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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

🌱 good morning🩷💚

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#GardensHour @gardenshour.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Hello and welcome to #GardensHour! Let’s take a look back at the last few weeks - what has been your biggest September high and the any low points in your gardening journey this month?

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Mike in Oly @mikeinoly.bsky.social · 26/09/2026

'Rosalba', from 1919, is an example of the early tetraploids that were just getting going in England and changed everything for iris hybridizing in the 20th century. A good grower and great bloomer. #iris 🌱 #bloomscrolling

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

🌱🤎🔥Though sun has gradually returned with cooler temperatures, after days of torrential rains, glad I caught Caladium 'Burning Heart' (Dr. Robert Hartman - Classic Caladiums, 2015) in the thick of it, with glistening droplets in momentary suspense!😎 Planted tubers late, still a great show! Araceae

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Mike in Oly @mikeinoly.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

'Pewee', from 1933, is the variety that set the standard for the Miniature Tall Bearded (MTB) class. Dainty blooms on slender stalks, it is perfect for the front of the flower border. A good grower and bloomer here. #iris 🌱 #bloomscrolling

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

🌱❤️Aristolochia gigantea 'Brasiliensis' (Brazilian Pipevine) assures me she's nowhere near finished! ☠️CAUTION: if in range of native Battus philenor the Pipevine Swallowtail of North America (occasional in Chicagoland) this species is toxic. Aristolochic Acid levels MUCH higher than native Pipevines.

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

🌱💛💚 When the midsummer replanting goes well! Cucurbita pepo (Summer Squash) 'Zephyr' - sown 1st week of August - shows its beautiful coloration even when the pistillate (female) flowers are still in bud. My third year with this variety - productive and delicious! Cucurbitaceae

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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

#SixOnSaturday was the start of #MetorlogicalFall and a busy week. I sowed lots of seeds two weeks ago that now needed transplanting. I have Snapdragons, pansies, violas, wallflowers, Stock and two varieties of lettuce. Now to keep my babies🌱one step ahead of 🐌🐛🪲🦗😂 #Flowers #Gardening #Autumn #GYO

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

🌱 A beautiful classic - Reblooming SDB (Standard Dwarf Bearded) Iris 'Autumn Jester' (Chuck Chapman, 2000), on its 4th rebloom cycle here in suburban Chicagoland, paired with Catharanthus (Vinca or Madagascar Periwinkle) 'Valiant™ Punch'. Iridaceae & Apocynaceae.

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

🌱🌹Rosa 'Belinda's Dream' (Dr. Robert E. Basye, 1992) is an impeccably clean 🥶 Winter hardy & 🔥 heat tolerant Hybrid Shrub Rose, in continuous bloom since May. Dr. Basye was a Texas A&M Mathematics Professor & amateur Rose Breeder, his legacy lives on in this beauty! Rosaceae

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#GardensHour @gardenshour.bsky.social · 31/08/2026

Hello! Welcome to #GardensHour! Who’s here? Say hi 👋 We come to the end of #SixWeeksOfColour this week and celebrate all those beautiful pinks you see in your garden. Remember, it doesn’t just need to be flowers (but we do love them!) GO!

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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🌱 the canna that reseeded itself bloomed this week💛

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Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

The variegation on my Monstera became a little too blotchy ("sectoral") so I have been gradually beheading it to see if I can get a lateral sprout with more even variegation. This is the latest leaf that grew. I think it's working out. 🌱🪴

A Monstera leaf next to my hand in various shades of white and green. It's roughly the size of a large pizza. No fenestrations yet, but it has deep edge dissections.

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

🌱❤️AND SHE'S BACK - better than ever after weeks of heat & torrential downpours. Though strong storms knocked off her first bud before bloom, lemon scented, 12"/30 cm Aristolochia gigantea 'Brasiliensis' (Giant Pipevine) now faces the world resplendent, with more buds to come. Aristolochiaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

🌱💛A subtle #SundayYellow where the buds carry the show! Hardy Hibiscus Summerific® 'French Vanilla' (Hans Hansen/Walters Gardens, 2021) has incredible presence - buds are a beautiful soft lemon yellow that catch the waning sunrays of evening & shine from a distance. Malvaceae

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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

🌱 Good morning🌞🌻

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N20gardener @n20gardener.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

The pots on the terrace do well because they are pampered but the rest of the garden has to be dealt with selectively n20gardener.com/2026/08/08/s... There will be loses but I'm doing the best I can #sixonsaturday - six photos and a few words about this garden 🌱 #ukgardening

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Six On Saturday: Watering woes

Fine, warm and dry. It continues. There was one brief shower but the garden barely noticed it. On we go. Here’s my six for this week. One The hibiscus has been putting out flowers for a few w…

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

🌱🌸SCENES FROM A DITCH not far from my home. Beloved Chicagoland native Hibiscus (Muenchhusia) laevis, fka Hibiscus militaris - one of the species responsible for modern Hardy Hibiscus. We also have scattered populations of H. (M.) moscheutos (Swamp Rose Mallow). Malvaceae 😎

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

🌱❤️ Some random #FlowersOnFriday - Zinnia 'Dreamland Red' just 36 days from direct sowing, paired with Calamintha nepeta; Hardy Hibiscus 'Watermelon Ruffles' living its name; & Hemerocallis (Daylily) 'Cosmic Struggle' with some action from a rebloom scape.😎 #FlowerHunting

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

🌱❤️🌞Lobelia cardinalis (Cardinal Flower), Chicagoland native, in a Meditation & Bridge Garden I designed at a woodsy executive client site. Paired with Hardy Hibiscus Summerific® 'Perfect Storm' behind & beside - just starting to bloom. Both love the moist to wet soil there. Campanulaceae & Malvaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 19/07/2026

🌱💜Reblooming Tetraploid Hemerocallis (Daylily) 'Born In California' (Bill Maryott, 2016). Pics 1 & 2 in the a.m., pic 3 in the p.m. Luxurious color & form. Maryott Daylilies are touchy growers in Chicagoland, this is best of 5 planted in 2020. No rebloom here yet - maybe this year.🤞 Asphodelaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

🌱⏱️FAST ONE! Tetraploid Reblooming Hemerocallis (Daylily) 'Cosmic Struggle' (Karol Emmerich, 2009) wastes no time as preferential rebloom emerges. Karol hybridizes in Jordan, Minnesota - her flowers are beautiful & plants robust, Winter 🥶 hardy & heat 🔥 tolerant! Asphodelaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

🌱💕 This Canna seedling greets the day in a sweet shade of candy pink. Have a herd of these beginning to open now - kept the bronze seedlings & green ones went to a client site. Though collected from 'Cannova® Bronze Peach' flower color of each is subtly different. Cannaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🌱💕AND SHE DID! Hemerocallis (Daylily) 'When My Sweetheart Returns' (Dr. Darrell Apps, 2003) takes sweetheart to the next level! Like all in this series, she has preferential repeat bloom, a short resting period, and then occasional stalks later in Summer & Fall. Asphodelaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

🌱YES SHE DOES! Reblooming Hemerocallis (Daylily) 'Stephanie Returns' (Apps-Blew, 2006) is a near-continuous rebloomer, beginning with preferential rebloom - stalk & buds later cycle through Autumn. Pics 1 & 2 taken PM, pic 3 AM. Asphodelaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 05/07/2026

🌱💪🏼💛🧡STRENGTH IN BEAUTY. Reblooming Tetraploid Hemerocallis (Daylily) 'Heman' (James Gossard, 2007) makes his presence known with dramatically toothed 9" flowers on 3 foot scapes. Degree of burnt orange shading varies with conditions & bloom stage. Impressive! Asphodelaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🌱🤍 ALL TIME CLASSIC! Reblooming Hemerocallis 'Joan Senior' (Ken Durio, 1977; 🏆AHS Lenington All-American Award, 1990) is a beautiful marshmallow of a Daylily with brackets (buds initiate at bracts) pic 2, & preferential rebloom (new scapes emerge during main season) pic 3. Asphodelaceae

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Shannon Walsh @flutterbyflora.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

🌱 Good morning 🌼 Giant Coneflower, it's almost as tall as I am

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

🌱💕Reblooming Hemerocallis (Daylily) 'Romantic Returns' (Dr. Darrel Apps, 2000) is cherry-rose at opening, but has already lightened. A 2nd day of humid 95°F/36°C & 105°F/41°C heat index won't faze it. Preferential rebloom (sequential stalks) already emerging. 🥳 Asphodelaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

🌱💜 Impressed with this gorgeous blue-eyed lavender Hemerocallis (Daylily) seedling, unregistered, from Kay M. Cline of Rolling Oaks Daylilies. Kay's personal guidance helped steer my selections to align with updated breeding goals. Asphodelaceae - Asphodel Family.

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

🎶 "Come Rain or Come Shine" - Winter hardy, disease resistant & beautiful Floribunda Rosa (Rose) 'Judy Garland' (Harkness, 1977), like her namesake, continues to grab new audiences! Pic 3 from a prior year - she'll build buds & blooms all Summer long. Rosaceae #RoseWednesday

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Athenaknits @theparthecraft.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

The Ronmneya has started flowering. Lovely scent on them, too bad they usually flower above my head. #bloomscrolling 🌱

A large white papery flower with a large fluffy yellow center

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

🌱🔥SMOKE & FIRE. Shimmering, smoldering colors of Calendula officinalis 'Zeolights' aka 'Triangle Flashback' (Frank Morton/Wild Garden Seed, ca. 2008) are hard to describe, they change with light & bloom stage.🌞 A reliable favorite borne on vigorous, healthy plants. Asteraceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

🌱🔎MAYBE, MAYBE NOT... Not sure if variable flecking on fragrant Chamaeiris (Spuria Iris) 'Buttered Chocolate' (Niswonger, 1974) is Iris Severe Mosaic Virus (ISMV) or natural breaking but sure is a beauty! Not only butter & chocolate but also delicious overtones of lilac & dirty martini!🍸😎 Iridaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 11/06/2026

🌱🌹🧡Bit late for #RoseWednesday - long day at the office & taking a different approach with 'Mandarin Sunset' (Christian Bédard, 2023). Showing flowers as they senesce & shatter rather than grooming for pics. Holds color until petal drop so even if a bit messy, keeps a nice distance effect.😎 Rosaceae

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#GardensHour @gardenshour.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Hello and welcome to #GardensHour This week our theme is about water in your gardens. Whether it’s a water feature, small or large pond, stream or more, what do you have and what do you love most about it? Does your water encourage wildlife into your garden? If so, what?

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Tory Dunn @stradella.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

🌱 Olfactory contrast: going from outside the kitchen where the philadelphus is in bloom, to inside where newly mixed kimchi is getting to work. Two very different kinds of wonderful 😀

Philadelphus shrub (mock orange) with branches going up vertical-diagonally with green leaves and white blossoms

A tray with several Kilner (Bell) jars filled with the beginning stage of kimchi-chopped cabbage, radishes, green onion, and some chopped carrot. The tray is sitting on a lime green table and has an orange edge, so somewhat echoes the colours in the kimchi, but that was a happy accident.

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

🌱🌹🔥Though temps have cooled a bit since peaking at 93°F/34°C earlier, air is juicy with humidity bringing a chance of storms.⛈️🌩 Rosa (Rose) 'Lady of Shalott' (David Austin Roses, 2010), now prospering since I moved her from front to back yard 2 years ago, says 💪🏻"Bring It On!" Rosaceae

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

Happy #SixOnSaturday everyone hope you're all having a good weekend. Six white blooms from in and around my various patches of garden this week of wildly changeable weather 🌱 #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #UKGardening

Sedum, achillea, foxgloves, geranium, peony and erigeron

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

🌱💛SUNSHINE FLOATING ON AIR. Phaeiris (Louisiana Iris) 'Edna Claunch' (Henry Wolford, R. 2004 - I. 2007; 🏆Marie Caillet Cup, 2013; 🥇Mary Swords DeBaillon Medal, 2014) truly glows! 2nd try with this iconic laced beauty, neighbors' chem treatment zapped first one.😱 Iridaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

🌱🤎💛Overflowing with love for Limniris (Iris) x pseudata 'Yarai' (Hiroshi Shimizu by Carol Warner, 2011; 🥇Randolph Perry Medal 2021). Petite flowers in a delicious honey brown, striated mulberry - & those SIGNALS! Just stunning! Beautiful foliage & compact habit! Iridaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

🌱🌹🥦 So much happening in the garden hard to keep track of it all, & equally hard to pause what I'm doing to post - here's a quick sweep. You're not alone in working outside til dark, so everyone make the most of these late Spring days - rich with both wins & challenges!❤️😎

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

🌱🐀😋DELICIOUS! Raphanus sativus v. caudatus (Rat Tail Radish) snipped into an omelette, spicy & tender, Chives along for the ride. From the Burpee retail rack a few years ago though sown '26. All Radish pods are edible but can become fibrous quickly - not this one. Flowers are lovely. Brassicaceae

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#GardensHour @gardenshour.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

May is when my garden really comes to life again and I start to enjoy the space fully. More flowers, more foliage, the lawn still looks green and I have the early season energy to keep the weeds under control! Peonies are a favourite this month #GardensHour

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#GardensHour @gardenshour.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Hello! A very warm 🥵 welcome to #GardensHour this week! The UK has had the hottest May temperatures on record today and don’t we all know it! What’s been your highlights of your May garden this year? Any low points? What’s your keyword for May if you can sum it up?

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

🌱LIVES HER NAME! Tall Bearded (TB) Iris 'Hottie' (Paul Black, 2018) is a luxurious, velvety & ruffled Bing Cherry maroon (pic 2) - until Mr. Sun flips the lights on!🌞 After which, you could even say she glows!😎 Iridaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

🌱🥳YOUR NEW FAVORITE FLOWER? Schizanthus x wisetonensis (Poor Man's Orchid, Butterfly Flower) 'Atlantis Mix' F1. Grown OP 'Angel's Wings' since youth in Alaska, now muddy pastels thanks to genetic drift & downgrade - poor seed crop management. Eager to see this 8 color formula mix perform! Solanaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

🌱🖤Reblooming Tall Bearded (TB) Iris 'Ozark Rebounder' (Barbara Nicodemus, 2002; by Rockytop Gardens, 2003) on a bright & chilly suburban Chicagoland day. Pure luxury in velvet black with violet & white hafts, plus opulent muticolored beards. Reliable rebloom in Zone 5b. Iridaceae

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Lady Muck @ladymuckstyle.bsky.social · 11/05/2026

🌱 What a lovely surprise for Monday morning! My Amaryllis have bloomed! Now moved into the shade to make those gorgeous flowers last just a little bit longer :) #GardeningFeed

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