Gardening Jenny
@gardenjenny.bsky.social
Organic native plant gardener, nature lover, human mom, bunny mom and aspiring vegan.
Photos and Videos are my own. Plants pictured are in my personal yard unless specified.
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Photos and Videos are my own. Plants pictured are in my personal yard unless specified.
#nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark
#gardening
#mentalhealth
#nativepollinators
Goldenrod is so beautiful in all its phases. Still blooming in November and some beautiful fluffy seed heads. #bloomscroll #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark
November 23, 2025 at 12:08 PM
Goldenrod is so beautiful in all its phases. Still blooming in November and some beautiful fluffy seed heads. #bloomscroll #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark
Still blooming after a frost (or two). Actually saw a tiny pollinator on the asters. If you plant, they will grow! #bloomscrolling #homegrownnationalpark #nativeplants
October 29, 2025 at 10:27 AM
Still blooming after a frost (or two). Actually saw a tiny pollinator on the asters. If you plant, they will grow! #bloomscrolling #homegrownnationalpark #nativeplants
Why are there so many goldenrods? So bees always have a place to nap #homegrownnationalpark #bloomscroll
#nativeplants
#nativeplants
October 12, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Why are there so many goldenrods? So bees always have a place to nap #homegrownnationalpark #bloomscroll
#nativeplants
#nativeplants
Big bee and little flower - heart-leaved aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium) This beautiful flower loves shade. It’s the first plant that showed up when I started removing lawn. #nativeplants #nativepollinators #bloomscroll
October 4, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Big bee and little flower - heart-leaved aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium) This beautiful flower loves shade. It’s the first plant that showed up when I started removing lawn. #nativeplants #nativepollinators #bloomscroll
Hump day bloom scroll: New York ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis). Feel free to put this towering beauty everywhere #bloomscroll #monarchs #nativeplants
September 30, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Hump day bloom scroll: New York ironweed (Vernonia noveboracensis). Feel free to put this towering beauty everywhere #bloomscroll #monarchs #nativeplants
September 26, 2025 at 8:54 PM
Should you plant goldenrods? Yes! And be a hero to migrating monarchs. Here’s showy goldenrod putting on a show for monarch butterflies and other pollinators #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark #mentalhealth
September 24, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Should you plant goldenrods? Yes! And be a hero to migrating monarchs. Here’s showy goldenrod putting on a show for monarch butterflies and other pollinators #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark #mentalhealth
September 17, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Mentally I am struggling.
My neighbors used to be awesome but they are now using rodenticides and pesticides - fighting feelings of hopelessness and anxiety. Focusing on what I CAN DO helps. These cats appreciate the safe space #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark
My neighbors used to be awesome but they are now using rodenticides and pesticides - fighting feelings of hopelessness and anxiety. Focusing on what I CAN DO helps. These cats appreciate the safe space #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark
September 16, 2025 at 3:45 PM
Mentally I am struggling.
My neighbors used to be awesome but they are now using rodenticides and pesticides - fighting feelings of hopelessness and anxiety. Focusing on what I CAN DO helps. These cats appreciate the safe space #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark
My neighbors used to be awesome but they are now using rodenticides and pesticides - fighting feelings of hopelessness and anxiety. Focusing on what I CAN DO helps. These cats appreciate the safe space #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark
I spotted this tattered great spangled fritillary feeding on tall garden phlox today. She briefly stopped on iron weed before flying off- remarkably resilient and strong in spite of the damaged wings. The tales this butterfly could tell #mentalhealth #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #nativepollinators
September 4, 2025 at 12:43 AM
I spotted this tattered great spangled fritillary feeding on tall garden phlox today. She briefly stopped on iron weed before flying off- remarkably resilient and strong in spite of the damaged wings. The tales this butterfly could tell #mentalhealth #bloomscrolling #nativeplants #nativepollinators
My favorite pollinator! They are usually out earlier- it’s been a weird season. Great Golden Digger wasps are beautiful!! Shown on that amazing powerhouse pycnanthemum muticum (mountain mint) #nativeplants #nativepollinators #bloomscrolling
#homegrownnationalpark
#homegrownnationalpark
September 1, 2025 at 2:40 PM
My favorite pollinator! They are usually out earlier- it’s been a weird season. Great Golden Digger wasps are beautiful!! Shown on that amazing powerhouse pycnanthemum muticum (mountain mint) #nativeplants #nativepollinators #bloomscrolling
#homegrownnationalpark
#homegrownnationalpark
For some reason, I put lots of milkweed (three types) in my garden and yet the monarchs prefer the random ones that sprout in my lawn. I am so glad no mow 2025 continues. #nativepollinators #nativeplants
August 29, 2025 at 11:08 AM
For some reason, I put lots of milkweed (three types) in my garden and yet the monarchs prefer the random ones that sprout in my lawn. I am so glad no mow 2025 continues. #nativepollinators #nativeplants
Just another day, just another bee. Chelone lyonii ‘hot lips’ or pink turtlehead getting buzz pollinated #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark
August 27, 2025 at 10:28 AM
Just another day, just another bee. Chelone lyonii ‘hot lips’ or pink turtlehead getting buzz pollinated #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark
After a day in the office, here’s a video of a bee trying to squeeze into a white turtlehead (chelone glabra) bloom. #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #homegrownnationalpark
August 25, 2025 at 8:53 PM
After a day in the office, here’s a video of a bee trying to squeeze into a white turtlehead (chelone glabra) bloom. #nativeplants #bloomscrolling #homegrownnationalpark
Sunday afternoon bee butt-palooza. Native white turtlehead, ‘hot lips’ turtle head, blue lobelia and obedient plant are some favorites at this time of year. #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark
August 24, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Sunday afternoon bee butt-palooza. Native white turtlehead, ‘hot lips’ turtle head, blue lobelia and obedient plant are some favorites at this time of year. #nativeplants #nativepollinators #homegrownnationalpark
There were two monarchs in my yard this morning. One breezed off but the other stayed, resting on leaves and drinking nectar from favorites Joe Pye Weed (maculatum?) and rose milkweed. Keep planting- it made a difference to this tattered beauty #monarch #nativeplants
August 16, 2025 at 1:52 PM
There were two monarchs in my yard this morning. One breezed off but the other stayed, resting on leaves and drinking nectar from favorites Joe Pye Weed (maculatum?) and rose milkweed. Keep planting- it made a difference to this tattered beauty #monarch #nativeplants
I was having a bad day and solicitors knocked on my door. I was going to send them away but then I noticed the younger of the two couldn’t keep his eyes off the bees on shrubby St. John’s wort. No siding was purchased but a great conversation. Every plant matters and makes a difference #nativeplants
August 7, 2025 at 11:14 AM
I was having a bad day and solicitors knocked on my door. I was going to send them away but then I noticed the younger of the two couldn’t keep his eyes off the bees on shrubby St. John’s wort. No siding was purchased but a great conversation. Every plant matters and makes a difference #nativeplants
Just bloom strolling on a lovely Saturday. Love these beauties. Every plant helps #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark
August 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Just bloom strolling on a lovely Saturday. Love these beauties. Every plant helps #nativeplants #homegrownnationalpark
Is there anything cuter than resting bumblebees? Here is a montage of these adorable and amazing pollinators seeking refuge during this extreme heat in the northeast: blunt mountain mint, butterfly weed and swamp Milkweed #reducethelawn #nativeplants
July 30, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Is there anything cuter than resting bumblebees? Here is a montage of these adorable and amazing pollinators seeking refuge during this extreme heat in the northeast: blunt mountain mint, butterfly weed and swamp Milkweed #reducethelawn #nativeplants
I’m definitely a chaos gardener living by a plant Hippocratic oath-first do no harm. This means plants grow where they can and I seldom move a happy plant just to keep the yard ‘tidy’. Here’s asclepias incarnata growing by the curb being enjoyed by bumblebees. There’s always room #nativeplants
July 28, 2025 at 9:32 PM
I’m definitely a chaos gardener living by a plant Hippocratic oath-first do no harm. This means plants grow where they can and I seldom move a happy plant just to keep the yard ‘tidy’. Here’s asclepias incarnata growing by the curb being enjoyed by bumblebees. There’s always room #nativeplants
Finally the monarchs have arrived- the good kind! As always they show a strong preference for the butterfly weed I let grow in my front yard. No mow 2025 continues 😀 #nomorelawn #nativeplants #monarch
July 23, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Finally the monarchs have arrived- the good kind! As always they show a strong preference for the butterfly weed I let grow in my front yard. No mow 2025 continues 😀 #nomorelawn #nativeplants #monarch
Pollinators love Pycnanthemum virginianum (slender mountain mint) - it smells great if you place it along a path. #nativeplants
July 19, 2025 at 4:28 PM
Pollinators love Pycnanthemum virginianum (slender mountain mint) - it smells great if you place it along a path. #nativeplants
When it feels hopeless, I force myself to get up and out - out to the garden. These beautiful insects using my plants fuel my soul to keep going. Early sunflower, Shrubby St John’s Wort and Pearly Everlasting with American or Painted Lady caterpillar frass. #nativeplants #mentalhealth
July 14, 2025 at 11:25 AM
When it feels hopeless, I force myself to get up and out - out to the garden. These beautiful insects using my plants fuel my soul to keep going. Early sunflower, Shrubby St John’s Wort and Pearly Everlasting with American or Painted Lady caterpillar frass. #nativeplants #mentalhealth
The diversity in form and color of Asclepius Tuberosa (aka butterfly weed) is amazing. Plants understand diversity makes them stronger #nativeplants #plantdiversity
July 13, 2025 at 3:37 PM
The diversity in form and color of Asclepius Tuberosa (aka butterfly weed) is amazing. Plants understand diversity makes them stronger #nativeplants #plantdiversity
Today my heart is broken as mama and papa catbird are no longer singing to me. I will spare the details but I’m taking a deep breath and hoping that 2025 is done punching me in the face. Just breathe. #mentalhealth #homegrownnationalpark
July 11, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Today my heart is broken as mama and papa catbird are no longer singing to me. I will spare the details but I’m taking a deep breath and hoping that 2025 is done punching me in the face. Just breathe. #mentalhealth #homegrownnationalpark