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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 · 14h

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

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 18h

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 · 19h

#RoseWednesday #EastCoastKin #FlowerReport #BloomScrolling #Gardening 🌱

A coral colored rose surrounded by green leaves.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 1d

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 · 1d

Thank you Áine!

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 2d

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

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

Thank you Pam!

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 2d

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 · 2d

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

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 4d

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 · 5d

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 · 5d

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 · 7d

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 · 10d

おはようございますᴗ͈ˬᴗ͈ꕤ𓂃𓂂𖡼.𖤣𖥧𓈒◌܀♡⃜

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 8d

Tricyrtis hirta or Toad Lilies have a spot in shade garden with their strange little blooms. Makes a wonderful ground cover.
#TinyFlowerTuesday #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱

Tiny spotted purple blue flowers, rampant, with red spotted yellow pistils making the flower look a bit alien. green leaves are in the background.

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 8d

Fort de la Fraternité Roche is one of the oldest geological formations in Europe. The site features ancient granite and metamorphic rocks, lime strata formed in shallowed tropical waters millions of years ago.
#RockinTuesday #Rocks #Brittany #Photography

A cliff rock strata in Brittany, the layers of the rock undulate in waves. A person in bathing suit is climbing into a grotto that makes a black hole in the orange, grey and white layers of rocks.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 9d

It is time to collect the Roselle calyces for tea making.
#Roselle #EastCoastKin #MagentaMonday #Gardening 🌱

A collage of three pictures representing the red calyces of Thai Roselle Hibiscus, a bloom going from yellow to magenta in watercolored tones and a fading flower with a developing calyces.

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 9d

Crab spiders, also called Orb Weaver spiders are everywhere in my yard right now.
#Macrophotography #Invertebrates #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱

A macrophotography of a crab spider black and white, with red spikes. The web is clearly visible.

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 11d

Maybe a couple of morning frosts, but not if the temperatures go below 32F for more than a few hours.

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 11d

"Busted flat in Baton Rouge, waitin' for a train
When I was feelin' near as faded as my jeans
Bobby thumbed a diesel down, just before it rained
That rode us all the way in to New Orleans..."
#Slidell #TheRoad #LakePontchartrain #BlueSkyArtShow

Blue gray bridge road going over the Lake Pontchartrain going to New-Orleans. The sky is blue grey.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 11d

Going around the yard this morning, trying to find a color theme for #SixOnSaturday #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🌱

Hibiscus Thai Roselle, pink Drift rose, Fuchsia Coleus and white Impatiens, Hibiscus syriacus 'Danica' looks like a chiffon flower white with light pink edges and dark fuchsia center, dark red bloom of the Hibiscus 'Midnight Marvel' and the bright vermillion of the Odontonema bloom.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 11d

I love Tricyrtis, they look like little aliens! 💜

GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 12d

Happy Frog Friday!
#FrogFriday #Herps #EastCoastKin #Gardening 🐸🌱

A little green frog tucked inside the tubular form of a Bromeliad leaf.

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 12d

Resting by the shoreline.
"Sous le sable, face à la mer."
#Scape #Seascape #Celts #Celtic #Landévennec #Brittany