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Laura / Garden Sanity
@gardensanity.bsky.social
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I talk to my plants, cats and husband. 🌳🌺 Garden Sanity is my YouTube channel. 🍃🌾
📍Zone 7, southern New Jersey, USA
https://youtube.com/gardensanity
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gardensanity.bsky.social
Such a beautiful poem. 💚 🌱 #gardeningfeed #greenheart
cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social Charlotte Strawbridge @cstrawbridgeart.bsky.social · Oct 5
Crow sat and watched the first leaf fall. Autumn had arrived.
He thought how wonderful it was of the trees to give up their fading leaves, and even their golden ones.
The trees knew when it was time to let go.
So did he, he thought.
How beautiful it was to let things go.

#autumn #WhenBeastsSpoke
Crow and Autumn Sky
October 5, 2025 at 9:05 AM
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c0nc0rdance.bsky.social
The buff-tip moth (Phalera bucephala) has mastered a very particular kind of camouflage.

When they close their wings up, they resemble a broken twig.

Native to large parts of Europe, there's regional pattern variation that reflects the local tree species. This one best resembles birch twigs?
September 17, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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erikhoffner.bsky.social
This big beautiful non-native bug is a growing pest for Northeast U.S. gardeners & esp wineries

But a new study reveals an #agroecology answer: milkweed

This monarch butterfly fave intercropped w/ grapes kills 60-80% in 24 hrs: projects.sare.org/sare_project...

Might boost monarch numbers too?
Spotted lanternfly
September 15, 2025 at 1:29 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
Darn slugs! 💚 🌱 #gardeningfeed #greenheart #bloomscrolling www.theguardian.com/world/2025/s...
Doorbell prankster that tormented residents of German apartments turns out to be a slug
People suspected teenagers playing ding dong ditch and called police, who found animal crawling on the door panel
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 5:59 PM
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joyf.bsky.social
🌱 Café au lait with background singers 🎶

#Gardening #GardenSky #Dahlias #SundayYellow #DailyDahlias
This year I’ve lined our vegetable patch with zinnias and dahlias. What a season we’ve enjoyed seeing them together while working in the garden and how they’ve brought in even more pollinators. I’ll try this again next season. 🐝 Here we have a large cafe au lait dahlia surrounded with a cluster of bright yellow large zinnia blossoms. The dahlia is a large dinner plate size with many white petals. At its center is a soft rosy tan shade of petals. The zinnias around the dahlia are a bright yellow contrast to the dahlia’s softness. It’s all in the framing 😍💛💐
September 7, 2025 at 12:15 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
Open up the photo below and zoom in to see so much color and texture! 💚 🌱 #gardeningfeed #greenheart #bloomscrolling
chloelewis.bsky.social chloelewis.bsky.social @chloelewis.bsky.social · Sep 7
Sort of lovely how the heathers open + go over at different times, so there's a succession of nectar for bees + seeds for birds. #Dartmoor #Devon #WildFlowerHour
Heathers on Dartmoor, Devon
September 7, 2025 at 8:03 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
Such a perfect photo!
September 3, 2025 at 4:35 PM
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margasib.bsky.social
- Sorry to keep you waiting, Mr and Mrs Finch. My wife should be in any minute 🪶

#birdwatching
September 1, 2025 at 1:40 AM
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clockworkdolly.bsky.social
Hope. 💛🌼💛
August 19, 2025 at 1:05 AM
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frdvil.bsky.social
#Hummingbird hawkmoth feeding on buddleia flowers 😍🌱
August 6, 2025 at 5:19 PM
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clockworkdolly.bsky.social
You beaut! 🩵🤍🩵

Nigella damascena in my garden.

#Gardening 🌱
#BloomScrolling
#UKGardening
#FlowersOnFriday
#DollysCottageGarden
#FlowerFeed
July 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
gardensanity.bsky.social
No thank you!! #gardeningfeed #greenheart 🌱 💚 www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025...
‘Explosive increase’ of ticks that cause meat allergy in US due to climate crisis
Unusually aggressive lone star ticks, common in the south-east, are spreading to areas previously too cold for them
www.theguardian.com
June 30, 2025 at 2:31 PM
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potteringpolly.bsky.social
Just make time to ‘stand & stare’, wildlife has almost magical powers to bring your stress levels down 🐝🐝🐝
#insectthursday #bees #wildlife #mygarden #allium #gardentherapy
May 22, 2025 at 6:57 AM
gardensanity.bsky.social
Spiderwort “Webmaster“ Tradescantia in my garden. 💜 I love the fuzzy hairs surrounding the bright pollen centers. See the tiny pollinator on it? 💚🌱 #gardeningfeed #greenheart
Spiderwort “Webmaster” Tradescantia’s flowers close up with a teeny tiny pollinator on one. The 3-petaled flowers are dusted with soft lavender color, the edges are white, and the center pollen is bright yellow surrounded by tiny fuzzy hairs in dark purple and lavender. Background is the greenery of the plant.
May 17, 2025 at 2:42 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
I’ve been absent from posting because my oldest sister passed away unexpectedly just before Thanksgiving. My grief is unimaginable but the gardening photos here are soothing to see . . . so thank you. #gardeningfeed #greenheart 🌱 💚
Close-up of (left to right) Japanese Helleri Holly, Kramer’s Red Winter Heath, Blue Star Juniper in my Winter garden
January 23, 2025 at 3:45 PM
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wildlifekate.bsky.social
At #YewView, we have a wildlife pond and the kingfisher is visiting regularly. Sometimes, he uses this perch when he has caught something. The snow was the icing on the cake, to really highlight the beauty of this bird!😍🥰
November 25, 2024 at 9:52 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
These Geranium Rozanne flowers are slightly wrinkled, perhaps they are chilly. 🥶💙 (They’re growing through a wire cloche.) 🌱 #blue
Blue flowers of Geranium Rozanne blooming outside of a chicken wire cloche they’re growing through
November 24, 2024 at 2:14 PM
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silverpebble2.bsky.social
Early winter berry palette, for the possible dopamine it might trigger in your brain. The colour of spindle berries (bottom rightish) never seems quite real...
November 23, 2024 at 2:14 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
Autumn colors in the garden: yellow-green Fall leaf color of Sugartina Crystalina Clethra in front of red Fall leaf color of Little Henry Sweetspire. Morning sun makes them glow! 🌱
Close-up of yellow-green leaves on a shrub glowing in sunlight, in front of blurred-out red leaves of another shrub
November 22, 2024 at 7:40 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
Paint the Town Magenta Dianthus (in May) for #TinyFlowerTuesday 🌱
Close-up of small fuchsia-colored Dianthus flowers filling up the photo, with bits of blue-green stems visible underneath the flowers
November 19, 2024 at 10:09 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
In my garden: Kramer’s Red Winter Heath surrounded by mushrooms! 🍄 🌱 #mushrooms
A small evergreen Heath shrub, amongst fallen Autumn leaves, with a ring of small white mushrooms surrounding it
November 19, 2024 at 1:48 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
Peaceful . . . 🌱
November 17, 2024 at 6:40 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
I love pink colors in an Autumn garden. This Perfecto Mundo Pink Carpet Azalea blooms in Spring and now in Fall. 🌸 🌱
Close-up of a Perfecto Mundo Pink Carpet Azalea blooming in Fall, with an oak leaf next to it.
November 15, 2024 at 7:15 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
How is everyone doing with rainfall? We’ve had no rain for at least 6 weeks (in southern New Jersey, US) except for a few hours of light rain a few nights ago. Frustrating. ☹️☔️🌱
Small red crabapples plus green and yellow leaves on Prairifire Crabapple Tree in Autumn
November 14, 2024 at 2:59 PM
gardensanity.bsky.social
Fall in our front yard. 🍂 🍁 🌸 🌱
November 12, 2024 at 2:01 PM