🌻 Any Gardeners Out There?

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June 5, 2026
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We would luv to HEAR FROM YOU.

Let us have some FUN with this!!! 💃👍🙃

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SummerOnTheWay1Author

[6/5/26] I started late with things as here in Virginia we kept getting Winter in the "midst" of Spring. 😭

Lol, took a "chance" and SOWED my seeds "directly" into ground May 15th.

Usually do this AFTER Easter.

I have TWO gardens outside my CUTE Studio Apt in the Virginia hills.

One side gets ONLY about 1 hour of sun.

The other, NO sun.

*** A challenge indeed as most plants need MORE sun.

Last year 2025 was my 1st time at gardening in Virginia.

ALWAYS did in Sunny Florida.

SummerOnTheWay1Author

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SummerOnTheWay1Author

[6/5/26] A neighbor gave me a pack of 5 CALADIUM bulbs for THIS YEAR's Mother's Day. Said they would do good in the SHADE garden.

So far I am seeing only 1 "pop up" and maybe a 2nd.

Lol, these were from Walmart and "figuring" out WHICH "end" was suppose to face UP was quite a challenge (all ends looked the SAME).

But I remembered what fellow AARP gardener Papaw @papawofboo had told me last year 2025 = mother nature will "figure" it up. It will take LONGER to "pop up" IF wrong end was FACING DOWN, but they will. And he was correct.

I stuck the REST of my seeds in the SUNNY garden.

Now to see what happens.

All part of the FUN!!! 👍

SummerOnTheWay1Author

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GailL1

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Then for plants I enjoy spirea - my mother had one and I use to see it beside our home when I was a kid - never watered, dirt hard as a rock so when she broke up household in about 2000, I dug it up and brought it here - I did have more but now just down to two - got to find a better place for them to spread.

IT‘S ALWAYS SOMETHING . . . . .. . . . Roseanne Roseannadanna

SummerOnTheWay1Author

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[6/5/26] Gail @GailL1 , sounds like they take care of themselves!!! Another beautiful picture - thanks AGAIN!!!

GailL1

Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐

I am not much for seeds - bulbs, yes and plants, yes - inside and out, I am covered in them everywhere.

These bulbs came from old family relatives, long gone . . . but these come back every year. So I think of them when they do.

There are also some daffodils but they are long gone for this season - I did manage to corral all of them this last year. So the should be real pretty next year in a solid panting.

These are (blue) Japanese roof lilies - beginning bulbs came from from my grandmother. The next (2) pics are spider lilies and the beginning bulbs for them came from my favorite aunt.

IT‘S ALWAYS SOMETHING . . . . .. . . . Roseanne Roseannadanna

SummerOnTheWay1Author

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[6/5/26] Gail @GailL1 , oh my goodness!!! Gorgeous indeed. Thank you SO MUCH for sharing your pictures & stories.

GailL1

Community Champion ⭐⭐⭐

This one I got at a place called Growers Outlet not too far from me - I got it for 50 cents at the end of the season. It said that it would grow to 10’ wide - it was just a little thing when I planted it - yep, 10’ wide - now I wish I had planted it someplace else. Some type of golden juniper of which I have a ton of those two - nothing like a big ole crop of juniper to keep you land from washing away.

IT‘S ALWAYS SOMETHING . . . . .. . . . Roseanne Roseannadanna

SummerOnTheWay1Author

[Saturday 7/25/26]

5 Caladium bulbs came up & doing well. Still waiting on a 1st bloom for Morning Glory seeds I sowed. 🤞

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