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Your vegetable garden can be pretty, too. 🌸🥬

I think one of my favorite things about gardening is realizing that I don’t have to choose between growing food and growing something beautiful.

This was one of my favorite living arrangements: cabbage as the focal point, Swiss chard for color and texture, and flowers filling in around them. As the season changed, the arrangement changed too. Eventually the cabbage flowered, adding height and tiny yellow blooms that the pollinators loved.

And right now is the perfect time to start thinking about creating something similar for fall.

Cool-season vegetables like cabbage, collards, kale and Swiss chard can be mixed with flowers like pansies, violas, calendula and other cool-season bloomers. Think about it the same way you would any other planter: height, texture, color and function.

Your edible garden doesn’t have to look like a vegetable garden.

It can just look like a beautiful garden that happens to feed you. 🌿

Would you put an edible arrangement like this on your front porch?

*This is a picture of one of my planters at the beginning of Spring as the cabbage was flowering.

#EdibleGarden #FallGarden #ContainerGardening #KitchenGarden #GardenDesign #Zone9AGardening #CoastalGeorgiaGarden #SavannahGardening

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AmberTeaches

After 17 years of gardening, I’ve realized every piece of my gardening outfit has earned its place. 🌿

People often ask why I wear so much gear in the garden. The answer is simple: every item helps me stay outside longer and spend less time recovering from sun exposure, bug bites, scratches, allergies, and skin irritation.

This isn’t about buying the “right” products. It’s about finding what works for your body, your climate, and your garden.

For me, that means a wide-brim hat, a mosquito head net, protective sleeves, permethrin-treated clothing, and hiking boots.

Every gardener eventually develops a uniform. This one is mine.

What’s one item that’s always part of your gardening uniform?

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3 months ago | [YT] | 28

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20+ pounds of produce from one evening of harvesting in a small backyard garden. 🍅🌶️🫑

This is why I always say you don’t need acres to grow a meaningful amount of food. Every harvest adds up.

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Most people see butterflies and think about the adult butterfly sipping nectar from flowers. 🦋

But a pollinator garden supports much more than that.

During my visit to Butterfly Landing at EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival, one of the biggest takeaways was that butterflies need different plants at different stages of life. Nectar plants feed adult butterflies, but host plants provide a place for them to lay eggs and for caterpillars to grow.

A successful butterfly garden isn’t just about attracting butterflies for a photo. It’s about supporting an entire life cycle.

That’s why you may notice leaves with chew marks, caterpillars munching away, or plants that look a little less than perfect. Those aren’t always signs that something has gone wrong—they can be signs that your garden is doing exactly what it was designed to do.

Butterflies are only part of the story. The eggs, caterpillars, chrysalises, and host plants matter too.

Have you planted any butterfly host plants in your garden?

🌱 Zone 9A Gardener
🦋 EPCOT Flower & Garden Festival
🌼 First flowers, then fruit.

#EPCOTFlowerAndGarden #ButterflyLanding #ButterflyGarden #PollinatorGarden #HostPlants #Butterflies #GardenEducation #WildlifeGarden #GardenTok #Zone9aGardening #FlowerAndGardenFestival #GoAmberStop

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4 months ago | [YT] | 5

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Apparently one trip wasn’t enough… because I ended up going back to EPCOT’s Flower & Garden Festival twice. 🌸🌿

The first trip was with my husband and boys for Mother’s Day and our anniversary, and somewhere between the topiaries, butterfly garden, scavenger hunt, garden-inspired food booths, and landscaping details, I realized I needed more time to really take it all in.

So we went back. 😭✨

And honestly? I still don’t think I saw everything.

The butterfly garden deserved its own day, the special edition merch got me immediately, and every area kept giving me ideas for my own garden back home. Disney really knows how to make plants, food, storytelling, and design all feel connected.

If you’ve ever gone to Flower & Garden, what was your favorite part?

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4 months ago | [YT] | 6

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Quick question before I post the full video... did you know your bolted onions are basically a free pollinator garden? 🤔

I was in the garden minding my business when this carpenter bee landed on my onion flowers and just stayed. For 10 whole minutes. I grabbed my phone and caught the whole thing.

And then a hoverfly showed up too. Because apparently my onion blossoms are the hottest spot in the garden right now.

Full reel dropping soon, but tell me... do you pull your onions when they bolt, or do you leave them? Drop it in the comments. ⬇️

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I’m the flower lady. You knew I wasn’t leaving this behind.

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Today was National Tomato Day 🍅
Do you grow tomatoes? If so what is your favorite 🤩?

6 months ago | [YT] | 6

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I’m THIS close 🤏🏾 to putting my peppers outside… 👀🌶️

but let’s talk about it…

Warm days will have you feeling confident REAL quick
and then one cold night will humble you 😭

Hardening off is not optional.
It’s a process.

A little sun.
A little wind.
Then back inside.

Because one rushed decision
and your plants will let you know immediately.

Slow down.
Pay attention to your temps.
Especially out here in Zone 8b/9a… that weather will switch up on you.


#gardeningtips #zone8bgardening #vegetablegardening

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6 months ago | [YT] | 4

AmberTeaches

I have been learning about cuetlaxōchitl or poinsettias my entire life. Here’s a childhood picture of me with this beautiful plant (1992) and a photo of me just the other day (2025)! Are there any plants that take you back to your childhood? Or that remind you of a particular event or person?

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