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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 01/10/2026

A beautiful morning to begin October 🍂🌾

Golden grassy hills and a hint of golden autumn leaves in the trees form this river valley with a large steel trestle bridge across it

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 29/09/2026

A pair of painted lady butterflies took a long lunch in my garden on their way south yesterday.

A butterfly with mottled orange, brown and white markings (some outlined in white) and circular eyespots on the underside of its lower wings, sips nectar from numerous tiny pink flowers clustered on a flat blossom head.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Looks like a lovely hike, Tracey.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 22/09/2026

Hello autumn and golden shimmering leaves 🍂💛

A clump of aspen trees at peak autumn colour with golden leaves, surrounded by a deep green conifer forest in the background and golden grasses and a few shrubs in the foreground

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Late summer flowering stems of Joe-Pye weed are starting to call butterflies, moths and bees to sip their sweet nectar. #nativeplants

a multi-branched reddish flowering stem of pink buds beginning to open with more inflorescences in the background rising above tall stems with whorls of medium green leaves.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

It’s especially so when the friendship loops back and converges years later and it feels like there was no time in between.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

So true. They evolve and diverge as we do.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 12/08/2026

The migration has begun. A ruby-throated #hummingbird was darting between these scarlet runner beans and red bee balm blooms in my garden this morning. Their ability to remember and return to the same flower patch year after year along their long journey south is astonishing! #blooms

A twisting vine with scarlet red bean-shaped flowers, deep red buds and bright green foliage against a brick wall

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

My pleasure, Erin. 🌻 It’s nice to hear that one of your daughters and I share the same name. ☺️

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Dr. Erin Zimmerman 🇨🇦 @doctorzedd.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

The latest issue of my botany and evolution newsletter is out! Look here for imaginary trips to the Carboniferous, new clues about photosynthesis, and a great new book about field science. 🌿 mailchi.mp/be3e6226be6a...

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A Feast for the Curious, Issue 29 🌿

A newsletter of botany, evolution, science history, and scientific illustration.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Enjoyed your newsletter today, and I’m looking forward to your next book. Best wishes as you write it. 🌿

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Thank you, and it’s delightful to watch them enjoying the flower feast. ☺️

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 28/07/2026

So happy you are here marking this day❣️🌻🏔️🌿

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

Yes, I love their dazzling orange colour. Really pops.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Tall candelabras of native prairie culver root (Veronicastrum virginicum) that are beginning to bloom. Stately beauty.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

These do make beautiful silhouettes 💙

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

One of my favourite flowers 🧡 and your photo is a lovely capture.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Your images of these beauties are gorgeous. Such soft light on their petals. 💕

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

Yes, it’s a beautiful plant. 😊

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

It sure has a wide range. Thanks for sharing a great resource.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 10/07/2026

As an amateur birder, I felt lucky to record and identify the call of this dickcissel bird yesterday evening near the Oldman River, after hearing that experienced birders were seeking it in the area. Apparently, a rare sighting here. #Merlin app is great! #birds #Merlinapp #nature

Screenshot from Merlin app identifying 6 birds, heard while walking near underbrush along a river, by their calls. The goldfinch is bright yellow and the spotted towhee has red on its underside. The other 4 birds are more neutral coloured.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 08/07/2026

Our native prairie harebells are easy to cultivate in sun or shade and have a long bloom season. Also known as Scottish bluebells, it grows wild in northern latitudes across N. America, Europe and Asia. #nativeplants #wildflower #prairie

Harebells plant with thin medium green leaves and dozens of pale violet blue bell shaped flowers and pale green flower flower buds

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 04/07/2026

Nice aurora sweeping the sky outside my back door last night #aurora

Dark night sky with green and violet streaks of aurora above the tree silhouettes that frame the photo

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Ryan Moulton @moultano.bsky.social · 19/06/2026

I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...

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Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You

An atlas of the vibrance of the real world

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Very cool information about colour

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

Yes, you’re right! I photograph them just after sun comes up to capture their fading beauty in natural light, but it’s magical to watch them open at twilight and observe at night. 👌

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 03/07/2026

If you’re out early in the morning, you might discover our native evening primrose (Oenothera caespitosa) blooming on dry prairie slopes. This beauty unrolls its large flowers at twilight, luring pollinator moths in with a lovely scent. Each blossom lasts only one night. #nativeplants #wildflower

an evening primrose plant covered in flowers; each flower is made up of four white heart-shaped petals and long yellow stamens

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

Just found a metallic green sweat bee among my native blanketflowers (Gaillardia aristata). #nativeplants #pollinators

A metallic green sweat bee gathers pollen on a bright yellow daisy type flower with a red centre.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 03/06/2026

My pleasure. It was a joy to read. 🥀

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Another rainy day and I’m curled up on the couch, thoroughly inspired by David George Haskell’s descriptions of how flowers transformed our planet, sustain us and connect us with nature in his latest delightful book. @dghaskell.bsky.social

Book cover jacket art for “How Flowers Made Our World” showing a small red-throated hummingbird perched next to a pink orchid blossom and bud, against an ethereal forest background.

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 20/05/2026

Our native purple prairie clover is a great plant for your pollinator garden, with summer-blooming flowers that are rich in nectar and pollen for bumblebees. #WorldBeeDay #nativeplants #garden

a fuzzy bumblebee collects orange pollen from the ring of bright pink purple flowers that surround the base of the wooly flower spike

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

This variety? Some are sooo sour and better suited to bird tastes!

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 13/05/2026

Bumblebees are busy working the last of the ‘Aurora’ haskap flowers (planted next to ‘Borealis’, its compatible companion for cross-pollination). Edible blue berries develop from pollinated flowers, ripening by mid-June for us and backyard birds to enjoy. #ediblegarden #pollinatorplant

pairs of pale yellow blossoms hang below slightly fuzzy bright green leaves on a haskap shrub

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June Flanagan @juneflanagan.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Our wild saskatoons (aka serviceberry or shadbush) that are beginning to bloom on the prairies are also great native shrubs for gardens, with white blossom-smothered branches that supply food for pollinators that emerge in early spring. 🐝 #nativeplants #garden #spring #pollinators

An upright stem from a saskatoon shrub, covered in white flowers photographed against a cedar fence

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