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Missing the butterweed a little bit 💛

A ground level view of a “forest” of butterweed, with its lobed green leaves, long stalks and buttery yellow flowers growing across a large ditch from a stand of woods

#FotoMontag #PhotoMonday #NativePlants #Iowa

On the #DailyWalk yesterday, I was surprised to see a common milkweed with seeds ready to fly.

At the top of a dried stem, a cluster of milkweed seeds with their silky, white fluff. Behind the milkweed are bare willow trees and the gray and white ice on the pond.

Check out this cool pic I snapped of a spotted cucumber beetle munching on a Texas bluebonnet! 📸 First bluebonnet spot this year, how awesome is that? 🪲 #TexasBluebonnet #Wildflowers #MacroPhotography #NativePlants #Insects #TexasWildlife

Spotted cucumber beetle clinging to the petals of a Texas bluebonnet flower, feeding while perched among fuzzy flower buds and green foliage.

Spotted cucumber beetle feeding on a partially opened Texas bluebonnet flower, surrounded by green leaves and unopened buds.

For #SuperbOwl Sunday, here’s my Perpetual Journal art of 2 very superb owls: 2 Great Horned Owls calling back & forth (duetting) along with a Cooper’s Hawk & a small Mexican Poppy plant.

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #ecosystem #ecology #nature #outdoors #poppy #bird #birds #birding #BirdsOfMastodon #birdsong #hawk #CoopersHawk #Owl #GreatHornedOwl

My 2025 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of 2 Great Horned Owls calling back and forth; my 2024 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a small Mexican Poppy plant; & my 2023 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of a Cooper's Hawk, all in Tucson, AZ, for the week of January 22-28.

Scarlet Bee Balm (Monarda didyma) isn’t just a flower — it’s a pollinator power plant.

Hummingbirds, native bees, butterflies — all fueled by one vivid red signal fire in midsummer.

#PollinatorGarden #NativePlants #PlantNative
Monarda didyma https://www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictures/monarda-didyma/

A cluster of scarlet bee balm flowers rises from a garden bed in bright summer light. Each bloom has a rounded, textured central cone surrounded by long, narrow, ribbon-like petals that curl and twist outward in deep red. Slender green stems and opposite, softly serrated leaves fill the frame, their surfaces catching highlights from the sun. The background fades into dark soil and soft greenery, making the vivid red flowers stand out like small flames held above the leaves.

Llygad y Dydd
Daisy

Quite literally, day's eye.

These little beauties tracking the sun in Port Talbot
. #NativePlants #Cymru

Low down closeup of Daisie bright and shining white in a sward of greenest grass by a road with cones and a wall with a mountain peaking over the top

I checked on my winter sown #nativeplants yesterday.

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A snowy patch of ground next to a garage. Several plastic jugs with soil in them, secured closed with painters tape, are peeking out of the snow.

We’ve seen Fall foliage & Spring wildflowers this Winter in Tucson! Here’s my Perpetual Journal art of blooming Brittlebush. We attribute our early flowers to record heat, Dec.’25. Read more @ my latest blog post https://paulaborchardt.substack.com/p/fall-foliage-and-spring-wildflowersin

#SciArt #art #illustration #watercolor #painting #sketchbook #NatureJournal #NatureJournaling #PerpetualJournal #blog #Tucson #SonoranDesert #NativePlants #biodiversity #environment #nature #ClimateChange #climate #Brittlebush #flower #wildflower #BloomScrolling

My 2026 Perpetual Journal watercolor and pen art of blooming Brittlebush in December, 2025, in Tucson, AZ.

Do you want to increase your knowledge of the plants growing around you but don’t know where to start?

Why not joining the Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland’s 100 plants in 2026 Challenge ⬇️
#Plants #Biodiversity #Nature #Gardening #NativePlants #Flowers
https://bsbi.org/take-part/activities/100-plants-challenge

@robgalpin.bsky.social

Looks like there is room for willow AND a path. Seems to me that there is a lot of potential here, even if you prioritize bank protection with willow (as you know).

Planning any path should include allowing expansion of water flow when necessary, so you might not be able to use the path during that time.

#NativePlants that are adapted to (seepage) slopes could add stability, some flowers, and increase pollinator appearances.

This bright yellow beauty gets blamed for allergies every fall — unfairly.

Wrinkleleaf goldenrod isn’t the villain. Ragweed is.

Meanwhile, this plant is out here feeding half the ecosystem and looking gorgeous doing it.
#NativePlants Solidago rugosa https://www.cernunnosfoundation.com/nature-pictures/solidago-rugosa/

big finger clusters of tiny yellow flowers - goldenrod

Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) on Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) vine in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on January 8, 2026

Some of the camera settings I used to make this photo are at: https://www.rsok.com/~jrm/2026Jan31_birds_and_cats/2026jan08_cardinal_IMG_5516c.html

#birds #cardinal #crosstimbersEcoregion #nativeplants #wildlife #wildlifephotography #Oklahoma #photography

A Northern Cardinal (Cardinalis cardinalis) was standing on a Virginia Creeper (Parthenocissus quinquefolia) vine in Norman, Oklahoma, United States on January 8, 2026.

#photography #nativeplants #nature #pixelfed #wildlife #butterfly #darktable

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Butterfly on a wild bergamot flower.

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I just heard about Plant Baby Plant on the Plant People podcast. It's Robin Wall Kimmerer's project tying gardening to biodiversity activism. It looks great. #NativePlants

https://plantbabyplant.com/

So far, the winter of no winter. Buds are getting fatter preparing to leaf and flower. The earliest to bloom is the osoberry (Oemleria cerasiformis), a native shrub. I'm establishing a native growth area next to our driveway. Osoberry is part of it. #PNW #plants #nativeplants #botany #nature #photography #macrophotography