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In a secluded lot next to a former gasworks in suburban Berlin, Martin Rotzel is breathing new life into a tradition of centuries past: the monastery garden.

Slavery and American exceptionalism: substack.com/@johnfdicker...

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Celosia🌱

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Datura in morning sun🌱

Sunday in the garden🌱

In the southern US, epiphytic resurrection ferns seem to be everywhere. This one was spied on a water oak while I was dog walking today. They earned their name by being able to be dried out, yet returning to life after a rainfall. #nativeplants #ferns #nature

A room with a view🌱

It’s been a good year for canna, with adequate rain and fewer leaf roller caterpillars🌱

Native vines, smilax and trumpet creeper🌱

Purple datura opening up 🌱

Red buckeye grows readily from seed🌱

Late blooming wisteria🌱

How about a Cutleaf Cornflower (Rudbeckia laciniata) for #YellowSunday 🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #BloomScrolling #FlowerFeed #SundayYellow

Hidden ginger🌱

Morning glory up high in Lady Banks rose🌱

Tall and elegant Philippine lily🌱

Obedient plant obliging a butterfly🌱

Devil’s trumpet(Datura)🌱

One of my favorite native plants, seed box(Ludwigia alternifolia), is in bloom. 🌱

First white ginger blooms of the year🌱

Mandevilla, angel trumpet, and Philippine lily buds. Looking very tropical here🌱

you are SUPPOSED to signal virtue. The actual argument, such as it exists, is that people are signaling virtue while not actually being virtuous. But you are supposed to signal virtue and BE VIRTUOUS.

You know you’ve changed course in life when your wine rack becomes a planter😂🌱

Devils trumpet(Datura) and Bengal tiger canna🌱

Magnificent marigold🌱

Didn’t think it would make it into Raw Story but there you are… www.rawstory.com/rfk-peter-ho...

NEW from me — I wrote about FEMA Acting Administrator David Richardson, who has been completely silent and out of view since deadly floods devastated Texas last week, and spoke to staffers about what it's like to respond to a disaster with no leader. Read here:

Three of a kind🌱

"The Confederacy was founded by wealthy white men desperate to hold on to their power and secure their fortunes...Trumpism is driven by wealthy white men desperate to hold on to their power and secure their fortunes...they have convinced enough non-wealthy whites...to create a powerful movement."

Red, white, and blue flowers on the 4th🇺🇸

Upright elephant ear blooming🌱

Making the most of things🌱

Orange you glad summer brings crocosmia, tiger lilies, and day lilies 😄🌱

Crinum “Ellen Bosanquet”🌱

Dill in bloom🌱

A few more from Gulfport, MS #NoKings

Evergreen wisteria has lovely jewel tones, but a fragrance that, to me, is similar to mothballs 😆🌱

Old fashioned orange day lily says days are heating up🌱

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Preparing for takeoff 🌱

Any democratic nation that seeks to avoid its “negative history” rather than to learn from it will not be a real democracy very long The internment of Japanese AMERICANS happened. It’s important to understand HOW — what was the fear, reality, panic of that time /1 www.sfgate.com/california-p...

Native beauty berry. I use the leaves to make a tincture for mosquito repellent 🌱

In the pink🌱

Swamp spider lily🌱

Buttonbush blooms beginning to brown🌱

Zippy zinnia 😀🌱