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Tonight, the gardening tools are put away and the Muse is at rest. In the Pacific Northwest, the forest is quiet.

✨ Merry Christmas Eve from WildscapeMuse.

#ChristmasEve #PNWLife #WildscapeMuse #NativeGardens #QuietNature

Connecting Communities – Fall Gardening for the Ecosystem with Mike Weis In this episode, David and Joe are joined by Mike Weis from Dropseed, a company specializing in native gardens and ecological restoration, to explore sustainable ways to manage your yard, especiall…

Ever wondered how you can compost and manage your own leaf litter? David, Joe, and Mike Weis from Dropseed discuss practical tips for this and more about native gardens in this episode. #Podcast #Kalamazoo #Sustainability #NativeGardens #Biodiversity

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🌱Nature Manitoba’s Native Habitat Grant in support of habitat conservation, restoration, management and education is open to applicants until Jan. 31, 2026: www.naturemanitoba.ca/nature-manitoba-native-h...

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this is a photo of a yellow-rumped warbler. The bird is standing on the roof of a house, its body is pointed north, and its head is turned east towards the camera. The bird’s bright yellow rump is visible, as is the faint yellow color on the bird’s underbelly. The bird has a dark brown tail, dark brown wings, a brown head, and white markings below each eye.

yellow-rumped warblers making their way through upstate New York. #birds #birding #nativegarden #nativegardening #nativegardens

Master Gardener Claudette Sims on what makes a great native garden The horticultural industry is the primary path for the introduction of invasive plants. The Canadian Food Inspection Agency does little or nothing to regulate invasive plants sold at nurseries.

Myths & Misconceptions: Naturalized Gardens, Ticks, Mice, Rats & Other Pests from the Ecological Design Lab @ TMU explains why biodiversity doesn’t encourage any of those creatures to settle down and make a home in your garden. #NativeGardens #GoNatural
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A vivid photograph of an orange and black butterfly in the middle of a red flower with yellow tips. Lush green leaves and other flowers are in the background.

I had a butterfly friend on my blanket flower the other day!

#bloomscrolling #flowers #nativegardens

Tiny brown seeds hanging from the fuzzy white pod of a California fuchsia

A honey bee handing from the long orange blossoms of the California fuchsia

The #seeds of a California fuchsia (Epilobium canum), which is not a real fuchsia, and a honey bee collecting its nectar. The fuchsia is a hardy native California #pollinator.
#nativeplants #naturephotography #nativegardens #bees #colorofthedayorange

Photo of cut sunflower stalks woven between standing stubble

Reminder to think of insect habitat while you put your garden to bed for the winter. I found weaving cut stalks in with the standing stubble prevents wind blowing it all away while giving a variety of habitat options for those beneficial insects.

#nativeplants #gardening #plants #nativegardens

They might not viewed as the most manicured of yards and some might not understand why we do it, why we plant native gardens. This makes it all worthwhile.

#monarchbutterfly #savethemonarchs #nativegardens #nature #sonyalpha

Purple love-grass, zone 5b #nativegrasses #nativeplants #gardeningsky #gardeningaddict #nativegardens #microprairie

Gulf Fritillary Caterpillar 🐛 on Passionflower Vine. I found at least 20 this morning.
#nativegardens #nativeplants #caterpillar #butterflies

The backyard hummingbird throw-down is a great way to start the day. Can’t catch them chasing each other, too fast. I did catch this on video.
#hummingbrids #nature #nativegardens #pollinators #bloomscrolling

Morning walks around the garden with the Floof. #getoutside #nativegardens #dogs

Buckeye on Giant Hyssop. I don’t see these often in my garden. What a treat!
#nativegardens #pollinators #bloomscrolling #nature

Plant native plants, attract native pollinators. I just learned that this Tiger Bee Fly is not just a pollinator, but it is also a parasite to carpenter bee flies which nest almost exclusively in man-made structural wood. Happy to see this guy around keeping my home safe. 🥰 #inverts, #nativegardens

bee on a purple coneflower

A day spent gardening is never misspent.

#nativegardens #nativegardening #rewilding #puttering

Photo of a Monarch Butterfly landing on Milkweed. Pink flowers are cluster blooms.

Cala was very excited,

Her native garden caught a Monarch!!

It's very pretty. Really happy it stayed still enough for me to capture this lovely photo.

#Nativegardens #Monarchbutterfly #Photography #SongA7

I am pretty sure this is native field thistle, Cirsium Discolor. I am so excited. I love thistles. Most I see around here are not native thistle. Can’t wait till the bees and butterflies find it.
#nativegardens #pollinatorgarden #bloomscrolling

Torch tithonia

Monarch on asters

Tiger swallowtail on joe pye and ironweed

ironweed

It's hot and so are my plants! Okay, one is not native to upstate New York; it's a Torch Tithonia. I plant it so my neighbors see blooms while I am waiting for some of my slow natives to put on their show. But already ironweed + Joe Pye are on it!

#nativegardens #nativegardening #nativeperennials

Eastern Enchanter's Nightshade

Rhomboid mercury

Snakeroot

White Avens

The gifts of native gardening: this time of year, so much is in bloom. But also I've found 4 native volunteers all over the place this year: Eastern Enchanter's Nightshade, rhomboid mercury, snakeroot, white avens. Still some invasives but maybe the tide is turning. #nativegardens #nativegardening

liatris spicata tall purple spiky flowers

monarda fistulosa and purple conflowers

yellow coreopsis winter-sown from seeds (also orange lilies)

It's so hot in upstate New York and so little rain. But my new native plants are hanging on. #nativegardens #nativegardening #nativeperennials

We had a bit of rain last night and it’s almost cool this morning, with a slight breeze. Having my coffee on the patio, watching the hummingbird.
#hummers #pollinators #nativegardens #bloomscrolling

#garden #gardening #flowers #nativegardens

This is my dream, but I think maybe you have to be a professional, with helpers and more money than I have, to get anywhere near this. This image is good for vision, though, it helps me see what I want to move toward. And also "compare and despair" is a true slogan. #nativegardening #nativegardens

butterfly weed and milkweed

red dwarf coreopsis in a pot in front of butterfly weed

monarda fistulosa

monarda fistulosa

When everything feels uncertain, I am sure that rewilding my yard with native plants for bugs, birds, mammal life is worth doing. It's hard to make it all look picture perfect like the magazines but I persist. The vexing question of attractive exteriors! #nativegardening #nativegardens #pollinators

Rosa setigura, climbing prairie rose

spiderwort

deertongue grass

asclepias tuberosa and coreopsis lanceolata and common milkweed

Back to my (ir)regularly scheduled content: native gardening. A long game: native perennials can take 3 years to bloom (sleep, creep, leap). I planted prairie rose seedling in Oct 2023: it's now blooming! Also aslecpius tuberosa is the fastest bloomer imho. #nativegardening #nativegardens #gardening