Well that was a fascinatingly anxiety inducing angle lol I. Familair with nematodes in general, wasnt familiar with root-knot inducing ones. I dont have trypaphobia or however its spelled but something very unconditionally about the knots, none the less haha

At this point, anything that irritates them out of pure pettiness is something i simply must support 100% lol

Specific species, Smoothe Purple coneflower is high on the list at the moment. As is Northern Sea oats, and Purple Top(tridens flavus). If you're familiar with #Piedmont Prairies or just tall-grass Prairies at all, what are some "Iconic " species perhaps recognizable by silhouette alone? 🤔

Muddle together.

Not sure what point I had in sharing🤔 lol other than, I really am trying to be better about posting on social media- so .. i am posting on social media haha

If youre still reading, have any ideas for specific scenes? Im thinking fireflies & sunsets. Love the silhouette of

Colorblind was when it comes to blending 💀 😅

I am not full-on colorblind, or the more common Red/Green colorblind - I am Blue/Green colorblind... so, recognizing most colors isnt an issue, but recognizing really close shades, definitely is. Blues/purples/blacks - greys/greens/browns all kind of

But I wanted to do a few paintings I could sell to help raise $ for the GardenWild Community Nursery. I really enjoy painting nature silhouettes, fence post & old barbed wire against the sunset, windmill and barn against the sunrise , stuff like that... but i had forgotten how frustrating being ...

You're awesome! Thank you

Oh..my..god.. in an idiot. And really need to slow down when reading lol

Being in my Google photos lol but i fixed the settings so atleast all new images are the right format just ...waiting for warmer weather now! Haha

I think spicata is the one. Has multiple small tufts of purple instead of the long stalks of more "common" variety found in stores. I have photos but have to find a program to convert them to regular jpegs apparently, not sure what exactly they are (format) but can't upload anywhere despite all

Oh the kobold will dongreat/exactly what you're looking for anyway. (Also not sure on spelling but scabiosa isn100% NOT it/autocorrect lol) Liatris Spicata maybe? Idk ultimately irrelevant lol

No more questions.....please... 🎵

Format apparently that are useless to add to amy social media app ..

But more, cheering from the sidelines here lol

The runner up in ID was Liatris Scabiosa (maybe? )

I initially collected only 3 of rhe bulbs, but have been planting seeds from those bulbs for about 3 yrs now and have grown it out to a few dozen. This is where I would normally add in an image but.. in afraid I have to disappoint there aswell lol I havea whole camera roll full of images in a bad

And gets maybe 2.5-3' tall, growing in full clay and partial sun (surprisingly) ... but never flops!

I guess ... not knowing exact species, this comment is pretty worthless lol but , there are variations that persist even theough the winter after going dormant in long straight spikes.

I have some liatris i collected and have been growing from an area thatd now a housing development, i thought it wad spicata but tbh im reallt awful at IDing w/o an app lol but the blooms are so small. And there are multiple blooms at the end of each stalk maybe ~1" or more. It definitely not kobold

If we plant native plants like sedges, and give them something to actually grow on, just maybe - we wont have to wonder and speculate how many we lost, because we will always still have them around.

If you want to help me in this fight, Please check out my www.ko-fi.com/GardenWildGuy !

If we could just shift how we even VIEW our yards, that land, and what it is capable of/ its purpose... if we leave the leaves each fall instead of bagging in plastic coffins and sending to the landfill, if we turn off our lights at night to prevent the disruption to nocturnal wildlife,

But in terms of their fight for survival, faced with clearly declining numbers, we wont even know how many we lost when they ARE all gone... if they all , go.

but it would be SO EASY to create viable critical habitat for them, with just minimal intentional changes to how we maintain our yards