Today's Gardening Advice: It's that time of year again. Fake/AI generated/manipulated color images of plants are arriving. Blue/black/multi-colored flowers/leaves are extremely rare in nature. None of these are real. These samples are from a major online retailer. 🌱

Favorite hybridizers: Arthur Bliss. 'Dominion' from 1917 is legendary in the iris world. One of the first tetraploids and behind most TBs today. This iris changed everything. Sadly it is a poor grower and hard to find. Beautiful flower when it is happy tho. 🌱

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The Kalanchoe is giving me another show. What a lovely plant.

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#kalanchoe #flowerreport #bloomscrolling

A warbler makes the news in Nova Scotia? I can also be sustained on only peanut butter, but it's cold my little buddy!
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www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...

This morning's little egret was hanging out with the ducks on the River Gobela. #birds

#BirdOfTheDay theme is #StareDown

Back yard #Birds I photographed during a snow flurry with a new (to me) ancient Nikon 500mm f/4 on my Canon R5

Dark-eyed Juncos and Mourning Dove

#BirdPhotography #NaturePhotography #WildlifePhotography #Photography #EastCoastKin

Garden birding. A Dunnock amongst the Crocuses, and a male Chaffinch. Chaffinch numbers have been low this winter, and it's the first winter for many years that I've not seen a Blackcap in the garden - last winter there was at least one most days, often 2, and even 4 one day! #londonbirds #birds

After the fire.
A white crowned sparrow perched on a branch that had seen a wildfire recently.

🪶 #PhotographersofBluesky #PhotographersUnited

Ruddy Quail Dove 🪶

#birding #birdphotography #ruddyquaildove #dove