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@theanine.bsky.social

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🍵Caffeine powered garden adventures with white tea 白毫银针 🌼 botany 🌱 permaculture 🌿 native plants 🌺 floriculture ❇️ herbalism 🐸 wildlife 📸 photography in 🌲 Cascadia. 🐸FrogBlog: @frogflora.bsky.social

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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 07/05/2026

Some cheery native annual flowers for #WildflowerWednesday. 🌼 🌱 #nemophila #limnanthes #nativeplants

Some native PNW spring wildflowers growing together. Nemophila & Limnanthes.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 22/12/2025

A #geranium on the #WinterSolstice. 🌸 🌱

A single violet geranium flower with raindrops blooming on the December solstice. 🌞

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 02/11/2025

#Crocosmia curiously reblooming on a rainy November 1st. 🏵💀🍁🌱 #bloomscrolling #samhain #díadelosmuertos #autumn

A vivid orange crocosmia blooming out of season on the first of November, with raindrops.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 30/09/2025

A #MantisMonday stroll though some #sideritis.🪲🌿🌱

A green praying mantis walking on a stick through some fuzzy sideritis plants. Keeping the tea pest-free. 🍵

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 20/09/2025

🌺 Huge Hardy #Hibiscus for #FloralFriday. 🌱

A large red Hibiscus moscheutos in bloom. 🌺

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 13/09/2025

Ultra-local native #DouglasAster for #FloralFriday. 🌼 🌅 🌱 #SymphyotrichumSubspicatum #bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday #nativeplants #sunset

Hyperlocal douglas aster during sunset in my yard where it natively occurs. When cultivated it becomes an enormous spreading pollinator powerhouse that blooms nonstop from June to November. A PNW must have. 🌼 🐝 🦋

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 07/09/2025

Last minute crocosmia guard for #NationalHummingbirdDay. 🪶 🌱 🌸 #hummingbird #rufoushummingbird #SelasphorusRufus #crocosmia

A rufous hummingbird guards prized crocosmia flowers.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 22/08/2025

First time growing #roselle, small blooms ➡️ big flavor calyces. 🌺🍵🌱 #HibiscusSabdariffa #hibiscus #FloralFriday #edibleflowers #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling

Hibiscus sabdariffa bloom & calyx. Soon to become delicious tea.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 08/08/2025

Rufous #hummingbird on #salvia for #FloralFriday. 🪶🌸🌱 #bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday #rufoushummingbird #SelasphorusRufus

Female/immature rufous hummingbird feasting on magenta salvia nectar.

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🐸 frof 🌿 @frogflora.bsky.social · 02/08/2025

Happy #NationalSunflowerDay with a frog on top. 🌻 🐸 🌻 🐸 🌻 #sunflower #PseudacrisRegilla #flowerfrog #PacificTreefrog #bloomscrolling 🌱

A red-striped orange sunflower with a green treefrog sitting in its petals. 🌻 🐸

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 03/08/2025

Happy last minute #NationalSunflowerDay! 🌻 🐝 🌻 🐝 🌻 #sunflower #helianthus #bee #bloomscrolling 🌱

Lemon yellow sunflowers visited by bees with multicolored sunflowers and a forest in the background. 🌻

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 31/07/2025

Local nodding onions this #WildflowerWednesday. Besides being pest free & showy, the whole plant is delectably edible; plus the flowers are great in salads. 🌸 🧅 🌸 🧅 🌸 #AlliumCernuum #NoddingOnion #nativeplants #edibleflowers #bloomscrolling 🌱

Native locally collected seed grown nodding onions in a flower border. They are equally pollinator friendly, tasty and pretty. 🌸

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 28/07/2025

Flaming red #SunflowerSunday. 🌻🧡❤️ #sunflower #bloomscrolling 🌱

Multibranched red flame sunflowers with gold ember tips and black centers.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 16/07/2025

#Clarkia & #Collomia Combo. 🌼 🌱 🌸 #WildflowerWednesday #nativeplants #ClarkiaAmoena #CollomiaGrandiflora #pnw #bloomscrolling #flowerreport

Clarkia amoena (farewell-to-spring) & nearly bloomed out collomia grandiflora (large-flowered phlox) in a native wildflower border. They seeded prolifically all over. Leafcutter bees have been working on the clarkia petals. 🌸

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 13/07/2025

Self-seeded flame sunflowers on #SunflowerSunday. They've taken over the garden. 🌻 🌱 #sunflower #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #edibleflowers

Tall multi branched gold & red flame sunflowers. 🌻

Large flowered flame sunflowers in the sun. This self seeded specimen has lighter yellow petals with more pink/rose flame markings than is typical.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 10/07/2025

Native #brodiaea for #WildflowerWednesday. Both B. coronaria & elegans are called "harvest brodiaea" for their tasty edible bulbs. The beautiful blooms attract local pollinators. 🌸 🌱 🧅✨️ #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #BrodiaeaCoronaria #BrodiaeaElegans #PNW #violetflowers 🌿

Brodiaea elegans (elegant brodiaea) blooming in a vegetable garden. ✨️

Brodiaea coronaria (crown brodiaea) in a vegetable garden edge with a cucumber tendril claiming a bud. 👑

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 08/07/2025

A fragrant trumpet #lily for #MagentaMonday. 🌸 🌱 #bloomscrolling #trumpetlily

A fragrant gold centered magenta trumpet lily rises above background flowers near a forest edge.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Tonight's #sunset at #aphelion - when Earth is farthest from the sun. 🌅✨️ #beach #Manzanita #Oregon #OregonCoast 🌎↔️🌞

A vivid sunset in Manzanita, Oregon at aphelion - the day Earth is farthest from the sun. 🌎↔️☀️

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 04/07/2025

Hiking among wildflowers & above an #airplane, #vulture & ocean on #aphelion. 🌞 🌼 🌱 🪶 🛩 #lily #LiliumColumbianum #turkeyvulture #CathartesAura #OregonCoast 🌿

Far above Pacific ocean rock islands, arches & and airplanes during aphelion 2025.

A golden columbian tiger lily in a coastal PNW rainforest on aphelion.

Turkey vulture soaring over Nehalem Bay.

Coastal vista from south facing slopes of Neahkahnie Mountain rainforest with rock islands and headlands in the distance.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 20/06/2025

The precipice of a crystaline alpine #waterfall for the northern hemispheric #SummerSolstice. 🏔 🌸 ☀️ 🌱 ⛲️ #solstice #wildflowers #castilleja #mountains #nativeplants #flowersonfriday 🌿

A Castilleja miniata (giant red Indian paintbrush) blooms near a gushing clear alpine waterfall with glaciated mountain peaks in the distance. ☀️ 🔝

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 26/05/2025

A black & white #mushroom trio³ in the garden for #MushroomMonday. 🍄 🔘 🌱 📸

A trio of graceful goblet shaped mushrooms with black reflexed caps/cups & white stipes. 🍄

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 22/05/2025

Last minute native blue #WildflowerWednesday. 💠 🌱 💠 🐝 💠 #nativeplants #triteleia #camassia #frasera #nemophila #虫 #pnw #bloomscrolling #blueflowers 🌿

Vibrant Camassia leichtlinii (great camas) with visiting Bombus vosnesenskii (yellowfaced bumblebee).

A nemophila douglasii blue border area. 💠

Triteleia grandiflora near a forest edge. A favorite (and edible) wildflower.

Blue star flowers of Frasera albicaulis. 💠

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 21/05/2025

Typical Gorge-ous biome change from rainforest to high-desert in less than 50 miles. 🏞↔️🏜 📸 #ColumbiaRiver #ColumbiaRiverGorge #CapeHorn #Lyle #Washington 🌿

Cape Horn, Washington, (west gorge) with Beacon Rock in the distance. Lush green vegetation & clouds hang on mountain ridges of the Columbia river canyon. ⛰️

Arid landscape above Lyle, Washington (east gorge) overlooking the vast Columbia river bathed in crepuscular sunrays.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 10/05/2025

Another last minute #FloralFriday #camassia + pollinator. 🌼 🌱 🐝 #camas #whiteflowers #bumblebee #BombusMixtus #nativeplants #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #beescrolling #虫

A fuzzy-horned bumble bee (Bombus mixtus) pollinates a great white camas (Camassia leichtlinii) in its native habitat.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

A #Beltane #bumblebee for May day. 🐝 🌼 🌱 #camas #camassia #nativeplants #blueflowers #bee #虫 🌿

A Bombus vosnesenskii / yellow faced bumblebee feeding on camas nectar.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 26/04/2025

A last minute #FloralFriday sunset in the #camas patch. 💠 🌅 🌱 #camassia #nativeplants #blueflowers #bloomscrolling #flowersonfriday 🌿

Vibrant indigo-blue & violet toned camassia leichtlinii bloom under a late April sunset. In addition to its beauty, camas is a valuable native food plant.
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

Today's #waterfall walk for #WildflowerWednesday. 🌼 ⛲ ✨️ 🌱 #erythronium #ErythroniumOreganum #bloomscrolling #nativeplants 🌿

Erythronium oreganum with a bumblebee visitor in front of a misty waterfall.

A hillside of white erythronium flowers float above spongy rainforest moss in front of a double waterfall.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 06/04/2025

️¡Happy International Asexuality Day! Now it's time to pot things up in style. 🌱 #InternationalAsexualityDay ♠️🪨🥚🔮 ♣️💿🗒🍇 🖤🩶🤍💜 🧡💛💚🩵💙

Ceramic pots arranged in the asexual flag colors for International Asexuality Day:

🖤Black 🩶Gray 🤍White 💜Purple

Aces out there: you are valid just as you are. Say 🇳🚫 to oppressive allonormativity.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 03/04/2025

A quick #WildflowerWednesday back40 walkabout. 🌿 🌸 🌱 #nativeplants #trillium #TrilliumOvatum #TrilliumParviflorum #CardamineNuttallii #salmonberry #RubusSpectabilis #erythronium #bloomscrolling #pnw

Erythronium & small-flowered trillium rise above a sea of pacific waterleaf & bleeding hearts on a well saturated PNW forest floor. 🌿

Cardamine nuttallii blanket large swaths of the Spring forest floor.

A large pink flowered pacific trillium rises above waterleaf in a PNW forest. Starting out pure white, the blooms turn pink once pollinated & continue toward purple shades as time progresses. 🌸

Magenta salmonberry blossoms float through the mid layer of an overcast woodland. Some are already forming berries. 🌸

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 27/03/2025

A western #trillium for #WildflowerWednesday, with #MisumenaVatia hanging in there too (so also #WildlifeWednesday). Crab spiders hide in a large % of local trilliums. 🌿 🌼 🌱 #TrilliumOvatum #nativeplants #spider #虫 #bloomscrolling 🕷

Blooming Trillium ovatum on a late march PNW forest floor, fringed by bleeding hearts & western sword ferns, with a bonus crab spider clinging to a sepal.

Trilliums are among the most iconic native spring heralding flowers in temperate North America. This locally common species also has a rose-like fragrance and can grow quite large. 🌼

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 21/03/2025

💠 Happy Vernal Equinox ⏳️☀️ #anemone #bloomscrolling #springequinox #vernalequinox #ostara #blueflowers 🌱

Deep indigo anemone blossoms float above verdant foliage on the spring equinox. 💠

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

#Oemleria, the local spring harbinger, is blooming late this year. These dioecious plants produce fruits with a refreshing cucumber/watermelon flavor & are an early pollinator nectar source. 🌿 🌼 🌱 #osoberry #IndianPlum #pnw #nativeplants #bloomscrolling

A late winter blooming ♀ oemleria tree.

♂ Male oemleria flowers 🌼

♀ female oemleria flowers 🌼

♂ oemleria flowering in a PNW forest. 🌼

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 14/03/2025

Total #LunarEclipse overhead. 🌒🌔 🔴 🌖🌘

Total lunar eclipse or blood moon looms above a tall fir tree, coloring the misty sky.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 08/03/2025

In bianco e nero sotto un cielo azzurro. 🤍🖤🦋🌱 #hellebore #HelleborusOrientalis #FloralFriday #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling 🌸

Backlit white double hellebores & ferns under the sunny blue sky. 🤍

Black double hellebores under partially cloudy blue skies. 🖤

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 28/02/2025

House invading asian ladybeetles are put to work cleaning up aphids on indoor yerba buena. 🌿 🐞 🌱 #FoliageFriday #ladybug #nativeplants #虫 #ClinopodiumDouglasii #HarmoniaAxyridis #naturalpestcontrol

Asian ladybeetles scouring yerba buena for pests indoors. Natural tea protection. 🍵 🐞

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 14/02/2025

❄️ A frozen February #FloralFriday featuring #snowdrops & #witchhazel amid a sea of snow. 🌼 🌱 #winterflowers #galanthus #hamamelis #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling 🌨

Snow-laden snowdrops & golden witch hazel rise from wintry snowdrifts.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 13/02/2025

❄️ Frozen Fronds 🌿 #snow #ferns #winter 🌱

Fern fronds under powdery snow.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

💛 A yellow #FloralFriday 🌼 ❄️ 🌱 #winterflowers #flowersonfriday #FebruaryFlowers #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #hamamelis #narcissus #heather #pansy #snowdrop

A mostly yellow assortment of winter flowers : pansies, daffodils, witchhazel, snowdrops & heather. 💛🌼

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 05/02/2025

#snowdrops & #pericallis on a winter wednesday. 🌼 🌱 💠 #winterflowers #FebruaryFlowers #galanthus #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #blueblooms

Snow white galanthus & vivid indigo pericallis are a fragrant winter duo.
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🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 02/02/2025

🌸 Floral February First 🌱 New blooms ↔️ New beginnings #helleborus #hellebore #heather #calluna #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #FebruaryFlowers #winterflowers #imbolc 🕯

🌸 February First Flowers 💐
Pink & rose hellebores, pansies & heather bring in the new month.🕯

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 31/01/2025

A red #anemone & golden #witchhazel for January's last #FloralFriday. 🌸 ❄️ 🌱 #winterflowers #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #flowerreport #Hamamelis

A bright red anemone with a backdrop of fragrant gold witchhazel blooms on a late January day.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 25/01/2025

#FloralFriday featuring fiery January #Hamamelis / #witchhazel. 🌸 ❄️ 🌱 #winterflowers #flowersonfriday #bloomscrolling #flowerreport

Fiery & fragrant scarlet hamamelis / witchhazel perfumes the cold evening January air.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

#WinterWednesday #hellebore galore. 🌸 🌱 #helleborus

Large pink & red single hellebore flowers with contrasting gold stamens. 🌸

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 04/01/2025

Some woodland waxcaps popped up for #fungusfriday. 🍄 📷 #hygrocybe #mushroom #fungalfriday #fungi

Vivid red & gold hygrocybe / waxcap mushrooms on a new year's winter woodland floor.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 22/12/2024

Sunbeams through the local stonehenge. Happy #WinterSolstice. ✨️☀️✨️ #solsticio #klickitat #solstice #stonehenge #concretehenge #yule

The sun beams through a stone window of the Maryhill stonehenge replica overlooking the Columbia river.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

🌸 A late december #heather #honeybee. 🐝 🌱

A honeybee forages on pink heather flowers in late December. Pollinators work year round & appreciate winter blooms. 🌸

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

🎄 Holiday Hummingbird 🪶 The best living ornament. #CalypteAnna #Anna'sHummingbird #hummingbird #iridescence 🐦

A male Anna's hummingbird sits close to his feeder amongst December holiday greenery perched on a string of pinecone lights. 🎄

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#MushroomMonday 🍄📸 in the forest. #mushroom #fungi #fallfoliage

A large tan mushroom on a leaf-strewn forest floor. Another is behind it to the left.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 30/11/2024

#BlackFlowers on #BlackFriday 🖤 🌱 ♠️ 🌱 🖤 #darkfoliage #flowersonfriday #FloralFriday #hellebore #HelleborusOrientalis

Black foliaged black flowered double hellebores on an overcast rainy day.

🍵thea9️⃣ @theanine.bsky.social · 23/11/2024

An unseasonably late blooming #brugmansia for #FloralFriday. 🍂 🌼 🌱 #bloomscrolling #fallfoliage #autumn #Angel'sTrumpet #flowerreport #flowersonfriday 🌿

A fragrant gold brugmansia blooms in front of a multicolored fall foliaged forest.