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#NativePlant

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kamatahvel🇺🇦

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.

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Joe Wynne 🌻 🚗 ⛰️

🦋 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.
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Ray N. Franklin 🇺🇸

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.

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.
#bloomscrolling#nativePlant#colorado
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Ray N. Franklin 🇺🇸

#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.

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.
#bloomscrolling#NativePlant#colorado
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Zardoz

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.
#nativePlant #gardening

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.
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DoomsdaysCW

Excerpt from "How to make your yard a friendlier place for #pollinators"

#Pollination doesn't only produce more plants – it also helps make fruits and vegetables larger, more abundant, and even more flavorful.

by Abby Jackson, January 22, 2024
The Cool Down [#US-based publication]

How to Support Pollinators in Your Yard

"Plants are the foundation for every living thing on our planet, and without pollination, plants would be unable to reproduce and our food supply would be at risk.

"Here are a few things you can do to support their safety and protect our food resources for years to come:

- Avoid #pesticides, #herbicides, and synthetic #fertilizers as much as possible.

- Choose flowering plants that produce pollen and nectar, that are native to your area, and that support a variety of pollinators. Avoid hybrid plant varieties, as they've been bred specifically for aesthetics and may have unattractive nectar.

- You can use the #NationalWildlifeFederation's #NativePlant finder to discover plants in your area that attract pollinators. The #AudubonSociety has a similar search that identifies native plants in your area that attract birds.

- Follow seasonal changes and diversify your yard with plants that bloom at different times of the year for year-round blooms.

- Remove #InvasivePlants and weeds when possible.

- Provide a hydration station. Birdbaths are hazards for many pollinators because they can easily drown in them and because they are preyed on by other animals. Filling a shallow bowl with pebbles or marbles to a low water level will allow pollinators to drink while sitting on a perch. [I do create "bee baths" with marbles and rocks. I will be very cautious if I decide to provide "bird baths" this summer]

- Provide nesting sides, like a #BeeHouse. [Old logs can be good for some bees]

- Use certain plants strictly as food for the larvae of pollinators to ensure they will have enough energy to grow and frequent your yard. For example, #MonarchCaterpillars [and #TussockMothLarvae] love to eat #milkweed, and #BlackSwallowtailCaterpillars feed on #parsley [I did not know this! I will provide some parsley for their consumption this year!]

"#Rewilding your yard with native plants and #clovers, designating a garden bed to attract pollinators, or even having a pollinator-friendly plant in a pot on your #balcony are other ways you can make your area a friendlier space for pollinators.

"Any action that helps pollinators is a positive action that benefits you and the animals and nature around you."

Read more:
thecooldown.com/green-home/how
#GardeningForPollinators #GardeningForBees #Gardening #SolarPunkSunday

The Cool Down · How to make your yard a friendlier place for pollinatorsWe need pollinators, and making pollinator-friendly adjustments to your yard can have more of a difference than you might think.
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webonaire

Anise hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) is another #NativePlant that is great for #pollinators. It is neither anise nor hyssop but rather a member of the mint family. It gets lovely lavender spikey flowers that bees, butterflies, hummingbirds, and finches adore. Goldfinches will really go to town if you let it go to seed. It will spread by rhizomes but I don't find it particularly aggressive.
extension.psu.edu/anise-hyssop

A three-picture collage of anise hyssop in the garden. The top picture shows (barely) three goldfinches hanging out on the flowering plant in summer. The bottom left picture is a closeup of the blossoms, which are lavender in color, and terminal spikes. The bottom right picture is the dried up plant in the fall with the seeds forming.
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