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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Jul 31

If you’d like to purchase a piece of pottery please fill out the form on my website rmrceramics.com/contact Thank you!!

Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Jun 11

Celebrating seasonal blooms paired with my vases! These will be available for sale this weekend, visit RMRceramics.com for details!!

#bloomscrolling 🌱 #pottersky #pottery #ceramics #potter #handmade #womanowned #smallbusiness #buylocal #shopsmall

A bouquet of purple foxglove, feverfew, and a white rose arranged in a small handmade vase. The vase is glazed in medium blue with speckles of brown. The arrangement sits on wooden steps.

A bouquet of purple foxglove and feverfew in a tall handmade vase. The vase is curvy and glazed in a matte avocado green color. The arrangement sits on a wooden shelf in front of two windows with bright yellow trim.

A bouquet of purple and white cosmos with blue and white sweet peas. They’re snug inside a small handmade vase which is reminiscent of a volcano in shape. The vase is glazed in medium blue with speckles of brown. The arrangement sits on wooden desk in front of a pink wall.

A bouquet of multi-colored sweet peas arranged in a small handmade vase. The vase is glazed in a matte avocado green and the curves of the vase are reminiscent of the female form. The arrangement sits on a teal colored windowsill with bright light coming in from the right, and deep contrasting shadows cutting to the left.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · May 16

If you’re in #PDX this Sunday and need some veggie starts or handmade bud vases, come checkout my pop-up! It’ll be at Daydreamer Coffee from 9am-2pm Visit TerraFernPDX.com for details

🌱 #portlandor #oregon #PNW #bloomscrolling #buylocal #shopsmall #womanownedbusiness #ceramics #plantsale #bloomsky

A cream and pink glazed bud vase with a little space to hold a pair of wedding rings sits on a blue windowsill. The vase holds red and white roses, foxglove, and yarrow.

Bud vase glazed in denim blue with brown speckles sits on a white windowsill surrounded my pink rose petals. The vase holds white viburnum blooms.

A cream and pink glazed bud vase sits on a blue windowsill. The vase holds a fading white rose and a cosmos flower.

A two sided bud vase glazed in denim blue with brown speckles sits on a blue windowsill. The vase holds white viburnum blooms and a large purple rhododendron bloom.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · May 10

Just a few pretties from my walk around the neighborhood today. The most magical time of the year 🥰

🌱 #bloomsky #roses #rosecity #pdx #portlandor #pnw

A rose about halfway open, orange at center and pink at the petal edges. Two vibrantly orange buds are blurry behind the main bloom, and a house and arborvitae are in the background.

A white womans hand holds a pink, highly folded, round magenta rose. Green leaves surround the background.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · May 9

#flowerreport

Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · May 9

Fun!! You just put blossoms in honey and let it sit? What are your favorite uses for this honey?

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · May 9

Peony “Coral Charm” and David Austin rose “Desdemona” both bloomed today and I am obsessed!

🌱 #bloomsky #roses #peony

A large, vibrantly coral pink peony bloom close up. The petals are beginning to open and the yellow center is just barely visible.

An off white rose bud and purple cosmos blooms in a bumpy, white milk glass cup.

An off white rose bud and purple cosmos blooms in a bumpy, white milk glass cup. They are dramatically backlit by the evening light coming through the windowsill they sit within.

A grouping of flowers in two different cases. Taller and in the back are two large pink peonies. In front is an off white rose surrounded by purple and white cosmos.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · May 2

A small greenhouse with the two front flaps unzipped to show that it is full of plants

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · May 2

I went away for a week in early April and spent $40 on a small greenhouse on Amazon. My pet sitter just had to unzip the flaps in the am, close them at night, and all my peppers and tomatoes were super happy!

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Chris Vagasky @coweatherman.bsky.social · May 2

A better way to approach #NoMowMay is to replace as much of your lawn as you can with native flowers, shrubs, and trees...then it can be #NoMowEver.

Well-controlled non-natives can be included too!

🌱

theconversation.com/its-ok-to-mo...

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · May 1

My mom has two beautiful rhododendrons in her yard that were planted in the fifties. I will be propagating them this year!! Here is the red one 🥰

Visit TerraFernPDX.com and sign up for my newsletter to follow the journey.

🌱 #bloomsky #bloomscrolling #gardensky #rhodies #rhododendron #flowers

A stunning branch of deeply saturated red rhododendron blooms in a clear vase. There are 6 heads of flowers total forming a crescent shape. They sit upon a dresser with marigold yellow window frames behind them.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Apr 29

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Apr 29

Fun fact: I literally just left these sweet peas in pots in my raised bed all winter and they’re doing the best of all the ways I trialed! They grew out the bottoms of the pots so I’ve just been letting them grow here, along with 1 pea from my cover crop mix.

#sweetpeas #oregon #PNW #gardensky 🌱

The bottom right corner of a raised bed that is full of potatoes, but in the corner three pots of sweet peas grow profusely. They have been gathered between two sticks and tied in with a bit of string for a makeshift trellis.

The far left side of a raised bed that is full of potatoes, but in the corner three pots of sweet peas grow profusely. They have been gathered between two sticks and tied in with a bit of string for a makeshift trellis.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Apr 29

Still loved them though

Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Apr 29

I ordered those and they came out totally red. Wishing you better luck!

Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Apr 29

Lucy knows where to find the warm soil and the spots where I won’t bother her, like the middle of this sunny native bed. Enjoy it while you can, pup, this space is about to explode!

🌱 #gardensky #nativegarden #grownative #pdx #oregon #PNW #pnwgardening

Looking down a 3’ x 8’ garden bed with young Portland native plants for sun. In the middle of the bed a small black and tan chihuahua sits looking over her shoulder at the camera.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Apr 29

Love!!

Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Apr 26

I’ll just be taking soft wood cuttings once it is done blooming, and then also trying hardwood cuttings in the fall.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Apr 26

Thank you so much!!

Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Apr 26

I will be propagating my mother’s dark purple lilac as one of the first steps in building my nursery business. It was planted in the early 50s!

Sign up for my newsletter at TerraFernPDX.com for summer market dates and planting updates.

#lilac #bloomsky #PDX #portland #oregon #flowers #PNW 🌱

Large, lush, deep purple Lilac blossoms amidst green foliage in dappled light.

A dark purple lilac shrub grows about 2 stories tall, hemmed in by an encroaching western red cedar on the left and a native hazelnut on the right.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Apr 26

I got accepted to an outdoor market this summer! Working on new pottery pieces to sell along with my veggie and flower starts.

Visit TerraFernPDX.com and sign up for my newsletter if you’re in Portland!

#pdx #portland #oregon #or #PNW #pottery #ceramics #vases #gardensky 🌱

A grouping of handmade vases of different shapes and sizes, all in the initial drying phase before their first bisque fire.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Mar 26

Had to cut a bunch of my flowers in case the hail destroys them all 🥹

#bloomscrolling #pdx #oregon 🌱

5 daffodils with very long stems in a milk glass vase, sitting in a yellow windowsill. The petals are light yellow and the coronas are deep orange and frilly.

An assortment of flowers in a brown vase sit in a yellow windowsill: one white anemone, three white hyacinths, two miniature daffodils with white petals and yellow coronas, and one cluster daffodil with my tiny flowers.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Mar 26

This anemone just popped up! I did not plant it. It is in a spot next to the driveway where I cleared the weeds last year, lay cardboard and mulch, then planted my own flowers. It’s amazing what survives, dormant, waiting for us to reveal it!

#bloomscrolling #gardensky #anemone #spring 🌱

Close up of a perfect white anemone flower with deep purple center. Surrounded by hazelnut shells, leaves of hollyhocks in the background.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Mar 26

Two little red flowering currants, one with blooms one with lots of leaves + golden currant + trilliums coming up! All started as bare root plants in the fall.

#grownative #nativeplants #pnwnative #pnw #gardensky #gardening #rewilding #oregon #plantnative 🌱

A second-year red flowering currant shrub, very tiny but with four blossoms already. Surrounded by dandelion weeds and old cardboard.

A second-year red flowering currant shrub, very tiny but lush with leaves. Surrounded by old cardboard and bare soil.

A second-year golden currant shrub, very tiny but full or small leaves. Surrounded by soil, and a grouping of tulips not yet in flower behind.

Leaves of a trillium emerging from leaf litter.

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Rachel Marie @rachelmariepdx.bsky.social · Mar 26

Do you mean design patterns,
like from scratch? If so,
you’d need to take classes. If you mean later patterns and clothes to fit, I learned on the internet! Google and sewing blogs. And by just getting started. The world won’t end if it goes poorly so why not try? That’s my philosophy.

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