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GabbyLawless
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Breton French immigrant, mosaic artist, forever horticulture student. I tend to my subtropical garden in Charleston, SC. I post about nature, flowers, insects and birds. I love frogs!
Pictures are all mine unless reposted. No DM, please.
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Grand-père (in white on the right) was on the Dupetit-Thouars ship with his father and future father-in-law when it was sunk on August 7th, 1918 by a German SM U-62. After over 24 hours in the water, they were rescued by an American flotilla.
#WWI #VeteranDay #Remembrance #LaRoyale #FrenchNavy
November 11, 2025 at 4:56 PM
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'Tingo Peru' Salvia is impressively blue.
#TuesdayBlue #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱
A flower bed featuring bright but dark blue blooms on long stems, some red flowers in the background and trees.
November 11, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Last day for Clematis, tonight brings the very first frost of the season. #Lowcountry #MagentaMonday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱
Two dark pink Clematis bloom smooched together surrounded by green leaves.
November 10, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Onlookers.
#BirdOfTheDay #StandingOnThings #Birds #EastCoastKin
Pelicans and Cormorans perched on the remnants of a bridge above the water, blue sky and green marsh in the background.
November 9, 2025 at 1:05 PM
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First freeze called for Sunday night, what is blooming today in my garden.
#SixOnSaturday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱
Six pictures in a collage: A white Trumpet flower not fully open, Black and Blue Salvia, Dark pink rose, a two tones Clematis, Impatiens and Toad Lilies, Pink, yellow, orange Lantana.
November 8, 2025 at 2:52 PM
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Last frog sighting of the season?
#FrogFriday #Herps #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱🐸
A little green frog resting on a branch, the sky is blue, her eyes half closed.
November 7, 2025 at 1:12 PM
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The Monastery of Cimiez Gardens, a place of calm, tranquility and reflexion.
#PalacesAndGardens #France #Nice #Gardens
Formal garden arrangement with boxwood hedges mosaic parterres and a concrete fountain in its center.
November 6, 2025 at 1:16 PM
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Delicate beauty, heavenly scented...
#RoseWednesday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱
Clotilde Soupert, a delicate hybrid tea rose, created in 1867. It is a cabbagey rose with creamy white petals that become light pink towards the center.
November 5, 2025 at 1:20 PM
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Good Morning!
#BlueTuesday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱
Two blue morning glory flowers, green leaves in the background.
November 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
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Echinacea is quite a medicinal plant used for centuries by the Native Americans.
"It contains active substances that boost immune function, relieve pain, reduce inflammation, and have hormonal, antiviral, and antioxidant effects."
#MagentaMonday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱
Purple Coneflowers are actually a deep pink with a rich dark orange prominent center, raised above the petals.
November 3, 2025 at 2:20 PM
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#SixOnSaturday #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱
Collage of six pictures: a trio of apricot drift rose, yellow blooms of Mexican Tarragon, a singular velvety red bloom of a Canna, a roughly decorated pumpkin stuffed with peanut butter, yellow ginger and red firespikes and red Cuphea blooms.
November 1, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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The beautiful but poisonous Io Moth caterpillar.
#InsectThursday #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱
The Io moth caterpillar is apple green and spiky. The spikes are poisonous. The caterpillar is climbing down the side of a Mandevilla stem on the chain of a hanging basket. In the background one can guess the underside of a roof.
October 30, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Happy Wednesday!
#RoseWednesday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱
A cluster of dark pink roses, the center one is older and paler, more lavender colored. In the background, a paved pathway and green leaves.
October 29, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Our Red Shoulder Hawk couple scouting the neighborhood. Hawks are generally monogamous and those two have been around for a while now.
#BirdOfTheDay #DailyDouble #EastCoastKin #Birds
Two Red Shoulder Hawks sitting amongst branches looking down for prey. There is a bright blue sky in the background.
October 28, 2025 at 12:13 PM
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Penta's one of those annual that keeps on giving; from June to the first freeze. Sometimes, it survives it and perks back up in the spring.
#MagentaMonday #EastCoastKin #Gardening #BlooomScrolling 🌱
Magenta colored flowers forming a cluster, the background is green from the plant's leaves.
October 27, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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Happy Fall Saturday!
#SixOnSaturday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱
Salvia 'Red Neck Girl', orange Marigolds, Abutilon looks like a red yellow veined Chinese Lantern, a cluster of orange yellow roses, a Gloriosa Lily, looking exotic with its curved backward petals and the golden blooming Tarragon.
October 25, 2025 at 2:06 PM
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Mushroom stairway.
#FungiFriday #FungiFriends #EastCoastKin
Yellow, beige and white flat mushroom growing like big saucers on the top of each other, they are attached to a dead stump. In the background, old bricks covered with green algae and grass.
October 24, 2025 at 2:48 PM
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Like a lonely, but friendly neighbor, this rose calls out over her fence,“Psst, passersby! Do stop and say hello!” #ColorADay #YellowThu #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport 🌱 #Flowers #EastCoastKin #OnlyBeautifulThings
A deep yellow rose in full bloom rests its head on a white fence post, as if to converse with a neighbor.
October 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Humble Bumblebee.
#InsectThursday #Invert #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱
A bumblebee landing on a tiny pink flower, the wings are fluttering, her back legs still in the air with a pollen sack firmly attached to them. Around her, more pink flowers and buds with little fleshy green leaves.
October 23, 2025 at 12:31 PM
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Crown Princess Margareta 🌱🌹

#RoseWednesday #Bloomscrolling #Flowers #Roses #EastCoastKin
A large orange and apricot rose, with a strong fruity scent, Bridgewater Oct 23
October 22, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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'Miss All American Beauty'
#RoseWednesday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱
A voluptuous red rose named bush with a few open blooms.
October 22, 2025 at 12:09 PM
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Dancing blue butterflies.
#TinyFlowerTuesday #TuesdayBlue #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening
Little blue flowers resembling a butterfly with a background of green leaves. The plant's name is: Rotheca myricoides.
October 21, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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Shell hunting.
#BlueSkyMonday #EastCoastKin #Stunday #DeweesIsland
A picture of a small silhouette walking on the beach, alone in the immensity, the water line is on the horizon and the sky is light blue/turquoise.
October 20, 2025 at 12:42 PM
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Enormous Cockscomb flower.
#MagentaMonday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱
White, yellow and magenta cockscomb bloom. The pattern of the flower looks a bit like a brain.
October 20, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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What is blooming today in the garden.
#SixOnSaturday #EastCoastKin #Gardening #BloomScrolling 🌱
A collage of six pictures of blooms. Fuchsia colored Penta glistening in the morning dew, pink/orange/yellow drift rose, a small reseeded Mazurkia Zinnia also dark pink with lighter edges, a pink Crown of Thorn, with multiple small bright pink blooms, the delicate blooms of a rose shrub and the light pink with a darker center vinca.
October 18, 2025 at 2:09 PM