Ozark Roots Native Plants
@ozarkroots.bsky.social
Providing northwest Arkansas with plants that are made for here: climate-resilient, wild-type and all native to the Ozarks region. Website: https://ozarkroots.net
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Something beautiful
November 22, 2025 at 6:37 AM
Something beautiful
Some little splashes of fall color in the greenhouse these days 🍂
November 22, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Some little splashes of fall color in the greenhouse these days 🍂
The last big sale of the year is this weekend, and if you’re a gardener looking for native plants, there’s no better place to be. More info on that and other native plant stuff is in my latest newsletter: ozarkroots.net/2025/10/07/f...
October 8, 2025 at 12:36 PM
The last big sale of the year is this weekend, and if you’re a gardener looking for native plants, there’s no better place to be. More info on that and other native plant stuff is in my latest newsletter: ozarkroots.net/2025/10/07/f...
For a little light reading this Sunday morning, here’s an appreciation post for the post oak, Ozark Roots’ mascot and the epitome of everything I’m trying to do with this native plant nursery: ozarkroots.net/2025/09/21/b...
September 21, 2025 at 1:42 PM
For a little light reading this Sunday morning, here’s an appreciation post for the post oak, Ozark Roots’ mascot and the epitome of everything I’m trying to do with this native plant nursery: ozarkroots.net/2025/09/21/b...
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At an alarming pace, the Trump administration has fired climate scientists, rolled back regulations, interfered in data collection, and cut planning and emergency response funds. That puts all Americans at risk.
Read The Big Take ⬇️
Read The Big Take ⬇️
Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace
The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.
bloom.bg
September 8, 2025 at 9:30 PM
At an alarming pace, the Trump administration has fired climate scientists, rolled back regulations, interfered in data collection, and cut planning and emergency response funds. That puts all Americans at risk.
Read The Big Take ⬇️
Read The Big Take ⬇️
I’ll be back at the Bentonville Farmers Market this Saturday! More info on that and other updates is on the blog.
End-of-summer newsletter
It’s been a hot, dry marathon of a summer, but school’s back in session, fall is on the horizon, and I’ve got several updates to share with you all. First, some dates. My summer hiatus is over, and…
ozarkroots.net
August 19, 2025 at 1:55 AM
I’ll be back at the Bentonville Farmers Market this Saturday! More info on that and other updates is on the blog.
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A little sample of the pollinators visiting the garden this week. It’s a nice reminder of the the visitors of all shapes and sizes that will come when you plant native species — there’s so much more to pollinators than honeybees and monarchs 🐝🦋
August 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A little sample of the pollinators visiting the garden this week. It’s a nice reminder of the the visitors of all shapes and sizes that will come when you plant native species — there’s so much more to pollinators than honeybees and monarchs 🐝🦋
A little sample of the pollinators visiting the garden this week. It’s a nice reminder of the the visitors of all shapes and sizes that will come when you plant native species — there’s so much more to pollinators than honeybees and monarchs 🐝🦋
August 10, 2025 at 12:59 PM
A little sample of the pollinators visiting the garden this week. It’s a nice reminder of the the visitors of all shapes and sizes that will come when you plant native species — there’s so much more to pollinators than honeybees and monarchs 🐝🦋
Those invasives!
![Comic. The Most-Observed Animal and Plant in Each State on iNaturalist. (Not the most common species in the state, just the one people have reported the most times.) [labeled map of the US] WA: Mallard/Western Sword Fern. OR: Mule Deer/Western Ponderosa Pine. CA: Western Fence Lizard/California Poppy. HI: Green Sea Turtle/‘Ōhi’a Lehua. ID: Mallard/Big Sagebrush. NV: Common Side-Blotched Lizard/Creosote Bush. MT: White-Tailed Deer/Common Yarrow. WY: American Bison/Sticky Geranium. UT: Mule Deer/Utah Juniper. AZ: Ornate Tree Lizard/Saguaro. CO: Mule Deer/Great Mullein. NM: Mule Deer/Creosote Bush. AK: Moose/Fireweed. ND: American Bison/Prairie Rose. SD: American Bison/Hoary Vervain. NE: American Robin/Common Milkweed. KS: Ornate Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. OK: Pond Slider/Eastern Redcedar. TX: Northern Cardinal/Pinladies. MN, WI, IL: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Common Milkweed. IA, MI: White-Tailed Deer/Common Milkweed. MO: Brown-Belted Bumble Bee/Amur Honeysuckle. AR: Three-toed Box Turtle/Chinese Privet. LA: Green Anole/Baldcypress. IN: American Robin/Amur Honeysuckle. OH: Eastern Pondhawk/Virginia Springbeauty. KY: Common Box Turtle/Amur Honeysuckle. TN: American Robin/Christmas Fern. MS: Northern Cardinal/Pale Pitcher Plant. AL: Gulf Fritillary/American Sweetgum. GA: Green Anole/American Sweetgum. FL: Brown Anole/White Beggarticks. NY: Eastern Gray Squirrel/White Snakeroot. PA: White-Tailed Deer/Garlic Mustard. WV: White-Tailed Deer/Great Rhododendron. VA: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern Poison Ivy. MD: White-Tailed Deer/Wineberry. DE: Fowler’s Toad/American Pokeweed. NC: Eastern Gray Squirrel/Christmas Fern. SC: Northern Cardinal/American Sweetgum. NJ: Spotted Lanternfly/Common Mugwort. VT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. NH: White-Tailed Deer/Eastern White Pine. MA: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Eastern White Pine. CT: Common Eastern Bumble Bee/Striped Wintergreen. RI: American Herring Gull. ME: American Herring Gull/Canadian Bunchberry.](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:cz73r7iyiqn26upot4jtjdhk/bafkreic4f56ywseq7bqc7zza3y76pxyzn5c5htebrior6jdbrfszhuiquy@jpeg)
August 9, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Those invasives!
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Rereading Rachel Carson's THE EDGE OF THE SEA, from 1955, where she casually mentions that species are migrating northward and that this is "of course, related to the widespread change of climate that seems to have set in about the beginning of the century and is now well recognized."
July 14, 2025 at 11:32 PM
Rereading Rachel Carson's THE EDGE OF THE SEA, from 1955, where she casually mentions that species are migrating northward and that this is "of course, related to the widespread change of climate that seems to have set in about the beginning of the century and is now well recognized."
In the prairie and the garden, Liatris has arrived.
July 13, 2025 at 7:02 PM
In the prairie and the garden, Liatris has arrived.
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The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.
By @rhersher.bsky.social and @lsommer.bsky.social
By @rhersher.bsky.social and @lsommer.bsky.social
Floods are getting more dangerous around the country, not just in Texas
The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.
n.pr
July 7, 2025 at 6:03 PM
The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.
By @rhersher.bsky.social and @lsommer.bsky.social
By @rhersher.bsky.social and @lsommer.bsky.social
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Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
Wild how the Fed chair saying that *entire regions of the United States* won’t be able to get a mortgage in the next decade barely registered as a news event
June 18, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Let's check in and see how summer temperatures are trending in Alaska. 🔥🔥🔥
June 13, 2025 at 6:26 PM
Let's check in and see how summer temperatures are trending in Alaska. 🔥🔥🔥
If you’ve ever wondered what baby cacti look like, now you know. It’s me, I’ve wondered. I always get a kick out of native succulents.
June 13, 2025 at 6:46 PM
If you’ve ever wondered what baby cacti look like, now you know. It’s me, I’ve wondered. I always get a kick out of native succulents.
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The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.
Swiss glacier collapse renews focus on risks of climate change as glaciers retreat around the world
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.
bit.ly
May 30, 2025 at 10:30 AM
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.
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USDA says it will return information about climate change to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down www.theverge.com/news/666150/...
Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites
“It feels good to win one, right?”
www.theverge.com
May 13, 2025 at 8:14 PM
USDA says it will return information about climate change to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down www.theverge.com/news/666150/...
The Ozark sundrop, aka Missouri evening primrose, is absolutely exploding in the garden right now. Looking almost tropical with its giant yellow flowers, this lovely, tough plant grows low and sprawling in full sun and can take crappy and dry soil, too. I’ve got several seedlings in progress now.
May 13, 2025 at 12:24 PM
The Ozark sundrop, aka Missouri evening primrose, is absolutely exploding in the garden right now. Looking almost tropical with its giant yellow flowers, this lovely, tough plant grows low and sprawling in full sun and can take crappy and dry soil, too. I’ve got several seedlings in progress now.
April showers…
... have brought the May flowers, y'all. It's a good time to have a garden full of native plants. And this is just the first wave of the growing season.
... have brought the May flowers, y'all. It's a good time to have a garden full of native plants. And this is just the first wave of the growing season.
April showers…
... have brought the May flowers, y'all. It's a good time to have a garden full of native plants. And this is just the first wave of the growing season.
ozarkroots.net
May 4, 2025 at 12:32 AM
April showers…
... have brought the May flowers, y'all. It's a good time to have a garden full of native plants. And this is just the first wave of the growing season.
... have brought the May flowers, y'all. It's a good time to have a garden full of native plants. And this is just the first wave of the growing season.
Native plants looking gorgeous in the garden amid all this rain.
April 30, 2025 at 12:34 AM
Native plants looking gorgeous in the garden amid all this rain.
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“We’d be losing the cornerstone report to communicate to the public the risks we face with climate change and how we can move forward,” said Dustin Mulvaney, professor of environmental studies @SJSU, an author on the southwest regional chapter.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
National Climate Assessment Authors Are Dismissed by Trump Administration (Gift Article)
The Trump administration told researchers it was “releasing” them from their roles. It puts the future of the assessment, which is required by Congress, in doubt.
www.nytimes.com
April 29, 2025 at 3:36 AM
“We’d be losing the cornerstone report to communicate to the public the risks we face with climate change and how we can move forward,” said Dustin Mulvaney, professor of environmental studies @SJSU, an author on the southwest regional chapter.
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
www.nytimes.com/2025/04/28/c...
I take the same type of picture every spring, but I just never get tired of it. Look at the incredible root system on this tiny purple coneflower sprout. That’s the special sauce for many native species: building in drought tolerance, absorbing carbon and pollutants, and holding onto soil.
April 24, 2025 at 12:36 AM
I take the same type of picture every spring, but I just never get tired of it. Look at the incredible root system on this tiny purple coneflower sprout. That’s the special sauce for many native species: building in drought tolerance, absorbing carbon and pollutants, and holding onto soil.
Happy #EarthDay! It’s the perfect time to remind folks that no matter what environmental issue they care about — climate, pollution, birds, bees — native plants can help solve it. And I’ll be at Botanical Garden of the Ozarks’ big spring garden market is this Saturday to sell some. See you there!
April 22, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Happy #EarthDay! It’s the perfect time to remind folks that no matter what environmental issue they care about — climate, pollution, birds, bees — native plants can help solve it. And I’ll be at Botanical Garden of the Ozarks’ big spring garden market is this Saturday to sell some. See you there!
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🧪Pope Francis had a scientific background. He understood the threat to humanity posed by #ClimateChange, and he was not afraid to speak out on the issue.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
How Pope Francis Helped Inspire the Global Movement Against Climate Change (Gift Article)
Francis framed climate change as an urgent spiritual issue and helped push the world to take action.
www.nytimes.com
April 21, 2025 at 6:50 PM
🧪Pope Francis had a scientific background. He understood the threat to humanity posed by #ClimateChange, and he was not afraid to speak out on the issue.
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
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The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
www.npr.org
April 18, 2025 at 2:50 PM
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.