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Stéphanie Pageau

Breakfast time 🐝

#SKyard #Bloomscrolling #NativePlants #pollinators

A black eyed Susan, fully bloomed with a row of yellow petals and a high brown middle. A bee, legs absolutely full of pollen, is walking around the middle

Marie Kung

Summer flowers are starting to fill in. Upside down seems to be the preferred way to truly enjoy the mountain mint (Pycnanthemum virginianum). #NativePlants #pollinators #gardening #NorthernIllinois

Close up of a hoverfly feeding off a mountain mint flower while hanging downwards from the buds above. The clusters are just starting to turn into flowers.

Close up of a bumblebee bee hanging off of the small white flower cluster of a mountain mint plant. The clusters are about half flowered and half still closed.

Home, finally. To the most beautiful front yard in the universe. (Not to mention: the least work intensive, and I haven’t watered it since 2023)
#nativeplants #pollinators #pollinatorgarden #Saskatchewan #Bloomscrolling

A photo of a colourful prairie with high grasses and a riot of flowers. Goldenrod, bergamot, giant hyssop, dark eyed Susans, and hundreds of purple prairie clover

valentinzi

Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris, Kleine Braunelle) is a low-growing perennial herb with purple to violet flowers, commonly found in meadows, grasslands, and along roadsides across temperate regions. It thrives in well-drained soils and tolerates a range of conditions from sun to partial shade.
Self-heal plays an important role in supporting biodiversity. Its flowers provide nectar and pollen for many pollinators, including bees and butterflies. The plant also helps stabilize soil and can improve ground cover in disturbed areas. Additionally, it serves as a food source for some herbivorous insects and contributes to habitat complexity in natural and semi-natural ecosystems. Traditionally, self-heal has been used in herbal medicine for its anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and wound-healing properties. It is often applied to minor cuts, bruises, and sore throats, promoting faster recovery and soothing inflammation.
Often also called heart-of-the-earth has been selected as a "Wild Plant 2023" by the Loki Schmidt Foundation to draw attention …

Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris, Kleine Braunelle) is a low-growing perennial herb with purple to violet flowers, commonly found in meadows, grasslands, and along roadsides across temperate regions. It thrives in well-drained soils and tolerates a range of conditions from sun to partial shade.
Self-heal plays an important role in supporting biodiversity. Its flowers provide nectar and pollen for many pollinators, including bees and butterflies. The plant also helps stabilize soil and can improve ground cover in disturbed areas. Additionally, it serves as a food source for some herbivorous insects and contributes to habitat complexity in natural and semi-natural ecosystems. Traditionally, self-heal has been used in herbal medicine for its anti-inflammatory, antimicrobial, and wound-healing properties. It is often applied to minor cuts, bruises, and sore throats, promoting faster recovery and soothing inflammation.
Often also called heart-of-the-earth has been selected as a "Wild Plant 2023" by the Loki Schmidt Foundation to draw attention to this decline and the loss of species-rich meadows. I realized that in our meadow plenty of this flowers grow after the first (hay) cut.

#flower #wildflowers #meadows #nativeplants #selfheal #prunella #prunellavulgaris #kleinebraunelle #braunelle #pollinators #biodiversity

A close-up of a vibrant purple flower head of Self-heal (Prunella vulgaris, Kleine Braunelle), growing among green grass and broad leaves. The flower head is cylindrical, with tightly packed, hooded violet blooms emerging in whorls from a reddish-purple bracted cone. The lower part of a finely divided fern-like leaf is visible in the foreground, adding texture to the natural ground vegetation.

playinginthedirt

Button Bush (cephalanthus occidentalis)
blooming in the far back corner. This is a zero input plant, but will take pruning if you wish.
#nativeplants #pollinators #PollinatorGardening #Gardening #Bloomscrolling #Ohio

Globular white flowers with small spikes sticking out bloom on a branch of a shrub with glossy green leaves.

A large shrub is flanked by a tall green arborvitae. The shrub has globular white flowers with a bit of pink. In front are a variety of tall stalks of various plants and an ornamental grass.

Don Ray

#NativePlants #Prairie #Bloomscrolling #Flores #Iowa

Now blooming: Compass Plant (Silphium laciniatum).

Like many other people, I first heard about Silphium from an essay by Aldo Leopold in “A Sand County Almanac” (link in comment).

Now, I’m fortunate to live in a place (SW Iowa) which never was completely tamed, and now has more and more neglected roadsides due to depopulation.

A close-up of one flower. Bright yellow petals and dark center.

A tall plant with bright yellow sunflower-like blossoms all along the tall flower stalks. The deeply-lobed large leaves are clearly seen at the bottom. Flowers and leaves are backlit by the July sun.

Pollinators

The lead plant is growing slowly. We have several started from seed. The book says the roots will reach down 15 feet (4.5 m). Thats good for water, air, and life. The tough roots were known as devils shoestrings. They will attract abundant pollinators and beneficial insects. #nativeplants, #minnesota, #leadplant, #pollinators.

Three flower spires are in focus. The blossoms are lavender with tiny orange stamens. A slender pollinator is feeding.

Stéphanie Pageau

I've been enjoying my almost blooms this week!

#SKyard #NativePlants

A really tall coneflower bloom, now open but still entirely green with no petals yet

A cardinal flower bloom, with red showing up more and more

A black eyed Susan bloom, with its yellow petals still furled on top of the brown middle, which is starting to show underneath

Carolannie

Red osier dogwood (Cornus sericea) grows abundantly in the PNW. Its masses of cymes of small white four-petaled flowers are decorative from spring through summer.
I see it is now called Cornus stolonifera. Such is life.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #SeatteParks #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW #MapleLeafReservoirPark

Three cymes of red osier dogwood flowers cross this image diagonally. You can see the cymes are composed of numerous small 4 petaled white flowers. The leaves beneath and around the cymes are broadly oval. The venation is typical of dogwoods, curving from a large central vein upward to the edge of the leaves.

Red osier dogwood stems when young are attractively red strong and flexible. They can be used in basket weaving

CMacD

My garden inspector Ruthie, making sure everything meets her approval.

#dogsofmastodon, #gardening, #vegetablegarden, #nativeplants, #nativegarden

PermaSolarPotter

There are so many insects in our yard, I often forget that we’re in the middle of a mass extinction. Everyday this gray leaf tea bush swarms with bees. I’ve even had a wasp problem in my studio lately. (Fortunately the spider-eating, mud-nest-building, no-stinging kind.) In just a few years we went from lifeless lawn to generative landscape. The solutions are simple but the capitalist death cult continues to hold us all hostage. #NativePlants #HabitatRestoration #climate #environment

European honeybees buzzing around a gray leaf tea bush, a native shrub with small silvery green leaves and lots of small purplish pink flowers.

Carolannie

Bead lily (Clintonia uniflora), so named because it has one blue seed, also known as queen's cup or bride's bonnet (? I have no clue, it doesn't look like a cup or a bonnet) blooms on the forest floor amid the mosses and ferns. Deception Falls NRA, Washington
#Photography #BloomScrolling #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW #SaveOurPublicLands #DeceptionFallsNRAWashington

A small six petaled white lily with three long green white spotted leaves grows on the forest floor. Its stamens have yellow pollen filled anthers and curve out slightly while the white pistil points straight up. The long stem is slightly hairy. Although bead lilies are said to spread , I didn't see anymore than one here or there

Jake Rayson

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Fox & Cubs, doing its thing freestyle on the tarmac drive

Clust-y-Llygoden yn Gymraeg

#NativePlants #BloomScrolling

Two open orange flowers against dressed slate edge

Carolannie

Thin leaf huckleberry (Vaccinium membranaceum) bushes don't produce heavily but the berries are fine. I like the concavity in the berries which looks like it is stitched. They like the mountains, but this one in our garden seems to be thriving.
#SeattleWashington #SeattleSummer #Photography #NativePlants #NativePlantsOfThePNW #OurGarden

A couple of dark blue huckleberries sit above abundant thin, oval, bright green leaves. The berries are small, a bit shiny, and have a concave flower scar. You can spot a few more berries hiding in the background.

Evan Prodromou

Lobelia cardinalis #Bloomscrolling #NativePlants