Jim the Gardener

I heard the guy who threw the sandwitch was acquitted.

If the club doesn't fit, you must acquit. ✊️

Beautiful orb weaver.

I feel you, I get random dms with a plant "what is this?" Or tagged in a fb post "jim will know". Lol its been fun though.

This is hands down, the most beautiful wild #Ratibita columnifera I've ever seen. The #petal shape is large and perfect, the #ombre is insane from red to yellow and the bright yellow #margins are nuts. I took some seeds and scattered some seeds. #native #bloomscroll #conservation #wildflower #mendel

I bet elves have leaf shaped nipples. Like, I bet Legolas has hastate areolas.Wood elves for sure have maple, linden and poplar. Legolas is a wood elf, yeah, but he's a main character, so he stands out...

...whats that...we're live?

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Hey kids! Welcome to Jim the Gardener's talk on leaf shapes!

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Hey, it's been awhile. I guess seasonal depression has been encroaching into fall for me this year. Kind of a bummer. Here's a #cactus.

#Copiapoa #hypogaea

First time #blooming for me.

A relatively #spineless cactus, this is one of my favorites. The flower looks like Hypericum - St. John's Wort.

#Stagmomantis carolina
Carolina #Mantis - Male & Female

My job is rough on me mentally sometimes, but it's finding #friends like these little beauties that give me a serotonin boost.

#ThoughtsAndPrayingMantis #NativeBeneficialInsect #AndOhMyGodDoIPray #cranberries

My #Astrophytum #caput-medusae has finally bloomed and it's magnificent, just wanted to share. Have a great day and stay cool. ✌️

#bloomscroll #cactus #cactusflower #PsychRockSavesTheSoul #SuckItMrCrabs

Hey everyone, it's been awhile ✌️ Mental health check, everyone okay? Can I share with you some lovely #lepidoptera?

Limenitis arthemis ~ Red-spotted Admiral
Papilio glaucus ~ Eastern Tiger Swallowtail
Libytheana carinenta ~ American Snout
Asterocampa celtis ~ Hackberry Emperor

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I was thinking gravid myself.

She's eating very well in this chem free garden.

I made a very beautiful friend today in the #garden. She was shy until she knew I was a friend and happily climbed up for a photo op. She was placed back on her daylily so she could go back to hunting

#Paraphidippus aurantius
Golden #JumpingSpider

#ArthropodLove #IBeatArachnophobia #Spodermen

Toxicodendron radicans - Eastern Poison Ivy

Toxicodendron radicans subsp. negundo - Midestern Poison Ivy

Double prizes of #urushiol.

#Toxicodendron #radicans - Eastern #PoisonIvy & Toxicodendron radicans subsp. #negundo - #Midwestern Poison Ivy (First time seeing this.)

☠️🤌Handle with care and wash your hands even if you're immune like myself.🤌☠️

Urushiol smells so good btw, sorry if you're allergic.

#Agapostemon virescens
Bicolored Striped Sweat #Bee

This beautiful female was having the best morning. The official bee of #Toronto, is #1 for me.

Tied with B. griseocollis, this is the most common bee in my yard and I'm all about it.

#PlantForPollinators #BloomScroll #PollenPants

Three turbs and a gymno #blooming for today.

Turbinicarpus lophophoroides
Turbinicarpus klinkerianus
#Turbinicarpus alonsoi
#Gymnocalycium bruchii

#cactus #cactusflower #bloomscroll #IndoorCultivated #FuckPoachers #ListenToDanielDonato #StaySane #breathe 💜✌️💜

I have some cool crested cacti. Fasciations are goofy. A lot of cvs sold are witches brooms too. My mother in law has a dwarf Ginko that's reverting I gotta go air layer for her.

I understand the irony of preaching to plant natives while showing a bee on a daylily, but we plant an excessive amount of natives to offset our side business. Also, there's sooooo many small bee species who love the daylily pollen. Like, go bananas over it. Like this Sweat Bee I'm still IDing.

Out hybridizing #Daylilies yesterday and we found a primo #bee.

#Mellisodes communis
Common #Longhorn Bee

Top 3 #native bees for me right here. This beautiful lady was resting from the rain and was kind enough to let me photograph her.

"It's so fluffy I want to die."

#PlantNatives #NoPesticides

Margined Leatherwing Beetle
#Chauliognathus marginatus

New boot goofin! This beetle is sporting some #HauteCouture #milkweed pollinia booties.

Too cute to handle, and a pretty solid #pollinator. A perfect gentleman to take home to your parents. 👍

#NoPesticides #PlantNatives #BeetlesIsMoneysToo

It's me.

I went to the annual Mulhall's #cactus & #succulent show this Saturday and won 1st place. I'm elated and honored.

I brought in my #Lophophora #jourdaniana potted up in a 6" Italian terra cotta pot that sadly #bloomed a day late.

#seedgrown #fuckpoachers #listentoratatat #bloomscroll #cacti

I'm happy that so many #native #solitarybees utilize my #daylilies. I love seeing this while I'm out pollinating.

*Note: I see #bees frequent the #hemerocallis with fragrance over non #fragrant cv.*

Augochlora pura
Pure Green Sweat Bee

Lasioglossum gemmatum
[No common name]

#bloomscroll

Wilke's Mining #Bee
Andrena wikella

Found this incredible bee a little bit ago while on a job. I watched it clean itself for a minute (cutest thing) and then it took off.

#entomology #beepictures #plantnatives #protectnativebees #sofluffy

#Lucidota atra
Black #Firefly

Easily one of my favorite insects in the #coleoptera family. I'm glad to have seen many in my yard this year, probably about 7 now. Let's me know I'm doin somethin right.

#PlantNatives #KillYourLawn #NoPesticides #NoKings #InsectPhotography

Incredibly proud to hang this in our yard. (It will be actually hung up soon.)

We are now officially a certified #pollinator habitat in the state of NE.

#Agapostemon virescens - Bicolored Striped Sweat #Bee pollinating ther ever loving heck out of a #Lactuca pulchella - Common Blue Lettuce flower.

My first time seeing a Lactuca in person and it was super cute, but the real star is this bee absolutely dusted in pollen adorned with #pollen pouches.

Sitting in the middle of the mushroom waterfall is still serene. I sit there while my kid goes on the slides.

The Lupine she tells you not to worry about.

#Bombus griseocollis
Brown-belted #Bumble #Bee

In the garden earlier I saw a queen Brown-belt and a squad of her drones. She was polishing up the #Monarda while her drones did work on the #Baptisia.

Note: Queen doesn't have the brown belt. The male drones on the other hand do have the brown belt.

#Lepidoptera report 🚨

#Polites themistocles, Tawny-edged Skipper

100% polite. 200% cute. I almost missed this guy, being so dainty at about 1".

Skippers are rad. They look like little shuttle spaceships.

#lepidoptera #butterfly #ListenToTheDonkeys

#Espargyreus clarus - Silver-spotted #Skipper

Saw a couple on the job today. This one was sunning on a bench and getting harrased by another male flying around. Always a favorite.

#AmateurLepidopterist #MidwestNative #PlantNatives #SkippersAreHellaFluffy