The Andrea Borden

I actually have it as a puzzle! It's a lot of fun!

A vertical image full of summer flowers, from a perspective of looking directly down into a shallow wooden basket, just barely seen in the gaps of petals. In order of the colors of the rainbow, reds, oranges, yellows, green, blues, and purples, a variety of zinnias, hydrangea, cosmos, clematis, phlox, a fern and rudbeckia fill the basket.

Surprised to discover I never posted this one from last year. All homegrown.

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Aww, thank you! I've had major work/life/balance shifts in the last year that put a wrench in having time to photograph and login to social media. I'm honestly surprised anyone noticed I was gone, it always felt like posting into a void here but your comment really warmed my heart, thank you!

A shallow-focus garden environment image. A white metal bench and white metal arbor frames the focus of the picture, along with pops of pale pink and bright orange of coneflower and rudbeckia in the foreground and background. In sharp focus to the center-right of the image, a glass pitcher overflows with rudibeckia, coneflower, and small orange zinnias.

A shallow-focus vertical garden environment image. A white metal bench and white metal arbor frames the picture, along with pops of pale pink and bright orange of coneflower and rudbeckia crowding into the foreground and background. In sharp focus to the lower-right of the image, a glass pitcher overflows with rudibeckia, coneflower, and small orange zinnias.

Drizzly July morning here in Iowa and I've been neglecting flower photo opportunities lately but here's a couple from my rounds this AM.

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A shallow-focus image set in a garden environment dominated with pale purple and pink of out-of-focus coneflower in the foreground. In sharp focus in the center of the image a monarch butterfly rests on a coneflower, it's orange and black wingspan covering most of the flower it rests upon.

As my milkweed recovers from storms doing a number on its flowers, the coneflower continues to keep the monarchs coming back.

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A shallow-focus image set in a garden environment dominated with lush greens and pops of pale purple and pink of out-of-focus coneflower in the foreground. In the center of the image a young fawn comes into focus, with tiny white spots and large ears. It is making eye contact with the viewer.

A shallow-focus image set in a garden environment dominated with lush greens and pop of a pale pink of out-of-focus coneflower in the foreground. In the center of the image, slightly obscured on one side by the centered coneflower, a young fawn comes into sharp focus with tiny white spots and large ears. It's body faces away from the viewer, it's head is turned back to make eye contact with the viewer.

A shallow-focus image set in a garden environment dominated with lush greens and pops of pale purple out-of-focus hosta flowers in the foreground. In the center of the image, the bottom half of it's body obscured by hostas, a young fawn comes into sharp focus with tiny white spots and large ears, making eye contact with the viewer.

A shallow-focus image set in a garden environment dominated with lush greens. Slightly right-of-center of the image a young fawn comes into sharp focus with tiny white spots and large ears, making eye contact with the viewer.

The cutest little dine-and-dasher I ever did see in my #garden.

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A vertical image full of summer flowers, from a perspective of looking directly down into a shallow wooden basket, just barely seen in the gaps of petals. In hues of reds, pinks, oranges, apricot, yellows, creams and white, dahlias, yarrow, zinnias, daisies, roses, asters, phlox and rudbeckia fill the basket.

100% homegrown from my garden, taken about a month ago as the season kicked into high gear.

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A horizontal image full of fall harvest ephemera, looking directly down into a shallow wooden basket on a neutral background. In hues of reds, oranges, apricot, yellows, and brown a large sunflower, mini pumpkins, ornamental corn, orange zinnias, hops, dahlias, and celosia fill the basket.

Just a new fall harvest puzzle image. <3 📸 📷 🌱

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A horizontal shallow focus image of a garden bouquet hanging over a distressed black wood surface, with a rustic wood wall in the background. The bouquet is full of roses of various colors and forms, accompanied by deep orange coreopsis, dame's rockett, vervascum, a large open-centered blue scabiosia, young ferns, mock orange, and privet blooms.

To walk through the garden and gather such beauty up, smelling and sighing with all the happiness Spring brings. I love days like today.

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Only recently! It's just a used mini fridge I bought off Marketplace. I knew I needed to store my peonies somehow and my icepack/cooler carton was not going to cut it lol. It's done the job so far and it's a relief to be able to have a place to cut and store when I don't have time to use them yet!

Kind of depends. For this bouquet I wanted to show off the spring garden personality, so went for a bit of everything, but frequently I pick whatever blooms are most useable and store what I don't use in my floral fridge.

I am trying to get better about pre-planning. It works... sometimes. 😅

A vertical image of a garden bouquet hanging upside down against a rustic wood wall. The bouquet is full of roses of various colors and forms, accompanied by deep orange coreopsis, a large open-centered blue scabiosia, young ferns, mock orange, and privet blooms.

A bouquet fresh from the garden.

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Thanks! I solarized this area with black plastic sheeting for a season or two to kill off the grass first, and then started planting in 2021. It's had ugly stages, so keep that in mind. I still weed out Creeping Charlie frequently, and sometimes long stems of grass pop up too, among other things.

Every year I throw out more seed as well, just to fill in patches and all that. I have another part of my garden where I've done this change as well, but about twice the size. Patches are more obvious there but get filled in more as the season heats up/things come out of dormancy.

Work in progress since Spring of 2021. It could have been accomplished more aggressively if I'd immediately seeded/planted more perennials at the outset, but initially solarized the grass, laid down mulch, and mass planted dahlias along with other annuals for some more instant satisfaction.

A vertical garden meadow scene full of flowers and lush green foliage. In the bottom out of focus foreground pale purple allium heads make a gentle cup shaped arrangement around bright white Shasta daisies in the middle of the scene. The daisies give way to tall twin spikes of pink lupines with yellow buttercups below. In the upper background of the scene purple lupines and brilliant violet Siberian irises blur into a deep green meadowscape.

My meadowscaped front lawn in spring makes me so pleased. We have gone through some very ugly phases with it but knew it would take time. Worth it.

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A horizontal shallow focus garden image in tones of soft pastels. On the left side of the image a stem of purple foxglove extends from the bottom of the frame to the top of the frame. In the middle of the stem, hanging from the lip of the bell shaped flowers, an American Bumblebee (bombus pensylvanicus) rests.

A horizontal shallow focus garden image in tones of soft pastels. In the center of the image a stem of pale pink foxglove extends from the bottom of the frame to the top of the frame, flanked by purple foxglove on the left and spires of dark purple catmint to the right. Perched partway in the middle stem's bell shaped flowers, an American Bumblebee (bombus pensylvanicus) rests.

My place is bumblebee heaven currently. Check out this friend on my foxgloves. Watching bumbles in my garden after a long day is just the soul bleach I need sometimes.

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A shallow focus image of a Rusted Patch Bumblebee hovering in air close to an inflorescence of common lupine. A spike of lupine flanks either side of the focal feature, while the background is filled with lush green out of focus bokeh and in the right-most foreground lupine foliage frames the scene.

A rusted patch bumblebee coming in for some lupine goodness in my yard this week.

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A monochrome digital drawing of a mermaid with long wet hair draped over her shoulders and upper body sitting on a large fishhook as if it were a swing, curling her tail up under herself. She's a somewhat sly glance downward possibly toward whatever the intended catch is.

Still not really a #MerMay guy but I got this idea unbidden and just ended up drawing it despite the fact that I'm sure it really makes no sense. It's called 'Bait' and I apologize. (Once you start drawing those Muchaesque hair curls you want to do it forever.)

A vertical image of a floral arrangement on a dark green background, lit from the right side with soft shadows on the left. The arrangement sits on a mauve colored gauzy fabric with matching frayed chiffon ribbon, draping over a distressed black wood pallet. The arrangement is placed in a traditional square wood woven basket and is turned at an angle so that a corner faces the camera. Out of the basket spills an abundance of lily of the valley foliage and lilacs in an icy blue color. The shape of the design makes a central downward arc of lilacs, with sprays of lilac tapering off both sides. It makes a vague dragon or seahorse shape against the lush green leaves of the lily of the valley.

I cannot un-see the seahorse... or dragon in this design. It's all I see.

Which one does it look like to you folks?

#seahorseordragon

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A vertical image looking down on a shallow open-weave lattice wood basket on a dark wood background. In the basket short sprigs of lilacs in varying shades of pale purple lay together in loose clusters. A frayed chiffon ribbon in a shade of dusty lavender weaves under and over the clusters in a romantic display.

Still obsessed with the lilacs growing in the alley. I'm fairly sure the double variety is 'Alice Christenson', and I am head over heels in love.

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A bright horizontal image filled edge to edge with a pale lavender colored florets of creeping phlox.

Creeping phlox wrapping around a planter, thriving on neglect for 2 years now.

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Oof, my condolences! We got spring a month early here and I absolutely would not be ok with snow currently!

I don't know if you're into gardening photos or flowers, but as the season gets warmer I post a lot of that kind of photography.

What a ridiculously adorable pup!

A horizontal image looking down on a shallow open weave lattice basket atop a neutral warm colored wood. In the basket a lush green collection of Lily of the Valley foliage and pristine white flowers fan loosely in a gentle arc to follow the top-most curve of the basket.

Lily of the Valley season is here, making my mudroom smell incredible.

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In some ways I feel like BSky users are more... reluctant to interact, compared mastodon users. Could absolutely be just my own experience and being a sample size of one, or maybe just the communities I'm in/tried to interact with.

A horizontal image filled from edge to edge with creamy white tulips streaked with rich rose-pink stretching from the center to top of each petal to fan out like brushstrokes. The mass planting bends gently away from the camera, seeming to all lean slightly diagonally to the left.

A shallow focus vertical image filled from edge to edge with many-petaled burnt orange tulips. From the bottom of the frame with mostly blurred blooms, the eye travels up through the center of the image where a loose cluster of flowers come into focus, and leads away through the upper heights of the image to faded out of focus flowers.

A bright horizontal image filled from edge to edge with buttery yellow tulips streaked with bright pink stretching from the bottom center to top of each petal. The mass planting bends gently away from the camera, seeming to all lean slightly diagonally to the right.

A moody toned horizontal image filled from edge to edge with lavender tulips, deepening in color from the bottom to about mid-way up each petal. The mass planting clusters the flowers tightly together, with larger blooms open fully to the sun while smaller tulips open with heads bent in the understory of the larger tulip canopy.

Got to see the sights and sounds of Pella, Iowa tulip beds in all their glory before the storms of the current week.

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Very kind of you to say, thank you for taking the time. <3

This is really kind. Thank you so much for taking time to write this. <3