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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱

@kzgrant.bsky.social
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Retired from teaching but not from caring about all our kids’ futures. Hence still fighting battles I thought we won and trying to be less furious and more effective. Native gardening! Cheesehead.

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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 18h
Great combo! Do you get to eat any before the hungry critters run in?
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Yum!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Sending best wishes
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wow, that’s a stunner.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Wow that’s very cool! I love the Lemon Queen sunflowers so that native is a really attractive pivot. I will keep an eye out!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Can I ask where you sourced the seed? I have been on the lookout for a season or two and haven’t found any.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Your Coralberry is gorgeous too! What about one of the feathery grasses mixed in back there? A Switchgrass or Indian Grass?
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
I love the pollen colored bee butt sticking out from underneath.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
❤️ UW Madison
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Great photo! The light…!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
Stunning!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🌱 Bee bunkbed!
2 bees snuggling into a cozy spot under the collar petals of a Bumble Rumble dahlia
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
🌱 6 pm and sundown is coming. Bees are safely snuggled in.
Small bee settled onto a fuchsia and white Bumble Rumble dahlia for the night.
Small bumblebee sleeping on a bright yellow and red Pooh dahla.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Well done!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
Very yum!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
🌱 October smiles… squirrels planted these and they are teeny but beautiful- about 14” tall now but summer version was 6’+. A guilty pleasure thanks to climate change.
Brave bright gold mini sunflowers facing the morning sun.Closeup of open sunflower with green spiraling buds in center, followed by rings of buttery yellow and brown with rich sunny yellow petals. It’s held in a hairy slightly gray-green stem.

Closeup of open sunflower with green spiraling buds in center, followed by a ring of buttery yellow with rich sunny yellow petals. It’s held in a hairy slightly gray-green stem.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
🌱Fall=🙃
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Agree!😍
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
You will show us, please?
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
But gorgeous!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
🌱 Obedient plant in fall.
Tall spires of maroon seedpods behind a glowing pink Obedient Plant bloom.Twisty green and purple leaves of Obedient Plant.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Haha of course!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Maybe so! These are in a rain garden, not sure if that equalizes pH at all. I am here to learn!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Oh damn misplaced apostrophe- apologies! Flowers not flower’s.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Literally a garden star!!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Right you are!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
🌱 New England Aster question… what makes the color variation pink to lavender, bright to soft? These are growing within feet of one another, with different colors. Recently drenched so flower’s aren’t all open.
New England Aster, purple blossoms with bright gold
centersNew England Aster, soft pink blossoms with bright gold
centersNew England Aster, bright hot pink blossoms with bright gold
centersNew England Aster, a bright color between purple and pink blossoms with bright gold
centers
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Adorable! Indoor or outdoor kitties?
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
🌱A photo can not capture what we saw in our garden yesterday. Impossible to be accurate but certainly more than 40 Monarchs gathered on Meadow Blazing Star and to a lesser extent Zinnia blossoms. We are part of Monarch migration this year! It feels so damn good to have done something positive!
Purple Blazing Star flowers with several orange and black Monarchs feeding.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Oooooooohhh
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
From seed!🙇
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
They are so tasty, worth it to keep trying!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 13/09/2026
Pretty damn adorable!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 12/09/2026
… and your frog is a hoot!
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Honey Girl Grows @honeygirlgrows.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
Salt marshes sequester enormous amounts of carbon, and reverse climate warming. 🌱When the news is nonstop climate crisis, remember salt marshes can be restored. Hold hope. Show up and vote candidates solely on climate policy - it eliminates all who put corporate profits before people and planet.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 11/09/2026
🌱😆
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
🌱 Found a Japanese Beetle on a dahlia blossom so that may be the answer. Squished it. Have to watch for more.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Aww well then he can have them!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🌱 Big one!
Brown spider with orange … something? Honestly I was not willing to get close enough to see it clearly. Hunt on my friend!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🌱 Someone is devouring my dahlia flowers. Anyone have idea about the culprit.. Chicago area.
Gold and red Pooh Dahlia before.Nearly destroyed Pooh Dahia flower 2 days later.
Pink and White Bumble Rumble Dahlia just gorgeous.Same dahlia after someone made a meal of it.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
🌱 Definitely Lord of the Rings vibe here. Don’t go in Frodo!!!
Dense silvery spider web with mysterious tunnel shaped entrance. Visible because of thousands of dewdrops caught on the web.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 07/09/2026
Lovely nonetheless !
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
It’s all v time consuming but also so satisfying, especially in Feb, right?
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 06/09/2026
Impressive - requiring lots of dedication, I’m sure!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 04/09/2026
🌱 Anyone know what these butterflies/moths are? For the last several days we’ve had 5 or 6 at a time nectating on a Caryopteris.
Brown butterfly or moth with darker brown and white spots nectaring on lilac flowers among blue green leaves.Brown butterfly or moth with darker brown and white spots nectaring on lilac flowers among blue green leaves.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
🌱 This plant is working on 20 tomatoes! The olla pot from One Wintry Night made it easy to keep this terrific plant happy despite the extreme temperatures and erratic rainfall. Thank you @onewintrynight.bsky.social
A large tomato plant with clusters of partly red/ partly green tomatoes is growing inside of a protective black wire cage. A blue and purple ceramic Olla pot lid is visible in the foreground.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Well played!
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 23/08/2026
🌱 and so it goes
Exuberant lilac blossoms of Rough Blazing Star in front of brown seedheads from Pale Purple Coneflower.
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 22/08/2026
@sevenhillfarm.bsky.social
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Kris 6A/Central Corn Plains 8.2.3🌱 @kzgrant.bsky.social · 21/08/2026
🌱 each flower different, delicate … cosmos seeds from Sevenhill Farm www.etsy.com/shop/Sevenhi...
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