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Wildlings
Wild cucumber vine is happily sitting on top of some invasive Canada Goldenrod near the creek where I live. It looked lovely outside so I tried to recreate it in a vase inside with some other materials like fall blooming clematis, dahlias, snapdragons, and zinnias.
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Hanging Amaranthus
Few flowers offer a more nostalgic feeling. Love-Lies-Bleeding,is the traditional burgundy form of Hanging Amaranthus. Pictured here are green and coral varieties which were found at a lovely small flower farm in East Earl, Pennsylvania, Flourish Flowers. Trish grows beautiful, high quality flowers there.
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Cosmos
The variety of Cosmos pictured here is Double Click. Kind of heavenly. Picked fresh from the Detweiler Homestead Farm in Sellersville, Pennsylvania.
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Nicotiana
Flowering Tobacco comes in many shades and sizes. This variety (not sure of the exact variety, perhaps Tinkerbell) is grown at Laughing Lady Flower Farm in Doylestown, PA. I started some from seed this year and they are coming along nicely. The variety I am growing is Nicotiana langsdorfii, a delicious chartreuse form.
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Wild Rose
I couldn’t miss noticing the pink in the sea of green overgrowth, so I pulled over to investigate. There are a couple of these wild rose shrubs growing on the side of the road near a turnpike overpass. I took some home and made an arrangement with some other lovelies plucked from the roadside and…
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Campanula takesimana
The inside of a Korean Bellflower. This plant was shared with me a couple of years ago and it has been happy on my humble patio. Thank you, Sandy.