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GabbyLawless

@gabbylawless.bsky.social

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Breton French immigrant, mosaic artist, forever horticulture student. I tend to my subtropical garden in Charleston, SC. I post about nature, flowers, insects and birds. I love frogs! Pictures are all mine unless reposted. No DM, please.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 3h

Tarragon blooming.
#SundayYellow #BloomScrolling #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱

Golden yellow Tarragon flowers, the background is filled with those pointy tarragon leaves.

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 1d

A challenge this morning to gather six pictures under the constant rain; with the King tides, half of downtown Charleston is under water.
#SixOnSaturday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱

Serissa foetida looks like thyme but has the most precious whitish/pink blooms, usually a plant that people turn into bonsai. Black and Purple Salvia, pink vincas, "Lavender Verenda' Rose, bright white daisies with their yellow center and a couple of stragglers lavender and pink Clematis blooms.

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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 8d

For the first #SixOnSaturday of #October I present the bee edition. #Bees are a crucial worker in my gardens. Without them there is no food or seeds and they are a great source of entertainment to watch😃🐝

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Autumn

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 2d

..."But when we are silent
We are still afraid
So it is better to speak
Remembering
We were never meant to survive."
Audrey Lorde
#FrogFriday #EastCoastKin #Gardening #Herps 🐸 🌱

A tiny green frog is holding on for dear life on an Oregano twig. She is surrounded by oregano leaves as big as she is. The background is dark with a crisscross of oregano stems.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 2d

Thank you Pam! 🧡

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 3d

I think it is a wonderful idea, I find it a bit hard to explain (lack of English vocabulary I guess) but it's a great exercise for me and hopefully helpful to others.

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Rob 🇨🇦 @rockinbones.bsky.social · 3d

#BirdOfTheDay #Spotted 🪶🦉
Spotted by a Great Horned Owl, likely way before I spotted it .

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 3d

She sure is staring, great picture!

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you for the invite!

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 3d

The view from a window at the Mont-Saint-Michel
#PalacesAndGardens #MythandLegend #EastCoastKin

View through through one of the ancient windows of the Mont Saint-Michel. Each glass panel has a different tint of yellows and blues but it not stained glass, just ancient. The view shows the tidal flats going on forever.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 3d

Thank you Áine, that is a very nice thing to say! 💛

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 4d

You know, I have had this rose for many years, I don't remember her name and it looks miserable most of the time, but once in while, she thanks me for letting her live! 😊

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 4d

#RoseWednesday #EastCoastKin #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱

A coral colored rose surrounded by green leaves.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 5d

Most people get the Persian Shield plant with its glorious purple and silver leaves but I prefer his cousin, with its green leaves and airy purple bells showing up when everything else is getting tired.
#TinyFlowerTuesday #BoomScrolling #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱

Purple tubular bell flowers from the Strobilanthes atropurpurea. In the background two green and black giant Elephant Ears leaves.

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 5d

Thank you Áine!

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 5d

We rarely get temps in the 20's, thank you for all the information!

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 6d

Are they more tender than the red ones? Those die back completely in the winter and come back with the blooms at the end of September. The leaves form a mat for a while before disappearing.

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 6d

Thank you Pam!

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 6d

October month, the bumblebees are still working hard.
#MagentaMonday #FlowerReport #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱

A Celosia bloom dark magenta before opening and lighting up with white as the bloom comes out. A bumblebee is flying off it, in the background, some green shrubbery and a fence.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 6d

I have the red ones, I really like that yellow color! 💛

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 8d

What interest is left in the garden beginning of October? Still quite a bit with a lot more golden, orange and red blooms.
#SixOnSaturday #EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱

Black Coral Elephant ears are a shiny black, Pharaoh's Mask Colocasia are a bright green with large black stripes that makes the leaves curl back like a Pharaoh's Mask. Tahitian Flame butterfly ginger is a creamy orange color, Abutilon flowers are little pendulums dark yellow with an orange pistils, Thunbergia vine, also called Black Eye Susan Vine is golden yellow with a dark center, then a bright red orange Marigold and a golden orange Canna to finish.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 9d

Blueberry Canna for the last time.
I am done fighting the Brazilian Skipper larvae that decimates all the Cannas, I am pulling them all out this weekend.
#EastCoastKin #BloomScrolling #FlowerFeed #Gardening 🌱

Bright orange bloom from a Blueberry Canna. In the background, strong and rigid canes from a rose bush, blue sky and the shape of a house.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 9d

My husband loves proper pizza so he built a Pompeii oven in the backyard.
#FoodOnFriday #EastCoastKin #Pizza

The inside of a Pompeii style oven glowing with a fire all along its edges. In the center, a pizza is cooking.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 11d

Slim picking for roses at this time of the year.
Imelda is bringing bands of rain and the plants are breathing a sigh of relief.
#RoseWednesday #Rose #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱

Drift rose blooms are light pink, with some hints of apricots and fuchsia spots, the small buds are orange. Some drops of rain are visible on the petals. the background is blurry

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yumi @yumih5.bsky.social · 13d

おはようございますᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈ꕤ𓂃𓂂𖡼.𖤣𖥧𓈒◌܀♡⃜

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