@recliningfate I've added it for you! It's beautiful!

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Thank you Misty!

@recliningfate

It's an orchid hybrid 😍

@recliningfate

🤯 Fate! You're here!😁💚

Oh wow that is windowsill goals 👌 it looks all so pretty, Are you a big orchid grower? Looks like there might be a few on there 😁 -- I had a quick Google of phalaenopsis lius berry, they have such pretty flower patterns :0

Annnd it's a genetic crossbreed which is really cool! Always wanted to have a go at doing some plant genetics! Though I have absolutely no idea where to start with that!

🤔 I hope mines one of these but I have high doubt 🤣😅 I'm gunna have to wait for the flowers to pop back up and double check🌺🌺 🤔

I am glad to be here ❤️ this is a subject which interests me and brings me joy.

I have around 31 orchids and 8 other plants. I find orchids a challenge and feel satisfaction seeing them flourish.

Keep us posted about the flowers!

@recliningfate 31 orchids! Holy cow that is so amazing!

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:D <3

:O wow 31 ! blimey! Are they all on your windowsill :O thats quite the collection, do you have a favourite?

Agreed! - though theyve suprised me with how much ive neglected them :') something deeply satisfying about repotting them and watching them start to do well again :D

Moooore plant :>

I "found" this one in a neighbors garden, the old chap is an exceptional gardener and is out there every day snipping his ornamental hedge with scissors -- so many beautiful plants in that garden I always stare on the way past!

This is a hemerocallis "Sammy Russel" daylilly - the photo doesn't do it justice, super pretty flower and it stands out so beautifully against all the green!

Apparently they are very easy to grow! And like most conditions, I couldn't get close for a smell 😔 (didn't want to hang over the garden for too long 😅😣)

They are great for bees and hummingbirds ! But toxic to cats so be wary before planting any! https://www.gardenia.net/plant/hemerocallis-sammy-russell-daylily

@WorriedMagpie Quite a lot of plants are toxic to animals, - oooh I can see a new thread from you about that!

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@MistyMagic

Ooh that's a great shout! 👌I'll add it into the list :) 💚🐦

We actually did something like this for a school activity, I found this Johnson Grass outside in a flower field behind the school

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@Londo

Ooh it's so pretty 💚 always surprises me how many different types of grasses there are!

Thanks for getting involved 😁 have you found any other cool leafy 🌱friends in the flower fields ? I love when a patch gets left to grow untouched ☺️💚🐦

This is flower my yard my mom say is NOT doing good but I like color it lot reminds me my real home so I hope do better grow more. Her take off flower things that die so maybe rest do better wait and see is geranium

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@theboymoana

:0 geraniums are super pretty I really hope it survives for you 🤞🤞💚

A little patch of home is always lovely, there's a certain smell that takes me right back to my childhood garden everytime I pass it, think it might be an elderberry tree?

I hope you come update us on how does 💚🐦

@WorriedMagpie

here is how was before my mom take off parts dying I see how is doing soon when I feel better can see if is getting better I like it colors a lot things don’t grow good here where I live now because doesn’t get very hot. My mom says have to learn new way to grow flowers because usually her grow lot lot lot plants all time

@theboymoana Oh! It's so pretty! It looks like it's an orange color to me or is it more red?

@mytwistedsoul

yes is orange ! I think orange flowers maybe my favorite because look so bright and happy

@theboymoana I like orange flowers too! And for the same reason! Even on days when it's not sunny out they look so happy and brighten up the day :)

@theboymoana

:O wow what a lovely bright colour, its so pretty ! - I'm sure you'll figure it out :) I'd never considered that of course plants would need different care based on environment :') - Did you grow a lot of things in your old garden?

@WorriedMaple

yes whole yard full flowers my old house grow lot and lot things I am not good growing things but my mom is I like to help her. She teach all me and my brothers to grow things but now this year she learns to !

I saw this pretty fella in a garden as I was walking past, I don't think I've seen one before but then, maybe I've never noticed! Doing this challenge is making me really look 🌱👀

This is a hydrangea aspera ☺️🌺 it's apparently native to the Himalayas and China so It must have come from a garden centre! Might have to grab one at some point it's so pretty!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrangea_aspera <~ linky if you'd like to know more 💚🐦🌿

@WorriedMagpie We have a blue one here but we had to put netting around it because the deer kept eating it 😕 They're so pretty!

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@mytwistedsoul

Oooh this is more like the one in my garden! :D except mines bright pink :> such pretty flowers and this blue one is so delicate looking, id be impressed if there was a deer eating mine on the front doorstep though XD

@mytwistedsoul

The pink hydrangeas that sit at my front door :) I swear they're a different colour every year - fairly sure they were blue last year 🤣👀 but I think my memories just bad 🤦

@mytwistedsoul

:O deer in your garden! I imagine that sounds less magical when it happens often and they eat your plants XD - but still :O <3

@WorriedMagpie I usually end up yelling at the deer lol! They have the whole woods to munch through! If they'd eat the weeds it wouldn't be so bad but they have stripped shrubs - azaleas and rhododendrons to the point that the plants didn't survive. Plus I have a great fondness for Lilies and have dozens of different ones growing but lilies are like candy to deer and they will eat them :/

@mytwistedsoul I understand your woes... Roses, buddleia, beans, strawberries, sunflowers, hibiscus, young fruit trees, they just eat anything that is soft and tasty. I made a small fence around the vegetables and the fruit trees, at least. It looks ugly, but it seems to work.

@cloudySummer They even eat the leaves off the rhubarb! I thought the leaves were poisonous! We put netting around most of the stuff this year but some noses still manage to sneak in here and there lol *smh*

@mytwistedsoul

Hey guys! 💚🌿🐦

I have another mystery for you! I was away at my partner's aunties and spotted this in their garden 😁

it's so pretty but I can't Google lens it 🤔 it didn't have a smell but it was this beautiful blue colour all over and it was grown in a windy English garden so must be pretty hardy 🤔🌱

I'm totally stumped on this one and forgot to ask before we left ! 🤦😅

If anybody knows what this is you shall receive many thanks and lots of cookies 🍪🍪🍪 ☺️

Big love magpie 💚🐦

@WorriedMagpie

https://sugarcreekgardens.com/product/eryngium-blue-glitter-sea-holly/

Does anyone know why attaching a photo does not work? I am uploading a plant image on the mobile app, it does not show up.

@recliningfate I'm sorry - I wish I did. There's been a few other people who have been having trouble with uploading pics on the app :/

I've been looking through the site hoping to find something that can help figure it out but so far no luck

Cool thread. Tomorrow (if it doesn't rain all day), I'll look closer and share some of the stranger plants in my back yard. We've got a space in the back we're just letting nature take it's course. Here's a couple shots from taking a walk around one of my favorite places at the 'bottoms' not far away...

Top one is a shot from a little farther away. The bottom one is a close up of what looks like baby trees. These are all over the place. Maybe they're just bushes.... have no idea. Love the shade of green in them.

@EmbStitcher33 Those are baby oak trees :)

I have a thing for lilies - so I wanted to share some toad lilies

https://www.plantdelights.com/blogs/articles/tricyrtis-toad-lily-bulbs-hirta

These are beautiful!

@recliningfate Thank you! 🙂