🌱 Pup really trying to convince me that boots are torture, and she is so sad. Turns out we can take much longer walks when her feet are safe from icewater and the nasty sharp melting crystals.

🌱 Prairie Moon Nursery 😍

🌱 Rain garden plants snug under about 16” of snow. Great insulation for those below zero nights and days later this week and winter. Sleep well little guys!

🌱 Winter garden fun! Every kid wants to run one more lap before going in!

🌱A beautiful winter day in the Chicago area.

🌱Everybody shovels a path through the garden so their 4 (short) legged gardening associates can keep running the paths, right?

🌱 Blazingstar in fall

🌱 The “lasts” are precious

🌱6:30 AM first snow!

🌱 The last Zinnia blossoms in the glow of a fall evening

🌱 Way to go little dahlia!

🌱 Veg finale🌱

🌱 Fall just beginning to glow.

Another round of terminations, combined with previous layoffs and departures, has reduced the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention workforce by about 3,000 people since January.

🌱Bed and Breakfast every day! Courtesy Bumble Rumble Dahlia from Fleur Farms.

🌱 Sun has not reached my cradle, therefore I do not have to get up yet!

🌱Tiny fall treats!

🌱 Sun has not reached my cradle, therefore I do not have to get up yet!

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🌱 Step 1 of a no dig front yard native plant garden. Thanks to 🌱Erin Sherman for the motivation!

🌱 Dahlias from (Fleur Farm in VT) and Helenium looking gorgeous and providing for pollinators. Trying to keep our butternut squash safe from chipmunks and squirrels.

🌱 2nd big harvest from this plant, 17 ripe and delicious tomatoes. Headed to the kitchen for ratatouille.

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🌱 I feel like a hobbit in the Shire, a small person walking through a magical land.

🌱 Button Blazing Star going to seed, Northern Blazing Star just opening, tomatoes safely ripening behind chicken wire and native garden eating the signage.

🌱 A very happy place. I will have to do some dividing and plant sharing, everything got so big so quickly. A good problem to have and in the meantime a wonderful kind of chaos.

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🌱 We’ve lived here 22 years and this 4 month old rain garden has demonstrably changed our ecosystem for the better. We never had pollinators gather and swarm like this. Also approve of the sparkly green reflection or possibly little green alien in the foreground.

🌱 I don’t mean to minimize the importance of remembering those we lost on 9/11, or those lost to senseless gun violence every day. But perhaps we can use the strength that gardening gives to face our challenges and keep moving forward.

🌱 Peace

🌱 A riot, but happy

🌱 It’s starting to look like fall. Penstemon and Anise Hyssop

🌱 New friends visiting!

🌱 It’s upon us! Made Gazpacho today, with our own tomatoes, cukes, lemon verbena, ground cherries and the 1 sweet pepper that was ripe. The best breakfast with yogurt!

🌱 Nasturtiums having their moment.

🌱 Wild Ones workshops- always something to learn!

🌱 I’m sharing seeds from this year’s annuals. All in service of continuing biodiversity, supporting pollinators and creating beauty.

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🌱 Peace

🌱 idk but this Swallowtail still flying with such tattered wings…

🌱 I post this every time there is a school shooting because it’s true.

Soldier Beetle on my Pugster Blue Butterfly Bush. (Shaky iPhone shot.) This is the only deployment of “soldiers” to Illinois that I find acceptable. 🌱

🌱great question interesting answers!

🌱 it was only a matter of time… chipmunk tunnel. On to Tomato Defense 3.0. We are going to eat most of this one anyway!

🌱 Humans vs Squirrels now tied 1-1

🌱 Goldfinch baby, “Mom I AM STARVING and there is NOTHING to eat!” Mom is calmly waiting for little one to notice the Echinacea seeds directly below!

🌱 Come on in! Entering the yard through a pollinator garden that shades the walkway. Cosmos, asters and sunflowers on the right, monarda, blazing star and false aster on the left. Thyme between the walkway stones.

🌱 Second breakfast! Please look around, Ladybug, this would be a great place to have your babies!

🌱Garden=happiness tonight. Parkway jewel of Missouri Evening Primrose, bright Cosmos+ Blazing Star, Obedient Plant and Brown Eyed Susan glowing in the evening sunlight and Great Blue Lobelia in front of Heart Leaved Aster and Boneset.