Planted like mad this early afternoon, put in all the plants I bought on Monday. My yard is now full of color as I like it to be, now just wait for them to grow larger and have more blooms.
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This is Florida Betony, native obviously to Florida, and this picture is pretty. However, it is an aggressive, invasive weed where I live and is difficult to get out of the garden because it spreads easily with underground tubers. It doesn't bloom like this most of the time but when I saw a honeybee on one I didn't have the heart to pull it out. Maybe another time. I hardly ever see honybees any more, just bumblebees and wasps. They used to be everywhere when I was a child(stepped on them barefoot, got stung & Mom would say, I told you to wear shoes!) I believe they've been victims of misused pesticides. Anyway, I gave the betony a reprieve for now. Can't be all bad if it helps a honeybee.
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First Daylillies of the season! (with the previously mentioned Florida Betony trying to muscle in around the bottom
). Also have to spray them with homemade deer repellent. Looks like something took a bite out of the bottom one. I live close to the edge of the city limits but Congaree Nat. Park is about 20 miles and there are lots of wooded areas so deer are everywhere!
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). Also have to spray them with homemade deer repellent. Looks like something took a bite out of the bottom one. I live close to the edge of the city limits but Congaree Nat. Park is about 20 miles and there are lots of wooded areas so deer are everywhere! 
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Florida is an interesting place, to put it mildly. A bit of everything. But Key West is the best!
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No need to apologize. There are ALL kinds of crazy in all kinds of places there - both good and bad!
Actually, I just remembered a few years back having lunch in an indoor/outdoor cafe enjoying the balmy January weather there. We noticed a man who had to be at least in his 60s, maybe even 70, strutting along in a red thong, showing his wrinkled old butt proudly. Several young topless women joined him on the beach to have photos made. Amusing and typical.
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A hailstorm tore through my village last week... We were so happy a few weeks ago that our old plum tree had blossomed with bees around and were looking forward to a nice harvest in the fall (for making plum jam, cake etc.). Now, there's barely a green leaf left on the tree. The rhubarb and strawberries are in shreds, too.
*sigh*
*sigh*
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Orange Jasmine. Indoors all winter, it took only 3-4 weeks outside for it to bloom. Smells amazing, too. Hummingbirds love it! Sorry I can't do scratch and sniff for you.
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Orange Jasmine. Indoors all winter, it took only 3-4 weeks outside for it to bloom. Smells amazing, too. Hummingbirds love it! Sorry I can't do scratch and sniff for you.
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wonderful
esp love it
greenery dripping with wonderful rain mmmmm
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Are you located in the U.S.? If so, what area of the country?Orange Jasmine. Indoors all winter, it took only 3-4 weeks outside for it to bloom. Smells amazing, too. Hummingbirds love it! Sorry I can't do scratch and sniff for you.
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Caladiums enjoying the warm weather and rain.
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wow
absolutely gorgeous and lovely
can almost smell/feel the freshness haha
at keast imagine the dripping
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Oh no! It can't be Fall already! I always forget 'till this time of year that the Southern Magnolia sheds leaves in Spring in the process of growing new ones. (The Magnolia is the one in the background. Can't see it that well here. Maybe I can get a pic of a bloom in summer but they're usually all pretty high in the tree now. The tree was planted long before I lived here.)
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