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Tag: 🌿 Plants

Firefly Petunias Exceeding My Expectations

One day of full sunshine, and these glowing flowers are exceeding my expectations.

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Firefly Petunias Got Here!

Our firefly petunias arrived today. Fresh out of the box there’s a very faint glow to it.

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Late Winter Flower On Our Hibiscus Plant

It’s the beginning of March now, and our hibiscus has one more old bud that opened. Except for a few leaves, the plant is mostly dormant.

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Our Hardy Hibiscus Is Blooming Now

Last summer, we were walking through a garden center and saw a hibiscus plant. It said that it was a hardy hibiscus, so we decided to pick one up and see if it would survive the winter.

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Mock Strawberry

I went out on the patio for a bit to get some sunshine this afternoon. I watched a robin hop around in the backyard for a bit. Just before I came in, I noticed bright yellow flowers on weeds.

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Our Rose Has Started

Yesterday I noticed several red buds on our rose bush with numerous green ones. Sure enough this morning the first bud has opened.

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The Hibiscus Is Flowerering And Doing Well Inside

Once again, we brought our hibiscus plant inside for the winter. It seems to be doing better now than ever. We made room to put it in front of a window that actually gets some natural sunlight.

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Our Snake Plant Is Going To Flower

We picked up some houseplants in the spring. The snake plant has been in the window, getting plenty of sun. We noticed a stem coming up with a bud, so I guess it’s going to flower.

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First Rose Of The Year

We have our first rose of the year blooming on the rose bush. I smelled it when I was outside so I had to get a picture to share it.

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Another January Hibiscus Flower

It’s almost February now and I noticed that our hibiscus had a flower that opened. It’s a nice change of pace from the temperature in the bedroom being in the upper 40s.

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Our Hibiscus Is Still Getting Some Flowers

It’s January now and our hibiscus plant that we brought in for the winter is still getting occasional flowers.

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My Hibiscus Cutting Is Definitely Rooting In Water

Today I took a look at my hibiscus cutting that I’ve had in water for a few weeks. It definitely has little white root bumps that are very noticeable now.

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Looks Like My Hibiscus Cutting May Be Starting To Root

I’ve been wanting to try rooting a new hibiscus plant from the one we currently have and got the chance to try it out. It seems to be getting tiny white bumps on the stem that’s in the water.

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Our White Swamp Milkweed Is Doing Really Well In Pots

Just for shits, I stuck some of the milkweed plants I started from seeds in pots that we had lying around the other year. They’ve come back up in those pots since. This spring they seem to be doing really well in the pots.

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Our Rose Is Still Blooming

Our rose bush is still blooming. It’s still getting some clusters of flowers.

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Our First Rose Of The Year

Our rose bush has it’s first rose of the year.

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Purple Flowers Across The Street

I haven’t figured out what they are but every spring in the vacant lot next to the railroad tracks there are tons of purple flowers.

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Our Pink Swamp Milkweed Is Coming Up

Our original milkweed was supposed to be pink but it turned out to be white. The monarchs still loved it. We saw pink milkweed last summer and bought some to plant. That was late in the season so we weren’t sure if it’d grow bt it is sprouting now.

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Our Hibiscus Is Still Doing It's Thing

Our hibiscus is still alive after the squirrels ate it up last fall. It’s been blooming and slowly improving all winter while it has been in the house.

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Crocuses Blooming Already

I spotted some Crocuses blooming already.

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Our Hibiscus Has Lots Of little Flower Buds

Our hibiscus has lots of little flower buds. I’m really surprised with it being winter and the fact that a squirrel had eaten it bare last fall before we brought it inside.

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My Greenhouse At My Nan And Pop's House

Something reminded me of my greenhouse at Pop’s house growing up. I loved plants and he built that thing for me out of scrap wood and windows. I loved it.

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Our Hibiscus Is Blooming A Couple Of Months After A Squirrel Ate It Bare

Our hibiscus is blooming just a couple of months after the squirrels ate it bare save a couple of flower buds. It’s been slowly recovering and now the buds have opened.

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Our Hibiscus Seems To Be Coming Back For The Second Time This Year

Our hibiscus seems to be coming back for the second time this year. First in the spring it got sunburn and lost all its leaves. Now it’s recovering from a squirrel all but eating it bare.

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We Planted Milkweed

We have been wanting to plant milkweed for a couple of years now. We finally found some and planted it in our front yard. Last spring, we actually had monarch butterflies and caterpillars on it.

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Remembering My Cactuses

Something reminded me of all my cactuses when I was in elementary school. I loved plants and growing them. Cactus and succulents were my favorites because they were different.

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Bumblebee On Our Swamp Milkweed

We searched and searched for butterfly weed last year but wound up only finding swamp milkweed. It came back up this year. We don’t have any monarchs yet but a bumble bee found it and has been hanging out on it all day.

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Milkweed Seeds

Last fall I gathered a bunch of milkweed seeds from the pods on our plants. I thought it was worth a try to try to grow some. It took forever for them to sprout but they eventually did after I had given up.

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Got A Venus Fly Trap

When I was a kid I had a venus fly trap and thought it was to coolest thing. I was thinking about it and found and bought one again. I’ve been wanting to get one for years now.

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