Julie the ok gardener

A monarch butterfly hovers above a bright yellow flower. The background is green and blurred.

The Center and allies just sued the Trump admin’s #EPA for reapproving a weedkiller called #dicamba.

It kills #NativePlants and threatens dozens of imperiled species — including monarch butterflies, since it harms milkweed, the only plant the caterpillars eat 🦋🦋

Join our fight ➡️ bit.ly/4aV1UeR

Why does this puppy only have 40 reposts?

It’s not like he’s on Dateline or anything…

I need an East Coast foster for him- he’s 2-

It’s free 2foster! Why not save a life?!

Pls repost! Urgent 🚨

Three Spring Beauties. They are tiny white flowers with five petals and stamens with pink pollen. New flowers like the one on top have delicate deep-pink stripes on the petals and older flowers fade to white.

A line of four typical Spring Beauty flowers plus one with a double flower with extra petals on the right.

More Spring Beauties with white petals so you can really see the pink pollen. Claytonia virginica is native to the eastern and central US, where it grows in meadows and lawns. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

It's time for the Spring Beauties. Claytonia virginica. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱 #flowerreport

I’m Blue Bunny! My loving owner was DEPORTED by ICE and I’m not doing well in here- I went from being loved 2being in # NYCACC w/o my family! Will some1 pls come and rescue me? nycacc.app/browse/247140

Pls repost me! 🙏♥️

#Miami #Florida

Jagger 🆔 A1888749
Maya 🆔 A1594250

They don’t understand why their world changed. At 12yrs they deserve comfort. Stability. A soft place to land, together

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#Dogs #BlueskyDogs

Wouldn't this conflict with federal laws against killing migratory birds?

Last year, I actually saw a tiger swallowtail in February, but I don't know if it found anything to eat. We're back to cold for the next few days as well.

A yellow butterfly is feeding on henbit (Lamium amplexicaule). His wings are partly folded and sticking out of the vegetation so you can't see his head. You can tell he is male because the black borders of his wings are solid instead of lacy. Henbit is a common garden weed that is native to Europe and Asia. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

Good morning! I saw the first butterfly of 2026 yesterday, making like a lawn dart. Orange Sulphur, Colias eurytheme. #butterflies #insects #gardening 🌱

The older plants that have flowered already are much more petite.

A large yellow swallowtail butterfly with black tiger stripes and a small bee with long antennae share a thistle flower. Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, Papilio glaucus. I think the bee is Thistle Longhorn Bee, Melissodes desponsus, but I am not great at bee ID. Tall Thistle, Cirsium altissimum. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

Butterfly, bee and thistle. #fallbackflowers #fallback to August 19. Species in alt text. #nativeplants #butterflies #bees

Callirhoe Bushii/Bush's Poppy Mallow has rounded palmate leaves that already have a few little insect holes in them.

This is Drummond's Aster/Symphyotrichum drummondii. Emerald-green heart shaped leaves that are slightly toothed on the edges. I haven't cut back last years stems and leaves yet, which are dry and orangey brown.

A rosette of Gaillarida Suavis/Perfumeballs looks like a lot like a fancy red lettuce with lots of narrow toothed leaves tinged in purple. The smaller rosettes around it are Astranthium ciliatum/Western Daisy.

Three rosettes of Murray's Scarlet Beardtongue/Penstemon murrayanus, planted too close together (my bad). They are mounded rosettes of abundant blue-green, ruffly leaves with a waxy texture. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a

Some of the native plants in the garden that were hidden under snow a few weeks ago. I've been surprised by how many of them grow all winter. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

🚨EMERGENT🚨
FOSTER needed ➡️Now
B4 he’s KILLED
East Coast
NY NJ NH NE ME MD
DC DE CT PA VA RI VT

7 yr old Pup🦮
”Zam”

😭DEATH row
Need 🚨
Foster/adopt
even temporary
2 save his life

➡️Plz-RE-POST ⬅️
He needs SM exposure
to ➡️stay ALive

Rescue pays⬇️
2 transport to Ur🏠
food/vet expenses

A tiny bright pink moth rests in a purple Mealycup Sage flower. Pyrausta inornatalis.

Inornate Pyrausta Moth or Southern Pink Moth.

a tiny brown & tan chihuahua in a pink sweater is sitting, looking up at the camera. two white strands of hair stick out the top of her head. they’re curled into a perfect heart.

This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)

YouTube video by JBtheExplorer My Native Garden

My native plant garden has really become a fun habitat to observe and photograph in recent years. So much life shows up to take advantage of it, and I hope this slideshow I've created really showcases that.

#nativeplants #nativegarden #gardening #Wisconsin

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw30...

A disheveled daisy that looks like it would rather just go back to bed. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

My first flower of 2026 is in a very Monday morning mood. Astranthium ciliatum, Western Daisy. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

A very tiny sweat bee, black with yellow rear legs, feeds on a bright yellow helenium flower.

A Furrow Bee lands on the flower right next to the sweat bee and literally kicks it off. The furrow bee's rear leg is thrust out sideways to kick the tiny sweat bee, which is rolling sideways off the flower.

The Furrow Bee is alone on top of the flower. Probably Halictus ligatus, Striped Furrow Bee. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a, August 2025.

There's not room on this flower for the both of us. #fallback to August 5. Two bees on Helenium amarum, Bitter Sneezeweed. #bees #nativeplants

In a garden where you see the same (large) bugs every day, you start to see them as individuals with distinct habits and "personalities", even within the same species. And they also seem to recognize you over time.

🆘 Euth List!

Meet Onix!
Was found running loose but owner reclaimed him.
Then they changed their mind & brought him back. Lived w/adults & 3kids 6-15yrs & was friendly, outgoing & playful w/them! He loves plushies & chew toys, knows cues in English & Spanish!
🚨 Urgent Foster Needed
Pls Repost Him!

A green leaf, fuzzy and deeply dissected into lots of pointed edges, sits in a melted hollow in the snow that is shaped like a more simple leaf. Glandularia bipinnatifida, aka Dakota Mock Vervain.. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

Prairie verbena in the garden today, patiently waiting for spring. Glandularia bipinnatifida. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

I would choose something less aggressive because it needs such heavy pruning. It once grew into the attic of our garage and it goes under the driveway to the lawn. (It was already here in the ground apparently and came up when we moved in and put up a fence.)

A single cluster of dangling orange Trumpet flowers holds a sleeping bumblebee with wide yellow stripes across his abdomen. He is sleeping on his back inside the trumpet-shaped flower with his legs sticking up and resting on the outside of the petals. The background is blurry emerald-green foliage. Bombus pensylvanicus and Campsis radicans. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

American Bumblebee in the Trumpet Vines. #Fallbackflowers #fallback to July 30, 2024. Try to be the bee, if only for a moment. #bees #nativeplants

A large carpenter bee (Xylocopa virginica) has just finished feeding on a Maypops flower and is about to fly away with a thick crust of yellow pollen on its shoulders. The flower is lavender with two layers of petals, one layer of ordinary petals and a top layer of long skinny tendrils with squiggly ends. A weird-looking tall pollen structure comes from the center. Passiflora incarnata. Oklahoma Northern Crosstimbers ecoregion 29a.

An Eastern Carpenter Bee in the Maypops. Xylocopa virginiana and Passiflora incarnata. #Fallbackflowers #fallback to July 26. #nativeplants #bees

The pool full of soda bottle planters completely covered in snow. You can't see them, just rings of round holes that are the tops of the open bottles, and some wire garden fencing around the pool. These get some sunlight in the morning, so the shadow of a wheelbarrow cuts across the pool.

I finally put my boots on. #gardening #wintersowing

I think it might be better drainage as well. I have five holes in the bottom, in each "foot."

Yeah, the wire around it is for them. They charged/stumbled through the pool more than once last year. The soda bottles worked better for me than milk cartons last year, but it may have been random chance.

Frankie the husky curled up comfortably in deep snow, seen over a metal porch railing. The snow is heavily crisscrossed with dog tracks from his earlier snow frenzies. It's his favorite time of year and no one wants to play outside with him, so he's pouting.

A bunch of pots made of 2 liter soda bottles and some plastic plant pots in a blue swimming pool. A chunk of old straw in the middle holds them up. I sowed: Asclepias viridis, Ipomopsis rubra, Centaurea americana, Eryngium leavenworthii, Nuttallanthus texanus, Phacelia hirsuta, Oenothera filiformis (?), and several other plants that I already have and want more of. I will probably add more containers later, and sow more in spring. I accidentally direct-sowed all my Echinacea pallida seed when I meant to save some for the containers.

This is a somewhat out of focus picture that my Mom took of her bird feeder in the snow yesterday with lots of red cardinals and a few smaller songbirds. I count 12 male Cardinals.

I was going to take a picture of my winter sowing containers covered in snow, but I didn't make it off the porch. Maybe later. Plants in alt text. Bonus picture of my Mom's cardinals. #gardening #nativeplants

It's also called kiss-me-quick. I'm going to try to start it from seed this spring.

I did grow one tomato plant called Burgundy Traveller that I might grow again, and maybe one cherry, but I haven't decided. We have a really excellent heirloom tomato nursery nearby, so I just buy my plants.

I can grow some decent vegetables because our growing season is long, but I don't like canning and all that. (Or eating the vegetables, to be honest.)