Eli's Native Plants

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After the Trump regime’s invasion of an apartment building in Chicago earlier this week, all Americans should brush up on their 4th Amendment rights.

A web search showing info on universal healthcare in Argentina, an article about how US Republicans and Farmers are angry about the 20billion dollar loan to Argentina from the current US far-right administration, and a web search about Argentinian political shifts which turned up discussion of increased cooperation with the US government.

Don't cry for me, Argentina. Just be wary of your politicians cozying up to a movement that does not respect the will of the people behind it, and instead tries to manipulate, conducting itself like a mix between a Junta and late 1930s Germany.

#argentinabailout

Do not look away. This is what devastation sounds like. I worked with some of USAID’s brightest, including many with disabilities, who built hope from nothing. That hope is shattered. The inhumanity of this regime is unforgivable.

Purplestem Aster (Symphyotrichum punicium) flowers with lavender petals (ray florets) and disc florets that are bright yellow when unpollinated and rusty red when pollinated.

Purplestem Aster fliwering in front of the retaining wall 4' from the curb in our front yard.

Some Purplestem Asters volunteered? I probably dropped seed uphill, and they wound up right by the road. I'll move them somewhere with moist soil where they won't block the view of incoming traffic, but I couldn't bring myself to move them in the growing season.

#nativeplants #ecoregion59

That's wonderful! You can make a huge impact with 7 acres! We have 3/4 of an acre and are lucky to be by a conservation area, so as soon as we grew some native habitat, we were buzzing with bumbles and dragonflies. We host so much life here that wasn't present 3 years ago.

I've been saying it for a decade now, and I'm looking forward to the day. I WILL piss on that grave before I die.

That is one thing Democrats will actually do: the NRA only supports the political campaigns of Rs. Healthcare reform is a different story. 'Voting blue' isn't going to fix corporate exploitation. We need campaign funding and lobbying reform and ranked choice ASAP. But vote blue for gun control.

I'll bet he just prefers pipe to a straw, and that he's overcompensating for being a rolling Grinder blackout who hates himself and everyone else he touches.

Neo-fascists who are modeling their strategies after Juntas.

His strategy is apparently to humiliate and publicly assert dominance. To the feeble-minded cult follower 🐑, that looks like strength. As the single line of neurons fire across their smooth brains all that registers is 'Hegseth is the boss! No more fat generals.' No outrage at the weak rude sham.

Hmm, well I already made myself an iced green tea and elderflower seltzer, because it is better for my gut, my wallet (since it is home-carbonated) and the consistency of my energy level... But I'll use this as an excuse to have an afternoon cup of Joe. And the good stuff, not the office machine.

Yeah, this probably has more to do with the felon-in-chief's hundreds of millions in payments to the Epstein estate through Russian banks than it does to the small (and sadly dwindling) protests in peaceful Portland

Great article. I get my numbers from OurWorldInData, and this all checks out. It includes good references too. The intro was a great angle of approach: so backward that governments are universally supporting and subsidizing the most inefficient and ecologically harmful method of producing food.

In the lower courts, should I say 'the people's courts?' the Republican-appointed judges as well as the Democrat-appointed ones are upholding limits on executive power and protecting the constitution. Our supreme court is, however, supremely corrupt.

I love that you love the inconveniently aggressive native species and are looking to understand the effect of what you grow on the local ecology. We absolutely align on those goals and views, and on our love of Hackberries. Beautiful, pre-made trail mix, one of the best species for birds, a host...

There are such things as native invasives: cases where we have broken ecological functions that control the spread of those native species. But that's rare. Typically we say invasive species are the non-native species that harm the local ecology by reducing biodiversity and ecological functioning.

An excellent point to bring up!! Some of my favorite native species are found along occasionally cut powelines and by roadside and almost nowhere else now that we don't have much fire-managed habitat left. You can find ecological gems that need more space to grow along the roadside.

Why You Should Include Native Achillea in Your North American Garden — Wild Revival Garden & Home Enhance your North American garden by adding native Achillea (yarrow) for its beauty, resilience, and ecological benefits. This hardy perennial attracts pollinators like bees and butterflies while pro...

But you can be sure they will improve your soil, attract beneficial insects, feed pollinators, and be useful for medicinal products, and that they won't be invasive. I'd say go for it.

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You can be sure they will help the ecology more than most other species, but we cannot be sure they will host a majority of the species that native yarrow would host. And hosting insects means far more than feeding generalist pollinators who could feed on another flower.

This is the heart of the matter; that's the right question! I wish I had a better answer than 'I don't know and I don't know if anyone does.' As with many species, comparative host studies don't seem to have been done yet. We know the cultivars are nectar plants for many, but that's not definitive..

There is a concerted effort in the native plant community to protect the meaning of 'invasive' so it doesn't become watered down to the point of meaninglessness like the word 'weed.' E.g. I would say "Yarrow can be inconveniently aggressive in some garden settings, but is not invasive in North Am."

Yarrows (Achillea millefolium complex) are native to a circumboreal range, not invasive anywhere in the northern hemisphere. Please, please make sure to use 'invasive' for species that are non-native and ecologically harmful, as defined by science (ecology) and aggressive otherwise.

It is wonderful that you love such an ecologically beneficial native species. I should say species complex, as it is genetically different here from the Eurasian races, with different polyploidy (chromosome number), but wild yarrow is most often the local ecotype. Please read on.

American Pokeweed: How to Cook and Prepare Poke Salad Safely Once there were festivals dedicated to it. Elvis sang about it in the song "Polk Salad Annie". At one time you could even buy it in a can. American

To grow lots of Poke, and feed hundreds of birds as we do, you need to be willing to cut it and keep it from taking over other plantings. Is that so much to ask for a plant that provides the bulk of our canned greens going into winter and brings the bluebirds to our yard?

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Not for human consumption!? You must mean the berries. Poke is a staple spring green. It is toxic raw, requires processing, but was once in cans on our grocery store shelves. Even native plant enthusiasts write it off as overly aggressive when they could contribute so much by growing it.

THIS is the beating heart of rebellion: love of nature, this appreciation of a sweet little sensitive being, downtrodden, becoming ever less common as we change the face of this earth. We, the green spaces, are not a distraction. We are the flowing blood of the resistance to corporate exploitation.

A wooden bowl with a tree print and an assortment of native seeds. Starting with the top and going sunwise, there are Wild Cucumbers (Echinocystis lobata), American Hog-peanut (Amphicarpaea bracteata), Partridge Peas (Chaemaecrista fasciculata), Witchhazel (Hamamelis virginiana), American Sycamore (Platanus occidentalis), Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata), and Wooly Beans (Strophostyles helvola).

A close up of American Hog-peanut seeds and pods. Each pod has 3 seeds.

American Hog-peanut in the wild: a thin, twining vine with sets of 3 leaves. It grows it wet areas and climbs all over everything, but usually isn't dense enough to choke anything else out where I find it.

What could be more wonderful than a tiny capsule that is ready to create life if left in the right place? I love seeds. Here are some that I'm particularly excited about. My favorite right now is American Hog-peanut, partially because I love a native legume.

#nativeplants #ecoregion59 #seedsaving

Pointing a gun at someone who is filming you with a cellphone. That's the real issue. The fact that he doesn't know how to use the gun is secondary to the fact that he doesn't know when it is appropriate to use it, which is very rarely. These fascist clowns should not have guns.

That fascist fuck. Anyone got a name and address?