Doesn't make sense! Also curious why @repangiecraig.bsky.social voted to honor the legacy of Charlie Kirk, a man who said stoning gay people to death is "God's perfect law".
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Doesn't make sense! Also curious why @repangiecraig.bsky.social voted to honor the legacy of Charlie Kirk, a man who said stoning gay people to death is "God's perfect law".
My new washing machine keeps reminding me to connect it to the internet. The biggest selling point: it can alert me if someone is at my doorbell!
I think you've got four more first instar black swallowtail cats in that picture too!
Top ten bug right there
😂 agreed! My top ten is basically the ten I most recently got a decent photo of...
Evolution is an incredible artist. I was happy to find this weird little guy in my garden yesterday. #Inverts #NativePlants
I'm not proud of this joke
John was very serious about finding a Replacement bassist
Indie store exclusive, it appears:
Oh man, I'm excited to hear the tracks with Tommy Stinson on the recording. Also, Rocks in my Pockets... Either about walking into the sea or hiking with my 5 year old. Can't wait to find out!
Pearl crescent on false sunflower. #nativegarden #nativeplants #butterfly #butterflies
Ain't no party like an ox-eye party Cuz an ox-eye party has multiple bee species. #Inverts #NativePlants
Recently switched to a combo washer/dryer machine. Put in dirty laundry, it comes out clean and dry. Apparently Europe has had these for decades?!
Proud of my state senator. Any chance the GOP has a conscience?
Gorgeous! Catchfly is on my list to plant this fall.
In honor of #invertefest the black swallowtail my kids have been raising from a caterpillar decided to emerge today. It came into the house on a native flower bouquet from our garden that included golden alexanders. #NativePlants
Anytime a child is murdered with a gun, it's God's plan - nothing can be done! Anytime someone has an abortion, it's the work of the devil - arrest and punish anyone involved!
I'll put the over/under at 1.5
You should! According to USDA, "it does not have small pollen grains, like ragweed does, which cause sneezing and other hay fever symptoms. ... The common name is based on historic use of the crushed dried leaves and heads to make a form of snuff that caused sneezing." Also, it's really beautiful.
This little guy hitched inside on golden alexanders in a bouquet. My son and I are raising him in the kitchen now.
Did some bug portraits in the prairie garden this morning. #NativePlants #Inverts
Did some bug portraits in the prairie garden this morning. #NativePlants #Inverts
Thanks, I feel inspired: While trees rake carbon from the sky and lignify it 'til they die, eventually that heat's released by fire or rot or gnawing beast. But if you've got the clime to suit, and want to see less top, more root while storing carbon out the ass you cannot beat a prairie grass.
the best part of waking up is milkweed in your cup (spent a spontaneous 10 minutes digging A.tuberosa volunteers from the lawn. they'll find new homes in the front yard...) #NativePlants #FlowerReport
the best part of waking up is milkweed in your cup (spent a spontaneous 10 minutes digging A.tuberosa volunteers from the lawn. they'll find new homes in the front yard...) #NativePlants #FlowerReport
So many weird galls in the world, that's just always what I assume now, lol
Galls?
Always happy for partridge pea season
Heck yeah swallowtail visiting the garden. #NativePlants #inverts
Where in MN are you? They pop up all over my yard, I'm in Apple Valley and happy to share some...
Strong endorsement for serviceberry, although I've never grown them from seed. Our SWCD practically gives away bare root plants tho. I'll throw in a recommendation for red-berry elders as well. Super fast growing, I have some in my MN yard that are 3 years old and 9 feet tall.
"more room for less turf" love that
You didn't go with the straight spoonerism. I'm impressed with your restraint here.
Drag queen showing off her beach bod #inverts
@NPR why is your headline framing this as though they are not currently taking science into account!? This framing plays exactly into the narrative anti-vaccine hacks.
This is such a great thread of MN native flowers!
Hello from a fellow MN native plant gardener!
Alright I have a question for *all of you*, esp for those of you who are not into environment stuff. When you think about planting native plants in the area you control, what *prevents* you from taking that action? These could be emotional, financial, practical, anything. RTs appreciated here.
Today's reading. Thanks for your pinned post sharing this history.
ICYMI: Trans rights are human rights. Willi Castro appeared to lend support to that sentiment earlier this month, and even if that wasn't his intention, the aftermath says much about the moment he (and we) now occupy. #mntwins #twins #minnesota
Lol. Someone disagreeing with you on the disagreement website is a holy war? Enjoy the little outrage farm you've built for yourself here.
Again, a marker for what?
I just keep thinking about post-9/11, how lots of folks claimed that all Muslims needed to loudly answer for the terrorists. I wonder if those same folks now think all Christians need to answer for Boelter...🤔
A marker for what? Trying to disavow people who don't fit your definition of Christianity is exactly what Catholics did with Biden (and probably Hortman), btw... Are they Christian?
It explicitly is. Just because it's different from a lot of people's definition of Christianity doesn't mean it isn't Christian. Like any institution, religion can be used for good or evil ends.
It seems like a lot of the pushback is tied to the word "devout". And the pushback is coming largely from people who likely describe themselves as devout Christians. I understand the double standard (non-Christians would be "fanatical"), but it is still an accurate description.
Always happy to see a new plant flowering from seed in my prairie garden. This spiderwort was seeded 3 years ago. #NativePlants
I'm running a volunteer restoration event tomorrow morning and this gives me so much anxiety. We have dedicated retirees and that generation just. Doesn't. Drink. Water.
People think gender affirming care is new/untested because Nazis *literally burnt down* the research institute pioneering trans healthcare and its associated documentation
Lovely! Yes, I think it is T.dioicum. I have a couple bigger plants in that clump that I want to try to split. I think I'm just going to have to experiment, glad to hear it transplanted well! TY!
This is a great photo
Any bsky #NativePlants gardeners have experience splitting/transplanting meadow-rue? I'd like to move some of this to a new area, but it's been slow to fill in here so I don't want to kill it. Any advice welcome!
Kinda funny looking. Just in a general kinda way.
*in the city
Come here to say this. The Lone Oak is a good symbol with actual history in the symbol
As a Woodbury High alum, I'd like to correct this. It's a d and b thrusting into a bush.
I planted some narrow leaf coneflower a few years ago, didn't see it at all for 2 years and last year it flowered. Life, uh, finds a way.
The most consequential Speaker in state history.
I never met Melissa Hortman, but, each in our lane, worked on a bunch of the same issues. No one gets all the credit for legislation, but I think its important for people to understand how much good Speaker Hortman did/led/was a part of. That's something being an aging union guy equips you for 1/12
Holy fuck this is stupid. This is not an "ancient theory", it's discredited bullshit. Can you please call a spade a spade and stop with this both sides garbage?
All the credit that Tim Walz got as a VP candidate for good stuff that Minnesota has done? Melissa Hortman (and a bunch of other women) led the hard fight to get bills on his desk and make it politically safe for him to sign.
Found this weird little guy on a soggy shoelace. Drinking water, I guess? Per iNat, it's a Hobomok skipper (Lon hobomok). #inverts #Minnesota
Ooo, I love that!
Yellow Lady Slippers glowing in the woods at Lake Itasca. #NativePlants #Minnesota #FlowerReport
Lol, and now Royce goes 3 for 4 🤣 An excellent reverse jinx
All of Minnesota's best dads were on that joke committee
Top notch spoonerism here
Even in the rain, the bitty pollinators love the bitty figwort flowers. #NativePlants #Inverts
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Awesome! Uh...chafas?
Going to be an excellent gardening shirt, ty!
Is your 'Never Die' design a Mountain Goats reference? Cuz every time you post that I get Ballad of Bull Ramos stuck in my head
Plus the bumblebees are *so loud* on those flowers! Wanna show if the tattoo?
Everyone got in on this win, such a fun game
Partridge pea, such a honeypot
In a couple of years, this will be filled with native Minnesota prairie plants. Always grateful for clients who dream big (and have patience and trust, lol) #NativePlants
Ah, of course now I spot KC in your bio...🫠 I think I'm going to try again with a larger tree if I can find one, I know there's a gardener in southern MN who has had some luck with them. Enjoy the fruit later this year!
Congrats! How far north are you? I tried some seedlings in the Twin Cities last year and they failed...
Ah! Thanks for the correction. Props to Brad Rempel.
Good article as usual! That's an excellent photo of Correa. Kudos to the photographer, I wish NYT would credit them in the article!
I saw a monarch in my garden today, so that was good. #NativePlants #inverts
I saw a monarch in my garden today, so that was good. #NativePlants #inverts
Yep. And I also thought segue-way was a separate phrase.
This is great, I've never understood why Amtrak goes to Minot but not Bismarck. Would be a huge boon to Medora as well. TR Nat'l Park is gorgeous...
We all need to right-size our condiment expectations.
IDK, the Sox lost 10-0 last night, Leo might get traded before the deadline
White Sox. His wiki page has already been updated with photo evidence 🤣
Instead of calling them vaccines, should we rebrand them as "One Simple Trick to Hack your Immune System"
Mostly I'm lucky to live near Prairie Moon, so I use their Grand Diversity seed mix plus some supplements. Obv a lot of species probably never show up, but fun things do! I think I have some Skullcap coming up this year?
Lol, I know! But also so much diversity! So much less agonizing over species selection! (I used to get paralyzed predicting what plants would do well) I need to do a species count this year, but I've probably seeded IDK? like 150 species in that plot?
Or, if you are less patient (like me) rent a sod cutter and go to town! Rake the exposed soil, then hand broadcast a native seed mix. Wait a couple years, et voila!
Hey happy birthday
I believe that is rue anemone, Thalictrum thalictroides
Saw some fantastic woodland flowers at Interstate Minnesota State Park. #NativePlants #FlowerReport
Excellent alt text description of wild ginger
Saw some fantastic woodland flowers at Interstate Minnesota State Park. #NativePlants #FlowerReport
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