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Julie Ross

@rossjul.bsky.social

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I'm here to promote native plant gardening and inspire people to join homegrownnationalpark.org with photos from my garden. Fiber arts and handmade wardrobe hobbies may also make an appearance.

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 09/04/2025

So much pollen. Salix discolor in March

Close up of a little bee on a pussy willow bloom--an oblong yellow puffball

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

Tis the season to plant seeds fa-la-la-la-la #nativeplants

A variety of seed packets with tree ornaments

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Just finished the DRK Everyday sock in Must Stash Yarn color Acadia (toe and heel stash yarn) #knitting

2x2 Rib knit socks in 1/2 inch stripes of four green shades to four blue shades to four brown shades.

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

I pre-ordered some bare root Castanea pumila or Allegheny Chinquapin trees for spring. Anyone else have experience growing them?

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

Symphyotrichum lanceolatum or white- panicle aster. This one showed up on its own when we built our pond. It tends to colonize disturbed areas. I'm hoping to catch some photos of frost on these seed heads

Cream colored seed head puff balls a bit larger than a pencil eraser in focus with more blurred in background. Dried brown narrow wrinkled leaves on stems

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

New find today, the fruits of #killyourlawn

Cream colored fungi with gills on the underside and a wavy edged upturned cap growing in wood chips; oak leaves and pine needles on the ground

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

"If our landscapes all look the same from state to state and country to country--using the same plants in the same ways--we lose our sense of self, place, and compassion for the community as a whole." Benjamin Vogt in A New Garden Ethic Spring ephemeral mertensia virginica; my garden April '24

Pink buds opening to bell-shaped light purple-blue flowers in the foreground with bright green ovate leaves in the background

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Cynthia Slate -Make Habitat don’t just garden @thebirdsnest.bsky.social · 24/08/2023

Such a good opening to an article in my WA Native Plant Society magazine. #KillYourLawn

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

"Your garden is a protest. It is a place of defiant compassion. It is a space to help sustain wildlife and ecosystem function while providing an aesthetic response that moves you[...]Your garden is a protest for all the ways in which we deny our life by denying other lives." Benjamin Vogt

A monarch caterpillar striped black white and yellow eating the leaves of common milkweed with blooms of small light pink flowers

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 21/11/2024

Salix discolor aka American Pussy Willow is an early pollen source for native bees and a larval host for several months and butterflies. Something has been enjoying mine. It is easy to root from cuttings and loves water. Don't plant near your foundation. #nativeplants

Yellowing green leaves with holes from munching insects or caterpillars. Red buds are alternating with the leaves on the brown stems

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Pycnanthemum muticum or clustered mountain mint is found naturally in woodlands and meadows in the eastern US. Buzzing with insects all summer. Check out the splash of purple on those unassuming flowers.

A hairstreak butterfly sitting on tiny white flowers with a splash of violet color inside them on stems with silvery green leaves.

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

My pipedream is that everyone will plant lupinus perennis like it's the new milkweed and the karner blue butterfly will come back to Pennsylvania. What's your niche interest? I'll plant for it too. #nativeplants

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 19/11/2024

By far my favorite garden addition this year has been the wildlife pond. It has supported birds, frogs, toads, dragonflies, beetles, snails, mud dauber wasps and aquatic plants. Hummingbirds came to visit the cardinal flowers. 10/10 would recommend #nativeplants

Young bullfrog floating among lily pads and Canadian waterweed in a small pond

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