@botanicalwanderer.bsky.social
Botanist, native gardener, prairie guy and psychrophile.
This is an especial bummer since Shakopee shares water with Burnsville so that they do not kill Savage Fen’s aquifer.
18.05.2025 19:24 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
My first blossom of the year in my prairie garden planted last year.
Pasque flower (Anemone patens) #mnnativeplants
06.04.2025 12:13 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The upholstery held up better than the chassis.
01.04.2025 18:47 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
For those that didn’t already know me, I LOVE photographing snowflakes. The winter wasn’t quite finished yet.
31.03.2025 18:29 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Is it spring yet? I am still waiting for the eastern leatherwoods to bud out.
24.03.2025 00:38 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
The green wave of foliage and flowers is coming soon to Minnesota. I can’t wait!
20.03.2025 19:27 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m surprised how easy it was to start wild ferns from spores.
13.03.2025 13:18 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Low intensity fire is a critical process in many Midwestern ecosystems. Let’s bring it back.
10.03.2025 23:09 — 👍 6 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
The individual florets are pretty neat on their own.
02.03.2025 18:29 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I was there
02.03.2025 00:12 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Hello from Minnesota!
02.03.2025 00:10 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Mewild Things conference 2025, Chicago Illinois
01.03.2025 14:53 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I had those dates wrong. 2007 or ‘08.
25.02.2025 15:09 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0I think this is from ‘97 or ‘98. All from local ecotype seed.
25.02.2025 01:41 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Culver’s root and Michigan lilies in a restored prairie.
25.02.2025 00:14 — 👍 16 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0Living in the north, I have been growing one in a pot for many years just so that I get the blooms every summer.
22.02.2025 22:47 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I spent the nice cold weather this week burning these brush piles
22.02.2025 22:45 — 👍 5 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Just a snowflake
20.02.2025 18:42 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Yes, the color is real
15.02.2025 04:47 — 👍 4 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Attending the Prairie Enthusiasts 2025 virtual conference this week. Many great programs and reminders of why we work so hard to protect our natural heritage in the Midwest.
#mnnativeplants #nativeplants #ReatoringMinnesota
Wild geranium was in bloom. There are quite a few species in there.
12.02.2025 01:25 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m looking forward to seed collection season so that I can help barren buckthorn woods look more lush and diverse.
#mnnativeplants #restoringminnesota
Carex meadii is a very widespread, if understated sedge of the tallgrass prairies. Widespreading and shorter than the surrounding grasses, it is easy to miss.
#mnnativeplants
I used to read the books about houseplants from the library. It was much slower paced than today’s influencer culture.
06.02.2025 19:07 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Shadow Falls in St Paul from one of the cold snaps in December.
06.02.2025 19:04 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0Generally I like embarrassing, but in some cases the subject is immune.
I’m like it the Cicuta soup idea though.
I have a relative who lives in a geodesic dome house. I won’t say it is a masterpiece of spatial efficiency, but it is definitely an architectural icon.
04.02.2025 16:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Scrolling through my pictures, and found this juxtaposition between native prairie and suburban sprawl.
You have to wonder if the people knew what wonders were bulldozed to make room for their drug dependent rugs of a lawn.
Amazing!
02.02.2025 22:19 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
