Nine years ago today 🌿
Salvia azurea var. granditiora, our Blue Sage, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge #nativeplants
@frwildflowers.bsky.social
@frwildflowers.bsky.socialNine years ago today 🌿
Salvia azurea var. granditiora, our Blue Sage, blooming at Rocky Mountain Arsenal Wildlife Refuge #nativeplants
@forgottenbeauty.bsky.socialOne on each side of the milkweed 😮
#bugsky #nativeplants #gardening #insects #moths #garden #pollinators #gardeningforwildlife
And I'm off to my appt.
@kayontheprairie.bsky.socialLarge Milkweed Bug and nymphs on a Swamp Milkweed pod
@kristinwyatt.bsky.socialAster Mining Bee
#flowers #bees #nativeplants
#photography
@elisnativeplants.bsky.socialSpicebush Swallowtail (Papilio troilus) caterpillar on American Hazelnut leaf (Corylus americana). They prefer Spicebush or Sassafras but will eat Hazel or Birch.
#nativeplants #insects #lepidoptera #ecoregion58 (Berne, NY, 09/26)
@wearegonnafindout.bsky.socialI do still have flower closeups I am just distracted by the larger scale at the moment.
balm / bee
@gardenwild.bsky.socialI love NEW (to me) #NativePlants - quite literally pulled over on the side of 2 different roads today like a maniac, both times thinking I saw a really unique Goldenrod. The first, incredible sized blooms- have you ever!? On a GRod lol? The 2nd, white blooms!? Surely not.
Reader: nope & nope, meet
@moistwelldrained.bsky.socialFree goldenrod, just appeared in the yard. All I had to do was not pull it up.
@fairiesandfancies.bsky.socialThe garden is always full of such lovely things if you know where to look. #garden #gardening #nativeplants
@hardlikearmour.bsky.socialA native Gentian from Goat Rocks Wilderness 8/2026. #ColorADay #BlueTue #ECK #Wildflowers #NativePlants
@jtkindt.bsky.socialTwo years since I planted a spicebush from @beechhollow.bsky.social and at last have been dgraced with an adorable spicebush swallowtail caterpillar! I am SO excited!
@jtkindt.bsky.socialThirty-ninth native plant blooming in the yard, big leaf aster (Aster macrophyllus). Like last year it's a big hit with tiny ants, but should attract some bees as well.
@gettoknownature.bsky.socialHere’s a female Eastern Tiger Swallowtail. The males are always yellow while the females can be yellow or black. She’s enjoying some Joe Pye Weed in the yard
@wildscapemuse.com🍂 That "messy" fall garden? It's actually a 5-star hotel for native bees, birds & salamanders. Leaf litter = insulation. Standing stems = shelter for 30% of bee species. Your rake can wait, wildlife can't.
Learn what to do instead: wildscapemuse.com/blog
@jbtheexplorer.bsky.socialLook what I found in my garden this morning.
@yoyoyoyo.bsky.socialWe have a ton of what I think are Marsh Flies on our Sky-blue aster. Really cool looking but could easily be mistaken with wasp or bees. #NativePlants
