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Nature lover, grower of plants, tree hugger.

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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
It's finally time! Always my first bloom; Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis) in the forest. I can breed them indoors, the minute I put them out unguarded....eaten. I shall continue to enjoy them in their natural environment until I figure out the secret plant keeping them safe in the wild.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) is blooming! A food source for the remaining pollinators and a bit of brightness in the forest understory. This year's seed is currently in warm stratification until December, then will be cold stratified until March. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 30/09/2025
Another beautiful fall day. Smooth Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) and Heath Aster (Symphyotrichum ericoides}
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
Sending off our monarchs with Obedient Plant (Physostegia virginiana), Canada Goldenrod (Solidago canadensis) and Giant Ragweed (Ambrosia trifida) All of these plants are very aggressive; not a combo for urban environments. It hums with pollinators and dances with hummingbirds. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
It's here! My favourite aster: Heath Aster (Symphyotrichum ericoides) 1. White ray flowers with pale yellow disc flowers 2. Linear leaves resemble heather 3. Tight clustered raceme. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Calico Aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum) 1. White to lavender ray flowers change with age as well as white to pink disc flowers change with pollination. 2. Very small flower 3. Sheathed leaf stalk 4. Main stems turning red with age. 5. Absolute show stopper of blooms. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Smooth Purple Aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) 1. Smooth stem 2. Clutching smooth leaves 3. Lavender ray flowers with yellow disc flowers 4. Sweat bees cannot resist it.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 22/09/2025
Frost Aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum) 1. Hairy Stem 2. White ray flowers with yellow disc flowers turning orange after pollination 3. Many branches with flower heads on tips. 4. Absolutely stunning bushy pollinator magnet.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) *Smells like cola *Leaves clasp the stem *Leaves are hairy *Located in a moist meadow *Stem is green to purple *Lilac to purple ray flowers Stems are robust and remian upright without the Chelsea chop. Gorgeous 😍 #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 10/09/2025
New England Aster (Symphyotrichum novae-angliae) *Smells like cola *Leaves clasp the stem *Leaves are hairy *Located in a moist meadow *Stem is green to purple *Lilac to purple ray flowers Stems are robust and remian upright without the Chelsea chop. Gorgeous 😍 #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Blue vervain (Verbena hastata) adds a touch of purple to our very yellow and white fall blooms. Different colour variations provide different nutrients making this a magnet for bees and butterflies. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Tall coreopsis (Coreopsis tripteris) showing up for the first time in our restoration and seed orchard! Special thanks to the birds that planted it, I certainly didn't! The three lanceolate leaves on this one make it easy to distinguish quickly from other yellow blooming natives. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Spotted Jewel Weed (Impatiens capensis) prefers moist locations and can spread to form large patches: a hummingbird and bee buffet. A natural antifungal and can be used for immediate use to prevent skin reaction from poison ivy. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 28/08/2025
Witch Hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) capsule. These are dehiscent fruits: they burst open to release the seeds. These are ready now and will be dried for ease of splitting the capsule. Requires warm and cold stratification and may take up to two years to germinate.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Milkweed Tussok Moth (Euchaetes egle). Tis the season for Tussok caterpillars, look but don't touch; they use chemical defense against predators that cause major skin irritation. Beautiful aren't they?
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 27/08/2025
Scarlett Paintbrush (Castilleja coccinea) First time coming across one of these! They are hemiparasitic (they receive nutrients from a host plant) and through photosynthesis. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
There is nothing like a little rock scramble.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 08/08/2025
Not enough attention to this little guy, Fowlers Toad (Anaxyrus fowleri). Just cruising on the sun scorched compacted garbage wasteland living its best life. Native to Ontario, will probably survive the apocalypse.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Early Goldenrod (Solidago juncea), the harbinger of fall. It will grow in almost any soil, but needs part sun to thrive. It doesn't spread as rapidly as some of its more boorish cousins (I am looking at you Canada Goldenrod Solidago Canadensis)) #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Wild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) the most heavily scented of our Monarda sp. In the second picture you can see bright purple flowers signaling to our bug friends that they have pollen for them. Once pollinated, they turn a light lavender. My favourite scent of summer. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 14/07/2025
Circaea canadensis (Enchanter's Nightshade). Native to moist wooded areas in SW Ontario. The tiny hairs on the seed capsule stick to everything, spreading this dainty beauty at will. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Pointed leaf tick trefoil (Hylodesmum glutinosum). Beautiful dainty pinks in the forest understory. Differ from Desmodium canadense in leaf shape (pointed tips) and inflorescence size (fewer clusters). Hylodesmum sp. enjoy the darker understory while Desmodium sp. prefer sun. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 08/07/2025
Fringed Loosestrife (Lysimachia ciliata) Nodding yellow flowers perfect for a wet area. They grow mostly via rhizome, but I have had some success seeding immediately.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta) Over an acre of wildflowers! 14 more to go. #nativeplants
Black-eyed Susan (Rudbeckia hirta)
Yellow/orange ray flowers with brown centersNative wild flowers blooming and a very good black dog.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 02/07/2025
Four years of selective mowing and removal, seed collection and distribution, planting of woody species: worth it. St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum Eastern Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron annuus) Heliopsis helianthoides (Smooth Oxeye) Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis) #nativeplants
St. John’s Wort (Hypericum perforatum
Bright yellow flowersEastern Daisy Fleabane (Erigeron annuus)
White flowers with yellow centerHeliopsis helianthoides (Smooth Oxeye)
Yellow/orange ray flower Foxglove Beardtongue (Penstemon digitalis)
Bell shaped white flowers.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
Great Angelica (Angelica atropurpurea) growing at the river. While not a suggested garden plant, it is a larval host to swallowtails and is a food source for many insects and birds
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 22/06/2025
Finally, summer.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
Hairy beard tongue(Penstemon hirsutus). One of the easiest of its species to identify due to a very hairy stem. Loved by all sorts of bees, flies and occasionally a hummingbird. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
Goldenrod Crab Spider getting takeout on an oxeye daisy.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 18/05/2025
Chokecherry (prunus virginiana), I have yet to see a single berry long enough to get seeds; a definite favourite for birds. These berries are edible but not eatable; I have heard the jelly is good. You have to get the fruit before the birds; I don't like making jelly as much as I like birds.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 07/05/2025
Second round of spring arrivals in the forest. Viola striata, V. sororia, V. pubescens, and a vulture roosting in the rundown cabin. Violas can be aggressive in the perfect environment, but how could a carpet of flowers be wrong? #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
Marsh Marigold (Caltha palustris). A member of the buttercup family, deer resistant, likes ephemeral streams. Fantastic plant for a backyard pond edge. #nativeplants
Bright yellow buttercup like flowers with large heart shaped leaves.A close up photo of two bright yellow flowers with multiple yellow stamensBright yellow buttercup like flowers with large heart shaped leaves
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
Look who popped up today! Bloodroot (Sanguinaria canadensis). Another ephemeral (spring seasonal) that relies on myrmecochory (ants). If you are wondering if tick season has started, this is my signal. Sap from the root can cause necrosis, temperate plants are cool. #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
Sharp lobed Hepatica (Hepatica acutiloba) blooming now! The tiny flowers are delicate and inconspicuous you may miss them strolling by.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
Trout lily (Erythronium americanum) popping up in the dappled shade. Native to Ontario, notoriously slow to spread, my favourite ephemeral. #nativeplants
Trout lily (Erythronium americanum) leaves emerging from mossy ground.Trout lily (Erythronium americanum) cluster of green and brown spotted leaves emerging from mossy ground.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
Toxicodendron radicans (Poison Ivy) in its untamed glory in our ephemeral flood plane. This vine is responsible for housing many birds and insects after the loss of our fraxinus spp (Ash trees) due to EAB. I luckily have not developed an allergy yet. #nativeplants
10 cm wide climbing poison ivy plant on treePoison ivy large climbing high on treeUp close view of poison ivy hair like structure climbing tree.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
It's finally happening! Spring on the eve of the equinox. Silver Maple (Acer saccharinum) #trees #nativeplants
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
How did that Kale overwinter? Ask the cottontail! #gardening
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
There are always things worth sharing; the question is if anyone wants to receive them.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 20/02/2025
Sometimes the sun doesn't shine; it doesn't make life any less beautiful.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 19/02/2025
Water is life; the sound alone will cleanse the mind.
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BWarn 🍁 @bwarn.bsky.social · 29/01/2025
Fantastic to watch!
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