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Ilena Gilbert-Mays
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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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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.
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
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 👋☀️
#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
#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
November 28, 2025 at 12:36 PM
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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.
November 27, 2025 at 1:59 PM
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#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
#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
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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November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
#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
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
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
#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.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
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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November 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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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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#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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Frozen beauties, frozen leaves and frozen damage… 🥶 🌱
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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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
#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