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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 28/03/2026

PNW 🌱 I have been removing lesser celadine and noticed that anything I have planted in the cleared areas lacks vigor. Just for kicks I googled alleopathy + lesser celadine and found this: Lesser Celandine: Texas Invasive Species Institute share.google/YP3zc9F78d0P... This plant is evil.

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

🌱https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/sep/07/mushroom-kayak-plastic-alternative?CMP=Share_AndroidApp_Other

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

This King County (Seattle) native planting guide is wonderful for people in the Pacific northwest who want to use native plants. Our plants need to survive wet feet in the winter and drought in the summer. Landscape plans - Native Plant Guide share.google/mia8QbwR1zGT...

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

What are some suggestions for Pacific northwest native plants that bloom in June and early July? We had a huge crop of meadowfoam for May overlapping with lupins and prunella, but June wasn't showy for the humans.

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

Pacific Northwest gardeners, especially those in community gardens and parks, what are your invasive/aggressive plants and how are you managing them? #PNW 🌱🐝

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 14/06/2025

Pollinator garden's meadowfoam and lupins setting seed and the prunella and self planted red clover stepping up. Looks pretty tatty to humans, but bees still visiting. 🌱🐝#PNW

Sea of green and yellowish foliage with dots of yellow and purple flowers.

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

Anyone have an opinion on feverfew in a pollinator garden? We have some that appeared, probably from seeds in the compost. We are aiming for PNW native plants, but will include well-behaved non-native plants. 🌱🐝 #PNW en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tanacet...

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Tanacetum parthenium - Wikipedia

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 02/06/2025

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

The south facing slope of the pollinator garden has meadowfoam in full bloom, columbine, cerinthe, alium, and 2 kinds of lupins blooming now. The columbines got pretty dry last summer and may not have the best location.🌱🐝 #PNW

Mostly yellow and white meadowfoam blooms with allium, columbine, and lupin flowers in the background.

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 15/05/2025

Pollinator garden with lupin, meadowfoam and allium blooming. 🐝🌱#PNW

Meadowfoam in the foreground, lupin and allium in the background.

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 12/05/2025

The pollinator garden's meadowfoam is opening up now. The lupins we started from seed last year are budding. Lots of prunella mixed in, but such a bumper crop of meadowfoam that I worry the yarrow is being shaded out. 🌱🐝 #PNW

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 06/05/2025

Meadowfoam is starting to bloom. Last year a patch this big would have had 2 dozen honey bees on it. 🌱🐝

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 24/04/2025

What is the advice from Pacific Northwest on Spanish bluebells? We have lots and getting more and more every year in the community garden. The bees seem to ignore them.🌱🐝 #PNW

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 13/03/2025

We got only 1 Douglas aster plant out of a commercial seed pack last year that we refrigerated on damp paper towels for a couple of months. This time, I harvested seeds from existing plants, saved them in paper bags in the fridge, sowed them in Oct, & left them outside. Success! 🌱🐝 PNW

Zillion of salt-sized green dots of sprouting Douglas aster seeds

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Paul Bae @paulbae.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

My province is actively recruiting US doctors and nurses to come move here to beautiful BC. 🇨🇦 Check it out: archive.news.gov.bc.ca/releases/new...

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British Columbia is taking action to attract doctors, nurses from U.S.

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

Seed starting plants and not not sure what is what? This PDF is fabulous.🌱 www.ntc.blm.gov/krc/system/f...

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

We have a lesser celandine problem in our community garden and we do not know how to properly dispose of the tubers. I have been pinching the leaves off and putting the tubers in the trash. Ideas? 🌱#PNW

Samples of lesser celandine dug up to show the tubers.

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Pacific Northwest gardeners, this plant popped up in our pollinator garden and is blooming right now, the end of January. Plant ID app as Bellis perennis, common daisy. We try to use native plants, but will include non invasive bee friendly plants. Should we keep it?🐝🌱

Very small plant with daisy like flowers that is flowering the end of January in the PNF

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Anyone have experience getting Big Headed Clover (Trifolium macrocephalum) to germinate? 🌱🐝

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 12/01/2025

Here's some great rose pruning videos on pruning roses from the UC Santa Clara Center for Agroecology. The 1st video is winter pruning and the next one shows the same rose in March and May. 🌱 youtu.be/nrJQfs2XT6k?... youtu.be/bVaX3yBDIfs?...

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

It is time to prune fruit trees in the Pacific Northwest. If u need a refresher on open center vs modified central leader, the UC Santa Clara Center ot Agroecology has lots of excellent videos.🌱 youtu.be/mm3VfEljBg0?...

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Pruning Deciduous Fruit Trees: Open Center and Central Leader Forms with Orin Martin

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

The Simon Fraser Uuniversity Pollination Lab in Vancouver Canada has lots of info on pollinators. I 🐝🌱 www.sfu.ca/people/eelle...

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Bee Info for the Public

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 08/12/2024

If you want to know what to plant to help the pollinators, look for government websites. Here is one for British Columbia, but would work for the general Pacific northwest area: 🐝🌱 www2.gov.bc.ca/gov/content/...

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Selecting bee forage plants

The Food for Bees program provides information about bee forage plants and where to source them in British columbia.

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

🌱🐝 Meadowfoam, Limnanthes douglassii, with a pollinator in the community garden.

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Helenium full of bees at the community garden pollinator plot.

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 16/11/2024

Is anyone else in the Pacific Northwest having their meadowfoam flower now? It is an annual that is super popular with pollenators. It normally sprouts in September, but doesn't flower until the last week in April.🌱

Limnanthes douglasii, meadowfoam flowering in November.

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blackberry1138.bsky.social @blackberry1138.bsky.social · 14/11/2024

I knit hummingbirds, balls, snakes and other toys for the local cat shelter. The snakes are the most popular with the cats.

A couple of balls, 3 snakes, a hard candy and 2 squids.

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