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Had a great Halloween this year. Took my nieces around and made some cool pumpkins. Carving pumpkins come from the Irish who upon finding pumpkins in the new world found them much easier to carve than potatoes.
November 3, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Chrysanthemums can be made perennials in zones like 6a. Just heap and bunch of straw or leaves over the dead mum to insulate from cold. They’ll come up next year and be massive.

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November 1, 2025 at 11:22 AM
A lot of people’s worries can be mended by realizing what is existentially true. #poem #poetry
October 20, 2025 at 2:00 PM
A perennial flower the Blue wood aster and an eastern bumblebee. They say this plant is only supposed to grow to 4 feet. It was 7 feet tall before it bowed under the weight of its bloom.

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September 30, 2025 at 1:37 PM
These guys flower in the hundreds.

Doellingeria umbellata: It is native to the eastern and north-central United States (from Nebraska and the Dakotas east to Maine and South to Mississippi, Georgia and the Florida Panhandle.

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September 11, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Zinnia elegans (syn. Zinnia violacea) known as youth-and-age, common zinnia or elegant zinnia, is an annual flowering plant in the family Asteraceae.

It is native to Mexico but grown as an ornamental in many places.

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August 20, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Cosmos bipinnatus, commonly called the garden cosmos, Mexican aster or cosmea, is a medium-sized flowering herbaceous plant in the daisy family Asteraceae, native to the Americas.

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August 13, 2025 at 7:22 PM
Coreopsis grandiflora is a North American species of perennial plant in the family Asteraceae. The common name is large-flowered tickseed.

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July 31, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Stylophorum diphyllum, commonly called the celandine poppy or wood poppy. It is native to North America, where it is found in the eastern United States and Ontario.
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July 30, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Mandevilla sanderi, the Brazilian jasmine, is a vine belonging to the genus Mandevilla.

It is a rapidly growing, creeping, perennial plant, pruning shoots about 60 cm per year.
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July 27, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Coreopsis grandiflora is a North American species of perennial plant in the family Asteraceae. The common name is large-flowered tickseed.

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July 16, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Monarda fistulosa, the wild bergamot or bee balm, is a wildflower in the mint family Lamiaceae, widespread and abundant as a native plant in much of North America.

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July 12, 2025 at 11:42 AM
Hibiscus moscheutos, the rose mallow or swamp rose-mallow is native east of Texas and north to southern Ontario. It likes moist soils and partial sun.

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July 7, 2025 at 2:00 PM
Penstemon barbatus- known by the common names golden-beard penstemon, and beardlip penstemon, is a flowering plant native to the western United States.

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July 4, 2025 at 10:26 AM
The common sunflower (Helianthus annuus) is a species of large annual forb of the daisy family Asteraceae.

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July 2, 2025 at 12:07 PM
Hemerocallis flava, known as lemon daylily, lemon lily, yellow daylily, and other names is a plant native to China, northeastern Italy, and Slovenia.

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June 28, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Asclepias tuberosa, commonly known as butterfly weed, is a species of milkweed native to eastern and southwestern North America.

It is commonly known as butterfly weed.
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June 25, 2025 at 1:31 PM
Iris versicolor L., Northern Blue Flag, or Harlequin Blueflag is native to the lower 48 states and appreciates wetlands.

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June 17, 2025 at 12:24 PM
Geranium wallichianum or Buxton’s Blue is native to the Himalayas.

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June 10, 2025 at 11:38 AM
Sisyrinchium angustifolium-

Blue-eyed Grass is a Pa native, enjoys moist/average soil and part sun.

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June 7, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Sundrop or Oenothera fruticosa is apart of the Evening Primrose Family, Onagraceae. Loves full sun and can tolerate drought.

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June 4, 2025 at 1:25 PM
Phragmipedium besseae is a species of orchid in the genus Phragmipedium.

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June 3, 2025 at 1:14 PM
Rhododendron kiusianum, the Kyushu azalea, is a species of flowering plant in the family Ericaceae, native to Kyushu, Japan

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June 1, 2025 at 2:13 PM
Penstemon digitalis or Foxglove Beardtongue is native to the central US and has been naturalized across the eastern US.

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May 31, 2025 at 1:39 PM
Philadelphia fleabane is common in most eastern states and Canada. Looked at as a weed, I appreciate its tiny flowers.

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May 29, 2025 at 12:21 PM