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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 28/04/2025

It’s Elegant Clarkia’s time to shine! Check out these beauties and find out who else is blooming in my #californianativeplants project — all in my new blog post. 🥰 💚🌱💚 puttingdownroots.blog/2025/04/27/s... #nativeplants #grownatives #gardening

A tall stem of coral-colored flowers with white stamens. In the background are garden beds edged with red bricks.

Several stems of bright pink/purple flowers with white stamens. In the background are a brick column, a black iron gate, a neighboring house, and leaves and woodchips in a garden bed.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 14/04/2025

Looks like next spring will be another Lupinepalooza. SO many seed pods! 😁💚🌱💜 #Californianativeplants #nativeplants #grownatives

Photo of a large stalk covered in green seed pods. There are two adjacent stalks that have purple columns of flowers, and there is a mass of finger-like green leaves.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Seeing everyone’s photos and posts about #CaliforniaNativePlants makes me so happy! Thank you all for sharing! 🥰💚🌱 Here’s my newest bloom today - Red Monkeyflower.

Photo of one small, deep red flower blooming, surrounded by narrow green leaves, reddish stems, an unopened flower bud, and yellow and white flowers in the background.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

I can’t stop marveling over the miracle of this wee meadow in the yard. Two years ago, nothing grew in this spot! I love staring at it and watching the pollinators come and go. 💚🌱🐝 #californianativeplants #nativeplants #grownatives

Photo of a small patch of yellow, yellow and white, orange, and purple wildflowers.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 07/04/2025

A little rumpled, but look who popped open to say hello! 😊 Good morning, Tidy Tips! 💚🌱💛 #californianativeplants #grownatives #nativeplants

A single Tidy Tips flower, which has many narrow petals that are mostly bright yellow, except for white at the end of each petal. The plant has a thin stem and leaves. The dirt is visible, as are a few other small yellow flowers preparing to bloom.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 29/03/2025

First Purple Innocence flower! Doesn’t it seem like there’s always one plant willing to be brave and bloom first, even when all the others are still days away? 💜💚🌱💚💜 #californianativeplants #nativeplants #springflowers #plantnatives

Purple Innocence (Collinsia heterophylla) flower. Also called “Purple Chinese Houses.” Macro photo of a half-bloomed flower with white petals on the top part of each bloom and purple petals on the bottom. The leaves are light green, long and pointed.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 26/03/2025

‘Tis a bit windy today, but a few more blooms came out to say hello! First up: Monkeyflower 💚🌱💚#californianativeplants #gardening #nativeplants

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 24/03/2025

Next up in my first blooms: California Goldfields. Hello, lovely one! Soon, you’ll be surrounded by friends. 💛🌱💚 #californianativeplants #nativeplants

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 20/03/2025

Growing California native plants in containers class! Nicholas Hummingbird is offering the class on April 7th from 7-9 pm (via Zoom). He’s an Indigenous native plant expert & activist. You will learn SO much! Find him on IG at california_native_plants. www.instagram.com/p/DHbUFWsprS...

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 17/03/2025

This sad little stick is the Western Redbud I planted more than 2 years ago. Gardening is so humbling sometimes! 🙂 Sharing this and other foibles from my CA native plant project in my latest blog post. 💚🌱💚 puttingdownroots.blog/2025/03/16/k... #californianativeplants #nativeplants #gardeningfail

A brown stick poking up out of dead leaves, woodchips, and acorn caps. It has a few small stems branching off, but only two tiny leaves. A green banner has the words “Western Redbud ‘tree’” and a frowny face emoji.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Squeeee!!! A native bee (Yellow-faced Bumblebee, I think?) came to visit the native Fragrant Pitcher Sage! Welcome, little buddy! 🐝💚🌱💚 🥰 #californianativeplants #nativeplants #nativepollinators

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

Loving the color on this lupine flower. 🩷 I swear it seems like the plants that sprout out of the cracks in the driveway are healthier than anything I plant and fuss over! 🤦🏼‍♀️😂 🌱 #californianativeplants #nativeplants #wildflowers

Lupine plant with thick stems, many leaves that look like hands with several fingers on each one, and a single flower, mostly bright green and pre-bloomed, but with a few dark pink flower petals starting to unfurl.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 11/03/2025

First lupine bloom, a potential Purple Innocence problem, a “fortress of seeditude,” and more updates from my native plant project on my Putting Down Roots blog! 💚🌱 Come check it out: puttingdownroots.blog/2025/03/06/t... #californianativeplants #nativeplants #gardening #blogpost

A single Succulent Lupine flower blooming on a slope. There are 4 sets of distinct purple flowers and a cone-shaped part above that is yet to bloom.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 10/03/2025

The garden’s first Baby Blue Eyes of the year! It’s happening… 💚🌱💚🥰 #californianativeplants #flowers #wildflowers #plantnatives

Macro photo of a single Baby Blue Eyes flower. Pale blue petals with white in the center and small black arrow-like dots. The leaves are many lobed and fern-like.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 06/03/2025

Went hiking on Mare Island this week and came across a whole bunch of sheep and tiny lambs roaming free! Cuteness overload! We even got to pet one. 💜🐑💜

Four adult sheep and one black lamb with white on its forehead, ears, and tip of its tail.

Green field and wooded area with several adult sheep and one all-black lamb, who is sitting down on a walking path.

A green field and wooded area with several adult sheep and one all black lamb sitting in the grass, almost hidden from view.

A white adult sheep with an all black head, ears, and legs. She’s standing in lush green grass and looking at the camera.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 03/03/2025

Well, hello there, beautiful! First fragrant pitcher sage (Lepechinia fragrans) flower. I’m in love! 💜💚🌱 #californianativeplants #nativeplants #containergardening #springflowers

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

Looks great! I must’ve bought mine from Watershed right around the same time. 😊

Young coffeeberry tree plant (about 12 inches tall) with deep green older leaves at the bottom and new growth bright green leaves at the top.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 26/02/2025

Meet the newest additions to my California native plant project: California Buttercups! They’ll be going in the ground soon. I needed some happy yellow flowers today. 🙂💚🌱💛 #nativeplants #CaliforniaNativePlants

Two nursery pots with California Buttercup (Ranunculus californicus) plants. They have trailing stems with leaves at the ends and there are 3 yellow flowers blooming.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 23/02/2025

Small wonders for a Sunday. I love finding tiny things in the garden! #tinyjoys #spiders #fungi #mushroom #nature

A tiny brown spider on a Yellow Sticky Monkey Flower leaf.

A teeny tiny mushroom growing amongst some rocks. It has a white fluted top that looks like a parasol and a thin, tall light brown stem.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 22/02/2025

Hope was hard to find this week. Until the plants showed me where to look. 🌱💚🌳 New blog post: puttingdownroots.blog/2025/02/21/w... #nativeplants #californianativeplants

Macro photo of a young lupine plant. The cluster of leaves in the center holds one droplet of water that looks like a diamond.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 21/02/2025

Bubbee stares straight into your soul. 🐈‍⬛ #cats #blackcats

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

A warm fire, a good book (from my local library), and snuggly kitties. So blessed. 🐈‍⬛🔥📖 #cats #mondaynight #reading #fireplacevibes

Photo of a fire in a fireplace, with a black cat, tortoiseshell cat, and a person’s legs stretched out on a quilt in front of it. The person is wearing jeans, black Puma socks, and has the book “Nature Fix” across her legs.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Post-Valentine’s Day date with my sweetie at Quarters Coffee House on Mare Island. Such a beautiful place! 💜☕️ #VallejoCA #coffeeshop #FebruaryinCA

Photo of a to-go coffee cup resting on an outdoor patio table, next to a Jammie Dodger cookie (vanilla shortbread sandwich cookie with a heart cutout, strawberry jam inside, and dusted with powdered sugar) and a potted fern with green fronds.

View from the porch at Quarters Coffee House. Beautiful Corinthian style columns, a hanging potted plant, blue sky, an orange tree, several different kinds of palm and other trees, and a cream-colored building in the distance.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 15/02/2025

Happy Birthday to this sweet, wonderful boy. We love you Miny cat! 💜🐈💜 #cats #seniorcat #tomcat #sweetcat

Photo of a buff-colored male kitty snuggling his human daddy’s arm.

Handsome buff-colored kitty with white bib and toes and green eyes. He’s sitting on the kitchen table and looking at the camera in a very distinguished manner.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Happy #Caturday! This is Miney (or Miny, to some). He’s the sweetest old tom cat ever, and he looks and sounds like a mountain lion. He loves to be snuggled and begs me to pick him up and carry him around the yard. He’s our grandpa kitty - turning 14 on the 14th! 🐈💜🥰

An orange/buff kitty sleeps in the sunlight atop a fleece blanket with cats on it.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 06/02/2025

My Bubbee boy was happy to soak up some sun yesterday between rainstorms. #cats #blackcats

A black cat sitting in a sunny window. His eyes are half closed in happiness.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

It’s a quiet time in the yard while I wait for seedlings to mature and buds to bloom, so check out my latest blog post to learn about some of the next projects in my #Californianativeplants journey, including deciding what to plant under this lovely oak tree. puttingdownroots.blog/2025/02/04/w...

Photo of a live oak tree in the morning sun. Taken in the SF Bay Area, California.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 04/02/2025

Beaver activity! On Sunday, we went on a rainy and chilly birding hike. The birds were few (I hope they were hunkered down somewhere dry and warm), but we got to see beaver dams, a collapsed beaver lodge, recent beaver chew, otter slides, a coyote, and a jackrabbit. Totally worth it! 🥰

Photo of a small creek in Cordelia, California. The foreground shows thick, bushy plants with some green leaves and brown, dormant branches. On the far bank are three bare trees and lots of green and brown grasses. There is evidence of beaver activity where a narrow path has diverted some of the water.

Green grasses in foreground and a pile of wood with visible recent beaver chew marks. In the background is a small, narrow waterfall that the beavers created by damming.

Photo of an active beaver dam with many sticks and branches and piles of mud. The dammed water is cloudy with mud and reflecting the gray winter sky. There are bare trees in the water and on the banks and some green grasses.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 01/02/2025

Happy Caturday! My sweet Nola is enjoying the Cornell Lab feederwatch cam from Sapsucker Woods, NY. My kitties miss seeing the birds of the Northeast (from inside) - and snow! 😻🐈‍⬛❄️ #cats #caturday #birds #cattv

Photo of a black cat staring at a tv screen. The tv is showing a live bird feeder cam with several bird feeders. There is a female Cardinal, a Northern Flicker, and a Mourning Dove at the feeders.

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Kristen @fieryboots.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

Good morning from Scouty girl! We’re having our post-breakfast snuggle time. I hope you all got to start your day with a little love. 💜💜💜 #cats #tabby #catlove