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Mel

@rainydaycottage.bsky.social
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🌈 Making the best queer cottage life in suburban Leduc, AB. Gardening, crafting, sourdough. Traditional skills without traditional values. Zone 3 🇨🇦

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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Saw my first robin today and trees buds are swelling. Even though most of the garden is under snow, spring is coming, it just looks a little different up north. #spring #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden 🌱🇨🇦
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
I wanted to let as many people in #Alberta #Canada know as possible: if you're struggling to book vaccines through the government, we were able to order covid & flu through our local shoppers. Covid was $125 + $20 admin. I wish it didn't have to be that way, but hopefully, this helps some people.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Best of the garden mid August 🌼 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement with dahlias, zinnias, bergamot, yarrow, scabiosa, echinacea, tomatillo, cerinthe.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 02/08/2025
Best of the garden from the first week of August. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement with cosmos, zinnia, dahlias, rudbeckia, monarda, cerinthe, bupleurum, statice, and sweet peas.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
Hard to beat a sunset after a thunderstorm. #Canada #thunderstorm #yeg #leduc #outdoors #nature #weather #zone3 #alberta
Sunset rays peeking through dark clouds over a yellow canola field in bloom
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
When I first started my garden, I said I would never have orange, yellow, or red flowers. Here we are now. 🌼 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement with Sahara rudbeckia, calendula, eryngium, yarrow, marigold, bupleurum, tomatillo, amaranth, strawflower.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
I have a pocket gopher destroying my garden, but the flowers have never looked better. I'll take what I can get. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Bouquet of dahlias, cosmos, scabiosa, bupleurum, chamomile, feverfew, strawflower, yarrow, and eryngium.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 12/07/2025
Some bouquets to give away at the wellness clinic where we get our massage therapy 💗 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #flowers 🌱🇨🇦
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 11/07/2025
Celebrating the first dahlia of the year, Ferncliff Rusty #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #dahlia #flowers 🌱🇨🇦
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 07/07/2025
Overnight explosion of Scabiosa. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement of white and blue scabiosa flowers, complimented by calendula, yarrow, cornflower, salvia, sage, dicentra, strawflower, and eryngium.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Look veeeery close you can see one of the dozens of tiny blue damselflies hanging out in the garden yesterday evening. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Blue damselfly resting on a bowing agrostemma bud.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Finally, after a few days of warm weather, the garden is finding its summer rhythm. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Borage just starting to flower.Yarrow 'summer berries'Blooming hens and chicksMarigold 'burning embers'
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 29/06/2025
Still no focal flowers, but lots of yarrow. Played around with making a single flower arrangement. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Stems of pastel yellow yarrow arranged in a grey blue ceramic vessel.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 25/06/2025
I have no focal flowers right now, so it's tiny hand-tied bouquet season where marigolds and calendula are the stars. 🌼 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Tiny bouquet in a pitcher with calendula, burning embers marigolds, yarrow, chamomile, agastache, and smooth blue aster.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
First bloom for the only rose in the garden 'Chinook Sunrise'. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Chinook sunrise rose bloom
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Sedum Autumn Joy. One of my favourite for cut flowers. Looks beautiful at any growth stage. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Cluster of sedum autumn joy in the garden bed.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Year four in my garden and still a long way to go, but I'm happy with some of the cottage garden chaos as plants come together and wander about. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Sedum, gilia, scabiosa, bellis daisy, salvia, and dill in a small patch of my garden border.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 17/06/2025
Self seeded foxglove 'Camelot'. Free plants are the best plants. So happy to see these back. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Foxglove stem with pink flowers, red and white speckled throats.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
New favourite marigold unlocked: strawberry blonde. These blooms start out deep burgundy and get pale as they age, leading to beautiful variation. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Strawberry blonde marigolds and nasturtiums in a raised bed.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 16/06/2025
Peony season 💜 my Solange peony is five years old and produced five blossoms this year. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement in tea pot with Solange peonies, clematis flower, chamomile flower. Agastache, ladies mantle, and arugula for greenery.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Love sitting out on a warm afternoon watching the polinators do their thing. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #bees #polinators 🌱🇨🇦
Honey bee collecting from nepeta flowers
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
Celebration of spring. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement in a tea pot with flax, sage, agastache, chives, salvia, and forget me nots.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
Radish time is the best time of year. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden 🌱🇨🇦
Handful of fresh picked french breakfast radishes.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Blueberry ginger pie all done. 🫐🥧 #cooking #baking #fromscratch #canada #homemade #pie #handmade
Blueberry ginger pie with filling peeking out from crescent shaped cuts in the top crust dusted with granulated sugar.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I come from a long line of pie makers, but it is not my strength. Practicing to keep the legacy going. Blueberry Ginger pie for our LAN party tomorrow. #pie #baking #canada #baker #cooking #madeincanada #fromscratch
Blueberry ginger pie filling in an unbaked pie crust waiting for the top to be placed. The top sits nearby with the rolling pin.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 22/05/2025
The real reason to grow alchemilla mollis is how it looks after rain. 💧🌿 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Alchemilla mollis, lady's mantle plant leaves beaded with drops of water
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
Two days of very welcome rain after nearly two months without. Not great for garden chores, but I'll take it and more. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #rain 🌱🇨🇦
Farmer field barely starting to sprout with distant trees and low grey rain clouds.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Working on some new plantings in my west shade garden. I love this combo of deep purple huchera with the five finger maiden hair fern and the hostas. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Shade garden with two hostas, one broad leaf and one fine leaf, a huchera and a fern.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
The air is perfumed with blossoms, and Brunera 'jack frost' is coming into bloom 💙 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Blue brunnera blossoms
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
I love free plants! 12 cuttings from my favourite nepeta to be propagated. Sedum cuttings coming next. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #flowers 🌱🇨🇦
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
The first daffodils are blooming and the saksatoon berry is just getting started. Yes, I totally laid down in the grass to take these pictures. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Daffodil blossomsDaffodil blossoms with pale tulips and peony Foliage in the background Saskatoon berry bush just starting to blossom
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
Medieval Snickerdoodles for a meeting with my living history group this afternoon. Classic snickerdoodles with a medieval spice blend instead of just cinnamon 😍 #baking #cooking #cookies #desserts #medieval #livinghistory #14thcentury #reenactment
Plate of fresh baked snickerdoodle cookies.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
End of May seedling status. Getting very green in here, evictions coming soon. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #spring 🌱🇨🇦
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 26/04/2025
First bouquet of the season. These are Exotic Emperor tulips. Always early bloomers. Naturally, I made an arrangement with flax and cuttings from my celery seedlings because why not? #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #tulips 🌱🇨🇦
Fresh cut handful of creamy white and green Exotic emperor tulipsBouquet of creamy white tulips with bring green celery leaves as filler in an amber glass jar.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
Beautiful clouds, a little sun shower, and the compost bin has been emptied onto one of my flower growing beds. Couldn't ask for more out of a spring day. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #compost 🌱🇨🇦
Fluffy clouds in blue sky over Evergreen and larch treesCompost in a garden cart and spread on a long garden bed waiting to be planted
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
Filling the new raised beds. I've saved a bunch of garden cuttings, cardboard, last year's spent pots, and removed sod. I'll add more on the right before topping with soil. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Two raised beds. One with garden scraps waiting for more, one finished topped with garden soil and planted with onions.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Always the first flowers in the garden. Violas make me so happy. 💜 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Purple viola in mulchWhite and purple viola in mulch
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Last of the onions planted today. 120+ onions and shallots, along with 30 leeks, all started from seed. Hoping for a nice harvest. 🧅 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #veggies #growyourown 🌱🇨🇦
A raised bed with freshly planted onion seedlings.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
60km north winds make for poor gardening weather, but good sourdough weather. Two boules, two sandwich loaves, and buns today. #sourdough #baking #cooking #fromscratch
Sourdough bread dough waiting to be divided into two round banneton
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
West garden overhaul is coming along. Two more raised beds added, just have to fill them now. Bonus cat lying on me while I recover from working hard 😆 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #spring #cats 🌱🇨🇦
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
Mantra this spring is little and often. Trying to pace all the jobs to be done. Tulips in the west garden are going for it (one of my faves with pink variegation). #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #tulips #spring 🌱🇨🇦
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Zone 3, it's not too late to plant your garlic. This is what's left from my spring planting last year. Yes you should do it in the fall, but if you're easily overwhelmed like me, you can wait 🧄 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Basket full of garlic gloves
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Canadian spring summed up in a picture. Seedlings getting their first taste of sun with snow in the background. 😆 We've got some beautiful weather coming this week. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
A tray of onion seedlings and a tray of flower seedlings sitting on a deck among pots.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Seedling maintenance today for my favourite Statice (Limonium) 'Apricot'. The flowers you see were dried last summer. 🍑 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Two seedling trays with Statice flower seedlings and some dried Apricot statice flowers in the background.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
More seed starting today. Some old favourites and some new to me. 🌱 Salvia Victoria Blue & Clary Mix Parsley Peppermint Echinops Monarda Mountain Mint #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #spring #cutflowers #grownnotflown
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 31/03/2025
Six lovely cuttings from dahlia Ferncliff Rusty so far. If anyone is near Leduc, AB and wants to pick some up in a few weeks, I may have extras 🌱🌸 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #dahlia #spring
Dahlia cuttings in a tray next to their mother plant.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 28/03/2025
Pricking out Bells of Ireland seedlings in the midst of another blizzard. Not great germination, but given that this is my first time and they are difficult, I'm happy to have 6 healthy starts. #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #bloomscrolling
Bells of Ireland seedlings in a germination trayInches of fresh snow piled up on our balcony
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 21/03/2025
Nothing but sky ☁️ Living in the prairies (Alberta, Canada) is not my first choice, but we do have some amazing skies. This field is a short walk from our home. #prairies #canada #zone3 #spring #rural
Wide open sky with feathers of clouds over a snow covered field backed by trees without leaves.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
First day of spring in Canada🌱 Geese are back, and though most of the garden is buried in snow, there are still signs of hope if you get down and look. Some tulips and flax coming back. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #spring
Red tulip sprouts emerging from mulchShort green fronds of flax fresh growth for spring.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
I leave most of my garden untouched in the fall. Leaves plenty of forage for wildlife, keeps me from being overwhelmed, and provides some interest among the snow drifts. #bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #canadiangarden #zone3 #spring
Dried rudbeckia blossom stalks against snow backdrop
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