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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 · 10/04/2026
I'm glad you were able to catch one! I feel so bad, they're getting chased out of nearby farm fields being developed for houses, but they are so destructive in my little yard I have to try trapping.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Thistles! And pocket gophers :(
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Surprises are my favourite part of gardening ❤️
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
We are still covered under quite a bit of snow. ❤️🌨
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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 · 03/08/2025
Thank you ❤️ they really are their best this time of year
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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
Very cool, I've never been out that way. Happy to find another cool Albertan on bsky ❤️
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
The skies are some of the best parts of being here ❤️
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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 · 18/07/2025
We have different types of crab spiders, but they make me laugh every time, throwing their hands up when I come across them. 🤍
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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
Thank you! ❤️
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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 · 12/07/2025
Stunning, so elegant 🤍🤍🤍 thank you for sharing
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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 · 30/06/2025
It was fun to play around ❤️
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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 · 27/06/2025
Beautiful! Hope they reseed this year for you ❤️
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Sounds absolutely amazing 😍
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 26/06/2025
Thank you so much ❤️
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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 · 22/06/2025
I love the curving rock accents and plant choices ❤️
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 21/06/2025
Thank you ❤️
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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
That is so very cool!
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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 · 19/06/2025
Surprises are my favourite part of gardening ❤️
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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
So happy with them so far! ❤️🍓
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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 · 29/05/2025
Oh my goodness a whole field 😍 this is one of my favourite flowers in the garden and I just have it in smaller patches.
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Mel @rainydaycottage.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
gardenerskit.com/collections/... They are the only ones I've seen carry the Sneeboer tools I've seen UK gardeners using. Sadly not a common tool here.
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Weeding Fork
Sneeboer tools are hand-forged in Holland from one piece of stainless steel using traditional techniques and modern production methods, making durable, high-quality garden tools built for maximum stre...
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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 · 22/05/2025
Happy to hear it! Nice to have a break from watering.
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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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