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The BIC Plant and Gardening Thread

Hello BIC friends and fellow gardeners! Whether you have a container on your balcony, some indoor plants, a whole garden, or even if you just happen to visit a botanical garden or see a lovely space or plant in your neighborhood you want to share, this is the place! Please share pics, tips, plans and tricks about all things gardening!  

 

For many years I had a container balcony garden with mostly flowers and herbs (when travel allowed), and I am now embarking on my first backyard landscaping and gardening journey. 

I am often taking inspiration from the natural world around me and have recently had some spring inspiration for the Makeup Challenge of the Week and have loved chatting about gardening in our other threads, so I thought a new thread would be nice. 

It’s always so interesting to me to see plants and gardens from different regions and countries, so I hope you’ll join the conversation!  

PS: if you create a makeup look based on some plant or garden inspiration, please feel free to post your look or flat-lay here, too! 


Here are a few pics of my spring bulbs to start and I’ll share more soon (kindly ignore the weeds)! 

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My old balcony (from the outside) - I’ll try to find an internal pic too:

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@JoSometimes  I’ve looked in town for a pre made one but I live in a small town and haven’t seen any. I made a spray with dish soap but it seems to kill the leaves. Luckily it seems to shed all the leaves and the aphids go away and they grow back but I’m not sure that’s super good for the plant. 

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Aww nooo! I hope you find a solution @ather!

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@ather Lovely roses 🌹🌹🌹. It seems happy by the window.

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@Mellmars1185  Thank you! All the plants by that window love it there. 

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@ather how pretty and delicate!

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Oooh so pretty @ather !

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@Kim888  Thank you! 

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Very pretty, @ather ! 🌹

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@Titian06  Thank you! 

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Oohhh, it’s so beautiful!! @ather 

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@sister13  Thank you! My mom had a ton of rose bushes growing up! 

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I am trying one climbing rose this year, I’m excited to seee how it does! @ather 

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@sister13  Oooo keep me posted! I would love one like that but I wonder if it would survive the climate where I live. 

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The guy at the nursery said it was very hardy and super easy to care for, very low maintenance. It’s a climbing iceberg rose and says it’s zones 5-11. @ather 

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@sister13  Thanks I’ll have to look it up!! 

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The smoke from the wildfires up north made it difficult for us to be outside. Luckily, we had a rainy day yesterday and that washed out the smoke from the atmosphere.

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Forgot to plant some sweet peas this year but one of the pods must have fallen into the planter and cracked open because this little one started creeping out of the soil. 

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The rose bush bloomed this week! There are surprisingly few thorns on the stems and this one’s grown pretty tall, so I’m not too worried about it being plucked by little grabby hands. 

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Some of the peonies have graced the yard with their presence. There are quite a few buds still to open, so it’ll just get better from here!

 

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And speaking of grabby hands, here’s one that found a ripe strawberry! Most are still green/white, but they couldn’t resist gobbling down the ones that were red.

 

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And we should have a nice big bowl of blueberries this year! There are so many!

 

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And the tire planters are doing well. The creeping thyme caught up and bloomed too, so I think everyone is happy in their tire home. My kids were pretty diligent in watering them up until the smoke from the wildfires up north rolled in and we stopped playing outside. 

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@JoSometimes OMG!!!! I see a strawberry!!!!

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@jaaayp It’s not there anymore. 😄😋🍓

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@JoSometimes 😂😂😂

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@JoSometimes  Wow your flowers are beautiful! Do your roses get aphids? Or do you spray them? Peonies are my fav! Glad they are already blooming. Woah! You have strawberries already!!! Lucky!! I had my strawberry plant outside and we had this huge storm roll in when I was at work and it picked up the container of strawberries and flew across my yard. So my strawberries are lost. We took some strawberry tops and planted them so fingers crossed we get a few of it works!! 

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@ather The whole yard gets aphids but there’s also a lot of ladybugs to eat them, so it kind of balances out. 

And I’m sorry to hear about your strawberries. Hopefully the tops grow into new plants. 

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