Enjoy A tiny sweat bee loaded with pollen on a black eyed Susan (variety unknown)! We also saw a green sweat bee (rare) and an orange belted bumble bee. All native bees to our area, so very exciting! #garden #insect #bee

My wild strawberries are making their first TINEH berries. 🥹 #gardening

I wanted to use Jenny for scale and took the cutest photo ever. LOOK AT HER FACE. Right after this I released her from sit and she tackled me. #borderheeler #dogs #gardendog

Saw the clearest and brightest rainbow ever yesterday. #rainbow

Guess who got to use her work poncho! #nursery

My Salvatore Blue Salvia I grew from seed is blooming!!! I really love the color! The darker bracts make it look like it’s blooming even after the flowers fall off. I over fertilized these guys as seedlings and damaged them, I’m so proud they pulled through. #gardening #garden #flowers

Every year the swallows come to nest above Micheals and Famous Footwear. Both nests had four large healthy babies in it. #birds

Annnd one for RayChus! #artfight #art #digitalart

Bella the nursery dog enjoys laying in the parking lot. We’ve tried to stop her and the best we can do is cone her off. Ear placement is 10/10. #nursery #dog

Kaypeacreations just posted a new YouTube video after having to take a long hiatus. It’s such a cute one!! #youtube #youtuber #minecraft

I got painted lady butterfly caterpillars on my fig leaf hollyhocks! I had no idea hollyhocks were one of their host plants!!! Mine are getting big and are hopefully healthy enough to support these guys. I’m creating an ecosystem AND a garden and it’s so exciting. #gardening #butterfly

Found this cutie behind the greenhouse, nice and moist back there. #insects #snail

One of the lily pads at work bloomed finally. It’s like a reward for keeping their water topped up. #nursery #gardening #flower

don't ask me for directions. i don't know where we are. i don't know where other places are relative to here. i don't know the names of roads or what highway numbers mean. i just get in the passenger seat and eventually arrive at my destination

A bit different from my usual birds... an Owlbear cub!

Surprisingly pretty blooms from the greenhouse. #gardening #greenhouse #nursery

Today I learned there are yarrow root aphids?! I could tell something was off, looked closer and every plant was infested. I had struggled with regular aphids on these too so it was time to rip them out. In gardening you win some, you loose some. Having a bug nerd daughter helps a lot. #gardening

The only fireworks I like are umbels of dill exploding in my garden. #gardening #bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #SmallJoys 🌱

We need to plant a lot more trees you guys. Just plant them wherever. Plant one right now.

My fig leaved hollyhocks are getting their fig shaped leaves! These were mixed colored seeds so I can’t wait to see what colors I got! Bonus lady bug shot. #garden #gardening

I am so proud of my two wild strawberry plants. Boy did I struggle growing these from seed, lost so many tiny seedlings. Hoping these two will spread themselves around. #gardening #native #plants

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I released about 500 native praying mantis in my yard and they are endlessly entertaining. Some jump away from you and some stare you down for a photo op. #native #insects

My first Lady of Shallot rose bloom from my bare root rose I planted. She’s small but oh so lovely. I love orange and purple together so this miss violet butterfly bush is a perfect compliment. #garden #gardening #rose

Bowl o' doofuses #pixelart #art #queerart

The first visitor to our milkweed patch seedlings. A blue milkweed beetle. They can in numbers decimate plants so I’m a bit afraid for my small seedlings but also planted them to help native insects. 🫢 #insects #beetle #gardening

Hurray, new Kevin is here!! 🩷♥️🧡💛💚🩵💜 youtooz.com/products/cro...

New personal painting. Inspired by the scene in Fantasia that I feel like I’ve built my entire art style and personality around.

I found two White lined sphinx moth caterpillars in the nursery at work. My daughter came and picked them up and relocated them to our garden. #nursery #insect #moth

*waits patiently for bumble bees.* #garden #gardening #flowers

Anyway I have effectively lost 5 (now 6) full days of work because of these many clusterfucks so I would seriously appreciate folks checking out my shop: Thornwolf.com/shop And also my ko-fi: ko-fi.com/thornwolf Was real sobering giving my husband a list of clients to refund in case I died.

"If it fits, I sits", vulture loaf edition. Vultures love to laying down like cat loafs when they have a comfy, wide space. Our staff has been collecting copious vulture boat pictures and made this super cute set featuring Yolo, Siri & Stimp, and Mr. Sev 🪶

It's not a lot but I have a small sale going on in my shop, so you can get yourself a nice little treat~ ⭐ magitekscraftworks.etsy.com -------------- [ #magitekart #art #shop #sale #suclpture #crafts #smallshop #resinart #keycaps #finalfantasy #chronotrigger #nintendoart]

A digger bee all up in my penstemon today as I planted 4 more. It was such a joy to watch them shimmy into each flower. #bee #gardening

Morning, morning (ghostpup) teaser! ✨ Support the creation of this short on the link below! On a routine job, a jaded young witch encounters the ghost of a dog that is mysteriously immune to her anti-ghost spells.

I ended up killing my lavender seedlings for my planned lavender hedge to help deter aphids from my roses. So I decided to try propagating some and a month later I have baby plants! Now all I have to do is not kill these ones. #garden #lavender #gardening

Got some Totoro mini figures up in my shop for $10 each! I don't usually have items this cheap so get in on this! 🛒 VerdantSculpts.com

taking what's not yours

Photos from the nursery today. #nursery #flowers

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Planted my Arabella clematis I got from Brushwood Nursery (great online company). The roots looked amazing and I can’t wait until it’s big enough to grow into my Eden roses. I choose this clematis for its long bloom time, easy care and color compatibility. #garden #gardening #roses #clematis

I have no interest in running a Patreon, making video content, having sponsors. None of this is life. None of it is art. Can't we just make things that people want and buy the things we want from people who make them? Why must life be performative? Why must we fund the existence of major companies?

Manuscript planter (greenware 💚)

Gorgeous Tiger Swallowtail at the nursery today. #insects #nursery

Every time I make pancakes Jenny waits patiently for her own tiny pancake. #borderheeler #dog #cutedog #dogs

I got all 20 of my scabiosa seedlings (Fama white and blue) planted. Feeling very accomplished with my success with growing from seed for the first time. I have many more seedlings to go! #garden #seedlings #gardening #plants

If you have nsfw set to "hide" I implore you to set it to "warn". You still won't see anything except for a blurred post Otherwise once they roll out account-wide adult content labeling a whole lot of people including me are going to disappear from your timelines, even our sfw text posts

Peonies from my garden… wishing you a peaceful day. 🩷 #PNW #Photography #BoomScrolling #Gardens

if you are someone who makes anything, anything at all, with your own real brain and hands, I respect you so so much and am begging you to keep doing it.

The Museum of Nature in downtown Ottawa. A castle-like building opened in 1912. Renovated and expanded recently, a glass tower was added over the main entrance, where it now houses an illuminated moon. See comments for print info!