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🌱Gardening & Botanical insights from Award-Winning Horticulturist, Hybridist, Author, Designer & Consultant Robert F. Gabella.

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · Jun 11

🌱🍑🌹 Part 2 of #RoseWednesday, Miniature Shrub Rose (Rosa) 'Apricot Drift®' (Meilland International, 2009) is my favorite from this great series. Eyecatching color, bloom recurs in quick cycles, and will often flower past the first hard freezes of Autumn. Rosaceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 2d

🌱Nice work in a range of styles & maturities. The touches of fall color got me curious about the trees at Chicago Botanic Garden, they retire the display annually before Winter, 200 trees in rotation. Will call to check, in hopes they are still out.🤞🍁🍂

GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 2d

🌱🤍STILL WORKIN' IT. Even after persistent heat & drought & little extra attention from me, Lathyrus latifolius (Everlasting Pea, Perennial Sweet Pea) 'White Pearl' is still kicking the blooms. Among the hardest working & most continually flowering perennials I grow. Fabaceae

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Greta Knits @gretaknits.bsky.social · 3d

The Daily Dahlia delight continues 🌱 #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport
#Dahlia #glimmer

An unexpected greenish yellow bud begins to bloom with dark purple petals on another slender purple stalk. Beech trees and blue skies in the background with a few wispy clouds.

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Rick M @rickmartin.bsky.social · 3d

Yellow? Orange? Orangey-yellow?

#SundayYellow #OrangeSun #EastCoastKin #Stunday #Bloomscrolling #DahliaLove

A pom-pom dahlia of somewhat indeterminate hue

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 4d

🌱 First time since surgery a couple weeks ago for my 3 mile walk with occasional sprints on the Illinois Prairie Path - not that I couldn't have come out sooner. 🔥Heat & drought which has carried into October shows in the wear & tear on natives. Pay NO ATTENTION to the invasive species 😎😅 last pic!

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Graham Jones @oldmanrambling.bsky.social · 5d

#SixOnSaturday
After a battering from Storm Amy overnight, I have been out this morning sorting out some of the damage but there is still plenty of colour left and a bit of sun will work wonders. *Info in alt text
#Bloomscrolling #Flowers #EnglishGardening #EastCoastKin

From bottom left clockwise: A general view of half of our small garden behind our tiny terrace house in Surrey, not far from London, shows red Persicaria in the shadows to the right, a terracotta pot to the left on a flagged patio contains tall Cosmos flowers that seem blue in the shadows but are mostly white. Behind that you can glimpse rusty red red Acer Palmatum trees, other evergreen shrubs with red berries and the red brick walls of the homes and some white-framed windows. Our green-coloured conservatory can also be seen; bright purple Asters with yellow centres; gleaming rusty-red leaves of the Acer Palmatum aka Japanese Maple in front of a fence with blue sky behind; pink and white streaked Cosmos flower peeking from behind the spindly green foliage of the plant; red and purple Fuschia dangle from the variegated leaves of the plant, which is contained in a leaf-green terracotta Heritage pot; finally two pink buds of a Scarborough Fair rose rest against the open pinkish-white bloom of the flower on the same plant.

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Margaret Mitchell @mmitchell.bsky.social · 11d

#SixOnSaturday appreciating the first Saturday of autumn

Rust-colored Dahlia about to bloom, Tuberous Begonia, dark red Mums about to bloom, Witch Hazel leaf turned red, red rose hips, and red Coleus Inferno.

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GrowHouseDave @growhousedave.bsky.social · 5d

Succulent Saturday as they all head under cover until the Spring #SixonSaturday

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Fred @frdvil.bsky.social · 5d

#sixonsaturday 04-10-25 in which you’ll find : hardy geranium, sunflower, plectranthus, melianthus & euphorbia mellifera, nicotiana sylvestris and a tasty watermelon 🌱

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GabbyLawless @gabbylawless.bsky.social · 5d

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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Ken Hartley 🌱🏋️‍♂️ @milhart66ken.bsky.social · 5d

Happy Saturday everyone. #SixOnSaturday #gardening #gardeninglife

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Jean E Teall @finchduck.bsky.social · 5d

Definitely Autumn now. Massive numbers of acorns. In today's wind it's quite dangerous under the oaks. It can be painful when a whole fusillade of acorns drop on you from a height! Holly berries; Christmas is coming - groan. #Sixonsaturday #Gardening 🌱

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Shantha Mohan, Ph.D., DTM @shlead.bsky.social · 5d

Today's #sixonsaturday features calla and canna lilies of different colors and varieties.

#dailyflowers 🌱
#flowerreport
#bloomscrolling

A photo montage of calla and canna lilies with green leaves.

From top left, clockwise:

Pink calla, White calla, orange and crimson canna, pink canna, coral canna, yellow calla, and purple calla.

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GreenBeanJackie @greenbeanjackie.bsky.social · 5d

Autumn colours for #SixOnSaturday a bit windblown but bringing joy: rowan berries, rose hips,tiny scented viburnum flowers, pyracantha berries, cotoneaster berries, forsythia leaves

Collage if red rowan berries, fat red rose hips, pink viburnum flowers, orange pyracantha berries, red cotoneaster berries, fiery orange forsythia leaves.

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Jo Lane @jogubbins.bsky.social · 5d

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#SixOnSaturday
#Bloomscrolling

It’s blowing a hoolie and stair rodding it down, so photos from earlier in the week when there was sunshine and flowers

A collage of photos from an autumn garden, a cobweb in morning sunlight, an apple in the tree, a dinner plate dahlia, yellow calendula and a late flush from the Welsh poppy

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Running Past @runningpast.bsky.social · 5d

Six photos of autumnal leaves and berries from this week’s running.
#SixOnSaturday #bloomscrolling

Six photos with autumnal leaves and berries in a grid including a pair of pyracanthas and an acer

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Mark @mdarlo.bsky.social · 5d

A windswept #SixOnSaturday 🌱

Multicoloured flowers with layered and frilly petals in white, oranges, red, pink and yellow

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Graeme Edwards @graemeedwards1.bsky.social · 5d

In today's #SixOnSaturday... a 'Waterloo' climbing Rose, a Geranium, Salvia 'Icing Sugar,' a confused Clematis montana, a Japanese anemone and the autumnal foliage of a Hydrangea onemanandhisgardentrowel.wordpress.com/2025/10/04/s... 🌱

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Julie the ok gardener @juliejam.bsky.social · 5d

Six pollinators on Frost Aster for Six on Saturday. Also called Hairy Oldfield Aster (I know!), Symphyotrichum pilosum is native to the eastern US. These are just a few pollinators from yesterday. It also attracts lots of skippers and small butterflies. #nativeplants #bees #wasps #sixonsaturday 🌱

Six pollinators on the small white daisy flowers of Frost Aster. Clockwise from top left: Great Golden Digger Wasp (Sphex ichneumoneus), Cellophane Bee (Colletes), Great Black Digger Wasp (Sphex pensylvanicus), Longhorn Bee (Melissodes), Leafcutter Bee (Megachile), Honey Bee (Apis mellifera). Pictures taken October 3, 2025, Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

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Ilena Gilbert-Mays @ilenagm.bsky.social · 5d

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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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 5d

🌱🔥A very warm October #SixOnSaturday with the rewards of August sown Persian Cucumbers - here at a client site - paying off. An even later sowing here at home is now bursting into bloom.😎

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 7d

🌱 Great question. Rosa 'Distant Drums' is a shrub-like Floribunda, growing 3 to 5 feet or so tall depending on conditions. Like all Buck Roses, it is very cold-hardy and disease resistant.😎

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 7d

🌱🐛🦋 HELLO THERE, LITTLE ONE!😃 Found caterpillars of Papilio polyxenes (Eastern Black Swallowtail) on Apium graveolens v. rapaceum (Celeriac, Celery Root), which, despite my neglect, are thriving caged from 🐰 Rabbits. Adult butterfly on native Echinacea purpurea. Papilionidae, Apiaceae & Asteraceae

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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 8d

🌱🌹Agreed! Love Buck Roses & they are highly collectible - need to add more. Though High Country Roses does not list 'Sjulin' they have others with availability phasing in & out by crop. Maybe you can request that they offer it and here's hoping.🤞
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GardenOpus @gardenopus.bsky.social · 8d

🌱🌹#RoseWednesday in October usually means cool weather perfection - though temps flirting with 90°F/32°C make no big difference to Rosa 'Distant Drums' (Dr. Griffith Buck, 1984). A tough, Iowa-bred fragrant favorite in lavender pink & buff-tan. American Rose Society rating 8.0. Rosaceae

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