#NativePlants gardeners of the northeast: if you're going to have time for stratification and tray germination, it's not too early to buy seeds.
Spring is around the corner. If you're planning on doing any gardening (or seed bombing) Prairie Moon is a good place to get native plants for your part of the US.
On New Year's, my friend and I met up with the Colorado Native Plant Society and pulled mullein (a noxious weed here in North America) and planted native wildflowers in their place along Clear Creek.
I love doing this kind of work. I know it sounds kind of cheesy, but healing the land heals ourselves. 😊
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The Denver Botanic Gardens' ecoquest for December is "Chasing Cattails."
Here are my observations so far.
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When I first got this book I was completely overwhelmed
It’s a great feeling now six years later to be able to understand and even properly use it a little bit
Cat 🐈🥗 (D.Burch) :paw::paw:
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When you leave dry flower stems in the garden, the native bees have something to hold while they sleep
After 4 days of extreme heat, this native plant has sheltered at least 5 native bees
Em :official_verified:
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Some coastal hedge #nettle is still blooming into November 😊
At #WellandCommunityOrchard.
#Bloomscrolling #Autumn #flowers #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #NativePlants #Plants #botanical #FallFlowers
Some coastal hedge #nettle is still blooming into November 😊
At #WellandCommunityOrchard.
#Bloomscrolling #Autumn #flowers #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #NativePlants #Plants #botanical #FallFlowers
It is November & there's still some #yarrow blooms at #WellandCommunityOrchard 🙂
#Bloomscrolling #Autumn #flowers #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #NativePlants #MedicinalPlant #botanical
I can’t get enough of how unique every plant is. #cotton #NativePlants #FromSeed #Florida #gardening #Zone10
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Cascade Pass part 6. Photo 1: We're above the clouds now. Photo 2: panorama of the top with glacier. Photo 3: an unexpected visit from a Search and Rescue helicopter alighting on Sahale Arm as I was descending. Fortunately no one was hurt; it was a practice maneuver.
This is one of the prettiest places in the Cascades; visit if you can (mid July-early October). But go on a weekday as it's very crowded especially in high season (August).
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#hiking #PNW #mountain #getoutside #nativeplants
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Cascade Pass part 6. Photo 1: We're above the clouds now. Photo 2: panorama of the top with glacier. Photo 3: an unexpected visit from a Search and Rescue helicopter alighting on Sahale Arm as I was descending. Fortunately no one was hurt; it was a practice maneuver.
This is one of the prettiest places in the Cascades; visit if you can (mid July-early October). But go on a weekday as it's very crowded especially in high season (August).
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#hiking #PNW #mountain #getoutside #nativeplants
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Cascade Pass part 5. It's autumn now and up in the meadows the blueberry foliage is turning red (photo 1). Photo 2: A lone scarlet paintbrush flower (Castilleja coccinea) is still holding out against the fall, surrounded by Pearly Everlasting (Anaphalis margaritacia). Corn lilies are fading fast (the big leafed plant, Veratrum viride). Photo 3: there's a grouse in this photo, believe it or not. Sooty grouse? Ruffed grouse? I'm not sure.
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Cascade Pass part 4: At the top of the pass you can look East and see the Stehekin River which flows into the Columbia, while the water behind you flows West into Puget Sound. The clouds will burn off around midday and let you see the mountains. But the real fun comes when you ascend the Sahale Arm, leading up to Sahale Glacier and Peak. It's only two more miles (3.2km), but an additional 2200 (670m) feet elevation gain. Let's go. 4/7
#hiking #PNW #mountain #getoutside #nativeplants
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Cascade Pass part 3. Cascade Pass is like a vast funnel where moist air from the Pacific gets squeezed and pushed up into this gap between the mountains. It's right in the clouds and most of the year it's socked in like this. It's also quite windy, which you can tell by the way the way the trees lean. photo 2: Cascade mountain ash tree (Sorbus scopulina) in the fog. It's a close relative of the Rowan tree native to Europe and Asia. 3/7 #hiking #PNW #mountain #getoutside #nativeplants
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Cascade Pass part 2. Some plant life: photo 1-2: Parnassia fimbriata, new to me. Growing off a mossy rock, it's watered by the constant drip of water off the bluff above it. Sorry I missed the flowering stage. Photo 3: A saxifrage called Leptarrhena pyrolifolia, a favorite that I spot in cool damp rocky places all the time.
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I went down a rabbit hole looking for the Cherokee name for this plant, the Broadleaf Arrowhead or duck potato (seen on my walk yesterday). It’s widespread and was used by many Indigenous peoples. It has an edible tuber.
ᏧᏟᏂᎪᎯᏍᏗ ᎠᏍᏆᏂᎪᏗᏍᎩ (tuber)
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I didn’t find a Cherokee name but I did discover there’s an Indigenous Plant Wiki, organized by Indigenous people?! 🤎
https://theindigenousplantwiki.org/index.php/Broadleaf_Arrowhead#NativePlants #nature #plants
I went down a rabbit hole looking for the Cherokee name for this plant, the Broadleaf Arrowhead or duck potato (seen on my walk yesterday). It’s widespread and was used by many Indigenous peoples. It has an edible tuber.
ᏧᏟᏂᎪᎯᏍᏗ ᎠᏍᏆᏂᎪᏗᏍᎩ (tuber)
tsutlinigohisdi asquanigodisgi
I didn’t find a Cherokee name but I did discover there’s an Indigenous Plant Wiki, organized by Indigenous people?! 🤎
https://theindigenousplantwiki.org/index.php/Broadleaf_Arrowhead#NativePlants #nature #plants