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anthophilia4est.bsky.social
Alana
@anthophilia4est.bsky.social
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Plants and animals, books, college basketball, #BBN. Anti-fascist. Seed collector, sower and trader. Diversity keeps the natural world viable, including human beings. I don't read dms. All plant photos are mine. Photos are subpar, not the plants.
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#SixOnSaturday White Flowers number 11, Vanilla. 🌱
#GardeningFeed
Top row: Daylily 'Land of Cotton', Canna 'Vanilla Ice', Rose 'Windemere Bottom left: Dipsacus lacinatus, Daylily 'Vanilla Fluff' over Zinnia 'Little Flower Girl'
March 29, 2025 at 3:57 PM
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#SixOnSaturday 🌱 White Flowers number 10. "𝖣𝖺𝗂𝗌𝗒, 𝖣𝖺𝗂𝗌𝗒, 𝗀𝗂𝗏𝖾 𝗆𝖾 𝗒𝗈𝗎𝗋 𝖺𝗇𝗌𝗐𝖾𝗋, 𝖽𝗈, 𝖨'𝗆 𝗁𝖺𝗅𝖿 𝖼𝗋𝖺𝗓𝗒, 𝖺𝗅𝗅 𝖿𝗈𝗋 𝗍𝗁𝖾 𝗅𝗈𝗏𝖾 𝗈𝖿 𝗒𝗈𝗎."
#GardeningFeed
Top row, Bidens pilosa, Tripleurospermum inodorum 'Bridal Robe', Bellis perennis "Super Enorma White'. Bottom, Leucanthemum superbum 'Alaska' with Leucanthemum superbum 'Sonnenschein' over Leucanthemum superbum 'Sunny Side Up'.
March 22, 2025 at 4:00 PM
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#FlowersOnFriday
Ice Follies
White petals, yellow cups that fade to white as the flowers age. Multiply enthusiastically.
March 21, 2025 at 12:00 PM
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#MagentaMonday 🌱 #gardeningfeed
Daylily 'Appalachian Ballad'
Shades of fuchsia/magenta in a Selman 2008 Daylily introduction.
March 17, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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#SundayYellow 🌱 #gardeningfeed

Marigolds Spinning Wheels, Mumsy, Daisy Wheels Yellow
Two yellow Marigold blooms with large center disks and petals arranged in clusters. A fluffy double golden Marigold with a green center. Yellow Marigold blooms with extra large central disk and serrated, broad single petals.
March 16, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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#SixOnSaturday, White Flowers number 9... number 9... number 9... from The White Album. 🌱 #gardeningfeed
Left, Cleome hassleriana with Callistephus chinensis 'White Star' and Peony 'Shirley Temple' beneath. Oriental Lily 'Casa Blanca', a white Mandevilla and Solanum sisymbriifolium on the right.
White flowers of different shapes and sizes. Upper left are whiskered spider flowers with needle aster and fluffy white Peony below. On left an Oriental Lily with deep red stamens, Mandevilla with yellow throat and spiny Litchi Tomato.
March 15, 2025 at 11:56 AM
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#MagentaMonday
Ricinus communis, New Zealand Purple
Large Castor Bean leaf, green overlaid with magenta with magenta midribs.
March 10, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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#SixOnSaturday White Flowers Number 8 🌱
Left column Ageratum houstonianum 'Snow Cloud', Petunia 'Lace Veil', Datura innoxia.
Top right, Geranium maculatum 'Hazel Gallagher' with Astilbe chinensis 'Dwarf White' over Ipomoea alba and Iris pseudacorus 'Alba' #gardeningfeed
White flowers of varied shapes and sizes.
March 8, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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#FlowersOnFriday Thunbergia alata 🌱 #gardeningfeed
Thunbergia alata 'African Sunset' singlet. Thunbergia alata 'Susie Clear White' trio of blooms. Thunbergia alata 'Arizona Red' blooms. Thunbergia alata 'Canary Eyes'.
March 7, 2025 at 5:48 PM
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The fun part is here! ᕼIᗷ, ᕼIᗷ ᕼOOᖇᗩY!
A few of the Hibiscus seedlings making their debut in the greenhouse. 🌱 #gardeningfeed
Hibiscus poeppigii, the Fairy Hibiscus: a seedling. Hibiscus radiatus seedling. Hibiscus furcellatus seedling. Hibiscus moscheutus seedling 'Summerific™ Evening Rose' x 'Plum Flambe'.
March 4, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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#TinyFlowerTuesday Lobularia maritima, 'Aphrodite Lemon'. 🌱 #gardeningfeed
March 4, 2025 at 11:20 AM
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#MagentaMonday 🌱
Tropical Water Lily from 'Tina' x ?
#gardeningfeed
A fuchsia and golden tropical waterlily blossom, fully open.
March 3, 2025 at 9:55 AM
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For #SundayYellow, Oriental-Trumpet Lily 'Baruta'. 🌱 #gardeningfeed
Oriental-Trumpet Lily stalk of yellow blooms.
March 2, 2025 at 1:34 PM
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🌱 #SixOnSaturday White Flowers number 7. #gardeningfeed

Clerodendrum incisum ‘Macrosiphon’ (Musical Note Plant) over Hosta 'Princess Wu' and Mirabilis longiflora on the left. Verbascum blattaria (Moth Mullein), Cuphea laevis, and Ipomoea pandurata (Old Man of the Earth) in the right column.
White flowers of varied forms; all with purple filaments, throats, or petal tips.
March 1, 2025 at 8:47 AM
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Please sir, may I have some more...brown #FlowersOnFriday? 🌱 #GardenSky
Salpiglossis sinuata 'Chocolate Royale', Helianthus annuus 'Chocolate Cherry', Aristolochia fimbriata, Iris germanica 'Thornbird'
A single brown Salpiglossis flower after rain. A chocolate brown Sunflower. The central disc is brown with rust, the petals are brown to burgundy at the tips. An Aristolochia fimbriata flower richly patterned with brown over green, decorated all around with green and brown "eyelashes". This is a lower toxicity Aristolchia and larval host plant for the Pipevine Swallowtail Butterfly, Battus philenor. A beautiful fawn colored bearded Iris of the "horns and spoons" or Space Age type.
February 28, 2025 at 9:26 AM
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Iris germanica, 'Mauna Loa Fire' Orange standards, gold throat, orange beard, rusty orange falls.
February 27, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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#RoseWednesday Shrub Rose 'Lemon Zest'
🌱 #gardenSky
A golden shrub rose 'Lemon Zest' blossom, full petaled and highly fragrant.
February 26, 2025 at 11:02 AM
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What can brown do for you? #gardenSky
🌱 Nicotiana 'Chocolate Smoke' Nicotiana langsdorffii 'Bronze Queen', Nicotiana 'Hot Chocolate'
A very dark Nicotiana blossom; the darkest 'brown' so far. A bronze colored Nicotiana bloom that looks pink overlayed with brown. Dark burgundy/brown Nicotiana blossoms.
February 25, 2025 at 10:01 AM
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#MagentaMonday Achillea millefolium 'Summer Berries'
An Achillea inflorescence of tiny magenta flowers.
February 24, 2025 at 9:14 AM
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Sunny #SundayYellow 🌱 Daylilies 'Going Bananas', 'Riviera Rapture', 'Emerald Splendor'
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Bright yellow Daylily, large blooms with lighter midribs. Chrome yellow Daylily bloom. Self, edged, green throat. Medium sized flowers. Large ruffled yellow Daylily flower with green midribs and throat.
February 23, 2025 at 9:15 AM
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I did not have any like that. If someone sold seeds they saved from the hybrid they would begin dehybridizing with the f2s, which can be disconcerting if you're not expecting it. If it was a commercial grower it could just be a one off.
February 22, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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For what it's worth I liked them a lot and would grow them again. I enjoyed the color morphing. My favorite version was this one, but they were all good.
February 22, 2025 at 10:45 AM
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🌱 White Flowers Part 6 #SixOnSaturday
Left, Hydrangea arborescens 'Annabelle' above Echinacea purpurescens 'Cheyenne Spirit' and Euphorbia marginata. Right, Fritillaria meleagris var. unicolor subvar. 'alba', Nigella damascena 'Miss Jekyll White', Mirabilis jalapa 'alba' #gardenSky
White flowers of various forms and sizes freshened by intimations of green.
February 22, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Leguminous #FlowersOnFriday 🌱 #gardensky
Phaseolus coccineus
'Painted Lady, 'alba', 'Blackcoat', 'Sunset'
Runner Bean growing on a post with red and white blossoms. Large white Runner Bean blooms. Bright red Runner Bean blossoms. Pale peach Runner Bean blossoms.
February 21, 2025 at 12:45 PM
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For #RoseWednesday, Climbing Hybrid Tea 'Royal Sunset'. 🌱 #gardenSky
Rose with large orange and peach petals, golden at the base, usually borne singly on vigorous thorny canes.
February 19, 2025 at 8:25 AM