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For a while last year I worked on an “Air Quality Drive-Through Landscape Project.” Due to lack of funding & support it has fallen by the wayside. But as a volunteer I learned some very interesting things during my research and prepared some field drawings utilizing mostly #NativePlants.🧵/1 🌿🌱
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Grocery store in Anta, Peru.
🍽️ Explore mushrooms around the country throughout September. It's National Mushroom Month!

Week One (September 1-4): Kick off National Mushroom Month!
Week Two (September 5-11): Northeast
Week Three (September 12-18): Midwest
Week Four (September 19-25): West
Week Five (September 26-30): South
Your Roadmap to Celebrating National Mushroom Month | Mushroom Council
This National Mushroom Month we are exploring and showcasing both where and how people are sharing their love and curiosity for mushrooms.
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🍽️ September is National Mushroom Month! What better way than to celebrate than with a Mushroom Forest Focaccia? As a garden designer, I often bring my botanical interests into the kitchen! #gardenscape #mushrooms
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Happy National Mushroom Month! The entire month of September is a celebration of all things fungi. Learn different ways to cook with mushrooms, explore mycology, and try new varieties this month. ❤️🍄❤️
🌿🌱Lilium michauxii (synonym: Lilium carolinianum), official wildflower of North Carolina, noted for its heady fragrance. Named for Andre Michaux, a noted 18th Century naturalist and explorer of the Southeastern United States. #NativePlants
🌱🌿 Hymenocallis coronaria (cahaba lily, catawba lily, shoal lily, shoal spider lily) native only to AL, GA, SC, parts of NC. Under consideration of the Endangered Species Act. Only 50 populations left in the 3 states. A significant population remains in the Broad River, GA. #NativePlants #SciArt
🌱August bloomer: Lycoris x straminea 'Caldwell's Original', a fall-foliage emerging hybrid. #lycoris
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Peaches. Prunus persica cultivars including nectarines and some wild relatives like davids’peach P. davidiana, the rare fergana-peach P. ferganensis and hybrids to the almond; P. x amygdalopersica.

Photographed with the help of the INRAE peach collection.
Current obsession (well one of them anyway): Lithops aka stone succulents. Better than gemstones in a jewelry box. #Lithops #StoneSucculents
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Poisonous plant and fungi colorized wood engravings by Scottish artist Jonathan Johnstone, 1855.
NEW. Lavandula stoechas 'La Diva Big Night' is the first cross between Spanish and English Lavender, with especially good heat and humidity tolerance. Great news for those of us in the South. It's also hardy to Zone 6. 🌱🌿 #herbs #herbgarden
Lavandula La Diva Big Night 4in Spanish Lavender
La Diva Big Night Spanish Lavender. Dark purple flowers with lighter purple bracts in spring and summer. Evergreen perennial. Zones 6-9. Full sun. 10-14 in. tall and 12-24 in. wide.
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Cape Fuchsia (Phygelius) with its tubular blossoms attracts butterflies and hummingbirds. "Phygelius" comes from the Greek word "phyge", meaning flight or avoidance, "in consequence of its having so long escaped the research of botanists" according to W.J. Hooker (1855). Native to South Africa. 🌱🌿
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Goodbye Redwood Forest -- The blue areas are what EO 14225 has marked for deforestation. These are old growth forests, protected by law.
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A bit of yellow for the #NativePlants feed 🌱 - Yellow wild indigo (Baptisia tinctoria) in bloom
Rhododendron 'Abbey's Re-view' is a prolific spring bloomer... and is supposed to rebloom in the fall, but I've never had that happen. However, it IS spectacular in bloom, also heat and drought tolerant and so recognized by the American Rhododendron Society, Rhododendron of the Year Award 2018.🌱🌿
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Indigofera suffruticosa 🌱🌿 was popular as a highly prized source of blue dye in the 17th and 18th centuries where it still grows wild on the north end of Georgia’s Ossabaw Island at North End Plantation, the site of a colonial-era indigo plantation. History in AltText.
Scots Pine from the book Wurzelatlas, a study on root research by Lore Kutschera, Erwin Lichtenegger and Monika Sobotik, all members of the Austrian Pflanzensoziologische Institut. 🌿🌱

More:
doorofperception.com/2022/11/wurz...
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🌱Ah! The large red trillium I missed the other day… it was lurking underneath the acanthus.
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Young Peregrine out on Bodmin moor today. Very rarely see them here, so bit of a treat.
#UKWildlife #Birds #Birding #birdphotography #nature
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To design a garden that supports the greatest number and diversity of pollinators, don’t worry about what your neighbors are doing or not doing. Just focus on planting different kinds of flowers – and lots of them.
Dreaming of spring gardening? Bees and other pollinators like a variety of flowers
For those thinking ahead to spring gardening, a biologist explains what to focus on when designing a garden with pollinators in mind and what not to worry about.
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'tis the season.
Left: Narcissus Kedron, bred by Willis Wheeler, a mid 20th century daffodil breeder and officer in the American Daffodil Association. Right: Narcissus Sailboat is a William Pannill award-winner. Both produce up to 3 blooms per stem, and perform well in the Southeast. 🌱🌿
March 21. 🌱🌿
Happy International Day of Forests
May the forest be with you.