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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 43m

Our Serviceberry suddenly changed colour yesterday, in a cold turn. (Or Saskatoon berry, in Canada.)

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 12/10/2026

The squirrels are relentless.. well try to get my Ohio Buckeye nuts now. welcome to Alcatraz mutha effas 🐿️🤟🏼

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Hope this isn’t too sappy but.. I often think about how gardening parallels life. Last winter my witchhazel, which was thin and “just hanging on”, was eaten within 6” of the ground by deer. Now it’s bushy and thriving. I think sometimes we need to come out of adversity to thrive. #nativeplants

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 11/10/2026

Salmon running in the Little Rouge River, Greater Toronto Area. She is tired and can’t swim upstream anymore. I hope she spawned 🥰

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 10/10/2026

Rouge National Urban Park / Little Rouge River. The grey river bottom is a regional deposit of hard clay laid down in the ancient glacial Lake Peel, created between the front lobe of the ice sheet and the Niagara Escarpment about 12,000 years ago. The Rouge and Little Rouge Rivers cut thru it.

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Immediately after this photo of blue flag iris seeds I knocked them all over the floor and after picking them up they’re now mixed with an insane amount of dog hair which might actually make them rabbit and deer resistant 🤔 #nativeplants #gardensky

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 27/09/2026

Hoping beyond hope it’s still good, however my lot in life is to buy entire new tubes of caulking for tiny jobs every time 😂

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

After some light gardening, digging into John Woo’s The Killer this afternoon 👊🏼

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 19/09/2026

Is it normal for someone to: 1) Learn about an Ohio Buckeye tree on a city boulevard on a small street in a borough of their city via social media 2) Travel there after work 3) Prepare what to say if the owners look at you weirdly 4) Harvest nuts 5) Plant said nuts? (asking for a friend)

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 13/09/2026

On the hike I posted about yesterday, I gathered a bunch of berries to germinate next spring for my #nativeplants garden: false Solomon’s seal, blue cohosh, maple leaf vibernum and doll’s eye. Sustainably, I think, as I took less than 1% of what was there. 🌱

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 12/09/2026

West Duffins Creek headwaters on a trail today. 😀 The Oakridges Moraine, above Toronto, was created 15,000 years ago by 2 glacial lobes pushing vast quantities of glacial till together. Now it is a “rainbarrel” supplying a billion litres of water a day to tributaries flowing into Lake Ontario.

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 07/09/2026

New England Aster in my garden means it’s September. #gardensky #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

From a few years ago… This is an ancient shoreline of proglacial Lake Minong which preceded Lake Superior, about 10,000 years ago. The site has has no trail into it, with little evidence of humans. Just ancient cobble covered in deep lichen. We walked carefully, disturbing nothing.

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 05/09/2026

Grandview Trail, Grand Canyon. The last time since Trump II admin, that I was in the USA recreationally. I’d love to get back when/if relations normalize.

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 30/08/2026

I’ve been stewarding the urban conservation land behind our house, removing invasives… glad to see boneset has moved in, on the creek edge. With a bee visiting! #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #pollinators

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

Canada-US Trade Relations: A Gardening Allegory. After nurturing my witch-hazel for 4 years, last winter deer ate the entire thing. Razed it to the ground. Gone. I was sad/mad. But this spring, a miraculous thing happened. It regrew. And bushier/healthier than before 🌱 btw the plant is 🇨🇦. 😁

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

One of my black-fruited sedges looking handsome after all day rain. #gardensky #nativeplants #sedges

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 23/08/2026

Spruce cones before the spikeys fall off. That is the arboritological term for it #trees #spikeys

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

The rabbits kept breaking the lattice, I assume from getting chased by coyotes. So a couple years ago I made them a little opening 🐰💨 Because, why fight it. #gardensky

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 21/08/2026

This is the bully making fun of the much smaller opponent, when the bullied dares to fight back. What a small person JD Vance is, and also tbh, unprofessional

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

I germinated this red oak about 8 years ago from an acorn and it’s now over my head - reaching for the ☀️. The ravine behind our house is dominated by Manitoba maple (the weed of trees) and non native Siberian elm so I’ve been introducing some oaks, white pine and white spruce. 🌲 #trees #nativeplants

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Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Part of petrichor, the delish earthy smell released when rain hits parched ground, is geosmin,a compound from soil bacteria-human👃s can detect it in lower concentrations than sharks can detect blood in water. Seeking out water on dry plains was essential for our ancestors. Here’s a geosmin molecule:

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

In the creek valley behind our house, I planted an Ohio Buckeye that I germinated from seed. Where I am, the north shore of Lake Ontario, is the northern end of its Carolinian Forest range. Fence is for deer protection. 🌳 #trees #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 15/08/2026

My son got all 4 wisdom teeth out, he’s complaining about what to eat, and wife’s like, how about a peach? Then added: what’s more vulnerable than a peach, which I thought was a pretty solid Elf reference.

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 14/08/2026

My mission on each dog walk is to remove a little dog standing vine, from around the local trail. But racing against time as the seed pods are getting ripe.

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

We had our roof shingles replaced and now the rain barrel water smells like tar or hydrocarbons 😢 My theory is my native gardens and their healthy bacteria will work to treat / remediate it, rather than the roof water going right up storm drain. #gardensky #nativeplants

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 08/08/2026

My wild false indigo finally produced flowers and 1 seed pod this year. 😎But I picked the pod too soon!! 😭😭😭 It was very black and dry, but I learned on YouTube, too late, need to wait till the seeds are rattling inside. Gardening lesson learned.. 🤔 #gardensky #nativeplants

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 05/08/2026

Mountain mint.. a few planted last spring as a trial, and yup they like my garden conditions 😁 #pollinators #gardensky #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 03/08/2026

I cut out this row of boxwood that died… Any suggestions what I should plant? Full shade, preferably native and flowering? To left is the back lawn, to right is a ravine, where I’ve extended the garden with woodland strawberry, bloodroot, cohosh, columbine. #gardensky #nativeplants

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

Something different.. was on a lake fishing with my son in Muskoka this weekend, we wondered what the heck this basketball sized gelatinous mass was, just under the water. Turns out this is a bryozoan colony: millions of zooids, multi cell, branch-like organisms approx 0.5 mm in length. #nature

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 23/07/2026

My #nativeplants garden as I walk to the door after work. ☺️ Yellow coneflowers are out in force. A landscape gardener one said “nice Gypsy garden”. I just smiled and thought “There’s multiple layers wrong with that statement” 😂 #bloomscrolling #gardensky

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Beach pea, Old Woman Bay, Lake Superior (Ontario) #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 07/07/2026

He was in our garden when I got home from work; the concerned look is due to me. 🫣 #nature #naturephotography

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 21/06/2026

As an example of just how resilient invasive buckthorn is, I cut a live one as a stake to hold up a young cottonwood. The buckthorn stake had no leaves or branches when I drove it into the ground. To my surprise it’s been leafing out, and still going strong after 2 months. #nativeplants #invasives

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 20/06/2026

Robin just out of the nest, and hadn’t developed a fear of anything yet. My attempts to give him a worm were rebuffed. 😅 30 minutes later he was gone, to continue learning how to robin. #birds #birding #birdphotography

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 14/06/2026

Lance-leaved coreopsis, their turn to shine in my garden. I love the ragged edges. #wildflowerhour

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Blue false indigo: a native from Appalachia to Ontario. Mine, in Ontario, is flowering for the first time at 4 years old 😁 #gardensky #bloomscrolling #nativeplants

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 09/06/2026

My first full peony this year, late afternoon light. Definitely the garden’s runway models! I try to use mostly native plants, but peonies are allowed 😁 #bloomscrolling #gardensky

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 04/06/2026

Canada anenome, in my shade garden ☺️ The flowers will be gone before June ends. #gardening #gardensky #bloomscrolling

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 02/06/2026

Garden Rock #3. Chunk of slate from north shore of Lake Superior. Wave patterns indicate what this former silt/ mud would have looked like on a windy & wavy day on the shores of an ancient sea 1 billion years ago. #gardensky

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 01/06/2026

Garden Rock #2: Almandine garnet schist, Sudbury Ontario. Made when a comet hit the region 1.8 billion years ago, punching 15 km into the Earth’s crust and releasing cool (actually hot) stuff from the molten mantle

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 31/05/2026

Maybe I’ll do a series of garden rock pics - I love placing rocks with plants, because I like geology and as a reminder of places I’ve been. This rock, scraped by glacial activity, was falling out of a 25-m tall bank of glaciolacustrine clay on the shore of Lake Ontario.

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 30/05/2026

Beautiful purple cones starting on young tamarack. This is from a planting of 8,500 trees done over 2 summers with a nonprofit I volunteer for in the Rouge River watershed, southern Ontario. Territory of the Michi Saagiig (Mississauga) Nations. #trees #nativeplants

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Prairie smoke gonna smoke 🤷🏼‍♂️

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 29/05/2026

Black-fruited sedge in my garden, a North American native 🌱 #gardensky #nativeplants

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

After 24 hours of soaking rain.. a moment was happening just outside our bay window (common serviceberry) #nativeplants #gardensky #bloomscrolling

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Peter Moore @zatoichi26.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

I saw at least 4 kinds of bees all over our eastern redbud 🤩🐝🌺 (Ontario) #bloomscrolling #gardensky #pollinators

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