Today’s flower 🌱 #1255 Nodding pincushion

🌱 This was my mix cosmos patch this summer. Mostly pink. I think my fave remains Xzenia and apricot lemonade.

Kansas’ Marion County paid $3M for forgetting the First Amendment. After their illegal raid on the Marion County Record in 2023, local cops got their First Amendment lesson the expensive way. Police elsewhere should take note.

Yay! My order of bulbs just arrived. Some daffodils but I'm most excited about the great camas bulbs! Got a bunch of them and I'm planning on planting them in clumps between some of our fruit trees. Great camas (Camassia leichtlinii) is a native flower here in western WA. The bulbs are edible too! 🌱

Chuck Schumer Helps Pull Democrats Back From Brink Of Courage

My gorgeous maple tree showing off a little in the fall sunlight. I love this tree so much. 🌱

Good afternoon from Bumble Rumble 🌱 #FlowerReport from VA, #Bloomscrolling #dahlia

#HappyCaturday The munchkin looks concerned, using her Susan Collins severely concerned look.

🌱 Goodbye, goodbye sweet tomatoes! I missed you already! It’s been windy and rainy again but we have some sunny days ahead.

🌱 #SixOnSaturday. We got rain and strong winds again today. I think we’re going to have a dry Monday, then more rain for a week!!! Enjoy the flowers from this summer.

🌱 One of my last tomato flower “cake” this year.

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Sandhill cranes 🌿📷 #birdphotography #nature #birds #cranes

Moon and Stars Watermelon🌘🌙✨First year trellising like this, looks super cool, especially the starry leaves on this varietal. 🌱 We also did some pumpkins on the same fence and they turned out really cool too. Had they gotten too heavy we would’ve made a hammock sling to the espalier cables.

🌱 The artichoke is losing its “hair.” You can see one of the seeds getting ready to fly away on an adventure.

🌱 Happy Friday! Just about all but a few of the columnar apples have been harvested. One variety ripens later than the rest. All are about five ft tall this year.

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🌱 Most of the toms are gone now. I still have nasturtium stragglers; they did really well this year as trap plants in the vege plots. I can’t do without them and marigolds in the garden.

I stopped by to say hi to the sandhill cranes today. I wonder what they were talking about! 🪶

A new family moved in over night! 📷🍄 ….

I’m curious what’s the brag line of any current employee - I’m well qualified, I passed the open book test?

Lucia grew veggies in front of her house for 35 years. EVERYONE knew her. I cried with neighbors, and went away with everyone’s names - Lucia was still growing community even as she left us. 💚 Grow in your front yard, your parking strip. Grow community. It’s needed more than ever. Be a seed 🌱(3/3)

Following the path, autumn is bursting out all over. 🍂

🌱 These are the last of the Midnight Roma. Delightfully black and unique in the garden.

Erigeron karvinskianus has gone forth & multiplied for many years now - it flowers for months on end, adding a bit of cheer on gloomy days #GardensHour 🌱

NYT made an astounding discovery: the rich have money, the poor don't.

“People in South Shore have felt starved for the attention of government, of anyone in power, for decades,” he said. “It seems like an especially cruel irony that, when such attention finally comes, it takes the form of hostile theater — making a spectacle out of beating up on poor people.”

No Kings #Caturday ❤️

Happy #SixOnSaturday. Enjoy the persistent cosmos still flowering in the garden.

Do you know what a group of frogs is called? AN ARMY

My heart was jubilant while reading this story this morning - more than 100 Chinook salmon have passed the former Klamath River dam sites as well as the fish ladder at Klamath Lake and are naturally spawning in Oregon headwaters for the first time in over a century! 🐟🧪🌎 www.opb.org/article/2025...

So if you have a burning gardening question, you can email me at bourne2bloom@gmail or subscribe to my Substack below, and I will do my best answer them each month. bournetogarden.substack.com

Good morning! 🪶

As a historian, I can certify that we are in the bad times. But bad times eventually end. In the meantime: • Figure out a small way to help someone • Figure out a small way to fight back • Figure out a small place to find joy • Figure out a small way to grow and thrive And do it often.

🌱 Im not ready for fall but the pumpkins are ready! The small ones were grown in the garden.

🌱 This will be one of the last few hauls from the garden. Mornings are getting chilly. Something for the memory bank till next season.

Osteospermums have been as reliable as ever this year, flowering continuously since spring 🌱 #GardensHour #Bloomscrolling #flowers

The Strawflowers are still doing their weirdly crispy-petalled thing #GardensHour 🌱

Frithia Pulchra 🌱🌵 #SucculentSunday #PlantSky

In Berlin they have Stolpersteine marking where Jews, Gypsies and others were abducted off to concentration camps. In the US, we now have site of abduction notices.

Funds might materialized? Subject to the whims of somebodies who never served? Adversaries could not have possibly imagined these unfolding scenarios in their tabletop exercises!

🌱 The dahlias are still blooming but may not be for long. Mornings are now in the upper 40s. Halp! I’m not reaaaddy!#SixOnSaturday

A confrontation is building between the Supreme Court and the lower courts.

after millions of views and shares of my Portland Frog art. (thank you all🙏🏾) I got requests to highlight priests, and chickens, and Chicagoans, and T-Rexes, and more… all of us who refuse to bend the knee. so this is for US. 𝚂𝚝𝚊𝚗𝚍 𝚃𝚊𝚕𝚕. 𝚆𝚎 𝚆𝚒𝚕𝚕 𝚆𝚒𝚗.

This is awesome.

🌱 I have problems with earwigs this year which seemed to adore the columnar apples and have taken bites near the pedicels. What’s your trick in keeping them away? This is the first time I’ve seen them bother the fruits.

Being a chicken tender is seriously one of the most fulfilling hobbies, they just keep right on trucking even though I'm barely keeping it together. I'm feeling extremely melancholy and irritable this evening and want to either fight someone or cry, but at least I have a bucket of butt nuggets. 🌱🪶

All the colours 🍁🔥🌳🌱 #ScottishGardens #Beechgrove #autumn Details in alt text