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I got a call from a customer needing this garden clearing ready for guests the same day!

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I'm always surprised when I get blooms on these unsuspecting, low maintenance, beautiful plants.

Hello! I recently got into flowers and plants and bought these bobo hydrangeas. I just wanted to know if they look healthy to y’all or if there’s anything I can do to improve? They get 6 plus hours of sun all day, there really isn’t any shade. So I bought theses cute umbrella for them which I noticed has helped them a bit. I live in Nc zone 8a. When I planted them I planted them with Kellogg garden organic soil and mixed it with black kow manure. And I’ve put some black mulch around them. I give them water twice a day. I also bought 2 more bobo hydrangeas and just wanted get some feedback before I plant the two news ones . I was going to plant them around the same spot.

Year 2 of having a spot at my community garden. The back half is where my tomatoes and fruit trees are growing (peach, limequats, pink lemonade blueberries). The front mostly has dahlias, gladiolus sweet alyssum, nasturtium and zinna.

Chose some really lovely new tubers to grow this year and Alfred grille - lots in here is one of my all time favourites.

Topped up with calendula, Dacus, orlya, and achillea.

Happy Tuesday!

Bonus pics from march last year, when we moved in the house and all there was was gravel ahah

The large, teardrop-shaped inflorescence of a banana plant grows downward, showcasing its striking deep reddish-purple bracts in a tropical garden.

A few years back I planted a tree. It's now has a totally different variety growing out of the trunk. What is it and can I prune it off?

Hello to all garden lovers. Today I got home again and I'm sitting with the cherries, I picked the early ones 2 weeks ago, there's only one left, a late variety but very productive and resistant with very large fruits and a special taste. Its story goes like this when I bought the cherries, the gentleman said to take this one as a gift and take care of it because I won't regret it. It was the smallest and the most bitter. Now after 7 years it's the biggest and with the best fruit. So dear gardeners, draw your own conclusions, I wish you good luck

Found when went to check my gorl, was not there when I watered her 2 days ago??? Is she gonna die and is it safe for me to touch to remove

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A few months ago I decided I wanted to learn gardening beyond my main indoor project, so I built this raised bed with one goal in mind: create a true organic living soil ecosystem.
Instead of treating the soil like something that just holds plants up, I wanted it to become a living ecosystem. I reused old organic soil, mixed in fresh compost, added red wigglers, mycorrhizae, insect frass, basalt rock dust, dolomite lime, and mulch, then mostly let nature do its thing. Since then I’ve been feeding the bed with homemade compost from kitchen scraps and coffee grounds and trying to disturb the soil as little as possible.
The transformation has honestly been incredible.
Everything seems to be working together now. The worms are thriving, the soil stays loose and full of life, and the plants have exceeded every expectation I had. My Amish Paste tomato has become an absolute monster, the herbs have exploded, my poblano is producing, and even plants that struggled early on eventually found their stride.
One experiment I wanted to try was seeing whether the soil biology was healthy enough to support a fresh clone without babying it. After pruning back my best Amish Paste tomato, I cut a healthy sucker and planted it directly into the living soil with no rooting hormone and no humidity dome. Just a fresh cutting into the bed. It rooted, took off, and is now a healthy tomato plant of its own, which was a really cool moment for me.
Probably my favorite part has been harvesting herbs for dinner. Fresh rosemary, sage, thyme, parsley, cilantro, lavender, chamomile, lemon balm, and catnip have all found a place in the garden, and cooking with herbs you picked minutes before dinner is something I never realized I’d enjoy this much. The flavor difference compared to store-bought herbs is night and day.
The long-term goal is actually to recycle this living soil into my main indoor project after the outdoor season ends. If I can build a healthy, self-sustaining soil food web outdoors, I’m hoping to carry all of that biology inside instead of starting over from scratch.
I still have a ton to learn, but this project has completely changed how I think about soil. It’s amazing what happens when you stop trying to feed the plant and start feeding everything that lives underneath it.
I’d love to hear what other living soil gardeners have learned or what you’d add to the system before I bring this soil indoors for its next chapter.

I’m in the uk. And we’ve had a really random few weeks of hot and cold but my gorgeous dahlias are coming in strong now 💕💕

I potted my first lotus seeds just 4 days ago and within 4 days, it seems to have decayed and dying. Any suggestions about what I did wrong and how can i rectify that well be welcome🙏🏻

(Location - Lucknow, India)