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@mysticalmarigold.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 1:50 PM

Oh my gawd! The Witch Hazels are blooming for their first time 🥹🌱 I also gift you more Aster. It really is everywhere this year 💛

#nativeplants #pollinatorgarden #flowers #aster #witchhazel

A yellow scraggly blooming witch hazel flower on a young tree. There are buds blurry in the back, ready to buds open

A smattering of white aster flowers. Behind them is some yellow goldenrod and purple Blue Mistflowers.

@jtkindt.bsky.social Oct 14, 2026, 2:01 AM

Little jewel in my yard today- Ceratina small carpenter bee visiting obedient plant (Physostegia virginiana).

#bees #bugsky #nativeplants

Metallic blue bee with almond shaped eyes on a purple-tinged white flower.

@ozlandclone.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 9:29 PM

Honey, it's October 13 and you have thousands of miles to go. Good speed on your journey. ❤️
P.S. I don't think there's any nectar in that dried coneflower seedhead.
#nativeplants #pollinators

@lpconservancy.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 8:00 PM

Forget Zodiac signs--today we're looking at what wildflower best represents your personality based off of your birth month! Swipe to find out what wildflower you are! 🌻

#midwestwildflowers #nativeplants #lincolnpark

@mysticalmarigold.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 7:46 PM

My mailbox aster has almost reached her full form 🌱 #nativeplants #fall #aster #bloomscrolling

An aster plant at the base of a black mailbox pole has a bunch of blooming white flowers with yellow centers, there are also a ton of buds waiting for their turn to bloom

@citymousegarden.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 5:43 PM

Golden blooms for good luck that we get promised rain Thursday. The threatened #NativePlants Jamesianthus alabamensis we keep alive by growing it in our garden & Calendula ‘Strawberry Blonde’ make quite the couple.

#gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #SmallJoys #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱

Deep golden yellow composite Jamesianthus blooms & heavily layered pompon-like Calendula.

@jbtheexplorer.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 4:00 PM

Eastern redbud.

#nativeplants #leaves #autumn #Wisconsin

@citymousegarden.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 2:53 PM

Went hunting for my little #NativePlants Lindera Benzoin (Spicebush) in back of deepest bed & was happy to find it still alive fighting it out with taller plants. Something has been chewing on leaves, yay! Maybe a caterpillar.🤞

#gardening #bloomscrolling #ecosystem #BugSky #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱

Wide round leaves showing clear chewing on the tips of a few.

@jbtheexplorer.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 1:53 PM

My silver maple showing a bit of orange.

#autumn #leaves #Wisconsin #nativeplants

@juliwils.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 1:25 PM

A second bee
A second breakfast[er]

#twosday
#nativeplants

Two bees forage from the bluish-purple flowers of an aster, all of which is illuminated by sunshine

@jgryboski.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 11:38 AM

Staghorn sumac

Bender Park, Oak Creek, WI

#nativeplants #filmphotography #wisconsin

@gettoknownature.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 11:33 AM

I’m gonna miss the bugs and flowers so much once the cold arrives.
(Peck’s Skipper on Coneflower) #invertebrates 🌿 #BugSky #NativePlants

A very pretty, small brown and orange butterfly stands on top of the spiky orange center of a flower.

@juliwils.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 8:38 AM

Peek-a-blue

#bluetue
#nativeplants

A solitary flower on a great blue lobelia is tucked away behind the browning foliage of the plant; all the other flowers have long since faded away

@cupletfern.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 3:47 AM

🌿 #NativePlants for #PollinatorBeds 🦋

A private speaking engagement event at #TuscawillaCountryClub on native plants to support a new perspective on #NativeWildflowers 🌸

Book a presentation for your group: www.cupletfern.org/contact-us

#pollinators #winterspringsfl #markkateli #seminolecountyfl

@toxicoradica.northsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 2:11 AM

🌸 frogfruit 🌿
Phyla lanceolata

#nativeplants #ecoregion71

a little flowerspike, seen from above, with ten tiny blooming flowers in a ring around its periphery. eight of the flowers are pink with red throats, while two are white with yellow throats. the flowers have five lobes: two little ones on top which often appear merged, two lateral lobes, and a bottom lobe longer and wider than the rest. just within the mouth of each flower there are two pairs of minute stamens.

two little flowerspikes with blooming flowers (& a third still budding), seen mostly from the side. the lower spike has three blooming flowers, all white with yellow throats. the other, higher flowerspike has ten blooming flowers that are a mix of white with a yellow throat and pink w a red throat. the flowerspikes grow at the end of long green flowerstems; their origins are unseen or out of frame. however, it seems the budding spike on the lower right grows from an on-screen leaf axil. the frogfruit's green, opposite leaves are lance-shaped with margins toothed, especially on the half of the leaf nearer the tip.

a dense mat of frogfruit; the view is filled with opposite pairs of green, lance-shaped, toothed leaves. the verdant expanse is occasionally broken by small flowerspikes bearing tiny flowers, a handful or so blooming simultaneously on each spike. some of the flowers are pink with red throats, others are white with yellow throats. it seems to be random, the two colors of flower commingle on each flowerspike.

@jtkindt.bsky.social Oct 13, 2026, 1:19 AM

Sleepy orange (Eurema nicippe) butterfly lingered for a while around the Georgia basil (Clinopodium carolinianum), bought about a year ago from @beechhollow.bsky.social. It has thrived in a drier spot with no watering all summer.

#bugsky #nativeplants #insects

Face-on photo of a butterfly with its tongue inserted into a white flower with pale purple shading. Two white antennae tipped with black and orange, pale orange eyes, some dark hairs right behind the head and dark edges of folded orange wings are visible.

Side view of butterfly visiting white flower with some pale purple markings. Butterfly wings shadings vary from pale brown to pale yellow to pale orange.