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kitten seeking answers's avatar

love your sunflower & yellow dinner plate dahlias 😻🌼

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Transform Nation Podcast's avatar

With all the things distracting to take our time. I was pulled in by your work done with grace, passion and thought. It’s a labor of love and it was well received on my end. It is truly inspiring and looks amazing. Thank you for sharing. Isolation and working on one’s self and making the world a better place brings more rewards and improvement on each of us. You found one of the secrets to life. Bravo..

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Mike Huggins's avatar

Thanks TNP. It's my passion from April-Oct and many years into the winter.

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Teri's avatar

I frequently walk by a house that I consider to be a visual feast because the garden design and plantings are spectacular. The gardener/designer is the mother of the home owner (she lives there with her son) and yesterday I had the opportunity to meet her and tell her how much I enjoy her work. I also love working in my garden and we both agreed that it nurtures our souls. Ghost Garden is your brilliant, one of a kind, creation and it clearly nurtures your soul (especially when you have a dog assistant). Thanks so much for sharing - I love it!

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Mike Huggins's avatar

Thanks Teri. Your city has a lot of beautiful gardens in it.

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TnDoc's avatar

Wonderful post, Mike. Thanks for sharing the peace.

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Mike Huggins's avatar

Danke schön to our in house doctor. Let's talk again on the phone someday.

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TnDoc's avatar

Ja!

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Tarn - mutual eye-rolling's avatar

Admirable legacies.

What will most of us have to say about any actions that we took in the face of this dehumanisation.

I cannot claim much, just a few squeaky interjections here and there.

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Mike Huggins's avatar

I like your squeaky here and there interjections. Thanks Cairn.

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Sharine Borslien's avatar

I had to close down Safari, restart it, and then the audio worked. Beautiful, the shamanic wooden flute sounds blended with the sound of cleansing, nurturing rain.

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Mike Huggins's avatar

I was streaming it in the garden with a glass of red wine and the storm came in so I recorded it.

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Sharine Borslien's avatar

I can sense that your garden is not only a creative space but a space that inspires creativity.

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Sue's avatar

You know sunflowers are considered the guardians of the garden?

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Mike Huggins's avatar

23 in the garden this year and I didn't know that. Thanks.

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Science is Political 2.0's avatar

My Mimosa tree which I grew from literally a thumb size plant is now a TREE which all the Butterflies and also a couple hummingbirds and bees. I don't know why.. I quit taking photos of my garden.. I have some from this year ... That is a very tall Sunflower.. good job.

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Paul Black's avatar

Lovely. Also been growing vegetables these last 2 years. Very satisfying

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John Taylor's avatar

Creating along with nature is all it should be about. Not about a fictional arbitrary corporate world where they promise you everlasting life. Your garden is priceless Mike thanks for sharing to take our minds away from this satanic shitshow!

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Mike Huggins's avatar

Great comment, thanks John. It is how I escape and I enjoy sharing pics and hope it gives others the same spiritual feeling / vibe that it gives me. I'm with you. You have to take your mind out of this shitshow and just connect back with soul and Universe.

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Ellen Sovereign's avatar

As a fellow gardener I very much appreciate the labor of love that is Ghost Gardens and the talent, design, and vision you have.

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Mike Huggins's avatar

It might be an LW thing. A purple kangaroo thing. I know several other LW Kangs who are growers too. Thanks Ellen. If you want to share pics of your garden email them to me.

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Toxicanadian's avatar

That is one HELL of a sunflower. Or is it a HEAVENLY sunflower? Yeah that's it.

Thanks for sharing. Wish I could walk through irl 🌞🌻🌦️

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Mike Huggins's avatar

Yours triple posted too. Thanks Sue. And thanks for your comment about me on DJ's Substack. SS wouldn't allow me to comment yesterday. Maybe today.

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Jadugar's avatar

That’s an awesome paradise you’ve created there. Just as you I have an escape from all the madness & mayhem in the world these days tending & wondering in my little paradise. Pity in a few weeks autumn/winter will desolate it.

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Mike Huggins's avatar

Beautiful pics thanks.

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Mike Huggins's avatar

I typically can stretch out my garden party summer until the first week of October. Thanks Jadugar.

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Jadugar's avatar

Thanks Mike.🙏🏾 It’s the autumn winds in late September that do the damage here in the UK followed by the frosts in mid October that finishes most of the display. Circle of life in my opinion.

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Donna's avatar

Love your pictures.

Thank you for sharing!

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Science is Political 2.0's avatar

And it looks great. LOL. I have to tell ALL GARDENERS and I am an avid gardener... since childhood use gardening for therapy, enjoyment and escape is one way of putting it. Especially "urban" or city gardens or suburbs. There is a garden near me which reminds me of yours but your is much more "personally decorated." and it looks like a Man's garden cave.. LOL. I live in a suburb and I am fortunate enough to have a very large space.. and when I was not sick (I am not at the top of my game anymore, I had sunflowers and many other variety of seed plants but now because I am not in the shape I used to (I am thin) my bulb plants took over and I have a many plants which came from the National Arboretum which are rare. I am having a good year. Maybe later this week I will post from mine.. I must have hundreds of photos.. of it and also Spring, Winter and Summer and Fall scapes. ) thanks Mike I am going to take short tour of a park near by. :) really awesome garden man cave style. :) rofl.

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Amaterasu Solar's avatar

That sunflower!!! [sigh]

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Sharine Borslien's avatar

Something's up with Subsy tonight. It posted my comment three times!

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Mike Huggins's avatar

Tested audio it worked fine on my end.

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Mike Huggins's avatar

Three times is a charm.

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