Dances Goes Outside

Gardening sideblog of @danceswithdarkspawn | a place for all my garden pretties

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And now for something completely different

Welcome to my sideblog! main fandom blog @danceswithdarkspawn

This blog exists simply to act as a backup and/or archive of my outdoor gardening adventures. It will mainly be image posts.

If you see any broken links, missing tags or something else wrong, please let me know!

Will add links for quick navigation in the future.

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This is one of my favorite colorations I've seen in my pansies. And I didn't even do anything! This pretty is a volunteer plant that was self-sown from last year's plants. I didn't do much deadheading in that container last year so I have lots of pansies that popped up on their own.

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Sometimes I name my flowers. This is Dott and Solaire. I grew them indoors over the fall of 2019 to have flowers over winter.

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Harvested more of my dried Spanish lavender this morning. If you're curious what Spanish lavender smells like, it reminds me a little of Vick's VapoRub.

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Managed to get a good closeup of this massive dragonfly having a rest on my speedwells.

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A fairly common color of petunia one can find at garden centers and nurseries, however these are special to me. My nextdoor neighbor planted these every year, always the same color, and would give me one or two plants. I grew these from the seeds of the last plant she gave me before she unfortunately fell ill. She was a major reason I got into gardening, which helped me with a difficult transition in my life, and she reminded me so much of my late grandmother. I don't exaggerate when I say this woman probably saved my life by giving me these flowers. She would always say, 'think of me when you plant these.'

I'd like to think she'd be very proud at how well these did.

If you think the little ways you interact with people don't matter, I assure you they do in ways you don't realize.

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I wasn't too keen on marigolds until creating a new flowerbed earlier this year, and I needed something for the full-sun space. I've come to like them quite a lot!