That's so great! Love seeing prehistoric plants getting some love 💚
For sure! I've been really enjoying it so far. I really like how it includes the environment that each plant would live in and that is very helpful.
I hope you all have some peaceful and stressless holidays! ❤️ My husband and I don't buy each other Christmas gifts. We just buy our own and then pretend the other gave it to us. So I would like to thank @robinbougie.bsky.social with all my heart as visions of prehistoric forests dance in my head🌲🪴
Ah-mazing!
It was meant to be 😄
That's so good!
Sweet babies! I love the tradition of naming your kitties after baked goods 🧁🥧
One kitty was killed 😿
I fold small seed packs from origami paper and carry some on my person at all times, especially this time of year. They come in super handy 😃
Lost in the sauce 💛
Thank you! It really, truly is my pleasure
Late summer at the boulevard garden. As a shoe-box apartment dweller, I'm so grateful to have the privilege of caring for a tiny patch of Earth to help decompress from the day and world events 🌱
This is amazing! Very inspiring 👏
So cool!
One of my fav paintings to come out of the Vancouver island art retreat!
I know this apartment building! I recognized it right away. We take care of the Green Street garden on the corner. I'll definitely have to check out this show.
It was a fun time!
Oh how I wish I was that Triceratops right now.
Happiest of birthdays🥳 my true love @robinbougie.bsky.social He is my best friend, he makes me laugh constantly, he is a supportive team player and the best human I've ever met ( our nicknames for each other is Frog and Bear) 🐸🐻
I'm thinking of the flowers before they open, when they really do look like an asparagus spear. You can really see the family resemblance (not my photo).
Yep, that's why those giant agave flower spikes look like a giant stalk of asparagus 😉
Yep, they need about 2 to 3 weeks of cold stratification. I usually just place the seeds in pots and put them outside about early to mid-February. Being in the carrot family they are tap-rooted, so you have to be careful they don't get too pot bound. I 🩵 them too 😃 They are as tough as nails.
A+ water pups!
Today's pics from the China Creek North Pollinator Garden are of fuzzy bumblebees and a beewolf. Like the name suggests, the beewolf is a wasp that hunts bees as food for its young. Some of the nectar rockstars right now are Sea Holly, Globe Thistle, Canadian Goldenrod and Yarrow 🌱
"Juicy Bastard" is a part of my botanical vocabulary now.
Summer evenings in the China Creek North Pollinator Garden are magical. As the sun sets over this east-facing hillside it illuminates the tops of the plants and reveals thousands of pollinators as pinpoints of light zipping around as they travel from flower to flower. 🌱
Took out the microscope to look at some small purple Nepeta or Catmint flowers and buds. You can see the glistening pockets of fragrant oils on the bud that gives it that sage/mint smell. Fortunately the cats couldn't care less about this plant as I'm growing many cuttings on our balcony. 🌱
Yes, agreed, I'm already following 😉
Haha! I definitely consider that a compliment. We definitely had a lot of fun working on it.
