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Ilena Gilbert-Mays
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Horticulturist in coastal North Carolina🐚 🇺🇸who loves tropicals, gingers and exotic plants, oh who am I kidding! I am obsessed with all plants and please, be kind🙏🌎🌱🌸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧
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Governor Mouton is a real beauty and a Camellia I always look forward to seeing in my garden.😍I am leaving on a adventure tomorrow 😉🧳✈️

#Flowers #Gardening #Camellias #Winter #Boston #December #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport
December 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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For #TinyFlowerTuesday we go inside my heated greenhouse to be greeted by finger lime trees in bloom with a lime already forming 😍💚

#Flowers #Gardening #Tropical #GulfOfMexico #Plants #FlowerReport
December 2, 2025 at 11:42 AM
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Oxalis greeting the sunrise on this first day of December. Very pleasant weather with rain forecast for tomorrow 🥰

#Flowers #December #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Oxalis
December 1, 2025 at 12:17 PM
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#SundayYellow is the first flower of my lemonberry pie mix violas. My violas have been a little sluggish getting started this year🤷🏼‍♀️

#Flowers #Gardening #Violas #Plants #GulfOfMexico #GYO #FlowerReport
November 30, 2025 at 12:04 PM
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It was a kit purchased through Lowes home improvement, the company is backyard discovery. He attached it to a concrete footer for hurricane purposes. The slope roof ones give lots of hanging baskets space which I never had in the peaked roof ones.
November 29, 2025 at 12:03 PM
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#FlowersOnFriday this week is my largest #Tillandsia aka air plant. I love them and have several in my collection. When it’s winter they live in south facing windows.

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Tropical #GulfOfMexico #AirPlants #FlowerReport
November 28, 2025 at 12:47 PM
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Well right on time⏰here is the first of my Thanksgiving cactus in bloom 😍#HappyThanksgiving #Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Autumn #November #MyGreenhouse #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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#Snapdragons are a great winter flower here in my zone. I make sure to keep some growing every Autumn for winter blooms 😃

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GYO #November #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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My favorite mailbox #Clematis really suffered over the summer but now she’s making a comeback 😃🙌💜

#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #Plants #Autumn #November #FlowerReport #GYO
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
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Starting off the week with a California poppy in bloom. I have three pots of them now and they do well for me😃🙌💛

#Flowers #Gardening #Poppies #Plants #GYO #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Autumn #November
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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#SevenOnSunday #Violas starting to bloom, Acer on fire, sharphead #cabbage halfway there, Thanksgiving #cactus almost, #Kalanchoes budding and I am forcing my own #Amaryllis and #Rainbow 🥰

#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #Plants #GYO #FlowerReport #RetirementLife
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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For #Caturday our kitten Ms. pickles the struggle is real against one of the two older cats🤣

#Cats #BlackAndWhiteCats #CatsOfBlueSky
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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#SixOnSaturday this week is my favorite seed catalogue, still a few flowers blooming, a sweet ladybug and a lazy lizard 😂

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Autumn #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Ladybugs #November
November 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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#FlowersOnFriday this week are the potted petunias that have been going strong since last spring. I have them against a south facing brick wall for winter.

#Flowers #Gardening #Petunias #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #GYO #November #Autumn
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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It’s been a great year for toad lilies🐸 but they are almost finished blooming for the season now

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #Autumn #November #FlowerReport
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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My one hardy #Fuchsia really suffered this summer and every flower was nibbled🐌now look! Currently my one perfect flower😂 🙌🎉

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #November #GulfOfMexico #Autumn #FlowerReport
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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I have several large pots of Gerbera daises that while hardy I put them in the small cold greenhouse and they bloom off and on through the winter. 😍

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GYO #GulfOfMexico #MyGreenhouse #FlowerReport
November 18, 2025 at 12:29 PM
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And just like that, POW 💥 starting the week off with this beautiful #Camellia loaded with flowers in my favorite color 💖💝

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #Autumn #November #FlowerReport
November 17, 2025 at 12:01 PM
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#SundayYellow is my Farfugium japonicum aka Leopard plants that are blooming now. They are so unusual and large 😃

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #Autumn #November #FlowerReport
November 16, 2025 at 12:10 PM
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#SixOnSaturday this week is bright foliage, a sleeping bee and a few flowers still blooming. I have winter plants and flowers waking up now and will be showing off shortly.

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #Nature #Bees #FlowerReport #Autumn
November 15, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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#FlowersOnFriday Autumn Fire Azalea still blooming despite the cold nights.🥶❤️

#Flowers #Gardening #Azaleas #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Autumn
November 14, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Brave little zinnias growing from dropped seed in the vegetable garden 😍

#InsectThursday #Flowers #Gardening #Autumn #GulfOfMexico #Plants #FlowerReport
November 13, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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The warm, sunny greenhouse is starting to coax a few flowers out of my hanging Abutilon 😍

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Autumn #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #November
November 12, 2025 at 12:12 PM
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Autumn colored #Marigolds stealing the spotlight in the vegetable garden. It got down to 32 degrees last night so the tropicals are definitely finished now.🥶

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Autumn #GYO
November 11, 2025 at 1:13 PM
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Even tropical gingers like to show off their autumn colors. Seeds, cones and leaves add so much to the garden.🍂🍁

#Flowers #Gardening #Autumn #GulfOfMexico #Plants #GingerFlowers #FlowerReport #Tropical
November 10, 2025 at 11:32 AM