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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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I got my opuntia from a Fb marketplace encounter. I was buying something else and saw the pads and commented on them and they said please take them all 😄. I am a fan of prairie moon though, they have some hard to find seeds

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Do it! Amelanchier is one of my favorites. Fall color, berries and delightful little flowers. It is susceptible to cedar rust though and I missed out on the berries this year :/

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

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

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The article is about tropical milkweed, the title really should be more specific

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

I'm torn between my love of prairie grass and my love of trees. I have about 30 trees on my .3 acre and some will eventually shade out my pocket prairie so I'm enjoying it while it lasts

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 28/11/2024

This is asclepias syriaca (common milkweed) that I rescued from my neighbor's lawn

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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 · 26/11/2024

Just search for words that interest you and follow some starter packs. It'll spice up your feed blueskydirectory.com/starter-pack...

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

Here! There are some native plant people lists if you are interested

They're difficult to grow from seed but I wish you luck

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"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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I find a lot of Latin binomials fun to say.

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Lobelia cardinalis, pontederia cordata, juncus effusus, eleocharis obtusa, iris versicolor, elodea canadensis, nymphaea odorata, sagittaria latifolia

That's a really pretty butterfly, thanks for sharing

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

Roughly 13' by 15' in a kidney bean shape. 27 inches deep.

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Great idea for the telephone poles. We've been brainstorming where to put a bat box on our property

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

Reposted by Julie Ross

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

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

Same. Requested my third chip drop of the year to kill more lawn and collected and spread some seeds around. Also volunteered for some local projects.

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Julie Ross @rossjul.bsky.social · 22/11/2024

The runner stems on fragaria virginiana are more reddish and the flowers are white. The non-native has yellow flowers

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

Taken from A New Garden Ethic page 25

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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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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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It's possible they will pop up next year. You won't see much growth above ground with the false indigo the first year, they are mainly putting down roots. Mine only got to about 6 inches. Love the zinnias. They're my favorite filler plant while I wait for my perennials to mature

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Also reading this one! I have two mature red oaks, lots of red oak seedlings, a young bur oak and I added a white oak this year. I adore the white oak leaf shape.

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Did you try winter sowing your seeds? A lot of native plants need cold to germinate. I had good success sowing in December

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Liatris ligulistylis is a monarch magnet. I got about 20 cats this year and monarchs daily from that addition. They seemed to prefer laying eggs on the swamp milkweed.

Native prairie grasses such as schizachyrium scoparium. They turn over their root systems often and the roots go deep so you'll get more improvement than just the topsoil

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I also have clay soil but I'm trying it in one of my drier spots amended with sand. Fingers crossed.

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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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