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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 3h

To celebrate #greensat, I've finally resumed planting the many seedlings from this past spring (+ one unfortunate sedge, which I bought in October of last year...oops) Thanks for the figurative nudge, fellow Bsky native plant gardeners ✌️ #nativeplants #canadiangardening

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 09/10/2026

The front garden is still full of #flowers that have either been blooming for a few weeks, since mid-summer, or, in a few cases, since late spring #bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday

A section of a flower bed; yellow yarrow, the first plant to flower in the spring, still has plenty of colour. The yarrow is surrounded by honey-scented sweet alyssum, hidcote blue lavender and autumn joy sedum, most of which attract and sustain pollinators in between the flowering of native plants

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Everything in the garden is fleeting but the blues are especially so #bluetue #bloomscrolling

A bee coated in a lot of loose pollen flies over the spiky blue heads of a globe thistle

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

That's amazing! And it helps puts things into perspective I don't think I could plant 300 but I can plant the 100 or so that I have 😂

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 05/10/2026

Wow! Thanks for the inspiration to get the rest of mine planted this weekend 😅 How many did you end up planting in this space?

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 04/10/2026

Not about an individual player but getting the whole team across the finish line? Except she's ignoring the fact that the whole team is made up of people quite like her ex-husband

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 30/09/2026

Aw, Zoey is an adorable little rogue (meant as a compliment)! My dog is a 13-year-old husky x whose rabbit chasing days are long behind her. She used to whine at the patio door if she sensed a rabbit; now, she can walk past four bunnies before she notices a fifth

A husky x lays in a sphinx-like pose, struggling to stay awake among the smells and noises of mid-spring (she is surrounded by an explosion of kid toys)

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

I'm so sorry to hear about your collection of bad news That's a lot of disappointment for one day

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

Signs you have an older dog: The once-insistent bunny-detector is now completely oblivious to the bun-bun sitting in the #nativeplants garden (So far, the only plant he or she has eaten this season that I really cared about is my showy tick-trefoil) #gardensky

A small bunny with brown, black, and white hair hides among several browning native plants, including Joe pye weed, little bluestem, and a showy (Canada) tick-trefoil that's been chewed down by said rabbit

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ooh, thank you! I love a pie recipe that calls for sour cream

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 28/09/2026

Ok, now I want to try this because I like the taste of butternut squash over pumpkin (which is edible only with a significant amount of whipping cream) Do you have a recipe? Or can you just sub in squash for any pumpkin pie recipe?

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

I assumed the honeywort wouldn't explode by planting it in a container, then placing said container in part shade I was quite mistaken #flowers #bloomscrolling

A zoomed out shot of my 14 inch planter, which has a clover-like white gomphrena and a peachy-pink thumbelina zinnia. The vast majority of the planter is honeywort (cerinthe), which have bell shaped flowers that range from magenta to bluish purple

It's not a native plant, but the bees love it, so it's been added to my list of container annuals

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Now that the leaves are changing and most of the flowers have faded, any remaining #bluetue flowers really stand out #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

Three closed bottle gentian flowers (which resemble oversized, oval-shaped buds) glow in the afternoon sun on a crisp fall day

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 21/09/2026

If I have to make multiple trips to the hospital in one week, at least I get to enjoy the view of the #nativeplants garden by the entrance #pinkmon #bloomscrolling

A close-up of a small section of a very large, circular garden. Still fresh-looking coneflowers are the stars of the show, surrounded by mostly green foliage, except here, where tiny bluish-purple (vervain?) or small white flowers (looks like foxglove beardtongue but it's the first day of fall?!) poke out

Elsewhere in the garden where still blooming butterfly weeds and asters

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 18/09/2026

There's a very specific type of joy that I feel when I see new-to-me #nativeplants bloom for the first time #flyday #purplefriday

A small bee straddles two spikes of purple giant hyssop, which is slowly starting to erupt into pale purple flowers for the first time

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

This takes me back to my teen years. I was at a camp in northern Ontario and I asked the three counselors there to say water to hear the differences (one was from the UK, another from Australia and the third was from Philly). It was quite the auditory experience 😂

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

My son found this one across from my house in an area with tons of goldenrod. While I have a volunteer in my backyard, the majority of the goldenrod I grew this year and likely won't flower until next season All that to say: by growing more goldenrod, I hope to see more beetles in the future!

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 17/09/2026

I agree. It's nice sharing hobbies and things that we enjoy without every other user being antagonistic I made the mistake of checking something on one of the other place's yesterday Oof

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 15/09/2026

Oh, the age-old gardening question: Is it better to briefly see it a flower before wildlife consumes it, or to never have seen it at all? (Or something like that) #bluetue #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

A close-up of an unfurling smooth blue aster flower, which is surrounded by small, tight buds. It's presence was brief as it was eaten shortly after blooming by a small orphaned bunny in our yard

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

Hard pressed to find a pic of the swamp milkweed without a pollinator (or two) in the shot #pinkmon #nativeplants

Two wasps visit the tiny but highly fragnant flowers of a first-year swamp milkweed plant

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

I started counting monarch #butterflies on the way to Lake Huron this morning and kept at it while on the beach I lost count at around 80 The ditches are filled with goldenrod and asters to feed them as they migrate south (With lots of #milkweed too, for the babies next spring) #nativeplants

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

I did something similar last year, when taking a picture of an eggshell my kids found in our garden I learned it might be a fox egg

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Okay, this makes way more sense. I couldn't figure out how you could've hit a fan while tacking nails into a wall I assumed: A) you meant a standing fan; or B) you must have some wind-up while hammering 😂

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Thought I found a dead praying mantis this morning It was in fact very much alive (Much to my preschooler's horror)

A large greenish brown praying mantis is preparing to fight me from my fingertip after I naively thought I was helping an insect out

(Background: I found what I thought was a dead praying mantis on some concrete. So I picked it up to move it to a planter, giving it a more dignified resting place. It burst into furious life)

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 10/09/2026

Cardinal flower (or lobelia cardinalis, if you prefer botanical names)

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

I completely agree and it doesn't stop at the museum. Too many people lately seem to think it's more stupid to have hope than it is to accept defeat and quit Giving up should be the last choice, not the first

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It's September in a semi-rural community, which means sunflowers and goldenrod are practically everywhere #yellowthur #bloomscrolling

A recently opened a dwarf sunflower grows in a container near my porch

Many nearby farms feature large stands of full-sized sunflowers, making me wish I had more space in my yard

A close-up of a clump of volunteer goldenrod, growing in my background, (a large patch of goldenrod is growing across the road from my house, so I assume wildlife has helped spread it around)

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Jules in the Garden @juliwils.bsky.social · 03/09/2026

It probably doesn't look like this anymore after an afternoon and evening of rain, hail, and high winds But this is how my cheery little red bee balm looked this morning #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

A bright pinkish-red flower, which resembles the silhouette of cascading fireworks, pops out from fuzzy green foliage with reddish veining

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