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stephjacq
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Gardening, parenting, and navigating neurodivergence. She/they, currently on Vancouver Island. Join my webring.
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Good morning, please enjoy some #bloomscrolling Getting a face full of these colours is a lovely way to start the day ✨

#flowers #gardening
Hundreds of dark blood red petals radiate in a huge bloom. Next to it, a bud is poised to burst forth a cluster of maroon spikes This one almost defies description, it’s hard to believe something this magnificent comes out of a shrivelled turd of a tuber. A ball the size of a grapefruit, the petals are curled in like tubes cut on the diagonal. The outside of the tube is a deep crimson, the inside streaked with a peach gold that gives the effect of a tropical sunset. This is the magic of gardening. Sunflowers stand tall against the morning sky. Most are dark yellow with brown/orange centres, one is bright yellow. My favourite is a gorgeous dusty pink with a ring of yellow in the centre. I think it’s the autumn beauty variety I’ve been trying to grow the past few years! This year none that I planted came up. These are all growing in the middle of the gravel path! The rest of the seeds get devoured by birds in autumn.
July 27, 2025 at 2:40 PM
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Black lily has returned, glorious
#bloomscrolling #flowers #gardeningA
A lily with black, tongue-shaped petals and furry burnt orange stamens
July 9, 2025 at 3:30 AM
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Today for our #bloomscrolling we have self-sown borage and a bee enjoying a pincushion flower

#gardening #flowers
These flowers appear to be hanging upside down, many droopy arms covered in tiny silver hairs, their petals an impossibly iridescent purple A fuzzy, yellow and orange bee sits in the middle of a flower the size of an orange. Scabiosa start off looking like a yellow-green pin cushion, then explode delicate mauve ruffles from each pin head, starting at the bottom until covered like a pompom
July 6, 2025 at 11:26 PM
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Delight in confounding ad algorithms by subverting the dominant paradigm. Your ungovernable purchasing habits will lead to things like
*checks notes*
commercial concrete services in your area!
Screenshot of a mobile ad for “concrete cutting and removal in Vancouver and surrounding areas” with a picture of said equipment. Shame they do not service my area and that I have no concrete to cut or remove, I guess. “Transform your space with our concrete placing and finishing services. Get a quote today!” with a pic of at least 7 people in high vis watching while their colleague smooths out a large patch of freshly poured concrete “Core drilling for all applications!” with a pic of what I assume is said core driller, although what applications it has beyond tunnelling through your freshly poured concrete remains a mystery
July 4, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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Finally had some success with papaver somniferum in the back yard this year and I’m thrilled. Poppies come in the most divine colours ✨

#bloomscrolling #flowers #pollinatorgarden
A tall poppy with crepe like petals in a deep crimson pink that fades into dark purple in the centre
July 4, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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Kale keeps giving all season, and it’s so pretty

#gardening
Long leaves of curly blue-green kale with a pearlescent purple stem and veins
June 24, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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and we finish with this absolute stunner, allium christophii
a huge dome of star-shaped flowers with slender silvery-mauve petals, chartreuse centres and crowns of purple stamens
June 23, 2025 at 10:17 PM
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Foxgloves
flowers shaped like trumpets in dusty pink with stamens like tongues and spotted throats this one is more of a vibrant candy pink with dark purple spots on the throat
June 23, 2025 at 10:14 PM
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They come in such a gorgeous range of colours
A single poppy, deep red with a dark purple centre and a yellow head This poppy is somewhere between red and pink, single but with a handful of curly tentacle petals and a dark purple centre
June 23, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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I'm not sure if these all have different names, but they're a mix of singles, doubles and peony poppies that I got a few years ago from someone in the local gardening group.
a poppy with pale candy pink petals, like a cup full of tentacles, they are dark purple in the centre this one is a full sphere of tentacle petals, a slightly brighter pink also dark in the middle
June 23, 2025 at 10:07 PM
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Some close-up some purple garden magic for your Monday

We'll start with some of the fancy poppies.

#bloomscrolling #flowers #pollinatorgarden
purple single poppy with dark purple centre pale mauve peony poppy with dark purple centre
June 23, 2025 at 10:04 PM
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Bee enjoying wisteria
#bloomscrolling #flowers #pollinatorgarden
A fuzzy brown and yellow bee drinks from mauve flowers with yellow centres that cascade from a lush green vine
June 19, 2025 at 1:34 AM
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Tuesday is better with a mate

#bloomscrolling #garden #flowers
Red rose Maybe clematis Blue clematis Mauve and yellow wisteria
June 11, 2025 at 1:37 AM
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We weren’t planning to go to Mauritshuis but The Netherlands has an awesome unlimited visit museum card, so we went on a whim. It was incredible! Also, this cow!!
A folder with an image of De stier (the bull) by Paulus Potter, 1647 COW INTENSIFIES
June 8, 2025 at 10:16 PM
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Purple garden magic baby

#gardening #growhabitatnotlawn
A garden filled with green and dotted with blue-purple flowers
June 8, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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View from my office
#gardening #growhabitatnotlawn
A desolate lawn with a line of big firs and a line of small firs awkwardly diagonal in the centre The same row of big firs has grown into a hedge. In front of it a variety of shrubs and flowers in varying shades of purple, including foxgloves, poppies, alliums and baptisia
June 7, 2025 at 8:23 PM
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#caturday status update: proximity
A voidfloof sleeps sprawled on the corner of the bed while a ginger is prawned on the adjacent chair
June 7, 2025 at 7:47 PM
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It just started raining so the poppies have covered their heads

#bloomscrolling #garden #flowers
Baptisia- tall spikes with little mauve bean shaped flowers A dome of purple star shaped flowers tops an allium Princess Victoria Louise has salmon coloured petals like frills of tissue These poppies are the most obnoxious safety orange and I love them dearly
June 4, 2025 at 12:34 AM
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Brainhorse contains multitudes

#artjournal
Sketch of a seated unicorn in black brush pen filled with figures in washi tape with some stamped inks in the background
May 31, 2025 at 10:03 PM
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#Caturday status update
Floofy black cat lounging Stripy orange cat prawning
May 31, 2025 at 7:54 PM
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Love when you can see the little chomps
The leaf of a hosta missing pieces shaped like bites
May 30, 2025 at 10:45 PM
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Garden time travel >>5years

#gardening #timeisaflatcircle
A half dead lawn with four young fir trees in the middle, planted on a diagonal and ringed by bricks Garden with a variety of self-seeded annuals, perennials, shrubs and trees. There are purple alliums on the left, and the rest is a patchwork of greens, yellow and deep maroon
May 21, 2025 at 6:54 PM
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Deterring birds with file storage like it’s 1998
Three CDRs hung with twine from a wire coat hanger, suspended from the ceiling over the porch in front of a garden
May 20, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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20250511, mixed paper
#analogcollage
A care bear attempts to bust business cat out of the iron cage of capitalism
May 11, 2025 at 9:56 PM
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Goth Spring planting finally coming together ✨

#gardening #spring
Queen of Night tulips with glossy black petals stand out in a mostly green garden accented with red maples
May 6, 2025 at 9:59 PM