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Ilena Gilbert-Mays
@ilenagm.bsky.social
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Horticulturist in coastal North Carolina🐚 🇺🇸who loves tropicals, gingers and exotic plants, oh who am I kidding! I am obsessed with all plants and please, be kind🙏🌎🌱🌸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧
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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · Nov 21
This cactus was the star and start of my cactus collection and addiction. I had to set an alarm to not miss this beautiful sight. It grew too large and was donated to a larger collection 🌵💘
#Cactus #Succulents #Flowers #FlowerReport #CactusAddict
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I thought this said "oxtails" and was shocked to see flowers and not hunks of meat.
ilenagm.bsky.social Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 19h
Oxalis greeting the sunrise on this first day of December. Very pleasant weather with rain forecast for tomorrow 🥰

#Flowers #December #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Oxalis
December 1, 2025 at 12:56 PM
ilenagm.bsky.social
Oxalis greeting the sunrise on this first day of December. Very pleasant weather with rain forecast for tomorrow 🥰

#Flowers #December #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Oxalis
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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A beautiful spot of light as we close out November. Hope you gave a good start to the week Llena 👋☀️
ilenagm.bsky.social Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 1d
#SundayYellow is the first flower of my lemonberry pie mix violas. My violas have been a little sluggish getting started this year🤷🏼‍♀️

#Flowers #Gardening #Violas #Plants #GulfOfMexico #GYO #FlowerReport
November 30, 2025 at 1:04 PM
ilenagm.bsky.social
#SundayYellow is the first flower of my lemonberry pie mix violas. My violas have been a little sluggish getting started this year🤷🏼‍♀️

#Flowers #Gardening #Violas #Plants #GulfOfMexico #GYO #FlowerReport
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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Black bulgar (Bulgaria inquinans) 🌱🍄

#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #mushrooms #fungus #moss #Autumn #nature
A cluster of black, thick-fleshed, disc-shaped, gelatinous fungus on a mossy tree trunk
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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frdvil.bsky.social
Forgot yesterday but ready for Thanksgiving!
#schlumbergera 🌱😅
November 28, 2025 at 1:45 PM
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Show us your Thanksgiving 🌱 blooms! Indoors or outdoors.

Last night was our fourth hard freeze in Zone 6b but our Aromatic Asters mdc.mo.gov/discover-nat... are still putting on a show.
Daisy-like blue flowers (camera thinks they're pink) on four feet by four feet shrub with heavily scented leaves
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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frdvil.bsky.social
#sixonsaturday 29-11-25 in which you’ll find : frosty calendula and strawflowers, a pretty salvia, a bird feeder, the last of the cherry tomatoes and hedychium fruit
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November 29, 2025 at 7:42 AM
ilenagm.bsky.social
#FlowersOnFriday this week is my largest #Tillandsia aka air plant. I love them and have several in my collection. When it’s winter they live in south facing windows.

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Tropical #GulfOfMexico #AirPlants #FlowerReport
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Well right on time⏰here is the first of my Thanksgiving cactus in bloom 😍#HappyThanksgiving #Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Autumn #November #MyGreenhouse #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Our Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow bush (Brunfelsia pauciflora) is always in full bloom for Thanksgiving. The flowers turn from purple to lavender to white, thus the name. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #MyGarden #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Just one more rose for #RoseWednesday. I love the newly opened rose when it’s colours are bold and varied before it changes to its full bloom and finally fades to a different shade altogether. This is the newly opened, stunningly coloured 20th Anniversary rose. 😍😍😍
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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rickmartin.bsky.social
Amaryllis 'Barbados' 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #RedWednesday #EastCoastKin #Flowers
A red and white hippeastrum flower
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
ilenagm.bsky.social
#Snapdragons are a great winter flower here in my zone. I make sure to keep some growing every Autumn for winter blooms 😃

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GYO #November #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
ilenagm.bsky.social
My favorite mailbox #Clematis really suffered over the summer but now she’s making a comeback 😃🙌💜

#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #Plants #Autumn #November #FlowerReport #GYO
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
ilenagm.bsky.social
Starting off the week with a California poppy in bloom. I have three pots of them now and they do well for me😃🙌💛

#Flowers #Gardening #Poppies #Plants #GYO #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Autumn #November
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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#SevenOnSunday #Violas starting to bloom, Acer on fire, sharphead #cabbage halfway there, Thanksgiving #cactus almost, #Kalanchoes budding and I am forcing my own #Amaryllis and #Rainbow 🥰

#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #Plants #GYO #FlowerReport #RetirementLife
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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#SixOnSaturday
#FlowerReport:

All from yesterday,
in San Jose, California.
A six frame photo collage: A bee hovering before a purple flower. A daisy with short petals and a rounded yellow center. A bunch of tiny flowers with four petals and green and yellow tufts at their centers. A macro close-up of a teeny bug on the yellow flat center of a small daisy. A dandelion in spherical seed form. A small white flower with five petals and yellow anthers.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
ilenagm.bsky.social
For #Caturday our kitten Ms. pickles the struggle is real against one of the two older cats🤣

#Cats #BlackAndWhiteCats #CatsOfBlueSky
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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#SixOnSaturday 🌱
Smoke bush, orange dahlia, red mums, magenta dahlia, close up of yellow nasturtium with vermillion maple-leaf-shaped inner markings, red mums against the blue sky.
November 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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stuartbourne.bsky.social
This week’s chilly #SixOnSaturday include a fun fungi, Abelia, Mahonia, a Rose, Winter Jasmin and Penstemon.

Hope everyone is wrapping up warm and enjoying their weekend!

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #BloomScrolling #FlowerFeed
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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frdvil.bsky.social
#sixonsaturday 22-11-25 with winter tasks: harvesting sweet potatoes, yacon and taro, overwintering red banana tree, raking leaves, hakonechloa and miscanthus, and a pretty pelargonium flower 🌱: fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/s...
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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frdvil.bsky.social
Frozen beauties, frozen leaves and frozen damage… 🥶 🌱
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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frdvil.bsky.social
The warm colours of this #lagerstroemia also known as crape myrtle. 🔥 🌱
Perfect for these cold days, isn't it?! 😀
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ilenagm.bsky.social
#SixOnSaturday this week is my favorite seed catalogue, still a few flowers blooming, a sweet ladybug and a lazy lizard 😂

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Autumn #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Ladybugs #November
November 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM