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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 20/09/2026

This is a weird year - sweat bees are still visiting mint and this great black wasp does not realize what season it is. At least the asters are on point (missed the leaf cutter bee visiting bloom by a millisecond) #nativepollinators #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark #bloomscrolling

Great black wasp clinging to stem of showy goldenrod (solidago speciosa)

Green metallic sweat bees camouflaged on the fading blooms of clustered mountain mint (pycnanthemum muticum)

Bright pink blooms of aster with yellow center

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

Field thistle blooms bringing all the bees to the yard. I am just playing on repeat - when i am not watching them live #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark #bloomscrolling #fallplants #mentalhealth

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

Great black wasp struggling to find nectar at the end of season - without sun, its iridescence is nearly invisible. If there was ever an image for my current mental health this is it. Just hold on and keep trying - #bloomscrolling #mentalhealth #nativeplants #nativepollinators

Great black wasp without visible iridescence on clustered mountain mint blooms that have mostly gone to seed as evidenced by the brown seed heads

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Every year butterfly weed grows where it wants - rarely in the garden! And I always have at least one yellow bloom which is never in the same spot. Butterfly weed really seems to take diversity as an assignment and I am here for it #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark #mentalhealth #bloomscrolling

Orange yellow blooms of Asclepias arranged along the stem in small clusters

Clustered orange red blooms of asclepias tuberosa

Yellow blooms on asclepias tuberosa. Blooms are arranged along the stem rather than clustered

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 09/08/2026

Bring on the Pyeweed! Apparently it hybridizes easily and I started with sweet and spotted. But it’s gorgeous and pollinators adore it! If you want to see sleeping bees or bees using leaves as umbrellas- this is your plant #homegrownnationalpark #bloomscrolling #gardenwithcoffee #nativeplants

Possibly spotted Joe Pye - soft pink wispy blossoms with a common eastern bumblebee

Possibly sweet Joe - shorter and darker blossoms also being visited by a common eastern bumblebee

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 07/08/2026

Strolling my garden, coffee in hand, spotted this bee sleeping in on the slender mountain mint. It’s finally the weekend #gardenwithcoffee #bloomscrolling #homegrownnationalpark #nativeplants #nativepollinators

Eastern bumblebee clinging to slender leaves of slender mountain mint. Beautiful slender green leaves with tiny white, light pink blooms

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

Thinking this week about overgrown paths in the garden and the trend of wild things toward chaos. Here is a reminder that native plants matter and butterfly weed is not just for monarchs. And a plant in the lawn is a plant Learning to let go & grow #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #nolawn #mentalhealth

Eastern Tiger Swallowtail (yellow and black butterfly ) on orange blooms of Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed)

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Did I get all my chores done this weekend? Absolutely not. Did I spend many hours sitting in my wildflower lawn taking pictures of pollinators? Absolutely. Any regrets? Absolutely not #bloomscroll #nativeplants #nativepollinators #mentalhealth

Small pollinator on the white blooms of common yarrow

Great golden digger wasp launching off the pink blooms of Asclepius incarnata

Tall swamp Milkweed in foreground with monarch butterfly in flight toward swamp milkweed in the background

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Caught the activity at my work pollinator garden that I helped design and install. It is seriously all about the muticum right now. So many pollinators! Black digger wasps were everywhere and they are so stunning. #nativepollinators #bloomscroll #homegrownnationalpark

Pycnanthemum muticum brown seed heads interspersed with large blooming flower heads being pollinated by an unknown skipper and a black digger wasp. When the light catches the wasp, he is iridescent

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 14/07/2026

Caught this beautiful native bee pollinating Diervilla lonicera (northern bush honeysuckle). Look at those full pollen pouches and the pollen particles visible on her face #nativeplants #nativepollinators #bloomscroll

Red leaves and butter yellow flowers of northern bush honeysuckle (Diervilla lonicera) with a bumblebee hanging on to the flower. Her pollen pouches are visible on her back legs full of pollen. Pollen is visible on her
black head as well

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Happy Friday-yay! Here’s a bumblebee working hard to pollinate hydrangea arborescens pinky pollen ring and living up to’busy as a bee’. She definitely has full pollen pouches. #homegrownnationalpark #bloomscrolling #nativepollinators

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Happy 4th! I don’t have really enough red and blue blooming right now so let’s hear it for the yellow and white summer stunners #nativeplants #nativepollinators #mentalhealth #bloomscrolling

The butter yellow bloom of Native prickly pear cactus- opuntia humifusa - with a green striped metallic sweat bee

White delicate petals of daisy fleabane which has a bright yellow center, being visited by with a tiny pollinator (hoverfly) - with cool striping like a bee

Golden yellow bloom of lanceleaf coreopsis with two pollinators - maybe long-horned bees - melissodes

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 28/06/2026

Strolling through my city garden in my pjs with my coffee spotted monarda media - Purple bergamot? It’s growing where m fistulosa and m didyma dare not tread. Blue flag irises, sensitive fern and blue lobelia all create a backdrop #nativeplants #gardenwithcoffee #bloomscrolling #mentalhealth

Purple tinged leaves (petals?) surrounding the familiar structure of monardas but darker, deeper purple than monarda fistulosa

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

Found plant!!! Beautiful Indian pink (Spigelia marilandica) that I planted last year and totally forgot about- gorgeous probably because of my neglect, growing on a hill in shade ❤️ #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark

Green leaves offset red straight up petals with a yellow center

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 17/06/2026

If you have a spot that can go wild, Virginia rose is your plant. It sends runners everywhere so be prepared. It is just so beautiful! #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark

Brilliant pink bloom of Virginia rose with jagged edged green leaves as background

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Ninebark is absolutely beautiful but holy guacamole! Octopussy anyone? This specimen is 3 years old - sleep, creep and take over the town! 😊 #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #homegrownnationalpark

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Does anyone else have issues with editing? This bed is beautiful, healthy and green but obviously a little close to the house. The width is limited by my lot size and gate access to the backyard. How do you decide what lives or moves? Plus the backyard is equally full #bloomscrolling #mentalhealth

Lots of green leaves with yellow Golden Alexanders, pink purple flowers of wild geranium- other plants include winterberry (ilex), bluestem goldenrod, wild bee balm, wild strawberries and native clematis

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Weather in New England today is winterish but I was at a plant sale yesterday - new plants & spaces was a mental health relief. If you are in the southern nh/mass are stop by grownativemass.org plant sale. Some beautiful self- heal was still available (under tents) #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

Field pussytoes (antennaria neglecta), viola pubescens (yellow wood violet), self-heal (Prunella vulgaris var. lanceolata) and some blunt or broadleaf mt mint (Pycnanthemum muticum)

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Nothing like a beautiful day in the garden to restore some balance to mental health. These short beauties were hiding under the mayapple- bird’s foot violet #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #mentalhealth

Upper two petals are red purple - bottom three petals are light purple with the middle petal having white surrounding the bottom of the yellow center (viola pedata)

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

My mother in law passed away today. Mental illness for our elderly is a real problem in this country. She was ready but I was not. Hug your people close #mentalhealth #nativeplants

Iris cristata - purple was her favorite- beautiful purple petals with upright green leaves

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Spring is what’s up! All the colors blooming today- robin’s plantain, violets, bluets and woodland phlox. Several bunnies stop here 😊 #humanegardener #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark

Bright yellow center with delicate pale pink petals - Erigeron pulchellus

Purple flowers with green leaves - viola sororia

4 small pale blue petals around a yellow center houstonia caerulea

5 deep purple blue petals on center stalks

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

Native plants sometimes blow my mind. I have been stressed so was spending much needed time in the garden. I see this bloom - a native rhody! There was one here but it was destroyed - no shred left - yet looking beautiful and about to burst! #bloomscrolling #mentalhealth #homegrownnationalpark

Purple pink blooms of rhodora on top of stem - no leaves

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

Finally blooms in the northeast! Excellent groundcovers showing off their stuff - tiarella cordifolia (foam flower), dicentra eximia (bleeding heart) and geum fragarioides (barren strawberry) #bloomscrolling #homegrownnationalpark #shadegarden #gardenmentalhealth

Happy yellow flowers with low growing green leaves

Maple shaped low growing leaves with pink conical shaped blooms starting to emerge and grow. The flowers will be white

Fern like green leaves with pink flowers starting to emerge

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

Nature planted this wild geranium and wild bee balm and I must say, I kind of dig it. #homegrownnationalpark #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

Green pointed leaves with a purple vein (monarda fistulosa aka wild bee balm) and the interesting more delicate round green leaves of geranium maculatum aka wild geranium

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 11/04/2026

Signs of spring! And your cue in the northeast to plant some yarrow in your yard or lawn - #nativeplants #bloomscroll #homegrownnationalpark

Yellow tipped puffy blooms of native pussy willow

Reddish stems and green leaves of Bearberry - a low growing evergreen shrub

The delicate fern like green leaves of native yarrow bursting through the soil

Sedum ternatum - a native low growing sedum that prefers shade - showing up in spring shade

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 15/03/2026

Spring fever! Still a foot of snow in some places but signs of green and good native plant options if you want all year greenery #bloomscrolling #greenscaping #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark

The green waxy leaves and pink stems of arctostaphylos uva-ursi ridiculously known as Massachusetts kinnikinnick or Bearberry (spring blooming low growing shrub)

Ilex glabra aka inkberry - an excellent replacement for boxwood- stays green all year and is fairly low maintenance

Kalmia Latifolia or mountain laurel has leaves that resemble rhododendrons but bloom with an absolute riot of pink - loves shade

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

In the 30s but lots of snow so busy planning and dreaming of spring beauties #nativeplants #mentalhealth #bloomscroll

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 07/02/2026

Another weekend to while away the hours with mundane tasks like laundry- and spring dreaming! I have happy packera aurea to move - but where? And a shade garden to reimagine. Grateful for the opportunity to rest and reset #mentalhealth #shadegarden #nativeplants #bloomscroll

Wild columbine showing off brilliant yellow and red flowers- aquilegia canadensis

Dark pink blooms ready to burst - Kalmia Latifolia - aka mountain laurel

The medium pink of wild geranium (geranium maculatum) blooms above green foliage - this plant does well in dry shade but sometimes acts like an ephemeral disappearing until spring

Blue-purple blooms of woodland phlox (phlox divaricata)- this phlox is beautiful and fragrant - but well loved by mammals too. Shown here against a backdrop of woodland strawberries. It’s a nice alternative to vinca - and doesn’t attract ticks

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Anyone else dreading being stuck in the house during a winter storm with the constant news sucking? At least there’s football, bunnies and spring planting planning! #gardening #nativeplants #bloomscroll

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 12/12/2025

Someone posted don’t give cats/dogs) as Xmas presents. Maybe any living, breathing being that requires love, sacrifice and care is not a present. Lucy the bunny is 12 and probably cost us a house in vet bills. We are lucky to be her hoomins. And yes she is judging us #housebunny #adoptdon’tshop

Lucy the bunny stares at the camera judging you and everyone else. She is a small bunny with a white nose and a white middle going down to her front paws and the rest of her is black.

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 23/11/2025

Goldenrod is so beautiful in all its phases. Still blooming in November and some beautiful fluffy seed heads. #bloomscroll #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark

Goldenrod still holding on to yellow blooms

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 29/10/2025

Still blooming after a frost (or two). Actually saw a tiny pollinator on the asters. If you plant, they will grow! #bloomscrolling #homegrownnationalpark #nativeplants

Blanket flower- each specimen seems to bloom at a different time! Large yellow center surrounded by red with red, yellow tipped petals (gaillardia aristata)

Heart-leaves asters (Symphyotrichum cordifolium) - small blue petals with a purple center

Possible aromatic aster (Symphyotrichum oblongifolium) - longer blue petals with dark, almost brown, center

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 12/10/2025

Why are there so many goldenrods? So bees always have a place to nap #homegrownnationalpark #bloomscroll #nativeplants

Five visible bumblebees napping on goldenrod

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 04/10/2025

Big bee and little flower - heart-leaved aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium) This beautiful flower loves shade. It’s the first plant that showed up when I started removing lawn. #nativeplants #nativepollinators #bloomscroll

Bumblebee on purple center of heart-leaved or blue wood aster blooms

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

Hump day bloom scroll: New York ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis). Feel free to put this towering beauty everywhere #bloomscroll #monarchs #nativeplants

Purple puff blooms of New York ironweed being visited by a monarch (gazebo and curtain in background)

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 24/09/2025

Should you plant goldenrods? Yes! And be a hero to migrating monarchs. Here’s showy goldenrod putting on a show for monarch butterflies and other pollinators #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark #mentalhealth

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 16/09/2025

Mentally I am struggling. My neighbors used to be awesome but they are now using rodenticides and pesticides - fighting feelings of hopelessness and anxiety. Focusing on what I CAN DO helps. These cats appreciate the safe space #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark

Monarch caterpillar hanging on Asclepias tuberosa stem (butterfly weed)

Monarch caterpillar underneath a common Milkweed leaf that it is busy munching (Asclepias syriaca)

Monarch caterpillar (yellow black and white striped) hanging on asclepias incarnata (swamp Milkweed) stem

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

I spotted this tattered great spangled fritillary feeding on tall garden phlox today. She briefly stopped on iron weed before flying off- remarkably resilient and strong in spite of the damaged wings. The tales this butterfly could tell #mentalhealth #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #nativepollinators

Rusty orange and brownish butterfly showing underwing with silver spots and significant wing damage feeding on the pink blooms of phlox paniculata (tall garden phlox)

Upside down great spangled fritillary - rusty orange-brown butterfly - with wing damage on pink blooms of tall garden phlox (phlox paniculata)

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

My favorite pollinator! They are usually out earlier- it’s been a weird season. Great Golden Digger wasps are beautiful!! Shown on that amazing powerhouse pycnanthemum muticum (mountain mint) #nativeplants #nativepollinators #bloomscrolling #homegrownnationalpark

Golden Digger wasp (large orange and black wasp) on native mountain mint (pycnanthemum muticum) featuring large bloom heads with small pink flowers and silvery green foliage

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 29/08/2025

For some reason, I put lots of milkweed (three types) in my garden and yet the monarchs prefer the random ones that sprout in my lawn. I am so glad no mow 2025 continues. #nativepollinators #nativeplants

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 27/08/2025

Just another day, just another bee. Chelone lyonii ‘hot lips’ or pink turtlehead getting buzz pollinated #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

After a day in the office, here’s a video of a bee trying to squeeze into a white turtlehead (chelone glabra) bloom. #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #homegrownnationalpark

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 24/08/2025

Sunday afternoon bee butt-palooza. Native white turtlehead, ‘hot lips’ turtle head, blue lobelia and obedient plant are some favorites at this time of year. #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark

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Gardening Jenny @gardenjenny.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

There were two monarchs in my yard this morning. One breezed off but the other stayed, resting on leaves and drinking nectar from favorites Joe Pye Weed (maculatum?) and rose milkweed. Keep planting- it made a difference to this tattered beauty #monarch #nativeplants

Monarch with tattered wings on pink Joe Pye weed bloom

Monarch with tattered wings on pink bloom of Asclepias incarnata (rose milkweed)

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