# @ahs_gardening on Instagram

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- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/DLVXD7Pz0Xc
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/55036000-ahs-gardening-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2025-06-25T18:25:50.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** American Horticultural Society | American Gardener Magazine (@ahs_gardening) — https://gondola.cc/ahs_gardening

## Caption

The new issue (July/August 2025) of American Gardener has officially landed—and it’s twirling into summer with a spark.⁠
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This crazy plant caught our eye at one of the new gardens in our network and I had to make it a cover star. ⁠
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With its delicate, frilled blooms that unfurl like miniature fireworks, snake gourd (Trichosanthes cucumerina) feels right at home in a July garden. Its curling, edible fruits live up to the name—slithering (shockingly snake-like) through foliage in ways that surprise and delight. ⁠
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✨ Unexpected beauty.⁠
🌀 Edible intrigue.⁠
🌱 A reminder that joy in the garden often arrives in strange, spectacular forms.⁠
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📬 AHS members, check your mailbox - these fireworks should arrive sometime in the next 2 weeks, around the 4th of July. ⁠
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📖 Not yet a member? Join us at ahsgardening.org to get your magazine in the mail. ⁠
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#TheAmericanGardener #CoverReveal #SnakeGourd #TrichosanthesCucumerina #GardenJoy #AHSgardening #GardenCuriosity #GrowSomethingUnexpected #EdibleGarden #PlantWonder #BotanicalBeauty #SummerGardening #UncommonEdibles⁠
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coverreveal, uncommonedibles, trichosanthescucumerina, theamericangardener, plantwonder, gardencuriosity, ediblegarden, gardenjoy, snakegourd, growsomethingunexpected, botanicalbeauty, summergardening, ahsgardening

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