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🍵Caffeine powered garden adventures with white tea 白毫银针 🌼 botany 🌱 permaculture 🌿 native plants 🌺 floriculture ❇️ herbalism 🐸 wildlife 📸 photography in 🌲 Cascadia.

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#Crocosmia curiously reblooming on a rainy November 1st. 🏵💀🍁🌱
#bloomscrolling #samhain #díadelosmuertos #autumn
A vivid orange crocosmia blooming out of season on the first of November, with raindrops.
November 2, 2025 at 3:16 AM
theanine.bsky.social
A #MantisMonday stroll though some #sideritis.🪲🌿🌱
A green praying mantis walking on a stick through some fuzzy sideritis plants. Keeping the tea pest-free. 🍵
September 30, 2025 at 12:50 AM
theanine.bsky.social
🌺 Huge Hardy #Hibiscus for #FloralFriday. 🌱
A large red Hibiscus moscheutos in bloom. 🌺
September 20, 2025 at 6:13 AM
theanine.bsky.social
Ultra-local native #DouglasAster for #FloralFriday.
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#SymphyotrichumSubspicatum #bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday #nativeplants #sunset
Hyperlocal douglas aster during sunset in my yard where it natively occurs. When cultivated it becomes an enormous spreading pollinator powerhouse that blooms nonstop from June to November. A PNW must have. 🌼 🐝 🦋
September 13, 2025 at 5:38 AM
theanine.bsky.social
Last minute crocosmia guard for #NationalHummingbirdDay.
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#hummingbird #rufoushummingbird #SelasphorusRufus #crocosmia
A rufous hummingbird guards prized crocosmia flowers.
September 7, 2025 at 6:54 AM
theanine.bsky.social
First time growing #roselle, small blooms ➡️ big flavor calyces.
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#HibiscusSabdariffa #hibiscus #FloralFriday #edibleflowers #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling
Hibiscus sabdariffa bloom & calyx. Soon to become delicious tea.
August 22, 2025 at 7:03 PM
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Rufous #hummingbird on #salvia for #FloralFriday. 🪶🌸🌱

#bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday #rufoushummingbird #SelasphorusRufus
Female/immature rufous hummingbird feasting on magenta salvia nectar.
August 8, 2025 at 10:49 PM
theanine.bsky.social
Happy last minute #NationalSunflowerDay!
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#sunflower #helianthus #bee #bloomscrolling 🌱
Lemon yellow sunflowers visited by bees with multicolored sunflowers and a forest in the background. 🌻
August 3, 2025 at 6:57 AM
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Local nodding onions this #WildflowerWednesday. Besides being pest free & showy, the whole plant is delectably edible; plus the flowers are great in salads.
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#AlliumCernuum #NoddingOnion #nativeplants #edibleflowers #bloomscrolling 🌱
Native locally collected seed grown nodding onions in a flower border. They are equally pollinator friendly, tasty and pretty. 🌸
July 31, 2025 at 6:45 AM
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Flaming red #SunflowerSunday.
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#sunflower #bloomscrolling 🌱
Multibranched red flame sunflowers with gold ember tips and black centers.
July 28, 2025 at 5:19 AM
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#Clarkia & #Collomia Combo.
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#WildflowerWednesday #nativeplants #ClarkiaAmoena #CollomiaGrandiflora #pnw #bloomscrolling #flowerreport
Clarkia amoena (farewell-to-spring) & nearly bloomed out collomia grandiflora (large-flowered phlox) in a native wildflower border. They seeded prolifically all over. Leafcutter bees have been working on the clarkia petals. 🌸
July 16, 2025 at 9:37 PM
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Self-seeded flame sunflowers on #SunflowerSunday. They've taken over the garden. 🌻 🌱
#sunflower #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #edibleflowers
Tall multi branched gold & red flame sunflowers. 🌻 Large flowered flame sunflowers in the sun. This self seeded specimen has lighter yellow petals with more pink/rose flame markings than is typical.
July 13, 2025 at 8:00 PM
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Native #brodiaea for #WildflowerWednesday. Both B. coronaria & elegans are called "harvest brodiaea" for their tasty edible bulbs. The beautiful blooms attract local pollinators.
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#nativeplants #bloomscrolling #BrodiaeaCoronaria #BrodiaeaElegans #PNW #violetflowers 🌿
Brodiaea elegans (elegant brodiaea) blooming in a vegetable garden. ✨️ Brodiaea coronaria (crown brodiaea) in a vegetable garden edge with a cucumber tendril claiming a bud. 👑
July 10, 2025 at 1:30 AM
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A fragrant trumpet #lily for #MagentaMonday. 🌸 🌱

#bloomscrolling #trumpetlily
A fragrant gold centered magenta trumpet lily rises above background flowers near a forest edge.
July 7, 2025 at 11:46 PM
theanine.bsky.social
Tonight's #sunset at #aphelion - when Earth is farthest from the sun. 🌅✨️

#beach #Manzanita #Oregon #OregonCoast 🌎↔️🌞
A vivid sunset in Manzanita, Oregon at aphelion - the day Earth is farthest from the sun. 🌎↔️☀️
July 4, 2025 at 6:03 AM
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Hiking among wildflowers & above an #airplane, #vulture & ocean on #aphelion.
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#lily #LiliumColumbianum #turkeyvulture #CathartesAura #OregonCoast 🌿
Far above Pacific ocean rock islands, arches & and airplanes during aphelion 2025. A golden columbian tiger lily in a coastal PNW rainforest on aphelion. Turkey vulture soaring over Nehalem Bay. Coastal vista from south facing slopes of Neahkahnie Mountain rainforest with rock islands and headlands in the distance.
July 4, 2025 at 3:11 AM
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The precipice of a crystaline alpine #waterfall for the northern hemispheric #SummerSolstice.
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#solstice #wildflowers #castilleja #mountains #nativeplants #flowersonfriday 🌿
A Castilleja miniata (giant red Indian paintbrush) blooms near a gushing clear alpine waterfall with glaciated mountain peaks in the distance. ☀️ 🔝
June 20, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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A black & white #mushroom trio³ in the garden for #MushroomMonday.
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A trio of graceful goblet shaped mushrooms with black reflexed caps/cups & white stipes. 🍄
May 26, 2025 at 8:19 PM
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Last minute native blue #WildflowerWednesday.
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#nativeplants #triteleia #camassia #frasera #nemophila #虫 #pnw #bloomscrolling #blueflowers 🌿
Vibrant Camassia leichtlinii (great camas) with visiting Bombus vosnesenskii (yellowfaced bumblebee). A nemophila douglasii blue border area. 💠 Triteleia grandiflora near a forest edge. A favorite (and edible) wildflower. Blue star flowers of Frasera albicaulis. 💠
May 22, 2025 at 7:11 AM
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Typical Gorge-ous biome change from rainforest to high-desert in less than 50 miles. 🏞↔️🏜 📸
#ColumbiaRiver #ColumbiaRiverGorge #CapeHorn #Lyle #Washington 🌿
Cape Horn, Washington, (west gorge) with Beacon Rock in the distance. Lush green vegetation & clouds hang on mountain ridges of the Columbia river canyon. ⛰️ Arid landscape above Lyle, Washington (east gorge) overlooking the vast Columbia river bathed in crepuscular sunrays.
May 21, 2025 at 2:04 AM
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Another last minute #FloralFriday #camassia + pollinator.
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#camas #whiteflowers #bumblebee #BombusMixtus #nativeplants #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #beescrolling #虫
A fuzzy-horned bumble bee (Bombus mixtus) pollinates a great white camas (Camassia leichtlinii) in its native habitat.
May 10, 2025 at 6:52 AM
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A #Beltane #bumblebee for May day.
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#camas #camassia #nativeplants #blueflowers #bee #虫 🌿
A Bombus vosnesenskii / yellow faced bumblebee feeding on camas nectar.
May 2, 2025 at 1:07 AM
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A last minute #FloralFriday sunset in the #camas patch.
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#camassia #nativeplants #blueflowers #bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday 🌿
Vibrant indigo-blue & violet toned camassia leichtlinii bloom under a late April sunset. In addition to its beauty, camas is a valuable native food plant. 💙💜
April 26, 2025 at 6:59 AM
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Today's #waterfall walk for #WildflowerWednesday.
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#erythronium #ErythroniumOreganum #bloomscrolling #nativeplants 🌿
Erythronium oreganum with a bumblebee visitor in front of a misty waterfall. A hillside of white erythronium flowers float above spongy rainforest moss in front of a double waterfall.
April 10, 2025 at 6:19 AM
theanine.bsky.social
️¡Happy International Asexuality Day!
Now it's time to pot things up in style. 🌱
#InternationalAsexualityDay
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Ceramic pots arranged in the asexual flag colors for International Asexuality Day: 🖤Black 🩶Gray 🤍White 💜Purple Aces out there: you are valid just as you are. Say 🇳🚫 to oppressive allonormativity.
April 6, 2025 at 8:28 PM