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Solidago for the Mid-Atlantic Region Read Mt. Cuba's goldenrod report from the Trial Garden, which evaluated 70 species, cultivars, and ecotypes.

Mid-Atlantic and Northeast gardeners, here's a worthy distraction:

Mt Cuba Center just released their trial garden report on goldenrods! One of my favorite native plant families! Such a love/hate relationship with these, but they're great for insects and birds. 🌱

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Though to be fair I'm really selling it hard lol it just looks like a little mud wall in the middle of the yard most of the year as it's an ephemerak stream/ditch. Last year I found some American water plantain and blue flag iris to compliment the cardinal flowers, but sun is far too limited sadly

Then planted it with moisture and shade loving natives. The dam itself is only about 4ft high at deepest, but 75% is less than 1ft, the overflow only fills during active rain, the rest slowly seeps through the deadwood/thatch & clay ceating a true "seep" full of ferns, a wild Magnolia & dogwood😍

My biggest personal garden flex? 🤔hmm either my mini-meadow (about 350sqft partial shade hillside) or my "faux beaver dam" ... except the dam is more something I "geek" out about vs a stunningly gorgeous garden feature lol I dammed up a drainage ditch in my neighborhood, rerouted the water, and

What a view 😍

It’s weird we’re all just living on a ball a rock and the majority of us aren’t making better use of our short time here.

What's in our yard, shapes our wild spaces; Reframing the fight against Invasives What's In Your Yard Is What's In Our Wild Spaces

Oh and new substack is live

Our yards may be the problem, and the reason our parks are overrun, but they could be solution too💚

#gardening #ecology #nativeplants #rewilding #HomegrownNationalPark #tallamy #grownative #rva #Virginia #nativeplantgardening

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Photograph of the 2026 Prairie Moon Nursery seed catalog. "Native seeds and plant for gardening and restoration " the cover image is a close up pf a white camas Lilly bloom with an out of focus purple blur, artistically in the background

Nothing quite like then dopamine boost from getting a new seed catalog... I've been on their site a million times the last few months placing orders, I know their inventory at this point...and yet - happiness.🤷‍♂️😅 #gardening #NativePlants #rewilding #nativeplantsky #rva

Welp. 520am. Sometimes you can do everything right, and still not get to sleep. Toss and turned since 9pm... mine aswell start my day 🙄😅 happy Monday. Insomnia has been a lifelong struggle, if you're awake rn too.. I see/feel you lol

Well that was a fascinatingly anxiety inducing angle lol I. Familair with nematodes in general, wasnt familiar with root-knot inducing ones. I dont have trypaphobia or however its spelled but something very unconditionally about the knots, none the less haha

At this point, anything that irritates them out of pure pettiness is something i simply must support 100% lol

Guess I need to figure out which hastags are used most often here 🤔 lol its a bit if a niche ask, but very much open to suggestions that are broader, just in general plants/"scenes" that might be identifiable via silhouette alone?

#ecology #botany #horticulture #nativeplantgardening #gardensky

Photograph of a field full of Smoothe purple Coneflower, densely growing across the bottom half the inage. The sky is white and featureless, in the center out of focus in the background a large high transmission power line is visible in a gap, with forest being present on either side.line of sight is, staring down a powering right-of-way clearing

Specific species, Smoothe Purple coneflower is high on the list at the moment. As is Northern Sea oats, and Purple Top(tridens flavus). If you're familiar with #Piedmont Prairies or just tall-grass Prairies at all, what are some "Iconic " species perhaps recognizable by silhouette alone? 🤔

Muddle together.

Not sure what point I had in sharing🤔 lol other than, I really am trying to be better about posting on social media- so .. i am posting on social media haha

If youre still reading, have any ideas for specific scenes? Im thinking fireflies & sunsets. Love the silhouette of

Colorblind was when it comes to blending 💀 😅

I am not full-on colorblind, or the more common Red/Green colorblind - I am Blue/Green colorblind... so, recognizing most colors isnt an issue, but recognizing really close shades, definitely is. Blues/purples/blacks - greys/greens/browns all kind of

But I wanted to do a few paintings I could sell to help raise $ for the GardenWild Community Nursery. I really enjoy painting nature silhouettes, fence post & old barbed wire against the sunset, windmill and barn against the sunrise , stuff like that... but i had forgotten how frustrating being ...

Been trying to "brush up" on my painting ( 🥁 ba dun tsss) - I am definitely not a painter/artist, but atleast "barely made it through an art course" level, its just been 10yrs ir so since pulling out the easel...lol

#nativeplantgardening #fundraising #art #acrylic #gardening #GardenWild

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These last 10 days have been terrible for local restaurants and absolutely *brutal* on the local delivery guys. Got $25 you can kick towards a good cause?
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You're awesome! Thank you

Oh..my..god.. in an idiot. And really need to slow down when reading lol

Being in my Google photos lol but i fixed the settings so atleast all new images are the right format just ...waiting for warmer weather now! Haha

I think spicata is the one. Has multiple small tufts of purple instead of the long stalks of more "common" variety found in stores. I have photos but have to find a program to convert them to regular jpegs apparently, not sure what exactly they are (format) but can't upload anywhere despite all

Oh the kobold will dongreat/exactly what you're looking for anyway. (Also not sure on spelling but scabiosa isn100% NOT it/autocorrect lol) Liatris Spicata maybe? Idk ultimately irrelevant lol

No more questions.....please... 🎵

Format apparently that are useless to add to amy social media app ..

But more, cheering from the sidelines here lol

The runner up in ID was Liatris Scabiosa (maybe? )

I initially collected only 3 of rhe bulbs, but have been planting seeds from those bulbs for about 3 yrs now and have grown it out to a few dozen. This is where I would normally add in an image but.. in afraid I have to disappoint there aswell lol I havea whole camera roll full of images in a bad

And gets maybe 2.5-3' tall, growing in full clay and partial sun (surprisingly) ... but never flops!

I guess ... not knowing exact species, this comment is pretty worthless lol but , there are variations that persist even theough the winter after going dormant in long straight spikes.

I have some liatris i collected and have been growing from an area thatd now a housing development, i thought it wad spicata but tbh im reallt awful at IDing w/o an app lol but the blooms are so small. And there are multiple blooms at the end of each stalk maybe ~1" or more. It definitely not kobold

If we plant native plants like sedges, and give them something to actually grow on, just maybe - we wont have to wonder and speculate how many we lost, because we will always still have them around.

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If we could just shift how we even VIEW our yards, that land, and what it is capable of/ its purpose... if we leave the leaves each fall instead of bagging in plastic coffins and sending to the landfill, if we turn off our lights at night to prevent the disruption to nocturnal wildlife,