Blooms & Greens

That’s it! Looks exactly like the Egyptian bean (hyacinth bean). Thank you, Steve!

Thanks. Similar but leaves are different.

It does look like a giant version of a sweet pea. It doesn’t look like any of the sweet peas I’ve grown. The leaves look similar to raspberries.

A vine with pink flowers growing next to a wooden fence

🌱 A friend gave me some seeds of this mystery vine. It looks gorgeous. He doesn’t remember where he got it. Any idea from the #garden folks what this is? Thanks! #PNW

Photo of a fruit stand with mangoes, durians and mangosteens. An old school electronic calculator rests on the fruits.

I’m back from exploring Vietnam with the International Palm Society. It was an awesome adventure. 😃 Regularly scheduled programming will resume on Monday. 🌱🧪🌾 #Botany

Mangoes, mangosteens and durian, what great abundance! I’ve heard the durian described as a fruit that tastes like heaven but smells like hell.

Thank you for your note. I started the rag in 2022 —did not keep it up for a while but did not want to let go either. Redoing the site like I would a garden…I just finished weeding…😊

I did not think about our taste buds of youth and the uncluttered mind but I appreciate very much that insight🌹

all the gardens in my memory Gardens have a way of lingering in memory long after we’ve left them. Over the years, I’ve been lucky to tend a few different gardens, and each one has left its mark.

🌱 After a quiet stretch, Blooms & Greens is stirring back to life with a reflection on the gardens that stay with us after we’ve left them. #gardening #pnw

These are really lovely!

I grew up with Alex Pretti The kind-hearted ICU nurse shot by ICE agents was my childhood best friend.

I wrote about my childhood friend Alexi Pretti. Please read it and share it and remember him as a human being. @theverge.com

Several recyclable containers sit in a deep bank of snow. They are each filled with potting soil and planted with native plant seeds, including: butterfly weed, boneset, cardinal flower, several types of coneflowers, white wild indigo, bottle gentian, prairie dropseed and swamp milkweed

After weeks of planning, gathering, and waiting, winter sowing is finally underway

Let the cold stratification begin

#nativeplants
#wintersowing
#canadiangardening

Wow!

🌱We got to the 50s today, no wind, a bright sunny day without a cloud in sight, a calm day contradicting the state of our parallel reality. The volunteer sweet peas are growing like there’s no tomorrow. Aren’t you worried of a February blizzard? I quietly asked. I finally relocated them today.

Christmas Run over the Rialto Bridge, Venice, a few years ago.
No AI, no burst mode, just film, timing, and a Leica M6.
Christmas chaos, the good kind.
#venice #leica #m6 #christmas #filmisnotdead

The Embassy staff of Germany, France and the United Kingdom sing Schedryk in the Kyiv underground.
Wonderful!

Centaurea montana, a strong violet-blue cornflower on a sunny day in my front garden

Perennial cornflower 🌱

#Bloomscrolling #BlueTue #TuesdayBlue

According to a new study, members of Congressional leadership perform 47% better in stock market trades than their rank-and-file peers, thanks to access to nonpublic information.

Today would be a great day to ban ALL elected officials from trading stock, don't you think?

Pōhutukawa

Beautiful morning for a bike ride.

What a beautiful tree!

Photo by Hiro Ohta with iPhone. A long path is covered in golden ginkgo leaves, stretching toward a soft vanishing point between two rows of tall trunks. Autumn light filters through dense yellow canopies, casting gentle warmth across the walkway. Occasional figures in the distance move through the scene, lending scale to the glowing corridor of trees.

Walking is our oldest ritual of becoming human.

Kita-Aoyama, Tokyo

SecDef throws a 34 year multi awarded admiral under the bus and hopes no one, no rank and file and officers noticed. This must be the warrior ethos he was talking so much about. When is he going to announced that he will need to spend more time with his families?

From the military’s Stars and Stripes read by about 7m active soldiers &retirees:

“the Pentagon’s own manual on the laws of armed conflict also specifically cites striking survivors … “Orders to fire upon the shipwrecked would be clearly illegal,” the manual says.

Pink flowers in bloom (cosmos) right next to a rosemary bush.

🌱 The cosmos was still flowering in early November. A gorgeous presence in the fall garden when most things are done. The Xzenia variety seems particularly floriferous.

Congratulations and best wishes on your wedding anniversary!

Oh yes, the thyme is a gorgeous cover but more stepables. One thing Im considering is the golden marjoram, lime green to yellow color and also highly aromatic.

Thats a good candidate, thank you.

Not familiar with lithodora but that’s a nice blue. Probably not for this border because I need a bit of height here but I would like this as a border next to the raised beds. Thanks!

I might do that but hoping to find some perennials.

Thanks!

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