Ellen Qualls
@ellenqualls.bsky.social
Offering an awkward blend of democracy and nature content.
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American split screen this Thanksgiving:
Macy’s crowd goes wild for the Sesame Street float … while fewer children will get to see it as the evil dictator’s cuts to public stations hit home.
We all need Big Bird energy this year!
Macy’s crowd goes wild for the Sesame Street float … while fewer children will get to see it as the evil dictator’s cuts to public stations hit home.
We all need Big Bird energy this year!
November 27, 2025 at 3:00 PM
American split screen this Thanksgiving:
Macy’s crowd goes wild for the Sesame Street float … while fewer children will get to see it as the evil dictator’s cuts to public stations hit home.
We all need Big Bird energy this year!
Macy’s crowd goes wild for the Sesame Street float … while fewer children will get to see it as the evil dictator’s cuts to public stations hit home.
We all need Big Bird energy this year!
If you don’t have any Northern Sea Oats near a window, get one in the ground or a container now! 🌱 They provide 365 days of zen.
Also the larval host for 3 Skipper butterflies and seed provider for birds and small mammals.
Also the larval host for 3 Skipper butterflies and seed provider for birds and small mammals.
October 19, 2025 at 6:23 PM
If you don’t have any Northern Sea Oats near a window, get one in the ground or a container now! 🌱 They provide 365 days of zen.
Also the larval host for 3 Skipper butterflies and seed provider for birds and small mammals.
Also the larval host for 3 Skipper butterflies and seed provider for birds and small mammals.
I love a good carved pumpkin, but if people spent 1/10 of what they spend on “seasonal decor” and “lawn maintenance” on planting and watering a few native 🌳shrubs and trees🍃, imagine the 🌱biodiversity paradise we’d live in.
October 7, 2025 at 4:37 PM
I love a good carved pumpkin, but if people spent 1/10 of what they spend on “seasonal decor” and “lawn maintenance” on planting and watering a few native 🌳shrubs and trees🍃, imagine the 🌱biodiversity paradise we’d live in.
In my first real year of identifying volunteer native plants that I won’t “weed,” this bushy 🌱 plant that I think is a Small White Aster grew and grew, and finally bloomed this past week with what must be 800 tiny flowers.
I just counted about 8 different species of pollinators 🦋. It’s rockin’!
I just counted about 8 different species of pollinators 🦋. It’s rockin’!
October 1, 2025 at 7:03 PM
In my first real year of identifying volunteer native plants that I won’t “weed,” this bushy 🌱 plant that I think is a Small White Aster grew and grew, and finally bloomed this past week with what must be 800 tiny flowers.
I just counted about 8 different species of pollinators 🦋. It’s rockin’!
I just counted about 8 different species of pollinators 🦋. It’s rockin’!
Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware collects, develops, and tests particularly good-looking cultivars of useful plants to make sure they’re still useful to nature.
One of their standouts is Solidago sphacelata ‘Golden Fleece’. We planted these 2 years ago.
And all the 🐝 bumblebees say yasss. 🌱
One of their standouts is Solidago sphacelata ‘Golden Fleece’. We planted these 2 years ago.
And all the 🐝 bumblebees say yasss. 🌱
September 26, 2025 at 8:35 PM
Mt. Cuba Center in Delaware collects, develops, and tests particularly good-looking cultivars of useful plants to make sure they’re still useful to nature.
One of their standouts is Solidago sphacelata ‘Golden Fleece’. We planted these 2 years ago.
And all the 🐝 bumblebees say yasss. 🌱
One of their standouts is Solidago sphacelata ‘Golden Fleece’. We planted these 2 years ago.
And all the 🐝 bumblebees say yasss. 🌱
The internet suggests this is Sparassis spathulata growing under our giant Chestnut Oak. First time I’ve seen one here. 🌱
We knew the forest has a brain, but this is just showing off!
Source: ultimate-mushroom.com/edible/221-s...
We knew the forest has a brain, but this is just showing off!
Source: ultimate-mushroom.com/edible/221-s...
September 21, 2025 at 4:05 PM
The internet suggests this is Sparassis spathulata growing under our giant Chestnut Oak. First time I’ve seen one here. 🌱
We knew the forest has a brain, but this is just showing off!
Source: ultimate-mushroom.com/edible/221-s...
We knew the forest has a brain, but this is just showing off!
Source: ultimate-mushroom.com/edible/221-s...
August 21, 2025 at 10:44 PM
Toronto Star giving big 🌮Taco Tuesday🌮 energy on Saturday morning
July 12, 2025 at 2:59 PM
Toronto Star giving big 🌮Taco Tuesday🌮 energy on Saturday morning
without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
July 4, 2025 at 1:21 PM
without downloading any new pics, where are you mentally?
A Rorschach test for the 🌱 gardening feed!
If you’re gardening for nature, this is welcome proof that letting the volunteer redbud spring up in that bed was a good thing. 🐝🐝🐝
If you’re gardening for nature, this is welcome proof that letting the volunteer redbud spring up in that bed was a good thing. 🐝🐝🐝
July 1, 2025 at 1:21 PM
A Rorschach test for the 🌱 gardening feed!
If you’re gardening for nature, this is welcome proof that letting the volunteer redbud spring up in that bed was a good thing. 🐝🐝🐝
If you’re gardening for nature, this is welcome proof that letting the volunteer redbud spring up in that bed was a good thing. 🐝🐝🐝
It really is a death cult.
May 29, 2025 at 2:11 PM
It really is a death cult.
I was struggling with my spent daffodil leaves 🌱 until my scrunchie came to the rescue so I could twine them.
Probably not how @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social does it!
Probably not how @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social does it!
May 16, 2025 at 6:09 PM
I was struggling with my spent daffodil leaves 🌱 until my scrunchie came to the rescue so I could twine them.
Probably not how @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social does it!
Probably not how @gardenersworldmag.bsky.social does it!
When you sneak that cherry tomato plant into your front garden bed and wait for neighbors to notice you’re actually farming 🌱
May 13, 2025 at 1:14 PM
When you sneak that cherry tomato plant into your front garden bed and wait for neighbors to notice you’re actually farming 🌱
To be clear on how 🍌s, I also added the Northern Parula to my life list in the same 5 minutes. And no big, saw a Black and White Warbler too. 🌱
May 3, 2025 at 4:45 PM
To be clear on how 🍌s, I also added the Northern Parula to my life list in the same 5 minutes. And no big, saw a Black and White Warbler too. 🌱
Oh hey 🌱 rare Chestnut-sided Warbler bathing so hard he almost falls over the waterfall!
It’s a bananas birding day here.
It’s a bananas birding day here.
May 3, 2025 at 3:58 PM
Oh hey 🌱 rare Chestnut-sided Warbler bathing so hard he almost falls over the waterfall!
It’s a bananas birding day here.
It’s a bananas birding day here.
This is a nice Wild Yam! 🌱
April 27, 2025 at 8:35 PM
This is a nice Wild Yam! 🌱
This is a nice Wild Yam!
April 27, 2025 at 8:34 PM
This is a nice Wild Yam!
Here’s a nice Mayapple.🌱
Caterpillar host for the Variegated Fritillary butterfly, as well as several moth and sawfly species. Its nectar-rich flowers attract bumblebees, miner bees and carpenter bees, while its berries are eagerly consumed by box turtles, opossums, skunks and raccoons!
Caterpillar host for the Variegated Fritillary butterfly, as well as several moth and sawfly species. Its nectar-rich flowers attract bumblebees, miner bees and carpenter bees, while its berries are eagerly consumed by box turtles, opossums, skunks and raccoons!
April 22, 2025 at 12:54 PM
Here’s a nice Mayapple.🌱
Caterpillar host for the Variegated Fritillary butterfly, as well as several moth and sawfly species. Its nectar-rich flowers attract bumblebees, miner bees and carpenter bees, while its berries are eagerly consumed by box turtles, opossums, skunks and raccoons!
Caterpillar host for the Variegated Fritillary butterfly, as well as several moth and sawfly species. Its nectar-rich flowers attract bumblebees, miner bees and carpenter bees, while its berries are eagerly consumed by box turtles, opossums, skunks and raccoons!
Discovering wasp galls on a young 🌱 white oak tree, which beautifully color coordinate with the non-native azalea, is the moment where family text chain says “oooh pretty!” and then “wait, wasps?” and then you have to say “I’ve got a podcast that explains why this is spectacular!” #iamjoegardener
April 21, 2025 at 2:44 AM
Discovering wasp galls on a young 🌱 white oak tree, which beautifully color coordinate with the non-native azalea, is the moment where family text chain says “oooh pretty!” and then “wait, wasps?” and then you have to say “I’ve got a podcast that explains why this is spectacular!” #iamjoegardener
When you have to prune a big azalea branch 🌱 because it’s fallen into the pathway to the English Ivy removal project!
April 19, 2025 at 9:15 PM
When you have to prune a big azalea branch 🌱 because it’s fallen into the pathway to the English Ivy removal project!
Spotted this about 2 miles from my house and whipped around the block to come back and get a better look at the 🌱whole garden.🌱
Then I realized that’s probably what pollinators do too.
homegrownnationalpark.org
Then I realized that’s probably what pollinators do too.
homegrownnationalpark.org
April 17, 2025 at 9:26 PM
Spotted this about 2 miles from my house and whipped around the block to come back and get a better look at the 🌱whole garden.🌱
Then I realized that’s probably what pollinators do too.
homegrownnationalpark.org
Then I realized that’s probably what pollinators do too.
homegrownnationalpark.org
Rhododendron periclymenoides, the native pink azalea, showing off in Monticello Park in Alexandria, Virginia. 🌱
April 12, 2025 at 9:02 PM
Rhododendron periclymenoides, the native pink azalea, showing off in Monticello Park in Alexandria, Virginia. 🌱
Non-native Miscanthus grass monster successfully removed after 3 years of dawdling over it. A broad fork was used. 🌱💪
April 6, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Non-native Miscanthus grass monster successfully removed after 3 years of dawdling over it. A broad fork was used. 🌱💪