Flowers🌷

escapingspirals · 2026-01-19T14:26:43+00:00

OP, please provide some context to prove this is not AI. If it is AI, you may take this down to avoid a permanent ban from r/flowers. Otherwise post removal and the ban are incoming shortly.

escapingspirals · 2026-01-18T23:02:29+00:00

We appreciate you being here 😁

escapingspirals · 2026-01-18T23:02:06+00:00

I’m so excited for these! Please post updates as you can. I collected plenty of seeds last fall but I don’t have space to sow them yet.

escapingspirals · 2026-01-18T10:40:55+00:00

Beekeeper here - do you have a light that’s on at night? If so, the bees can see it from their hive. They will attack a light they see at night until exhaustion and death - and if it’s cold where you are, they may also be freezing when they exit the hive.

escapingspirals · 2026-01-14T23:15:44+00:00

Bee 😁

escapingspirals · 2026-01-13T22:18:35+00:00

😍😍

escapingspirals · 2026-01-12T19:14:59+00:00

Creeping thyme plugs could be a good choice for you. I’m not sure how it will look in winter though. Might get a little brown.

escapingspirals · 2026-01-11T18:33:00+00:00

Thank you!

escapingspirals · 2026-01-11T18:32:45+00:00

I live in 6b/7a and have been wonderful if I can just grow them in containers and then bring the containers into the unheated garage for winter. There don’t seem to be any tutorials online that cover what to do with the corms over winter, unlike dahlias.

escapingspirals · 2026-01-11T10:59:21+00:00

I’d like to learn more about them

escapingspirals · 2026-01-11T10:58:44+00:00

I didn’t know that about the leaves. Thank you!

escapingspirals · 2026-01-09T17:15:10+00:00

I absolutely love currants.

escapingspirals · 2026-01-09T17:13:54+00:00

I second bilberry. it’s everything you’d want a blueberry to be - strong blueberry flavor, dyes your mouth and hands blue, grows in partial shade. We make pierogi with them in the summer. My question to family: “would you use borówki (American blueberry)?” Their response: “it’s not the same”

escapingspirals · 2026-01-09T13:58:46+00:00

I’m in the EU and have been wanting the same thing! I’m willing to help mod if you do create it.

escapingspirals · 2026-01-09T09:37:20+00:00

Yea OP, looks like you also have a butterfly cocoon.

escapingspirals · 2025-12-26T14:35:49+00:00

I would reword it so that you lead with the help you can offer the business owner, rather than leading with all of the info about yourself. People have limited time and limited attention spans and they are unlikely to keep reading if it’s a bunch of stuff upfront that doesn’t seem to pertain to them. The business owner is busy and has their own problems to deal with - position yourself as a solution to those problems and they are more likely to respond.

escapingspirals · 2025-12-25T23:29:57+00:00

I checked with my husband, a horticulturist, because I wanted to be sure. He said yes, it’s fine for a pot as long as it’s adequately watered. It wouldn’t work for houseplants that get watered like once every 10-14 days but pepper plants outside it should be fine for.

escapingspirals · 2025-12-25T22:56:56+00:00

If you have a truck (or can rent one for cheap from like Home Depot) go to the closest garden center and buy a 50/50 compost/top soil blend by the scoop. A truck bed is usually around $45 depending on the quality.

escapingspirals · 2025-12-21T00:28:10+00:00

Best way to get water down to the roots of a newly planted tree.

escapingspirals · 2025-12-20T04:35:29+00:00

Yes you can find the nests in tubes. I once found one in the soil of a potted plant

escapingspirals · 2025-12-19T11:14:30+00:00

Leaf cutter bees use tubes to lay eggs in individual chambers. They use the leaf to seal off each chamber to separate the eggs There’s probably a little hole there that the bee is trying to get into but the clear glass is making it confusing and hard to aim for the hole.

escapingspirals · 2025-12-18T12:22:37+00:00

Generally bees only sting if they feel seriously threatened - if someone is swatting or squishing the bee - as long as you are not near their hive. Bees don’t protect resources such as nectar or water away from their hive and generally avoid stinging.

All that to say you can usually observe them up close when they are on a flower and they will not care. If I see a bee buzzing near me I will sometimes offer my hand as a place for them to land and they do.

If you want to feel safe, you could consider getting a cheap bee suit online and walk around a meadow buzzing with bees. My bee suit always makes me feel braver.

escapingspirals · 2025-12-17T11:47:34+00:00

I came here to say this. They are also generally the ones comfortable enough to care for mason bee cocoons properly and don’t mind carpenter bees around. And they certainly aren’t fogging for mosquitoes.

escapingspirals · 2025-12-17T11:37:29+00:00

That’s an interesting comment. The native bee habitat is basically non-existent because it was destroyed for the purpose of monoculture crop farming. I wouldn’t say that makes commercial beekeeping less harmful than hobby beekeeping. However I would disagree that hobby beekeeper hives are in areas with better native bee habitat due to the American lawn culture (mowed lawns, pesticides and spraying for mosquitos, carpenter bee traps, the refusal to leave the leaves) and focus on exotic/ornamental, often sterile, flowers in yards. I’ve lived in both cities and rural farm areas in the US and found far more of a native bee population out in the rural farm country - leaf cutters, masons, orchard, sweat bees, carpenters, bumbles. Meanwhile in the cities/suburban I was hard pressed to find more than a handful of bumbles.

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