This is Lexa. She really hopes you’ll be her valentine. Wouldn’t want to waste this look on just anybody. 14/10 (IG: bambiandlexa)

My native plant garden has really become a fun habitat to observe and photograph in recent years. So much life shows up to take advantage of it, and I hope this slideshow I've created really showcases that. #nativeplants #nativegarden #gardening #Wisconsin www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xw30...

My first flower of 2026 is in a very Monday morning mood. Astranthium ciliatum, Western Daisy. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

There's not room on this flower for the both of us. #fallback to August 5. Two bees on Helenium amarum, Bitter Sneezeweed. #bees #nativeplants

🆘 Euth List! Meet Onix! Was found running loose but owner reclaimed him. Then they changed their mind & brought him back. Lived w/adults & 3kids 6-15yrs & was friendly, outgoing & playful w/them! He loves plushies & chew toys, knows cues in English & Spanish! 🚨 Urgent Foster Needed Pls Repost Him!

Prairie verbena in the garden today, patiently waiting for spring. Glandularia bipinnatifida. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

American Bumblebee in the Trumpet Vines. #Fallbackflowers #fallback to July 30, 2024. Try to be the bee, if only for a moment. #bees #nativeplants

An Eastern Carpenter Bee in the Maypops. Xylocopa virginiana and Passiflora incarnata. #Fallbackflowers #fallback to July 26. #nativeplants #bees

I was going to take a picture of my winter sowing containers covered in snow, but I didn't make it off the porch. Maybe later. Plants in alt text. Bonus picture of my Mom's cardinals. #gardening #nativeplants

🌱 The Kansasforests.org 2026 sale is on. Please consider buying natives for your spring planting. Would love to see them sell out. They will ship everywhere. Thanks and share, share, share…

Summer bees. #Fallbackflowers #Fallback to July 21. #bees #gardening 🌱

Just learned that feds want to use the Patuxent Research Refuge for DHS and Secret Service training and are planning to clear a whole lot of forest intended for conversation and scientific research to do so. I called my congressperson. There is a lot going on but they cannot have Patuxent for this

A Brilliant Jumping Spider from last summer. Phidippus clarus. #Fallback to July 16. #spiders #arachnid #gardening 🕷🌱

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, dark morph. #Fallback to July 14. #butterflies #gardening 🌱

One of my many gardening mistakes of 2025, finally fixed. Tips on growing Tall Thistle in alt text. #Fallbackflowers to May 12 and July 12. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

Bitter Sneezeweed is a common annual lawn "weed" around here and I don't know why more people don't grow it in gardens. I first planted it last year, so maybe I'll have my answer this summer. Helenium amarum. #Fallbackflowers from July for #Sundayyellow #nativeplants #butterflies

A bumblebee on Yellow Giant Hyssop from July 7. #fallbackflowers #nativeplants #bees #insectthursday

Getting started on my winter sowing in containers. Until I finish, here's a #fallback from July 2 for #Fridayflowers. #nativeplants🌱 #gardening

Butterflies I raised from eggs on host plants in 2025. Best butterfly season I’ve ever had!

Happy New Year! 2025 was a shitty year in most ways, but it was a good year for butterflies. These guys (and you guys!) saved me from total despair. I hope you all will fortify yourselves against 2026 by planting more native plants: nativeplantfinder.nwf.org xerces.org/pollinator-c... #butterflies

Birds, bugs, fish, whatever. Let’s see some #NewYearsEveIridescence 🌿 Pipevine Swallowtail, Battus philenor. #invertebrates #butterflies #lepidoptera

Birds, bugs, fish, whatever. Let’s see some #NewYearsEveIridescence 🌿 Mottled Tortoise Beetle, Deloyala guttata. #invertebrates #beetles

Birds, bugs, fish, whatever. Let’s see some #NewYearsEveIridescence 🌿 Widow Skimmer, Libellula luctuosa. #invertebrates #dragonflies

Birds, bugs, fish, whatever. Let’s see some #NewYearsEveIridescence 🌿 Red-spotted Purple, Limenitis arthemis. #butterflies #invertebrates #lepidoptera

For my winter sowing, I had planned not to buy any native plant seeds and just use the seeds I gathered, but I changed my mind. These are all plants I've tried and failed to start before, so I decided to give them another try. More in alt text. #nativeplants #wintersowing 🌱 #gardening

Happy Holidays from the ok pets: Ella, Enzo, Frankie, Patch, Pierre and Mia. #Christmas #cats #dogs 🐶🐱

A bumblebee taking a break to clean up on a Swamp Rose Mallow last summer for #magentamonday. #fallbackflowers #fallback to June 22. #bees #nativeplants

For #SixonSaturday, six pollinators on Perfumeballs, since I'm waiting for colder weather to do my winter sowing. We might see 80°F for Christmas! This little cutie is native to Texas, Oklahoma, and Kansas, and it blooms all summer. Gaillardia suavis. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱 🦋🐝 #insects

There's a reason they call it Bee Balm. Brown-belted Bumblebee sleeping on Monarda citriodora. #fallbackflowers #fallback to June 18. #bumblebees #bees #nativeplants #insectthursday 🌱

#Fallback to June 17, a Snowberry Clearwing Moth. They are currently in cocoons under the leaf litter around their favorite host plants, Snowberry and Coralberry shrubs (Symphoricarpos) and honeysuckle (Lonicera). Hemaris diffinis. #moths #lepidoptera #fallbackflowers #gardening #nativeplants

Garden update: I started digging this island for native plants last February, but I had a lupus flare and had to stop digging before I finished. Then summer happened and things got a little wild, but I'm finally digging out again. Slowly. Gotta make room for my new seeds. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

2 pm Tomorrow, Saturday, Dec 13th, St. Louis County Library event at Lewis & Clark Branch The Art of Caring for Carnivorous Plants 🌱 presented by St. Louis Carnivorous Plant Society Register www.slcl.org/events/art-c...

I donated some native plant seeds to the public library last month, but their seeds were all veggies and I'm afraid they will languish amongst the curcurbits. So, I thought I'd post them just in case anyone local is following me. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

These moths only like my petunias, so I looked up the native plants they like and top was Evening Primroses. Then I looked up this mystery plant (on Seek) in my island bed, and it says it is an Evening Primrose. We'll see! White-lined Sphinx Moth, Hyles lineata. #mothmonday #nativeplants #moths 🌱

This year, I have (mostly unintentionally) practiced the Underpants Gnomes Theory of wildlife gardening: Step 1: Acquire native plants Step 2: ? Step 3: Profit!* But seriously, it works. (Photos from August 26.) #nativeplants #insects #underpantsgnomes

A Margined Calligrapher Fly from June for #flyday. Toxomerus marginatus. #EastCoastKin #gardening #insects 🌱🪰

My garden from June 2nd for #fallbackflowers. I'm trying to get motivated to clear out some weedy areas so I can sow more seeds right in the ground this winter. Those did better for me last year than the seeds in containers. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

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Good morning. It's very soggy and gray in my garden today, so here are some friends from Summer. #Saturdayorange #butterflies #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

A Northern Plushback Fly on Bitter Sneezeweed for #flyday. This syrphid flower fly is found in a large area from the East Coast to Texas and is common in aquatic environments where the larvae can develop in standing water. Palpada vinetorum. #insects #flies #EastCoastKin #nativeplants 🪰

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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture. They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1

It's cold and rainy today, so here's a #Fallback to May 25, a Jagged Ambush Bug on a Western Daisy. Maybe not the best spot for an ambush, but good for a picture. Phymata fasciata. #nativeplants #insects #invertebrates

For #SixonSaturday, I don't have anything blooming in my garden, so these are some of plants I hope to grow next year from the seeds I collected over the summer. IDs in alt text. #nativeplants #gardening 🌱

Butterflies keep hatching out in the garden, but most of my flowers have died from frost. I'm thinking about natives that I might start in warmer weather for containers to bring in and outdoors next fall. Suggestions? Maybe Prairie Verbena, annual Bee Balm? #butterflies #nativeplants #gardening

Good morning. The cosmos have finally been killed by frost and the only flowers left are a few aster seedlings. I think these will be my last butterfly and bumblebee sightings for this year, although our weather is still so warm that I could be wrong. #butterflies 🦋 #gardening #nativeplants

Well, the sun came out today, but it's cold and quiet except for the wind. This is a video I took of the hummingbirds frolicking in late September. They're always extra frisky when they're about to set out on their southern migration. #birds #hummingbirds #gardening 🌱

This is an interesting study looking at the availability of nectar flowers for migrating Monarchs in the Great Plains flyway. Make sure to download the appendices if you want the plant lists. #butterflies #nativeplants esajournals.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....

Good morning. Today will be our last sunny day before the first hard freeze tomorrow. This Orange Sulphur was in the garden yesterday, along with the last few Gulf Fritillaries. #Saturdayorange #butterflies #gardening 🌱🦋

Another $300 was tacked on today due to Banana's oopsie with her graft coming apart and becoming infected. The total is a smidgen over $9000 so far. We also have another $2800 coming for chemo. A $6000 estimate has turned into almost $11k. Shares are incredibly appreciated ♡