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Bee enjoying Echinacea 🐝✨🌺

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Mid Summer Blooms 🌻🌺🌼

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found a literal angel yesterday - fun fact mothers leave their babies (caching) during the day. the babies do not move and are very well hidden. snuggled up in the back yard in a sub division, such a cute cute find! 🦌💕✨

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🍃 Container Refill - Succulent Edition 🌵

Thinking about replacing the arborvitae with a yucca 🤔 but I am still happy with the colors and textures. This is a very low soil and dry container. We have irrigation but it’s with a refillable container and not hooked up to a spicket, so they have to refill it (which sometimes goes too long).

Put in plants that could handle a little neglect and hot temperatures. Lots of different sedums, succulents, and herbs (variegated lavender and sage).

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🌴 Summer Container Refill 🌸

Went tropical themed here this season, palm/hibiscus combo + smaller colorful annuals for the border. The hydrangea and grey owl juniper are prior residents.

Installed a drip irrigation line since the containers never had them and we want things to be easier these days. Timer, hose, and nozzles all good to go.

Will check in after a month or so 🌺🍃

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PSA: hornworms are out on the prowl here in the Philadelphia area. Found this casing in the garden 🐛 fun fact: hornworms turn into a Hawkmoth 🦋

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Reclaim phase 2.

Trash GONE, now let’s keep it that way. I had to do a big clean up; lots of weeds, trash, and glass in the area. Lots of lumps and bumps so a good grading was in order. Assembled the raised beds, filled with soil and then my favorite part.

Planting! ✨🌸 This is a shade heavy area with a little afternoon sun.

Ingredients: dogwood, phlox, calidium, heuchra, coleus/marigold/begonia assortment.

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🌺 Spring Containers 🌼

Main centerpiece: hinoki cypress

Ingredients: purple heuchera, lavender, columbine, ivy, dianthus, and pansy assortment.

I love *not* using an arborvitae as the centerpiece (very basic), even if it’s over budget you don’t want to skimp on a mid focal point.

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Trillium 🌸 a beautiful spring ephemeral that thrives in shade. Amazing to find in the wild, they are in the lily family and are a protected wildflower.

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Foam flower (Tiarella) in bloom 🌱 one of my favorite shady native perennials

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Last year I planted a pollinator garden in the Fall and I am *so so excited to see how full and colorful this will turn out this season! 🦋✨

Ingredients: baby Joe pye, cat mint, bee balm, salvia, coreposis, echinacea magnus + Cheyenne spririt, helenium, Veronica, goldenrod, and aster.

I also sprinkled cosmo and marigold seeds in between the perennials. Summer check in will be 🌼🌺🌸🩷

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Container 1: Endless summer hydrangea, 3 hosta, purple heuchera, and summer annuals.

Container 2: butterfly bush, columbine, lavender, and summer annuals.

Container 3: Annuals only. Geraniums, dahlias, lantana, and osteospermums.

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I love a good project AND a before/after. This is phase one of reclaiming a communal space. ✨

Cleaned up all weeds, graded, and whacked gravel area. Really made a huge improvement. Planted three containers with a perennial and annual mix.

Ordered 3 raised beds to install in the space on a later date.

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🌷✨🌈 Spring Bulbs 🌈✨🌷

Last Fall I planted 175 tulip bulbs in the front garden + many other daffodils in the back for a Spring show and it did NOT disappoint. The goal was a rainbow and we certainly achieved that.

25 of each color of the rainbow, a daffodil naturalizing mix, and a special group of double late Gudoshink tulips (the multi colored red/yellow) make up this planting.

I love when a colorful project comes together. So beautiful!

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Power to the Mushies! ✨🍄‍🟫✨ found a Morel which doing a yard clean up, so magical!

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Life’s a garden, dig it 🌼🌱🌺

Come with me on a spring day, I have a shrub planting then a spring clean up in the afternoon. 💪🏼✨

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Sunday Funday 🌼🌺🌸

Refilling some containers and doing a little bit of clean up and maintenance. 🪴