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.

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’!

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. 🌱

Always look up

#birds 🦅

Oh hey 🌱 rare Chestnut-sided Warbler bathing so hard he almost falls over the waterfall!

It’s a bananas birding day here.