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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
Our Swiss chard had stayed alive up until that freeze and then well- it did not agree. It is brown but makes for pretty pictures I can’t help it if I like earthy tones. My sweet lemon thyme was barely…
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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 started planting endive and arugula. I was told I should plant them in January, they can’t be transplanted until after the front but they need a little bit more time. I think we should start with endive. I should…
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Category: Year One
Tags: annual, arugula, beautiful, bee, bees, beginner, beneficial, blood glucose, blood sugar, business, cancer, diabetes, endive, food forest, food security, fragrant, future, garden, gardening, goals, growing, growing indoors, hardy, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, indoor, indoors, life, low blood sugar, medicinal, nature, new, New Plant, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, preparation, pretty, purple light, rain, random, resources, scenery, Science, season, seasons, spirit, starting out, sulphur springs, sustainability, temperature, texas, Tips, tradition, unknown, update, zone, zone 8, zone 8a
I started planting endive and arugula. I was told I should plant them in January, they can’t be transplanted until after the front but they need a little bit more time. I think we should start with endive. I should…
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Category: Year One
Tags: annual, arugula, beautiful, bee, bees, beginner, beneficial, blood glucose, blood sugar, business, cancer, diabetes, endive, food forest, food security, fragrant, future, garden, gardening, goals, growing, growing indoors, hardy, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, indoor, indoors, life, low blood sugar, medicinal, nature, new, New Plant, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, preparation, pretty, purple light, rain, random, resources, scenery, Science, season, seasons, spirit, starting out, sulphur springs, sustainability, temperature, texas, Tips, tradition, unknown, update, zone, zone 8, zone 8a
These are her Osteospermums. She took this picture in April. They are so happy in her green house. These flowers are better known as African Daisies, I had to look it up because I couldn’t pronounce that. I didn’t find…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: goals, growing, growing indoors, plant, Plant yourself, plants, poison, pollination, pollinator, pretty, Project Grow Your Roots, update
Good day humans, it is I. So I have gotten a lot of responses which I love and with that comes the fun part. So I have been keeping up with these as best as I can, but my plan…
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Mr. Hollis said Merry Christmas with a lovely mammoth sunflower. He is from Indiana. Now the Mammoth Sunflower grows wild from the Carolinas to Canada and over. It is just everywhere, no wildlife conservation unit is keeping an eye on…
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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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This amazing lady Allana Greuel shared something I am honored to share. Here is what she said: My Heartleaf Philodendron. Although so common, this plant is priceless in my eyes. My dad had passed away in a freak accident this…
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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
So I was sitting here thinking about all of the cool things I could do for the New Year that didn’t require money or leaving the house. So I sent out an SOS in a lot of my cooler groups…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: beautiful, beginner, beneficial, bug resistant, business, cacti, cactus, calm, container, cultures, dangerous, deadly, drought resistant, garden, gardening, growing, growing indoors, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, land, landscaping, life, mystery, nature, neurotoxin, new, New Plant, New Year, pagan, pasture, pencil cactus, permaculture, Personal blog, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, poison, pretty, problems, Project Grow Your Roots, random, scenery, starting out, sulphur springs, unknown
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 just began growing a sprouted ginger in a pot yesterday. This morning I was scrolling through my Facebook groups and there it was: a sign from the universe. STORY TIME: We had this green shoot come off a piece…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: beautiful, beneficial, container, cultures, edible, fall garden, future, garden, gardening, ginger, ginger root, goals, growing, growing indoors, hardy, herb, homestead, hopkins County, indoor, indoors, life, medicinal, mystery, nature, new, pagan, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, plants, resources, root, Tips, tricks
Anyone else pull all of their plants inside and then proceed to grow more as soon as you get the purple lights in? Get ready because winter is here. Not going to lie this is working out so well I…
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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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My favorite place to buy plants most certainly is going to be Yard by Yard. They have these huge greenhouses with so many plants. They have always been great, and it turns out that my father has painted the guys…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: business, east, fall garden, garden, gardening, green house, greenhouse, greenhouses, hopkins, hopkins County, north east, plant, plants, sulphur springs, texas, yard by yard
First, let me say I didn’t mean for it to end this way. No matter how many successes that we have there also must be failures. So we can talk about that a little bit. Of my four lantanas only…
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Oh yes, I did not realize how sharp these leafs are. Someone should have warned me, now I have these cuts and we were only trying to give it a home. Since this one is so fighty we placed it…
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