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Glenora grapes 🍇 coming in heavy. A unique, spi

Glenora grapes 🍇 coming in heavy. A unique, spicy, sweet blueberry-like flavor and unusual foliage producing strikingly long clusters of large, intensely deep blue-black seedless grapes. Cornell University hybridized this extremely cold hardy seedless grape from the Russian Seedless (Black Kishmish). #threetreestaborgarden #glenora #grapes #autumnharvest

Bright beauty on a neighborhood walk. ❤️ Guany

Bright beauty on a neighborhood walk. ❤️ Guanyin, a Bodhisattva associated with compassion. She is the East Asian representation of Avalokiteśvara (Sanskrit: अवलोकितेश्वर) and has been adopted by other Eastern religions. Also known as the "Goddess of Mercy." Guanyin is short for Guanshiyin, which means "[The One Who] Perceives the Sounds of the World."
#gardenmagic #bodhisattva #guanyin #compassion

The magical rose wall🌹at @champagnepoetry_pdx 💗🥂🍾
Luscious, ethereal dessert in a beautiful pink setting.

📸: @taiwoodville

#imnoangel #lavieenrose #champagnepoetry

Xander in Rainbow Land 🌈✨💖 #bengalcat #ben

Xander in Rainbow Land 🌈✨💖 #bengalcat #bengalsofinstagram #rainbow

My Willow under a blanket of stars ✨⭐ Spoiled

My Willow under a blanket of stars ✨⭐ Spoiled and adored and she knows it 💖😺🐾 #bengalcat #bengalsofinstagram

We already had the keys, but now our home and gard

We already had the keys, but now our home and garden are officially ours! Thank you so much to all our family, friends, neighbors, colleagues, and completely lovely strangers who offered us emotional and financial support.

We cleared out closets and basement storage, sold furniture and housewares, had a 2-day yard sale that was pretty successful, and an amazing GoFundMe that raised just over half of our closing costs! It's like moving in all over again.

We no longer have to pay rent to someone else or under threat of our home being sold out from under us. And we can finally make it ours in every way.
💖🏡🔑

#newhomeowner #ourhouse

This very strange echinacea purpurea (purple conef

This very strange echinacea purpurea (purple coneflower) in our garden is a result of fasciation (from the Latin root meaning "band" or "stripe"), also known as cresting. The deformity can be the result of a random mutation, including hormonal, genetic, bacterial, fungal, viral, environmental causes such as chemicals, or physical injury to the plant. Environmental causes such as extreme weather have also been implicated, and we are certainly seeing more of that in our landscapes.

Fasciation causes an elongation of the apical meristem so that flattened, ribbon-like growth is produced resulting in thick stems, and large flowers, or flower heads with far more than the usual number of flowers. It's a relatively rare occurrence and doesn’t spread to other plants or other parts of the same plant.

Certain fasciated plants are prized for their unusual appearance, particularly the undulating folds of growth on cactus plants, where the growth may eventually become convoluted, somewhat like a brain. 🧠 Fasciated specimens of cactus and other succulents with unusual forms can often be propagated and are highly sought by collectors. They end up up as cultivars with descriptive names such as ‘Monstrosa’, ‘Cristata’ or ‘Tortulosa’.

Started out looking like a taco 🌮 ended up looking like a puckered kiss 💋

#fasciation #echinacea #echinaceapurpurea #strangeflower #threetreestaborgarden

Happy 11th Birthday 🎉 🐆🐆 to our beautiful

Happy 11th Birthday 🎉 🐆🐆 to our beautiful, smart, tiny leopards 💖 #bengalsofinstagram #bengalcats #bengallife

Sunflower 🌻 Sunset 🌄 #threetreestaborgarden

Sunflower 🌻 Sunset 🌄 #threetreestaborgarden

Woke up this morning to this adorable little greml

Woke up this morning to this adorable little gremlin, Willow snuggled up at my feet. The past week has been so hot, I've been camped out on the couch in front of the portable AC unit.
#bengalsofinstagram #bengalcat

The endlessly beautiful & beneficial Echinacea pur

The endlessly beautiful & beneficial Echinacea purpurea, or purple coneflower. Its habitats include dry open woods, prairies and barrens. Its individual flowers (florets) within the flower head are hermaphroditic, having both male and female organs in each flower. It is pollinated by butterflies and bees and the fruit is an achene (small, dry one-seeded fruit, like a sunflower), sought after by birds and an especially important food source during migration. 🐦
#echinacea #echinaceapurpurea #prairieplants #birdfood

Scabiosa, 'Black Knight' (Scabiosa atropupurea) fr

Scabiosa, 'Black Knight' (Scabiosa atropupurea) from @uprising.seeds. Among the most dramatic, long-lasting and early-blooming flowers as well as the most intense deep and very dark maroon/black blooms highlighted with speckles of whitish-pink on their long stamens. They have a mildly sweet smell and keep on blooming from late spring through early fall.

#scabiosa #blackknight #threetreestaborgarden

These perennial sunny faces greet me on the way ou

These perennial sunny faces greet me on the way out the door. Rudbeckia hirta ‘Sunbeckia Ophelia’. Flowers from June to October 🌞💛 #threetreestaborgarden #rudbeckia #sunbeckiaophelia

Melissodes or long-horned bees, so called because

Melissodes or long-horned bees, so called because males have unusually long antennae while females have shorter antennae. They are solitary, ground nesting bees that emerge in summer and have striking blue or green eyes. Both males and females are very hairy bees.

Male long-horned bees can be found sleeping on flowers in the early morning, often several of them together. They will hold onto flowers with their mandibles or curl up inside. Like this adorable fuzzy cuddle puddle on verbena bonariensis.

Some species are specialist pollinators of native Helianthus (sunflowers), while others play crucial roles in wildflower prairie ecology. Approximately 25 species live in Oregon.

#bees #nativepollinators #mellisodes

Dwarf Red Plains Coreopsis Coreopsis tinctoria (As

Dwarf Red Plains Coreopsis
Coreopsis tinctoria (Asteraceae) This little beauty showed up from a wildflower seeds packet ❤️ #coreopsis #threetreestaborgarden

Two poppies 💕 I am dedicating these beautiful t

Two poppies 💕 I am dedicating these beautiful twins to Sarah @virago14 who has been a long-time friend and supporter across career paths, state lines (MD/VA/DC to OR), and so many dinners, events, hikes, and life events.

Sarah encouraged me to start a @gofundme for David @suburbancampfiremedia and I to help get a down payment together for our first home. She has also been looking over our purchase agreement, inspection items, and negotiating on our behalf, all while preparing her own home for rent and purchasing and moving into a new home! SO MUCH REAL ESTATE! 💖🏡

Sarah has always pushed me to do greater things and have more confidence in myself. Because of her efforts, we are halfway to our fundraising goal, and halfway to purchasing our home.

If all goes well, we will close on August 12th and finally own our home and beautiful garden.

It is friends like Sarah who elevate us through their acts of service and kindness and make our lives full of appreciation and love.

#friends #yougotafriendinme #poppiesofinstagram #poppies #threetreestaborgarden

https://gofund.me/3344f405

This weekend, my first task as an almost homeowner

This weekend, my first task as an almost homeowner had me up on the roof trimming grapevines, honeysuckle, thornless Lochness blackberries and cleaning out gutters. It also offered a beautiful aerial view of our garden ❤️ Thank you for helping us stay in our little oasis! 🙌

https://gofund.me/3e5036d5

Salpiglossis sinuata, the painted tongue. Looking

Salpiglossis sinuata, the painted tongue. Looking like a psychedelic explosion 💖💥 #salipiglossis #paintedtongue

This amazing zinnia looks like summer sunset sorbe

This amazing zinnia looks like summer sunset sorbet 💗💛 #zinnia

Ten years ago, David @suburbancampfiremedia & I me

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