bluestem and showy evening primrose, which clearly intends to bloom forever.

Little bluestem grass draped over showy evening primrose foliage and flowers.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

September 17, 2026 🌱 A bedraggled squirrel in the rain. I imagine it’s probably thinking, “Worth it for this black walnut!”

A squirrel with a whole black walnut in its mouth and a sad-looking wet tail, on a street curb in the rain.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

It’s a common misconception. Wind-pollinated plants like ragweed cause the nasty allergies, but they hide in plain sight. Showy insect-pollinated plants like goldenrod get the blame instead. Here‘s an excellent article that goes into more detail:

blog.nwf.org

The Goldenrod Allergy Myth - The National Wildlife Federation Blog

Goldenrod blooms are an autumn delight — both for human admirers and wildlife visitors. Their sunny yellow flowers add beauty and interest to the late summer and early fall landscape … Read more

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

What a neat thing to catch on video.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

September 16, 2026 🌱 The Canada goldenrod is done blooming. The grass-leaved goldenrod is fading but still a bee magnet. And the blue-stemmed goldenrod is in gorgeous full bloom.

Blue-stemmed goldenrod covered in small yellow flowers.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

Not that the weather hasn’t been all over the place, but I don’t think it explains the August aster. It was a single flower — there were no other early flowers on that plant, or on my other aster of the same type, or on my asters of other species.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

September 15, 2026 🌱 The weirdly early aster flower has company.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

September 14, 2026 🌱 The Missouri ironweed has gone fuzzy.

A Missouri ironweed stem with fuzzy orange seedheads.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

September 13, 2026 🌱 Finally got my golden alexanders in the ground. Better late than never 😬

A newly transplanted golden alexanders plant.

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Garden Diary @gardendiary.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

September 12, 2026 🌱 Ground cherry fruit. The husks dry as it ripens. I got excited seeing so many fruits reach this stage… but I only found one edible one. Most were either rotten or undeveloped.