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rustyiris.bsky.social
🌺IRiS🌈
@rustyiris.bsky.social
Wild Woman of the woods 🇨🇦 Homesteading, Gardening, Foraging, Plants, Animals, Fungi, Nature.
Interested in lots of things.
Let's trade garden seeds! 📨🌱💚
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Very pretty example of a ghost flower, a real fungi friend, it gets it's nutrients from the mycilia of the Russula mushroom.

#Flowers 🌿🌱 #nature #fungifriends
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Salut @john-y-cash.bsky.social
🙏J'espère que tu ne m'en voudras pas, je me suis inspirée d'une de tes photos (super série de monochromes 🤩)

Avec @tinekerdraon.bsky.social

Libre interprétation de "Sur les pavés, la foule"
Encre de Chine A5
Dessin à la plume 12/2025
#inkArt #illustration #scape
December 12, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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December 12, 2025 at 10:37 PM
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December 12, 2025 at 1:30 PM
December 13, 2025 at 12:47 PM
Late season Lupins seen on Oct 21

#Flowers #BloomScrolling #nature
December 7, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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Three species of slime mold.

Top (black): Metatrichia floriformis
Middle (orange): Oligonema sp.
Bottom (brown): Trichia varia

#slimemold #myxomycetes #fungifriends
December 5, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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Standing amongst nature’s giants puts things in perspective. From an epic hike with @smartone.bsky.social earlier this year. #ForestFriday #Forests #Trees #Hiking #Nature #Photography #PNW #Redwoods #GoOutside #Breathe #Notice #Don’tGiveUp
December 5, 2025 at 4:44 PM
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🌝 Happy Cold Moon 🌝

❄️ I'm feeling good about sending out little pieces of holiday art today! So fun ✨

🎄 This year, I experimented with embroidering stars on the cards

I've always loved ✨ fun ✨ mail

#HolidayCards #SaveTheUSPS #artsky #crafts #witchsky
December 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
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 🌱🍄🙃😂
December 4, 2025 at 3:12 PM
December 1, 2025 at 5:30 PM
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Giant Red Amaranth like growing edible velvet, grows well with sunflowers, and is so versatile, eat cooked or raw like lettuce or so I spinach, use the seed heads whole fresh or dried in bread or cakes, also in tea. Adding colour

#Sunflowers #GardeningFeed 🌱🌿🌲 #Nature #flowers #myGarden #seedSwap
February 28, 2025 at 10:46 AM
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Fun Seeds mail, I sent to a pal in Europe
I pack it up in such a way to qualify for letter mail prices.

Let's trade seeds, and build biodiversity together!🌱💚
I could send the small one like this to almost anywhere in the world, within Canada I can send more, even Sunchoke tubers

#SeedSwap #seeds
February 26, 2025 at 12:27 PM
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Garden huckleberry/Solanum scabrum native to Africa in solanaceae family. Intense purple-black berries high in antioxidants, with little sweetness, Quick-maturing annual or perennial produces masses of fruit in a short season.

#SeedSwap #seeds #funfruit #gardeningFeed 🌱 #growYourOwn #fruit #nature
February 13, 2025 at 9:07 PM
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I💚mail, crafting,sending&receiving it,especially when seeds are involved.
Let's trade seeds, and build biodiversity together!
I can send Sunchokes within Canada.
This package is a small version going across the Atlantic&includes a poetry chapbook see info in reply.
#SeedsSwap #seeds #penpals #mail
January 30, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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Bright pink crabapples. This tree was so odd: the crabapples were growing on short spurs all over the branches, so that it looked like a bright pink knobby mossy hedgehog tree.
#Photography #SeattleWashington #SeattleAutumn #StreetTrees #Mosses #Lichen #MapleLeafNeighborhood
November 25, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Some pretty tasty false Chanterelles mushrooms

#Mushrooms #Nature #fungifriends 🌱🍄
November 25, 2025 at 12:17 PM
Basking in the gleam of these pretty pink pickled turnips
With beets

#fromMyGarden #HomeMade #Homesteading 🌱💜
November 24, 2025 at 3:51 PM
Crystalline ICY lichens

#Nature #Lichens #fungifriends 🍄🌱
November 24, 2025 at 3:46 PM
This plant is known as Morelle di Balbis and Fire and Ice

#Sunrise #nature #myGarden
October 30, 2025 at 12:18 PM
Some lovely oyster mushrooms growing on a mossy log in the Autumn woods

#FungiFriday #Nature #mushrooms 🍄🌱
October 24, 2025 at 7:05 PM
Some brick tops, grateful to see some mushrooms on Sept 19th

#Nature #Mushrooms 🌱🍄
October 15, 2025 at 10:43 AM
Some tiny honey mushrooms, moss, and chicken

#Mushrooms #chickens #Nature #homesteading 🍄🐓🐔🐦🌱
October 12, 2025 at 11:54 AM
Zinnia, and Katydid

#bloomScrolling #bugSky #nature 🌱
October 11, 2025 at 11:54 PM
💜🌱 So cool Morelle di balbis/Litchi tomato with it's prickles survives overnight frosts after most others in the Solanaceae family are tottaly finished🌱

#Flowers #nature #gardening
October 7, 2025 at 7:31 PM
The Bluejays are running the yard like pretty thugs, getting fat some seeds around
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#letsGoBluejays #Birds #nature
October 2, 2025 at 12:46 PM