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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 30/06/2026

If you are worried about climate change (especially with the recent heat waves) you need to be promoting BOTH adaptation and addressing the causes of climate change. It's both/and not either/or. People are suffering or dying & we collectively have a lot of knowledge and strategies that could help.

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Jesso @jolsenartwork.bsky.social · 01/09/2025

Peeks. #art #watercolor

A stylized watercolor painting in pinks, oranges and blues, of the Tantalus mountain Range in south western British Columbia. The peaks are surrounded by bright pink and orange clouds.

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Eyliana II UrskogSaga @urskogsaga.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

I finished a thing 💚 Three beautiful Stropharia Aeruginosa - Hope you enjoy! #fungifriday #fungifriends #natureart

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Saskya @saskya.com · 03/09/2025

"Watercolor Sea Turtle II" by @EmpyrealSaskya Available for purchase at: www.inprnt.com/gallery/sask... #watercolor #Sealife #turtle #BSNM

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Watercolor Sea Turtle II, an art print by Saskya Sipher

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binkc.bsky.social @binkc.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

Peony watercolor, 10x13 I’m loving painting watercolors now. #watercolor, #floralart, #painting, #peony

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Elisa - Ellie - Serio 🏴‍☠️ @eserioart.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

Forest sunrays watercolor on cotton paper 46x61cm 2025 . . . #art #watercolorart #watercolor #painting

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 16/08/2025

Super late notice, but one of the gardening discords I'm in is hosting a live podcast with Mike Bollinger of the Seed Savers Exchange today at noon pacific time. If you're interested in seed saving or plant breeding, this is great opportunity to learn! here's an invite link: discord.gg/gardening

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Join the Garden Revival Discord Server!

Gardening community helping each other with growing indoor and outdoor plants, flowers, vegetables, succulents and more. | 5751 members

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

The other day I was walking through my neighborhood when I noticed a pawpaw tree with pawpaws on it! The woman who planted it was on her porch and we got to talking- turns out this is the first time that it has fruited. She's gonna call me when they are ripe so I can try growing the seeds!

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 22/06/2025

Spend a while this morning #foraging for trailing blackberry, one of my favorite native berries. Took me a while to pick a gallon- I'm now more certain that I want to trellis some for next year!

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 18/05/2025

Another weekend, another prairie! This time at Wolf Haven International, helping with the plant walks

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 11/05/2025

Volunteered with Native Plant Salvage today at Prairie Appreciation Day at Glacial Heritage Preserve guiding people on plant walks to show them some of our wonderful native prairie species- but was too busy to take more than a few photos!

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 04/05/2025

Cool plant of the week: Coralroot! This lovely little flower is one of our PNW native orchids, but you might notice it's missing something- leaves! This species is a myco-heterotroph! Aka, instead of photosynthesizing like most plants, it parasitizes fungal mycelium in the soil!

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 16/04/2025

First oyster mushrooms of 2025! I love them, and they're so common around here, and I especially appreciate that most other people overlook their awesomeness. #fungifriends why yes, that is my hat serving as an impromptu foraging basket, why do you ask?

There are off-white shelf shaped mushrooms emerging from a downed log. We're looking at the broken end of the log, with a mushroom growing from the upper middle, with moss dangling down over it

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

Trilliums are just gorgeous, ok? It's also really cool that their seeds are dispersed by ants, and that the seeds need to go through two winters and a summer before they germinate! Truly one of the joys of spring!

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 02/03/2025

I recently learned my local parks department has a volunteer habitat restoration position, which means I now get to go into this park and remove invasive species like Himalayan blackberries and replace them with native species like blackcap raspberries. It doesn't look like much, but it's a start! 🌱

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 18/02/2025

So it turns out that the parks department where I am has a volunteer ecological restoration position, which is awesome! I just started last weekend at a park/preservation near me, which is currently home to a lot of invasive (and native) species. My current plan is to pull invasives species, while

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 17/02/2025

Did you know that Washington state has native orchids? We even have multiple species! This in is Goodyera oblongifolia, aka, western rattlesnake plantain, and while it's flowers aren't the showiest, their leaves are pretty neat! I most often see them in pretty deep shade under Douglas firs.

Picture of the forest floor- we see a small rosette of green leaves poking through the first duff. The leaves have white markings on them, outlining their veins with more white down the center.

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 09/02/2025

So this post is for my own benefit because I keep mistaking these two during the dormant season & at this point it's getting embarrassing 😅 In fairness to me, when they're gastromically relevant, they're very different & they do both have kinda pointy buds that are alternate.

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Went and helped out at the Native Plant Salvage event this morning, which was really fun. I did spend most of the morning digging up Chimaphila umbellata- it was a tangle! The licorice fern was more fun because I was able to just roll it up like a cinnamon roll.

A patch of verdant licorice fern is nestled into a patch of grass, with last year's dead grass leaves obscuring it from view

A patch of bare soil where the licorice fern was rolled up, surrounded by grass

Bird's nest fungi- little pale cups are growing out of a old stick, and they're filled with tiny round disks- called peridioles, which house their spores

Dyer's polypore. For some reason I only ever see them when they're old/ dead

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

I just think it's a cute loaf. I'm also tickled that I've gotten back in the groove of making #sourdough around my work schedule. This one has poppy seeds :D

A picture of the loaf before baking- it is circular, and you can see the spiral outline of the proofing basket formed of flour.

A golden brown, rustic looking round loaf, with a jagged crack because I didn't score it, and some poppy seeds peeping through from the inside

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

You know, I think I'm noticing a pattern: a warm spell in January or early February makes me think that it'll be a warmer than usual spring, and then my over excited hopes are smashed against the icy ground when cold weather returns. Now that I think about it I think this has happened several years

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 21/01/2025

Anybody an experienced #basket maker? I'm curious if smoke tree (cotinus), or crepe myrtle can be used? Looking for something I can grow in a suburban yard that I won't have to worry about interfering with the sewer pipe, and those two were on a list of suggested trees I found. Thanks! #basketry

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

And yeah, I did find some nettles, but I'm going to let them have some more warm weather and really get going beside I pick any. The Himalayan blackberry though... I did cut back a bunch and harvested some buds. Gonna check some spots closer to home tomorrow

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 20/01/2025

This is definitely the best mushroom picture from this weekend- I went to my normal yellow foot and hedgehog mushroom spots and there were loads of deer hoof prints but hardly any mushrooms! I think the deer decided it was time for dinner! #fungifriends

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Results of tonight's improvisational bread baking (aka, my kitchen scale died so I went by ~feel~ instead) the bagels turned out really good, and the thing that might be described as a twisted olive-rosemary sourdough loaf, was a good first step towards an idea I have. Fun times! #sourdough #yolo

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

Tonight's adventure: bread improv! Now, you might be saying something like "you can't improvise bread. It's baking! You need to measure & follow a recipe." Wrong! You only need that if you want dependable and reproducible results! With sufficient hubris (or experience), you can just try things out!

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

Who is really good at winter twig identification? I've got two small saplings and I've been told both are cottonwoods, which doesn't seem right because they're pretty different. I'm good with some winter twigs, but mostly the species I forage from!

Reddish twig with small, alternate buds. The buds have a yellowish base that turns reddish at the top, and are held close to the twig

A brown twig with bigger, pointy buds, with lenticels that are stretched vertically.

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 11/01/2025

It's garden planning time for me! I have loads of ideas & dreams & goals, but I need to narrow it down to a feasible load of projects. While I'm doing that, I thought it would be interesting to hear about other's thoughts, plans, and dreams for their gardens this year-

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Craterellus calicornucopioides, only a handful, but what a find! If you want to compare rarity look at iNaturalist, there's only been 15 sightings of these guys reported in Washington state, while chanterelles have over two thousand sightings. So imagine my excitement! #fungifriends #foraging

A black, trumpet shaped mushroom is poking out of the surrounding moss.

A side view of the mushroom, showing its conical base which flares out at the top.

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Looks like I'm going to keep not eating Gyromitra! It would be really interesting to see further research into this area. #fungifriends or maybe not so friendly fungi...

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

Does anybody know why bluesky stopped letting me post pics with alt text? Or how to fix it? Ever time I try, this is what happens:

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 28/12/2024

The upside to a really mild winter is that I'm still picking Chantelles!

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 25/12/2024

I'm going to have a forest of yuzu! ... in ten to twenty years, lol. For those who haven't heard of them yet, yuzu are a hardy (for citrus) lemon-like fruit from China & Japan. They're supposed to be hardy down to 0f, which is great for a citrus.

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Cheshire Cat ᓚᘏᗢ, @autismsupsoc.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

If you are hosting a holiday gathering where #Autistic, #ADHD, or similarly ND folk will attend please consider setting up a #ChillRoom as a quiet space where we can go to escape the sensory overwhelm & draining socializing. This accommodation can make social gatherings much more accessible!

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I'm very pleased to still be finding chanterelles in western Washington state at this time of year, and very glad to be finding yellow foot and hedgehogs! I've got good spots for the other two, but I'm still figuring out what the hedgehogs like. #fungifriends #foraging

A double chanterelle mushroom is being held up in the forest- in the back ground, you can see salal, sword fern, and Douglas fir trees.

A small hedgehog mushroom is being held up in the forest- in the background sword fern and big leaf maple leaves that have fallen down.

A charming family of winter chanterelles, aka yellow foot, growing up out of the forest floor. I forget what the ground cover is, but there's moss and salal, and some big leaf maple leaves.

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

Helped plant a bunch of camas, checked out a state park I had never heard of before, and now we're trying out a pot pie experiment- all in all, a good Saturday!

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I need to get out and pick some of these soon- they're one of our native huckleberries, and they're pretty much the last thing to ripen. They taste even better after a frost!

A hand is holding a branch of evergreen huckleberry, showing the shiny dark berries. Key characteristics for ID include that they're evergreen, frost hardy, have small leathery leaves with a toothed edge. Earlier in the year you can see there blueberry-family flowers.

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

One of my friends is going to get a lot of small surprises in about 4 months. In our climate, species tulips and crocuses have a growth cycle that matches our precipitation cycle very well, so you can plant them and forget them. They come up early and are dormant again before people start mowing.

There is a wheelbarrow along a foot path in the grass, and about a foot and a half (45cm ish) on the other side of the path is a long line of open holes, and a bag of bulbs.

The holes have now been filled, and the sod or back on top, so it's not super noticeable.

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pnwplantnerd.bsky.social @pnwplantnerd.bsky.social · 09/12/2024

Here's a picture of my tiniest plant currently, a single leaf prop of a Pinguicula cyclosecta- no, not the sundew, down below that. You can just see the new leaves starting off the end of it. Those stands it's growing on are sphagum moss, to give you a sense of scale.

A sundew dominates the top of the photo, with its bright dew droplets hanging off hundreds of tiny tentacles.

Below that is a small green leaf, with two tiny leaves growing off its base.

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