Category: 2-Horticulture
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Blue Clematis
A must for those who like blue in the garden. This Clematis integrifolia Durandii blooms from June to September and only gets about 5 feet tall. It is perfect for winding through other shrubs. Prune back to within 12 inches every February. A very well behaved beauty.
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Peony Power
Wade Garretson 🌿 Blooms by the tray.
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Garden flowers
Caroline Goedhart 🌿 Best year ever for our iris.
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Red Tree Peony
Roxanne Wiley 🌿 Unknown variety of tree peony
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Luminescence in a woodland.
Susan Ashmun 🌿 This is one of my favorite plant combinations in my woodland, shade garden. The texture created by the combination of clover shaped leaves with spikes of fern echoing the white of the oxalis flower draws me down the path. Oxalis crassipes ‘Alba’ and Athyrium niponicum ‘pictum’ Length of ownership: 4 years
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First rose
Caroline Goedhart 🌿 One of the first roses of the year.
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Rhododendron up close
Roxanne Wiley 🌿 Sun peeking through to rhododendron blossoms
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Pretty in Pink
Roxanne Wiley 🌿 Adenine obesum or Desert Rose
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Spring Pots
Debby Smith 🌿 I had 20 pots of special daffodils and tulips . Here are some.
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Persistent Peony
Joan Harkins 🌿 We are in the process of restoring our garden. This peony got transplanted mid-bloom and is making a heroic effort to keep on going!
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Peony
Suzy Titcomb 🌿 Peony from my garden.
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Peony
Suzy Titcomb 🌿 A focus stacked photo of a peony from my garden.
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My Favorite Peony
Laurie Ahern 🌿 My photograph is of a Western Peony, Paeonia brownii Douglas ex Hook. It was taken from an existing large plant on the sagebrush slope of our property in Ketchum, Idaho. This plant has been found to be impossible to propagate.
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Peonies from my garden
Suzy Titcomb 🌿 Peonies from my garden
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Dogwood Beauty
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Graceful Cornus kousa ‘Milky Way’
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Texas Mt. Laurel
Kathleen Lea 🌿 Beautiful purple glower clusters , interesting pods , poisonous seeds
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Birthday succulent composition created by son
Kim Bishop 🌿 (Gallery) For recent birthday, younger son chose all these succulents, potted and delivered to me at a social distance. ❤️ According to “Picture This” app, I identified as the following: Euphorbia tirucalli ‘Pencil cactus’,
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Hort
Victoria Reed 🌿 Salix reticulata
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My Garden
Kathleen Lea 🌿 Desert agarden
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Wisteria
Diana Neely 🌿 The blooms are very long and fragrant.
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Rosa ‘Sea Foam’
Diana Neely 🌿 I have had these rose standards for at least 20 years. They were floriferous this year!
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 This Helleborus ‘Frostkiss’ has a lovely bloom in early spring, but I equally value its beautiful foliage that stays looking good for a very long time.
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Camelia Ping li
Diana Neely 🌿 I have three of these Camelia reticulatas. The flowers are 4-5 inches across. I have gotten camellia seeds from them but so far have been unsuccessful at propagating them.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Sheila’s Perfume’ is a sturdy, dependable producer and its fragrance helps it live up to its name.
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Paris polyphylla
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 This ‘Heronswood Form’ of a Paris polyphylla is a Dan Hinkley specialty. It is one of my favorites as it is very unusual and this picture is of its first few days of putting in an appearance in my yard, just this week. Likes mostly shade.
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Carnivores Alive and Well!
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 My potted collection of carnivorous plants is dominated by Sarracenia flava – still alive from our SGC flower show several years ago.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Just Joey’ hybrid tea is a favorite although not considered the best form for a hybrid tea because it’s petals are more loose and relaxed. If grown mostly in the sun, the color will be paler – in partial shade, more intense, but might not be as floriferous. Mine is…
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Desert ocotillo
Hope Stroble 🌿 Hiking in Bighorn Canyon on April 3rd, 2020. Wild Ocotillo (Fouquieris spiendens) in full bloom.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Sally Holmes’ is a prolific bloomer. Often has so many blooms on one stem that it can fill a vase. A good one for the back of the garden as it can be quite tall.
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Peony
Charlee Reed 🌿 My favorite Peony grown in my garden
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Raindrops on Solomon’s Seal
Susan Brickman 🌿 Raindrops on Solomon’s Seal.
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A Roze By Any Other Name is a Peony!
Jolie Roze 🌿 Our garden has been blessed with a profusion of peonies this spring. Such a joy to behold! This image was taken using my Fuji XT-3 with a 55-200 mm lens (at 148 mm).
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May happiness in the garden
Susan Brickman 🌿 Rose
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Carpenteria californica – Tree anemone
Phoebe Andrew 🌿 It was in the existing garden. We saved it in a pot and then put it back in the garden. (Photo in separate email)
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Dan Hinkley’s Double White Campanula
Sue Blethen 🌿 Dan’s plants were purchased at SGC Windcliff tour from our auction!
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Florida Flora
Debbi Wilson 🌿 Hibiscus Rosa-sinensis. China Rose, Hibiscus. Some of the hardiest of the varieties that can endure the wind, heat, sun and produces vibrant, diurnal blooms. One of my favorite shrubs for this climate.
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Spring cheer from my garden
Sue Blethen 🌿 Primula malacoides: Candelabra Primrose profusion!
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Florida Flora
Debbi Wilson 🌿 Plumeria ’Apricot’, Frangipani. Owned and grown for a year from a well rooted cutting. Grows in our garden near the seawall. Fragrant.
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Florida Flora
Debbi Wilson 🌿 Strelitzia reginae, Craneflower also known as Bird of Paradise. It has been in the garden at least 40 years. A joy to see its vivid colors.
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My Covid Veggies and Fruit Garden
Sue Blethen 🌿 My back patio now nurtures peas, lettuces, kale, chard, spinach, green onions, tomatoes & raspberries as I am here tending & enjoying them daily!
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Blue Hearts
Catherine Mueller 🌿 Sweet blue hosta in the backyard. Beautiful dusty blue color. Perfect sharp edges. This hosta never fails!
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Happiness
Catherine Mueller 🌿 Every year I wait in anticipation of this Itoh Peony to bloom. The sunshine yellow makes me and my neighbors smile! This bloom was tale end of the blooms. It is much smaller in comparison to its earlier blooms.
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Lush
Catherine Mueller 🌿 This Bougainvillea was almost sent to the compost bin this spring! Covid 19 spared its demise as we left town and this to languish in the sunroom. What a gorgeous surprise to come home to.
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New beginnings
Catherine Mueller 🌿 This Sago Palm has endured 11 years in our sunroom, a year of total neglect during our home remodel and now is sending up new growth! A refresh is in the making!
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Pink Splendor
Edie Tenneson 🌿 Magnolia moment on neighborhood street
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Owl among the roses
Shelley Rolfe 🌿 I adore David Austen roses, yet many are short stemmed and happy floating here in the owl bowl.
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Salal fairy flowers
Edie Tenneson 🌿 Salal, Gaultheria shallon
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Autumn Fern Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Autumn Fern, Dryopteris erythosora ‘Brilliance’ – lives up to its name. Rarely blemished and brightens a shady spot; new spring growth emerges in coppery red colors before maturing to green.
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Cityscape in bloom
Laurie Riley 🌿 A beautiful display of unmowed parking strip in my neighborhood. Wouldn’t it be great if the city mowers left it like this as a gesture of good cheer?
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Piggyback Berry
Laurie Riley 🌿 This strawberry plant grows and blooms each year in the trunk of the old cherry tree across the street…..probably “planted” there by a crow who stole it from my berry patch!
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Penstemon
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Three photos of Penstemon digitalis ‘Pocahontas’ – a close up of the blooms, one showing the maroon foliage and the other with a hummingbird. Absolutely the hummingbird’s favorite plant in my garden.
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Horticulture
Victoria Reed 🌿 Rhododendron ‘Nancy Evans’
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Beaucarnea recuvata (Ponytail Palm)
Nancy Bain 🌿 (Gallery) I received this Ponytail Palm as a gift when the caudex was the size of a marble, over 40 years ago. I have always wanted to show it, but because of its size and weight that hasn’t been possible. As you can see see, it takes four grown men to just…
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Spring in full bloom
Catherine Allan 🌿 Cornus kousa at its peak.
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Peonies Galore
Peggy-Paige Most 🌿 Not mine, but belongs to a neighbor. Thank you to them for beautifying the neighborhood.
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Rockery Plant
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 This specialty plant is a Blue Eyed Grass, Sisyrinchium bellum ‘Rocky Point’ and is only 3 – 4 inches high. It is super cute in the rockery.
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Mukdenia rossi ‘Crimson Fans’ has maple like leaves and becomes more colorful as summer turns to fall.
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Hardy Impatiens, Impatiens omeiana, adds flare to darker areas of the garden.
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Rosa ‘Litchfield Angel’
Delphine Stevens 🌿 RHS Award of Merit, Rosa ‘Litchfield Angel’ first blooming in my garden in spring.
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Euphorbias and Rhododendrons in my spring garden
Delphine Stevens 🌿 The fresh green of Euphorbia characias subsp. Wulfenii contrasted with Rhododendrons blooms enlivens a spring morning in my garden
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Beauty Bush canopy
Delphine Stevens 🌿 Looking north west from under an ancient Beauty Bush In my garden that has grow into a tree form
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Fame!’ Grandiflora is an outstanding rose. It holds its shape on the bush or as a cut, even after its color has faded. Sadly, no scent. Did you know that typically, the stronger the scent, the less a rose holds as a cut or on the bush?
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Signature’ produces perfectly formed hybrid tea roses.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Marilyn Monroe’ hybrid tea is one of my favorites.
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Brunnera ‘Jack Frost’ adds wonderful foliage to the garden; perennial
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Beautiful Yellow Peony
Susan Potts 🌿
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Calla Lily
Joan Harkins 🌿 This Calla Lily is just outside my kitchen door. I anxiously await its blooms every year. I love the pure whiteness of it, its satin-y texture and its shape like a snail shell.
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‘Just Joey’ Rose
Susan Potts 🌿 This is one of my favorite roses that blooms at my front entry in Seattle.
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Field of daisies
Susan Potts 🌿 These daisies grow each year on our property in the San Juan’s. Our 3 year old granddaughter was just the right size to be photographed with them. She didn’t know they would be in bloom and was excited to wander through them. She picked a big bouquet for the cabin.
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Aeonium
Helen Blair 🌿 My grandmother’s garden in Pebble Beach, California had big and beautiful Aeonium potted outside year round, an impossibility in Seattle. After years of zonal denial failure, this beauty spent the winter in a friend’s rustic greenhouse and emerged happy. It’s 2’ high already and has many spawn, pieces the dog knocks off…
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Fuchsia
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Fuchsia ‘Golden Herald’ – wonderful combo of chartreuse leaves with bold blossom color
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Heuchera Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Heuchera ‘Marmalade’ – perennial foliage
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Heuchera ‘Cocomint’ – great foliage!
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Fatsia japonica ‘Spider’s Web’ – grown for its fabulous foliage.
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa Multiflora ‘Sunglow’ – truly glows in the garden.
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IRIS
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Iris ‘Caesar’s Brother’ – an outstanding blue
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Color in lockdown
Catherine Allan 🌿 Rhododendron macrosepalum ‘Linearifolium’, Spider Azalea It’s in a container with other rhododendron species planted for a Hort entry in ‘Nature’s Poetry’ 2019
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Paradise’ is a beautiful mauve with pink edging that holds well in bad weather.
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A rose for mom
Carol Eland 🌿 Roses at the beach house they always bloom in my moms birthday. June 1
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May happiness in the garden
Susan Brickman 🌿 Poeny
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Fragrant delight
Catherine Allan 🌿 Rhododendron ‘Soir de Paris’ A fragrant deciduous azalea planted in memory of my father
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Yellow Striped Tulips
Ann McCutchan 🌿 Beautiful tulips with multiple blossoms on one stem. No name, unfortunately.
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Podophyllum scouleri – (Chinese Mayapple)
Phoebe Andrew 🌿 The leaf is a Podophyllum scouleri (Chinese Mayapple) The second photograph is the blossoms or “fruit”
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Day Breaker’ is one of my favorite Floribunda roses. A great performer!
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Rose
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Rosa ‘Comte de Chambord’ Old Garden Rose – strong fragrance
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Foliage
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 Hosta ‘Fortunei Aureomarginata’ is very easy to grow and does not seem as palatable to slugs/snails as some of the more fragile leafed Hostas.
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Peony
Pam Green 🌿 Itoh Peony, ‘Bartzella’ 9 inches across
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Skunk Cabbage
Charlee Reed 🌿 Skunk Cabbage
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Wishing Covid Were Ephemeral Like My Peony!
Marianne Kitchell 🌿 Close-up of my Paeonia ITOH ‘Singing in the Rain’
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Proud plant/top and from the side
Beverly Martin 🌿 A pot on my terrace that includes more than one large plant, but the star is the Podophyllum plenianthum, shown from the top and from the side where you can see the flowers that become seed pods hiding under the large 19″ leaves.
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Spring Renewal
Dabney Rohrbach 🌿 A spectacular view from my balcony! Styrax japonica, Japanese Snowbell Tree.
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Native Tiger Lily on our property Icicle Canyon
Jenny Wyatt 🌿 This striking native plant, Lilium columbium (Columbia tiger lily) grows alongside our entry road. Every year I shake the dried heads to spread the seeds.
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Virtual Baird Board 1
Jenny Wyatt 🌿 This is the first in a series of four virtual Baird Boards, since I don’t have the bottles with me. All of the wildflowers grow abundantly (nothing rare or endangered) our property on Icicle creek, where we have been for over two months. It has been a joy to see a succession…
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PATIO PLANTER
Suzette de Turenne 🌿 I have planted this patio pot with Persian Shield (Strobilanthjes dyerianus; California Lilac (Ceonothus griseus var. horizontalis); Rock Cress (Aubrietz x cultorum ‘Rokey’s Purple’; Salvia ‘Black & Blue’; Abutilon ‘Lucky Lantern Tangerine’; Salvia greggi ‘Smokin Lavender’; Potato Vines ‘Blackie’ and ‘Sweet Caroline’; Bacopa ‘Blue Sky’ and ‘White’; and Geranium ‘Sunrise Violet’
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Virtual Baird Board 4
Jenny Wyatt 🌿 This is the final in a series of four virtual Baird Boards, since I don’t have the bottles with me. All of the wildflowers grow abundantly (nothing rare or endangered) our property on Icicle creek, where we have been for over two months. It has been a joy to see a succession…
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Virtual Baird Board 3
Jenny Wyatt 🌿 This is the third in a series of four virtual Baird Boards, since I don’t have the bottles with me. All of the wildflowers grow abundantly (nothing rare or endangered) our property on Icicle creek, where we have been for over two months. It has been a joy to see a succession…
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Virtual Baird Board 2
Jenny Wyatt 🌿 This is the second in a series of four virtual Baird Boards, since I don’t have the bottles with me. All of the wildflowers grow abundantly (nothing rare or endangered) our property on Icicle creek, where we have been for over two months. It has been a joy to see a succession…
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Lyall’s mariposa lily
Jenny Wyatt 🌿 I love this delicate little wildflower, Calochortus lyalii (Lyall’s mariposa), which grows profusely on our property in Icicle Canyon in late May. One common name I’ve heard is cat’s ear lily–can you see why?
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Softwood cutting of Autumn Joy Stonecrop Sedum
Gayle Harris 🌿 This Autumn Joy Stonecrop Sedum was started from a soft wood cutting last fall.
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Baird Board
Catherine Allan 🌿 Spring ephemerals in white
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