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Ilena Gilbert-Mays
@ilenagm.bsky.social
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Horticulturist in coastal North Carolina🐚 🇺🇸who loves tropicals, gingers and exotic plants, oh who am I kidding! I am obsessed with all plants and please, be kind🙏🌎🌱🌸🇺🇦🇨🇦🇬🇧
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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · Nov 21
This cactus was the star and start of my cactus collection and addiction. I had to set an alarm to not miss this beautiful sight. It grew too large and was donated to a larger collection 🌵💘
#Cactus #Succulents #Flowers #FlowerReport #CactusAddict
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Well right on time⏰here is the first of my Thanksgiving cactus in bloom 😍#HappyThanksgiving #Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Autumn #November #MyGreenhouse #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport
November 27, 2025 at 10:41 AM
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Our Yesterday, Today, Tomorrow bush (Brunfelsia pauciflora) is always in full bloom for Thanksgiving. The flowers turn from purple to lavender to white, thus the name. 🌱 #Plants #Flowers #MyGarden #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling
November 26, 2025 at 7:37 PM
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Just one more rose for #RoseWednesday. I love the newly opened rose when it’s colours are bold and varied before it changes to its full bloom and finally fades to a different shade altogether. This is the newly opened, stunningly coloured 20th Anniversary rose. 😍😍😍
November 26, 2025 at 5:14 PM
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Amaryllis 'Barbados' 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #RedWednesday #EastCoastKin #Flowers
A red and white hippeastrum flower
November 26, 2025 at 3:01 PM
ilenagm.bsky.social
#Snapdragons are a great winter flower here in my zone. I make sure to keep some growing every Autumn for winter blooms 😃

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GYO #November #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport
November 26, 2025 at 11:13 AM
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My favorite mailbox #Clematis really suffered over the summer but now she’s making a comeback 😃🙌💜

#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #Plants #Autumn #November #FlowerReport #GYO
November 25, 2025 at 10:55 AM
ilenagm.bsky.social
Starting off the week with a California poppy in bloom. I have three pots of them now and they do well for me😃🙌💛

#Flowers #Gardening #Poppies #Plants #GYO #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Autumn #November
November 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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#SevenOnSunday #Violas starting to bloom, Acer on fire, sharphead #cabbage halfway there, Thanksgiving #cactus almost, #Kalanchoes budding and I am forcing my own #Amaryllis and #Rainbow 🥰

#Flowers #Gardening #GulfOfMexico #Plants #GYO #FlowerReport #RetirementLife
November 23, 2025 at 1:07 PM
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#SixOnSaturday
#FlowerReport:

All from yesterday,
in San Jose, California.
A six frame photo collage: A bee hovering before a purple flower. A daisy with short petals and a rounded yellow center. A bunch of tiny flowers with four petals and green and yellow tufts at their centers. A macro close-up of a teeny bug on the yellow flat center of a small daisy. A dandelion in spherical seed form. A small white flower with five petals and yellow anthers.
November 22, 2025 at 3:12 PM
ilenagm.bsky.social
For #Caturday our kitten Ms. pickles the struggle is real against one of the two older cats🤣

#Cats #BlackAndWhiteCats #CatsOfBlueSky
November 22, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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#SixOnSaturday 🌱
Smoke bush, orange dahlia, red mums, magenta dahlia, close up of yellow nasturtium with vermillion maple-leaf-shaped inner markings, red mums against the blue sky.
November 16, 2025 at 5:09 PM
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This week’s chilly #SixOnSaturday include a fun fungi, Abelia, Mahonia, a Rose, Winter Jasmin and Penstemon.

Hope everyone is wrapping up warm and enjoying their weekend!

🌱 #Gardening #UKGardening #BloomScrolling #FlowerFeed
November 22, 2025 at 10:23 AM
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#sixonsaturday 22-11-25 with winter tasks: harvesting sweet potatoes, yacon and taro, overwintering red banana tree, raking leaves, hakonechloa and miscanthus, and a pretty pelargonium flower 🌱: fredgardenerblog2.wordpress.com/2025/11/22/s...
November 22, 2025 at 8:06 AM
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Frozen beauties, frozen leaves and frozen damage… 🥶 🌱
November 22, 2025 at 9:48 AM
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The warm colours of this #lagerstroemia also known as crape myrtle. 🔥 🌱
Perfect for these cold days, isn't it?! 😀
November 21, 2025 at 4:32 PM
ilenagm.bsky.social
#SixOnSaturday this week is my favorite seed catalogue, still a few flowers blooming, a sweet ladybug and a lazy lizard 😂

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #Autumn #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Ladybugs #November
November 22, 2025 at 10:56 AM
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#FlowersOnFriday this week are the potted petunias that have been going strong since last spring. I have them against a south facing brick wall for winter.

#Flowers #Gardening #Petunias #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #GYO #November #Autumn
November 21, 2025 at 12:22 PM
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While the Northerners are getting snow, down South, the temps are rising to the low 80's for the weekend.
#InsectThursday #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱
A Fritillary butterfly working hard on a purple Salvia. His wings are orange with its trademark silver spots.
November 20, 2025 at 2:49 PM
ilenagm.bsky.social
It’s been a great year for toad lilies🐸 but they are almost finished blooming for the season now

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #Autumn #November #FlowerReport
November 20, 2025 at 11:41 AM
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The last of #dahlias by night before the frosts 😔🌱
November 19, 2025 at 7:45 PM
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Wishing you a wonderful Wednesday, Friends! 🌱
No roses today, but the Yuletide camellia more than makes up for that! #Bloomscrolling
Bright red blooms of the Yuletide camellia with yellow centers that look like fireworks are set against glossy dark green leaves.
November 19, 2025 at 1:57 PM
ilenagm.bsky.social
My one hardy #Fuchsia really suffered this summer and every flower was nibbled🐌now look! Currently my one perfect flower😂 🙌🎉

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #November #GulfOfMexico #Autumn #FlowerReport
November 19, 2025 at 12:23 PM
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Peace be with you, Friends 🌱
The "holiday" cactus is blooming as all the stores are decorating for Xmas. The bloom is white with magenta edges and a yellow central stamen. It has green fleshy leaves.
November 16, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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Autumn colours
Acer palmatum ‘Emerald Lace’ 🍁 🌱
November 15, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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#Colocasia esculenta aka #taro

The first frosts will arrive, so it's time to harvest the taro. This was my first attempt, starting with just one tuber, and I got over 2 kg! Fantastic. 😀🌱

I even kept a few young plants for the 2026 crop.
November 17, 2025 at 2:51 PM