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Mike W 👨‍🌾🌱🌷🐝
@cutflowergrower.bsky.social
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"To Garden is believe in tomorrow"
-Audrey Hepburn 🌱

⚘️🌺central Florida UnGardener for Wellbeing🌼🌸
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"Our one true Nationality is Mankind." 🇱🇷
-HG Wells
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Ranunculus Elegance series and Cloni series are new to my growing this year. Can't wait for them to yield all they promise.
#gardening #organic-gardening ##Floridagardening #flowers #bloomscrolling
Italian Ranunculus Italian Ranunculus Italian Ranunculus Italian Ranunculus
October 28, 2025 at 7:49 PM
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#gardening #organic-gardening
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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My garden after storm last nite, hurricane Melissa
#gardening #organic-gardening #containergardening
October 27, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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A wonderful morning to all. #HappyMonday #Bluesky family. Bless all y'all

#goodmorning #lily #lilies #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardening #organic-gardening #Floridagardening
A Stargazer Lily opened in last night's hurricane with massive downpours. God is blessing my garden.
October 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Succession 2 consists of Teceolote Ranunculus Picotee Mix, Red, White, and Pink. Ranunculus Aviv Variety Mix and Cafe Au Lait, and Anemone De Caen Variety Mix
#gardening #organic-gardening #anemone #ranunculus #floridagardening
Anemone de Caen Ranunculus Ranunculus Anemone de caen
October 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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Starting to soak succession 2 for 4 hours, changing water ea hour, then set up pre sprout in 75° outdoors with little spraying to maximize root growth, minimize rotted, & get sprouts growing. Mixture of vermiculite and potting soil will be used.
#gardening #organic-gardening #Ranunculus
Ranunculus variety mix and Cafe Au Lait Mix Template Ranunculus PIcotee Mix, Red, White, and Pink
October 25, 2025 at 5:29 PM
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When checking corm viability after storage, all gladiolus methods, which vary based on size, all begin with total removal of paper protection. Hot yellow corms meat told me under no uncertain doubts do I have Fusarium. An educational lesson.
#gladiolus #organic-gardening #gardening #fusarium
October 25, 2025 at 5:18 PM
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and when held by the tops of the pointed end of the sheath, 2 or 3 corms/cormels or some variation on the kind fall through as if the sheath was too dry.
#gardening #organic-gardening #Freesia #corms #cormels
The state of the Freesia corms on 10/22/2025. Never presprouted nor woken up
October 25, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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1st week temps stay below 83° My 1st succession Ranunculus, Anemone, and Freesia get planted. I will split up my gladiolus corms to make 3 successions to last until the Spring 26 special cultivars arrive
Best effort made on the Freesia and gladiolus corners.
#gardening #gladiolus #organic-gardening
Planted April 4, 2025, yield of gladiolus corms and corners, cured and been in storage since late-August
October 25, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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Checkersntodaybatbthebgroomers and afterwards, posing for the camera
#dogsofbluesky
Checkers all wet A clean dog is a happy dog
October 9, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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The offending 4 bags, already much drier under my covered lanai
#gardening ##organic-gardening #dahlias
3 weeks has gone by for the most part and with 1 rotted out, I'm quarantined the offending grow bags
October 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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Today's progress: a 5th grow bags has a new sprout I found just 1" under the soil. The 2 largest dahlias are growing lateral stems at quite a rate, after 7 days of nothing happened following pinching them
#gardening #dahlias ##organic-gardening
5 grow bags of dahlias definitely growing A dahlias sprout A dahlias sprout The white mark is the newest found sprouts to breach the soil
October 8, 2025 at 11:27 PM
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MATCHMAKER, MATCHMAKER, MAKE ME A MATCH!!
ITS YENTA!
#dogsofbluesky #gardening
Julienwearing the bandana Checkers got at grooming today Julienwearing the bandana Checkers got at grooming today
October 8, 2025 at 11:00 PM
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Now with the vermiculite the consistency of a wet sponge rung out, both the larger bowl and square dish have Anemone corms and Ranunculus aviv and Tecolote Ranunculus corms pressed gently into it and covered with another 1.5" of vermiculite sprayed moist and lightly covered for humidity.
#gardening
at right, the 2 glass preserves are placed in the fridge at 45° and kept in dark, with their plastic see thru lids lightly affixed to create humidity but not be airtight thus preventing the exchange of gases a glass bowl and glass square, food preserving dishes, repurposed for pre sprouting with vermiculite
October 7, 2025 at 10:02 PM
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I'm really enjoying seeing the whole Lantana camara covered in blooms. Theyve become such a deep magenta now.
#gardening #organic-gardening #Lantana #flowers #flowerreport #bloomscrolling
Lantana camara 'Bloomify Pinkberry' Lantana camara 'Bloomify Pinkberry' Lantana camara 'Bloomify Pinkberry' Lantana camara 'Bloomify Pinkberry'
October 7, 2025 at 5:51 PM
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After 4.5 hours, the Anemone corm went from shriveled raisinette to looking like a spinning top. The Tecolote Ranunculus corms are nice and swollen. Now they sit and air dry for 2 hours before planting in vermiculite to pre sprout.
#gardening #organic-gardening #Ranunculus #anemone #corms
Anemone corms looks like a spinning top Fat and full the Tecolote Ranunculus corms looks healthy
October 7, 2025 at 5:43 PM
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Does anyone have a budget-conscuous way to organically rid Dahlias of leaf miners that burrow btwn my leaves,laid eggs, and their larvae are feeding?
#dahlia #dahlias #organic-gardening #gardening #dailydahlia #organic #organicfarming #insectpests #leafminer
White trails of leaf miner larvae on young dahlia leaves with a bite taken out of the bottom middle leaf White trails of leaf miner larvae on young dahlia leaves
October 7, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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My bathroom is my temporary workspace. 5 glass bowls with water over them. I'm refilling the water every 45 minutes, as I have the extra rooting hormone to spare.
#gardening #organic-gardening #Ranunculus #AnemoneDeCaen
The pellets are Anemone corms, the smallest corms are Ranunculus aviv and the 2 larger corms are Tecolote Ranunculus.
October 7, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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My garden in the beginning of the season, today, 10/7/2025. I'm and UnGardener, that is gardening in September thru mid June with Summers off
#gardening #organic-gardening #FloridaGardener #cutflowers #succulents #Agastache #Lantana #OrientalLily #ShastaDaisy #TrumpetVine
Flowering end of a stem on the Yellow Trumpet Vine My succulent bed with Abbeydore Pink Sedum. 3 variegated Kalanchoe, and a Mother Aloe aborescens and her four 1 year old stem offsets Just dead 1 month ago. Shasta Daisy making a rebound strong and healthy With and dwarf Oriental Lily in the background, 2 potted Lantana camara 'Bloomify' & an Agastache hybrida 'Blue Bayou'
October 7, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Soaking and pre sprouting my Ranunculus Mix, Ranunculus Cafe Au Lait, and Tecolote Ranunculus Picotee Mix, White. Red & Pink cultivars plus Anemone De Caen. This is 1/5 successive plantings, to begin 10/21 after pre sprout has finished
#gardening #organic-gardening #Ranunculus #AnemoneDeCaen
5 small bowls containing Anemone De Caen corms, Ranunculus Cafe Au Lait corms, Ranunculus Mix corms, Tecolote Ranunculus Picotee Mix corms and a combo of 2 each- Tecolote Ranunculus White, Red & Pink dried A dried Tecolote Ranunculus White corm
October 7, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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My #dahlias thusfar to have sprouted in 7 gallon (and one accidental 5 gallon) grow bags. I decided to not label the cultivars to add to the excitement of what's going to greet me upon the opening of the 1st bloom.
#gardening #organic-gardening #dailydahlia #containergardening #zone10a
October 7, 2025 at 10:48 AM
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Good morning Bluesky! Have a great Tuesday.
#dogsofbluesky
October 7, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Worst is that being cocky and sloppy I removed all cultivar labels to be surprised at flowering. Now I regret all this. Such is life. These bags and soil can dry out and be used for my seeds and ranunculus/anemone corms.
#gardening #organic-gardening #dahlias
This final dahlia was noticed when I went to take the pictures today. Not sprouted this morning, this is 1 to look out for
October 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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the tubers' bodies and exposing the necks and crowns, all had started pushing sprouts from small eyes. But being from my earlier acquiring , mishandling them in storage b4 finally securing viability in vermiculite took time and I don't have any extras
#gardening #organic-gardening #dahlias
This dahlia sprouted 4 days ago and was accidentally planted in a 5 gallon grow bag. But i remember this was Rebecca's World. This dahlia sprouted 2 days ago. Very small but moving fast as the weather cools to 85° days
October 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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I'm a bit bummed as those whom I feared smothered were my only remaining Kelvin Floodlight and Nick Sr tubers which were heavily damaged during shipment. I also really wanted 2 cultivars whom have yet to surface but had awoke in shallow soil covering just
#gardening #organic-gardening #dahlias
This is a thinner, whispier stemmed dahlia that's begun taking off growing. 2 stems were pinched 7 days ago and the 3rd today, and has avoided the leaf miner until noticing small damage today. But its leaves are small to begin with!
October 6, 2025 at 10:16 PM