#naturallandscaping #nativeplants

Virginia bluebell (Mertensia virginica) Two very small purple shoots emerging from the ground

Scarlet beebalm (Monarda didyma) Small reddish-green leaves emerging from the ground. They are surrounded by dead leaves and a couple of last year's stalks. These are left because they are beneficial to insects in the winter.

Virginia mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum) Small thin red shoots emerging from the ground, surrounded by last year's dead stalks

Red columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) Tiny red-green scalloped leaves emerging from the ground. There are pine needles around them.

Things currently coming up in my garden- Virginia bluebells, scarlet beebalm, Virginia mountain mint, red columbine #NativePlants 🌱

A tall Scarlett bee balm plant grows in a garden bed

The top view of a young freshly planted witch hazel tree that has bright green leaves

I used the native plant nursery list pinned on the #nativeplant feed and today we went to the nursery it had listed near me and found so many wonderful beauties 🌱

In the ground today we got two witch hazel’s and a huge Scarlett bee balm

#nativeplants #gardening #ifuckingloveplantshopping

Softly rolling mountain ridges against blue sky with wispy clouds. In foreground trees, some beginning to leaf out.

Pink flower with three petals, three leaves, and a yellow center against gray and brown woodland floor

Two pink flowers with three petals, three leaves, and a yellow center against gray and brown woodland floor. Small white flower viewed from the side at lower right.

Yellow flowers and green leaves against gray and brown woodland floor

Slowed down, took an unplanned detour along a few miles of the Blue Ridge Parkway, and stopped at a favorite overlook. After a few minutes of looking at mountains, my gaze softened enough to notice the trilliums, star chickweed, and downy yellow violets all around me. #NativePlants

Hairy Solomon's seal with a cascade of subtle green flowers from the end of the plant to the stem in increasing progress of blooming

Hairy Solomon's-seal (Polygonatum pubescens)
WNC 04.09.26

#ncwildflowers #nativeplants #spring

The rain in SoCal brought the first blooms on our sage. Bonus ladybugs keeping the aphids at bay #ladybugs #nativeplants #cnps

White urn-shaped flowers with pink mouths

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi, our Kinnikinnick, blooming now in Long Canyon #nativeplants

Long view of coastal prairie hill covered in carpet of golden wildflowers, with winding river, hills and ocean beyond.

#Stunday view from our #wildflowers wander at Jenner Headlands coastal prairie last weekend. California Goldfields
(Lasthenia californica) were peaking.💚

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#NativePlants #CaliforniaNativePlants #NaturePhotos #iNat #Bloomscrolling 📷🌱

Orange Crowned Warbler at the wildlife pond early this morning. #Birds
my first Marsh Marigold is in full bloom on the left. #NativePlants

A cluster of six-petaled pale purple blossoms with bright yellow centers on a green stalk

One of my wild hyacinth bulbs has bloomed! I planted six last fall
camassia scilloides 🌱 🌺 #nativeplants

Dark Throat Shooting Stars are starting to bloom all over the yard! Hurray for Spring!

Dark Throat Shooting Star growing through Twinberry Honeysuckle leaves!

#nativeflowers #nativeplants #gardening #flowers #pnw

I managed to drag my sore, migraine-drained self out for chilly bird walk with Mr. CMG yesterday—saw some fun #birds & #NativePlants. Particularly enjoyed these chaos Grackles throwing leaves around dramatically in pursuit of fresh snacks. There was also some top notch make-big posturing. #nature 🌱

Toned plant starting way down this year. Royal Catchfly and Sneeze Weed doing great! New England Aster looks to be a no go, going to end up with 1 or 2 Wild Blue Indigo I think #NativePlants

Fringe Festival
White Fringe Tree (aka Grancy Gray Beard)
Chionanthus virginicus
#nativeplants #southernappalachia #glassymountainpreserve

White five petaled flowers with delicate stamens, in a dense cluster against a backdrop of out of focus brown twigs and a blue sky.

American Plum blossoms from my backyard. On a blue sky. 😊 They smell great, too.

#americanplum #prunusamericana #nativeplants #spring #blüten #frühling

The first mystery heirloom poppy bloomed and it’s so pretty!

#bloomscrollimg #stunday 🌱 #nativeplants #wildflowers #heirloomseeds

White five petal flowers with exserted yellow anthers

Eleven years ago today 🌿

Prunus americana, our Wild Plum, blooming on the Enchanted Mesa trail
#nativeplants

Fuzzy Phacelia (Phacelia hirsuta) flowering spray starting to bloom. Two small five-petaled lavender flowers with white centers are open and the rest are clustered like grapes on the curling stem. Annual.

A large black dark-morph Eastern Tiger Swallowtail butterfly feeds on a lavender Prairie verbena flower, wings partly open. Papilio glaucus and Glandularia bipinnatifida .

Another view of the back of the butterfly's outspread wings. She seems to have longer tails than average, I thought maybe she was a Two-tailed Swallowtail, but they don't come in black. She's just a little extra.

Tall Winecups (Callirhoe leiocarpa) blooming in the afternoon sun. Tall plants with palmate leaves and magenta cup-shaped flowers with white stamens on slender stems. This is a winter annual that can form a dense groundcover. Northern Cross Timbers ecoregion 29a.

Scenes from Saturday afternoon. It's raining today. Fuzzy Phacelia starting to bloom, an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, and Tall Winecups. #nativeplants #gardening #butterflies 🌱 #bloomscrolling

Lavender color flowers with numerous orange-yellow stamens

Eight years ago today 🌿

Pulsatilla nuttalliana, our Prairie Pasqueflower, blooming along the Coal Seam trail #nativeplants

Creamy to yellow tubular fringed flowers

Nine years ago today 🌿

Lithospermum incisum, our Plains Stoneseed, blooming on the Towhee Trail. Not as common as our Mouse-Ears, recognizable by its fringed corolla #nativeplants

Sky blue tubular flowers in a cluster

Nine years ago today 🌿

Mertensia lanceolata, our Prairie Bluebell, blooming on the Towhee Trail #nativeplants

White flower with five notched petals and creamy anthers

Nine years ago today 🌿

Cerastium arvense ssp. strictum, our Prairie Mouse-Ear, blooming along the Towhee Trail #nativeplants

Rose colored flower bud

Just totally perfect little bud on this Rhododendron native azalea #NativePlants 🌱

#NativePlants

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A mass of native violets in pursuit le covering an old rocky ditch

Instead of non-native dandelions, I left the native violets. In three springs, this former rocky drainage ditch transformed itself into a pollinator buffet - and looks gorrrrrgeous!
#nativeplants #savethebees #pollinators

Trillium flexipes, or bent trillium, can resemble white color forms of Trillium erectum and Trillium sulcatum (both featured earlier). Some might also confuse it for Trillium grandiflorum, but that trillium is bright white while this one is a bit off white. (1/2) #nativeplants

Calycanthus

Calycanthus

A happy calycanthus (sweetshrub) in the garden
#Photography #Gardening #NativePlants

Bright red leaf alongside a green leaf on the same Blueberry Ash tree. In the background is a large fallen yellow leaf

Autumn in my little corner of the world.

Wrens were very busy about the garden early.

#NativePlants #AusSky 🌿

Pink buds of a striped maple looks like maybe a queen’s staff.

Striped maple is royalty. #nativeplants

Pale purple flower with six petals (some of which have a visible sharp extension at the tip), with a metallic blue/black bee curled around the yellow stamens. There is pollen encrusted on her rear leg, and a white stripe on her front tibia characeristic of Ceratina strenua.

Tiny #bee on a tiny flower - female Ceratina strenua small carpenter bee on Blue-eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium).

(Photo taken today at Wylde center)

#pollination #bugsky #insects #nativeplants #bloomscrolling