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you know what would be significantly cheaper than heating a house all winter in massachusetts? if we just sold this place and used the money to buy a tiny 2-season cabin in maine and some swamp shack in louisiana and became snowbird people. TO SAVE MONEY the math is real

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 18h

checking the news now to see if anything of importance has happened since I went outside in april

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 21h

it’s cold out, which means I am reluctantly back inside, which means the cats need to reluctantly remember who I am #catsky

my gray fluffy cat nermal in my arms on my lap, unsure of if he likes the sudden attention or not

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

this stuff drives me batty. I know the internet makes it seem like a spooky immortal plant, but bittersweet is significantly easier to pull than a ROW of lilac bushes! it’s not only going to spread like wildfire in its freshly cleared out space, but it will inevitably spread into the taker’s yard.

facebook post someone writes: looking for someone to pull out a row of lilacs. they’ve become too overrun by bittersweet and we can’t maintain them.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

I've started a new iNat project. I'm trying to figure out how to analyze cold cricket songs! Being in New England, that's like half of my recordings. Please add your cold cricket recordings here! www.inaturalist.org/projects/chi... #ento #bioacoustics #inat

inaturalist.org

Chilly Crickets

Most crickets are fairly simple to identify by song based on their pulse counts and frequency. However, the data starts to become sparse once we hit lower temperatures. This project seeks to fill in t...

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

broad-winged tree cricket imprisoned under loupe for a minute to check ID #ento #bugsky

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

these mushrooms are clearly very determined to be eaten #fungifriends

Parasol mushrooms breaking through the bamboo shade screen attached to my chickens’ run

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 02/10/2026

I updated my profile photo. I hope it does not cause alarm or confusion.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

“why would you buy property that’s mostly a swamp, that land is worthless” yeah gosh what a mistake #fungifriends

a generous sized heap of hen of the woods growing at the base of an oak tree

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

dude just fell asleep like this 🐝 #nativeplants

cute fuzzy common eastern bumblebee faceplanted in the bright purple flowers of new england aster.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

omfg there are swainson’s thrushes in the swamp rn

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

gardening one-handed in the dark holding a flashlight in a mad dash to finish everything before all hell freezes over is like my late season specialty

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

gardening with chickens is like

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

omfg the lowbush blueberry came with its own liverwort, my garden is now blessed #nativeplants

flat green leaf-like branches growing in a planter under lowbush blueberry. probably common liverwort.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

it wouldn't surprise me if I was the holder of the largest collection of sphagnum ground cricket field recordings that exists who do I call for this? guinness?

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026

doc, is it really excoriation disorder when I’m constantly covered in ticks?

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

oh my I’ve dug up something fun for the bug house #bugsky #teammoth

a large brown cocoon that looks to be likely a member of sphingidae.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 24/09/2026

you can’t tell but this northern bush honeysuckle was a quite large, mature burning bush covered in berries 5 minutes earlier. #nativeplants #gardening

A northern bush honeysuckle sapling freshly planted in a forest in the leaf litter, but seemingly undisturbed. Neighboring fern and jack-in-the-pulpit unmaimed.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

“my burning bush is very well-behaved, stays put, and would never invade” dickheads

a heap of burning bush I pulled out of the woods laying on my deck waiting to be burned

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 23/09/2026

I am not certain but I think this is a Trogus vulpinus zipping around a crabapple. I’m sure I will be spending the rest of the week searching for canadian swallowtail caterpillars to poach. #bugsky

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

what’s up dogwood, stop trying to have sex, it’s september

a cluster of buds and small white blossoms on a silky dogwood branch

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I need to show off this tree that you cannot tell I just planted two seconds ago as I did it flawlessly without disturbing or removing any of the pre-existing native flora making up the groundcover. #nativeplants #habitatgardening

a newly planted pitch pine in a weedy meadow surrounded by intact dwarf cinquefoil, thicket creeper, and common blue violet covering the ground.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

omfg human kindness is going to be the death of monarchs, isn’t it stop poaching butterflies

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

most swamps are used as a dumping ground and contain a historic record of people’s filth. I had long moved out all the tires from the swamp with the exception of this one that was always so heavy with muck, I couldn’t lift it. well apparently I am strong and powerful now #victory

a stupid ugly tire full of muck on my deck.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

I might need to become a winter birdfeeder lady once the bears go to bed, because I'm bored and lonely and there is no joy.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

I must be really crushing it with my forest clearing garden lately — a meadow fritillary was visiting today. These are less of a generalist yard butterfly and are more specialists of wet meadows. Uncommon in MA, I’d never actually seen one before. #habitatgardening #bugsky 🦋

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

the forest has arrived! some of it anyway. don’t laugh at my sad tiny forest, ok. I’m growing the rest myself. these are from new england wetlands plants, a wholesale grower nearby that specializes in habitat restoration. I’m lucky to have access to straight species with local ecotypes.

a collection of mostly successional saplings of various species (a few things are for the swamp), plus a hoard of sweetfern and tray of yellow wild indigo.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

it appears I will also have some hairstreaks to add.

a pod of beans hanging from a vine with holes all over the pod.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

garden update: it’s kind of an awkward mess but that’s pretty characteristic of my garden in september 🌱

garden starting to thin out and with plants kind if flopping over in random places. also, I demolished a chunk of it for a bug house.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

our truck is now fixed and back in order! picking up bird forest on friday. goodbye, ugly golf course, I hate you. #nolawn

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

sorry for my bluntness but people's audio IDs on inat have been highly entertaining/completely off the rails this month

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

how has no one written a bio for northern bush katydids? en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scudder...

en.wikipedia.org

Scudderia septentrionalis - Wikipedia

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

I just read a comment from someone reciting what chatgpt says (which for the record, was inaccurate information) while at the same time berating the poster for not taking a few minutes to research something before jumping to conclusions and good grief what has happened to humanity my brain hurts

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

the internet keeps trying to ID jewelweed seeds as slug moth caterpillars this is what jewelweed seeds look like. now you know. #nativeplants

a burst seed pod of common jewelweed open in my palm. the plant it came from is in the background to serve as proof that this isn’t slug moth propaganda.

close-up image of jewelweed seeds and burst pod. The seeds are oval-shaped with a ridge running down the center. These are brown but they can be shades of green, yellow, or black depending on ripeness.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

it is socially acceptable to go to the grocery store to purchase dill to sustain the population of swallowtails that have decimated your carrot-family crops but it is frowned upon if you encourage sphinx moths to have at it with your tomatoes that are pretty much done for the season anyway

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I seem to be depressed so I’ve decided to go back to living in the breezeway. I brought the loupe with me for enhanced excitement here is a cranefly visitor with mites that are presumably of the genus Calyptostoma.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I know I've kidnapped their larvae and raised them in a hamper before, but this still felt like meeting a celebrity. This is my absolute favorite moth and I cannot believe I used to feed them to my chickens. Everyone, meet the most fearsome garden pest in the flesh: Manduca sexta. #teammoth

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I cannot get anything accomplished, and not for lack of trying. how do I get rid of this complete dumpster fire of a brain and exchange it for something not insane?

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

nursery: "your order for a forest is ready. come pick it up!" *before I even finish reading the email* spouse: "the truck's busted, we can't drive it til its fixed" file under #fml

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 11/09/2026

ordered a new yard for the birds. hopefully it rains.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

this is from that week I spent in the breezeway. my MIL’s biggest concern about dying seemed to be that her loved ones wouldn’t be ok, so I’ve been trying to be ok. #bugsky #teammoth

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 09/09/2026

I'm just going to pin this thread in case anyone has been trying to reach me and does not know if I'm ghosting them because I'm dead or just the usual shenanigans.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

I don't really like fall and should probably be banned from new england so anyway, 197 days until spring.

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H @gardeningwithh.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

building a bug house for the babydids

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