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🌱 Garden Designer 🌱 Design Plans ❦ Container Gardens ❦ Horticulture ❦ Botany ❦ Floriculture ❦ Landscape Renovations (oh, also Epicurean 🧑🏻‍🍳 Swashbuckler) ❦ Metro Atlanta, Georgia Zone 7b •design•install•enjoy•

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Jan 23

For a while last year I worked on an “Air Quality Drive-Through Landscape Project.” Due to lack of funding & support it has fallen by the wayside. But as a volunteer I learned some very interesting things during my research and prepared some field drawings utilizing mostly #NativePlants.🧵/1 🌿🌱

Several landscape design plans on a brown board showing plant material placement in various locations, with the ID's of the plants.

A sign that reads: Green Trees Capture Your Car Exhaust, Improve Drive-Through Air Quality.

A sign at McDonald's drive-through restaurant that reads: Linwood Nature Preserve, McDonald's Archway to Conservation

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Micro(dosing) Farmer @being.earth · 23d

Grocery store in Anta, Peru.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Sep 6

🍽️ Explore mushrooms around the country throughout September. It's National Mushroom Month!

Week One (September 1-4): Kick off National Mushroom Month!
Week Two (September 5-11): Northeast
Week Three (September 12-18): Midwest
Week Four (September 19-25): West
Week Five (September 26-30): South

Your Roadmap to Celebrating National Mushroom Month | Mushroom Council

This National Mushroom Month we are exploring and showcasing both where and how people are sharing their love and curiosity for mushrooms.

www.mushroomcouncil.com

Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Sep 6

🍽️ September is National Mushroom Month! What better way than to celebrate than with a Mushroom Forest Focaccia? As a garden designer, I often bring my botanical interests into the kitchen! #gardenscape #mushrooms

A collection of cooked mushrooms, ready for assembly. From top left, clockwise: brown shimeji, shiitake, king trumpet, maitake (hen of the woods), and lion's mane. The mushrooms have all been baked or sautéed before placing on the focaccia.

A closeup of the assembled Mushroom Forest Focaccia, featuring Maitake (hen of the woods), Yellow Oyster Mushrooms, Brown Shimeji, King Tower and Enoki Mushrooms. Sprigs of dill, chives, asparagus spears, and Italian parsley are also tucked into the mix.

An overhead view of the assembled Mushroom Forest Focaccia, ready for baking.

Fresh out of the oven! Overhead view of the toasted Mushroom Forest Focaccia with herbs, ready to serve. The parmesan cheese has browned into a lovely golden crust.

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FungiJoJofromCanada @fungijojo.bsky.social · Sep 1

Happy National Mushroom Month! The entire month of September is a celebration of all things fungi. Learn different ways to cook with mushrooms, explore mycology, and try new varieties this month. ❤️🍄❤️

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Aug 27

🌿🌱Lilium michauxii (synonym: Lilium carolinianum), official wildflower of North Carolina, noted for its heady fragrance. Named for Andre Michaux, a noted 18th Century naturalist and explorer of the Southeastern United States. #NativePlants

Close up of an orange lily with long green filaments and brown anthers extending below the flower. An image of a second lily can be seen in the background.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Aug 27

🌱🌿 Hymenocallis coronaria (cahaba lily, catawba lily, shoal lily, shoal spider lily) native only to AL, GA, SC, parts of NC. Under consideration of the Endangered Species Act. Only 50 populations left in the 3 states. A significant population remains in the Broad River, GA. #NativePlants #SciArt

Vintage botanical illustration of a white spider lily with a broad green leaf to the left, and an illustration of the bulb on the right. S.T. Edwards - Curtis’s Botanical Magazine, vol. 36: t. 1467 (1812)

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Aug 27

🌱August bloomer: Lycoris x straminea 'Caldwell's Original', a fall-foliage emerging hybrid. #lycoris

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Jonas Frei @jdfrei.bsky.social · Aug 26

Peaches. Prunus persica cultivars including nectarines and some wild relatives like davids’peach P. davidiana, the rare fergana-peach P. ferganensis and hybrids to the almond; P. x amygdalopersica.

Photographed with the help of the INRAE peach collection.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Aug 24

Current obsession (well one of them anyway): Lithops aka stone succulents. Better than gemstones in a jewelry box. #Lithops #StoneSucculents

A closeup view of a bowl of Lithops, aka stone succulents. They actually look like the cross section of a brain when you think about it! There are numerous colors and each one has two sections which mirror each other. They are green, gold, mauve, sand, and rust.

Closeup view of a spotted, rose-colored Lithops with a pale green, open mouth.

Overhead view of a pot of Lithops in a round white pot on a slatted table.

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The Poison Garden @thepoisongarden.bsky.social · Aug 14

Poisonous plant and fungi colorized wood engravings by Scottish artist Jonathan Johnstone, 1855.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Jun 28

NEW. Lavandula stoechas 'La Diva Big Night' is the first cross between Spanish and English Lavender, with especially good heat and humidity tolerance. Great news for those of us in the South. It's also hardy to Zone 6. 🌱🌿 #herbs #herbgarden

Lavandula La Diva Big Night 4in Spanish Lavender

La Diva Big Night Spanish Lavender. Dark purple flowers with lighter purple bracts in spring and summer. Evergreen perennial. Zones 6-9. Full sun. 10-14 in. tall and 12-24 in. wide.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Jun 8

Cape Fuchsia (Phygelius) with its tubular blossoms attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. "Phygelius" comes from the Greek word "phyge", meaning flight or avoidance, "in consequence of its having so long escaped the research of botanists" according to W.J. Hooker (1855). Native to South Africa. 🌱🌿

Ruby-red tubular flowers line the dark stems of the Cape Fuchsia, which tower above a mound of green foliage.

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The State of the State Parks Podcast @stateofthesp.bsky.social · Jun 7

Clevland sage (Salvia clevelandii)
We have decided you are our favorite sage! Smells soooooo goood! 🥰
Stateofthestateparks.com
#CaliforniaNativePlants #iNat #photography #NaturePhotography #Bloomscrolling #oc #parks 🌱 #nature
#plantsky

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Christine Warren BSN, RN @askaham.bsky.social · May 30

Goodbye Redwood Forest -- The blue areas are what EO 14225 has marked for deforestation. These are old growth forests, protected by law.

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Keri Martinowich @martinowk.bsky.social · Jun 1

A bit of yellow for the #NativePlants feed 🌱 - Yellow wild indigo (Baptisia tinctoria) in bloom

Yellow flowers on wild yellow indigo plant

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Mar 31

Rhododendron 'Abbey's Re-view' is a prolific spring bloomer... and is supposed to rebloom in the fall, but I've never had that happen. However, it IS spectacular in bloom, also heat and drought tolerant and so recognized by the American Rhododendron Society, Rhododendron of the Year Award 2018.🌱🌿

Rhododendron in full bloom with its lilac-purple flowers completely covering the shrub which is now about 10' tall. A magnificent shrub for full shade gardens because it really stands out in spring.

Close-up of the blooms with a little sunlight to highlight the extraordinarily vibrant, lilac tones.

The rhododendron is so completely covered with lilac-colored blooms in spring, you can hardly see any foliage.

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Rogue White House Botanist @roguewhbotanist.bsky.social · Mar 31

Indigofera suffruticosa 🌱🌿 was popular as a highly prized source of blue dye in the 17th and 18th centuries where it still grows wild on the north end of Georgia’s Ossabaw Island at North End Plantation, the site of a colonial-era indigo plantation. History in AltText.

A detail from the 1780 map of South Carolina by William DeBrahm depicting enslaved men agitating the liquid (background) and cutting the dried dyestuff into squares (foreground).

In the year 1775, South Carolina exported more than one million pounds of dried indigo cakes to England. That record-high output was immediately followed by a near collapse of the industry. The commencement of the American Revolution, which followed years of simmering political tensions, permanently dismantled the traditional mercantile links between American farmers and British customers. Some South Carolina planters continued to grow indigo and to produce the dye during the eight-year war, but they had a difficult time finding customers for the product.

Source:
https://www.ccpl.org/charleston-time-machine/indigo-fabric-early-south-carolina

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Mar 31

Scots Pine from the book Wurzelatlas, a study on root research by Lore Kutschera, Erwin Lichtenegger and Monika Sobotik, all members of the Austrian Pflanzensoziologische Institut. 🌿🌱

More:
doorofperception.com/2022/11/wurz...

A black and white illustration of a Scots Pine. The tree is growing above ground, but below the surface is an illustration of the expansive root system of the tree which grown much deeper than the tree is tall.

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The napping birder @thenappingbirder.bsky.social · Mar 31

Mr Hooded in profile
#birds

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Steve Nellis @snellis.bsky.social · Mar 30

🌱Ah! The large red trillium I missed the other day… it was lurking underneath the acanthus.

Looking at the large almost lettuce green leaves with deep crimson flower petals. Larger darker green acanthus leaves surround.

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Steve Sanderson @steve-sando1.bsky.social · Mar 27

Young Peregrine out on Bodmin moor today. Very rarely see them here, so bit of a treat.
#UKWildlife #Birds #Birding #birdphotography #nature

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PBS News @pbsnews.org · Mar 26

To design a garden that supports the greatest number and diversity of pollinators, don’t worry about what your neighbors are doing or not doing. Just focus on planting different kinds of flowers – and lots of them.

Dreaming of spring gardening? Bees and other pollinators like a variety of flowers

For those thinking ahead to spring gardening, a biologist explains what to focus on when designing a garden with pollinators in mind and what not to worry about.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Mar 22

'tis the season.
Left: Narcissus Kedron, bred by Willis Wheeler, a mid 20th century daffodil breeder and officer in the American Daffodil Association. Right: Narcissus Sailboat is a William Pannill award-winner. Both produce up to 3 blooms per stem, and perform well in the Southeast. 🌱🌿

A large mass planting of golden daffodils with mango-orange cups and strappy green foliage. The ground is covered in pine bark.

A handsome cluster of small white daffodils with butter yellow cups and strappy green foliage. The white petals are swept back from the cups like sails, thus the name of this daffodil: Sailboat. The ground is covered in pine bark.

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Mar 21

International Forest Day: Celebrating the Power of Forests

As we enter unchartered territory as a result of human-induced climate change, the lifeline forests provide must not be understated nor underestimated. As well as being crucial ecosystems for food sec...

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Wallace Gardens @wallacegardens.bsky.social · Mar 21

March 21. 🌱🌿
Happy International Day of Forests
May the forest be with you.

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