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I prune the roses on my birthday, holding in my heart all those who help me grow.

🌱 #roses #bloomscrolling #GardeningZone10a #OnlyBeautifulThings🌹
purple rose and buds
January 23, 2025 at 3:19 PM
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"purple does something strange to me"
~ Charles Bukowski

🌱 A joyful #PrettyPurpleThursday 💜 to all you purple-loving gardeners!

#BloomScrolling 🪻 #FlowerReport 💐 #GardeningZone10a
purple rose bloom
July 31, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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“The Rose is without an explanation; She blooms, because She blooms.”
~ Angelus Silesius

🌱 Sharing gardening love on this #RoseWednesday🌹#BloomScrolling ☀️ #FlowerReport 🌺 #GardeningZone10a
White rose bloom
May 7, 2025 at 2:15 PM
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"Sometimes just getting up and carrying on is brave and magnificent."
~ Charlie Mackesy, "The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse"

⭐🌱 Wishing you a brave and joyful Sunday, gardening lovelies!

#Bloomscrolling🌺 #FlowerReport🌹#StunDay ☀️ #GardeningZone10a 🐝
Red and white striped rose bloom, dark green leaves
May 18, 2025 at 1:17 PM
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"Let us live like flowers, wild and beautiful and drenched in sun."
~ Ellen Everett

Wishing all'you'all a joy filled #FlowersonFriday 🌱 #Bloomscrolling 🌹 #FlowerReport 🌺 #GardeningZone10a ☀️
pink petunia bloom and plant
April 18, 2025 at 1:30 PM
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"I paint flowers to prevent them from dying."
~ Frida Kahlo

#InMyGarden Rosa 'Frida Kahlo' blooms early and happily 🌱 #FlowerReport ☀️ #Bloomscrolling 🐝 #GardeningZone10a
Rosa 'Frida Kahlo' bloom with rose buds and green leaves, garden zombie visible in the background
May 12, 2025 at 1:40 PM
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"Don't compare her to sunshine and roses when she's clearly orchids and moonlight."
~ Melody Lee

Sharing sunshine and joy for all you'se 🌱💙🌱 to enjoy on #TinyFlowerTuesday 🌼 #GardeningZone10a 💛
small light purple flower, green background
February 11, 2025 at 3:39 PM
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"If you truly love nature, you will find beauty everywhere."
~ Vincent Van Gogh

🌱 On this #MagentaMonday for you a couple o' pretty roses🌹 #FlowerReport ☀️ #Bloomscrolling🌺 #GardeningZone10a
pink roses blooming against fencing
May 5, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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“Love planted a rose, and the world turned sweet."
~ Katharine Lee Bates

🌱 Sharing happiness and pink from #GardeningZone10a ☀️ on this #RoseWednesday🌹 #Bloomscrolling 🪷 #FlowerReport 🌱
pink rose bud
April 30, 2025 at 1:15 PM
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“Watching something grow is good for morale. It helps us believe in life.”
~ Myron Kaufmann

🌱 What's growing in your garden?

#AlwaysBePlanting 🌺 #Bloomscrolling 🐝 #FlowerReport ☀️ #GardeningZone10a
Blue petunia bloom, pink cosmos flower, green leaves
May 8, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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"It was one of those March days when the sun shines hot and the wind blows cold, when it is summer in the light and winter in the shade."
~ Charles Dickens

🌱 What's blooming in your garden?

#FlowerReport ☀️ #MagentaMonday 🐝 #Bloomscrolling 🌼 #Gardeningzone10a 🌹
Magenta petunia flowers with green and dirt background
March 24, 2025 at 2:23 PM
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“Sweet peas were the kind of flowers fairies slept in.”
~ Allison Pearson

Right? And that scent!

What's blooming in your garden, Sweet Peas?

🌱 #FlowerReport 🌼 #GardeningZone10a ☀️ #Bloomscrolling 🐝 #SweetPeas 🌺
Lilac sweet peas blooms with gardenish background
April 3, 2025 at 2:12 PM
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“To plant a garden is to believe in tomorrow.”
~ Audrey Hepburn (born on this day in 1929)

🌱 Garden joy to you'all on this #YellowSunday☀️ #SundayYellow #FlowerReport #Bloomscrolling #GardeningZone10a 🐝
yellow bloom, little bit of water, dark green background
May 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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"In the symphony of nature, insects provide the rhythm, melody, and harmony that sustain life's song."
~ Bert Hölldobler

🌱 Sharing joy and hope on this #InsectThursday🐝 #FlowerReport 🌺 #Bloomscrolling 🌹 #GardeningZone10a 🌱
Bee enjoying yellow & orange striped nasturtiums
April 24, 2025 at 2:05 PM
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"There is peace in a garden. Peace and results."
~ Ruth Stout

Wishing all you'se guys a glorious #RoseWednesday 🌱

#Bloomscrolling 🌺 #FlowerReport 🐝 #GardeningZone10a☀️
#InMyGarden
roses and other plants growing in my small garden, fencing and netting visible
May 14, 2025 at 2:32 PM
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“To dwell is to garden.”
~ Martin Heidegger

Certainly! 🌱 Hope something great happens as you dwell in your gardens! #MagentaMonday🌺 #BloomScrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🌻 #GardeningZone10a
Magenta cosmos bloom, purple petunia lurking in the background amongst the green of leaves, and such
June 23, 2025 at 1:51 PM
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"The flowers of late winter and early spring occupy places in our hearts well out of proportion to their size."
Gertrude S. Wister

☀️ #GardeningZone10a 🦋 #TinyFlowerTuesday
🌱 #Bloomscrolling 🌼 #FlowerReport 🐝
Cilantro leaf, small bunch of white Alyssum flowers, small pink & white flowers in the background among green leaves and stems
March 25, 2025 at 2:03 PM
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“It will never rain roses: when we want to have more roses we must plant more trees.”
~ George Eliot

🌱 Sending you'all so much joy on this #MagentaMonday 🩷 in the garden #BloomScrolling 🏵️ #FlowerReport 🌹 #GardeningZone10a
Magenta-colored rose bloom
August 4, 2025 at 1:47 PM
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“If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers.”
~ Doug Larson

Sharing joy on this #TinyFlowerTuesday 🌱 #Bloomscrolling 🐝 #FlowerReport 🌺 #GardeningZone10a ☀️
Alyssum blooms among leaves and more small pinkish flowers, green leaves
April 29, 2025 at 2:08 PM
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“Don’t wait for someone to bring you flowers. Plant your own garden and decorate your own soul.”
~ Luther Burbank

Sending garden love to all of you'se guys on this 🌱 #YellowSunday 💛 #SundayYellow

#BloomScrolling 🌺 #FlowerReport 🏵️ #GardeningZone10a
2 yellow Dahlias in the green background of the garden
July 27, 2025 at 1:27 PM
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“People from a planet without flowers would think we must be mad with joy the whole time to have such things about us.”
~ Iris Murdoch

🌱 Wishing all you'se helpful thoughtful BlueSky gardeners a joyful #TinyFlowerTuesday🌷#GardeningZone10a ☀️ #FlowerReport 🐝 #Bloomscrolling 🪷 #AlwaysBePlanting
small pinkish flowers, green stems, mushy background
May 6, 2025 at 1:58 PM
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"The caterpillar does all the work, but the butterfly gets all the publicity."
~ George Carlin

I planted extra Milkweed this year to help make up for all that was lost in the January fires.

🌱 #InsectThursday 🐛 #BloomScrolling 🏵️ #FlowerReport 🌻 #GardeningZone10a
Milkweed flowers budding, hosting a prominent striped Monarch caterpillar; blurry green and garden background
July 17, 2025 at 1:50 PM
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"When you kept the weeds from your bare little garden, and when you dug for others and hid away ugliness and disorder, you planted a Blue Flower every day."
~ Frances Hodgson Burnett

Blue or purple?

💙 #BlueskyMonday #Bloomscrolling #GardeningZone10a #FlowerReport #MacroMonday🌱
two blue clematis blooms
April 28, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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"In a world full of flowers, be a cactus."
~ Kul Bhushan Negi

All cacti are succulents but not all succulents are cacti.

🌱 #SundaySucculents 🌵 #Bloomscrolling 🪷 #FlowerReport 🐝 #GardeningZone10a ☀️
small succulents among rocks
April 27, 2025 at 2:02 PM
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“The flower that follows the sun does so even in cloudy days.”
~ Robert Leighton

Cold and nasty (for us) in the garden today, but this flower bloomed yesterday and she's pretty and pouffy! And pink!

🌱 #FlowersOnFriday 🌹 #FlowerReport 🌺 #Bloomscrolling ☀️ #GardeningZone10a 🐝
pink poofy flower on a green stem in the garden (which is fuzzy in the background)
April 25, 2025 at 2:07 PM