Ditching *most* of my lawn for ecological native plant abundance was one of the best decisions I’ve ever made! 🌼
Check me out on the @secondnatureearth podcast by @commonsearth to hear my story. Out NOW for #EarthMonth 🌈
#killyourlawn #nativeplants #wildflowers #superbloom
Make sure to kill your lawn guys. If you have grass, just kill it. thx 🩷 #killyourlawn #nativeplants #scythes #bees
Photo shows a pan with freshly cut asparagus before cooking. The asparagus came from two small beds in the back garden. They're roughly one square meter each. The two varieties are 'Mary Washington' & 'Purple Passion'. #asparagus #VictoryGardens #SmallGardening #JustPlantIt
Asparagus 'Mary Washington' and 'Purple Passion'. Can you tell which is which? 😁
#gardens #gardening #asparagus #KillYourLawn #GrowFood
Are you ready for beautiful #bees? Do you have blooms ready to feed them? Have you thought about making space for habitat with #KillYourLawn to create bare earth for ground nesters & leaving your previous year stems & leaves for cavity nesters? #pollinators #NoSpray #invertebrates #gardening 🌱
Small perennial with vibrant purple flowers. Stone edging and old wood chunks.
New species just dropped in our landscape. Downy Phlox (Phlox pilosa). #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #killyourlawn #wildflower
Light blue and pink trumpet like flowers starting to open. Green foliage.
First blooms of Virginia Bluebells (Mertensia virginica). #WhatYouPlantMatters #killyourlawn #wildflowergarden
A soft, colorful lineless illustration of many pollinators on a showy milkweed plant against an ethereal backdrop of the sky in full moon. A monarch butterfly caterpillar munches on a leaf who's milky sap glows like magic. A carpenter bee, Anna's hummingbird, sweat bee, carpenter bee, and sara orange tip butterfly drink at the plant. Pollen hangs in the air.
happy full spring moon ❀‧₊˚. here's art for a milkweed planting party I'm hosting here on Miwuk land near Ahwahnee (yosemite nat'l park) @ a residency w/ the Mariposa Arts Council. learning so much here.
hope to bring the event down to LA after, bc the monarchs really need help. #killyourlawn
Closeup of golden flowers amid green natural garden
Profile view of leaves and golden flowers
Overview of golden flowers amid green natural garden
Roundleaf Ragwort (Packera obovata), aka Golden Groundsel. Excellent groundcover and living mulch. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #killyourlawn
Close up of burgundy fuzzy flower with heart shaped leaves
Close up of burgundy fuzzy flower partially filled with water
Wild Ginger emerging and blooming. #WhatYouPlantMatters #killyourlawn #nativeplants
Small yucca-like green leaves emerge among other perennials and grasses in an early season prairie garden
Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium) reemerging in the prairie garden. #WhatYouPlantMatters #killyourlawn
Close up of yellow and orange flowers on a small shrub, just laying out
Profile of small shrub, with many clusters of gold flowers in a natural garden
Profile of small shrub, with many clusters of gold flowers in a natural garden
Golden Currant (Ribes odoratum) smells amazing. Come take a whiff. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #killyourlawn
Close up of small yellow flowers clusters, with low green foliage and flower buds in morning light
low green foliage and flower buds in morning light
Roundleaf Ragwort (Packera obovata), an excellent living mulch, just beginning to flower. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #killyourlawn
Clusters of yellow blooms with young leaves tinged with brown tips from the temp swings.
Golden Currant (Ribes odoratum) smells amazing. The leaves are bouncing back after spring, winter, summer, and spring happened in short order. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #killyourlawn
Close up of orange yellow red flower clusters on small tree
Blooming small tree in morning light, in a natural garden
Free smells!! Ozark Witchhazel (Hamamelis vernalis) blooming in the backyard.
Very aromatic on this unseasonably warm day. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #killyourlawn
Close up of yellow, orange, red blooms on a small tree
Free smells!! Ozark Witchhazel (Hamamelis vernalis) blooming in the backyard.
Flies and bees all over it on this sunny and unreasonably warm day. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #pollinatorgarden #killyourlawn
Tiny shrub planted in new garden bed with pine straw mulch.
Tiny shrub planted in new garden bed with pine straw mulch. Ozark Witchhazel and pawpaw in background
Common Witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana) in a new bed near the blooming Ozark Witchhazel. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #killyourlawn
Yellow-orange blooms on mostly leafless stems. A bee helping itself
Profile of blooming small tree in backyard garden
Yellow-orange blooms on mostly leafless stems at sunset.
Free smells!! Ozark Witchhazel (Hamamelis vernalis) now blooming in the backyard.
Flies and bees all over it on this sunny and unreasonably warm day. #naturallandscape #nativeplants #grownative #pollinatorgarden #killyourlawn
You know that feeling when you’re surrounded by nature…but not flat one-dimensional nature…but instead a lush and layered one? A nature and sense of place that beckons both humans and wildlife to come and discover its little mysteries?
#nativegarden #wildgarden #killyourlawn
Brown stems and seedpods in a snowy garden.
Illinois Bundleflower (Desmanthus illinoensis) in the snow. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #killyourlawn
Since we went full #KillYourLawn & started #gardening for #wildlife, we stop for a peek out windows any chance we get. Saw Charlie the Yard Bunny still out doing terrible job at being incognito around 11pm last night. And this morning, *so much* free fertilizer. 😆
#ecosystem #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱
Snowy backyard with natural landscaping. Numerous tags of native plants.
Snow many #NativePlants!
#WhatYouPlantMatters #killyourlawn #naturallandscaping
Frost ribbons at base of dormant perennial in a garden
Frost ribbons at base of dormant perennial in a garden
More Dittany (Cunila origanoides). More frost ribbons!! #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #nativeplants #grownative #pollinatorgarden #killyourlawn
we're building another flowerbed #KillYourLawn and a guy walking by told my husband he loved our "pollinator garden" (and had previously harvested seeds lol) which is an extra nice compliment bc right now everything is dead/dormant so it's just a messy tangle of gray sticks
"”Drill, Baby, Drill” is an intentional slap in the face to people who value land, life, health, and justice over corporate profits. Let’s raise a garden-gloved middle finger in return. I invite you into a new movement called Plant, Baby, Plant."
#plantbabyplant #nativeplants #killyourlawn
Icy ribbons extruding from perennial stems in a garden
Icy ribbons extruding from perennial stems in a garden
Frost Flower Friday!
Frost ribbons on Dittany (Cunila origanoides). #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #nativeplants #grownative #pollinatorgarden #prairie #killyourlawn
Liatris fluffy seeds and Ratibida seed heads
Prairie garden in evening light and fall color...browns, Pale greens, yellows
New garden connecting red oak and 2 pawpaws
This South KC native landscape is about ready to rest for the season. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #nativeplants #grownative #pollinatorgarden #prairie #killyourlawn
Dried allium flower heads with black seeds, in evening light
Dried allium flower heads with black seeds, in evening light
Fall Glade Onion (Allium stellatum) going to seed. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #nativeplants #grownative #pollinatorgarden #prairie #killyourlawn
Trilobed and mitten leaves in reddish orange fall color
Small tree in reddish orange fall color
Fall for it. Sassafras albidum. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #nativeplants #grownative #pollinatorgarden #prairie #killyourlawn
Reddish orange fall color of sassafras.
Close up of polymorphic leaves in fall color
Sassafras (Sassafras albidum) is just my favorite tree. #WhatYouPlantMatters #naturallandscape #nativeplants #grownative #pollinatorgarden #prairie #killyourlawn
