🍃🪴🌱🌲 #plantsky #gardensky #gardeningfeed #PNWgardening #PNWgardener #horticulture Here's a bunch of flowers pre-arrangement I've just gathered. Four views, same bunch. There are at least nine species in here and two cultivars of one species. How many can you name? I will post list later.

🌱🪴🌿🍃 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #plants #nativeplants #naturalists My grouping of Sidalcea hendersonii bloom spikes. This is from two plants. I have a third plant, but the deer had a happy meal at the end of this winter and it's yet to catch up.

🌿🍃🌱 #naturalists #gardeningfeed #gardensky #plants Papaver somniferum, from a packet labeled "Antique Shades Mix." This color is typical of Papaver setigerum, the Poppy of Troy. It's so close to the opium poppy (Papaver somniferum), it's sometimes considered a subspecies of it.

🌱🪴🌿🍃 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #plants #nativeplants #naturalists This is one of many Dichelostemma congesta (Ookow) in my native plant garden (Corvallis, Oregon). In the background is a red Papaver rhoeas (Corn Poppy), a non-native that accidentally-intentionally found its way here.

🌲🍃🌱🍃 #horticulture #organic-gardening #gardeningfeed #gardensky #PNWgardening #PNWgardeners This is Papaver setiferum or some hybrid thereof. I bought a packet of seeds that I think was labeled "Papaver hybrid(s)" or some such. I have a few others in the plot that look similar but not exact.

🌲🍃🌱🌿🍃 #horticulture #naturalists #organic-gardening #natives #gardeningfeed #gardensky #PNWgardening #PNWgardeners My HENDERSON'S CHECKERMALLOW turning into a mini-hollyhock:

🍃🌲🌱🌿 #organic-gardening #gardeningfeed #gardensky #naturalists Tomorrow, May 20, is World Bee Day. I will be traveling the next few days so I thought I'd post this now. It's my ode to bees from last year but it's still relevant -- bees are still in trouble. open.substack.com/pub/joeseals...

🌲🍃🌱🌿🍃 #horticulture #naturalists #organic-gardening #natives #gardeningfeed #gardensky #PNWgardening #PNWgardeners Started blooming yesterday -- Sidalcea hendersonii, HENDERSON'S CHECKERMALLOW. Becoming rare in Oregon. In my native landscape:

🌲🍃🌱 #organic-gardening #gardeningfeed #gardensky #PNWgardening #PNWgardeners Started a week or so ago -- Allium cernuum, our native Nodding Onion, in my front native landscape. Some day, I'll learn how to get full depth of focus using my cell phone camera.

🌱🌲🍃 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardening 2 weeks ago, I posted a pic of my 'Princess Victoria Louise' poppy. After producing several flower stalks, the stalks succumbed to a stem rot. 2 stalks did bloom. Sigh. But soon thereafter, several more stalks appeared and thus:

🍃🥀🌱🌿🌲 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #organic-gardening #PNWgardening Started opening yesterday -- Iris (Bearded) 'Rhizome Cowboy':

🌲🌿🌱🥀🍃 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardening Started opening yesterday -- Iris (Bearded) 'Scrumpdiliumptious':

🌲🌿🍃🌱🥀 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #organic-gardening #PNWgardening #PNWgardener Started blooming yesterday -- Iris (Bearded) 'Sasparilla':

🌲🌿🍃🌱🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardening #PNWgardener Started blooming two days ago -- Iris (Bearded) 'Tumalo Sunset':

🌾🌲🌿🍃🌱🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardener #PNWgardening A successful edging combo: Achillea x lewisii 'King Edward' and Campanula portenschlagiana

🥀🌱🌿🌲 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardener A couple better photos of Iris (Bearded) 'Girly Girl':

🌲🌿🍃🌱🥀 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #organic-gardening #PNWgardener A sweet pea from "Cheri Amour," a blend of five colors including this salmon and pale pink bicolor. Seeds were sown last fall, germinated well, hung around through winter with three nights of 19°F, and exploded through spring.

🌲🌿🌱🌾🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardener Started opening yesterday -- Iris (Bearded) 'All About Spring's:

🌾🌲🌿🍃🌱🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardener #horticulture #naturalists This is part of my front landscape. It's a small plot. I counted and now there's 1,000,007 flowers blooming. 43 species within, 75% natives. More than 25 pollinators, of ~10 species, working on it today.

🌾🌲🌿🍃🌱🥀 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #organic-gardening #PNWgardener Iris (Bearded) 'Girly Girl'. [This isn't the best photo. This bloom - its first - was hard to get a full shot of. Its falls (lower petals) were oddly cupped and held close to the stem. I'll try again.

🌾🌲🌿🍃🌱🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardener Iris douglasiana, our native Douglas Iris.

🥀🌾🌱🌿🌲 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardener Non-native Baptisia 'Cherries Jubilee' in amongst native annuals (Nemophila menziesii, Limnanthus douglasii, Limnanthus alba, Eschscholzia California) and tall purplish blooms of Camassia quamash. Sorry, not the best pic of Baptisia.

🌲🌿🌱🌾🥀 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #organic-gardening #PNWgardener Iris (Bearded) 'Home of the Blues' opened yesterday May 6.

🌾🌲🌿🍃🌱🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardeners Here's a truly STUFFED hanging basket. I'm not sure I've counted everything but it includes: Fuchsias (three cultivars) Tradescantia zebrina 'Deep Purple' Muehlenbeckia axillaris Lamium maculattum 'Purple Dragon' + more...

🌾🌲🌿🍃🌱🥀 #organic-gardening #PNWgardener #gardeningfeed #gardensky A small piece of one bed today:

🥀🌾🌱🌿🌲 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardener Iris (Bearded) 'Irish Beauty' opened yesterday. This is it today:

🌲🌿🌱🌾🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardeners 'Sun Shine In', Bearded Iris, matching the weather here today. Not a large flower; maybe just half the size of the others I've posted over the last few days.

🌲🥀🌾🌱🌿 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardeners It's not fully open yet but I thought I'd post this anyway. Bearded Iris 'Grateful Red'.

🌿🌱🌾🥀🌲 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #organic-gardening #PNWgardeners I've been growing African violets off and on since 1975. This one just might be my favorite. Streptocarpus (sect. Saintpaulia) ionanthus 'Ann':

🌲🥀🌾🌱🌿 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #organic-gardening #PNWgardener Started opening up, very slowly, about 3-4 days ago, Bearded Iris 'Garden Time':

🌿🌱🌾🥀🌲 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #PNWgardeners #organic-gardening I first thought this to be Rhododendron oreodoxa but looking closely, I'm not so sure. Could it be R. souliei? A neighborhood shrub, struggling under a rooty pine.

🌾🌲🌿🍃🌱🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #PNWgardener #organic-gardening Fun with patio pots -- one for color (a thriller, a filler, and a spiller), one for succulents (three species/hybrids crammed in there):

🌾🌲🌿🍃🌱🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardener First Bearded Iris to bloom, 'Royalty Remembered':

🌲🥀🌾🌱🌿 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #organic-gardening #PNWgardener Started blooming yesterday (4/21) -- Iris douglasiana 'Canyon Snow' (selected from Iris douglasiana seedlings at the Santa Barbara Botanic Garden back in the 70s; long mistakenly thought to be a PCHybrid):

🌱🥀🌾🌿🍃🌲 #organic-gardening #PNWgardeners #gardeningfeed #gardensky I bought this PCH Iris from a small mail-order company, the name of whom I've forgotten, last year. Planted last fall and grew very well; first open flower today. This is 'Bonus Points':

🌱🌿🌾🥀🌲 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgardener My Iris PCH 'King Salmon', a couple days later (4/19):

🌲🥀🌾🌿🌱 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #PNWgardening #organic-gardening Iris Pacific Coast Hybrid 'King Salmon'. Planted out last fall; now with 20+ buds/flowers.

🌱🌿🌾🥀🌲 #gardensky #gardeningfeed #organic-gardening #PNWgarden Baby-blue-eyes (Nemophila menziesii), Meadowfoam (Limnanthus douglasii), and the little pink thing, top and slightly right, is Seablush (Valeriana [Plectritus] congesta.

🌲🥀🌾🌿🌱. #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWgarden Papaver orientale hybrid 'Princess Victoria Louise'

🌱🌿🌾🥀🌲 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening Vanessa cardui, the Painted Lady. On my Baby Blue Eyes. Took me a while to catch her sitting still for a nano-second without scaring her off with my shadow. I may have food plants in this garden for her but I'm not going to tell her just yet.

🌱🌿🌾🌲🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky There is bleeding heart and then there are bleeding hearts. The "Old-fashioned" bleeding heart is different enough from our west coast and east coast native species (and all their hybrids) that taxonomists have given it a different name. More in comments...

🌱🌿🌾🌲🌧️🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky Narcissus (Daffodil) 'Lovely Linden'. First opening April 3, 2026. #organic-gardening #PNWGardening

🌱🌿🌾🌲🌧️🥀 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening #PNWGarden #drysummer A mixed bouquet of my Narcissus/Daffodils from the cutting garden, March 28, 2026:

🌱🌿 #gardeningfeed #gardensky This is the second part of my series on weed management -- it looks at what to do when you get them: open.substack.com/pub/joeseals...

🍽️ #WhatsCooking A ramen bowl I made. Made a pork-miso-dashi-soy stock. Topped with thin slices of marinated pork, carrots, bok-choy, shiitake, cilantro, and jammy eggs. The noodles are fresh-made from the Asian market.

🌱🌿🌾 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #botany Rhodanthemum hosmariense, shot today 3/24. It's been holding buds since last November, occasionally allowing one to open. But now, with warmer weather, it's starting to really pop. Those are various native wildflower species around it.

🌱🌿🌾 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #horticulture #botany #organic-gardening I think it's time to think about weeds: open.substack.com/pub/joeseals...

🌱🌿 #gardeningfeed ##gardensky Another daff/Narcissus opened. It started yesterday, St. Patrick's Day, hence the faintest of lime green on the inner portions of the tepals. ;) This was here before I moved in. I'm leaning towards 'Barret Browning'. What about 'Siempre Avanti' or 'Flower Record'?

🌱 #gardeningfeed #gardensky My "spring" calendar of bloom, 2026 so far, in approximate order: Rhodanthemum hosmariense Clematis cirrhosa ‘Langsdowne Gem’ Arctostaphylos ‘Austin Griffiths’ Bergenia ‘Tubby Andrews’ Narcissus papyraceus Helleborus ‘Sparkling Diamond’ Helleborus ‘Golden Lotus’

🌿🌱 #gardeningfeed #gardensky #organic-gardening My Narcissus 'Cassata' (a split-corona daffodil):