Misadventures in Gardening

• Garden Witch • Writer • Wandering Wisp Gardening

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Babies.

Napa cabbage seedlings 2.24.26

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Plant of the Day

Saturday 22 November 2025

A clump forming herbaceous perennial Bistorta amplexicaulis 'Alba' (white-flowered red bistort) has delicate white flower spikes. This pollinator friendly plant will thrive in sun or partial shade with a moist soil.

Jill Raggett

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in my garden

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Amaryllis taken from 'Plantes Rare du Jardin de Geneve' by Augustin Pyramus de Candolle.

Published 1829 by Librairie de J. Barbezat et Compie.

Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Various

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my little garlicks

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Aster. Värmland, Sweden (November 5, 2022).

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San Antonio Hot Springs, New Mexico, USA 🇺🇸

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Cactus blossom of the desert prickly pear (Opuntia engelmannii).

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Linocut Art by Elina Adrshina (source)

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Official dandelion post

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Stem of flowering Dianthus gallicus and planted Cortusa matthioli. After Alexander Francis Lydon.

Wood engraving printed in colour.

Illustration to David Wooster's 'Alpine Plants' (London: 1872).

© The Trustees of the British Museum.

Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0) licence.

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Frozen fog, 7th of November 2021

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Zinnia in the rose garden

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One-leaved Strawberry or Strawberry of Versailles taken from 'The Botanical Magazine' by William Curtis.

Published 1787.

Missouri Botanical Garden.

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Symphyotrichum cordifolium / Blue Wood Aster on the Sycamore Cove Trail in the Pisgah National Forest in Pisgah Forest, NC

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 8 November 2025

Usually grown as an annual Ipomoea lobata (Spanish flag) is a twining climber reaching up to 5m in height. The crimson-flushed stems bear one-sided racemes of small, tubular, dark red flowers which fade to orange and then a creamy yellow. Plants thrive in a moist but well-drained soil in full sun with sheltered from cold winds.

Jill Raggett