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All my photos. Hiker, gardener & iNaturalist addict. Passionate native gardener & pollinator protector. Basket weaver & quilter. Cat mom🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛ AuDHD and easily distracted by 🌱Moss, mushies & lichen🍄 ❤️Northern MI = home *happy in my naturey non-people bubble*
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Nothing cuter than this luna moth face and fuzzy antenna. He's so chonky 💚🤍 #bugsky #nature #gardening #pollinators #Actiasluna

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#flowersonFriday but really FLOWERS EVERY DAY! When my mom and I had spectacular full sun in Kentucky, we both grew a ton of fabulous zinnias🌱🌸 #bloomscrolling #nature #gardening #bugsky

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Dreaming of fabulous spring hiking in Daniel Boone National Forest ❤️ #Kentucky #travel #nature #geology #hiking #amphibians

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When I had over 40 milkweed plants in my yard back in the KY, I had so many wonderful insects and butterflies show up for the blooms🌱🌸 On my way back to that amount up here... just give me a few more years! #asclepiassyriaca #pollinators #bloomscrolling #nature #nativeplants #gardening

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Colorful fruiting fungi! Violet coral fungus & golden spindles fungus in Northern Michigan during a wet August🍄 #Clavariazollingeri #Clavulinopsisfusiformis #nature #mushrooms #fungus #bloomscrolling

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🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻🌻 Sunflower love for your Wednesday 🌱 #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #nature #gardening #helianthusannuus

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Some cutleaf toothwort and rue anemone, native spring ephemerals, in Central Kentucky. From 2020🌸 #Cardamineconcatenata #Thalictrumthalictroides #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #springephemeralwildflowers #nature

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If anyone else has been having the winter blahs🫥 & needs to get their tukus moving, I just made a great playlist of Fabulous50s videos. I love her videos. They're so fun and positive, plus the music is awesome. These are all standing exercises with warm up & cool down💪 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

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One time at Dupree Nature Preserve in Kentucky, a butterfly took a hike with me on my elbow. Hackberry Emperor 🦋 #Asterocampaceltis #bugsky #pollinators #nature #Kentucky

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Some lush mosses for your face🌱 Happy #mossmonday & #bryoscrolling 💚 #nature #nativeplants #mossenthusiast #mossyposse #bryophytes #mosseverydaybitches

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Sundrops & evening primrose... the native fraternal twins. I have both naturally occurring in my yard and love how they swap bloom times. The native sundrops also don't mind the shade in my front garden with the ferns!🌱 #oenothera #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #nature #biodiversityconservation

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I have some fabulous naturally occurring natives in my woody yard. 🤍 These white beauties all bloom in late spring, and the fleabane will continue all summer. 🌱Solomon's plume, aka False Solomon's seal 🌱Maple leaf viburnum 🌱Tall thimble berry 🌱Fleabane #nativeplants #nature #bloomscrolling

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Another detailed look at the columbine blossom🌸🌱 #aquilegiacanadensis #bloomscrolling #nature #nativeplants #gardening

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Hummingbird view of a columbine blossom seconds before it dives in for the sweet nectar. I love these early season lanterns and can't wait for them to multiply!🌱 #aquilegiacanadensis #nature #nativeplants #gardening #pollinators #bloomscrolling

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Hope you enjoy your ❤️ day as much as this brown-belted bumbler is loving this rose 🌹 #bloomscrolling #pollinators #bombus #nature #Bombusgriseocollis

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

🌱Most plants in my yard are at least 3 feet tall, so it is perfect that my lupine bloom early before they are overtaken by their neighbors. This adorable, short native reminds me a lot of baptisia, and the bumblers love it!🐝 #lupinusperennis #nativeplants #gardening #bloomscrolling #nature

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

For those of you that have seen Clerks 2, I have named my pink non-obedient plants, 'the pillowpants'. That's just the word that comes to mind every time I see their cute puffy butts😆🌸🤦‍♀️🌱 #physostegiavirginiana #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #gardening #nature

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Just picked up this local foraging book from the library❤️ #naajimiijimedaa #anishnaabe #foraging #nature #nativeplants

submitted 9 days ago • 0 comments

I grew Purple Giant Hyssop from #PrairieMoon seeds two years ago & it bloomed last year. Great in part sun, but wasn't super showy or insect magnetizing. It is supposed to have high nectar content🌱 I probably need more than one. #Agastachescrophulariifolia #nativeplants #nature #bloomscrolling

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

What kinds of goldenrod do you have in your yard? We have early, Canada, blue-stemmed, wrinkle-leaf, and Riddell's. My mom has showy, and it definitely is🌱 Blue-stemmed is awesome for shady spots, and Riddell's is a sandy Great Lakes species🌾 #solidago #nativeplants #nature #bloomscrolling #Michigan

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

Some of my favorite late season purple bloomers🪻 All native, bien sur... Blue vervain, anise hyssop, great blue lobelia & New England aster💜🌱 #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #nature #gardening #nativebeesplease #bugsky #pollinators #bombus #Michigan

submitted 11 days ago • 2 comments

Wish me luck tomorrow. We are getting high-speed internet bc for the first time in my home-owning life, it is available where I live. I have really enjoyed going to the library to renew my DVDs every week for YEARS. Change is hard, even when it is progress. Here's a cool 🕷 #bugsky #spidersky #nature

submitted 11 days ago • 1 comment

There is bloomscrolling... so let's start #bryoscrolling! Happy #mossmonday 💚 🌱 #bryophytes #nature #mossenthusiast

submitted 12 days ago • 0 comments

There is bloomscrolling... so let's start #bryoscrolling! Happy #mossmonday 💚 🌱 Moss just makes me happy... and finding their little sporophytes, the fruiting bodies that will release spores, makes me smile even harder. #mossenthusiast #bryophytes #nature #bloomscrolling

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