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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder
@beautyandwonder.bsky.social
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All my photos. Hiker, gardener & iNaturalist ambassador🌿 Passionate native gardener & pollinator protector. Basket weaver & quilter. Cat mom🐈‍⬛🐈🐈‍⬛ AuDHD & easily distracted by moss, mushies & lichen🍄 ❤️Northern MI = home *happy in my naturey non-people bubble*
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Elsa 🌻 @naturalbeautyandwonder @beautyandwonder.bsky.social · Aug 9
I told all the 🐝 and 🐛 to hold on tight... a storm is rolling in🌬
All my tall prairie plants look like bobbleheads in the wind🤭
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I don't have enough space to list all the native plants seen here😍
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening #homegrownnationalpark
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Native spirea #spireaalba buds in front of Pollynation #coneflowers
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark
November 22, 2025 at 1:44 AM
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Look at this chubby butt I found in late July 2023 on my mountain mint #Pycnanthemumtenuifolium It is of the few yellow-banded bumblers I have found in my yard! #bombusterricola
#bloomscrolling #nativeplants #bugsky #pollinators #bombus #Michigangardening 🌱
November 17, 2025 at 8:50 PM
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Beautiful, native, northern blue flag iris found in June '23 on Black Lake.
#irisversicolor #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #nature #blacklakemichigan #northernmichigan
November 16, 2025 at 12:35 PM
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Blue-eyed grass #Sisyrinchiumangustifolium blooms from this past spring. This beautiful native is actually in the iris family!
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation
November 15, 2025 at 1:46 PM
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Some yellow for your Friday... bumbler and a sunflower.
#nativeplants #bombus #bombusgriseocollis #helianthusannuus #bloomscrolling #pollinators #Michigangardening 🌱
November 14, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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VERY excited to be starting this book!
#theinsectepiphany #barrettklein #biodiversityconservation #allmygardenfriends #naturebookclub #booksky
November 14, 2025 at 5:28 AM
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More saguaros, including these two that have been best buds for almost a hundred years!
#sonorandesert #saguarocacti #carnegieagigantea #nativeplants #Arizona
November 13, 2025 at 10:39 PM
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🌵The #sonorandesert is so beautiful🌵
Looking SE from #tucsonmountainpark over Tucson Estates.
#saguarocacti #carnegieagigantea #nativeplants #desertsky
November 12, 2025 at 2:05 AM
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Saguaros are so badass. We now have snow in Northern Michigan, so I'm admiring my desert photos.
#nativeplants #sonorandesert #saguarocacti #carnegieagigantea #Arizona #tucsonmountainpark
November 11, 2025 at 1:26 PM
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Sweet columbine bloom from mid June's✨️
#aquilegiacanadensis #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #Michigangardening 🌱 #shadegardening
November 10, 2025 at 1:45 AM
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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
November 7, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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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 🌱
November 6, 2025 at 2:31 AM
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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
November 4, 2025 at 3:15 AM
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The most perfect little seedheads on white snakeroot😍
#ageratinaaltissima #seedsaving #savenativeseeds #crazyseedlady #nativeplants #Michigangardening 🌱 #shadegardening
October 30, 2025 at 5:22 PM
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Already missing my green summer yard🌱
🌸Common milkweed with a skipper 7/5/25
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #ecoregion50ae #asclepiassyriaca #bugsky #pollinators #Michigangardening #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation
October 27, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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So much life 🌱🐛🌸
#asclepiassyriaca #nativeplants #seedsaving #savenativeseeds #crazyseedlady #homegrownnationalpark #biodiversityconservation #Michigangardening
October 27, 2025 at 1:15 AM
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Frosty garden morning❄️
Canada goldenrod, late thoroughwort & brown eyed susan seed pod
#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #Michigangardening 🌱 #biodiversityconservation #homegrownnationalpark #elsasallnativeyard
October 25, 2025 at 1:22 PM
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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
October 24, 2025 at 10:05 PM
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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
October 23, 2025 at 10:37 AM
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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.
October 22, 2025 at 5:11 PM
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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?
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October 20, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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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
October 17, 2025 at 1:03 AM
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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
October 15, 2025 at 10:19 PM
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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
October 12, 2025 at 12:58 PM
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🧡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
October 11, 2025 at 12:34 PM