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Gaillardi and dianthus make a sustainable container planting that will return to bloom again next summer..

Gaillardia and dianthus coexist in a ceramic planter.

Twinflowers (Linnea borealis) bloom amid the moss at Deception Falls NRA, Washington
#Photography #DeceptionFallsNRA #SaveOurNationalLands #SaveOurPublicLands #PNW #NativePlant #NativePlantsOfThePNW

A patch of tiny twinflowers blooms in the shade. The small ( half inch) oval green leaves glisten with rain. The white and pink trumpet shaped flowers are attached in pairs to stems that split in two, one side for each flower. The flowers face down, the corollas end in five lobes. Here the plants are surrounded by mosses, whose yellow green contrasts with the bright twinflower leaves.

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Indian Pink sets off the white of the glass.

Indian Pink blooming next to a white stained glass shade.

One thing that's an ongoing #permaculture lesson for me in my garden #rewilding journey is that certain #NativePlant species that aren't too attractive looking or otherwise don't seem to provide much benefit actually serve a big role as host plants. For the #texas area, plants like goldenrod (Solidago altissima), horse weed (Erigeron canadensis) and prairie false foxglove (Agalinis heterophylla), despite not looking as interesting most of the year, serve a vital supportive role for pollinators and other beneficial insects that some of the other plants with greater year-round interest don't really do.

All that to say, consider creating zones in your area where these plants can grow too.

🦋 New species in my garden! 🥳 A Painted Lady on a Black-eyed Susan.

🐛 The caterpillars feed on thistles and I have a few.

🐛 They also feed on mallows. I need to get some mallows, actually, especially the U.S. temperate version of the popular Hibiscus.

The platter-shaped flowers of the Swamp Rose-Mallow would look great. Even better, they provide food for #NativeBees and caterpillars of two other butterflies: the Gray Hairstreak and Common Checkered-skipper.

That would be serious habitat building! 💪

#BiodiversityGardening #HabitatGardening #Gardening @gardening #NativePlant

Close-up of a butterfly with its wings extended on a Black-eyed Susan. The butterfly is ornately patterned with spots, bars and stripes of yellow, orange, brown, buff and silver. The flower petals are yellow. In the blurry background is the brown and gray surface of a large rock face perpendicular to the ground and the stem and a partially opened flower bud. The colors of the butterfly blend with the environment in this view.

Over a couple of years, I've been removing sapling volunteers and weedy plants from the edge of the woods (would you call that the verge?) around our small lawn. Yesterday I found this had "resurfaced" - some sort of dogwood, not yet identified. That put a smile on my face. ☺️

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A lot of teardrop shaped spring green leaves with deep veins on a thigh high multiple stemmed shrub.

We had a wet spring in Fort Collins, CO. Most of my xeriscape plants grew fast and lanky. The weight of all that water, and sometimes wind, laid some stems on the ground. Now summer heat has arrived. Highs of 90°F (32°C) and cloudless skies at high altitude create intense sunlight.

Aspen fleabane (Erigeron speciosus) is rated full-sun to shade. But it seems to do best in the middle. In shade at 3pm, a perky Aspen fleabane shows off its lavender petals. Another fleabane, in bright sun, has washed out petals and many drooping flower buds.

Gardening with climate change has its challenges.

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Aspen fleabane has long leafy stems topped by one bloom each. The petals are narrow and lavender with a yellow center. Shades of green, brown, lavender and yellow.

Aspen fleabane in bright, full-sun has many drooping flower buds and slightly wilted leaves. Shades of green, brown, lavender and yellow.

#Today 11: Prairie Lode sundrops, Oenothera serrulata 'Prairie Lode'
This small woody plant has bright yellow wrinkled petals.

Kannah Creek® buckwheat, Eriogonum umbellatum var. aureum 'Psdowns' also has bright yellow blooms. Some varieties of buckwheat have one round cluster of flowers per stem. This one has 5 to 10 clusters on small stems branching off the longer supporting stem.

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Shades of bright yellow on 4 petal wrinkled blossom. Shades of green on leaves that are long and narrow, with serrated edges.

Shades of green on oval leaves. Shades of bright yellow on rounded clusters of tiny flowers.

Looking up this afternoon: those fireweeds are over 6 ft tall! Chamaenerion angustifolium, also known as Epilobium angustifolium
#Photography #LookUp #NativePlant #NativePlantsOfThePNW #OurGarden #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer

Looking up at the top of a fireweed towering over my head, I can see its magenta flowers against the blue summer sky. The flowers have 4 petals, a white pistil that terminates in 4 curlicues, and numerous dark colored anthers. They are growing on a spike of flowers with many buds at the top, promising more blooms. The spike is at the top of a stem with opposite, long narrow dark green leaves. These can be made into a tea, if you have a lot of plants and don't mind stripping some. The scene in in my garden and there are many leafy trees in the background.

Our first harebell flower! Our new border plants are doing so well 😊

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A delicate, bell shaped blue/lilac flower, with five petals and a very long middle part

Got the first round of starts planted today. This was mostly parsley and marigolds and one milkweed and a butterfly weed. I took care of some thistle that is growing in my side beds 😡 but uh otherwise I have a million baby asters, milkweed, and coneflowers growing. Going to need to figure out what to do with them but I thought I might be able to rescue some and bring them to a plant swap.

Also, two of my three milk jugs finally started sprouting thanks to the latest rain! So I might get some goldenrod and spikenard after all.
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A garden bed with some established asters and lobelia and a hundred seedlings crowding near the front edge of the bed.

The front garden bed with some freshly planted marigolds in front of wild bergamot.

The front garden bed and a fresh patch of parsley near asters, lance leaf coreopsis and wild bergamot.

A milk jug full of dirt and tiny sprouts along the top.

A male Ceratina Bee is seen peering into a nest that’s being excavated by a female. The nest is in a stem of a Goatsbeard plant (Aruncus dioicus) 10mm in diameter.
On the sides of the stem, “jaw dust” flakes that the female is excavating is the pith of the plant. that she is removing. The final nest will be a tunnel running four to six inches long.

A female Ceratina Bee is seen foraging on the flower head of Ceanothus velutinus, a native shrub that is a great pollen and nectar source.

#portland #oregon #nativebee #pollinatorArt #nativeplant #ceratina #ceanothus #insect

A female Ceratina Bee is seen foraging on the flower head of Ceanothus velutinus, a native shrub that is a great pollen and nectar source.

We will continue working on our mini-meadow project this year by adding 2,300+ native plants currently being grown by our Seedling Steward volunteers.
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Native plant sale today. This nonprofit nursery is great if you want plants native to the San Francisco peninsula. #sanfrancisco #gardening #NativePlant

Poster for Mission Blue Nursery plant sale. 10-3pm on May 3 at 3435 Bayshore Blvd in Brisbane CA. Poster shows native plants and a Mission Blue butterfly.

Thank you all for your help!

Now I know I'm going to have a hard time getting rid of Aegopodium podagraria (on the left).😭

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Picture of the base of my peony bush where you can see a plant growing all around it.

Picture of a garden white plastic fence against which a plant is growing.

Pacific Ninebark (Physocarpus capitatus) starting to break bud at the house. This plant attracts a wide range of insects for two weeks and has attractive stems that offer a winter bonus.

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