So soothing!
Married, two adult children. Avid gardener, passionate about pollinators. Biotech researcher developing vaccines for trees.
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So soothing!
Mine too!
Looks like jade - doesn’t it?
I love purple and orange - what a great combo!!!
I planted extra parsley in the herb garden in hopes that it would attract Black Swallowtail butterflies - it worked! What beautiful babies they make! Happy #LaborDay 🇺🇸 #SaveButterflies 🦋
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Plant? Verbena hastata?
J hook
Thank you for your Monarch/pollinator garden!
She is tattered - 🧡🧡🧡
Dinner plate sized hibiscus - ‘Valentine’s Crush’. Blue, blue sky - summer day. Could you ask for more? 🩷 #Nature
I love your garden Brigit!
My favorite butterfly!
It is petal perfection - is it fragrant?
They do love most herbs - great equity! Half for them - half for me!
If true - please keep capturing them. Almost on the endangered species list
💚 the crab spiders
❤️
Lucky you !!!
My kind of party!!’
Beautiful shot!
❤️ pollinators - we need them
It is catnip for the bees! Great shot!!!
Yum!
Wow!
I agree - cannot go wrong with herbs - flavor our food and feed the pollinators! Double bonus!
I LOVE zinnias and so do all my pollinators 🩷🩷🩷
Good news
Indeed!
Awesome work Sarah! Look forward to reading more!
Okay world famous virologist, founder of Silvec - making the first vaccines for trees and grape vines . . . I would love to see this article but the Atlantic blocked me (insert sad face) everyone - Google this woman and her company - you will be astounded!
Awwww
Lovely, lovely, photograph Coral
Looks like she’s on a nest!
Live in DC but am from the PNW - miss these sights!
That must ‘bee’ some rose!!!
Beautiful!
Thank you!
Yes! They love the nectar but will only lay eggs on milkweed. The only thing the caterpillars can eat
Yes - but what RNA signalling navigates its final days?
Stunning!
Such great news!
It’s my birthday - and I had this lovely Spicebush Swallowtail come visit me in my garden. Couldn’t have asked for a better gift! #Butterflies 🦋 #Pollinators
My favorite butterfly!
So majestic!
What a nice tradition!
One of my favorite times of the year! The Phlox Jeana is blooming and its the Swallowtails favorite nectar source in the garden 💛 Black Eyed Susan’s in the back of the border #Butterflies 🦋 #FlowersOnFriday
Love them both!
I love this sight!!’
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It’s sad that it is exciting - was so unexpected. Last year I was fortunate to see the female laying eggs on my milkweed. Still - for the 12 eggs I saw her lay - I recovered 3 caterpillars. Came back from vacation and knew that at least one Monarch had been in my garden 🧡
An increasingly rare sight in America - please, consider not only planting milkweed but flowers with nectar.Impatiens and mophead hydrangeas are beautiful but they have NOTHING to offer pollinators. No nectar, no pollen. When I was a child (I’m 67) butterflies were common. 🦋 @annealiz1.bsky.social
Breaks my heart!!!
You are blessed to have Monarchs - we used to in the mid-Atlantic (Washington DC area) / now every one is a gift
This is so incredibly lovely!
Found this lone Monarch caterpillar in my milkweed patch and moved him/her to a mesh butterfly cage for safety. We have few Monarchs in this area, and most of the caterpillars in my garden are taken by predators if I don’t get to them first. Will release after metamorphosis. #Monarch 🦋 #Butterflies
Just that one view ;-) lots of hodgepodge- but I am trying to get it more organized as I go along. The rudbeckias are just an orderly flower
Thank you Jean! I am new to Bluesky and have been happily scrolling through your garden. I too plant native
I have nine bark in my garden but I think it’s a cultivar. Extremely disappointing! Can you give me any more information on your Prairie Ninebark?
They are becoming a rare sight
I love my goldfinches - they come up to my deck and eat the petals off the zinnias. I am never fast enough to photograph them
Love them - here in VA it’s mostly the Eastern Tiger Swallowtail but get them all - and it’s always thrilling!
Warms my heart!!
Marvelous!!!!!
It is magical!
I’m amazed! Didn’t cover them - just scattered? Fall or spring! It’s lovely!
Waving hand in air - “ I do - I do”
My wedding bouquet was ALL gardenias - wanted to be able to lift them to my nose all day long! My kind mother-in-law had a gardenia bush in her garden in CA and would have a few floating in a bowl by my bedside when u visited 🩷
Had one back in the day for sure!
Saw a wee baby bunny in my garden this morning. So tiny! I don’t have much for her to eat - but she’s welcome to it
Innovative! I like it!
Borage 💙
Salt gun?
Friend was just over today with advice to spray with soap
Truthfully I have a few several blocks away - but I make sure to visit their gardens weekly to see what’s new!
Looks so peaceful, but at the same time, so fun!
Would love to have neighbors like this - lucky you!
So much better than pesticides - don’t you think? Ladybug (or ladybird depending on where you’re from) sitting on my tomato cage noshing on a green aphid. 🐞 she kindly left offspring behind for me ❤️ #PollinatorsFirst 🐞 #InsectTuesday
Try and add fresh herbs to all my dishes - makes all the difference in taste
Keen eye
Awww - my heart ❤️
Amazing how the coneflower feeds butterflies and bees. My selfish self hates leaving them up in my tidy garden after they turn black and ugly . . . But my good self loves watching the finches feed off the seeds in the winter.
I live the songs!!!
Just to gather pollen? Bumblebees have baskets
Do you know why?
Love the color combo!
Lucky you! (The flowers, not the boom :-)
Lovely blue!
Baby Bumble Bee alert! See her? (She’s so tiny). Bright raspberry echinacea lighting up the mid-summer garden! #SaveTheBees 🐝 #Gardening 🩷
Striking!
I’ve tried to get the adults! They are so fast - and have some kind of protective shell. So far my husband got 1
My Greek oregano never blooms - but that’s why I buy it. Basil and marjoram feeding the tiny bumbles!
Zinnias are the key!
The large and small Rudbeckia borders flanked by the hydrangeas. This is what my garden looks like at its summer peak. #FlowersOnFriday 🌺 #Gardening
Early morning sun positively makes the roses glow! #RoseWednesday 🌺 #Gardening - stay cool everyone!
They’re done! Was fab! Now I’m letting the pods dry!
Hey! I have the twin in my garden :-)
Awwww
Looks like an orchid!
Love all the orange!