Getting ready to grab my knitting and run inside due to the incoming thunderstorm, but took one more moment to inhale the sweet fragrance of my native ninebark bushes. Looking forward to a cool-down! ⛈️☔ #physocarpus #ohiogarden #bloomscrolling #Toledo 🌿 #nativeplants

Close up of a columbine flower, dangling red and yellow petals with yellow stamen cluster dangling beneath.

Patch of blue lupine flowers, tall spikes of purple/blue blossoms above bright green palmate leaflets.

Enlarged white peony buds, nearly ready to burst open

Cluster of blooming plants in my front border. Yellow umbels of golden Alexander rising above delicate purple blossoms of Ohio spiderwort.

I ♥️ the spring garden! Here's a selection of my native plants that are blooming now, as well as some non-native peonies that are just about to burst into bloom. Details in alt text #Ohiogarden #gardensky #nativeplants #flowers

It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year! Pussytoes are a fabulous native groundcover, and they’re a host plant for the American lady butterfly (see below for proof) May is always the most exciting month of the year here in northwest…

A look back at this time last year in my Ohio native garden. Lots of early blooming natives, migrating birds, and egg-laying butterflies. Pussytoes, golden Alexander, prairie smoke and more! natureismytherapy.com/2024/05/04/i... #nativeplants #ohiogarden #garden