Summer Rayne Oakes

Next month, we’re heading to the SYRACUSE, NY and ALBANY, NY area to film for our YouTube channels.⁣
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We look for lovely gardens—both inside or out—with a unique point of view, interesting story or style. ⁣
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If you or someone you know has a great houseplant home tour or private garden that you think is worthy of a ‘Plant One On Me’ or ‘Flock Finger Lakes’ episode—tag them (or yourself) and make sure to apply for a “Houseplant or Garden Tour” via homesteadbrooklyn.com/quick-links.

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4 days ago | [YT] | 77

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Two spots just opened up on our group Botanical Trip to Japan coming up this November 8-14th. For those looking for an adventure 3 months from now with fellow plant lovers, consider joining us! trovatrip.com/trip/asia/japan/japan-with-summer-ra…

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1 week ago | [YT] | 153

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We're offering $100 off our COSTA RICA (Dec 2026) and COLOMBIA (Feb 2027) botanical adventures through tomorrow, April 23rd, 11:59PM PST to celebrate our partner's anniversary of helping folks like me run Group Botanical Tours. Code is: TROVAVERS100 and we have spots left on both our Costa Rica and Colombia trips. You can find out more about trips here: homesteadbrooklyn.com/botanical-tours. Hope to see you on one of our tours! :)

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4 months ago | [YT] | 274

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Hi Folks, I've been on an extended hiatus from the channel, as you may have been able to tell. It started off as expected—just freeing up some time to work on another work project and also manage renovations at ‪@FlockFingerLakes‬. However, after getting home from our group botanical trip to Thailand in February, I learned one of my family members had unusual complications after a routine surgery and had to go back to the hospital ASAP, where they unfortunately remain. It was unexpected and has been very preoccupying for both me and my family. No need to feel sorry or the like—this is how life rolls, but I just wanted to be aboveboard with the extended lull in video production here. That being said, we will have new videos releasing this month, (including tomorrow), so do check back in. Thank you so much for your good thoughts, prayers, and your continued support!

4 months ago | [YT] | 832

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We'll be on the road in the coming months, so if there are any suggestions for a Houseplant Home Tour (for this channel 'Plant One On Me') and Garden Tours (for our sister channel ‪@FlockFingerLakes‬ ), please fill out the form here to suggest: bit.ly/3GrzdLq

5 months ago | [YT] | 92

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We have ONE early-bird spot left on our group Botanical Tour to Colombia next year in February 2027. We have a special trip lined up that will involve a number of botanical gardens and hiking through three of the country's eco-regions to see quite a range of plants. Hope you'll consider joining on either this trip or our Costa Rica adventure: bit.ly/colombiafeb2027

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6 months ago | [YT] | 212

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We just have a couple early bird spots left for our Group Botanical Tour to Costa Rica this coming December 2026. The last trip this past December was so much fun, we decided to do a Part Deux: bit.ly/4ty7Vqi — we added two more activities for the entire group, including a walking tour through the old growth forest in the lowlands, which adds a different perspective from the high altitude montane old growth forests we saw on past trips. Other highlights include behind-the-scenes tours at botanic gardens, including the preeminent orchid facility, where we'll see how they do tissue culture and what endemic and native species they are growing in their private greenhouses.

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6 months ago (edited) | [YT] | 198

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We're back with a new video from our Costa Rica Botanical Adventure: El Arca https://youtu.be/Z1wulNcApOI ... Just shows how one plant can lead to....well many!

6 months ago | [YT] | 19

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Hey friends,
I’ll be taking a little time off from film production here on ‘Plant One On Me.’ I had meant to take a break earlier in the year to work on a project, but that didn’t quite work out as planned. ( Haha—you know how it goes! ) I’m not taking off completely, but the videos will come out with some irregularity.

We also just finished building our chicken coop and successfully got in our first rescue birds (all of whom we brought in from Brooklyn). Now I want to spend ALL my time with them because they are SO much fun. Animals, like plants, are my zen zone; and we've been working towards this coop — a sort of homage to my late foster hen and companion, Kippee. If you’re curious how the coop turned out, you can see it here: https://youtu.be/KLxLz_jlwak … We’ll still be producing videos with regularity on our sister channel @FlockFingerLakes youtube.com/c/flockfingerlakes, so you can check out vids there too, if it so moves you. We’ve filmed quite a number of lovely garden tours that we will be releasing throughout the winter months.

I’m heading to Costa Rica soon on one of our group botanical trips, so you’ll be seeing some updates from that; and within a couple short months we will be doing the long-awaited group botanical tours to Thailand and later in the year to Japan. These group tours have been so delightful, very educational; and quite a lot of friendships have been forged, so I’m keen on doing more. (BTW, a few spots are available on each of those trips if you're interested in a vacay in 2026: homesteadbrooklyn.com/botanical-tours). But if not this year, maybe next!

Thanks for all your awesome support. Truly grateful that others have a shared love for this type of educational content. Wishing you all a lovely end of 2025 and beautiful New Year.

8 months ago | [YT] | 629

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We have a few openings on our Thailand Botanical Trip this February 17-23 2026. So if you’re keen to see & talk plants with fellow plant lovers, do consider coming!

On this trip, we’ll experience the Chatuchak Plant Market together, which is really the market for one-of-a-kind plants in Thailand. Additionally, we’ll be taking the train from Bangkok to one of my favorite locations–Chiang Mai—where we’ll get a personal tour of Queen Sirikit Botanic Garden and hike fairytale moss forests and see lush waterfalls throughout Doi Inthanon National Park. We’ll get a full dose of culture, plants and food on this trip with a great group of people. If interested, you can reserve your spot here: bit.ly/4jiI8wk

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