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🌱🐝🧶 North American Level II Eco Region 7.1 Marine West Coast Forest and Level II 7.1.7 Straight of Georgia / Puget Lowland
Pollinator garden's meadowfoam and lupins setting seed and the prunella and self planted red clover stepping up. Looks pretty tatty to humans, but bees still visiting. 🌱🐝#PNW
June 14, 2025 at 3:11 PM
Pollinator garden's meadowfoam and lupins setting seed and the prunella and self planted red clover stepping up. Looks pretty tatty to humans, but bees still visiting. 🌱🐝#PNW
The south facing slope of the pollinator garden has meadowfoam in full bloom, columbine, cerinthe, alium, and 2 kinds of lupins blooming now.
The columbines got pretty dry last summer and may not have the best location.🌱🐝 #PNW
The columbines got pretty dry last summer and may not have the best location.🌱🐝 #PNW
May 18, 2025 at 3:51 AM
The south facing slope of the pollinator garden has meadowfoam in full bloom, columbine, cerinthe, alium, and 2 kinds of lupins blooming now.
The columbines got pretty dry last summer and may not have the best location.🌱🐝 #PNW
The columbines got pretty dry last summer and may not have the best location.🌱🐝 #PNW
The south facing slope of the pollinator garden has meadowfoam in full bloom, columbine, cerinthe, alium, and 2 kinds of lupins blooming now.
The columbines got pretty dry last summer and may not have the best location.🌱🐝 #PNW
The columbines got pretty dry last summer and may not have the best location.🌱🐝 #PNW
May 18, 2025 at 2:55 AM
The south facing slope of the pollinator garden has meadowfoam in full bloom, columbine, cerinthe, alium, and 2 kinds of lupins blooming now.
The columbines got pretty dry last summer and may not have the best location.🌱🐝 #PNW
The columbines got pretty dry last summer and may not have the best location.🌱🐝 #PNW
Pollinator garden with lupin, meadowfoam and allium blooming. 🐝🌱#PNW
May 15, 2025 at 9:23 PM
Pollinator garden with lupin, meadowfoam and allium blooming. 🐝🌱#PNW
Learn to knit by making cat toys. Your local animal shelter will love the donations. I do balls and snakes for mine. Learn to do it the Norwegian way.
May 12, 2025 at 3:55 PM
Learn to knit by making cat toys. Your local animal shelter will love the donations. I do balls and snakes for mine. Learn to do it the Norwegian way.
The pollinator garden's meadowfoam is opening up now. The lupins we started from seed last year are budding. Lots of prunella mixed in, but such a bumper crop of meadowfoam that I worry the yarrow is being shaded out. 🌱🐝 #PNW
May 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
The pollinator garden's meadowfoam is opening up now. The lupins we started from seed last year are budding. Lots of prunella mixed in, but such a bumper crop of meadowfoam that I worry the yarrow is being shaded out. 🌱🐝 #PNW
Meadowfoam is starting to bloom. Last year a patch this big would have had 2 dozen honey bees on it. 🌱🐝
May 6, 2025 at 2:55 PM
Meadowfoam is starting to bloom. Last year a patch this big would have had 2 dozen honey bees on it. 🌱🐝
We got only 1 Douglas aster plant out of a commercial seed pack last year that we refrigerated on damp paper towels for a couple of months.
This time, I harvested seeds from existing plants, saved them in paper bags in the fridge, sowed them in Oct, & left them outside. Success! 🌱🐝 PNW
This time, I harvested seeds from existing plants, saved them in paper bags in the fridge, sowed them in Oct, & left them outside. Success! 🌱🐝 PNW
March 13, 2025 at 4:37 PM
We got only 1 Douglas aster plant out of a commercial seed pack last year that we refrigerated on damp paper towels for a couple of months.
This time, I harvested seeds from existing plants, saved them in paper bags in the fridge, sowed them in Oct, & left them outside. Success! 🌱🐝 PNW
This time, I harvested seeds from existing plants, saved them in paper bags in the fridge, sowed them in Oct, & left them outside. Success! 🌱🐝 PNW
We have a lesser celandine problem in our community garden and we do not know how to properly dispose of the tubers. I have been pinching the leaves off and putting the tubers in the trash. Ideas? 🌱#PNW
February 23, 2025 at 3:10 PM
We have a lesser celandine problem in our community garden and we do not know how to properly dispose of the tubers. I have been pinching the leaves off and putting the tubers in the trash. Ideas? 🌱#PNW
Pacific Northwest gardeners, this plant popped up in our pollinator garden and is blooming right now, the end of January.
Plant ID app as Bellis perennis, common daisy. We try to use native plants, but will include non invasive bee friendly plants.
Should we keep it?🐝🌱
Plant ID app as Bellis perennis, common daisy. We try to use native plants, but will include non invasive bee friendly plants.
Should we keep it?🐝🌱
February 1, 2025 at 3:49 PM
Pacific Northwest gardeners, this plant popped up in our pollinator garden and is blooming right now, the end of January.
Plant ID app as Bellis perennis, common daisy. We try to use native plants, but will include non invasive bee friendly plants.
Should we keep it?🐝🌱
Plant ID app as Bellis perennis, common daisy. We try to use native plants, but will include non invasive bee friendly plants.
Should we keep it?🐝🌱
Keep making them and donate to your local cat shelter. I make knitted ones for mine.
December 26, 2024 at 1:28 AM
Keep making them and donate to your local cat shelter. I make knitted ones for mine.
We now have a perennial groundcover level of prunella and yarrow and early flowering annuals like meadowfoam, dead nettle and forget me nots. There are several clumps of tall, medium and short pollinator friendly perennials started from
seed or division now, too. Next year should be easier! 🌱🐝
seed or division now, too. Next year should be easier! 🌱🐝
December 8, 2024 at 3:28 AM
We now have a perennial groundcover level of prunella and yarrow and early flowering annuals like meadowfoam, dead nettle and forget me nots. There are several clumps of tall, medium and short pollinator friendly perennials started from
seed or division now, too. Next year should be easier! 🌱🐝
seed or division now, too. Next year should be easier! 🌱🐝
We hand dug those blackberry out and planted buckwheat for summer 2023. We got divisions of rudbekia, helenium and goldenrod last fall and planted the native seed mix. 🌱🐝
December 8, 2024 at 3:11 AM
We hand dug those blackberry out and planted buckwheat for summer 2023. We got divisions of rudbekia, helenium and goldenrod last fall and planted the native seed mix. 🌱🐝
I'm in the Pacific northwest and Northwest Meadowscapes has seed mixes for us. Prairie Moon is a good source source for the upper midwest. Our new pollinator area is about tennis court-sized had been a blackberry thicket. The photo shows the blackberry stragglers. 🌱🐝
December 8, 2024 at 3:06 AM
I'm in the Pacific northwest and Northwest Meadowscapes has seed mixes for us. Prairie Moon is a good source source for the upper midwest. Our new pollinator area is about tennis court-sized had been a blackberry thicket. The photo shows the blackberry stragglers. 🌱🐝
December 2, 2024 at 11:06 PM
🌱🐝 Meadowfoam, Limnanthes douglassii, with a pollinator in the community garden.
November 29, 2024 at 1:13 AM
🌱🐝 Meadowfoam, Limnanthes douglassii, with a pollinator in the community garden.
Helenium full of bees at the community garden pollinator plot.
November 29, 2024 at 12:57 AM
Helenium full of bees at the community garden pollinator plot.
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November 28, 2024 at 4:34 AM
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I have done blacksmithing, clay handbuilding, and sewing, but the thing that I have really stuck with is knitting toys for the local cat shelter. They have a lot of semi-ferals that need to get used to how humans smell and the wool picks my stinky human scent.🐈⬛🧶
November 24, 2024 at 3:36 AM
I have done blacksmithing, clay handbuilding, and sewing, but the thing that I have really stuck with is knitting toys for the local cat shelter. They have a lot of semi-ferals that need to get used to how humans smell and the wool picks my stinky human scent.🐈⬛🧶
Is anyone else in the Pacific Northwest having their meadowfoam flower now? It is an annual that is super popular with pollenators. It normally sprouts in September, but doesn't flower until the last week in April.🌱
November 16, 2024 at 7:26 PM
Is anyone else in the Pacific Northwest having their meadowfoam flower now? It is an annual that is super popular with pollenators. It normally sprouts in September, but doesn't flower until the last week in April.🌱
I knit hummingbirds, balls, snakes and other toys for the local cat shelter. The snakes are the most popular with the cats.
November 14, 2024 at 6:01 AM
I knit hummingbirds, balls, snakes and other toys for the local cat shelter. The snakes are the most popular with the cats.