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beautyandwonder.bsky.social
Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder
@beautyandwonder.bsky.social
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All my photos. Hiker, gardener & iNaturalist ambassador🌿 Passionate native gardener & pollinator protector. Basket weaver & quilter. Cat mom🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛ AuDHD & easily distracted by moss, mushies & lichen🍄 ❤️Northern MI = home *happy in my naturey non-people bubble*
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 5d
💜Welcome to 20 seconds of my New England aster heaven💜 Sound up for BUZZ🐝
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #bombus #mynativeoasis
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 10h
I wouldn't mind at all. #ecoregion50ae
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 20h
Good info! I always wondered why they were separate
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 20h
Swamper seeds in the fall breeze😍
#asclepiasincarnata #nativeplants #nature #biodiversityconservation #Michigangardening 🌱 #seedsaving #savenativeseeds #crazyseedlady
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 1d
I love all the bumblers, but tri-colored might bee my favorites🐝💛🤍🧡
#bombusternarius #solidago #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #elsasallnativeyard
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 2d
Excellent question! Just looked it up and found a great article by the Smithsonian. Cows only ate it if there was nothing else to eat, and it would frequently kill calves and some bigger cows, too.
www.smithsonianmag.com/innovation/h...
How an 1800s Midwife Solved a Poisonous Mystery
For decades before Doctor Anna’s discovery, “milk sickness” terrorized the Midwest, killing thousands of Americans on the frontier
www.smithsonianmag.com
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 2d
White snakeroot in bloom🤍
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Favorite tidbit about this native- it killed Abe Lincoln's mom! She drank some milk from a cow who ate white snakeroot. 🐮😵
#ageratinaaltissima #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #Michigangardening
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 3d
They're a powerful end-of-the season pollinator favorite. You can find shorter hybrids, but these beauties are 4-6 feet tall💜
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 3d
Northern blazing star and a bumbler friend🐝💜
#liatrisscariosa #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #bombus #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 3d
Of course! That is a new england aster, fabulous native!
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 4d
Every year it gets more awesome! You'll get there!
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 4d
Good morning, beautiful!😍
#symphyotrichumnovaeangliae #danausplexippus #milkweedformonarchs #biodiversityconservation #bloomscrolling #nativeplants
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 5d
Both, and the transformation from year to year!
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 5d
All my other asters are done, but for some reason my NEAs are always the last!
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 5d
💜Welcome to 20 seconds of my New England aster heaven💜 Sound up for BUZZ🐝
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #bombus #mynativeoasis
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 6d
Do you Chelsea chop at all? It can delay blooms by almost 2 weeks. My other suggestion is getting seed from further south. I brought goldenrod seeds from Kentucky when I moved, and if it doesn't frost before they bloom, they are the only thing left feeding the pollinators in late October.
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 6d
Everybee calm down! There are enough New England asters for all the bombus!💜🐝
#symphyotrichumnovaeangliae #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #bombus
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 6d
Oooh! Have you tried turtleheads, great blue lobelia, large leaf asters & white snakeroot in the shade? Or new England aster, any goldenrod, blazingstar or ironweed in full sun? I will help you find some good ones!
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 7d
Bumblers sleeping on fireworks🎆
'Fireworks' goldenrod is one I brought into the nursery last year, but no one LOVES goldenrod like I do. So most came home with me. They're gorgeous and so well-behaved!
#solidago #bombus #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #fireworksgoldenrod #Hortech
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 8d
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 8d
Whimsical milkweed😍
#asclepiasexaltata #nativeplants #shadegardening #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #milkweedformonarchs #seedsaving #savenativeseeds #crazyseedlady
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 12d
Me too! It's so hard when they look so happy... but I agree. I've been writing notes to myself in my garden notebook to get aggressive with it next year!
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 13d
Found this beautiful friend at work yesterday. Confirmed on iNat by others, this is an unbanded wolf spider! I love his little face😍
#Hognabaltimoriana
#spidersky #arachnid #bugsky #nature
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 15d
Found any hummingbird moth cats on it yet? One of their favorite host plants!
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 15d
Not that I have noticed, but they provide great late-season nutrition for our pollinators!
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · 15d
I love the gold & purple flower combos in my garden every fall.
💛Brown-eyed susan & Missouri ironweed💜, 💜New England aster & Riddell's goldenrod💛
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #vernoniamissurica #rudbeckiatriloba #symphyotrichumnovaeangliae #solidagoriddellii #Michigangardening 🌱
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