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PNW 🌲 The land needs tending. 🦫
Just transcending the ego while picking twigs from my hair. 🥾🏕️ #plantnativeplants 🌱🐛
Just transcending the ego while picking twigs from my hair. 🥾🏕️ #plantnativeplants 🌱🐛
Plant people don't let pals plant with peat 🌱
October 30, 2025 at 4:03 AM
Plant people don't let pals plant with peat 🌱
Getting spooky over here!
October 30, 2025 at 3:57 AM
Getting spooky over here!
Man. I. Love. Frogs.
The feds and MAGA videographers push propaganda—Portland keeps breaking it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=anVR...
We’re the Frogs (Portland, Oregon Peaceful Protest Anthem for the "War Ravaged" city)
YouTube video by Delanae - Original Music. Storytelling. Cultural
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October 14, 2025 at 1:03 AM
Man. I. Love. Frogs.
Autumnal bouquets! 🧡💜🧡💚
September 16, 2025 at 4:43 AM
Autumnal bouquets! 🧡💜🧡💚
Did I mention I also went to the dahlia farm on Sat? Where's the swoon emoji?
September 16, 2025 at 4:37 AM
Did I mention I also went to the dahlia farm on Sat? Where's the swoon emoji?
Sure you're going to the pumpkin patch soon, but have you harvested your own table grapes? Over 40 varietals to taste and pick at Broadacres Nursery in Hubbard, OR. 🍇💜❤️💚
September 15, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Sure you're going to the pumpkin patch soon, but have you harvested your own table grapes? Over 40 varietals to taste and pick at Broadacres Nursery in Hubbard, OR. 🍇💜❤️💚
It took a few attempts but the narrowleaf milkweed finally took off! Great host for monarchs and beneficial to other pollinators 🐛💚🦋🩵🐝💛 #nativeplants 🌱
September 13, 2025 at 6:17 AM
It took a few attempts but the narrowleaf milkweed finally took off! Great host for monarchs and beneficial to other pollinators 🐛💚🦋🩵🐝💛 #nativeplants 🌱
Never tiresome 🥀
Anyway, here’s some beautiful roses.
📸: International Rose Test Garden - Portland, Oregon
📸: International Rose Test Garden - Portland, Oregon
September 11, 2025 at 1:08 AM
Never tiresome 🥀
I'm so glad you asked! Look at this beauty!
May 20, 2025 at 6:02 AM
I'm so glad you asked! Look at this beauty!
So I finally went to Smith Rock State Park and it was...just... WOW! 🧡💚🤎🩶 #oregon #rockclimbing
May 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
So I finally went to Smith Rock State Park and it was...just... WOW! 🧡💚🤎🩶 #oregon #rockclimbing
I love the frilly leaf shape of the wax currant. Great native shrubs for PNW 🌱
It's currant flower time & I have lots. Photos are of some of the natives that have popped up all over my yard. I also have the more edible black, red & white currants. Regardless, the flowers are a feast for pollinators & the berries a feast for birds, except they don't seem to see the white ones 🌱
May 1, 2025 at 11:45 PM
I love the frilly leaf shape of the wax currant. Great native shrubs for PNW 🌱
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Seattle friends! I'm giving a talk on the wild history of bird migration research at the Seward Park Audubon Center next Saturday (5/10) for World Migratory Bird Day. It's free but you do have to pre-register. Hope to see you there! wa.audubon.org/events/world...
World Migratory Bird Day | Rebecca Heisman - Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration
Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 2:00pm Pacific
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May 1, 2025 at 7:15 PM
Seattle friends! I'm giving a talk on the wild history of bird migration research at the Seward Park Audubon Center next Saturday (5/10) for World Migratory Bird Day. It's free but you do have to pre-register. Hope to see you there! wa.audubon.org/events/world...
I would ask myself these questions:
Is the nonnative invasively spreading or harmful to my other plants?
Do I have a more productive plant that I'd like to see thrive in its place? Something native or edible?
Do I have the capacity to deal with the nonnative/ is it a priority?
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Is the nonnative invasively spreading or harmful to my other plants?
Do I have a more productive plant that I'd like to see thrive in its place? Something native or edible?
Do I have the capacity to deal with the nonnative/ is it a priority?
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Question, should or shouldn't I attempt to remove common burdock from my yard? What about other non-natives?
I ask because, even though I am attempting to keep my property mostly natives, I am obviously also planting non-natives for non-wildlife purposes.
I ask because, even though I am attempting to keep my property mostly natives, I am obviously also planting non-natives for non-wildlife purposes.
April 27, 2025 at 4:08 PM
I would ask myself these questions:
Is the nonnative invasively spreading or harmful to my other plants?
Do I have a more productive plant that I'd like to see thrive in its place? Something native or edible?
Do I have the capacity to deal with the nonnative/ is it a priority?
💚🌱
Is the nonnative invasively spreading or harmful to my other plants?
Do I have a more productive plant that I'd like to see thrive in its place? Something native or edible?
Do I have the capacity to deal with the nonnative/ is it a priority?
💚🌱
Portlanders: Meditation + Forest Bathing Offering next weekend near Oxbow Park 🌲🧘🏻♀️🌸
The Verdancy Project: A Sense of Place — Earthbody Presence
www.earthbodypresence.com
April 25, 2025 at 1:45 AM
Portlanders: Meditation + Forest Bathing Offering next weekend near Oxbow Park 🌲🧘🏻♀️🌸
Don't let them ruin your life 💚🌷✨💐
April 18, 2025 at 4:44 AM
Don't let them ruin your life 💚🌷✨💐
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Planning to buy plants over #Easter? Check out the #PeatFree Nurseries List for over 140 #UK growers who don't destroy precious carbon-capturing #peatland habitat by using #peat to grow their plants. Pls let me know if your favourite #nursery isn't listed. Pls repost & let your friends know. Ta 🙏🌱💚
Peat Free Nurseries List
The response to the Peat Free Nurseries List has been incredible. It’s fantastic to see such interest in sourcing peat-free plants. Thousands of people have accessed the list which now includ…
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April 14, 2025 at 6:14 PM
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I’m just fucking saying.
If I wanted to see what anyone was saying on Twitter I’d have a twitter account.
If I wanted to see what anyone was saying on Twitter I’d have a twitter account.
April 7, 2025 at 3:36 PM
I’m just fucking saying.
If I wanted to see what anyone was saying on Twitter I’d have a twitter account.
If I wanted to see what anyone was saying on Twitter I’d have a twitter account.
Skies really took my breath away this weekend in Willamette Valley. 🩶☁️💛☁️💙 #skies
#photography
#clouds
#photography
#clouds
March 31, 2025 at 4:30 AM
Skies really took my breath away this weekend in Willamette Valley. 🩶☁️💛☁️💙 #skies
#photography
#clouds
#photography
#clouds
Something that can get overlooked in the many advantages of native plants is that they bloom and mature in line with the seasonal cycles of the critters that need them. Oregon grapes and red flowering currant provide early forage for pollinators and nectar for hummingbirds.
🌱💛💕💚🌸 #nativeplants
🌱💛💕💚🌸 #nativeplants
March 25, 2025 at 2:12 AM
Something that can get overlooked in the many advantages of native plants is that they bloom and mature in line with the seasonal cycles of the critters that need them. Oregon grapes and red flowering currant provide early forage for pollinators and nectar for hummingbirds.
🌱💛💕💚🌸 #nativeplants
🌱💛💕💚🌸 #nativeplants
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#plants #history #botany #art 🌱
Lithospermum canescens (Syn. Batschia canescens) - Hoary Puccoon
Native to and common in N America plains from Gulf of Mexico to Central Canada. First recorded c1803.
Grow as a prairie specimen, light soil, good drainage.
www.wildflower.org/plants/resul...
Lithospermum canescens (Syn. Batschia canescens) - Hoary Puccoon
Native to and common in N America plains from Gulf of Mexico to Central Canada. First recorded c1803.
Grow as a prairie specimen, light soil, good drainage.
www.wildflower.org/plants/resul...
March 16, 2025 at 10:57 PM
#plants #history #botany #art 🌱
Lithospermum canescens (Syn. Batschia canescens) - Hoary Puccoon
Native to and common in N America plains from Gulf of Mexico to Central Canada. First recorded c1803.
Grow as a prairie specimen, light soil, good drainage.
www.wildflower.org/plants/resul...
Lithospermum canescens (Syn. Batschia canescens) - Hoary Puccoon
Native to and common in N America plains from Gulf of Mexico to Central Canada. First recorded c1803.
Grow as a prairie specimen, light soil, good drainage.
www.wildflower.org/plants/resul...
Portlanders! If you're buying nothing get your clothes and gear mended at this sweet woman owned small business!
www.betteroffthreads.com
www.betteroffthreads.com
Better Off Threads
Clothing alterations, mending and sewing classes in Portland, Oregon. Book an appointment online.
www.betteroffthreads.com
March 16, 2025 at 4:09 AM
Portlanders! If you're buying nothing get your clothes and gear mended at this sweet woman owned small business!
www.betteroffthreads.com
www.betteroffthreads.com
💯 this. For many of us, this seems to appear at midlife, post-child rearing, but sadly many women will never put themselves first. The programming of self-sacrifice in our culture runs very deep.
March 15, 2025 at 3:10 PM
💯 this. For many of us, this seems to appear at midlife, post-child rearing, but sadly many women will never put themselves first. The programming of self-sacrifice in our culture runs very deep.
After the long Winter of Covid-induced isolation, this poem reached through time and saved my life in March, 2021. Thank you, Goddess Emily Dickinson 🌷✨💕
#poetry
#poetry
March 13, 2025 at 4:26 AM
After the long Winter of Covid-induced isolation, this poem reached through time and saved my life in March, 2021. Thank you, Goddess Emily Dickinson 🌷✨💕
#poetry
#poetry
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Every season is a harvest for the witch. Even when fields seem empty, trees still naked, shivering and showing their wooden bones, the witch makes a reaping. She gathers cures for future fevers. She gathers cloud omens, bird flight auguries. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky
March 12, 2025 at 3:06 PM
Every season is a harvest for the witch. Even when fields seem empty, trees still naked, shivering and showing their wooden bones, the witch makes a reaping. She gathers cures for future fevers. She gathers cloud omens, bird flight auguries. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #WitchSky