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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 6h

Snow incoming. ❄️ I hope this isn't the end of flower season. It's still beautiful out there! #Flowers #IcelandicPoppy #Rudbeckia #Helenium #Plants

Pale yellow Icelandic poppy and rudbeckia Goldsturm

Yellow fall flowers in a garden. (Helenium autumnale)

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Digital Brain @yourdigitalbrain.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Watermelons float. Farmers in Asia and Latin America send them down rivers and canals instead of trucks, cutting bruising and fuel use at once.

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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

The Rose of Sharon (Hibiscus syriacus) galleries are up. www.concretebotany.com/galleries/ro...

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Rose of Sharon

A gallery of Hibiscus syriacus growing out of pavement cracks.

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Derek Ryder @ryderda.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

And here's a movie of a Pika I saw not long after lunch.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

Dark and rainy day here, so here’s a few moments of Blue Jay bath from yesterday. Such enthusiasm! #birds

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JBGarrity Photography @joegarrity.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

Bees have eye hairs that shield them from pollen. I took this image with my Canon EF 100mm f/2.8L IS USM macro lens and a Raynox DCR-250 (2.5x). #naturephotography #nature #wildlifephotography #wildlife #macrophotography #macro #eastcoastkin #bees #photography

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Chris Fisher @fisherspeaks.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

While I wasn't all that surprised to find my first garter snake in our #YYC neighbourhood - I was surprised when it was a Plains Garter Snake. Our other two garter snakes (Wandering & Red-sided) are much better known in this city. #herps

A Plains Garter Snake with an orange dorsal stripe lays amid long grasses.

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Elizabeth West @limeylizzie.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

My beautiful pair of ravens 🐦‍⬛ 🐦‍⬛

Two ravens sitting together at the very top of a pine tree they look like Christmas tree fairies

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David Steel @steelyseabirder.bsky.social · 06/07/2026

We have lift off! The first Pufflings are now leaving the Isle of May as birds are now independent. This is a big moment as they’ve never flown and not seen the sea before! Good luck :)

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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's working pretty hard to stay on that perch. 🙂

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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's nice. I'm glad you liberated the tree from its pot, holy hanna. 😅

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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

It's such a nice slope-build design. I can see how difficult that would be. And a gorgeous new tree.

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The Cottage Garden @simonecannon.bsky.social · 29/06/2026

Pink Wizard of Oz dahlia, Halifax Public Garden, Nova Scotia, Canada #PinkMon #MacroMonday #LetItBloomJune #BloomScrolling

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The Kimono Gallery @roger1952.bsky.social · 01/07/2026

Giant cherry tree on a rainy day in Japan. Photography by Akihiko Fukuyama

A vertical landscape photograph by Akihiko Fukuyama captures the serene, evocative grandeur of a giant cherry tree on a rainy day in rural Japan. The composition presents a masterful study in seasonal aesthetics and natural scale, beautifully channeling the quiet, atmospheric melancholy of a misty spring morning. The damp, filtered light of the overcast sky softens the entire palette, casting a tranquil mood over an ancient, sacred space where nature and traditional architecture seamlessly coexist.

The upper portion of the frame is dominated by the monumental presence of the ancient sakura (cherry blossom) tree. Its massive, thick timber trunk rises majestically from the earth, splitting into powerful, moss-covered branches that support an expansive, cloud-like canopy of delicate pink and white blossoms. The vibrant, ethereal mist of pink flowers stands out in high contrast against the deep greens and muted grays of the dense forest rising up the hillside behind it. To the lower left, another smaller cherry tree in full bloom echoes this soft floral canopy, further enhancing the seasonal depth of the landscape.

Nestled beneath the giant tree in the lower right foreground are weathered, traditional wooden structures belonging to a rustic shrine or temple compound. The building on the right features a gracefully curved, sweeping gabled roof covered in aged, moss-tinted shingles and topped with traditional ridge ornaments, while an open-sided wooden pavilion rests adjacent to it on small stone pillars. Balancing the composition in the lower left corner, a lone figure holding a soft pink umbrella walks along a narrow pathway.

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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 08/06/2026

Very cool, beautiful garden. Good to know about the establishment time

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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

👇 This is fascinating. [A Close-up View of the "Icelandic (Arctic) Poppy" Papaver nudicaule by Brian Johnston (Canada)] www.microscopy-uk.org.uk/mag/indexmag... #plants

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Micscape Microscopy and Microscope Magazine

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Season of Scaryanne Denton 🧡🎃 @mariannedenton.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

On our hike this morning, a shadow pattern fell over me. I shouted to Husband (≈100 m ahead), “LOOK UP!!”

A man in the far distance on a hiking trail on the side of a thinly forested mountain slope. The sky above him is filled with circling pelicans that

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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Buckeyes are gorgeous. We have Ohio buckeye (Aesculus glabra) up north here. #palmate

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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Lupines are nice, beautiful pic with the diffraction

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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Those are beautiful. The pussy toes are amazing.

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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

Those are some nice yellow irises. 🧐

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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

The hares ate most of this plant's new flower stalks. Like 7 of its 10. I really like cornflower (Centaurea cyanus), such a nice blue. As cute as hares can be ... #nocomment #gardeningyyc #yyc #notrabbitresistant #gardening #flowers

Beautiful blue cornflower (Centaurea cyanus) starting to bloom.

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Janet Hill @saskajanet.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

I may have taken too many photos of Black-necked Stilts today. Those LEGS tho #birds

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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 06/06/2026

#Chicory (Chicorium intybus) shot Tuesday off 20th Street. #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #Flowers #UrbanFlora

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🌿groundwerk @groundwerk.bsky.social · 07/06/2026

And beautiful yellow ones (that did not wear a jaunty chapeau). #Icelandicpoppies #plants #flowers #gardens

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Concretebotany @concretebotany.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Rabbitfoot #Clover (Trifolium arvense), aka Hare's Foot Clover, Stone Clover or Oldfield Clover, shot yesterday in the Food Distribution District. #Bloomscrolling #Wildflowers #RabbitfootClover

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lukelukeluke @lukelukeluke.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Here are some nice mushrooms

A dead twig sprouts a family of delicate white Marasmoidal mushrooms under a sunlit spring canopy. All photos by me

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Abandoned Alberta @abandonedalberta.bsky.social · 18/05/2026

Phalaropes in a pond near Bittern Lake, Alberta yesterday. (May 16, 2026). The most I have seen on at one time. #birds #nature

A flock of phalaropes fly towards the camera.

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