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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 08/09/2026

Vancouver friends! I'm doing a second nature journal workshop at the China Creek North pollinator meadow! I have 7 FREE art kits available. If you are interested, please register with the email on this poster. We can hang out, draw bugs and I will fill your head with interesting plant facts 🐝🌻📗

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 04/09/2026

Oh jeez, thank you so much 😊

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

Thanks Amanda! I'm grateful it was caught early, so my situation could have been so much worse.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 02/09/2026

I know it's a medieval torture device, but the first time I had a mammogram they found cancer. So I'm glad you're getting it done.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

That makes me so happy! Thank you so much for the kind words.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Yesssssss! I want it everywhere too!

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

Thanks so much Tony! 😊 It was a lot of work to remove all the invasive, aggressive plants, but it sure did pay off.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 25/05/2026

The China Creek North pollinator Meadow is popping off right now! Thanks to all the hard work and help from volunteers, it's become a space really beloved of the community. If you're ever in the northeast corner of Mount Pleasant here in Vancouver, make sure you come by and visit 🌱

Photograph of a hillside with red poppies in the foreground and purple lupines in the background with trees at the top of the hill.

A photo of tall purple, large-leafed Lupines with bright orange, California poppies

A photo of yellow and orange blanket flowers with a small ladybug resting on one of them.

A photo of a small parasitic blood bee on the white and yellow flowers of Meadowfoam.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Just a little Rhamphorhyncus enjoy a fishy snack for fun.

Digital painting of a Rhamphorhyncus pterosaur enjoying a fish while clinging to an orange cliff face casting a long, cool shadow

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

That's so great! Love seeing prehistoric plants getting some love 💚

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 26/12/2025

For sure! I've been really enjoying it so far. I really like how it includes the environment that each plant would live in and that is very helpful.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

I hope you all have some peaceful and stressless holidays! ❤️ My husband and I don't buy each other Christmas gifts. We just buy our own and then pretend the other gave it to us. So I would like to thank @robinbougie.bsky.social with all my heart as visions of prehistoric forests dance in my head🌲🪴

At the top of the image is a red box of 12 gouache paints from Holbein. It is the irodori Autumn set. In the center of the image is a book called The Princeton Field Guide to Mesozoic Plants. It has a beige cover with images of cycads and conifers.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 01/11/2025

Sweet babies! I love the tradition of naming your kitties after baked goods 🧁🥧

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 02/09/2025

I fold small seed packs from origami paper and carry some on my person at all times, especially this time of year. They come in super handy 😃

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Thank you! It really, truly is my pleasure

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 26/08/2025

Late summer at the boulevard garden. As a shoe-box apartment dweller, I'm so grateful to have the privilege of caring for a tiny patch of Earth to help decompress from the day and world events 🌱

A photo of a street receding in the distance with a brick building on the left that the sun is glinting off of. In the foreground is a garden of weedy looking native plants.

In the foreground are yellow flowers called Sneezeweed ( Helenium autumnale) There is an out of focus urban building in the background against a blue sky.

A close up of purple daisy-like flowers with yellow centers of Douglas Aster.

A fuzzy Common Eastern Bumblebee sleeping while clinging to the underside of a seed capsule of a Western Columbine

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 25/08/2025

This is amazing! Very inspiring 👏

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Laura Bifano @bifanoland.bsky.social · 19/08/2025

One of my fav paintings to come out of the Vancouver island art retreat!

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 15/08/2025

I know this apartment building! I recognized it right away. We take care of the Green Street garden on the corner. I'll definitely have to check out this show.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 05/08/2025

Oh how I wish I was that Triceratops right now.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Happiest of birthdays🥳 my true love @robinbougie.bsky.social He is my best friend, he makes me laugh constantly, he is a supportive team player and the best human I've ever met ( our nicknames for each other is Frog and Bear) 🐸🐻

A cartoon drawing of a brown bear in overalls and a green frog wearing a hat and carrying a hose. There are hearts and bees floating around them.

A photo of the most handsome man in the world wearing heart rainbow sunglasses and a pointy birthday hat sitting in a blue chair in the park.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 22/07/2025

I'm thinking of the flowers before they open, when they really do look like an asparagus spear. You can really see the family resemblance (not my photo).

A photo of the beginning of a flower spike from an agave plant, behind it is a large evergreen shrub and blue sky.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Yep, that's why those giant agave flower spikes look like a giant stalk of asparagus 😉

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Yep, they need about 2 to 3 weeks of cold stratification. I usually just place the seeds in pots and put them outside about early to mid-February. Being in the carrot family they are tap-rooted, so you have to be careful they don't get too pot bound. I 🩵 them too 😃 They are as tough as nails.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 21/07/2025

Today's pics from the China Creek North Pollinator Garden are of fuzzy bumblebees and a beewolf. Like the name suggests, the beewolf is a wasp that hunts bees as food for its young. Some of the nectar rockstars right now are Sea Holly, Globe Thistle, Canadian Goldenrod and Yarrow 🌱

A close-up of the spiky, blue Sea Holly flowers with a fuzzy yellow bumblebee near the center enjoying a nectar snack.

Two yellow-faced bumblebees on top of a round, blue flower of a globe thistle

Yellow Goldenrod flowers against a blue sky with many bumblebees searching for nectar.

A black and yellow wasp called a Beewolf on top of a white cluster of yarrow flowers.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 19/07/2025

"Juicy Bastard" is a part of my botanical vocabulary now.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

Summer evenings in the China Creek North Pollinator Garden are magical. As the sun sets over this east-facing hillside it illuminates the tops of the plants and reveals thousands of pollinators as pinpoints of light zipping around as they travel from flower to flower. 🌱

This image is a close up of a white yarrow flower head with a small, dark leaf-cutter bee on top.

The sun glows on the horizon through the flowers and foliage of a Sea Holly and a Russian Sage plant. The sky is bright blue.

A blue globe thistle plant that is being backlit by the Sun with golden grass at the bottom of the screen.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 15/07/2025

Took out the microscope to look at some small purple Nepeta or Catmint flowers and buds. You can see the glistening pockets of fragrant oils on the bud that gives it that sage/mint smell. Fortunately the cats couldn't care less about this plant as I'm growing many cuttings on our balcony. 🌱

A very close up image of a Catmint flowers bud that is covered in hairs . You can see small, glistening beads of oil pockets on the surface.

Microscopic view of the side of a fuzzy, purple Catmint flower with a dark stamen screen right.

Extreme close up of dark purple stamens with white pollen.

An extreme close up of a side view of a purple Catmint flower.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Yes, agreed, I'm already following 😉

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Haha! I definitely consider that a compliment. We definitely had a lot of fun working on it.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Oh wow, it only took you 8 years! LoL jk 🤣

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

It was a really nice day trip. Highly recommend 😃

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Took the bus up to Whistler. We had a great time exploring the turquoise blue glacial lakes and streams. We walked through a grove of trees where bears like to sharpen in their claws 🐻 (and leave behind big poops).

A shot of a beautiful turquoise colored glacial lake called Lost Lake with snow-capped mountains in the background.

Close up of glistening water rolling over a tree branch and the camera lens made all the sparkles different colors.

Shot of a wetland area amongst a forest of trees with a couple of trees in the foreground. The photo doesn't capture the hundreds of dragonflies darting back and forth.

Close up of a blotchy gray tree trunk with dark vertical scratches caused by a bear sharpening its claws.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Mountain botanizing! Pacific Coral Root (Corallorhiza mertensiana) a parasitic orchid that doesn't photosynthesize or produce roots. The Pipsissewa (Chimaphila umbellata) is a partial myco-heterotroph. Then our native Columbia Lily (Lilium columbianum) and Sickletop Lousewort (Pedicularis racemosa)🌱

A close-up of the pink seed pods of the Pacific coral root orchid. The flowers have faded.

A close up of the nodding pale pink flowers of the Pipsissewa plant with an out of focus forced background.

Close up of a beautiful orange Columbia Lily flower

The interesting twisted pale pink flowers of the sickletop lousewort with a few leaves.

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 12/07/2025

You could always get a Green Street garden if you really wanted to 😉

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 11/07/2025

Wouldn't you just love to hear that sound ringing out during a misty morning?

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Rebecca Dart @rebdart.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

I'm always entranced by their green eyes.

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