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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Fawns in my neighborhood (I've counted five of them at least, they travel in a large group) have become a fixture in my buffet of a yard. #BloomScrolling 📸 📷

A horizontal image of a sunny, bright lush garden, with a young spotted fawn in the center of the image, framed by a circular arch and some gently arcing foliage on the right side.

A bright shallow depth of field horizontal image of a young spotted fawn in the center of the image, surrounded by lush greenery.

A horizontal image of a sunny, bright, lush garden, with two young spotted fawns touching faces together, with a doe out of focus in the background.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

These fawns have walked up to me on multiple occasions. The third photo of the two headed fawn is a little fun. #BloomScrolling #fawns #deer 📸 📷

A young spotted fawn cautiously stepping toward the viewer, surrounded with lush green of a lawn and garden.

Two young spotted fawns cautiously stepping toward the viewer, surrounded with lush green of a lawn and garden. The fawn in the foreground is blurred while the fawn in the back is in focus.

A vertical image of two fawns standing close together. The alignment of their heads and necks make the optical illusion of being two heads and necks of a two-headed fawn.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Permanent fixtures in my yard whether I like it or not, but they make for cute pictures. #BloomScrolling #fawns #deer 📸 📷

A vertical image of a spotted young fawn in a lawn, with large silvery bluegreen hosta leaves and stalks in the background. The fawn's rightmost leg is lifted slightly.

A horizontal image of a spotted young fawn in a lawn, with large silvery bluegreen hosta leaves and stalks in the background, with another fawn's head in the lefthand upper corner.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

Someone told me my joy comes through in my flower work and another person said my photos inspired hope for the future in the viewer. Just really swell things to hear as an artist, really. #floralphotography #peonies #bloomscrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

A top-down view of pink peony blossoms arrangeded edge-to-edge across wooden slats. The flowers fill most of the frame, creating a pattern of overlapping blooms with dark gaps between them.
The large blooms are facing upward toward the camera. Their centers show pale green seed pods surrounded by dense rings of yellow stamens. The petals range from light blush pink to deeper rose tones, with some flowers displaying darker outer petals and lighter interiors.
The wooden slats beneath the arrangement appear through gaps between blossoms, forming horizontal lines across the composition. A near-black blue surface is visible below the slats near the bottom of the image.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I hope later in the season I'll have a bit more to work with to really fill the frame but it's June, dangit, it's rainbow time! #floralphotography #flowers #rainbow #bloomscrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

Top-down view of a wooden crate filled with flowers arranged across the slats. The flowers are spread from edge to edge, creating bands of color and texture across the frame, arranged in the hues of a rainbow. The flowers vary in size and shape, from open, flat-faced blossoms to dense, rounded flower heads and elongated flowering stalks. Some stems cross over others, while leaves and petals overlap to create a layered composition.
On the left, a large pale purple iris sits among clusters of blue and violet flowers, with stems and leaves extending diagonally across the crate. Near the center, several cream-colored open-centered roses are interspersed with zinnias in peach, orange, yellow, and red tones.
On the right side, two large red poppies with dark centers anchor the arrangement. Around them are smaller magenta and purple blooms, celosia, and small rosy petunias.
The weathered wooden slats remain visible between the flowers, forming horizontal lines beneath the arrangement.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

I didn't really have enough of each color to do this correctly so I was scrounging a bit but here's a little rainbow for y'all. #floralphotography #rainbow #bloomscrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

Did I take a million photos of these peonies, making only microadjustments that would only be apparent to me? Yeah. Am I kicking myself I didn't adjust more? Yup. #floralphotography #peonies #bloomscrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

A top-down high contrast view of a collection of peonies arranged closely together inside a wooden crate. The flowers fill nearly the entire frame, with dark gaps between them and the crate's wooden slats visible in the background.
Most blooms are fully open, revealing clusters of pale green seed pods surrounded by dense rings of yellow stamens. A few others remain partially closed, appearing as rounded buds nestled among the open flowers.
The blossoms vary in size and orientation. Some face directly upward toward the camera, while others tilt to the side or are partially obscured by neighboring flowers. The petals range from pale pink and blush tones to deeper rose and magenta hues.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Coral Charm peonies just doing their thing.. being charming. I've dreamt of taking this photo for years and I'm just so pleased to make it happen finally. <3 #signsofspring #floralphotography #peonies #bloomscrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Moody AF, as the kids say. Coral Charm peonies. Been dreaming of having enough from plantings to take these photos for a long time. #signsofspring #floralphotography #peonies #bloomscrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱 #darkandmoody

Close-up floral photograph showing a dense arrangement of peonies filling the frame edge to edge. The flowers range from soft blush pink to deep rose and magenta, with layered, ruffled petals surrounding prominent golden-yellow stamens and pale green seed pods at their centers. Blooms face directly upward to the viewer, revealing details of their interiors, while others are partially turned or cropped by the edges of the image. The flowers overlap one another, with little visible stem or foliage. Deep black gaps between the blossoms provide contrast. Soft lighting emphasizes the texture of the petals and variations in color from pale pink highlights to magenta shadows.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Out of any of my most recent floral setups, this set is definitely a favorite I keep coming back to. #signsofspring #floralphotography #lilyofthevalley #bloomscrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱 #darkacademia

A moody vertical image focused on two fern fronds, still furled at their heads, with a stem of lily of the valley resting beside a bronze colored victory chalice on the right and two sets of vintage cloth-bound books on the left. A dark green ribbon threads through the handle, down to the ferns, and off the edge of the crate the collection sits upon. Slightly out of focus, at the top of the center-most book, faded gold lettering of Lyra Heroica can be read. The two books lean against the ornate handle of the cup, with two curly fronds of ferns and lily of the valley between them.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

When I bought this crate I didn't realize it was crooked, so now it's going to haunt me and any other perfectionist out there 'til the end of our days. #bloomscrolling #signsoftheseason #peonies #darkacademia #homegrown #flowers #floralphotography #photography 📸 📷

A tall wooden box sits against a black background. Inside the box is a dark metal urn with decorative raised ornamentation.
The urn contains flowers of multiple forms: large flowers with dark centers, anenomes, face forward, ruffled blooms, open-centered peonies, and tall flower spikes extending near the left and right edges. Leaves and stems fill the arrangement.
One pale peony hangs downward from the bouquet on the right side. Another dark-centered anemone hangs downward from the left side of the urn.
The urn stands on two stacked books with worn covers and page edges. A strip of ribbon cascades from beneath the peony resting on the books.
A pair of large black shears lies at the bottom right of the box, partially overlapping the books.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

May has come and gone, and my flower fridge has slowly filled up with all kinds of blooms, while the garden at last springs into action to keep the good times rolling. #bloomscrolling #signsoftheseason #peonies #darkacademia #flowers #floralphotography #photography 📸 📷

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

Any other studio #photographer s just married to the backdrops they've made, even when owning beautiful vinyl ones? My handpainted canvas drops are my go-tos -- other drops just look... wrong to me, in practice. I really want to like my vinyls, but I'm just ride or die canvas. #photography 📸 📷

A moody green-toned floral arrangement of lily of the valley in a victory chalice sat atop a wooden crate. On either side of the chalice are cloth-bound vintage books. To the left side of the image a strip of unpainted canvas of the backdrop can be seen.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 04/05/2026

Probably one of my favorite images to date. Lily of the Valley always puts me on a path to the classics. #signsofspring #floralphotography #lilyofthevalley #bloomscrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱 #darkacademia

A moody vertical image of a bronze colored victory chalice overflowing with ferns and Lily of the Valley aside two vintage cloth-bound books: Byron's Poetical Works and Lowell's Poetical Works. Two stems of Lily of the Valley rest atop the books.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

Something about the way that lily of the valley fans out just tickles my brain. Those deep greens and dainty bells... so pretty! #signsofspring #floralphotography #lilyofthevalley #bloomscrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

An open-weave rustic drying basket lays on flagstone. Bright green leaves and inflorescences of lily of the valley fan out from the center of the basket, forming a half-circle of green and white.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

A couple weeks ago I thought, "I'll just do a quick setup with these flowers...." and ended up doing three sets and stopped when the light finally died. So much for 'quick'. =P #signsofspring #floralphotography #tulips #bloomscrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

A wooden crate with two tiers of rows of small assorted glass vases purple lilacs and buttery yellow and orange daffodils on a black background. One row of vases and flowers sits inside the crate while the second row sits on top of the crate.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 03/05/2026

I think about seasons in terms of what's in bloom. I look at my file folders and see each season played out in the folder names. Lilac season has to be one of my favorites. #signsofspring #floralphotography #lilacs #bloomscrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

A wooden crate of purple lilacs and buttery yellow and orange daffodils on a black background.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Surprised to discover I never posted this one from last year. All homegrown. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

A vertical image full of summer flowers, from a perspective of looking directly down into a shallow wooden basket, just barely seen in the gaps of petals.
In order of the colors of the rainbow, reds, oranges, yellows, green, blues, and purples, a variety of zinnias, hydrangea, cosmos, clematis, phlox, a fern and rudbeckia fill the basket.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

Drizzly July morning here in Iowa and I've been neglecting flower photo opportunities lately but here's a couple from my rounds this AM. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

A shallow-focus garden environment image. A white metal bench and white metal arbor frames the focus of the picture, along with pops of pale pink and bright orange of coneflower and rudbeckia in the foreground and background.
In sharp focus to the center-right of the image, a glass pitcher overflows with rudibeckia, coneflower, and small orange zinnias.

A shallow-focus vertical garden environment image. A white metal bench and white metal arbor frames the picture, along with pops of pale pink and bright orange of coneflower and rudbeckia crowding into the foreground and background.
In sharp focus to the lower-right of the image, a glass pitcher overflows with rudibeckia, coneflower, and small orange zinnias.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

As my milkweed recovers from storms doing a number on its flowers, the coneflower continues to keep the monarchs coming back. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱 #monarchbutterfly

A shallow-focus image set in a garden environment dominated with pale purple and pink of out-of-focus coneflower in the foreground. In sharp focus in the center of the image a monarch butterfly rests on a coneflower, it's orange and black wingspan covering most of the flower it rests upon.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 20/07/2025

100% homegrown from my garden, taken about a month ago as the season kicked into high gear. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 31/05/2024

To walk through the garden and gather such beauty up, smelling and sighing with all the happiness Spring brings. I love days like today. 📸 📷 🌱 #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport

A horizontal shallow focus image of a garden bouquet hanging over a distressed black wood surface, with a rustic wood wall in the background. The bouquet is full of roses of various colors and forms, accompanied by deep orange coreopsis, dame's rockett, vervascum, a large open-centered blue scabiosia, young ferns, mock orange, and privet blooms.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

My meadowscaped front lawn in spring makes me so pleased. We have gone through some very ugly phases with it but knew it would take time. Worth it. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷 🌱

A vertical garden meadow scene full of flowers and lush green foliage. In the bottom out of focus foreground pale purple allium heads make a gentle cup shaped arrangement around bright white Shasta daisies in the middle of the scene. The daisies give way to tall twin spikes of pink lupines with yellow buttercups below. In the upper background of the scene purple lupines and brilliant violet Siberian irises blur into a deep green meadowscape.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 23/05/2024

My place is bumblebee heaven currently. Check out this friend on my foxgloves. Watching bumbles in my garden after a long day is just the soul bleach I need sometimes. #bumblebees #BloomScrolling #InBloom #florespondence #flowers #foxgloves #photography #FlowerReport 📸 📷 🌱

A horizontal shallow focus garden image in tones of soft pastels. On the left side of the image a stem of purple foxglove extends from the bottom of the frame to the top of the frame. In the middle of the stem, hanging from the lip of the bell shaped flowers, an American Bumblebee (bombus pensylvanicus) rests.

A horizontal shallow focus garden image in tones of soft pastels. In the center of the image a stem of pale pink foxglove extends from the bottom of the frame to the top of the frame, flanked by purple foxglove on the left and spires of dark purple catmint to the right. Perched partway in the middle stem's bell shaped flowers, an American Bumblebee (bombus pensylvanicus) rests.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 17/05/2024

A rusted patch bumblebee coming in for some lupine goodness in my yard this week. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷 🌱

A shallow focus image of a Rusted Patch Bumblebee hovering in air close to an inflorescence of common lupine. A spike of lupine flanks either side of the focal feature, while the background is filled with lush green out of focus bokeh and in the right-most foreground lupine foliage frames the scene.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

I cannot un-see the seahorse... or dragon in this design. It's all I see. Which one does it look like to you folks? #seahorseordragon 📸 📷 🌱 #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers

A vertical image of a floral arrangement on a dark green background, lit from the right side with soft shadows on the left. The arrangement sits on a mauve colored gauzy fabric with matching frayed chiffon ribbon, draping over a distressed black wood pallet.
The arrangement is placed in a traditional square wood woven basket and is turned at an angle so that a corner faces the camera. Out of the basket spills an abundance of lily of the valley foliage and lilacs in an icy blue color. The shape of the design makes a central downward arc of lilacs, with sprays of lilac tapering off both sides. It makes a vague dragon or seahorse shape against the lush green leaves of the lily of the valley.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Still obsessed with the lilacs growing in the alley. I'm fairly sure the double variety is 'Alice Christenson', and I am head over heels in love. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #florespondence #flowersonfriday #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷 🌱

A vertical image looking down on a shallow open-weave lattice wood basket on a dark wood background. In the basket short sprigs of lilacs in varying shades of pale purple lay together in loose clusters. A frayed chiffon ribbon in a shade of dusty lavender weaves under and over the clusters in a romantic display.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 03/05/2024

Creeping phlox wrapping around a planter, thriving on neglect for 2 years now. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷 🌱

A bright horizontal image filled edge to edge with a pale lavender colored florets of creeping phlox.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 02/05/2024

Lily of the Valley season is here, making my mudroom smell incredible. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷 🌱

A horizontal image looking down on a shallow open weave lattice basket atop a neutral warm colored wood. In the basket a lush green collection of Lily of the Valley foliage and pristine white flowers fan loosely in a gentle arc to follow the top-most curve of the basket.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 30/04/2024

Got to see the sights and sounds of Pella, Iowa tulip beds in all their glory before the storms of the current week. #TulipTime #Spring #TulipFestival #InBloom #BloomScrolling #Florespondence #flowers #photography #Iowa 📸 📷🌱

A horizontal image filled from edge to edge with creamy white tulips streaked with rich rose-pink stretching from the center to top of each petal to fan out like brushstrokes. The mass planting bends gently away from the camera, seeming to all lean slightly diagonally to the left.

A shallow focus vertical image filled from edge to edge with many-petaled burnt orange tulips. From the bottom of the frame with mostly blurred blooms, the eye travels up through the center of the image where a loose cluster of flowers come into focus, and leads away through the upper heights of the image to faded out of focus flowers.

A bright horizontal image filled from edge to edge with buttery yellow tulips streaked with bright pink stretching from the bottom center to top of each petal. The mass planting bends gently away from the camera, seeming to all lean slightly diagonally to the right.

A moody toned horizontal image filled from edge to edge with lavender tulips, deepening in color from the bottom to about mid-way up each petal. The mass planting clusters the flowers tightly together, with larger blooms open fully to the sun while smaller tulips open with heads bent in the understory of the larger tulip canopy.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

La Belle Epoque tulips stealing the show. Everything in this vase is 100% homegrown. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

A square-ish dark floral still life image. A dark classical shaped fluted stoneware vase sits on a vintage distressed leatherbound book, on a surface covered in draped black suede. Frayed ribbons of periwinkle blue and cream cascade over the book from the edge of a small silver bowl, the ribbons leading the eye from the lower left of the image up to the vase and upwards to a large spray of blooms.
The floral arrangement is a loose wedge shape bordered by lilacs on the bottom leading line and by white daffodils on the top outline. Large double petaled tulips of rich mauvey pink cluster together at the top center of the photo, drawing the eye into its round petals and depth.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

The sweet smell of lilacs everywhere the wind blows. I can't get enough. I never want lilac season to end. <3 One of my favorite images from lilac season so far. 📸 📷🌱 #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport

A horizontal image looking down on a shallow open-weave lattice wood basket on a dark wood background. In the basket short sprigs of lilacs in varying shades of pale purple lay together in loose clusters.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 29/04/2024

My terribly first world problem at the moment is that I have more flowers right now than I can use all at once. So naturally I have more than enough to do another open-weave basket flatlay. 100% homegrown. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

A bright horizontal image of tulips and daffodils all open to the camera, clustered closely together and photographed from above looking down. Deep oranges and yellows, creamy whites, ballet pinks and bright fuchsia all crowd together to create an edge to edge image of spring blooms.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

The non-vintagey edit of the image from earlier, sans grain and haze and pretty much exactly as-shot. I love the dramatic grainy version but this is the image I saw in my viewfinder and fell in love with. #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

A horizontal dark and moody cool toned floral arrangement in a rounded wedge shape full of tulips, lilacs, redbud branches and daffodils. Large inflorescences of bloomed and unbloomed lilac drape over the side of the arrangement, following the drape of the dusty pink gauze the arrangement sits on. Bright tulips of pink, yellow and white cluster together with trios of small form narcissus and ranunculus.

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 19/04/2024

Someone commented on one of my daffodil posts, "I never would have guessed this was your photo!", reasoning that they associate me with darker florals. Have no fear. I don't stray too long from the dark. <3 #BloomScrolling #InBloom #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

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The Andrea Borden @thislitgarbage.bsky.social · 18/04/2024

Trying to make the most of the daffs before they're gone. I just gave a giant vaseful to a neighbor because I picked those three days previous and I have another bucket full from yesterday's picking. #BloomScrolling #daffodils #Homegrown #florespondence #flowers #gardening #FlowerReport 📸 📷🌱

A horizontal image looking down on an open weave basket of a variety of daffodils facing upwards, tightly clustered together. Deep orange cups, frilly pink split coronas, and fully double petalled blooms of white and yellow fill the image, with the basket's rim framing the flowers in each corner.

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