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This obedient plant, Physostegia virginiana, looks like it’s sleeping for the winter…until you notice a smattering of bright pink blossoms and buds on the fall-brown stems. Confusing, but cute! #Maryland #nativeplants
November 11, 2025 at 3:38 PM
This obedient plant, Physostegia virginiana, looks like it’s sleeping for the winter…until you notice a smattering of bright pink blossoms and buds on the fall-brown stems. Confusing, but cute! #Maryland #nativeplants
These adoptive siblings love each other
November 6, 2025 at 8:45 PM
These adoptive siblings love each other
The top of the red maple in my backyard, as viewed from the street.
November 6, 2025 at 8:44 PM
The top of the red maple in my backyard, as viewed from the street.
I am considering this a successful baking experiment. It was fun, but time-consuming.
October 17, 2025 at 1:14 AM
I am considering this a successful baking experiment. It was fun, but time-consuming.
I love when blue mistflower starts going to seed! Native plants have taught me so much about all the different types of beauty in nature and the passing of seasons. #maryland #nativeplants
September 23, 2025 at 2:57 PM
I love when blue mistflower starts going to seed! Native plants have taught me so much about all the different types of beauty in nature and the passing of seasons. #maryland #nativeplants
The beautyberry is beauty-ing! I planted two of these callicarpa americana in my yard 2 years ago. Last fall/winter the berries were very underwhelming as it was still getting accustomed to its new home- I’m glad that this year they’re living up to their name! #maryland #nativeplants
September 22, 2025 at 12:17 AM
The beautyberry is beauty-ing! I planted two of these callicarpa americana in my yard 2 years ago. Last fall/winter the berries were very underwhelming as it was still getting accustomed to its new home- I’m glad that this year they’re living up to their name! #maryland #nativeplants
I just adore New England asters, symphyotrichum novae-angliae. I never thought of purple and yellow as a classic fall color combo, but between these, mistflower, and goldenrods I do now. #maryland #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
September 21, 2025 at 4:40 PM
I just adore New England asters, symphyotrichum novae-angliae. I never thought of purple and yellow as a classic fall color combo, but between these, mistflower, and goldenrods I do now. #maryland #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
It’s goldenrod season! #Maryland #nativeplants
September 21, 2025 at 11:11 AM
It’s goldenrod season! #Maryland #nativeplants
Here’s some bottle gentian, gentiana andrewsii, happily growing in the landscape at Pope Farm. Did you know that bumble bees push open the petals in order to pollinate them? I think that’s cute. #Maryland #nativeplants
September 21, 2025 at 2:00 AM
Here’s some bottle gentian, gentiana andrewsii, happily growing in the landscape at Pope Farm. Did you know that bumble bees push open the petals in order to pollinate them? I think that’s cute. #Maryland #nativeplants
We got a native volunteer: small white aster, Symphyotrichum racemosum. Pretty! #Maryland #nativeplants
September 20, 2025 at 9:54 PM
We got a native volunteer: small white aster, Symphyotrichum racemosum. Pretty! #Maryland #nativeplants
I enjoyed this helianthus giganteu, giant sunflower, growing at Pope Farm near the native plant sale today. #maryland #nativeplants
September 20, 2025 at 5:07 PM
I enjoyed this helianthus giganteu, giant sunflower, growing at Pope Farm near the native plant sale today. #maryland #nativeplants
Pollinators are just loving my New England Aster, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae…as am I! #Maryland #nativeplants
September 14, 2025 at 11:04 PM
Pollinators are just loving my New England Aster, Symphyotrichum novae-angliae…as am I! #Maryland #nativeplants
Phytolacca americana, called pokeweed or pokeberry. It’s common enough that I don’t mind pulling it up when it grows somewhere there’s simply not space for it- but so pretty. #maryland #nativeplants
September 6, 2025 at 2:38 AM
Phytolacca americana, called pokeweed or pokeberry. It’s common enough that I don’t mind pulling it up when it grows somewhere there’s simply not space for it- but so pretty. #maryland #nativeplants
Here’s my late boneset getting ready to blossom about a week ago. By now it’s already in bloom! This eupatorium serotinum is enjoying the clay/loam, part sun conditions at the edge of my yard near the elderberry and great blue lobelia. #Maryland #nativeplants
August 31, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Here’s my late boneset getting ready to blossom about a week ago. By now it’s already in bloom! This eupatorium serotinum is enjoying the clay/loam, part sun conditions at the edge of my yard near the elderberry and great blue lobelia. #Maryland #nativeplants
Skipper of some sort on a blue mistflower, conoclinium coelestinum. #maryland #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
August 29, 2025 at 7:23 PM
Skipper of some sort on a blue mistflower, conoclinium coelestinum. #maryland #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
My obedient plant is finally starting to blossom! Physostegia virginiana is an assertive spreader with short long bloom times…and pollinators love mine. #bloomscrolling #Maryland #nativeplants #invertefest
August 29, 2025 at 5:54 PM
My obedient plant is finally starting to blossom! Physostegia virginiana is an assertive spreader with short long bloom times…and pollinators love mine. #bloomscrolling #Maryland #nativeplants #invertefest
For the #Maryland #nativeplants people, this event happens twice a year and I hope to see you there!
August 28, 2025 at 6:29 PM
For the #Maryland #nativeplants people, this event happens twice a year and I hope to see you there!
I love DC. This is in front of a fancy office building on a buttoned-up block of K St NW. You know, DC only seems buttoned-up to folks who don’t really know us. Keep your chin up, friends. We got each other. #freeDC
August 20, 2025 at 8:22 PM
I love DC. This is in front of a fancy office building on a buttoned-up block of K St NW. You know, DC only seems buttoned-up to folks who don’t really know us. Keep your chin up, friends. We got each other. #freeDC
Great blue lobelia, which has the unfortunate Latin name lobelia siphilitica. I’ve had mixed success in my garden- a strong first year for each plant, but not much after that. This one plant, however (not new this year), is extremely large and happy. #maryland #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
August 19, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Great blue lobelia, which has the unfortunate Latin name lobelia siphilitica. I’ve had mixed success in my garden- a strong first year for each plant, but not much after that. This one plant, however (not new this year), is extremely large and happy. #maryland #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
Spotted bee balm, monarda punctata. It’s not thriving in my garden but I’m getting a few blooms every year from this fun, weird plant. #maryland #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
July 31, 2025 at 7:16 PM
Spotted bee balm, monarda punctata. It’s not thriving in my garden but I’m getting a few blooms every year from this fun, weird plant. #maryland #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
Bergamot’s pink-purple blossoms are beautiful, but on my “garden beauty goes beyond blossoms” soapbox here is my case for the post-bloom seedheads of wild bergamot, monarda fistulosa. They are visually striking! #maryland #nativeplants
July 29, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Bergamot’s pink-purple blossoms are beautiful, but on my “garden beauty goes beyond blossoms” soapbox here is my case for the post-bloom seedheads of wild bergamot, monarda fistulosa. They are visually striking! #maryland #nativeplants
Black-eyed susan, rudbeckia hirta. State flower of #Maryland and a popular #nativeplant. Grows easily from seed and holds its own against stubborn invasives. #bloomscrolling
July 29, 2025 at 5:31 PM
Black-eyed susan, rudbeckia hirta. State flower of #Maryland and a popular #nativeplant. Grows easily from seed and holds its own against stubborn invasives. #bloomscrolling
Cyperus echinatus, globe flatsedge, is one of the most interesting looking sedges in my opinion (up there with gray’s sedge). Sedges are very important to include in a native garden for habitat ecological benefits- and part of the non-bloom side of garden beauty. #maryland #nativeplants #naturalist
July 29, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Cyperus echinatus, globe flatsedge, is one of the most interesting looking sedges in my opinion (up there with gray’s sedge). Sedges are very important to include in a native garden for habitat ecological benefits- and part of the non-bloom side of garden beauty. #maryland #nativeplants #naturalist
Indian pink, spigelia marilandica, has my state right there in its species name, but the heart of its native range is several states to the south. Regardless, it’s a beautiful addition to my shade garden and seems to be doing well beneath my red maple tree. #maryland #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
July 29, 2025 at 12:46 PM
Indian pink, spigelia marilandica, has my state right there in its species name, but the heart of its native range is several states to the south. Regardless, it’s a beautiful addition to my shade garden and seems to be doing well beneath my red maple tree. #maryland #nativeplants #bloomscrolling
I often try to take my photos from angles that exclude human-made objects, but you know what? Native plants belong everywhere, not just in distant fields, and sometimes it’s nice to have a visual reminder of that. Here is some suburban asclepias tuberosa, butterfly milkweed. #maryland #nativeplants
July 29, 2025 at 12:37 PM
I often try to take my photos from angles that exclude human-made objects, but you know what? Native plants belong everywhere, not just in distant fields, and sometimes it’s nice to have a visual reminder of that. Here is some suburban asclepias tuberosa, butterfly milkweed. #maryland #nativeplants