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      <image:caption>My beautiful Salvia that started in my basement.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>These store bought salvia are honestly very beautiful, however, they have very little nectar. Notice the wasp photo-bombing at the top right.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Salvia seedlings at the bottom and Cardinal Climbers at the top of this photo.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Cardinal Flower, one of my seedlings, is blooming</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Bee Balm in full bloom.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My Cardinal Climbers are also starting to bloom at the very top pf my trellis.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My very healthy Hollyhocks seedlings. They won’t bloom this year but should be knockouts in this east bed next year.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My beautiful Zinnia bed along the south deck.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Salvia in my mailbox bed.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I set up a feeder station in my south facing foundation bed for the hummingbirds. They are living between the mailbox bed and this one.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Close-up! Hummingbirds love bugle shaped flowers - This is their favorite!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Baby Trumpet vine with Cardinal Climbers looking pale when first planted in May. Zinnias seedlings in front.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My Trumpet Vine and Carolina Climbers making their way up the trellis. Notice the hummingbird in the top right corner in front of the black shutter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My two grow stations in the basement.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My Coleus I pinched off my walkway planters and my lavender seedings not yet ready to leave the nursery. All these will be next year’s plants, including the sweet potato vines and dahlias on the left.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My cranky Lavender seedlings. One is outside on the north deck testing the sunlight for me. Underneath are two Crepe Myrtles who are crankier than the lavender. They were shipped from Alabama and arrived with all the leaves dead. but.. they are still alive..barely</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I got eight of these. Saved over $100 on these alone.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>I got sixteen of these and saved over $200 on dirt!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Geri in all of her glory</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The deck we started with.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Geri making the deck look better in 2025.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Geri was looking bad- wasn’t sure she would make it through the winter.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Doubting her survival at this point!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Geri filling out and getting some color back.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Geri is blooming!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Beautiful Geri in all her glory.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is what we had to work with.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>This is where I finished.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>One of two identical hanging baskets.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hanging baskets with hummingbird feeder flanking the north side of the deck.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Hummingbird bath setting at the edge of the rail planters.</image:caption>
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      <image:title>Blog - The $30 Clearance Rescue That Transformed My Mailbox Bed - Make it stand out</image:title>
      <image:caption>July 2026 - two months in. Scroll to the bottom for the update, including the plant I lost and the $3 fix.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>May 2026</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Before — the tired bed.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The heucheras, much happier in dappled shade</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>The coleus, recovering on the north deck.</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>My clearance basket at Lowes</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>After — full, colorful, and finished</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Two months on - one lesson learned the hard way</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Those tall plants at the back of the bed— are now covered in these little red blooms that hummingbirds love!</image:caption>
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      <image:caption>Red SunPatiens along with my clearance blue salvia</image:caption>
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