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ginnystibolt.bsky.social
#Pollinators We can attract our native pollinators by stopping all landscape-wide pesticides & by planting a wide variety of native plants arranged so that pollinators can thrive. Some can only fly a short distance to find nectar. Read: beautifulnativeplants.blogspot.com/2025/04/desi...
Graphic poster titled, "How far can a pollinator fly to find food?" There are 5 concentric circles. The smallest is labeled 500 feet. A line from that circle is labeled "Bi-colored green sweat bee" leads to a small photo of a yellow flower with a green bee on it. The next circle is labeled 1000 feet. A line from that circle is labeled "Eastern tailed blue butterfly" leads to a small photo of a yellow flower with a small gray butterfly on it. The next circle is labeled 1500 feet. A line from that circle is labeled "Leaf-cutter bee" leads to a small photo of a yellow flower with a small dark bee on it. The next circle is labeled 1 mile. A line from that circle is labeled "Bumblebee" leads to a small photo of a pink flower with a fuzzy bee on it. The next circle is labeled 11-150miles. A line from that circle is labeled "Monarch butterfly" leads to a small photo of a white flower with an orange & black butterfly on it. Text at the bottom says, "Connecting our pollinator gardens along a pathway helps bees and butterflies thrive."
February 12, 2026 at 12:31 PM
mothmeep7.bsky.social
Bumblebees nest in the ground. When people "make" their gardens, they're actually destroying bee nests. Many bees also overwinter in the ground and inside the dried up stalks of native plants. All of which are removed because it doesn't fit that white picket fence fantasy.
February 11, 2026 at 6:07 AM
samcaseyr.bsky.social
Waitrose still selling bee killing, probable cancer-causing chemicals right next to their ‘bee -friendly’ plants 😧🙄
Shelf with various chemical weed killers for gardens for sale
February 9, 2026 at 8:53 AM
lifeandwork.bsky.social
Bee Balm (Monarda) – Natural Pest and Powdery Mildew Prevention

Bee balm (Monarda) is an essential plant for sunny native pollinator gardens. Cultivars such as Jacob Cline produce vibrant red flowers that attract both hummingbirds and butterflies to pollinate your garden. Bee balm plants can be…
Bee Balm (Monarda) – Natural Pest and Powdery Mildew Prevention
Bee balm (Monarda) is an essential plant for sunny native pollinator gardens. Cultivars such as Jacob Cline produce vibrant red flowers that attract both hummingbirds and butterflies to pollinate your garden. Bee balm plants can be highly susceptible to powdery mildew and rust fungus infections that can defoliate and weaken the plants over time. Preventing such issues by providing sufficient air circulation and by thinnng large patches periodically.
lifeandwork.blog
February 2, 2026 at 4:04 PM
grays.art
2025 top ten: #3

Lunate longhorn cuckoo bee
(Triepeolus lunatus)

on butterfly milkweed
(Asclepias tuberosa)

West Ridge Nature Park
Chicago, Illinois 7-14-25

#macro #photography #bees #nature #native #insects #bugs #plants #gardens #gardening #bloomscrolling #flowers #pollinators #orange #art
Closeup of black & tan bee on bright orange florets.
December 30, 2025 at 6:53 AM
nhm.org
🌿 At #NHMLA, we're quite 𝙛𝙧𝙤𝙣𝙙 of our Nature Gardens!

From California lilacs (Ceanothus) to valley oak (Quercus lobata), the plants seen in our gardens are carefully chosen through research and consideration of what is readily available to fit the space: go.nhm.org/gardens
California lilac (Ceanothus) growing in the Nature Gardens. Bee Hotels in NHMLA's Nature Gardens. Horticulture Senior Manager, Daniel Feldman, in the Nature Gardens.
December 27, 2025 at 5:46 PM
lianabrooks.bsky.social
Quiet Moment of the Day:

Bee the change you want to see in the world!

(sorry - I couldn't resist)

#QuietMomentOfTheDay #BeYou #BeBeautiful
A large sculpture of a bee flying over plants at the botanical gardens.
December 21, 2025 at 8:34 AM
petramichaela.bsky.social
Every time a bee visits a flower, it's not just about pollination—it's about keeping nature's rhythm alive. Bees are crucial to the health of our gardens, ecosystems, and food production. Without their tireless work, many of the plants we love would struggle to reproduce.
December 8, 2025 at 2:10 PM
nfknanna.bsky.social
Artichoke flower (with bee) for #AlphabetChallenge #WeekVforVowels #photography #dailyphoto #plants #gardens
The purple spikes of a fully open artichoke flower against a backdrop of green foliage, with a small bee nestled in the centre.
November 25, 2025 at 9:07 PM
butterflyguy99.bsky.social
Good questions. Well, I would say the key aspect is that we live on five acres with mixed woods and meadows with many native host plants for their caterpillars. We don’t use any chemicals at all.

In our gardens: Zinnias, Echinacea, Rudbeckia, Salvia, Joe-Pye, Mint, Phlox, Bee Balm, Fennel, Hyssop.
November 24, 2025 at 6:08 PM
malkintrash.bsky.social
I wish I could thank the gardeners at Bunhill Fields personally. I love their work & the way they explain it on chalk boards around the place. How many public gardens have a quote from Albert Camus on autumn? The bee hotel is very sweet too 🤗
The image displays a chalkboard sign detailing a rewilding project. The text explains that invasive plants are being removed to prevent them from overwhelming native wildflowers, thereby increasing biodiversity. Wildflower seeds have been sown in the cleared areas. The project involves removing invasive species like Green Alkanet, nettle, and Pellitory-of-the-wall. These invasive plants would typically be managed by grazing animals in nature. Their removal prevents them from smothering other wildflowers and reducing species richness. A wide range of native wildflower seeds, including Red Campion, Ox eye daisy, Foxgloves, and Vetch, have been sown in the cleared spaces. Other side of the chalk board: Bulbs Bulbs Bulbs !! We have been busy planting bullbs for the spring to increase the biodiversity of the wooded areas. Bulbs are an important early source of food for Invertebrates and food for the Soul for People! We have planted: 250 White Camassia 250 Blue Camassia 250 white daffodil Poeticus 250 Allium Christophii 1000 Star of Bethlehem 1000 Winter Aconite And many many more Autumn is a second Spring When every Leaf is a flower ALBERT CAMUS •Trees seal off the leaf as days shorten and temperatures cool. Losing leaves help trees reduce water loss and makes them less vulnerable to high winds •Cold nights, dry weather and Autumn sun Can lead to more vivid Leaf Colour. At Bunhill we recycle on site in leaf bins. As the leaf breaks down It creates a rich leaf mould that we Use to Mulch our beds. Picture of a bee hotel with lots of little tubular openings for residents of the hotel to snuggle in, a logo saying "pollinating London together" and a QR code that takes you to a website that explains the mission to put bee hotels all over central London.
November 18, 2025 at 1:59 PM
spitewinter.bsky.social
#plants #history #botany #history #art 🌼

Kniphofia uvaria - Torch Lily, Red Hot Poker

Split & gift clumps of K.uvaria with friends for free new plants in bright, #bee & #pollinator friendly gardens. Origins S #Africa C19th, published c1841

How to propagate:
www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-...
October 29, 2025 at 4:47 AM
peterwelsh.bsky.social
I wasn't looking too hard today... but I'm pretty sure this was the only Bee in the wildlife gardens. Many plants are still in blossom but the overnight temperatures are getting quite low.
#pollinators #parkdale #parkdaleurbanwildliferefuge
October 28, 2025 at 2:58 AM
voxrox.bsky.social
#ColorADay
#OrangeSun 🧡
#BlueskyArtShow
#FlowersOnSunday

Have a safe & peaceful new week ahead!

#Sunflowers #Bees
#Pollinators #Plants
#Flowers #Blooms
#Gardens #Insects
#OnlyBeautifulThings #Bloomscroll
#Autumn 10.21.25
#Photography
#Macrophotography
A color macrophoto of a Bee inside the bloom of an orange Sunflower, eating & pollinating the center. 📷 Santa Selestesoir.
October 27, 2025 at 2:52 AM
grays.art
Leaf cutter bee on purple sage
(Megachile)

Summer morning in a neighbor’s garden
in Chicago’s Andersonville neighborhood

#macro #photography #native #bees #plants #flowers #nature #art #gardens #gardening #bloomscrolling #pollinators #macroPhotography #eastcoastkin #animalarttues #chicago
4x3 Bee sits atop lavender chips
October 7, 2025 at 4:44 AM
ilenagm.bsky.social
For the first #SixOnSaturday of #October I present the bee edition. #Bees are a crucial worker in my gardens. Without them there is no food or seeds and they are a great source of entertainment to watch😃🐝

#Flowers #Gardening #Plants #GulfOfMexico #FlowerReport #Autumn
October 4, 2025 at 10:21 AM
aquaice.bsky.social
The Rio Dipladenia plants in my garden are going strong and this bee couldn't be happier.

"The bee and the flower, a duet of survival, a testament to nature's harmony." ~ Unknown 🌱

#Gardening #Gardens #Nature #Photography #Bees #Flowers #Naturephotography #Bloomscrolling #FlowerReport
A close up picture of a Rio Dipladenia plant in a Michigan fall garden. It has bright pink trumpet shaped flowers with yellow centers. One flower is facing forward with a bee sleeping inside and another one is facing down.
October 2, 2025 at 7:08 PM
xercessociety.bsky.social
Join us for innovative ways to grow healthy plants without pesticides, from the owner of a native plant nursery! This talk is for nursery owners, growers, IPM leads, & anyone buying plants for a large project.
🗓️Oct 7 at 10am PT / 1pm ET
🔗Register for this free event: us06web.zoom.us/webinar/regi...
“Bee Safe, Grow Well: Pollinator-Safe Nursery Practices with Full Circle Gardens”. An insectary strip next to the open-sided greenhouse helps to attract and support beneficial insects at Full Circle Gardens nursery.
September 29, 2025 at 8:56 PM
d-sang.bsky.social
Key Activities

Bee Conservation Workshops: Teach farmers about bee-friendly practices.

Pollinator Gardens: Establish community gardens with pollinator-attracting plants.

Nutrition Education: Conduct sessions linking consumption of pollinated crops to improved health outcomes.
September 29, 2025 at 1:36 PM
emtomology.bsky.social
Want to dig deeper? Join us Oct 7 for a Bee Safe, Grow Well webinar with Sarah Salatino of Full Circle Gardens and Xerces staff. Learn how nurseries can grow plants that are safer for pollinators - and bring your questions, there will be lots of time for Q&A! 🌸🐝 xerces.org/events/bee-s...
Bee Safe, Grow Well: Pollinator-Safe Nursery Practices with Full Circle Gardens | Xerces Society
Across the country, innovative nursery growers are implementing practices that protect pollinators while still keeping pests at manageable levels. In this webinar, Xerces is proud to feature Sarah Sal...
xerces.org
September 26, 2025 at 7:38 PM
hamiltonnature.org
Are you ready for our fall plant sale on Oct 4? We are! ✨

Our amazing vendors - Bee Sweet Nature Co., In Our Nature, Prairie Song Nursery, and South Coast Gardens - will have LOTS of native plants available to purchase. Live music, cash café, educational booths, and presentation at 12:30 PM #HamOnt
September 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
s4r4h-l.bsky.social
I'm not a fan of invasive balsam, the rate & height that it grows is too fast for our smaller native wildflowers to compete with as it crowds their light, but this time of year it's useful for #bees yesterday I captured this one leaving the flower @wildflowerhour.bsky.social @bsbibotany.bsky.social
A little bee leaving a pale pink balsam flower yesterday. Invasive as it was introduced into gardens and runs rampage, able to grow practically everywhere, grows to 5 foot easily shading all plants beneath it
September 20, 2025 at 8:38 AM
louisee21.bsky.social
Some garden flowers still thriving despite the rain and high wind we've had #plants #gardens 🌱🌸
A bee sits on a bright red and yellow flower Small white yellow flowers on stalks waving in the breeze A yellow begonia flower Purple creeping flowers and a hoverfly
September 19, 2025 at 11:08 AM
jempoetry.bsky.social
#Bloomscrolling #poetry #Dickinson 3
Two ‘Sun’ prints of plants. One in maroon. Herbarium plate 32: Maroon snapdragon One in blue. Herbarium plate 35: Blue Delphinium Swatches of 9 blues. A Slash of Blue While Dickinson was experimenting with new poctic forms in her bedroom in Amherst, photography was a nascent medium with quickly evolving technology. In photography; the color Prussian blue was made popular by one of Dickinson's contemporaries, British scientist. photographer Anna Atkins. Her lifelong study of plants and algae with cyanotypes (a photographic process similar to anthotype that uses sunlight and chemistry to produce blue-tinted prints) led her to become the first to publish a book illustrated with photographs. Marchand and Sobsey's project takes inspiration from Atkins's 19th-century botanical cyanotypes, as well as from Dickinson's poctry and herbarium. In Dickinson's writing, there are many instances of blue, a color that connotes ycarning in her carly letters but darker, negative aspects as she began to doubt the existence of heaven. Her later verses metaphorically reference the afterlife not as the blue sky but as the blue depth. This chromotaxy represents pigments of assorted purple-flowering plants that produce blue anthotypes: blue delphinium, purple columbine, purple hyacinth, purple iris, and purple pansy. Blue ‘Sun’ imprint Herbarium Plate 62— Purple Hyacinth Archival pigment print from original anthotype on paper 8 rows of square color blocks, but like a dna where various colors are sparse and rows not complete. The Wind begun to rock the Grass The relationship between pollinators and plants is critical to the success of ecosystems. This chromotaxy brings together pigments from the preferred plants of the cight common pollinators (arranged in columns) in Dickinson's 19th-century garden in Amherst. The pollinators represented are (from left to right) birds, butterflies, moths, bees, flies, wasps, wind, and beetles. The bee was the most common pollinator in Dickinson's garden (as is true for most gardens). Bees are represented by the long vertical line of colors in the print. Bees, hives, and honey are mentioned in 110 of Dickinson's pocms, including references to honeybees, bumble bees, "bees - by the furlong." the "drunken Bee," the "Pigmy seraphs - gone astray," and "Buccancers of Buzz." The shortest column is dedicated to wind, which is responsible for pollinating the cinnamon fern and the interrupted fern used in this project.
September 17, 2025 at 1:32 PM