Jessica
@jessicashen.bsky.social
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Gardening and enjoying art in the mid-atlantic east coast of North America. she/her
Absolutely overflowing with physostegia virginiana, send halp
about 18 hours ago
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Don't need to wonder who's cotyledons these are anymore (could have guessed from the empty pods next to them)
5 days ago
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Pawpaw flowers and serviceberry flowers!
8 days ago
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I could have planted spring ephemerals years ago but no. Perhaps this will be the year to prepare for next year.
14 days ago
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Bought some soil and sprinkled seeds on it. Good weekend.
24 days ago
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Accidentally putting a dozen seed packets in pants pockets through the wash counts as stratification, right?
25 days ago
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"E" is for escorting 150 pounds of dog to picnics.
add a skeleton here at some point
30 days ago
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The ideal time to vacation/be off routine is daylight savings time - completely bamboozle the circadian rhythm
about 1 month ago
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Maybe expanding to wet soil this year. Very different from my full sun dry clay. Time to plot the plot!
about 2 months ago
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Penstemon digitalis "can be semi-evergreen in the South" (
wildflower.org
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2 months ago
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I've been meaning to snap some winter pics of evergreen plants but they are currently everwhite.
2 months ago
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Native plant bios need more winter photos. "Partially evergreen" doesn't mean much.
3 months ago
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Do you - like me - suddenly need portraits of every pet in the neighborhood??
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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Contemplating if I have room for yellow or purple giant hyssop and whether to go yellow or purple (agastache nepetoides vs schrophulariifolia)
3 months ago
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I made the thin coat dog a dog coat with the thick coat of the thick coat dog, so now both dogs have winter coats. No dogs were harmed in the making of this dog coat.
3 months ago
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Definitely agree, my experience has been similar!
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
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The horrors persist, but so do the coral honeysuckle flowers.
5 months ago
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There are a few partridge pea and obedient plant putting out fresh flowers, despite most their neighbors being done for the year.
6 months ago
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Almost partridge pea harvest time
7 months ago
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A surprise hiding under the partridge peas. Rough buttonweed, Hexasepalum teres?
7 months ago
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So many late checkouts on a cloudy day. [4 pictures of bumblebees on flowers]
7 months ago
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Caraid
7 months ago
Art is just so fucking cool. I love scrolling my feed here and seeing piece after piece of what feels like the true universal language of humanity. Even if we don't share the same words you can draw a picture of something that matters to you and I will feel it in some way. I love that connection.
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The physostegia virginiana patch is constantly buzzing with dozens of bumblebees and surely other little creatures.
7 months ago
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CWG needs a metric for end of mosquito season.
7 months ago
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Share a meal with someone
8 months ago
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A different, smaller and lighter brown skipper. Not shown are a black swallowtail and a cabbage white. Excellent butterfly watching today!
8 months ago
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Weekend brunch!
8 months ago
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Bouncing back. Tree friend gave me grafting tape to bandage the stump and now 4 new lead nodes sprouting.
8 months ago
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Not even peak physostegia virginiana season yet. These are the same white starts that have blushed pinker with time.
8 months ago
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The neighborhood monarda fistulosa bloom at different times
8 months ago
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physostegia virginiana starting to bloom in earnest. this should be a straight species, pink last year, but starting off white.
8 months ago
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Same spot, 15 minutes apart, new friend: red spotted purple?! The thick vertical stem in both pictures is the same obedient plant.
8 months ago
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One of the pawpaw trees lost its main branch :(
9 months ago
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Jessica
titsay 𓆏
9 months ago
we all need a little bit of help sometimes
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A hummingbird clearwing sitting on a glass wall of an office building!!!!!
9 months ago
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New neighbors down the road clear cut the massively overgrown mess of English ivy, periwinkle, privet, and more. Should I show up with welcome to the neighborhood cookies and seedlings?
9 months ago
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Judging by the dozen+ occupied flowers, there was a rager of a bumblebee party last night and many didn't stumble home. This one didn't even find a comfy bed!
9 months ago
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Teeny tiny orange mint moth on mountain mint. Wingspan about 1 centimeter.
9 months ago
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Early check in at the bee hotel last night
9 months ago
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Look at this lil skipper I almost mistook for a clearwing moth.
9 months ago
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And a hummingbird clearwing moth!!
9 months ago
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The marigold "lawn" is doing well. It is pretty buzzy and the zebra swallowtail seems to enjoy it too. Only about 6 inches tall, so I think I'd recommend this as a lawn-to-pollinator-garden strategy.
9 months ago
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Managed to get a picture of the snowberry clearwing moth near a bumblebee, for scale. I'm constantly surprised by how tiny and easy to miss they are.
9 months ago
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A good bug day: zebra swallowtail and snowberry clearwing moth sightings!
9 months ago
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Emily J
9 months ago
Are you from one of these states? Then we need your help to save American science! The Senate Appropriations Committee will be marking up the President's Budget Request for science on Wednesday. People have been saying the proposed cuts "decimated" US science, but that's wrong: they are apocalyptic
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Rain covered serviceberry shrub, which hasn't taken tree shape yet.
9 months ago
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Zebra swallowtails are stop-in-your-tracks-under-a-blazing-noon-sun stunning.
9 months ago
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Wasn't up for doing battle this year on a patch of difficult to convert grass/weeds and just chucked tons of petite marigold seeds there. Now it's a delightful little marigold patch that's starting to bloom.
9 months ago
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Midsummer meal
9 months ago
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Rushed outside to stand in the baking sun to watch a zebra swallowtail figure 8-ing around the pawpaw trees
10 months ago
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