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🌱Gardening & Botanical insights from Award-Winning Horticulturist, Hybridist, Author, Designer & Consultant Robert F. Gabella.

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · Jun 11

🌱🍑🌹 Part 2 of #RoseWednesday, Miniature Shrub Rose (Rosa) 'Apricot Drift®' (Meilland International, 2009) is my favorite from this great series. Eyecatching color, bloom recurs in quick cycles, and will often flower past the first hard freezes of Autumn. Rosaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 1d

🌱Perhaps - but it would be a very tiny Hibiscus. Flower is about the size of a US nickel, though I have one cultivar where some blooms are nearly 3 inches across.

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 1d

🌱❤️🔥 More from xAchimenantha naegelioides 'Inferno' - after a late opening puts on a great show deep into October.🍁🍂 From a 1973 cross by Harold E. Moore of @Cornell University's Bailey Hortorium - an intergeneric cross of Achimenes erecta x Smithiantha zebrina. Gesneriaceae

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#GardensHour @gardenshour.bsky.social · 1d

It’s almost #GardensHour!

We’ll be back here in 30mins, at 9pm UK time to chat through your past week in the garden.

See you very soon!

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 2d

🌱Yes but of course - though I have at least one or two Zinnia seed saving posts here on BlueSky, on that other platform have posted how-tos on & off for years.🙂

GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 2d

🌱💛 Sweet #SundayYellow grown from seed collected '24 from extra double & quilled Zinnia violacea (Z. elegans) 'Burpeeana Giants'. Due to poor crop maintenance purchased seed has many singles & off types. Encourage all to try reselecting seed of drifted heirloom strains - worthy home garden project.😎

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 2d

🌱 Yikes! Here's a cut & paste of part of Google's AI search result. And didn't realize how much of a thing this was until I saw some of the other online photos - hang in there this looks like a project!😎

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Ana @amstorey.bsky.social · 3d

🌱 This week's #SixOnSaturday in a vase. This is for my friend to celebrate her birthday.

A floral arrangement in a large clear glass jar. Orange and dark red dahlias, Attar of roses geranium leaves, flowering rosemary, Thai basil flowers, and dark purple flower whose name I forgot. A yellow wall and white bookcase in background.

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Sarah Griffiths @communitea.bsky.social · Sep 13

A fiery red #SixOnSunday to mark the last days of this long, hot, dry summer in Scotland #Aberdeenshire #Beechgrove 🌱🔥🌶️

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花・hana @hana217.bsky.social · 4d

The plants in my garden have been hit by heavy rain since morning, and I feel a little sorry for them.

Today's flowers and herbs are Anise-scented sage, Japanese anemone, Rosemary, Iceberg, Salvia azurea and Petunia.

#SixOnSaturday #gardening #Bloomscrolling

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Graeme Edwards @graemeedwards1.bsky.social · 4d

In today's #SixOnSaturday ... 'Bowles’s Pink,' a Strawflower, Linaria 'Canon Went,' a little Aster, another Strawflower & 'Whirlwind' onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2025/10/11/s... 🌱

A collage of six photographs of flower, comprising: a large deep pink 5-petalled Anemone flower with a yellow centre & dark stem; yellow & red multi-layered petals of a Strawflower; a cluster of pale pink 2-lipped petalled flowers; a mass of daisy-like mauve Aster flowers with yellow centres; white & pale pink multi-layered petals of a Strawflower with a yellow centre; large white multi-petalled petals of an Anemone flower with a green centre surrounded by a yellow halo of stamens.

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 4d

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#SixOnSaturday
#Bloomscrolling
Cool and damp, but still frost free, and the dahlias just keep on giving.

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Stuart Bourne 🌷🌱 @stuartbourne.bsky.social · 4d

Good morning everyone, this week’s #SixOnSunday include Japanese Anemone, Virgina Creeper, Winter Jasmin, a fun fungus, and Rosa ‘Twiggy’s Rose’

Have a great weekend!

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #FlowerFeed #BloomScrolling

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 4d

🌱🥔QUICK SNACKTIME HARVEST. Solanum tuberosum (Potato) 'Carola' (Walter Wallmüller, 1979), perfectly golden inside & out. Superior flavor, a German origination of highest quality! Soon to be paired with plenty of fresh Salvia rosmarinus (Rosemary), sea salt, EVOO 🫒 & butter.😋 Solanaceae & Lamiaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 5d

🌱🌹For the Misuse of a Hashtag on the Wrong Day Department 😅 worked in office till dark on #RoseWednesday - so will burn past all the Thursday hashtags for Rosa 'True Passion' (Ping Lim, 2018) in deep orange-red with excellent 🥶 Winter hardiness & disease resistance. Rosaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 7d

🌱Nice work in a range of styles & maturities. The touches of fall color got me curious about the trees at Chicago Botanic Garden, they retire the display annually before Winter, 200 trees in rotation. Will call to check, in hopes they are still out.🤞🍁🍂

GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 8d

🌱🤍STILL WORKIN' IT. Even after persistent heat & drought & little extra attention from me, Lathyrus latifolius (Everlasting Pea, Perennial Sweet Pea) 'White Pearl' is still kicking the blooms. Among the hardest working & most continually flowering perennials I grow. Fabaceae

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Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 9d

The Daily Dahlia delight continues 🌱 #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport
#Dahlia #glimmer

An unexpected greenish yellow bud begins to bloom with dark purple petals on another slender purple stalk. Beech trees and blue skies in the background with a few wispy clouds.

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 9d

Yellow? Orange? Orangey-yellow?

#SundayYellow #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #DahliaLove

A pom-pom dahlia of somewhat indeterminate hue

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 10d

🌱 First time since surgery a couple weeks ago for my 3 mile walk with occasional sprints on the Illinois Prairie Path - not that I couldn't have come out sooner. 🔥Heat & drought which has carried into October shows in the wear & tear on natives. Pay NO ATTENTION to the invasive species 😎😅 last pic!

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 10d

#SixOnSaturday
After a battering from Storm Amy overnight, I have been out this morning sorting out some of the damage but there is still plenty of colour left and a bit of sun will work wonders. *Info in alt text
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #EnglishGardening #EastCoastKin

From bottom left clockwise: A general view of half of our small garden behind our tiny terrace house in Surrey, not far from London, shows red Persicaria in the shadows to the right, a terracotta pot to the left on a flagged patio contains tall Cosmos flowers that seem blue in the shadows but are mostly white. Behind that you can glimpse rusty red red Acer Palmatum trees, other evergreen shrubs with red berries and the red brick walls of the homes and some white-framed windows. Our green-coloured conservatory can also be seen; bright purple Asters with yellow centres; gleaming rusty-red leaves of the Acer Palmatum aka Japanese Maple in front of a fence with blue sky behind; pink and white streaked Cosmos flower peeking from behind the spindly green foliage of the plant; red and purple Fuschia dangle from the variegated leaves of the plant, which is contained in a leaf-green terracotta Heritage pot; finally two pink buds of a Scarborough Fair rose rest against the open pinkish-white bloom of the flower on the same plant.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 17d

#SixOnSaturday appreciating the first Saturday of autumn

Rust-colored Dahlia about to bloom, Tuberous Begonia, dark red Mums about to bloom, Witch Hazel leaf turned red, red rose hips, and red Coleus Inferno.

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GrowHouseDave @growhousedave.bsky.social · 11d

Succulent Saturday as they all head under cover until the Spring #SixonSaturday

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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · 11d

#sixonsaturday 04-10-25 in which you’ll find : hardy geranium, sunflower, plectranthus, melianthus & euphorbia mellifera, nicotiana sylvestris and a tasty watermelon 🌱

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 10d

What interest is left in the garden beginning of October? Still quite a bit with a lot more golden, orange and red blooms.
#SixOnSaturday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱

Black Coral Elephant ears are a shiny black, Pharaoh's Mask Colocasia are a bright green with large black stripes that makes the leaves curl back like a Pharaoh's Mask. Tahitian Flame butterfly ginger is a creamy orange color, Abutilon flowers are little pendulums dark yellow with an orange pistils, Thunbergia vine, also called Black Eye Susan Vine is golden yellow with a dark center, then a bright red orange Marigold and a golden orange Canna to finish.

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Ken Hartley 🌱🏋️‍♂️ @milhart66ken.bsky.social · 10d

Happy Saturday everyone. #SixOnSaturday #gardening #gardeninglife

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