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I really love that they planted #borage together with #calendula & #feverfew #plants 😍 So many pollinators were flying around this small area & feeding on the flowers.
There's sorrel growing closer to ground in the patch too.

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Borage, feverfew & calendula plants & flowers in the community garden.

Borage, feverfew & calendula plants & flowers in the community garden. With painted old car rims mounted on chainlink fence.

#Artichokes
#Feverfew
#CommonMallow
#CurlyDock

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#Thornless #blackberry #flowers & unripened #berries.
Tons of #oregano
Baby #WineGrapes

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Thornless blackberry stalk & unripened berries.

White/yellow #Hollyhock
Pink #MuskMallow
Red/purple #fuschias
Peach yellow #Daylilies

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#RibwortPlantain aka #EnglishPlantain - #PlantagoLanceolata
#TreeSpinach aka #GiantGoosefoot - #ChenopodiumGiganteum - close relative of quinoa.
#EvergreenHuckleberry aka #CynamokaBerry - #VacciniumOvatum - in the heather family.
#Hyssop - #HyssopusOfficinalis - growing with common #Sage - #SalviaOfficinalis

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Ribwort plantain aka English plantain plants. Showing their leaves, flowers & seeds.

Evergreen huckleberry plant - holding up some branches in my hand - showing foliage & baby berries growing.

Hyssop plants & their tiny purple flowers, growing with common sage.

Wark Street Commons Community Garden. Very small & packed with #biodiversity. Lots of #edible & #medicinal #plants are growing there. Public is free to gently harvest to eat/use as holistic medicine from this garden 💗
Located in a small multi-use community park.

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Pathway through the gardens. Large art mural is ahead, on a building, in the background.

Pathway into gardens. Large raised garden bed on the right, filled with herb plants. Large artichoke plants are in front of the bed. In background is a red event tent.

#Goji aka #Wolfberry #flowers & #berries.

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My left hand, holding some goji berry flowers on viney branches.

#Calendula & #rapini growing inside/outside #QuadraCommunityVillage #CommunityGardens

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Calendula flowers & rapini plants, growing together.

Our #strawberries are ripening up 🍓😃

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1 red strawberry ripening up. Lots of younger strawberries still growing.

Our #RoseBuds are starting to unfurl. Lots of #rose blooms are coming out soon 😍
Almost all the roses we have growing in our gardens, except for 1, were all propagated from free cuttings.

I'm not a rich woman so I'm quite huge on #FrugalGardening. #PlantPropagation from cuttings is one of my fave ways to grow free #plants 👍

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A red rose bud. Scattered blue skies & trees are blurred in background.

My Ambassadeur #irises have started to bloom. They smell like the original Opium perfume that was very popular in 80s & 90s.

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A single purple & yellow bearded iris flower.

Two new #BeardedIris #plants bloomed this morning. These are my 1st 2024 tiger #iris blooms. 😍
I love this time of year. There's new flowers appearing, daily ❤️

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A bearded tiger iris flower. Yellow with brown stripes.

Flowers update, at end of my lunch break.

Indoors - one of my tiger #orchids bloomed last night.

Outdoors - 1st #IrisNigricans, #NationalFlower of #Jordan bloomed & more to open this week. One of my Syrian friends gave me a pot of rhizomes 3yrs ago.
More grape soda #irises bloomed too.

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Black purple Iris nigricans flower & flower buds. Dirty basement window is in background.

Light purple iris flowers - they smell like grape soda / grape bubblegum.

I love #comfrey #plants.
They're great for #PollinatorGardens, useful for making homemade #fertilizer, #NitrogenFixer plant & also a topical #medicinal plant(good to use for small bruises & cuts). It's a pretty plant in bloom. Propagated all my comfreys from cuttings.

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Ombre pink comfrey flowers. One cluster in front & 2 clusters behind, on both sides.

Comfrey plant & ombre pink flowers with yellow wallflowers.

Our white #lilac tree is now over 8 feet tall.
I originally #propagated this from a small cutting, taken for free from a construction demolition site, 10 yrs ago.
It smells fabulous 🥰

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Clusters of fragrant white lilac flowers, with blue skies in background.

Clusters of fragrant white lilac flowers.

White lilac tree, surrounded by ornamental crabapple trees, with gray wood fence & old shed with mossy roof is behind it. The white lilac tree is taller than the shed.

Side gardens. Our #strawberries patch is bursting with lots of flowers & baby #fruits. I'm patiently waiting for them to mature & ripen up.
We grow strawberries in front & back gardens too. It's one of our fave fruits to eat, so we grow lots of them. We grow new #strawberry #plants to give away & some to sell, from propagating runners.

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