@pnwplantnerd.bsky.social
Huge plant & mushroom nerd in the PNW, interested in native plants, ecological restoration in small scale settings (aka your yard), gardening for fun & food, foraging, mushrooms, and fermenting. Multiply neurodivergent.
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I finished a thing 💚
Three beautiful Stropharia Aeruginosa - Hope you enjoy!
#fungifriday #fungifriends #natureart
Three beautiful Stropharia Aeruginosa - Hope you enjoy!
#fungifriday #fungifriends #natureart
September 5, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I finished a thing 💚
Three beautiful Stropharia Aeruginosa - Hope you enjoy!
#fungifriday #fungifriends #natureart
Three beautiful Stropharia Aeruginosa - Hope you enjoy!
#fungifriday #fungifriends #natureart
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"Watercolor Sea Turtle II" by @EmpyrealSaskya
Available for purchase at: www.inprnt.com/gallery/sask...
#watercolor
#Sealife
#turtle
#BSNM
Available for purchase at: www.inprnt.com/gallery/sask...
#watercolor
#Sealife
#turtle
#BSNM
Watercolor Sea Turtle II, an art print by Saskya Sipher
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September 3, 2025 at 12:23 PM
"Watercolor Sea Turtle II" by @EmpyrealSaskya
Available for purchase at: www.inprnt.com/gallery/sask...
#watercolor
#Sealife
#turtle
#BSNM
Available for purchase at: www.inprnt.com/gallery/sask...
#watercolor
#Sealife
#turtle
#BSNM
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Peony watercolor, 10x13
I’m loving painting watercolors now.
#watercolor, #floralart, #painting, #peony
I’m loving painting watercolors now.
#watercolor, #floralart, #painting, #peony
September 4, 2025 at 5:46 AM
Peony watercolor, 10x13
I’m loving painting watercolors now.
#watercolor, #floralart, #painting, #peony
I’m loving painting watercolors now.
#watercolor, #floralart, #painting, #peony
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September 5, 2025 at 10:53 AM
Super late notice, but one of the gardening discords I'm in is hosting a live podcast with Mike Bollinger of the Seed Savers Exchange today at noon pacific time. If you're interested in seed saving or plant breeding, this is great opportunity to learn!
here's an invite link: discord.gg/gardening
here's an invite link: discord.gg/gardening
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August 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
Super late notice, but one of the gardening discords I'm in is hosting a live podcast with Mike Bollinger of the Seed Savers Exchange today at noon pacific time. If you're interested in seed saving or plant breeding, this is great opportunity to learn!
here's an invite link: discord.gg/gardening
here's an invite link: discord.gg/gardening
One of the many wetlands near my house
August 13, 2025 at 12:15 PM
One of the many wetlands near my house
The other day I was walking through my neighborhood when I noticed a pawpaw tree with pawpaws on it! The woman who planted it was on her porch and we got to talking- turns out this is the first time that it has fruited. She's gonna call me when they are ripe so I can try growing the seeds!
July 19, 2025 at 9:08 PM
The other day I was walking through my neighborhood when I noticed a pawpaw tree with pawpaws on it! The woman who planted it was on her porch and we got to talking- turns out this is the first time that it has fruited. She's gonna call me when they are ripe so I can try growing the seeds!
Spend a while this morning #foraging for trailing blackberry, one of my favorite native berries. Took me a while to pick a gallon- I'm now more certain that I want to trellis some for next year!
June 22, 2025 at 9:22 PM
Spend a while this morning #foraging for trailing blackberry, one of my favorite native berries. Took me a while to pick a gallon- I'm now more certain that I want to trellis some for next year!
Another weekend, another prairie! This time at Wolf Haven International, helping with the plant walks
May 18, 2025 at 12:26 PM
Another weekend, another prairie! This time at Wolf Haven International, helping with the plant walks
Volunteered with Native Plant Salvage today at Prairie Appreciation Day at Glacial Heritage Preserve guiding people on plant walks to show them some of our wonderful native prairie species- but was too busy to take more than a few photos!
May 11, 2025 at 12:42 AM
Volunteered with Native Plant Salvage today at Prairie Appreciation Day at Glacial Heritage Preserve guiding people on plant walks to show them some of our wonderful native prairie species- but was too busy to take more than a few photos!
Cool plant of the week: Coralroot! This lovely little flower is one of our PNW native orchids, but you might notice it's missing something- leaves! This species is a myco-heterotroph! Aka, instead of photosynthesizing like most plants, it parasitizes fungal mycelium in the soil!
May 4, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Cool plant of the week: Coralroot! This lovely little flower is one of our PNW native orchids, but you might notice it's missing something- leaves! This species is a myco-heterotroph! Aka, instead of photosynthesizing like most plants, it parasitizes fungal mycelium in the soil!
First oyster mushrooms of 2025! I love them, and they're so common around here, and I especially appreciate that most other people overlook their awesomeness. #fungifriends why yes, that is my hat serving as an impromptu foraging basket, why do you ask?
April 16, 2025 at 1:56 AM
First oyster mushrooms of 2025! I love them, and they're so common around here, and I especially appreciate that most other people overlook their awesomeness. #fungifriends why yes, that is my hat serving as an impromptu foraging basket, why do you ask?
Trilliums are just gorgeous, ok? It's also really cool that their seeds are dispersed by ants, and that the seeds need to go through two winters and a summer before they germinate! Truly one of the joys of spring!
March 27, 2025 at 3:55 AM
Trilliums are just gorgeous, ok? It's also really cool that their seeds are dispersed by ants, and that the seeds need to go through two winters and a summer before they germinate! Truly one of the joys of spring!
Exploring #priority and #year effects on #plant diversity, productivity and vertical #root distribution: first insights from a grassland field experiment 🧪🌍
Does the order in which plants arrive in an community matter? YES! but weather also plays a key role! The second chapter of my thesis is finally out!
If you want to know all the details, here is the full article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I tell you about it below ⬇️
If you want to know all the details, here is the full article: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
I tell you about it below ⬇️
March 20, 2025 at 9:42 PM
All the different looks to "witches butter" in the US
March 19, 2025 at 1:22 AM
I recently learned my local parks department has a volunteer habitat restoration position, which means I now get to go into this park and remove invasive species like Himalayan blackberries and replace them with native species like blackcap raspberries. It doesn't look like much, but it's a start! 🌱
March 2, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I recently learned my local parks department has a volunteer habitat restoration position, which means I now get to go into this park and remove invasive species like Himalayan blackberries and replace them with native species like blackcap raspberries. It doesn't look like much, but it's a start! 🌱
Greetings, plant enthusiasts! We are a non-profit based in Thurston County, WA providing hands-on education to protect and conserve water resources and habitat from the South Sound prairies to the shores of the Salish Sea. Check out our website for more info and how to get involved shorturl.at/eOmcv
Native Plant Salvage Foundation
Providing hands-on education to protect and conserve water resources and habitat from the South Sound prairies to the shores of the Salish Sea.
shorturl.at
February 19, 2025 at 1:45 AM
So it turns out that the parks department where I am has a volunteer ecological restoration position, which is awesome! I just started last weekend at a park/preservation near me, which is currently home to a lot of invasive (and native) species. My current plan is to pull invasives species, while
February 18, 2025 at 2:32 PM
So it turns out that the parks department where I am has a volunteer ecological restoration position, which is awesome! I just started last weekend at a park/preservation near me, which is currently home to a lot of invasive (and native) species. My current plan is to pull invasives species, while
Did you know that Washington state has native orchids? We even have multiple species! This in is Goodyera oblongifolia, aka, western rattlesnake plantain, and while it's flowers aren't the showiest, their leaves are pretty neat! I most often see them in pretty deep shade under Douglas firs.
February 17, 2025 at 8:44 PM
Did you know that Washington state has native orchids? We even have multiple species! This in is Goodyera oblongifolia, aka, western rattlesnake plantain, and while it's flowers aren't the showiest, their leaves are pretty neat! I most often see them in pretty deep shade under Douglas firs.
Well, that's hopeful.
Hawaiian marine fungi adapt to eat plastic. A solution for ocean waste? #fungifriends 🍄
phys.org/news/2025-02...
phys.org/news/2025-02...
Mighty marine fungi degrade plastic by eating it, and can be conditioned to do it faster
Plastic is the most prevalent marine pollutant, and plastic surfaces are the fastest growing habitat in the ocean. Researchers at the University of Hawai'i (UH) at Mānoa have recently discovered that ...
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February 14, 2025 at 5:32 AM
Well, that's hopeful.
We are again holding a hearing to consider changes to the state weed list. The only species being considered at this hearing is common holly. To find out how to attend, testify, or learn more about our past work on this subject, see our What's New page!
www.nwcb.wa.gov/whats-new
www.nwcb.wa.gov/whats-new
February 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
🌱🌿 I know everything is terrible but Washingtonians have a chance to get this plant on the noxious weeds list. It is long overdue
We are again holding a hearing to consider changes to the state weed list. The only species being considered at this hearing is common holly. To find out how to attend, testify, or learn more about our past work on this subject, see our What's New page!
www.nwcb.wa.gov/whats-new
www.nwcb.wa.gov/whats-new
February 11, 2025 at 9:40 PM
So this post is for my own benefit because I keep mistaking these two during the dormant season & at this point it's getting embarrassing 😅 In fairness to me, when they're gastromically relevant, they're very different & they do both have kinda pointy buds that are alternate.
February 9, 2025 at 5:59 PM
So this post is for my own benefit because I keep mistaking these two during the dormant season & at this point it's getting embarrassing 😅 In fairness to me, when they're gastromically relevant, they're very different & they do both have kinda pointy buds that are alternate.
Went and helped out at the Native Plant Salvage event this morning, which was really fun. I did spend most of the morning digging up Chimaphila umbellata- it was a tangle! The licorice fern was more fun because I was able to just roll it up like a cinnamon roll.
February 8, 2025 at 10:21 PM
Went and helped out at the Native Plant Salvage event this morning, which was really fun. I did spend most of the morning digging up Chimaphila umbellata- it was a tangle! The licorice fern was more fun because I was able to just roll it up like a cinnamon roll.