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juliwils.bsky.social
46 days until spring 🌱

If you want to see more of these (bees), plant more of these (native flowers)

#nativeplants
#tinyflowertuesday
A bee hangs upside down off the head of a native aster. Photo taken last fall
February 3, 2026 at 12:28 PM
yuehime.bsky.social
🌱🐝 the bees have to be so confused.. the snow only stayed for a day, and we’ve even gone back up to 7°C one day, which resulted in some of the girls stretching their wings already!

I’ve been busy prepping for the season - wax sheets are added to the frames, buckets cleaned, cleaning the suit, etc💪🏼✨
A slightly angled view of the front of the hives. There’s two bees flying back inside the orange hive My workstation to melt the wax sheets/templates into the frames, all done in a round table All the finished games went into empty huge boxes. In total I have six boxes full of frames with wax sheets in them
February 2, 2026 at 10:59 PM
joshfry.art
📸 🌱 🍃

Start with a spot.
A spot you choose,
A spot for which you'll muse.

Perhaps another,
Perhaps ask your mother...

That spot looks fine,
This spot looks grand!

Just choose a spot, and form a plan!
Place your Plant in a pot (or anything, why not?).

Now, this is -your- spot.

#poem
A wire shelf with various plants on it and a growing light. I've got some wooden whales here and some photos I have taken of flowers and bees. We have: Sweet Pea Spider plant in an old oil bottle Mint Another spider plant in an oil bottle, Spider plant in a pot, Spider plant in another glass jar. Flowers from our Hydrangea, pink.
February 2, 2026 at 9:52 PM
samssslearning.bsky.social
It’s February & the hellebores are in bloom, providing a much needed food source for insects, especially for any early emerging ground nesting bees. #GardensHour 🌱
February 2, 2026 at 9:05 PM
traceytaylor.bsky.social
🌱Today’s flower is a variety of Clematis called “Doctor Ruppel”, which flowers in late Spring/early Summer, then a 2nd time, in late Summer. It is beloved by bees, butterflies & particularly hummingbirds, who wage frequent, fierce swooping aerial battles over it, accompanied by furious chittering.
Photo depicts a Clematis plant called Dr. Ruppel, bearing large flowers with 8 petals coloured palest pink with wide, bright magenta stripes, pale yellow centres/stamen and light green, rounded spear shaped leaves. This plant loves full sun and is extremely popular with bees, butterflies and hummingbirds. It flowers in the late Spring/early Sumner, then again in late Summer through early Autumn. I’m when in flower, it buzzes constantly with the sound of happy bees. We spend many summer evenings entertained by furious aerial battles carried out by several species of hummingbirds over the nectar, listening to their furious chittering as they swoop and dive at each other as well as at bees and any other flying insects who dare approach the flowers. I highly recommend planting them where you’ll have a front seat to their antics, observing and listening to them is a very enjoyable pastime❤️
February 2, 2026 at 7:37 PM
sallynex.bsky.social
I do like a nicely trained loganberry 😍 one session in winter cutting out fruited canes then tying new ones into supports and you're done. Bending them over in loops helps them fruit even more. Bees go mad for flowers then laden with tart berries like giant raspberries all summer 💜 #gardening 🌱
February 2, 2026 at 9:25 AM
thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social
Timeline cleanser
#TheOutpost 🌿🌱🐝
There are over 20,000 known species of bees in the world. That’s more than all of the world’s bird and mammal species combined.
February 1, 2026 at 10:46 PM
beautyandwonder.bsky.social
Of all my native plants, false sunflowers #heliopsishelianthoides tend to attract the widest variety of native bees. This is a broad-handed leafcutter bee #Megachilelatimanus I saw back in summer '24.
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation
February 1, 2026 at 7:26 PM
traceytaylor.bsky.social
🌱Today’s flower is Rudbeckia hirta (Gloriosa Daisy), a perennial related to Black Eyed Susans & Coneflowers. As well as being beautiful, it’s a favoured source of pollen for bees, butterflies & other beneficials.The seeds are a food source from fall through winter for birds, particularly songbirds.
Photo depicts a clump of Rudbeckia hirta (Gloriosa Daisy) plants, with beautiful flowers bearing two toned petals that are coloured medium orange at the tips shading to deep red orange near the centres, with the centres being comprised of dark brown seeds which are the same as Black Eyed Susans, to which they are closely related. Foliage is bright green with spear shaped leaves. The flowers are a popular source of pollen and nectar for bees and butterflies. As well, the seeds serve as an important autumn and winter food source for birds, so our usual practice is to leave the plants standing through autumn and winter and not trim the dead portions off until Spring.
February 1, 2026 at 7:06 PM
thesnarkyfarmer.bsky.social
#TheOutpost 🌱🌿👨‍🌾🐝
The right way to leave stems for native bees sites.tufts.edu/pollinators/...
January 31, 2026 at 2:10 PM
agregenhuasteca.bsky.social
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January 31, 2026 at 12:32 AM
traceytaylor.bsky.social
🌱Today flower is a Red Catchfly aka Red Campion aka Silene dioica 'Firefly'. A perennial loved by bees,butterflies, moths & hummingbirds, it flowers mid-Spring through early summer.
If you remove the dead flowers, it often flowers again in autumn. There is also a variety that has white flowers.
Photo depicts a large clump of flowers bearing bright magenta petals surrounding a small, white, circular base with a few tiny white stamen with a dark reddish tubular base and fuzzy blue green foliage of a plant known as Red Catchfly aka Red Campion aka Silene dioica 'Firefly'. A perennial loved by bees, butterflies, moths & hummingbirds, it flowers mid-Spring through early summer. The reddish tubular base of the flower is filled with nectar and an absolute favourite of bees, butterflies, moths and hummingbirds. Once it stops flowering in early summer, if you remove the dead flowers, it will often flower again throughout autumn, unless the weather is unusually cold. There is also a variety that has white flowers that I covet but haven’t yet been able to locate a source of seeds.
January 30, 2026 at 6:56 PM
ilistrudiepalmer.bsky.social
Bees give you an idea of how healthy your plant ecosystem is.

#The_Eco_Spiritual_Experience 🌱
January 30, 2026 at 6:55 PM
suecowley.bsky.social
Lovely morning on the #allotment! Amazing how much the weeds are growing already. Poppies everywhere so I can leave lots of those to prettify my plot and keep the bees happy. ♥️🌱
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I managed to get onto the #allotment this morning before the rain arrived. Plot one looking pretty much shipshape and ready for the new season! ☺️🌱
View of one of my allotment plots. Raspberries in the foreground, strawberries next row, then garlic. Hills in the distance and a kind of blue sky.
January 30, 2026 at 6:45 PM
thoeni.bsky.social
#bloomscrollng
#FlowersOnFriday #FlowersOnBluesky
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Oh, August!
Warmth and bees
Pretty flowers scattering yards in vibrant joy
I will be so grateful when you return!
A vibrant macro shot of a single Viola flower. The upper petals are a soft lavender-purple, while the lower heart-shaped petals are bright yellow with delicate purple-fringed edges. Fine, dark-purple veins radiate from the center of the yellow throat. The background consists of soft-focus green foliage, highlighting the delicate but resilient structure of this summer bloom.
January 30, 2026 at 6:05 PM
traceytaylor.bsky.social
🌱Today’s flower is Black Eyed Susan, which are drought resistant & beloved by bees & butterflies.They’re said to be deer resistant but we’ve stopped growing them in our front gardens as they get eaten down to the root by deer every time.They thrive in sunny locations with well drained soil.
Photo depicts a clump of Black Eyed Susan plants (aka Rudbeckia hirta aka Yellow Coneflowers) bearing long, narrow bright golden yellow petals surrounding dark brown centres on take mid-green stalks with medium sized spear shaped leaves, growing against a cedar fence. Bees and butterflies are very attracted to these plants. These plants are drought resistant, thrive in dry, sunny locations and will struggle in wet soil. They are purported to be deer resistant but we’ve had to stop planting them in the front gardens because the deer just eat them down to the roots and they don’t grow back.
January 29, 2026 at 6:28 PM
joewynne.mindly.social.ap.brid.gy
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January 28, 2026 at 6:52 PM
traceytaylor.bsky.social
🌱Today’s flower/plant is another of my favourites, Bee Balm (Monarda aka Bergamot).These wonderfully scented flowers have hummingbirds hovering over them from early morning (sometimes waging fierce, swooping aerial battles while chittering loudly) till last light,as well as bees,butterflies & moths.
Photo depicts another of my favourites, Bee Balm (Bergamot aka Monarda), tall plants bearing bright red, softly spiked flowers atop mid-green coloured stems with medium sized, spear shaped leaves. There are also several beige coloured Allium plant skeletons interspersed with the Bee Balm, we leave the Allium skeletons up for the birds and in hopes some may grown into new Allium plants in the Spring. Bee Balm are wonderfully spicy scented plants which have hummingbirds hovering over them from early morning (sometimes waging fierce, swooping aerial battles while chittering loudly) till last light, as well as bees, butterflies and moths. Watching and listening to them is a wonderful way to spend a summer evening, highly recommend!
January 28, 2026 at 6:20 PM
cathhodsman.bsky.social
Did u know?Global warming makes me so nervous as a solitary bee Mum. My Hairy-Footed Flower Bees usually emerge Feb/March,coinciding with my Daphne flowering(food plant).This winter has been so mild,my Daphne is flowering already.So,I've decided to put the HFFB nesting bricks outside early🤞. 🌍🌱🌿🇬🇧🌱🐝🪲
January 28, 2026 at 6:13 AM
traceytaylor.bsky.social
🌱Today’s flower/photo is of another of our favourites, Garden Speedwell (aka Veronica).These plants are a mainstay in our gardens, come in a variety of colours and are drought tolerant. The long flower spikes are filled with nectar so are extremely popular with bees,butterflies land hummingbirds.
Photo depicts a cluster of Veronica (Speedwell) plants with bright green coloured stems and narrow, spear shaped leaves topped bearing flower spikes in shades ranging from palest pink to darker pink and bright mauve. This plant also comes in additional colours, including, among others, a bright white, a lovely deep blueish purple and a lighter blueish purple variety (all of which I seem to have unfortunately neglected to photograph 🫤). These plants are a mainstay in our gardens, the flowers continuously buzzing with bees and hummingbirds as well as frequently visited by butterflies.
January 27, 2026 at 5:42 PM
citymousegarden.bsky.social
Forestry here to trim parkway tree. All I can think of is dropping logs on poor little ground-nesting bees nestled under soil & smashing my deadwood fences where lots of other #invertebrates friends live. Holding my breath—think positive thoughts for me, #gardening friends! #UrbsInHorto #Chicago 🌱
Small grey and brown #GardenDogs Cattle Dog #WeAreAllZoey paws up on the sill looking out the window though I can’t bear to do it myself.
January 27, 2026 at 4:30 PM
aggyanubis.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
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January 27, 2026 at 7:41 AM
traceytaylor.bsky.social
🌱Today’s flower/plant is Sea Holly (Eryngium) along with some Purple Coneflowers(Echinacea) which go together beautifully. Sea Holly has tiny, silvery needles so I recommend are wearing gloves when planting. Both of these plants are beloved by hummingbirds, bees and butterflies.
Photo depicts a large clump Sea Holly (Eryngium) with silvery blue tall stalks bearing spiky, silvery blue flowers growing against a cedar fence in the background, along with a smaller clump of Purple Coneflowers (Echinacea) in the foreground. The colours of these plants compliment each other beautifully and both are magnets for bees, hummingbirds and butterflies. Be sure to wear gloves when gardening with or near Sea Holly as it has tiny silvery needles so can give you slivers which can be as they are so tiny. Despite their tiny needles and rather unappealing smell (which has been compared to the odour of sweaty feet), Sea Holly are a wonderful aesthetic, especially when combined with other flowers.
January 26, 2026 at 6:28 PM
erialc.bsky.social
Beautiful gum blossom keeping the bees happy. I hope they can find plenty of water. 🌱 #GumBlossom #flowers #streetTrees
Lush red blossoms with a single bee loving the nectar. A substantial tree covered in blossom. Red against a clear blue sky Red flowers are pretty and so are the still closed creamy coloured buds and unfurling blooms.
January 26, 2026 at 5:56 AM
traceytaylor.bsky.social
🌱Today’s flower/plant is a Sunflower, my phone ID app says it is called “Copper Queen”. We grow a variety of Sunflowers all around our property in sunny spots for the bees, birds & our own enjoyment. Our greedy, insatiable hounds will swallow the seeds whole if they can reach them, though.
Photo depicts a sunflower identified by my plant app as a “Copper Queen” Sunflower” with a dark brown centre and golden yellow, almost orange petals tinted reddish orange near the the centre and light green leaves, growing against a cedar trellis in the bright summer sunshine. Photo depicts our beloved Ferris Drooler, who is one of our rescue bloodhounds. Ferris enjoys snacking on our sunflowers and any other edible plants (and pretty much anything edible whatsoever). #AdoptDon’tShop
January 25, 2026 at 6:26 PM