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last two for today: echinacea and pycnanthemum, with a bluestem in the back #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

Pink blooms of coneflower with spiky orange centers stand in front of a patch of mountain mint blooming with white whorled flowers

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Milkweed doing well, hibiscus behind it, a low-growing red patch of sterile dwarf barberry to the right, and to the left a day lily not in bloom - I think it's Rocket City but everything seems to be reverting to home depot pinks #bloomscrolling

Orange blooms of a milkweed in the center of a suburban foundation planting, hibiscus behind it, a low-growing red patch of sterile dwarf barberry to the right, and to the left a day lily not in bloom

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pre #bloomscrolling cephalanthus magical moonlight in bud (as always: dwarf version my ass). Pussy willow in back

In a suburban yard, overgrown bushy buttonbush features buds of flower all over the shrub. An unused water barrel sits in front of the shrub. A pussy willow is visible behind.

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anti- #bloomscrolling today with pre-bloom monarda right, deer-chomped QotP in that empty space far right, panic grass center, bloomed-out amsonia left. Silky dogwood and smokebush in background, you can see a couple of tall NY ironweed and one blooming milkweed back there

Detail of a suburban landscape, in the center a tall panic grass, to the right spikes of monarda but not in bloom, to the left the threaded green stalks of amsonia

Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A junk journal and a blizzard book

A junk journal with a leaf pressed into the page and handmade drawing of a cabin.

A junk journal with historical photos of Alvernia PA

A blizzard book with pictures as the inserts.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

A chapbook, broadside, boxed book (with dirt), and another chap

A handmade book titled "I accept NOTHING" with foil around the edges and tiny black and clear jewels decorating the cover.

A broadside of Robert Frost's "Snow Dust" with a silhouette of a branch. The text reads:
The way a crow
Shook down on me The dust of snow
From a hemlock tree Has given my heart A change of mood And saved some part
Of a day I had rued

A chapbook titled Fraying Path - the letters of the title are cut from newspaper, ransom-note style. Stickers and decorative papers form the background.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 06/05/2026

My Lit Publications and Design class finished their final products and I'm very proud of them, and I want to show a few of their handmade chapbooks, hand-folded blizzard books, and broadsides

A chapbook cover with "Parasite" as the written title. The cover art has a red hand with puppeteer strings descending to the words of the title.

A covered blizzard book with the words "Kitchen Bin Menagerie" A red string ties the blizzard book closed. The cover has a floral and butterfly print paper and a decorative chain across the top.

A post-and-screw bound book with a cover that has a map surrounding an inset with a quilt square.

A broadside with a poem called "Road Kill" and a picture of a deer with a fawn. The deer has a halo. The words of the poem are illegible from this distance.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Some serviceberry and inkberry with all of last year's stalks still up on the hillside.

The white grouped flowers of a Canadian serviceberry bloom in a suburban landscape. An inkberry and ninebark leaf out behind the shrub.

A closer picture of serviceberry flowers, with the green leaves of an inkberry behind it. The hillside of the lot they are in has a lot of winter's spent stalks behind it.

Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

Pulmonaria is already peaking

A small pulmonaria plant in a suburban low-light bed. The plant has small white flowers with spear-shaped leaves covered in tiny white spots.

Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Phlox (jeana I think) finally spared by the deer long enough to bloom #bloomscrolling

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 30/08/2025

Senna bloomed for the first time so I'm happy about that

A wild senna plant with yellow blooms atop long branches of flat green even pinnate leaves arranged in opposition

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Also the Rudbeckia laciniata is up, tall and thuggish as usual #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

A bee sits on the yellow bloom of a green-eyed rudbeckia.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 04/08/2025

Pepperbush (Clethra) in bloom. My absolute favorite - bees love it, it smells amazing, it looks great, grows like a weed, suckers freely and easy to propagate. Clay, shade, sun, doesn't care. #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

The pink and white spires of a pepper bush bloom in front of a privacy fence, about six feet tall. A house is in the background.

Red cardinal flowers bloom in front of a pepper bush

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

I don't understand the viral pictures of hummingbirds just chilling in a pool with ten other hummingbirds. Two birds just try to murder each other every day over this cardinal flower. *and we have other cardinal flowers*

Bright red spires of cardinal flower stand between a tall bluestem grass and the pink, fluffy flowers of a joe pye weed. A paw paw tree stands nearby, in a yard.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

Cardinal flower, echinacea, phlox, some bloomed-out astilbe, pennisetum in the back

A bright red cardinal flower stands in front of astilbe, coneflower, and phlox

Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

A nice spotted joe pye weed sitting with the pawpaw and a big bluestem #bloomscrolling My baby joe is just starting up too

Tiny pink and white blooms on a joe pye weed, standing like tiny umbrellas over a four foot tall plant.

A joe pye weed in bloom, with pinkish white flowers, stands between a pawpaw tree and a tall bluestem grass.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

This one milkweed has like four caterpillars on it #nativeplants

A caterpillar with white, yellow, and black stripes crawls up the stem of a milkweed.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Silphium update: 1) my god it's huge 2) cup plant (perfoliatum) and whorled rosinweed in front) and then 3) a close up of the aster-like flowers. That miscanthus in the back is one of the many volunteers from our neighbor's yard, I got too much to do to worry about it #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

A cup plant grows to nearly ten feet tall in front of a privacy fence.

Two Silphium grow in front of a fence. The cup plant has yellow aster like blooms at the top. The whorled rosinweed is not yet in bloom.

Yellow blooms on top of a cup plant, whose toothed leaves meet at the stem to form a small cup filled with water.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Hibiscus blooming (left_ baptisia in front, with a sheathed choke cherry holding out against the deer who want to eat it; right: a fig companion that honestly I've misplaced) #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #gardening

A hibiscus flowers in front of a fence. The hibiscus has white plate sized blooms fringed by pink. A baptisia grows in front.

A white plate-sized hibiscus bloom with a dark red center alone in a hibiscus plant.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Mountain mint, panic grass, and button bush in the front yard. We're 1/3 through the meadowing project #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

White flowers of mountain mint bloom in front of panic grass and, in the background, buttonbush

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Allium cernuum (an onion, lol) starting to bloom.

Pink blooms of an onion, pointing downwards, near a brick path with a ceramic blue fish.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 03/07/2025

Zebra swallowtail butterflies only returned to Pittsburgh last year after 70-some years. Here's one on our pawpaws today #butterflies #nativeplants #trees

A zebra swallowtail butterfly about to land on a pawpaw leaf.

A zebra swallowtail butterfly laying eggs on a pawpaw leaf.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

Crocosmia started. Sorry about the orange stick, they're leaning #bloomscrolling

Red blooms of crocosmia supported by an ugly orange stick.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 02/07/2025

#bloomscrolling some button bush, "magical moonlight" (dwarf version, my ass) on left and regular ol' cephalanthus on right. Every single insect loves this plant

The white spiky blooms of button bush in a suburban landscape

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 28/06/2025

platycodon / balloon flower

Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Heliopsis and St. John's Wort - behind them but not tall yet is my filipendula rubra, which, people, you do not even know how psyched I am. Behind is cutleaf rudbeckia and other stuff I'll show when it blooms. #bloomscrolling #zone6b

Yellow blooms of a heliopsis sunflower bloom next to the smaller yellow blooms of St. John's wort.

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Jason @jasonstuart.bsky.social · 23/06/2025

Some #bloomscrolling - butterfly weed in front of a non-blooming hibiscus #nativeplants #zone6b

The vibrant orange blooms of milkweed flowers in front of a non-blooming but tall hibiscus.

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last for today: bay magnolia, first bloom ever, though I didn't catch the flowers at their best

Some white flowers in decline on a sweetbay magnolia shrub, with green lance-shaped leaves tapering to a sharp point.

milkweed, tuberosa and swampy. The common milkweed is not blooming yet

A butterfly weed with orange blooms in a garden near a hibiscus, not yet in bloom.

Purple and white flowers showing on a swamp milkweed with slightly more lancelike leaves

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One of my naturalized heliopsis

An oxeye sunflower blooms yellow near young butterfly weed and in front of a wheelbarrow and small tree.

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