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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

I've been enjoying studying this book, I borrowed from the Library. I very much enjoy Library services by mail, we live far out in the woods and it allows us to read allot of cool books. I heard Mark Carney cut the funding for Library Mail, and that's sad #Nature #Canada #Library 🍄💚🌱📚 #books

Very Large book of Lichens of North America, pictured on book orange Lichens, blueish gray folios lichens,
By IRWIN BRODO
SYLVIA DURAN SHARNOFF
STEPHEN SHARNOFF

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 30/03/2026

The shrubby green Fruticose Lichen Ramalina dilacerata, blue gray folios Brown eyed Shingled Lichen Pannaria rubiginosa, and bit of white/grey Crustos Ragged Wart Lichen Pertusaria ophthalmiza #Nature #Lichens #Lichenology 💚🌱🍄

Greenish gray shaggy lichen, blue/gray leafy lichen with big brown eyelike apothocia, a small amount of whitish gray dotted lichen all on a branch, with bit of a barrel with a fire in the background

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 26/03/2026

Gleaming Jars hanging in the sugar maple trees bring the sweet cold climate reward #MapleSyrup #nature 🌳🌱🍁 #ThickTrunkThursday

Clear jars filled with sugar maple sap hang off maple trees, a bit of snow, and brown leaves and the ground, more trees in the background and the golden setting sun rays

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Even in frozen temperatures, tiny secret green elf cup fungi lurk on the underside of green wood #Nature #mushrooms #fungi 💚🌱🍄

Light Frost crystal on turquoise wood, bright green moss, turquoise elf cup fungi

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 24/03/2026

Hascaps don't thrive in hot zones, I'm in cold zone 4 also 😃 here are the flowers of the hascap berry May 13th🌱💚

Green leaves, yelloiw fuzzy honeysuckle flowers

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 22/03/2026

At least it's pretty I guess🌨🌬☃️💙 #SpringSnow #nature #trees #dogs 🌲🌱💚

Snowy trees, and dark German shepard dog

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

A small harvest from in and around my garden early July #Nature #mushrooms #myGarden 🌱💚

A bunch of greens, baby turnips, berries, Chanterelle mushrooms, a roll of strawberry vines.

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 20/03/2026

Late fall flowers, I like to take pictures with frost crystals and pretend they are tricomes #Nature #gardening #medicinals 🌱💚

Pupleish cannabis plant with fall coloured trees and a ray of golden morning light

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Orchids at the Toronto EX seen in the August #Flowers #nature 🌱💚

White and purple Ochids in a hall brown walls and green carpet

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 27/02/2026

Culantro/Sawtooth herb is cool, fun spiky similar tasting to Cilantro and perennial to zone 8. I grew mine in a pot to overwinter inside #Plants #seeds #gardening 🌱💚

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

The progress of flow...this fresh water spring will continue to get deeper 🌳🌱💚💦💙🐸🌊🌬🌊💙 #Water #snow #winter #freshWaterSpring

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

A bunch of paper flowers, and a snake/caterpillar thing I created #Flowers #BloomScrolling #paperCrafts 🌱🌷🎈🎉

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 14/02/2026

Tis the season for making paper flowers #PaperFlowers #flower #crafts #homemade 🌱💚🌷

Blue paper hydrangea, on rose patterned paper

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 13/02/2026

Some trees are protected for growing along the property lines #Nature #trees #dogs 🌱🌲

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 01/02/2026

Thank you! These types of exchanges help while away the winter months 👍💚🌱 anyone can send me a DM if they would like to trade seeds. So much fun stuff!! #Nature #seedswap #gardening

Small paper packets of seeds, set on rose patterned paper, an envelope with postage stamps

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

Oh hello there deer, seen in September #Nature #wildlife #animals 🌱💚

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

I've been doing a bunch of seeds trades, apparently facebook is the place to connect with Canadian seed swaps, I would be open to small seeds swaps to Europe, USA, and possibly other places. #SeedSwap #gardening #nature 🌱💚

A bunch of seeds packed in coloured paper, postage stamps

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 28/01/2026

A pretty flower seen in sunny summer time #Flowers #BloomScrolling #nature 🌱💜💛💚🌺🌷

Pink flower with yellow center, green leaves in the sunshine

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 25/01/2026

Very cold outside, here is a sunny flower from summer time. #BloomScrolling #flower #nature 🌱💚💛

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Gardening in summer, I made this little bench with a rocks piled out of the garden #Flowers #homesteading #Gardening 💚🌱

Lots of tall garden plants, sunflowers, a rustic stone bench

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 18/01/2026

Our closest fresh water spring has started flowing again! after an extremely dry year💙❄🌬🌊💧🥂🍻🏺 #Nature #snow #waters 🌱💚

Trees lots of snow a large hole with partly frozen water

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Real winter out there❄🌬❄🌱🌲🍃💚 #Nature #mushrooms #trees

Rotted tree with hoof fungus, snow, trees in the background

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 05/01/2026

Some of my small harvest, from in and around the garden on July 5th #Nature #homesteading #foraging #gardening #mushrooms ❤💚🌱🍄

A pile of greens, snow peas, baby turnips, berries, and Chanterelle mushrooms, wild red strawberry vine wound into circle

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

The yellow cosmos, grew faster, and bloomed more profusely than other cosmos I've grown, I hope it self seeds in my cold zone 4 garden. Picture from July 30th #Flowers #nature #myGarden 🌱💚🌻😁

Yellow orange daisy like flowers and lots of green leaves

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 29/12/2025

Dragonfly seen july 30th, this one seemed to like this rock, it would fly a loop then return back to the same spot #Nature #bugsky #Invertabrate #entomology 🌱💚🦋🐜🐝🐞

Blueish dragonfly with black and clear wings on a rock with green leaves around

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 23/12/2025

Seeds available for trade, larger amounts with sunchoke tubers within Canada. USA, Europe, and possibly other countries I can send smaller amounts, and without larger seeds like corn,peas,and morning glorys I can also do just book and art swaps #SeedSwap #Seeds #plants #penpals #bookTrade🌱💚📨📩📮🐱☃️📚

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1. St John's Wort ( is a mild antidepressant )
2. Culantro/saw tooth herb
3. Giant Red Amaranth
4. Oregon giant snow peas, 5. Dwarf grey sugar edible pod peas
6. Garden huckleberry
7. Arugula
8. Marigolds
9. Cannabis -mixed hybred &bag seed with some hermaphrodites
10. Red cabbage
11. Ground cherry -Aunt Molly
12. Green tomatillo mixed with Purple tomatillo
13. Eggplant mix
14. Mixed Hot pepper
15. Various sweet peppers
16. Salsify oyster root
17. Beet cilindra
18. Lemon balm
19. Mixed pink and White bachelors button
20. Anise hyssop
21. Good king Henry(perennial greens)
22. Verona red Raddichio
23. Red globe onion market type
24. White globe onion bunching type
25. Purple top white globe turnips
26. White Scabiosa
27. Dill
28. Zinnias
29. Litchi Tomato/morelle di balbis-a spiky member of the solanecae family
30. Grape -"Jeff" hardy to zone 3 dark red, needs 90 days cold stratification
31. Black currants Consort, and Titania, in cold stratification
32. Morning glories -Grampa otts, possibly mixed with pink
33. Pink Mallow
34. Lettuce mixed -cimmaron - red oak leave, and romaine
35. Sea buckthorn berry needs cold stratification and scarification
36. Small Jerusalem artichoke tubers, I have one with torpedo shaped tubers with reddish brown skins and strong sunflower flavor, I foraged from the wilds locally
37. I have a bag of mixed tree and shrubs, including neat stuff like witch hazel, winterhazel, beautyBush, and much more in cold stratification
38. Hopi blue corn, I think is best for flour, I found it grew great with a very dry year
39. Tobacco- Rustica/wild/Hopi green flowers, this is the original tobacco
40. I can offer a mix of tomatoes, I like to focus on more interesting unusual colours.
41. Snapdragon mixed colours with red and white
42. Orange/yellow Cosmos
43. emerald tassels amaranth
44.A big mix of crab Apple of various sizes

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

Sending out a bundle of garden seeds, and more I would love to set up more trades and seeds swaps, I have interesting poetry chapbooks, make origami, and more. Let's use the mail I love while we can for I fear the future of lettermail #SeedSwap #penpals #gardening #seeds #nature 🌱💚😁📮📬📩📨

A bunch of seeds packets and a poetry chap book by Russell carisse

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 19/12/2025

An interesting flower I saw at some gardens, this one stinks something foul, and when I stuck my nose into smell it, it shot the smelly pollen at me. #CorpseFlower #nature #bloomScrolling #flowers 🌱🌸

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 13/12/2025

Cats, happy Caturday! #Cats #Pets #Animals😸😺😻🐈🐱

By a window with green plants, and a book shelf, sit two cats looking regal, one cat is sleek black short haired and the other is a slightly longer haired bi-coloured tabby tux.

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 05/12/2025

We try to make all our Christmas gifts, cards, candy, also a poetry chapbook. #Upcycled #HomeMadeGifts #Nature 🌱💚🌲

Small book of poetry, home made wreath with cedar, boxwood, and other bits, a bag of candy, card, paper and postage stamp.

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 04/12/2025

Here's a gang of silly little monster guys I made to give some of the "kids" on my list. Also a mushroom and little wire frog #Upcycled #handmade #fluffyMonsters 🌱🍄🙃😂

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 25/11/2025

Some pretty tasty false Chanterelles mushrooms #Mushrooms #Nature #fungifriends 🌱🍄

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 24/11/2025

Basking in the gleam of these pretty pink pickled turnips With beets #fromMyGarden #HomeMade #Homesteading 🌱💜

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 30/10/2025

This plant is known as Morelle di Balbis and Fire and Ice #Sunrise #nature #myGarden

Icy spicky plant, bare trese and orange and blue sunrise

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 24/10/2025

Some lovely oyster mushrooms growing on a mossy log in the Autumn woods #FungiFriday #Nature #mushrooms 🍄🌱

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🌺IRiS🌈 @rustyiris.bsky.social · 15/10/2025

Some brick tops, grateful to see some mushrooms on Sept 19th #Nature #Mushrooms 🌱🍄

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