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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Sep 2

I fold small seed packs from origami paper and carry some on my person at all times, especially this time of year. They come in super handy 😃

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Aug 30

Lost in the sauce 💛

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Aug 26

Thank you! It really, truly is my pleasure

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Aug 26

Late summer at the boulevard garden. As a shoe-box apartment dweller, I'm so grateful to have the privilege of caring for a tiny patch of Earth to help decompress from the day and world events 🌱

A photo of a street receding in the distance with a brick building on the left that the sun is glinting off of. In the foreground is a garden of weedy looking native plants.

In the foreground are yellow flowers called Sneezeweed ( Helenium autumnale) There is an out of focus urban building in the background against a blue sky.

A close up of purple daisy-like flowers with yellow centers of Douglas Aster.

A fuzzy Common Eastern Bumblebee sleeping while clinging to the underside of a seed capsule of a Western Columbine

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Aug 25

This is amazing! Very inspiring 👏

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Aug 20

So cool!

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Laura Bifano @bifanoland.bsky.social · Aug 19

One of my fav paintings to come out of the Vancouver island art retreat!

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Aug 15

I know this apartment building! I recognized it right away. We take care of the Green Street garden on the corner. I'll definitely have to check out this show.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Aug 11

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Aug 10

It was a fun time!

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Aug 5

Oh how I wish I was that Triceratops right now.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Jul 28

Happiest of birthdays🥳 my true love @robinbougie.bsky.social He is my best friend, he makes me laugh constantly, he is a supportive team player and the best human I've ever met ( our nicknames for each other is Frog and Bear) 🐸🐻

A cartoon drawing of a brown bear in overalls and a green frog wearing a hat and carrying a hose. There are hearts and bees floating around them.

A photo of the most handsome man in the world wearing heart rainbow sunglasses and a pointy birthday hat sitting in a blue chair in the park.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Jul 22

I'm thinking of the flowers before they open, when they really do look like an asparagus spear. You can really see the family resemblance (not my photo).

A photo of the beginning of a flower spike from an agave plant, behind it is a large evergreen shrub and blue sky.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Jul 21

Yep, that's why those giant agave flower spikes look like a giant stalk of asparagus 😉

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Jul 21

Yep, they need about 2 to 3 weeks of cold stratification. I usually just place the seeds in pots and put them outside about early to mid-February. Being in the carrot family they are tap-rooted, so you have to be careful they don't get too pot bound. I 🩵 them too 😃 They are as tough as nails.

Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Jul 21

A+ water pups!

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Jul 21

Today's pics from the China Creek North Pollinator Garden are of fuzzy bumblebees and a beewolf. Like the name suggests, the beewolf is a wasp that hunts bees as food for its young. Some of the nectar rockstars right now are Sea Holly, Globe Thistle, Canadian Goldenrod and Yarrow 🌱

A close-up of the spiky, blue Sea Holly flowers with a fuzzy yellow bumblebee near the center enjoying a nectar snack.

Two yellow-faced bumblebees on top of a round, blue flower of a globe thistle

Yellow Goldenrod flowers against a blue sky with many bumblebees searching for nectar.

A black and yellow wasp called a Beewolf on top of a white cluster of yarrow flowers.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Jul 19

"Juicy Bastard" is a part of my botanical vocabulary now.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Jul 16

Summer evenings in the China Creek North Pollinator Garden are magical. As the sun sets over this east-facing hillside it illuminates the tops of the plants and reveals thousands of pollinators as pinpoints of light zipping around as they travel from flower to flower. 🌱

This image is a close up of a white yarrow flower head with a small, dark leaf-cutter bee on top.

The sun glows on the horizon through the flowers and foliage of a Sea Holly and a Russian Sage plant. The sky is bright blue.

A blue globe thistle plant that is being backlit by the Sun with golden grass at the bottom of the screen.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · Jul 14

Took out the microscope to look at some small purple Nepeta or Catmint flowers and buds. You can see the glistening pockets of fragrant oils on the bud that gives it that sage/mint smell. Fortunately the cats couldn't care less about this plant as I'm growing many cuttings on our balcony. 🌱

A very close up image of a Catmint flowers bud that is covered in hairs . You can see small, glistening beads of oil pockets on the surface.