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theanine.bsky.social
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🍵Caffeine powered garden adventures with white tea 白毫银针 🌼 botany 🌱 permaculture 🌿 native plants 🌺 floriculture ❇️ herbalism 🐸 wildlife 📸 photography in 🌲 Cascadia. 🐸FrogBlog: @frogflora.bsky.social
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 21d
A #MantisMonday stroll though some #sideritis.🪲🌿🌱
A green praying mantis walking on a stick through some fuzzy sideritis plants. Keeping the tea pest-free. 🍵
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Sep 20
🌺 Huge Hardy #Hibiscus for #FloralFriday. 🌱
A large red Hibiscus moscheutos in bloom. 🌺
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Sep 13
Ultra-local native #DouglasAster for #FloralFriday.
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#SymphyotrichumSubspicatum #bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday #nativeplants #sunset
Hyperlocal douglas aster during sunset in my yard where it natively occurs. When cultivated it becomes an enormous spreading pollinator powerhouse that blooms nonstop from June to November. A PNW must have. 🌼 🐝 🦋
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Sep 7
Last minute crocosmia guard for #NationalHummingbirdDay.
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#hummingbird #rufoushummingbird #SelasphorusRufus #crocosmia
A rufous hummingbird guards prized crocosmia flowers.
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theanine.bsky.social
🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Aug 22
First time growing #roselle, small blooms ➡️ big flavor calyces.
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#HibiscusSabdariffa #hibiscus #FloralFriday #edibleflowers #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling
Hibiscus sabdariffa bloom & calyx. Soon to become delicious tea.
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Aug 8
Rufous #hummingbird on #salvia for #FloralFriday. 🪶🌸🌱

#bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday #rufoushummingbird #SelasphorusRufus
Female/immature rufous hummingbird feasting on magenta salvia nectar.
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frogflora.bsky.social
🐸 frof 🌿 @frogflora.bsky.social · Aug 2
Happy #NationalSunflowerDay with a frog on top.
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#sunflower #PseudacrisRegilla #flowerfrog #PacificTreefrog #bloomscrolling 🌱
A red-striped orange sunflower with a green treefrog sitting in its petals. 🌻 🐸
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theanine.bsky.social
🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Aug 3
Happy last minute #NationalSunflowerDay!
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#sunflower #helianthus #bee #bloomscrolling 🌱
Lemon yellow sunflowers visited by bees with multicolored sunflowers and a forest in the background. 🌻
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jul 31
Local nodding onions this #WildflowerWednesday. Besides being pest free & showy, the whole plant is delectably edible; plus the flowers are great in salads.
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#AlliumCernuum #NoddingOnion #nativeplants #edibleflowers #bloomscrolling 🌱
Native locally collected seed grown nodding onions in a flower border. They are equally pollinator friendly, tasty and pretty. 🌸
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jul 28
Flaming red #SunflowerSunday.
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#sunflower #bloomscrolling 🌱
Multibranched red flame sunflowers with gold ember tips and black centers.
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theanine.bsky.social
🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jul 16
#Clarkia & #Collomia Combo.
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#WildflowerWednesday #nativeplants #ClarkiaAmoena #CollomiaGrandiflora #pnw #bloomscrolling #flowerreport
Clarkia amoena (farewell-to-spring) & nearly bloomed out collomia grandiflora (large-flowered phlox) in a native wildflower border. They seeded prolifically all over. Leafcutter bees have been working on the clarkia petals. 🌸
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jul 13
Self-seeded flame sunflowers on #SunflowerSunday. They've taken over the garden. 🌻 🌱
#sunflower #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #edibleflowers
Tall multi branched gold & red flame sunflowers. 🌻 Large flowered flame sunflowers in the sun. This self seeded specimen has lighter yellow petals with more pink/rose flame markings than is typical.
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jul 10
Wonderful! I'm helping them seed around since there are never enough.
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jul 10
Güzel. Hood Dağı ve Trillium Gölü. 🌅 🏔
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jul 10
Native #brodiaea for #WildflowerWednesday. Both B. coronaria & elegans are called "harvest brodiaea" for their tasty edible bulbs. The beautiful blooms attract local pollinators.
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#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #BrodiaeaCoronaria #BrodiaeaElegans #PNW #violetflowers 🌿
Brodiaea elegans (elegant brodiaea) blooming in a vegetable garden. ✨️ Brodiaea coronaria (crown brodiaea) in a vegetable garden edge with a cucumber tendril claiming a bud. 👑
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theanine.bsky.social
🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jul 7
A fragrant trumpet #lily for #MagentaMonday. 🌸 🌱

#bloomscrolling #trumpetlily
A fragrant gold centered magenta trumpet lily rises above background flowers near a forest edge.
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jul 4
Tonight's #sunset at #aphelion - when Earth is farthest from the sun. 🌅✨️

#beach #Manzanita #Oregon #OregonCoast 🌎↔️🌞
A vivid sunset in Manzanita, Oregon at aphelion - the day Earth is farthest from the sun. 🌎↔️☀️
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theanine.bsky.social
🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jul 4
Nice Prunella/Heal-all, a useful medicinal herb.
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jul 4
Hiking among wildflowers & above an #airplane, #vulture & ocean on #aphelion.
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#lily #LiliumColumbianum #turkeyvulture #CathartesAura #OregonCoast 🌿
Far above Pacific ocean rock islands, arches & and airplanes during aphelion 2025. A golden columbian tiger lily in a coastal PNW rainforest on aphelion. Turkey vulture soaring over Nehalem Bay. Coastal vista from south facing slopes of Neahkahnie Mountain rainforest with rock islands and headlands in the distance.
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theanine.bsky.social
🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · Jun 20
The precipice of a crystaline alpine #waterfall for the northern hemispheric #SummerSolstice.
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#solstice #wildflowers #castilleja #mountains #nativeplants #flowersonfriday 🌿
A Castilleja miniata (giant red Indian paintbrush) blooms near a gushing clear alpine waterfall with glaciated mountain peaks in the distance. ☀️ 🔝
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · May 26
A black & white #mushroom trio³ in the garden for #MushroomMonday.
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A trio of graceful goblet shaped mushrooms with black reflexed caps/cups & white stipes. 🍄
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · May 22
Last minute native blue #WildflowerWednesday.
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#nativeplants #triteleia #camassia #frasera #nemophila #虫 #pnw #bloomscrolling #blueflowers 🌿
Vibrant Camassia leichtlinii (great camas) with visiting Bombus vosnesenskii (yellowfaced bumblebee). A nemophila douglasii blue border area. 💠 Triteleia grandiflora near a forest edge. A favorite (and edible) wildflower. Blue star flowers of Frasera albicaulis. 💠
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · May 21
Typical Gorge-ous biome change from rainforest to high-desert in less than 50 miles. 🏞↔️🏜 📸
#ColumbiaRiver #ColumbiaRiverGorge #CapeHorn #Lyle #Washington 🌿
Cape Horn, Washington, (west gorge) with Beacon Rock in the distance. Lush green vegetation & clouds hang on mountain ridges of the Columbia river canyon. ⛰️ Arid landscape above Lyle, Washington (east gorge) overlooking the vast Columbia river bathed in crepuscular sunrays.
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · May 10
Another last minute #FloralFriday #camassia + pollinator.
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#camas #whiteflowers #bumblebee #BombusMixtus #nativeplants #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #beescrolling #虫
A fuzzy-horned bumble bee (Bombus mixtus) pollinates a great white camas (Camassia leichtlinii) in its native habitat.
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · May 2
A #Beltane #bumblebee for May day.
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#camas #camassia #nativeplants #blueflowers #bee #虫 🌿
A Bombus vosnesenskii / yellow faced bumblebee feeding on camas nectar.
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