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Mel
@rainydaycottage.bsky.social
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🌈 Making the best queer cottage life in suburban Leduc, AB. Gardening, crafting, sourdough. Traditional skills without traditional values. Zone 3 🇨🇦
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I wanted to let as many people in #Alberta #Canada know as possible: if you're struggling to book vaccines through the government, we were able to order covid & flu through our local shoppers. Covid was $125 + $20 admin. I wish it didn't have to be that way, but hopefully, this helps some people.
October 27, 2025 at 2:54 PM
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Best of the garden mid August 🌼 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement with dahlias, zinnias, bergamot, yarrow, scabiosa, echinacea, tomatillo, cerinthe.
August 18, 2025 at 3:42 PM
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Best of the garden from the first week of August. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement with cosmos, zinnia, dahlias, rudbeckia, monarda, cerinthe, bupleurum, statice, and sweet peas.
August 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Hard to beat a sunset after a thunderstorm. #Canada #thunderstorm #yeg #leduc #outdoors #nature #weather #zone3 #alberta
Sunset rays peeking through dark clouds over a yellow canola field in bloom
July 18, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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When I first started my garden, I said I would never have orange, yellow, or red flowers. Here we are now. 🌼 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement with Sahara rudbeckia, calendula, eryngium, yarrow, marigold, bupleurum, tomatillo, amaranth, strawflower.
July 17, 2025 at 10:49 PM
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I have a pocket gopher destroying my garden, but the flowers have never looked better. I'll take what I can get. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Bouquet of dahlias, cosmos, scabiosa, bupleurum, chamomile, feverfew, strawflower, yarrow, and eryngium.
July 15, 2025 at 9:25 PM
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Some bouquets to give away at the wellness clinic where we get our massage therapy 💗 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #flowers 🌱🇨🇦
July 12, 2025 at 2:56 PM
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Celebrating the first dahlia of the year, Ferncliff Rusty #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #dahlia #flowers 🌱🇨🇦
July 11, 2025 at 7:46 PM
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Overnight explosion of Scabiosa. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement of white and blue scabiosa flowers, complimented by calendula, yarrow, cornflower, salvia, sage, dicentra, strawflower, and eryngium.
July 7, 2025 at 6:30 PM
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Look veeeery close you can see one of the dozens of tiny blue damselflies hanging out in the garden yesterday evening. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Blue damselfly resting on a bowing agrostemma bud.
July 3, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Finally, after a few days of warm weather, the garden is finding its summer rhythm. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Borage just starting to flower. Yarrow 'summer berries' Blooming hens and chicks Marigold 'burning embers'
July 3, 2025 at 1:48 AM
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Still no focal flowers, but lots of yarrow. Played around with making a single flower arrangement. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Stems of pastel yellow yarrow arranged in a grey blue ceramic vessel.
June 29, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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I have no focal flowers right now, so it's tiny hand-tied bouquet season where marigolds and calendula are the stars. 🌼 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Tiny bouquet in a pitcher with calendula, burning embers marigolds, yarrow, chamomile, agastache, and smooth blue aster.
June 25, 2025 at 8:22 PM
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First bloom for the only rose in the garden 'Chinook Sunrise'. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Chinook sunrise rose bloom
June 20, 2025 at 4:55 PM
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Sedum Autumn Joy. One of my favourite for cut flowers. Looks beautiful at any growth stage. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Cluster of sedum autumn joy in the garden bed.
June 19, 2025 at 11:44 PM
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Year four in my garden and still a long way to go, but I'm happy with some of the cottage garden chaos as plants come together and wander about. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Sedum, gilia, scabiosa, bellis daisy, salvia, and dill in a small patch of my garden border.
June 18, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Self seeded foxglove 'Camelot'. Free plants are the best plants. So happy to see these back. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Foxglove stem with pink flowers, red and white speckled throats.
June 17, 2025 at 3:16 PM
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New favourite marigold unlocked: strawberry blonde. These blooms start out deep burgundy and get pale as they age, leading to beautiful variation. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Strawberry blonde marigolds and nasturtiums in a raised bed.
June 16, 2025 at 3:51 PM
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Peony season 💜 my Solange peony is five years old and produced five blossoms this year. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement in tea pot with Solange peonies, clematis flower, chamomile flower. Agastache, ladies mantle, and arugula for greenery.
June 16, 2025 at 1:16 AM
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Love sitting out on a warm afternoon watching the polinators do their thing. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown #bees #polinators 🌱🇨🇦
Honey bee collecting from nepeta flowers
June 5, 2025 at 10:01 PM
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Celebration of spring. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Flower arrangement in a tea pot with flax, sage, agastache, chives, salvia, and forget me nots.
May 31, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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Radish time is the best time of year. #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden 🌱🇨🇦
Handful of fresh picked french breakfast radishes.
May 26, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Blueberry ginger pie all done. 🫐🥧 #cooking #baking #fromscratch #canada #homemade #pie #handmade
Blueberry ginger pie with filling peeking out from crescent shaped cuts in the top crust dusted with granulated sugar.
May 24, 2025 at 3:23 PM
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I come from a long line of pie makers, but it is not my strength. Practicing to keep the legacy going. Blueberry Ginger pie for our LAN party tomorrow. #pie #baking #canada #baker #cooking #madeincanada #fromscratch
Blueberry ginger pie filling in an unbaked pie crust waiting for the top to be placed. The top sits nearby with the rolling pin.
May 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
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The real reason to grow alchemilla mollis is how it looks after rain. 💧🌿 #Bloomscrolling #garden #gardening #zone3 #canadiangarden #cottagegarden #cutflowers #grownnotflown 🌱🇨🇦
Alchemilla mollis, lady's mantle plant leaves beaded with drops of water
May 22, 2025 at 3:41 PM