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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

Happy Birthday! 🎉 Wishing you a year of interesting vistas!

View looking out through driftwood pieces and the rocky shore towards the Pacific Ocean in Oregon

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Finding common flowers at the Oregon coast today. 🌱 Pacific aster, Nootka rose, and crocosmia (I think).

A few blue Pacific asters with yellow centers, in dappled sunlight. Some salal in the background.

A single pink Nootka rose bud, with the rocky shore of the ocean in the background.

A spray of orange crocosmias surrounded by various foliage.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

I wish I could - it’s smelling good!

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

🌱My tomatoes have been plagued with cracking and blossom end rot this year. Hard to keep the watering consistent.😩 But there’s still enough tomatoes (and garlic!) to cook up this vat of spaghetti sauce. It’s a slow-cook type - in another 3 hours I can add the mushrooms and olives. 😄

Large pot full of chunky tomato sauce is cooking on a stove. An old wooden spoon with a chipped top is laying across the pot.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 23/06/2026

🌱 It’s been a long time since I’ve grown salpiglossis. Happy to see them again! #Bloomscrolling

Three orangey-red blossoms with yellow throats, grouped together.

Three purple blossoms with yellow throats. Plant is growing in a flower box on a deck.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 16/05/2026

🌱 Peas are up in two raised beds. I mixed in a little compost from my compost pile. That means most of the weeds are tomato seedlings!

Two rows of small pea plants. In between the rows are dozens of tomato plant starts.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Honestly, I didn’t catch the mismatch! 😄

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

The teacup and saucer are beautiful! I love those old floral patterns.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

The patch of camas in the field is blooming. 🌱

Light purple camas flowers in a field of green grass.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 09/04/2026

Appreciating the vetch blossoms before I cut down the cover crop. 🌱

Light and dark purple vetch flowers surrounded by cover crop greenery: vetch, rye grass, and clover.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

🌱 Happy to see the Italian Plum trees starting to bloom, which they didn’t do last year. I’m hoping for a few plums, but they may still be too young to set fruit. Also, the warm week tricked some eager strawberries into blooming. 🫤

Closeup of three white plum blossoms in a row opened up near the trunk of the tree.

Closeup of a strawberry plant with two white flowers that shouldn’t really be blooming until May.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

The start of the hearts! 🌱 💕🩷💕

Branches of a bleeding heart plant with the pink blooms just starting. One heart hangs in the middle. Some of the leaves are still unfolding as well.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

🌱 I tried winter sowing for the first time this year and had success with calendulas, daisies, lupines, and hyssop. Hope they’ll transplant well because I’ve got some big empty flower beds to fill!

Several milk jugs filled with plant starts.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 21/12/2025

🌱 Tried growing potatoes in bags this year but the plants died in the heat of summer. They’re now attempting a futile comeback 🙄

Two gray fabric bags with healthy, but doomed, bright green potato plants growing in them.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 23/10/2025

🌱 The Mesa Red gaillardia is having a lovely fall revival.

Closeup of several orangish-red gaillardia blooms.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 10/10/2025

Beautiful! I want to do that next year for my hummingbirds.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

🌱 The dahlias looked pretty after the morning rain. #Flowers

Close-up of a dark magenta-colored dahlia with yellow center, petals dotted with raindrops. A few pink impatiens are below.

Close-up of dark pink dahlia, spiky petals dotted with raindrops. Surrounded by pink impatiens and verbena.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

I’m pretty sure that contest was a four-way tie!

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

Harvested most of the cherries - so it’s time for cherry pie!

Cherry pie with lattice topping and crimped edges, sitting on plaid tablecloth.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

I haven’t grown either, so I’m not much help. But if you want eating cherries, and have the room, I’d go with the dwarf tree. But if you want to cook with them, I’d go with a bush cherry.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 17/06/2025

It was yummy - especially with the hint of almond!

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 15/06/2025

Usually the birds get all the cherries, but this year we get some too! Made a tasty cherry crisp from the first picking.

Line of bright red cherries hanging from a horizontal limb of the cherry tree.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 08/06/2025

🌱 Enjoying the color of this yarrow.

Yarrow plants with many bright pink flowers.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 13/05/2025

🌱 Last year I had to reestablish all the berries. This 2nd year I’m hopeful for decent crops. Raspberries have spread to fill the row. Strawberries are producing (slugs are consuming just as fast 😒). Black caps are blooming. Blueberry plants aren’t super happy, but I may get a few berries.

A large cluster of green strawberries that are just starting to get ripe.

A wide row of raspberry plants, some escaping the trellis. Raspberries are between bloom and berry formation.

Closeup of small blueberry bush. The small green blueberries just getting started.

Black raspberry plants on a trellis. Many of the canes are attached horizontally. The flowers are just starting to bloom.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 08/05/2025

The azaleas and their neighbor rhododendron are blooming their hearts out this year. 🌱

A row of azalea bushes in front of the house, completely covered with dark pink blossoms. A few leaves are peeking out.

Rhododendron covered with purply-pink buds and blooms. Azaleas are lurking in the background.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 27/04/2025

The promise of azaleas to come! 🌱

Azalea bush with new leaves and covered with dark pink flower buds.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

Not happy with the healthy spring growth on the invasive blackberries, thistles, bindweed, and grass in the garden. Wah! 😫 Here it looks like they are joining forces. 🌱

Mulched ground with various healthy looking pervasive weeds.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

🌱 Two columbines growing in the strawberry beds. Rose Kirigami and blue and white Clementine. When I bought the Clementine, I thought it was just one plant. Bonus! #Bloomscrolling

Columbine growing in the corner of a raised strawberry bed. The plant is covered with deep rose and pink flowers. And surrounded by strawberry plants in bloom.

Blue and white flowers growing up from a clump of greenery in a raised bed that’s mulched with straw. There are strawberry plants around the columbine.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

And they have the added bonus of not getting eaten by deer!

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 12/04/2025

This is embarrassing to admit - but I don’t do anything to them. No fertilizer. The soil is naturally acidic and moist all spring from all the rain, so maybe that’s the trick?

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 11/04/2025

The Bleeding Hearts are now in full bloom. 🌱 #bloomscrolling

A stem full of pink, heart-shaped flowers in a row.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

🌱 Happy to see the violets blooming! Planted last year and survived a close shave.

Many small purple flowers blooming amidst a clump of greenery.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

Thanks for introducing me to 1500 Year Old Cave Beans - I’d never heard of them!

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Planted a tray of flower seeds on Sunday, then gave them an accidental steam bath.🫣 Hyssop seeds said, “Yeah, baby!” and started coming up on Monday.🌱 Hope the other seeds are as forgiving!

Tiny sprouts of hyssop coming up in seed-starting trays.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

🌱 A little more is happening around the place: daphne is finally blooming (wish I could attach the scent), received my bare-root Hood 🍓 strawberries, there’s new growth on the raspberries planted last year, and the rhubarb has appeared!

Groups of pinkish-purplish blooming daphne flowers amidst the green leaves.

A bag filled with bark mulch and barely recognizable strawberry plants.

Looking down from the top at new growth at the base of a raspberry plant.

A dark pink nub of rhubarb plant emerging from the otherwise bare dirt.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 09/03/2025

Here are the daffodils that are up: a neat row of yellow daffodils in their tidy beds, with a few yellow and orange blooms for variation; a solitary daffodil that’s gone off to live amongst the blackberries; and the rebel bloom that refuses to conform!

Two daffodil flowers with yellow outer petals and orange inner petals.

A single daffodil plant with surrounding blackberry cane. It has multiple all-yellow flowers.

Daffodil flower that has white, yellow, and orangey petals, but not always the right size, shape, or place. Probably a double or triple flower.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 19/02/2025

Not even the Daphne is blooming here yet. 🙁 So here’s a pretty peony from the past.🌱

Peony in full bloom with pink outer petals and pale yellow inner petals.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

Yesterday I went to Territorial Seed, shopping list in hand. I usually buy mostly veg seeds, but this year I want to try growing more flowers from seed. 🌱

Shopping list surrounded by colorful vegetable and flower seed packets.

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Slow_to_Pique @slowtopique.bsky.social · 16/02/2025

I’ve made two pies in the last three days. A French Silk pie with a hazelnut cookie crust and a lemon meringue pie. I’m obv not a great pie decorator, but they tasted good!

Pie topped with browned fluffy meringue. The peaks in the meringue are curled and darker brown. The pie crust is crimped.

Pie in glass pie plate. A little of the chocolate pie is visible underneath the whipped cream topping. There are chocolate curls and heart shaped candies decorating the top for St. Valentine’s Day.

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