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When I was digging up my irises this afternoon, due to an iris borer attack, I noticed this at the base of one of the plants.

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Hi plant lovers. :)

Greetings from Portland, Oregon.

I'm a self-taught/noob backyard gardener.

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Hello everyone! I'm hoping someone can identify this flower for me. It was in a bouquet my friend had, and I fell in love with it, and thought that maybe someday, if I knew what it was, I could try my hand at growing it. The picture quality isn't great, but it is mostly lavender colored, with a sky blue sort of color peaking out from underneath and ( Read more... )

My wife and I were sitting on the bench in the garden tonight, because the weather was so perfect. I heard a buzzing, and then sort of a whumpf as it stopped. When I got a glimpse of it, I thought it was a dragonfly for a moment, but it was a hummingbird. It darted around for a bit, checking things out. We didn't move, so eventually it came in to ( Read more... )

The last dotted Swiss iris blossom of the season was a the runt of the litter. So small, in fact, that it only had two sets of standards and falls.


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I heard some coworkers talking about getting rototillers for their vegetable gardens. I can't imagine doing it that way. I dig mine with a shovel. It certainly takes longer (my garden in 12' by 12'), but the main reason I do it that way is to get the weeds out. First of all, I don't think a tiller goes as deep as my shovel, and there are a lot of ( Read more... )

Does anyone know what this is? I'm interested in turning it into a quilt design, but I'd rather see some more photos of the same plant first, the shapes aren't quite right in this one.

cross-posted to gardening, horticulture, plants and livejardin, so apologies if you see this more than once.

I purchased a new plant over the weekend at a charity event, and got it home with no tag. It is one I don't have in my landscape, but I feel it is a "native" to my area of zone 8b/9 southern coastal Georgia. Does anyone know what this lovely woody shrub is?

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A friend gave me a couple of pads of prickly pear. That was in the fall, so I decided I'd pot them up and keep them in the house. I never got around to planting them out this summer, and recently a new one sprouted. It's about an inch tall. You can see individual grains of sand at the base.


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