Spoken Garden
Hi there! We're Sean and Allison, a horticulturist and a former Science teacher from the PNW in WA state zone 9a. We LOVE to garden together & teach you about all things plants and flowers. We sold our home in 2022 and are searching for our new home and property so we're currently growing plants in containers which is a lot of fun.
We're authors, inventors of two garden tools, The Little Dibby and The Dibby XL (both patent pending), professional speakers, and content creators. Sean, with his BS and MS in Environmental Horticulture, will teach you using his years of experience including landscape design, management, and maintenance. Allison will bring a unique teaching perspective as a National Board Certified Science teacher and from years of tending to her own plants and flowers.
Check out our first book published "The First-time Gardener: Growing Plants and Flowers," (Cool Springs Press, 2021), our website, spokengarden.com, and our bitesize podcast, "The DIY Garden Minute."
Spoken Garden
Happy Monday! Friendly reminder to get out in your garden today, even for 5 minutes, and make that connection with nature to be calm and at ease. 🕊️✌️
Give us a Like if you plan to or have already been out in your garden today!
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Quick Poll: Have you already pulled ALL your petunias from your garden that you grew this Summer?
We still have a few that are healthy and hanging on, but lots got powdery mildew about mid-summer and we had to pull them early. What a weird weather-year for us it's been.
Happy Saturday!
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Happy Friday!! Like you, we have lots of flowers in our garden and here is a flower-photo-dump.
We hope you enjoy it and let us know which is your favorite!
Sean and Allison
1. Phlox Southern Blaze Bright Pink
2. Yellow Pansy
3. 'Pop Star' Lace Cap Hydrangea (EndlessSummer Hydrangeas)
4. 'Deep Red' Surfinia Petunia (part of Heavenly series)
5. 'Deep Purple' Surfinia Petunia
6. 'Painted Orange' Bee Dance Bidens
7. 'Rockapulco Purple' Double Impatiens
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We grew some new plant varieties in our garden this year and we want to know if you grew any, too.
Let us know if you did by choosing from the list below and then comment to tell us what you specifically grew, how they did, and where you grew them. We'd love to hear what you grew and how they did! If you grew different plants than on this general list, please also let us know what they were.
Make sure to smile today. 😊😃
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Happy Tuesday! Quick poll; who's excited for violas, mums, strawflowers, asters, and other Fall flowers?
Let us know below and comment which Fall flower is your favorite!
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Today is the first day of Fall! WOW, the Summer went quick. 😮😃
What's the first thing you need to do in your Fall garden?
Also, give us a like if you are ready for Fall. 👍
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Foliage #Friday! These are some of our foliage plants we grew this year and we wanted to share them with you.
All are full-sun capable, but besides the Zonal Geraniums, they are partial shade capable as well.
We hope you scroll through these six plants and try to imagine where you could see them in your garden. Truly, skies-the-limit!
All these plants, besides #1, can be found at @ProvenWinnersYouTube
Have a wonderful Friday and weekend!
Plants in order:
1. Main Street, Beale Street Coleus
2. Sweet Caroline Medusa Black Sweet Potato Vine (Ipomoea)
3. Your general Zonal Geranium, it has magenta flowers
4. Sweet Caroline Sweetheart Mahogany Ipomoea
5. ColorBlaze Mini Me Chartreuse Coleus
6. Margarita Sweet Potato Vine
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Mulch Talk - Fall is almost here and it is a great time to update mulch in your garden or start to use mulch in your garden. What mulch is your favorite?
Pick your mulch below and tell us in the comments why. 👍
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Fall bulb quiz time!
How many divisions are there of daffodils, according the American Daffodil Society and/or the Royal Horticultural Society?
This can be tricky because there are some divisions that encompass more than one unique kind of daffodil, like Miscellaneous, Species, Wild varieties, and others.
Good luck (we're all counting on you😉)!
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Happy Monday! We hope your week is off to a great start. 😊😃
Here are a few flower pics from this last week. One week to Fall! Who's ready? (We are!)
Pic which flower you like and tell us when in the comments area. Keep having a great week!
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