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For all of you bubble gum lovers - on this date, December 28, in1897: The first U.S. patent for chewing gum is issued to William Finley Semple.

I just learned of a late blooming flower called a camellia sasanqua. It's very simple and pretty and blooms from mid fall to early winter. https://yardngardenland.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/11/camellia-yuletide.jpeg

Merry Christmas Eve! it's raining right now so I'm cuddled up by our fire. Have a beautiful day! I get to have a Christmas party with our kiddos tonight! (This cozy scene is courtesy of the Internet)

My newest potted plant! Wintergreen! I heard the berries are edible! I love how Christmassy it looks!

Today I transplanted my African daisy to this nice roomy mini wine barrel. I dug it out of a much smaller ceramic pot that it has been growing in all year. This flower has been incredible with hundreds of blooms and it is so robust! Anyway, it took an hour to dig it out of its old pot. You...

The first artificial Christmas tree was made from dyed goose feathers in Germany in the early 1800s! - (per Good Housekeeping)

"I Want to Hold Your Hand" single is released by The Beatles in the United Kingdom on this day in 1963.

Good day to everyone! ❤️ I hope you all have a wonderful Thursday!

I just learned that November 5th is famous for National Donut Day and National Love Your Red Hair Day among other things! Well I don't have red hair, so I think I'll grab an apple fritter for breakfast to enjoy with my coffee!

Look at this pretty purple mushroom. It is most likely poisonous. Does anyone know what it is? My daughter saw it hiking this week.

Hey y'all, I was thinking we should get the head honchos here at the Easy Garden to add taglines to this forum software. What does everyone think? I have a good one in mind! 😁

Do mums bloom until the first hard frost in the Pacific Northwest?

I was so excited yesterday because my oldest daughter bought her first real plant!!!! My other daughter loves plants and flowers as I do and always has, but my oldest daughter never had that interest. She got a rosemary plant for her balcony. I love it!

I made some escabeche a couple of days ago. I really enjoy fermented veggies!

I picked a gallon ziplock full of salal berries and I plan to make salal mead! Ive made blackberry mead before but never salal mead. Here are a couple of pics of the prep work --

I saw this old piano turned into a planter box this week! What a clever idea! I've seen people turn beds with cute headboards into planters and also have seen boots turned into planters, but this is a first!

I have learned something interesting about African daisies that I wanted to share. I bought a small African daisy back in May at a local nursery. It started out very dainty, with free flowing stems and a few delicate blooms. I put it in a pot on the stern of my sailboat and took it sailing...

My lovely friend brought me these beautiful flowers from her garden!

Morning glories are under appreciated. They are quite lovely!

I walked to a farmers market today and saw these flowers on the way there!