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A pure green sweat bee on #ziziaaurea, goldenrod alexander, back in May 2023.
Zizia is great in a part-sun bed, and is a host plant for black swallowtails
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #augochlorapura
January 4, 2026 at 3:57 AM
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Buzz fuzz 🐝
Fuzzy bombus in #heliopsishelianthoides from summer 2022.
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #bombus #Michigangardening 🌱
January 2, 2026 at 2:24 PM
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Cute little dwarf crested iris 'alba'
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark #elsasallnativeyard #iriscristataalba
January 2, 2026 at 2:14 AM
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Just needed a cute fuzzy bumbler today- bombus in #penstemondigitalis
Love & hugs y'all🩷
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark
December 31, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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🎄✨️🎅
#bombus #pollinators #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #silphiumperfoliatum
December 25, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Sweet wee pyrobombus on rough blazingstar #liatrisaspera this past August🐝
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #pollinators #bugsky
December 24, 2025 at 8:05 PM
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The beginning of a native beebalm bloom- 2023
#monardafistulosa #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation
December 23, 2025 at 10:26 PM
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Bombus on cupplant with pollen pants💛 August 2023
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #bombus #nature #silphiumperfoliatum
December 23, 2025 at 3:43 AM
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I made a '2025 Garden in Review' highlight video of my native garden🌻
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my garden 2025
39 new items · Memory by Elsa Wachter
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December 19, 2025 at 2:17 AM
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Google made me a little 2025 garden collage🌸
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #ecoregion50ae
December 14, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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This was one of our biggest crab spiders in 2022, her name was JLo. She loved her Joe Pye home, and coordinated quite nicely with it.
#Misumenavatia #eutrochiummaculatum #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #spidersky #bugsky #nature #Michigangardening 🌱 #homegrownnationalpark
December 2, 2025 at 12:55 PM
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August 2024 in my garden🌸
Red-spotted purple 🦋 on purple coneflower beside blue vervain and cardinal flower in the background♥️
#Limenitisarthemis #echinaceapurpurea #verbenahastata #lobeliacardinalis #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation
December 1, 2025 at 1:11 PM
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Native spirea #spireaalba buds in front of Pollynation #coneflowers
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Look at this chubby butt I found in late July 2023 on my mountain mint #Pycnanthemumtenuifolium It is of the few yellow-banded bumblers I have found in my yard! #bombusterricola
#bloomscrolling #nativeplants #bugsky #pollinators #bombus #Michigangardening 🌱
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Blue-eyed grass #Sisyrinchiumangustifolium blooms from this past spring. This beautiful native is actually in the iris family!
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Some yellow for your Friday... bumbler and a sunflower.
#nativeplants #bombus #bombusgriseocollis #helianthusannuus #bloomscrolling #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Sweet columbine bloom from mid June's✨️
#aquilegiacanadensis #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #Michigangardening 🌱 #shadegardening
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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Happy little scarlet beebs building up the energy to bloom!
This is Jacob Cline #monardadidyma, in front of white yarrow #achilleamillefolium, spiderwort #tradescantiaohioensis, and other natives in my prairie patch.
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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A wee green monarda early in the 2024 season. I love the little dew drops on its leaves.
#monardafistulosa #nativeplants #thebeebs #elsasallnativeyard #mynativeoasis #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #Michigangardening 🌱
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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Brown chicken, brown cow🎵
Banded longhorn flower beetles getting busy on swamp milkweed🌸
Aren't milkweed flowers the coolest?
8/7/25
#asclepiasincarnata #nativeplants #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #bloomscrolling #ecoregion50ae #milkweedformonarchs
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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The most perfect little seedheads on white snakeroot😍
#ageratinaaltissima #seedsaving #savenativeseeds #crazyseedlady #nativeplants #Michigangardening 🌱 #shadegardening
October 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Already missing my green summer yard🌱
🌸Common milkweed with a skipper 7/5/25
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #ecoregion50ae #asclepiassyriaca #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation
October 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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So much life 🌱🐛🌸
#asclepiassyriaca #nativeplants #seedsaving #savenativeseeds #crazyseedlady #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #Michigangardening
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Frosty garden morning❄️
Canada goldenrod, late thoroughwort & brown eyed susan seed pod
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #elsasallnativeyard
October 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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🧡Monarch on late thoroughwort🤍
#Eupatoriumserotinum
This was before the hard frost this week. Now the garden looks ready for bed.
#bloomscrolling #nativeplants #danausplexippus #bugsky #Michigangardening 🌱 #pollinators #biodiversityconservation
October 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM