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Wikidgarden
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Destroying invasive plants, giving natives a chance to thrive. Enjoying 🦋 and plant chemistry. Wandering in hardwood hammocks in South Florida. ❤️ Art, lit, travel. Amateur in all.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 5h
Mentally ill.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 7h
Yes—native landscaping in South Florida is still too rare. And we are the most “invaded” part of the US—by both exotic invasive plants and animals.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 8h
How cool—spiky knees!
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 12h
I never tire of their magic—like tiny pink fireworks. 🩷
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 14h
Exactly.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 18h
Absolutely! ⬆️
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d
Your local chapter of the Florida Native Plant Society can be a huge help: www.fnps.org
Florida Native Plant Society (FNPS)
www.fnps.org
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d
Agreed! Here in Miami, the Conservation Team at Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is a great resource. Through their Native Plant Network they offer starter packs of free natives to homeowners, plus they refer to reputable native plant nurseries.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d
So I don’t intend to come across as instructive or correcting . . . just sharing a bit of my learning process. Common names of plants are confusing—like 5 different names for one plant! Scientific names—Latin binomials with genus + species—sound unfamiliar and weird, but at least they’re exact ID.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d
If only that bat species were more rare . . . . 😉
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d
🤷🏻‍♀️For me, butterfly gardening has been a huge learning process—like the butterflies are teaching how ecosystems work and leading me to a greater reverence for native plants and animals and the health and balance they create.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d
Sky Blue Cluster Vine, Jaquemontia penthantos, is a gorgeous, well-behaved, drought tolerant native that supports moths.
Skyblue clustervine - Florida Wildflower Foundation
Skyblue clustervine (Jacquemontia pentanthos) is an evergreen, twining vine with bright blue flowers that attract a variety of pollinators.
www.flawildflowers.org
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d
👋Hi there and Congrats on your butterfly garden—so many caterpillars!
Sky Vine, Thunbergia grandiflora, was one of my first plant purchases as a new Miami resident. The blue flowers are gorgeous! Over time, I found it a very thirsty exotic without much value to local insects.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 1d
Squirrel think=😄🤎
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 2d
😢
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 2d
#SouthFlorida ☺️
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 2d
If you fit into a curled leaf, it makes a dreamy wind shelter.
#SquirrelTreeFrog #Naturalists #Habitat #EvergladesNationslPark #Frogs #SoithFlorida
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 2d
Today started rainy but turned beautiful (if breezy) for butterfly hunting. In its small, drab way, this Ocola Skipper drinking nectar stole my 💚. What a face.
#Butterflies #Habitat #Rewild #NativePlants #Insects
Surrounded by green leaves and blades of grass, at the lavender inflorescence of Porterweed, a small brown butterfly sits with proboscis extended. Its large, dark eye and wide, fuzzy head are oriented toward the viewer.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 2d
Agree.
Predictive text 🤷🏻‍♀️
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 3d
Exposing them ourselves has what effect? And what reach? And what ability to enforce consequences?
Yes, I want our government to function as it should, so that “the power structures” you refer to can be exposed and reformed.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 3d
These same emails include content proving Gillian Maxwell’s most recent statements about what she knew and observed to be lies.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 3d
“Systems that created the pedophile ring” and individuals that participated should be exposed. The House Oversight Committee has released a valuable set of emails confirming, for instance, that Andrew Windsor and Sarah Ferguson continued “friendships” with Epstein after his conviction.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 3d
Financial records will be useful! Also email records in which the perpetrators incriminate themselves. This kind of documentation further supports the victims and shields them from bad faith accusations of “lying” and “attention seeking” etc.
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 3d
This ⬆️
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Wikidgarden @wikidgarden.bsky.social · 3d
Maybe the most difficult North American nut to process—and so worth it.
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