Clayton Dewey
boosted
phildini
and 1 other
boosted
Well done, Pittsburgh. #ClimateChange #nativeplants
“Native plants, he added, require less fertilizer and maintenance, and they can help manage stormwater runoff.”
https://www.aswp.org/pittsburgh-exempts-native-pollinator-gardens-from-plant-height-limits/
Alex, the Hearth Fire
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Every day, it's bzz bzz bzz in the beebalm
(wild bergamot)
The bumblebee is leaving for another bergamot bloom, we see its blurry butt while it's flying away
One bergamot bloom, slightly spent (the middle is green and not lilac anymore). A bumblebee is eating nectar in one of the tubes, each eye on each side of one tube. Almost looks like a spider like that??
Two blooms of lilac wild bergamot seen from underneath/behind. A big bumblebee is barely visible, its whole body being inside one of the blooms.
Jess Mahler
boosted
Swamp milkweed might become my favourite milkweed 😍
Swamp milkweed might become my favourite milkweed 😍
Every day, it's bzz bzz bzz in the beebalm
(wild bergamot)
The bumblebee is leaving for another bergamot bloom, we see its blurry butt while it's flying away
One bergamot bloom, slightly spent (the middle is green and not lilac anymore). A bumblebee is eating nectar in one of the tubes, each eye on each side of one tube. Almost looks like a spider like that??
Two blooms of lilac wild bergamot seen from underneath/behind. A big bumblebee is barely visible, its whole body being inside one of the blooms.
Well done, Pittsburgh. #ClimateChange #nativeplants
“Native plants, he added, require less fertilizer and maintenance, and they can help manage stormwater runoff.”
https://www.aswp.org/pittsburgh-exempts-native-pollinator-gardens-from-plant-height-limits/
Jess Mahler
boosted
Here goes my #introduction
I'm a member of the #TwitterMigration ; retired and living in a midwestern college town. Go Flashes! My passions include:
#Reading history, science and horticulture
#gardening , I am currently #rewilding my yard with #nativeplants ,mostly grown from seed.
#hiking the local parks.
Black rescue #cats I am on my third.
#roadtrips#photography #horseracing #baseball
I love playing in the dirt.
Thanks for reading.
Lobelia cardinalis #Bloomscrolling#NativePlants
Neville Park
boosted
more garden updates:
- bumblebees of all kinds are going ham on the wild roses and bush honeysuckle
- there are at least two nicely sized orchard orbweavers (Leucauge venusta) and the hackled orbweaver (Uloborus glomosus) has made an egg sac(!)
- only one of the milkweeds (Asclepias syriaca) is flowering so far. they are all being diligently guarded by a horde of whirligig mites
- buds have appeared on the butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa). it's far too early for the Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium fistulosum) to bloom but it's getting surprisingly big
- Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) has appeared! I am hoping I can guide it towards the building and it can replace the Euonymus.
now that it's no longer 40°C i took the chance to go mow the co-op's tiny front yard. i also hacked away some of the vines that will take over everything if not held in check, but i had to thoroughly shake every clump out before putting it in the yard waste bag in case i threw out any valuable whirligig mites
more garden updates:
- bumblebees of all kinds are going ham on the wild roses and bush honeysuckle
- there are at least two nicely sized orchard orbweavers (Leucauge venusta) and the hackled orbweaver (Uloborus glomosus) has made an egg sac(!)
- only one of the milkweeds (Asclepias syriaca) is flowering so far. they are all being diligently guarded by a horde of whirligig mites
- buds have appeared on the butterfly milkweed (Asclepias tuberosa). it's far too early for the Joe-Pye weed (Eutrochium fistulosum) to bloom but it's getting surprisingly big
- Virginia creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) has appeared! I am hoping I can guide it towards the building and it can replace the Euonymus.