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sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
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Uruguaya 🇺🇾 She/her/ella. Birdwatching and flower gardening from seed in zone 7a.
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sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 A bouquet I picked and delivered to my mom yesterday. Some of my earliest memories are of her showing me flowers in my great-grandma’s backyard ❤️
A bouquet of dahlias, strawflowers, snapdragons, hummingbird mint, ageratum, painted daisies, angelonia, salvia, and black eyed Susans in a cream ceramic vase held in front of a gray wall.
September 29, 2023 at 1:47 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 Made with lots of love for a friend who is going through a tough time.
A hand holding a tan ceramic vase with brown leaf details which contains a colorful bouquet of ageratum, pansies, zinnias, celosia, painted daisies, angelonia, black eyed Susans, white vervain, salvia, and cypress clippings in front of a plain gray wall. Closer look at the same hand holding a tan ceramic vase with brown leaf details which contains a colorful bouquet of ageratum, pansies, zinnias, celosia, painted daisies, angelonia, black eyed Susans, white vervain, salvia, and cypress clippings in front of a plain gray wall.
September 21, 2023 at 10:10 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
I’m laughing so hard at this picture of my kitten who was so relaxed by a forehead massage that she took a cat nap sitting up with her mouth open. She’s perfect.
A black and brown long haired kitten with pointy ears and lynx tips sleeping in an upright position with her mouth open as I massage her forehead.
September 21, 2023 at 12:37 PM
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coralsandcrabs.bsky.social
Flying onto bluesky like this graceful nudi in the current. Took this picture in the beautiful Kisite Mpunguti Marine Park in Kenya.
September 20, 2023 at 7:03 PM
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georgethebaker.bsky.social
Orchids National Arboretum
September 19, 2023 at 2:23 AM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 Enjoying what’s left of bouquet season. I will miss it so much.
A hand holding a white crackle glazed ceramic vase that contains a bouquet of snapdragons, ageratum, strawflowers, painted daisies, angelonia, salvia, black eyed Susans, apricot cosmos, zinnia, celosia, and gerbera daisy.
September 19, 2023 at 3:28 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
I gave myself this manicure and it’s my ode to summer.
A manicured hand showing gray-blue nails that have alternating light pink flowers with a hot pink center and hot pink flowers with a light pink center details, each flower has one or two light green leaves. There’s a meadow and a blue skies with a few large clouds in the background. A manicured hand showing gray-blue nails that have alternating light pink flowers with a hot pink center and hot pink flowers with a light pink center details, each flower has one or two light green leaves. There’s a meadow and a blue skies with a few large clouds in the background.
September 18, 2023 at 7:43 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 My kitten, Zinnia, loves to inspect all the garden bouquets I bring inside. As you can see she’s an excellent model too.
A black and brown kitten sniffing a colorful flower bouquet on a white tiled kitchen island. A black and brown kitten with pointy ears and yellow eyes sitting on a white tiled kitchen island, looking in the direction of the camera. There is a colorful flower bouquet in a glass cylinder vase to the left of her.
September 12, 2023 at 4:25 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 Straight from the garden, mostly grown from seed and the rest from starter plants. A beautiful way to end the week.
A colorful bouquet of gerbera daisies, zinnias, salvia, lavender, snapdragons, chantilly snapdragons, painted daisies, ageratum, black eyed Susans, dahlias, and angelonia sitting on a white tiled kitchen island with wood borders that have been painted a very pale green-sage color seen from above. There’s a brown dog with a white chest that is photobombing the picture, she has her tongue out and is looking up at the camera - only a small potion of her mouth, chest, and front paws visible. A hand holding a glass cylinder vase that contains a colorful bouquet of gerbera daisies, zinnias, salvia, lavender, snapdragons, chantilly snapdragons, painted daisies, ageratum, black eyed Susans, dahlias, and angelonia in front of a gray wall.
September 10, 2023 at 8:08 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 Camouflage skills on another level!
A small yellow spider on the center of a black eyed Susan; The petals and spider are the exact same color. There is a white vinyl fence and three pink gerbera daisies in the background.
September 10, 2023 at 3:09 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 Imagine my exciting upon discovering another variegated water Lily bloom this season... Much smaller section this time, but man, she sure is something!
A pink-apricot water Lily bloom that is about 1/8 yellow. The yellow stops and the pink-apricot starts in a very dramatic vertical line along two of the petals. There are other water lilies in bloom and lots of variegated lily pads in the background.
September 5, 2023 at 3:59 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
So endlessly grateful for the bounty my garden has provided this summer, but I am quickly approaching the “oh look… MORE tomatoes…” stage of the season 😂🌱
September 4, 2023 at 7:04 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 A very hard worker.
A bumblebee on a wilting maypop passionflower that is resting on a wooden trellis. The bee is covered in pollen. The same bumblebee pollinating a maypop passionflower that is in full bloom. There is foliage from the vine all around.
September 4, 2023 at 1:18 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
I had the most fun playing with froglets and salamanders yesterday. They are so cute!!
A small salamander resting on my thumb nail. It is smaller than my nail. There’s an old swimming pool in the background, which has become home to hundreds of tadpoles, froglet, and salamanders. A teeny tiny tree frog resting on fake wood paneling. My hand is beside it for size reference, it’s about the size of a penny. A green froglet resting on the tip of my finger. It hasn’t grown out of its tadpole tail yet. There’s an old swimming pool in the background, which has become home to hundreds of tadpoles, froglet, and salamanders. A very small tree frog resting on my thumb. There’s an old swimming pool in the background, which has become home to hundreds of tadpoles, froglet, and salamanders.
September 4, 2023 at 12:32 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
Friday flowers picked and arranged just for you 🌱💌
A colorful bouquet of nigella seed pods, snapdragons, ageratum, chantilly snapdragons, zinnia, and gerbera held in place by a flower frog in a white ceramic sauce dish that sits on a round wooden side table.
September 1, 2023 at 10:41 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 Here’s a pair of bumblebees making out on a dahlia - because who doesn’t need a little bit of spice on a Friday evening, amerite?
Two bumblebee facing each other as they pollinate a small red pompom dahlia. Their faces are touching, so it looks like they’re kissing. There’s a white picket fence and foliage in the background.
September 1, 2023 at 9:44 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
I’ve been keeping tabs on this yellow garden spider I see on my daily walk and I noticed what I think might be an egg sac, although it looks significantly different than the Google images that pop up when I search for reference photos. Please feel free to educate me if you know!
Side view of a yellow, orange, and black spider with very long, thin legs. It’s resting upside down on a web, and it’s holding onto a small oval shaped object that is wrapped in silk. There are blurry trees in the background. Front view of a yellow, black, and orange spider with long, thin legs. It is resting upside down on a web. The web has a zigzag pattern that runs vertically along the middle of it, which is the signature web design of yellow garden spiders, meant to deter predators. There is a meadow and trees in the background.
August 31, 2023 at 3:27 PM
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socalleslie.bsky.social
Orbweaver spiderweb wet with fog. 🌿
Spiderweb wet with fog.
August 31, 2023 at 1:59 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 Three life stages in one picture. I love when that happens.
From left to right in a horizontal line: a maypop passionflower bud in its very early stages, a passionflower in full bloom, and a passionflower that is beginning to bloom. The vine is wrapped around a wooden trellis and there are leaves from the vine in frame.
August 31, 2023 at 1:05 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 Midweek pick-me-up from the garden.
A hand holding a glass vase with hand painted floral details in front of a gray wall. The vase contains a colorful bouquet of dahlias, ageratum, snapdragons, black eyed Susans, painted daisies, zinnias, salvia, angelonia, and asters.
August 30, 2023 at 1:20 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
I like to imagine the garden fairies wearing lavender or hummingbird mint perfume
August 29, 2023 at 11:42 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 There’s a whole galaxy in a painted daisy if you look close enough.
A small flower with long, thin petal rays that go from yellow to red to pale pink. The central disk has a dark maroon outer ring with tiny pollen pockets that resemble little stars. There are blurry flowers and green foliage in the background.
August 29, 2023 at 11:31 PM
sunbirdnectar.bsky.social
🌱 A simple arrangement to subdue the Monday blues because flowers make everything better.
A small flower arrangement of gerberas, ageratum, asters, strawflowers, gomphrena, and celosia in a white ceramic sauce dish that sits on top of a white tiled kitchen island. The flowers are held in place by a flower frog.
August 28, 2023 at 10:39 PM
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amstorey.bsky.social
This is my "pollinator alley," a collection of potted herbs and CA native plants I set up outside my back door. I have milkweed for the Monarchs and parsley for the anise swallowtail. I included two water stations for birds and insects. It is so full of life. I love it. 🌱
August 27, 2023 at 4:25 PM