Sophie's Secret Garden

Sophie's Secret Garden Bringing you along on my journey with my plants 🪴 💚

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07/05/2025

Hi
I know its been a while, I am still gardening and I still have my green thumbs. I haven't been keeping up-to-date with photos etc due to starting a small business in pinning, preserving and mounting butterflies I would love and appreciate it if you would follow or like and join along with me at Butterflies In Oz 🦋🦋🦋

Stink filled joy as my second Vulgaris opened Wednesday. I also had my first turn at pollinating it! When pollinating I ...
01/11/2024

Stink filled joy as my second Vulgaris opened Wednesday. I also had my first turn at pollinating it!

When pollinating I had to cut two windows inside the spathe to gain access to the female flowers when I opened one this decent sized beetle fell out. What an absolute fright I got!

I swear I'm not crazy. I didn't just take my plant for a drive I took it to my friends house for her to see it hehe ☺️

Sorry for the late post 😞

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💚 D R A C U N C U L U S V U L G A R I S 💚Last few pictures. I am 99% sure she will open in the morning 🌄 I have my no...
28/10/2024

💚 D R A C U N C U L U S V U L G A R I S 💚

Last few pictures. I am 99% sure she will open in the morning 🌄 I have my nose plug ready hehe

PS don't mind my Christmas shirt, it doesn't fit right and I was weeding 😅
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🦋🧡 M I L K W E E D 🧡🦋My four beautiful milkweed plants have brought my first teeny visitor... a monarch caterpillar... I...
28/10/2024

🦋🧡 M I L K W E E D 🧡🦋

My four beautiful milkweed plants have brought my first teeny visitor... a monarch caterpillar... I know they're around because there is heaps of little bits of leaf missing where they have been snacking 🌱🌱

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💚 A R U M H Y G R O P H I L U M 💚Yesterday after removing the dormant leaves there was this beautiful little seed pod...
28/10/2024

💚 A R U M H Y G R O P H I L U M 💚

Yesterday after removing the dormant leaves there was this beautiful little seed pod amongst it all growing nicely. These will take time to mature and ripen. I'm not entirely sure how long this will take but im in for the ride

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Photo's from yesterday My second Dracunculus vulgaris is looking like it will open tomorrow. I will post today's photos ...
27/10/2024

Photo's from yesterday

My second Dracunculus vulgaris is looking like it will open tomorrow.
I will post today's photos later

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26/10/2024

Picked Mum some of her favourites 🌸🌸

Amorphophallus planting today!! Photos 1-4: Amorphophallus bulbiferPhotos 5-7: Amorphophallus konjac All planted and I h...
25/10/2024

Amorphophallus planting today!!
Photos 1-4: Amorphophallus bulbifer
Photos 5-7: Amorphophallus konjac

All planted and I have some more to plant tomorrow!

I will also upload a photo of all my Dracunculus vulgaris tubers and many offsets... stay tuned for updates on my final flower 🌼 🌸

Today I said goodbye to my Vulgaris, its been a great few days! Such a shame these plants don't last long. It's the sadd...
20/10/2024

Today I said goodbye to my Vulgaris, its been a great few days! Such a shame these plants don't last long. It's the saddest part. Hopefully the pollen i collected will be enough too get some seeds. Theres still more to come in the next week before its time to plant my Amorphophallus'
Heres some final photos of my Vulgaris 🥰🥰

*click on the photo to read what's what*

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Today I collected pollen for the first time! I took pollen from my Dracunculus Vulgaris that has now wiltered 💔 such a c...
20/10/2024

Today I collected pollen for the first time! I took pollen from my Dracunculus Vulgaris that has now wiltered 💔 such a cool little task accomplished ✅️... the concentration was heavy 😳

📸 cred: Fiona Shipton 💙

One of the coolest things for me with the plants I grow is that once the inflorescence is out you actually can't see the...
18/10/2024

One of the coolest things for me with the plants I grow is that once the inflorescence is out you actually can't see the flowers unless you look into the spathe (cone around the spike) at the bottom of the spadix (spike). That's wear the magic is. After speaking with some plant friends the best way for me to see the flowers was to cut the spathe and truthfully I really didn't want to chop up such a beautiful plant, I wanted to enjoy it. So today I cut myself a window to peak in to see the flowers! What also surprised me was the stripes inside. This part of the plant was the same height as my hand!!

In the coming days I will be, for the first time attempting to pollinate this species with the next Vulgaris which is currently at 30cm and I believe will bloom in around a weeks time.

Enjoy the photos!!

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