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Are you like me and didn’t know that common plant names are not the best way of identifying plants because a lot of the common names get confused or could overlap with others? I mean there are trees that are…
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Category: Year One
Tags: 2021, agriculture, beautiful, beneficial, botanic, botany, country, definition, dicot, edible, educational, favorite, flower, flowering, food forest, food forestry, food security, fruit, fruit tree, future, garden, gardening, goals, growing, growing indoors, harmless, herb, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, horticulture, industry, land, meaning, monocot, mystery, name, names, nature, new, New Year, pasture, pasture land, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, pollinator, pollinators, preparation, pretty, propogation, random, resources, scenery, season, seasons, seeds, shrub, soil, sound, species, spirit, sustainability, suvrvial, TAMUC, temperature, texas, tradition, tree, trees, tricks, unknown, update, variety, web, wildlife, zone 8, zone 8a
I am having a lot of fun with rosemary. It is one of my favorite herbs to grow in our garden. I started rosemary in 2020 and I fell in love. Have you ever just taken your face and moved…
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Category: Uncategorized, Year One
Tags: agroforestry, art, beautiful, bee, bees, beginner, beneficial, bug resistant, clay, clay soil, container, country, drought resistant, edible, evergreen, favorite, food forest, food forestry, food security, fragrant, future, garden, gardening, goals, ground cover, growing, growing indoors, hardy, herb, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, indoor, indoors, land, landscaping, life, medicinal, mystery, nature, new, New Plant, new year 2021, ornamental, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, pollination, pollination pollinators, pollinator, pollinators, purple light, random, resources, rosemary, scenery, spirit, spring, starting out, texas, Tips, unknown, update, winter, wish, wishing, zone, zone 8, zone 8a
I have a five year plan. It is not a good plan and it changes from day to day but it is a plan. Right now, I have just left year zero. January 2021 is starting a new year for…
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Category: Uncategorized, YearZero
Tags: agroforestry, anniversary, apocalypse, apple, apples, autumn sage, baby trees, banana tree, beautiful, bee, beginner, beneficial, bird, birds, blackberry, blueberry, bug resistant, bulb, bulbs, business, butterflies, butterfly, calm, clay soil, drip irrigation, drought resistant, edible, fall garden, flower, flowering, food forest, food forestry, food security, fragrant, fruit, fruit tree, future, garden, gardening, goals, grape, ground cover, growing, growing indoors, herb, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, hummingbird, hummingbirds, irrigation, jasmin, jasmine, land, landscaping, lantana, lemon tree, life, lime tree, limes, marjoram, meaning, medicinal, milkweed, monarch, monarch butterflies, monarch butterfly, nature, New Plant, New Year, new year 2021, nursery, orchard, oregano, ornamental, ornamental peppers, pasture, pasture land, pear, pear tree, pears, peas, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, pests, picture, pictures, plant, sustainability, year zero
This Groot house plant was sent from Bauxite Arkansas and where a father is homeschooling his 2 daughters, ages 11 and 8. This amazing father got his daughters an African Violet, which is a perennial and have lovely fat leaves…
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All the way from Oregon, Groot wants you to know he is proud of you. This is a weeks worth of growth on a Sunflower she planted with her daughter. I love the way she made the pictures come together…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: 2021, annual, beautiful, beginner, beneficial, butterflies, butterfly, container, cultures, edible, flower, flowering, fragrant, future, garden, gardening, goals, groot, growing, growing indoors, harmless, herb, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, hops, hummingbird, hummingbirds, indoor, indoors, land, life, meaning, medicinal, mystery, nature, new, New Plant, New Year, new year 2021, News, pagan, pasture, pasture land, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, poison, preparation, pretty, Project Grow Your Roots, propogation, random, resources, shrub, spirit, sunflower, sunflowers, temperature, Tips, unknown, update, violas, violets, wish, wishing
Another lover of plants like myself is out there living the dream. She has sent us pictures of three different plants that are amazing and I can’t wait to look into and mention some cool facts about these amazing plants….
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: 2021, anniversary, beginner, beneficial, cacti, cactus, cactus of love, calm, container, cultures, Douglas fir, evergreen, frozen, future, garden, goals, greetings, growing, growing indoors, hardy, holiday, holidays, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, indoors, land, landscaping, life, love cactus, meaning, mystery, nature, new, New Plant, new year 2021, pagan, pasture, pasture land, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, Project Grow Your Roots, resources, temperature, Thanksgiving cactus, Tonasket, tree, trees, unknown, update, Washington, winter, zone
I live in Texas. Howdy. I was looking into things that could boost my permaculture food forest without costing me any money. As I was looking through the many grants. It all started with the Monarch Butterfly Grant. This is…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: agroforestry, autumn sage, beautiful, bee, bees, beginner, beneficial, bird, butterflies, butterfly, calm, clay, clay soil, cultures, definition, drought resistant, edible, evergreen, fall garden, flower, flowering, fruit, garden, gardening, goals, grant, growing, hardy, harmless, herb, homestead, honey, hopkins, hopkins County, hummingbird, hummingbirds, land, landscaping, lantana, meaning, medicinal, milkweed, monarch, monarch butterflies, monarch butterfly, nature, nest, new, pagan, pasture, pasture land, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, plant, plants, pollination pollinators, pollinator, pollinators, preparation, pretty, random, red sage, resources, sage, salvia, shrub, soil, sound, spirit, Spiritual beings, starting out, sulphur springs, temperature, texas, Texas sage, Tips, trailing lantana, tricks, unknown, vine, vines, wish, wishing, yellow, zone, zone 8, zone 8a
I woke up this morning dreaming of buying trees…. Most people want fancy homes and large vehicles but not this lady. No sire, I want all the trees and all the plants. Being a broke lady, who has already spend…
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Year zero was not as productive as I wanted it to be and so I am actively working towards making sure that i am actively adding pollinators and fruit producing plants. One of my favorite ways to do that is…
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It turns out that out of all of the lantas we bought only three survived but they are the prettiest three lantanas. Now don’t quote me on it but I am ninety percent sure that I will be the proud…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: flower, flowering, garden, ground cover, homestead, landscaping, lantana, perennial, permaculture, plant, plants
I am much happier during the early growth season. Here I am planting new seeds right before it starts to get chilly. I know I will bring them in and I already have the best idea for where I want…
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Bachelor’s Buttons are absolutely stunning. This is also called the corn flower but there are a few plants called that from different species. Just so you know this is just an honorable mentiom, it is not revelant to what I…
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This plant seems to truly enjoy the clay soil. I did some more research it turns out it thrives in dry heat. Autumn Sage claims to be drought resistant, bug free and doesn’t need to be fertilized. I did it…
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I am tired of citrus only posts. What about limes? They have their own identity. You can’t lump limes in with oranges. Limes are festive, they are a party. Oranges are a breakfast beverage and don’t get me started on…
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So i went to the Almanac and starting looking into what will actually do well in my area. Yes, I would like some sort of mutated version of Permaculture, Agroforestry, and pretty things that attract bird and bees and things…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: arabica, Arabica coffee plant, beer, black pepper, cascada hops, coffee, ginger, hops, peppercorn, perennial, permaculture, plant, plants, red leaf tea, sassafras, star anise, tumeric, yerba mate, zone, zone 8, zone 8a
Sunshine ligustrum is pretty but useless. It enjoys full sunlight and there isn’t a lot of Information. I can’t wait to see what it looks like when it is larger and in full bloom. I always buy in pairs.
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Marjoram is cold sensitive. This herb has the potential to be perennial in warmer temperatures. This plant is a close relative to oregano and in some places they call it oregano all together. Another member of the mint family, Marjoram…
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Radio red salvia is pretty. I bought it because it has great red flowers. It likes full or partial shade which means it will do well near my baby fig (do do do do do do). It is also known…
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I am doing something wrong. I have non idea. I added some stuff to make them feel better but they are just not liking the time of transplant. I have asked around about it and they have told me “suspected”…
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We should first begin by saying: why not lemon balm? This plant smells delicious. I don’t know a single person who didn’t stick their face in my lemon balm after a small whiff. It smells like a sweet lemonade. I…
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