Saw this forever ago on facebook and share it every year.
#nativeplants provide food for so many wonderful critters❤️ Come to my garden and munch away!
#biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #Michigangardening 🌱
Almost time to find those native nutsacks in the woodland🫣
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #shadegardening #Cypripediumacaule
He's just a cute little red milkweed beetle #Tetraopestetrophthalmus
on common milkweed🌸 #asclepiassyriaca
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #milkweedformonarchs
2 more months to wait up here in Northern Michigan before my plethora of native violets EXPLODE!💜
#violasororia #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #ecoregion50ae #shadegardening
🐝Bumblers & sunnies🌻
from Sept. 2022
#nativeplants #bombus #bloomscrolling #helianthusannuus #Michigangardening 🌱 #ecoregion50ae #pollinators
Guess what?? I got it!
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #pollinators #WildOnes #certifiednativehabitat
July vibes🩷
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #echinaceapurpurea #penstemondigitalis #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #elsasallnativeyard
One of the more common bumblers in my yard is the brown-belted bumbler #bombusgriseocollis 🐝 I think they have buggier eyes than the others🤭
Bumbler on Joe back in 2022
#nativeplants #eutrochiummaculatum #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation
Another rare visitor to my garden is chubby yellow-banded bumblers #bombusterricola but when they do visit, they always hit the false sunflowers #heliopsishelianthoides and blue vervain #verbenahastata🐝
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation
Of all my native plants, false sunflowers #heliopsishelianthoides tend to attract the widest variety of native bees. This is a broad-handed leafcutter bee #Megachilelatimanus I saw back in summer '24.
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation
#bombus on #oenothera 💛🧡
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #ecoregion50ae
Monarch #danausplexippus on Joe #eutrochiummaculatum in late summer 2025🩷
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark
Perfect camo💛
Goldenrod crab spider #misumenavatia on false sunflower #heliopsishelianthoides from a few summers back.
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#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #spidersky #arachnid #Michigangardening 🌱 #ecoregion50ae #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #elsasallnativeyard
🐛Feels like a good day for some monarch cats from the garden this past season. On poke & swamp milkweeds #asclepiasexaltata #asclepiasincarnata #danausplexippus
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #pollinators #ecoregion50ae
Lion's foot #nabalusalbus and a bumblebee #bombus in my part-shade garden. Grown by winter sowing from #PrairieMoon seeds in the 21/22 winter. August 2025 it finally bloomed🩷
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #PrairieMoonNursery
June & July 2025 shots from my front native prairie bed🌼
June has #tradescantiaohioensis, #blephiliaciliata & #coreopsislanceolata blooming, while
#monardadidyma, #achilleamillefolium & #tradescantiaohioensis are looking all patriotic in July.
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱
August 8th peek at my prairie native garden- all the happy blooms💜❤️💛🤍
#bloomscrolling #nativeplants #nature 🌱 #Michigangardening #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #elsasallnativeyard
False Solomon's seal, or Solomon's plume, is a fabulous woodland wildflower found in my backyard. I haven't successfully propagated it by seed yet, but I try every year when I find the berries. #Maianthemumracemosum #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation
Winter 2026 vs. summer 2025 in my native pollinator garden, 5 years in the making🌸🌾🌿
#ecoregion50ae #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #shadegardening #elsasallnativeyard #gaylordmichigan
Beautiful visitors to my native beebalm in July 2024. Snowberry clearwing hummingbird moth #hemarisdiffinis & a fritillary #Argynnis, possibly aphrodite.
#monardafistulosa #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation
All the magnus purple cone colors #echinaceapurpurea #eupatoriumperfoliatum #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #elsasallnativeyard
A pure green sweat bee on #ziziaaurea, goldenrod alexander, back in May 2023.
Zizia is great in a part-sun bed, and is a host plant for black swallowtails
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #augochlorapura
Buzz fuzz 🐝
Fuzzy bombus in #heliopsishelianthoides from summer 2022.
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #bombus #Michigangardening 🌱
Cute little dwarf crested iris 'alba'
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark #elsasallnativeyard #iriscristataalba
Just needed a cute fuzzy bumbler today- bombus in #penstemondigitalis
Love & hugs y'all🩷
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark
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#bombus #pollinators #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #silphiumperfoliatum
Sweet wee pyrobombus on rough blazingstar #liatrisaspera this past August🐝
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #pollinators #bugsky
The beginning of a native beebalm bloom- 2023
#monardafistulosa #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation
Bombus on cupplant with pollen pants💛 August 2023
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #bombus #nature #silphiumperfoliatum
