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Providing northwest Arkansas with plants that are made for here: climate-resilient, wild-type and all native to the Ozarks region. Website: ozarkroots.net

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Kelly Hereid @kellyhereid.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
Love this classic climate dataset. Climate information is hidden everywhere you look.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 01/04/2026
🚨🚨🚨 March 2026 was the warmest March on record according to Prism climate data (1895-present). Previously, 2012 was far and away the warmest March, but this March beat 2012 by about half a degree Fahrenheit. This map shows how March temperatures ranked compared to all other Marches.🔥🔥🔥
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Justin Mikulka @justinmikulka.bsky.social · 22/03/2026
The Associated Press getting on board. "The war in Iran is exposing the world’s reliance on fragile fossil fuel routes, lending urgency to calls for hastening the shift to renewable energy."
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Energy fallout from Iran war signals a global wake-up call for renewable energy
The Iran war is exposing how much the global economy still depends on fragile fossil fuel supplies. The conflict has virtually choked off the Strait of Hormuz, a vital shipping lane for a fifth of the...
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Daniel Swain @weatherwest.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
Incredibly, even *more* locations across U.S. are today experiencing their warmest March temperatures on record--many by a wide margin, with some even breaking April records. This includes most or all of: AZ, UT, CO, NM, WY, NE, KS, MO, IA, plus portions of many other states. 🫠
Map of U.S., from coolwx.com, showing locations currently experiencing record-breaking temperatures. There are countless such locations in the Western U.S., with hundreds of red dots (locations breaking daily record highs) and countless pink dots (locations breaking March monthly record highs). The region of record heat extends from the Pacific Coast to east the Mississippi River, and from Canada to Mexico. The region of red and pink dots is vastly larger even than yesterday's (or the day before, or the day before, or the day before, same as it ever was, same...as it ever was...).
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 04/03/2026
Plant Native Plants or GO TO HELLLL by the wonderful @the666cat.bsky.social (now pictured in better lighting. Thanks, daytime). Get 'em at SquidFacts.net
a print with skulls and a kitty cat watering plants that says please plant native plants or go to hell, with water spraying everywhere
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Kathleen Bachynski @bachynski.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
“The U.S. no longer has emission standards of any meaning,” said Margo T. Oge, who served as the E.P.A.’s top vehicle emissions regulator under three presidents and has since advised both automakers and environmental groups… “Nothing. Zero,” she added. “Not many countries have zero.”
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With Latest Rollback, the U.S. Essentially Has No Clean-Car Rules
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Jacob T. Levy @jacobtlevy.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
meanwhile www.washingtonpost.com/climate-envi...
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See how climate change is accelerating
The fastest warming period since 1880 occurred in the past 30 years, according to a Washington Post analysis of NASA data.
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
Unsurprising yet still deeply, deeply disappointing.
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 22/11/2025
Some little splashes of fall color in the greenhouse these days 🍂
Pale purple coneflower seedlings with leaves turning orange and yellowA young aromatic aster plant with slender reddish leavesAmsonia seedlings covered in a profusion of very thin, very yellow leavesA bright yellow Ozark witch hazel leaf
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
The last big sale of the year is this weekend, and if you’re a gardener looking for native plants, there’s no better place to be. More info on that and other native plant stuff is in my latest newsletter: ozarkroots.net/2025/10/07/f...
A graphic for the Wild Ones Ozark Chapter’s Fall Native Plant Sale that reads:
Planting in fall reduces stress/shock, watering, weed competition and pests, and promotes strong roots, healthy plants and early support for pollinators (next year). 

What you’ll find at the sale: native flowers, grasses and trees, six native plant vendors, native plant products, expert advice from local native plant enthusiasts, and Wild Ones members get 10% off!

Happing Oct. 11 at GoatLab Brewery, 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., 722 S Bloomington St., Lowell, AR 72745
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
For a little light reading this Sunday morning, here’s an appreciation post for the post oak, Ozark Roots’ mascot and the epitome of everything I’m trying to do with this native plant nursery: ozarkroots.net/2025/09/21/b...
Tall, rounded post oaks glow in the morning sun in KJ Memorial Park in Lowell, Arkansas. The gnarly, twisted branches of a post oak, covered in light green leavesA leathery-brown post oak leaf in autumn, showing the distinctive cross shape
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Bloomberg News @bloomberg.com · 08/09/2025
At an alarming pace, the Trump administration has fired climate scientists, rolled back regulations, interfered in data collection, and cut planning and emergency response funds. That puts all Americans at risk. Read The Big Take ⬇️
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Trump Is Dismantling Climate Science at a Dangerous Pace
The White House has blocked efforts to measure, respond to and fight global warming. That puts all Americans at risk.
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 19/08/2025
I’ll be back at the Bentonville Farmers Market this Saturday! More info on that and other updates is on the blog.
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End-of-summer newsletter
It’s been a hot, dry marathon of a summer, but school’s back in session, fall is on the horizon, and I’ve got several updates to share with you all. First, some dates. My summer hiatus is over, and…
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
A little sample of the pollinators visiting the garden this week. It’s a nice reminder of the the visitors of all shapes and sizes that will come when you plant native species — there’s so much more to pollinators than honeybees and monarchs 🐝🦋
A metallic green little bee crawling on light pink swamp milkweed flowersA tiger swallowtail, with black-striped yellow wings, drinking nectar from purplish great blue lobelia flowers A little yellow and black bee crawling on a black eyed Susan, with bright yellow hind legs covered in pollenSkipper butterflies with triangular brown wings jostling with each other to reach pink swamp milkweed flowers
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 10/08/2025
A little sample of the pollinators visiting the garden this week. It’s a nice reminder of the the visitors of all shapes and sizes that will come when you plant native species — there’s so much more to pollinators than honeybees and monarchs 🐝🦋
A metallic green little bee crawling on light pink swamp milkweed flowersA tiger swallowtail, with black-striped yellow wings, drinking nectar from purplish great blue lobelia flowers A little yellow and black bee crawling on a black eyed Susan, with bright yellow hind legs covered in pollenSkipper butterflies with triangular brown wings jostling with each other to reach pink swamp milkweed flowers
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 09/08/2025
Those invasives!
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Brian PJ Cronin @brianpjcronin.bsky.social · 15/07/2025
Rereading Rachel Carson's THE EDGE OF THE SEA, from 1955, where she casually mentions that species are migrating northward and that this is "of course, related to the widespread change of climate that seems to have set in about the beginning of the century and is now well recognized."
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 13/07/2025
In the prairie and the garden, Liatris has arrived.
A monarch butterfly in a patch of prairie blazing star, which looks like fuzzy purple spikes of flowers, in Chesney Prairie Natural Area in northwest Arkansas A closeup of the dense, pink/light purple flowers of prairie blazing star in my gardenA stalk of dense blazing star, which has bigger and more spaced-out purple flowers than prairie blazing starA patch of prairie blazing star, which looks like fuzzy purple spikes of flowers, in Chesney Prairie Natural Area in northwest Arkansas
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NPR @npr.org · 07/07/2025
The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms. By @rhersher.bsky.social and @lsommer.bsky.social
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Floods are getting more dangerous around the country, not just in Texas
The deadly floods in Central Texas were caused by extremely heavy rain. Climate change is causing even more rain to fall during the heaviest storms.
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Max Kennerly @maxkennerly.bsky.social · 18/06/2025
Like I've said before, if you have any doubts about climate change, just go to a super-boring insurance conference and listen to the super-boring panels where they dryly talk about the growing threat of disasters so catastrophic and unpredictable in scope they simply cannot be insured at any price.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
Let's check in and see how summer temperatures are trending in Alaska. 🔥🔥🔥
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 13/06/2025
If you’ve ever wondered what baby cacti look like, now you know. It’s me, I’ve wondered. I always get a kick out of native succulents.
Prickly pear seedlings with two thick leaves going in opposite directions and a spiny round green leaf (?) sitting in the middle
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The Associated Press @apnews.com · 30/05/2025
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.
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Swiss glacier collapse renews focus on risks of climate change as glaciers retreat around the world
The landslide that buried a Swiss village and riverbed is refocusing attention on the role of global warming in glacier collapses around the world.
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Justine Calma @justcalma.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
USDA says it will return information about climate change to its webpages after the Trump administration took it down www.theverge.com/news/666150/...
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Farmers win legal fight to bring climate resources back to federal websites
“It feels good to win one, right?”
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
The Ozark sundrop, aka Missouri evening primrose, is absolutely exploding in the garden right now. Looking almost tropical with its giant yellow flowers, this lovely, tough plant grows low and sprawling in full sun and can take crappy and dry soil, too. I’ve got several seedlings in progress now.
A low-growing Missouri evening primrose, also called Ozark sundrop, is covered with big, bright yellow, four-petaled flours
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 04/05/2025
April showers… ... have brought the May flowers, y'all. It's a good time to have a garden full of native plants. And this is just the first wave of the growing season.
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April showers…
... have brought the May flowers, y'all. It's a good time to have a garden full of native plants. And this is just the first wave of the growing season.
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 30/04/2025
Native plants looking gorgeous in the garden amid all this rain.
The purple blossoms of blue false indigo (Baptisia australis)The reddish orange, long, thin blossoms of coral honeysuckle (Lonicera sempervirens)The red and yellow bell-shaped blossoms of eastern columbine (Aquilegia canadensis) White, flat blossoms on a dogwood tree (Cornus florida)
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
I take the same type of picture every spring, but I just never get tired of it. Look at the incredible root system on this tiny purple coneflower sprout. That’s the special sauce for many native species: building in drought tolerance, absorbing carbon and pollutants, and holding onto soil.
A small sprout in my hand, with leaves less than an inch tall but a root system already several inches long.
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 22/04/2025
Happy #EarthDay! It’s the perfect time to remind folks that no matter what environmental issue they care about — climate, pollution, birds, bees — native plants can help solve it. And I’ll be at Botanical Garden of the Ozarks’ big spring garden market is this Saturday to sell some. See you there!
A banner for the Earth Day Garden Market at Botanical Garden of the Ozarks, happening Saturday, April 26, in Fayetteville. Opens at 10 a.m. for garden members and noon for the public, closes at 4 p.m.
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Mark Shapiro @mhshapiro2.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
🧪Pope Francis had a scientific background. He understood the threat to humanity posed by #ClimateChange, and he was not afraid to speak out on the issue. Explore this gift article from The New York Times. You can read it for free without a subscription. www.nytimes.com/2025/04/21/c...
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How Pope Francis Helped Inspire the Global Movement Against Climate Change (Gift Article)
Francis framed climate change as an urgent spiritual issue and helped push the world to take action.
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NPR @npr.org · 18/04/2025
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
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The State Department is changing its mind about what it calls human rights
The agency's annual human rights reports are being purged of references to prison conditions, political corruption and other abuses.
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Paul Voosen @voosen.me · 11/04/2025
BREAKING from @science.org: The Trump admin is seeking to kill nearly all climate research at NOAA, its climate science agency. Its near-final budget proposal would end all NOAA research labs, academic institutes, and regional climate centers. And it wants to fully end the NOAA Research division.
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Trump seeks to end climate research at premier U.S. climate agency
White House aims to end NOAA’s research office; NASA also targeted
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Just a reminder for Saturday, which is looking beautiful. Come see me at the Bentonville square for some native plants!
A graphic saying “I’ll be at the farmers market! Come shop and support local. Saturday 7:30 am to 1 pm at the downtown Bentonville square.”
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
My first sale is coming up quick! Come on down to see me this Saturday morning, if you’d like, at the Bentonville Farmers Market in and around the downtown square. This year’s new sprouts are still too small, but I’ve got hundreds of plants from last season ready to go. 🌱
Prairie blazing star (Liatris pycnostachya) plants growing in containersWild bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) plants growing in containers Ninebark (Physocarpus opulifolius) plants growing in containers
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 03/04/2025
"nothing could have prepared us for the breadth or intensity of the assault on climate action that Trump has unleashed during his first months back in office." I know it's hard to keep Trump's horrors straight, but in the fullness of history, this is likely to be seen as the worst.
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Years of Climate Action Demolished in Days: A Timeline
Trump’s environmental directives are gutting basic protections for Americans and the agencies designed to deliver them.
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
OzarkRoots.net 2.0 Welcome to the upgraded OzarkRoots.net! My name's Dan Holtmeyer, and I'm a Rogers resident who founded this little native plant nursery in 2023. Here you'll find information about all of the operation's essentials, including its mission, upcoming sales and plant species in…
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OzarkRoots.net 2.0
Welcome to the upgraded OzarkRoots.net! My name's Dan Holtmeyer, and I'm a Rogers resident who founded this little native plant nursery in 2023. Here you'll find information about all of the operation's essentials, including its mission, upcoming sales and plant species in stock. For those who are new to this endeavor, an introduction: I started Ozark Roots because native plants are a source of hope for me in the whirlwind of environmental problems that we're causing.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
*"Mission Accomplished" banner* www.axios.com/2025/03/26/c...
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Climate change missing from U.S. threat assessment for first time in over a decade
Climate change has been included in annual threat assessments since 2009, in one form or another.
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Antonia Juhasz @antoniajuhasz.bsky.social · 17/03/2025
US tech giant Meta included a section on its sustainability webpage last summer about “leading the way on climate change” and “tak[ing] bold climate action”. These references have been removed. www.ft.com/content/f100...
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US multinationals purge website references to climate change
Walmart and Kraft Heinz among big corporations deleting or rewriting statements as Trump climate attacks intensify
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Ozark Roots Native Plants @ozarkroots.bsky.social · 11/03/2025
I can’t believe spring is almost here! But it is, so I’ve got seeds from more than 50 #nativeplants species soaking up water and sunshine and already starting to germinate. I always feel like a new parent at this stage, all anxious and excited about every sprout. Big news coming soon, so stay tuned!
Germination trays and pots full of seeds cover the floor of the greenhouse
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Sarah McAnulty, Ph.D. @sarahmackattack.bsky.social · 10/03/2025
Just saying- planting native plants does not need to be hard. You don't need to entirely re-landscape your whole yard. Figure out which milkweed is native to your area, and get some in the groud this spring. Water it, it'll be fine! Here's a place to buy plants: www.prairiemoon.com
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Livvylove @livvylove.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
Agree 🌱
Marie Kondo meme. 4 panels. First panel Marie Kondo saying This one sparks joy. 2nd panel a redbud tree. 3rd panel Marie Kondo saying This one does not spark joy. 4th panel a stinky nasty bradford pear 

Meme grabbed off a Georgia Gardening group.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 07/03/2025
What year did the A) warmest and B) coolest Dec-Feb periods occur in during the last 85 years? Hint: red colors are more recent and blue colors are older.
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Wild Ones @wildonesnatives.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Join Wild Ones on Thursday, February 20, at 6:00 PM CT for our free webinar "Bees Beyond Honey: Understanding the Roles of Native and Managed Pollinators." Learn how native, solitary, and honeybees support ecosystems, the challenges they face, and how to help. Register: wildones.org/understandin....
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Donna's in the Food Forest @oncontour.bsky.social · 18/01/2025
Purple Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe involucrata) is a very popular plant in the native food forest for the amusement value alone. Bumble bees roll in the flowers, shaking them like tiny carnival rides. Seedheads of Eastern Beebalm also in view. 🌱 #NativePlants #Pollinators #BugSky #Insects #Permaculture
Pollen covered Bumble Bee rolling in a bright fuchsia flower of Purple Poppy Mallow (Callirhoe involucrata) with seedheads of Eastern Beebalm (Monarda bradburiana) in the foreground. Photo from the native food forest at Christ the King Lutheran Church in West Chester, Ohio.
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Climatologist49 @climatologist49.bsky.social · 15/01/2025
Let's check in and see what percentage of the global land area was in the upper 1/3 (red), middle 1/3 (gray), and lower 1/3 (blue) of the climatological temperature distribution in all years since 1940. In 2024, 90% was in the upper 1/3, 8.5% was in the middle 1/3, and 1.5% was in the bottom 1/3.
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gardening_kristi @gardeningkristi.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
Solidago nemoralis is an excellent addition to smaller gardens. Shorter and showy.
Solidago nemoralis, Gray Goldenrod, in full bloom, in the Philadelphia suburbs.
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