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Jess’ Rainbow Garden
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Queer Urban Farmer in PNW USA 🏳️‍🌈 helped by RiRi the garden cat
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Anemone in January in Seattle?!? I picked 3 today!

#climatechangeisreal #pnwgardening #winterflowers 🌱
White bloom with a black center. Green leaves can be seen in the background in a metal planting tub. Wood fencing in the far background.
January 19, 2026 at 10:32 PM
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My friends local to Minnesota, whom I trust a great deal, would like to share the following resources that could use support.

PowWowGrounds - Native American Coffee Shop doing direct food and supply aid to their communities-

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January 16, 2026 at 12:30 AM
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There is no time for fun gardening content when ICE is attacking communities without care for rights. Sending love and solidarity to everyone in my home state of Minnesota. #pnwgardening 🌱
Pink hellebore in bloom with dark green leaves.
January 15, 2026 at 11:10 PM
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Happy New Years! Taking a break from flowers and enjoying a day at Venice Beach in LA.
A red starfish and mollusks cling to a support beam with the ocean in the background
January 1, 2026 at 10:50 PM
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Sweet peas are coming along! Still more to sow… #bloomscrolling #flowers #seedling 🌱 #pnwgardening #urbanfarm
Black plastic trays of sweet pea shoots in a greenhouse
December 23, 2025 at 5:26 PM
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Heritage Mum - Jefferson Park. Grown as a disbud from a 1 inch cutting this spring! I love the curve of the petals!

#heirloommum #heritagemum #chrysanthemum #urbanfarm #bloomscrolling #pnwgardening 🌱
Large pink chrysanthemum flower with petals curve upward and inward
December 5, 2025 at 6:25 PM
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Diversity is beautiful. What an incredibly boring world it would be if we all looked, thought, ate, spoke, and acted the same. Embracing immigrants makes our communities stronger and more interesting. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #PNWgardening #fallflowers
White arm holds a bouquet of fall mums, including red, orange and pink mums. Green grass and wood fence are out of focus in the background.
December 4, 2025 at 6:06 PM
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So many #mums so little time. Saffina, Bronze Fleece, Ft Vancouver, and Jefferson Park mums shown!

#chrysanthemums #fallflowers #bloomscrolling #pnwgrown #urbanfarm 🌱
Orange mum with spike petals A flower bed of mums with orange round mums in the front, yellow round mums in the back and some pink mums in the right corner Hand holding a large red mum bloom Large pink mum bloom
November 24, 2025 at 1:27 AM
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I harvested the last of my spray mums last week and ran a small fundraiser for the small community Food Bank at my wife’s high school. We went to Costco and loaded up on requested items - SPAM, beans, soup, canned veggies and fruits, and easy to heat meals.
Hand holding a tray of pumpkins with mums in them in front of a school buildings from a parking lot Tray of pumpkins with orange mums in them on a kitchen counter Stems of orange mums laid on a kitchen table and in a flower vase sitting on the table. Kitchen with wood cabinets behind the table. Trunk of car with many large boxes of food from Costco in it
November 24, 2025 at 1:19 AM
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Lady bugs are my favorites - beautiful little predators of our common enemy, aphids. #hydrangea #ladybug #ladybird #bloomscrolling 🌱 #PNW #Seattle
Ladybug on the leaf of a hydrangea bloom with a wood fence in the background. The hydrangea bloom is white with tips of purple blue at the edges and is just starting to open up.
July 2, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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#MadameButterflySnapdragons are so full and frilly. I grew these from #TerritorialSeedCo seeds this spring and they will have a permanent place in my garden. They lasted 10 days in a vase!
#bloomscrolling 🌱 #flowers #snapdragons #garden #PNW #urbanfarm
Red and pink butterfly snapdragon stems with backyard garden out of focus in background.
July 1, 2025 at 4:57 PM
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Loving the #sweetpeas right now! #bloomscrolling 🌱 #summer #garden #urbanfarm #flowers
July 1, 2025 at 5:26 AM
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Happy #Pride to everyone. I snapped this photo on the way home from the #NoKings protest yesterday.
Flower bed with poppies sticking out and green dahlia plants in the background. A rainbow garden flag with flowers on it is in the background.
June 15, 2025 at 7:10 PM
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My talented wife is learning wood working and made me a cedar planter for my strawberries. Today was moving day… except I have too many plants, so now I need a second one. The strawberry bed has been flipped and now has Sugar Snap Peas.
#pnwgarden #springplanting #queergardening #bloomscrolling 🌱
Empty Cedar planter with 5 levels resting on a fence Metal garden bin with strawberry plants Hand in a green glove holding a strawberry crown in front of a cedar garden bed Cedar garden bed with strawberry plants in it with another planter in front and a round black planter on the side
March 10, 2025 at 12:01 AM
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We’ve had a run of nice weather in Seattle, which means RiRi the garden cat is back doing what she loves - sitting on my seedlings. Specifically the overwintered baby snapdragons.
#caturday #gardencat #bloomscrolling #cats #orangecats
Orange cat sitting in a garden bed beneath plastic netting
March 8, 2025 at 7:24 PM
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We got a couple of 60F days and things are beginning to pop! Time to get the last of the sweet peas in the ground!

#bloomscrolling 🌱 #PNWgardening #zone9gardening #springbulbs
Plastic milk jug seen from above with soil and seedlings Plastic milk jug seen from above with soil and seedlings Round metal planting bin with large center plant of wiry branches and bulbs ringing the circumference.
March 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
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A snowy #PNWgarden today! You can see my #garlic peeking out of the snow. #gardening #2025garden #wintergarden 🌱🧄
Three fabric pots with snow and green shoots sticking through. White snow and garden pots in the background.
February 3, 2025 at 11:02 PM
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#Sweetpeas to plant! Sown on 11/6, they’ve been living in a cold frame. Can’t wait for spring until they take off! #bloomscrolling 🌱
January 30, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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We are supposed to get snow in #seattle this weekend, so it’s the perfect time to #wintersow #seeds. Here we have #yarrow, #calendula, #scabiosa, #orlaya, #rudbekia and more! #reducereuserecycle #plantscrolling 🌱
5 plastic milk jugs and two plastic clamshells filled with soil on bark with garden pots in the background
January 30, 2025 at 8:27 PM
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Hello Bluesky. It’s a dreary freezing day in the PNW but the garden has a bit of wintery color!
#bloomscrolling #gardening #pnwgardening 🌱
Close up of pink hellebore plant Close up of winter cabbage with pink center, white leaves, and green outer leaves Scabious plant with one purple flower
January 13, 2025 at 10:33 PM