VERY excited to be starting this book! #theinsectepiphany #barrettklein #biodiversityconservation #allmygardenfriends #naturebookclub #booksky

More saguaros, including these two that have been best buds for almost a hundred years! #sonorandesert #saguarocacti #carnegieagigantea #nativeplants #Arizona

🌵The #sonorandesert is so beautiful🌵 Looking SE from #tucsonmountainpark over Tucson Estates. #saguarocacti #carnegieagigantea #nativeplants #desertsky

Saguaros are so badass. We now have snow in Northern Michigan, so I'm admiring my desert photos. #nativeplants #sonorandesert #saguarocacti #carnegieagigantea #Arizona #tucsonmountainpark

Sweet columbine bloom from mid June's✨️ #aquilegiacanadensis #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #Michigangardening 🌱 #shadegardening

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

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 🌱

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

The most perfect little seedheads on white snakeroot😍 #ageratinaaltissima #seedsaving #savenativeseeds #crazyseedlady #nativeplants #Michigangardening 🌱 #shadegardening

Already missing my green summer yard🌱 🌸Common milkweed with a skipper 7/5/25 #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #ecoregion50ae #asclepiassyriaca #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation

So much life 🌱🐛🌸 #asclepiassyriaca #nativeplants #seedsaving #savenativeseeds #crazyseedlady #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #Michigangardening

Frosty garden morning❄️ Canada goldenrod, late thoroughwort & brown eyed susan seed pod #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #elsasallnativeyard

Anyone else in awe with native seed pods every year? They're just the coolest and it makes me want to save EVERY seed. I dont have that much room in my house! #echinaceapurpurea #nativeplants #seedsaving #savenativeseeds #crazyseedlady #biodiversityconservation

The large-leaf aster is establishing quite well in the T-rex mouth. Success! Can't wait to buy more discounted weird plastic 'skeletons' after Halloween to add to the carnivorous flamingo shade garden beside the house🦩☠️ #nativeplants #eurybiamacrophylla #carnivorousgarden #biodiversityconservation

Rough couple of weeks. This is my dad (& his name is not Bill). He is such a character, my favorite person on earth and a best friend. He started Hospice yesterday. Thank you, Dad, for getting my whiny childhood self outdoors and into nature. You will forever be my hero.

We have been so busy this past week that we totally spaced on our first date anniversary, OCT 12, 2021. (Best man ever) Posting this fabulous custom artwork by @keepyoursoftheart.bsky.social that was given to us for a wedding present by my bestie who knows me so well🌱😍 Isn't this amazing? 💚

I found out there are no univeral landscaping abbreviations for mapping my garden, so I made up my own. 🫴Presenting all the things I've planted in my yard!🧐 98 different species, all in a half acre of front/side yard🤩 I'm all about some #biodiversityconservation. #nativeplants #elsasallnativeyard

What well-loved milkweed looks like at the end of the season. But man, it made some serious pollinators, critters and tree frogs so happy! Thank you to all my milkweed: syriaca, incarnata, exaltata, & tuberosa🌸 You all work so hard to feed our ecosystem. #asclepiassyriaca #nativeplants #asclepias

Took a gorgeous fall walk yesterday at Aspen Park and found some orange polypores and the non-mating males of the elk herd. #Aurantiporuscroceus #fungifriends #mushroomsofmichigan #nature #GaylordMichigan #northernmichigan #fallcolors #elk

🧡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

Face down, Cotton Candy aster up... One of my few nativars is the cotton candy ass, ahem, aster.. mainly for the name (and asters just kickass in general)🩷 #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #asteroblongifolium #bombusimpatiens #ecoregion50ae #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation

Swamper seeds in the fall breeze😍 #asclepiasincarnata #nativeplants #nature #biodiversityconservation #Michigangardening 🌱 #seedsaving #savenativeseeds #crazyseedlady

I love all the bumblers, but tri-colored might bee my favorites🐝💛🤍🧡 #bombusternarius #solidago #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #elsasallnativeyard

White snakeroot in bloom🤍 🌱 Favorite tidbit about this native- it killed Abe Lincoln's mom! She drank some milk from a cow who ate white snakeroot. 🐮😵 #ageratinaaltissima #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #Michigangardening

Northern blazing star and a bumbler friend🐝💜 #liatrisscariosa #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #bombus #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation

Good morning, beautiful!😍 #symphyotrichumnovaeangliae #danausplexippus #milkweedformonarchs #biodiversityconservation #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

💜Welcome to 20 seconds of my New England aster heaven💜 Sound up for BUZZ🐝 #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #bombus #mynativeoasis

Everybee calm down! There are enough New England asters for all the bombus!💜🐝 #symphyotrichumnovaeangliae #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #bombus

Bumblers sleeping on fireworks🎆 'Fireworks' goldenrod is one I brought into the nursery last year, but no one LOVES goldenrod like I do. So most came home with me. They're gorgeous and so well-behaved! #solidago #bombus #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #fireworksgoldenrod #Hortech

Whimsical milkweed😍 #asclepiasexaltata #nativeplants #shadegardening #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #milkweedformonarchs #seedsaving #savenativeseeds #crazyseedlady

Found this beautiful friend at work yesterday. Confirmed on iNat by others, this is an unbanded wolf spider! I love his little face😍 #Hognabaltimoriana #spidersky #arachnid #bugsky #nature

I love the gold & purple flower combos in my garden every fall. 💛Brown-eyed susan & Missouri ironweed💜, 💜New England aster & Riddell's goldenrod💛 #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #vernoniamissurica #rudbeckiatriloba #symphyotrichumnovaeangliae #solidagoriddellii #Michigangardening 🌱

Intense pinky-purple garden vibes tonight🩷💜 #physostegiavirginiana #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱

A wet, sleepy bee on Riddell's goldenrod and an Isabella tiger moth caterpillar trying to devour all the flowers🐛 #Pyrrharctiaisabella #bombus #pollinators #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #solidagoriddellii #elsasallnativeyard #mynativeoasis

Witch-hazel has the coolest fall flowers💛 #Hamamelisvirginiana #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱

Chubby little lemon cuckoo bumbler can't wait for that bud to open🤣🐝💜 #symphyotrichumnovaeangliae #nativeplants #bombuscitrinus #bloomscrolling #pollinators #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #Michigangardening 🌱

This was big bluestem's year to shine in my garden. Planted as a wee babe in 2021, these are the first turkey feet I've seen! He also finally reached 6 feet this year and had a beautiful blue hue😍 #Andropogongerardii #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation

🔍Found today at work🌻 #NorthStarGardensGaylord #danausplexippus #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #Helianthusannuus #pollinators

Hot out the chrysalis🐛 #danausplexippus #milkweedformonarchs #biodiversityconservation #pollinatorgardener #homegrownnationalpark #nativeplants #nature #Michigangardening 🌱

🐸♥️🐸 #hylaversicolor #nativeplants #asclepiassyriaca #pollinatorgardener #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark

Who else's prairie looks fabulously messy at the end of the season? 🐦Birds are loving the seeds, 🐝bumblebees are clinging to the blooms, and I can't wait for it to be even bigger and better next year! #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #mynativeoasis

The view looking back at my guest room window isn't too shabby either! Pink Turtleheads, black-eyed susans, brown-eyed susans, and large leaf asters are all in bloom. Swamp milkweed pods had to photobomb🌸 #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation

I never hang out in our extra bedroom, but I sat down on the bed the other day and looked out the window. I love the view! I should probably look at my garden more from that window. Even my new rescue bed in front doesn't look too shabby🌻 #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #biodiversityconservation 🌱

Aster appreciation post🌼 These end of the season pollinator powerhouses just keep blooming. In our yard, we have arrow-leaf, large-leaf, shining, New England, and new to me this year, Cotton Candy ass, ahem... aster. Labels in alt text #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #biodiversityconservation

I love it when my flowers all comingle. Rosinweed, nonobedient plant and blue vervain🌻 #silphiumintegrifolium #physostegiavirginiana #verbenahastata #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation

💜Ooooh, my blue (read: neon light purple) mistflower has started blooming!!! 😍😍😍😍 I have a lot of great fall bloomers from the aster family: many kinds of asters, goldenrod, blue mistflower, boneset, coneflowers, yarrow, Joe pye, etc🌱 #Conocliniumcoelestinum #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #asteraceae

Enjoying the last few days of my ladies here in Northern Michigan. The gents have already flown south. #gaylordmichigan #Michigangardening 🌱 #hummingbirds #pollinators

Come see why I can get lost in the bee sounds in our native pollinator paradise🥰🐛🐝 #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱 #danausplexippus #bombus #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation

👋 🐛 #danausplexippus #milkweedformonarchs #asclepiasincarnata #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #Michigangardening 🌱

Pretty excited to watch some bumblers shove themselves inside and wiggle back out🥰🐝 The turtles are blooming! #chelone #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #Michigangardening #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation