Gardening

🐞 🪰 📸 🌱 The small things are worth waiting for. #busy #planta #garden #photography

An exceedingly tiny Hoverfly landed, wings folded, on the tip of a also exceedingly tony Thyme plant.

gardening friend

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Fun fact 🌱: overwatering kills more houseplants than underwatering. Stick a finger in the soil before you reach for that watering can!

Elizabeth Picciuto

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Angelica gigas 🌱

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝

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dRaMAtiC LiGhTInG 🌱🪴

A spiral shaped green cactus with a huge white flower atop it in the sunlight in front of a shaded, barely visible wooden fence.

Colton the fish squeezer🐟🪴📚🏕️🐝 @fishsqueezer.bsky.social

Holy crap! My spiral cactus flowered this morning for the first time ever! I did not think this plant could possibly become any more beautiful, but look at this absolute diva of a flower! 🌱🪴

A giant flower larger than my hand with twenty or so white petals with pink tips grows above a spiral-shaped cactus. It has hundreds of anthers and a big floppy style shaped like a yellow octopus.

Sweet Basil

@sweetbasil.bsky.social

After killing our lawn four years ago to grow a pollinator garden🌱, we have our first monarch caterpillar! In previous years, we saw monarchs, but never saw any cats. I'm so excited!

JoansGarden

@joansgarden.bsky.social

Garden column for August 24th. 🌱 #gardening

Horus Warned ‘Ya 𓅃 𓂓

@tywarning.bsky.social

#3GoodThings 1. Pesto. I have dubbed basil season “pestober” 🌱 🍝 2. New watercolor painting palette works great! I’ll share my still life later. Hurray for metallic titanium white 🎨 3. Fructase has arrived, so I can try some local figs for dessert.

Mel 📎🐟🌲⚓🌳🌊

@norska11.bsky.social

*Note: Place on damp pebble tray, with other plants (for increased humidity), in a humid grow tent or humid greenhouse. Photo credits & permissions: (L) (R) - Harmony Foliage, Sorrento FL, USA.🌱

Rick M

@rickmartin.bsky.social

I had a close encounter with a giant house spider this evening 🌱 #MacroMonday #BugSky #wildlife #nature #arachnids #spider #UKGardening

A very large hairy brown and red house spider, presented face on at eye level

Peggy Brava Radical Left Scum

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#Gardeners and #Birders: I live in north central Indiana and I used to get a lot of robins in my yard & garden but this year I have seen none. ZERO. Anyone else see the decline of robins? Why? I don't use any sprays or herbicides in my yard. I get all kinds of birds just no robins. Just weird🌱🐦

CindyM: NeuroDivergent AuTist, MicroBloggin'

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big winds last night, more house tiles in the pool; irrigation system still busted. But look how pretty it is! 🌝🌱 frontyard flora this morning after no rain but! debris in the streets again prob. more trees down Flowering Evergreen tolerate extremely hot dry climes. proof you can live wout humidity

you can live without humidity but you really should not because it's terrible for your skin. the front yard as viewed from standing at the base of the tall spiny cylindrical Cactus which has been in Bloom and has dozens of protrusions of flowers drying turning to fruit. sky above is a vibrant blue with mixed clouds and the yard reflects a number of different kinds of desert greenery and ornamental evergreens.

Calliandra Californica flowers of red, also called the Baja fairy Duster, the sky looks nearly white but that is probably the result of the high winds and filth in the air, tall spiny cylindrical Cactus next to a street lamp in the Sonoran Desert. behind it, is the white wing dove nest which was rebuilt by humans, nest which resides in the center of a prickly pear paddle Cactus with a single baby chick,, which you can see through The columns of the Peruvian Cereus s in the foreground, next to caliandra Californica's blooms, at left.

pretty sky in the Sonoran Desert after a night of high winds and damage done including tiles from the house which were very old, in the pool .sky is mostly white clouds with brighter blue filtering through. at near left we have calliandra Californica, center, Texas sage which is purple flowered , far left Evergreen bright pink Oleander. Peruvian Cereus ,tall spiny cylindrical behind that, is Prickly Pear paddle Cactus with a white wing dove nest in its center.

CindyM: NeuroDivergent AuTist, MicroBloggin'

@cindym.bsky.social

🪶 last eve While waiting on someone else to assemble Sun. meal☺️I opened the door in sunroom; I was thinking of birb🕊️🪽🐥🍼too... To see🌙 🌝, looking so much like a pie, in still-🔵 Sky. My dog who never does such things; she's not allowed in frontyard there's no fence, begged2 go "w/me inYard"🌱 LunaDog

mostly full? Moon looks so pretty as seen from my front yard looking at my neighbors Queen palm which is short in stature compared to the traditional palms, that are pushing up into the blue portion of the sky behind it got ranch home roofs we've got greenery we've got golden clouds.

I realized that my dog has wandered to the other side of the yard as the white wing Dove crosses the frame while I am snapping pictures of the previously described early mid evening Moon looking nearly full in a blue sky with golden white clouds on the horizon and ranch home roof below as well as palm trees! with fronds.

I should have known better!
anyway the baby bird is safely in the cactus and Luna did not track to the cactus but she followed everywhere that anything had ever been in this yard so this is my dog Luna from behind, last night before dinner, a fuzzy gray poodle mix dog, next to a white bowl on a gravel ground at the base of a prickly pear paddle Cactus which has a white wing dove nest at its center ,next to a street next to a 3-ft ornamental whitewashed wall

🌴 Scott Zona, Ph.D. 🌴

@scottzona.bsky.social

The Pedaliaceae go in for trample burs, which attach when trod upon. Here’s another: Sesamum eriocarpum (formerly Dicerocaryum e.). This prostrate plant has discoid fruit with 2 sharp points—perfect for sticking into hooves of animals. 📷: tjeerd CCBYNC4 #Pedaliaceae #epizoochory #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of a creeping plant with several discoid fruits lying on the ground with a pair of stout spine-like projections pointing upwards.

Orchids

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This orchid spike ended up with a total of 7 flowers of which 2 have faded after just a week. I forgot to water it and it was really hot in my house Laelianthe Wrigleyi var. coerulea #orchid #flowers #gardening #nature #bloomscrolling #photography 📷🌱🌴🪴sky

Joy

@joyf.bsky.social

Bursting into the new day🌱 #WhatsInYourVase #Gardening #MagentaMonday #PinkMon

Dahlias,wildflowers, zinnias gathered to light up the room. Even when I start out with a theme for arranging, I find nature allows every color to fit perfectly together with every other color. It’s kind of amazing 🤩

JRM

@jjrm.bsky.social

Monday lovelies. 🌱

Rasta

@rastasack.bsky.social

#SaveTheBees 🐝 #GrowYourOwn 🌱 More funny than real, but there's some paperwork on it

www.beegirl.org

Bees and Cannabis — Bee Girl

Last fall, a beekeeper sent me an urgent message letting me know that all of his bees had died, and he suspected his neighbor to be at fault.

@ebisback.bsky.social

Yes Stoner Bees 🐝 👍💥

ChaoticGardener

@thechaoticgardener.bsky.social

Another view of the #Zantedeschia in the #BalconyGarden 🌱 #gardening #BloomScrolling #sydney #MacroPhotography #photography

The white spathe of an arum like zantedeschia flower forms a heart shape. A bright yellow finger like spadix is visible inside the spathe opening. The base of the spadix glows subtly yellow and green. Thick fleshy stalks and leaves fill the background

SevenHill Farm 🌱

@sevenhillfarm.bsky.social

Anise hyssop still blooming and swarming with bees 🐝 This native gem is on the endangered species list for the state of Iowa, plus it’s a medicinal powerhouse- so we have four separate beds of it with a 5th planned for 2027 🌱💚 #endangeredspecies #nativeplants #herbalism #gardensky #conservation

A spike of tiny, pale purple flowers lit by golden light from the setting sun. Two fuzzy bumblebees sip nectar from the flowers.

City Mouse Garden

@citymousegarden.bsky.social

Also a wild time for tent caterpillars. Their wiggly webs full of dozens to hundreds of little roommates were everywhere. People seemed to think they were giant alien spiders but weren’t that bothered 🤔. People need to go outside more. #Nature #Wildlife #SmallJoys #BugSky #Invertebrates #Moths 🌱

A tree with one giant cluster of tent caterpillars in a web glowing in the sun and a second smaller group on a branch to the right.

City Mouse Garden

@citymousegarden.bsky.social

It was a crazy good year for Elderberries and they were already hanging in heavy clusters while the Pokeweed berries were filling out and starting to ripen. The migrating birds will have quite the buffet waiting for them in a few weeks. #Nature #Wildlife #SmallJoys 🌱

Closeup of heavy clusters of dark fruit of Elderberry shrubs.

Wide view of all the heavy clusters of dark fruit on this one Elderberry shrub.

City Mouse Garden

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