Don't forget shrubs and trees when you're creating native plantings! Pollinators also need larvae hosts like red twig dogwood and white oak, not just colorful flowers

Cheeky blog post up 🦨 www.eb-landscapedesign.com/how-to-rewil...

My lovely little Yule tree. Wishing for justice and compassion in the next turning of the planet

Hail the Holly King!! Happy solstice everyone 🎄

Talking with my friends my age, we all agree this feels like a winter from our childhood. Who knows how many snowy Christmases we'll have again

An icy one from the archives. These shards of ice were shaped by pine needles.

Chunky doe and her baby in the back easement. I'm glad these wet areas in the neighborhood resisted the developers bulldozer and remained at least fragments of ecosystem

Leaves under snow. All those invertebrates are tucked in under a hibernation blanket 😴❄️ meanwhile I'm putting up my decorations for Yule. A light in the darkness

Had to share this ridiculous fighting stance for #caturday. Marceline is throwing all the hands

I'm trying to learn more about the invertebrates that live in leaf litter so I can try to put a face to the #leavetheleaves movement. My favorite has been the Mourning Cloak Butterfly. What an evocative name for a tiny Gothic beauty

Amur honeysuckle (Lonicera maackii) is invasive here in Michigan but endangered in part of its native range in Japan 🤦 ecology is wacky

Lil blog post up on Ghost about the melancholy season

I may not have gotten an aurora borealis pic, but I do have some nice ones of my local nature trail 🍂

A teeny tiny little prairie with some little bluestem (Schizacyrium scoparium)

Appreciating the dead stuff, the unnoticed stuff, the little stuff

Some flower skeletons of coneflower (Echinacea). They got covered in snow today!

The witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) keeps getting more stunning!! ✨️

New blog post is up. I'm excited to share some snippets from my book draft 🍂 #nature eb-greene-landscape.ghost.io/against-thor...

Just walked around the long food bank line at my polling place to vote. Go vote.

The fall color is so nice right now. Maple, walnut, redbud combo is fire 🔥

Black walnut trees (Juglans nigra) have such a special place in my heart. They get a bad reputation with traditional gardeners because of the allelopathic chemicals and dropped nuts, but they are so valuable to the central MI ecosystem - and they're beautiful trees 🌳

Asters and Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) on a crispy fall day. Perfection!

Happy #Caturday! Marceline can't decide whether she's in or out of the covers

A cutie bee (Bombus) on spiderwort (Tradescantia) from my camera roll from this summer. Look at that pollen basket!

My "hell strip" landscaping. Right in the middle of the city we've got witch hazel (Hamamelis), elderberry (Sambucus), and of course Goldenrod (solidago) with some little asters and coreopsis scattered about. Mulch courtesy of a power line trim crew!

A lovely little spreading brown cup fungus (Peziza) on the mulch pile I'm finally shifting. Such a funny flabby texture!

Rosinweed (Silphium integrifolium) blooming along the Lansing River Trail. Such a perfect little fall sparkle ✨️ #NativePlants

A lovely but slightly scary poison ivy (Toxicoxendron radicans) loaded with berries for woodpeckers and flickers

Took a trip back in time to the Devonian Period at Bay Shore, MI today #fossils