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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · 8d

Plant people don't let pals plant with peat 🌱

J. Raasch @jraasch.bsky.social · 8d

This was a good podcast episode.

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Moving Past Peat

Podcast Episode · Plant People · 05/05/2025 · 30m

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · 8d

Getting spooky over here!

Carved pumpkin depicting 5 little jack o lanterns.

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · 15d

Exquisite surrender ✨

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · 24d

Man. I. Love. Frogs.

Carol Fenton @cfpdx.bsky.social · 24d

The feds and MAGA videographers push propaganda—Portland keeps breaking it! www.youtube.com/watch?v=anVR...

We’re the Frogs (Portland, Oregon Peaceful Protest Anthem for the "War Ravaged" city)

YouTube video by Delanae - Original Music. Storytelling. Cultural

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Sep 25

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Returning To Myself

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Sep 19

Great work! 🏆

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Sep 19

Whoa. 🤍🖤

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Sep 19

Oh, darling. 😢 What a gift it is to have loved the ones we've lost ❤️‍🩹

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Sep 17

There's just so many colors and shapes and drama!

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Sep 16

Autumnal bouquets! 🧡💜🧡💚

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Sep 16

Did I mention I also went to the dahlia farm on Sat? Where's the swoon emoji?

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Sep 15

Sure you're going to the pumpkin patch soon, but have you harvested your own table grapes? Over 40 varietals to taste and pick at Broadacres Nursery in Hubbard, OR. 🍇💜❤️💚

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Sep 13

It took a few attempts but the narrowleaf milkweed finally took off! Great host for monarchs and beneficial to other pollinators 🐛💚🦋🩵🐝💛 #nativeplants 🌱

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Sep 11

Never tiresome 🥀

jason. @vagrantmachine.bsky.social · Sep 10

Anyway, here’s some beautiful roses.

📸: International Rose Test Garden - Portland, Oregon

A color photo of a variety of roses at the International Rose Garden in Portland, Oregon.
In the distance, two benches sit empty.

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · May 20

I'm so glad you asked! Look at this beauty!

Juniper snag standing on edge of steep slope with blue sky and puffy white clouds on horizon.

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · May 19

So I finally went to Smith Rock State Park and it was...just... WOW! 🧡💚🤎🩶 #oregon #rockclimbing

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · May 19

I've found the hummingbirds love the red columbine!!! Great cuz it's low so you can see them so well ❤️

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · May 8

Yes. 👇🏼👇🏼👇🏼

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · May 1

I love the frilly leaf shape of the wax currant. Great native shrubs for PNW 🌱

JoansGarden @joansgarden.bsky.social · May 1

It's currant flower time & I have lots. Photos are of some of the natives that have popped up all over my yard. I also have the more edible black, red & white currants. Regardless, the flowers are a feast for pollinators & the berries a feast for birds, except they don't seem to see the white ones 🌱

Wax currant (Ribes cereum). This native is very common in my area. Photo show the top of a bush with many small clusters of small pink tubular flowers. #gardening

This currant is a native to the Sierra Nevada of California and I brought it with me as a tiny seedling. It's now a huge bush and one of my favorite plants. Known as Pink Sierra Currant (Ribes nevadense) it has blue-black berries, usually not in large numbers. Photo shows a few of the hanging clusters of pink flowers.

Another view of wax currant (Ribes cereum), this one with much paler flowers, that are almost white, and the leaves barely showing the 3 lobes.

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Rebecca Heisman @rheisman.bsky.social · May 1

Seattle friends! I'm giving a talk on the wild history of bird migration research at the Seward Park Audubon Center next Saturday (5/10) for World Migratory Bird Day. It's free but you do have to pre-register. Hope to see you there! wa.audubon.org/events/world...

World Migratory Bird Day | Rebecca Heisman - Flight Paths: How a Passionate and Quirky Group of Pioneering Scientists Solved the Mystery of Bird Migration

Saturday, May 10, 2025 at 2:00pm Pacific

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Apr 27

I would ask myself these questions:
Is the nonnative invasively spreading or harmful to my other plants?
Do I have a more productive plant that I'd like to see thrive in its place? Something native or edible?
Do I have the capacity to deal with the nonnative/ is it a priority?
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SummerDragoness @summerdragoness.bsky.social · Apr 27

Question, should or shouldn't I attempt to remove common burdock from my yard? What about other non-natives?
I ask because, even though I am attempting to keep my property mostly natives, I am obviously also planting non-natives for non-wildlife purposes.

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Apr 27

Beautiful work. And his is lovely too.

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☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Apr 27

They deserve a much flashier name.

☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Apr 27

So thrilled for you! ✨💕💫
Glad that emergency cataract surgery fell through 😂

☔️ Make It Raina @brightwood.bsky.social · Apr 25

That's beautifully said, Mike. I really think working land aides mental health. The physicality, being outdoors, doing something that feels good, and of course the appreciation flowing from the plants. This must be why my favorite book is The Secret Garden 💚

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