A native shrub featuring long brown woody stems sports bright green, multi-lobed leaves around several clusters of pink flowers that are just about to open. The largest cluster has two flowers that are open and look like eyes above a long face or beard. It says “Hi.”
The red-flowering currant I planted almost three years ago is blooming for the first time! I’m chuffed.
#nativeplantgardening #PNW
A single yellow and red fire wheel sits among dead Aster. In the top left corner is the blurry image of a little black dog named Pam.
This Firewheel was my final flower of last year. It hung on until the middle of December! A strong little dude that weathered two freezes!
#nativeplantgardening #flower
Oh and new substack is live
Our yards may be the problem, and the reason our parks are overrun, but they could be solution too💚
#gardening #ecology #nativeplants #rewilding #HomegrownNationalPark #tallamy #grownative #rva #Virginia #nativeplantgardening
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Guess I need to figure out which hastags are used most often here 🤔 lol its a bit if a niche ask, but very much open to suggestions that are broader, just in general plants/"scenes" that might be identifiable via silhouette alone?
#ecology #botany #horticulture #nativeplantgardening #gardensky
Been trying to "brush up" on my painting ( 🥁 ba dun tsss) - I am definitely not a painter/artist, but atleast "barely made it through an art course" level, its just been 10yrs ir so since pulling out the easel...lol
#nativeplantgardening #fundraising #art #acrylic #gardening #GardenWild
Image is a photograph of lightening bugs in a dark woodland area witht the text " how suburbia could actually be the firefly's best hope for survival and how you can join me in that fight. the gardenwildguy.substack.com"
New article is LIVE on Substack. I think if you ask anyone about fireflies, they agree " there used to be more" than there are now. Did you know, we aren't even tracking their decline?
#RVA #Gardening #NativePlantGardening #NativeGardening #Ecology #EcologicalGardening #GardenSky #Virginia
On Stewardship clients , that is the next step in the plan. Overlapping the philosophy of mutual-aid with horticulture, to get native plants into plantable ground. Because all of the banks said "no", its time to kick the fundraising into highness. Stay tuned!
#nativeplants #nativeplantgardening
Winter’s winds are raging
And shake about the trees.
Spring flowers slumber,
Roots are sleeping under
Brown and crispy leaves.
#nativeplants #nativeplantgardening #gardenforhabitat #habitat #WildlifeHabitat #Biodiversity #EcoFriendlyGarden #pollinators #wildlifehabitat #pollinatorhabitat
Two common eastern bumblebees on the yellow flowers of shrubby cinquefoil.
A couple of eastern bumblebees on the cheery yellow blooms of shrubby cinquefoil, potentilla fruticosa. #nativeplants #bees #nativeplantgardening
Pretty jazzed to see a Familiar Bluet damselfly in my little garden in the middle of a little town. Plant it and they will come, they said. 💙
#odonata #invertebrates #nativeplants #nativeplantgardening
A monarch butterfly (male) drinks nectar from a bright purple eastern blazing star flower.
We've had way more monarchs this year than last year! Usually 3-4 at a time and basically all day. Haven't seen any caterpillars on the milkweed yet, though.
Local experts are rallying the community to embrace native plants, revealing how they can transform Flagstaff’s ecosystems and support local wildlife.
Learn more here!
#FlagstaffCityCoconinoCounty #AZ #CitizenPortal #NativePlantGardening #FlagstaffEcosystems #BiodiversityEnhancement
Good morning Bluesky! ᎧᎹᎹ kamama - butterfly. A monarch enjoying our swamp milkweed. #nativeplants #butterfly #cherokeelanguage #nativeplantgardening
We have a pretty big patch of Partridge Pea in our garden. The bumblebees always start their mornings there.
#nativeplantgardening #nativeplants #pollinators #bees
This #pair of Red-banded Leafhoppers on my Swamp Rose Mallow for #Twosday
#nativeplantgardening #nativeplants
A carpenter bee on an anise hyssop spiky bloom.
Anise hyssop, agastache foeniculum, is blooming at just the right time now that our monarda fistulosa is fading. An eastern carpenter bee enjoying agastache’s spiky blooms. #nativeplants #nativeplantgardening #bees
Thought I might as well share my favorite Monarch photo for #butterflyweek. Perched upon Ironweed in my garden
#nativeplantgardening
As the Wild Bergamot’s season comes to an end, Common Boneset takes its place as the crowd favorite in my garden
#nativeplants #pollinators #nativeplantgardening
Image shows bright red cardinal flowers blooming behind late boneset white flowers.
Lobelia cardinalis absolutely glowing, with vibrant red blooms peeking through our common boneset, eupatorium perfoliatum. #nativeplants #nativeplantgardening #gardensky #bloomscrolling
Love these educational posts? Support my mission to bring habitat back to every backyard at ko-fi.com/theplantguy - in times like these, direct community support is what keeps conservation education alive! 💚 #NativePlantGardening #Gardening #Wildlifeconservation #growRVAnatives #Virginia
A shiny black carpenter bee on a pale lavender monarda fistulosa bloom.
My favorite of our bee visitors! A carpenter bee, xylocopa virginica, on our monarda fistulosa 💛🖤 #nativeplants #bees #pollinators #inverts #nativeplantgardening
ᏩᏐᏝ wasotla moth. A hummingbird clearwing moth nectaring in our monarda fistulosa. One of our favorite pollinators. #nativeplants #nativeplantgardening #moths
ᏩᏓᎦ wadaga goldfinch enjoying seeds in our ᏐᏣᎾ sochan. 💛 #nativeplants #nativeplantgardening #cherokee #tsalagi
ᏩᎴᎳ walela hummingbird nectaring on our lobelia cardinalis. #nativeplants #birds #cherokeelanguage #tsalagi #nativeplantgardening
A wasp mimicking thick headed fly on a cluster of white blooming boneset flowers.
A wasp mimic, physocephala tibialis, the thick-headed fly, on our boneset. #pollinators #nativeplants #insects #nativeplantgardening
