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Cindy H.
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☀️ Meteorologist 🌻 Gardener (Zone 5a)
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Northern Lights from Southwest Wisconsin.
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Red and Green Northern Lights tonight over SW Wisconsin. I'm sitting right on the edge of clouds.
November 12, 2025 at 3:16 AM
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I don't have a great photo of the plant itself this year. The leaves are darker and reddish compared to other dahlias (who are new to me this year). It seems to be more of a landscape dahlia, as it doesn't get too tall and stems are fine for mason jar bouquets, but not long.
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This dahlia bloom shows more of the light center than others in this conversation. Almost gold but soft with Magenta ish edges to the petals.
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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All I wanted was her name, because I love this plant. They think it might be Karma Fuchsiana. I don't think that's right.

Photos of KF I find online are way more pink and bright yellow. This bloom is hard to photograph, but runs a deeper color and the accent is softer golden yellow.
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A dahlia blossom, name unknown. Pinkish red or reddish pink, sorta Magenta. The petals soften to a wrap soft yellowish color in the middle.
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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What is this Dahlia?

Several years ago, I ordered my first tubers, they were supposed to be Cornel Bronze. Once she bloomed, I knew that there was a mix up. I contacted the shop, who got in touch with the grower.
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Magenta ish dahlia bloom. Name unknown at this time.
October 29, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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The frost finally arrived last Thursday night/Friday morning. Time to store dahlia tubers and start thinking ahead to seed starting.
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The petals of a David Howard dahlia. They are soft orange and tipped with tiny frost crystals. A frosted pink zinnia blossom. The underside of a nasturtium leaf, the frost is helping to see the network of veins.
October 28, 2025 at 2:24 AM
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A good frost comes tonight. It was my last chance to get pineapple sage cuttings. I also started rosemary for 2026.

Lemongrass grass got put in the shed tonight and the garage tomorrow night. I just need to get to the weekend to harvest.
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Small pinapple sage cuttings in two 6-cell containers. I root cuttings for next year's plants. It's an easy one to get started. Small rosemary branches stuck in soil. I take cuttings and grow them for the next season. Rosemary became impossible to find in the spring of 2020, the following year, I learned about how easy they can sprout roots.
October 23, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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Oh the mosquitoes! I went out after work, and didn't grab my head net. Big mistake... thank goodness for cortisone cream.

We've had a resurgence in the tomatoes and temps look good for the next 2 weeks to get more that are still tasty.
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Harvest basket full of tomatoes. Big yellow is a Gold Medal. The dark ones are either Paul Robeson or Cherokee/Lehoulier Chocolate . San Marzano and Blue Beech paste tomatoes. Sun sugar are the yellow cherry. Black are the brownish purple cherry. Perfection in Pink and Midnight Indigo are the two cherry tomatoes with super dark tops.
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
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This is another new to me Dahlia, Arabian Night. Early season blooms were even a bit darker
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Dark red decorative dahlia.
September 4, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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David Howard dahlia

New one to me this year. Any idea why there is one weird white petal? It looks like there maybe another one to open.
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David Howard dahlias, orange decorative dahlia with a little backlight glow from the morning sun. It has one weird white petal just to the right of the center.
September 4, 2025 at 2:34 AM
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I found this beauty on my baptisia today. I wonder who made it. I'll be watching the area to see if we have an orb weaver. There were a few years we had both yellow black garden spiders and catfaced spiders, haven't seen either for several years.
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Black and white image of the leaves of native baptisia with a large spider web covering the plant. The spider web has dew on it, which helps it be visible. I chose black and white, as that also helped this web to be visible against the busy background.
September 3, 2025 at 1:49 AM
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Peach jam, peach BBQ sauce are headed to the freezer today.

Ended up with just over a case of peaches, we love them but won't be able to eat that many fresh. So, I'm make two recipes for the freezer.

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The Freeze Fresh book by Crystal Schmidt is above a pot full of chopped peaches.
September 1, 2025 at 6:48 PM
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A sunset with waves in the clouds creating the alternating pattern.
#BlueSkyArtShow #alternating #phonetography #phonephotography #clouds
2015 sunset view with an orange glow through the entire sky. The clouds in shoe stripes from waves. I believe they are gravity waves. The bottom of the image are rooftops of neighborhood homes.
July 26, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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Today's Blue Sky Art Show theme was a perfect one to enter one (or maybe a few) of my favorite types of photos. I spent a few years chasing water drops. I never cheated with a hose or spray bottle.
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Several water drops are in the center of a green leaf. I think it was a bleeding heart leaf, but I am not positive. Each point of the leaf has a tiny bit of pink on the tip.
July 19, 2025 at 3:09 PM
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David Howard dahlias... this one is new to me season. We had a foggy morning today, when I snapped this quick photo.
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Soft orange Dahlia named David Howard, I ordered feom Longfield Gardens. It's a new one foe me this year and I am loving it. Behind the blooms are the railing of the front porch.
July 19, 2025 at 12:16 AM
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Here's the full shrub in the garden.
Center is the Pop Star hydrangea, a short and compact shrub. Bit green leaves with blue(ish) blossoms. This is a garden tucked into the corner at the end of the house and deck.
July 18, 2025 at 4:08 AM
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My Pop Star hydrangea is looking so cute. I did put some BerryTone to push it further blue from where it was last year. This small shrub did die all the way back over winter, it is all new branches for this year.
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Close-up photo of a blue-ish lace cap hydrangea, known as Pop Star, an Endless Summer variety. It is surrounded by leaves of the shrub. A few stems of northern sea oats are growing up through the shrub. I believe it is a big leaf macrophylla hydrangea. It looks bluer in person, in photos, a bit more of the pink shimmer shows.
July 18, 2025 at 4:06 AM
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The kohlrabi was harvested after work today. I forgot to start any, these are purchased starts, I don't know the variety.
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Three kohlrabi bulbs on my orange and black Halloween towel. These were just harvested from the garden. My favorite summer salad is a great citrus kohlrabi slaw.
July 15, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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It has been a few years since we've had Leopard Frogs in the yard. He's hanging out in a flower bed, where we get a lot of box elder bugs.
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A green Northern Leopard Frog showing off his spots. This is a top-down view, and it is sitting on bark mulch. A view of a Northern Leopard Frog's face. It's in the garden, sitting on bark mulch, with some green daylily leaves in front.
July 6, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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I love foggy mornings. When I used to work evenings, I had time some morni gs to just hit the backroads for a bit to explore with my camera.
#BlueSkyArtShow #GetOutside
A foggy scene with a green field in the front with a couple of fence posts in the foreground.
June 29, 2025 at 3:08 AM
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I'm so happy to see these. I saved the seeds from a plant I purchased last year... and they germinated!
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In the center are three rudbeckia blossoms, also known as black-eyed susans. These are bright yellow blossoms. In the background, to the right is coreopsis with another rudbeckia in the top left corner.
June 28, 2025 at 2:10 PM
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A new to me Dahlia, this is Arabian Night from Longfield Gardens.
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In the lower right corner is a dark red decorative dahlia blossom known as Arabian Night. Raindrops are on many of the petals. In the top left corner are additional blossoms, mostly facing away from the camera (and away from the front of the garden). Dark bricky-red dahlia blossom facing up and a bit to the right. Raindrops from a quick moving downpour cover the petals. This is Arabian Night dahlia.
June 27, 2025 at 12:26 PM
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Before the evening thunderstorm rolled through, I took a quick flower tour around d the house and garden. Yarrow near the front door.
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The image is a close up of pink yarrow flowers. The soft ferry green leaves are in the background.
June 27, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Successful Snap Peas! It has been a few years since I've tried snap peas, and they are a fave in this family.
Cascade on the top, Sugar Magnolia on the bottom. While the purple is pretty, I don't find them as tasty as others.
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Two tubs holding fresh picked snap peas. On top are all green pods from Cascade seeds. In the lower tub are Sugar Magnolia pea pods, which gave me a mix of purple and green pods.
June 26, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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Climate stripes for #ShowYourStripes Day. I selected Minneapolis as the closest option to southwest Wisconsin instead of Milwaukee.
June 21, 2025 at 7:55 PM
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One of the most vibrant blue sky days when we played a morning round of disc golf in the Montana badlands at Makoshika State Park, Montana.
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Makoshika Disc Golf course located in the Montana Badlands. Deep blue early June sky above. The light orange disc is still in the air as it was aimed through the pass between two stone walls. The top of the basket is yellow further back.
June 7, 2025 at 3:19 PM