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Flora @Ucanbeenative
@ucanbeenative.bsky.social
Native Plants Advocate 🐝 | Master Gardener | Author/Illustrator ✨ Magic & Kitchen Witchery | Lover of 🍟, Gin 🍸, Thrifting, 📚.

Whether it's smashing garlic or The Patriarchy, count me IN!

Check out my books at: https://amzn.to/3WiCilt
Native plants + urban landscape = big impact!
#gardening
June 16, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Check out Mary Englebreit’s IG feed for the file download if u need a sign today! And please be safe. @maryengelbreit.bsky.social
Thanks Mary! ❤️❤️🇺🇸
#nokings #goodtrouble #nokingsprotest
June 14, 2025 at 1:57 PM
The world is not making sense to me.

My garden does. It comforts me, hope it comforts u a little bit. And because punching nazis and fascists is frowned upon.
#gardening
June 13, 2025 at 1:25 AM
Poppies y’all!
#gardening
June 5, 2025 at 12:41 AM
Milkweed, a misunderstood plant, yet so important to Monarch butterflies. These three are staples in my gardens. How about you!? #gardening
June 4, 2025 at 11:34 PM
Bloomscroll with some of my irises!
#gardening
May 25, 2025 at 8:48 PM
Check out my new book, teaching littles how to count among the garden blooms! Hardcover coming soon. Now on Amazon but soon other retailers & libraries.
Check it out! Thanx for your support. 🙏 a.co/d/9eWTakH
#gardening #selfpublisher #kidlit
May 23, 2025 at 7:02 PM
Hanging at garfield park conservatory answering garden questions with master gardeners of cook county. A Chicago treasure. #gardening
May 17, 2025 at 5:47 PM
Bunnies driving u crazy? Seedlings not getting a chance? I usually use chicken wire to make small cages. But ouch my fingers! Use wire baskets & the dollar tree, like a cloche. Keep in place w/a landscape liner pin. Once plants get established U can take them off. Easy, cheap & reusable #gardening
May 13, 2025 at 12:23 AM
Seed check and watering!
#gardeningsky
May 10, 2025 at 1:13 AM
My son was in town for a very quiet weekend w/us. He is a recent SVA animation grad. We celebrated Easter by cozily watching Flow-beautiful message of how diversity, tenacity, togetherness & sacrifice is how we survive & thrive. No dialogue-Just beautiful storytelling. It was good. #flow #animate
April 21, 2025 at 1:19 PM
Been home sick w/bad bronchial infection. But grabbed some pretty shots of Chicago spring blooms on my way home to bed, before feeling like death.
Hope springs. #chicagogardens #gardening
April 17, 2025 at 4:34 PM
Did a walk about, jug check, rose pruning & Bgan spring seeds in jugs. Gardening brings control back & growing food & preserving it, is what generations B4 us did, and we can too.
- thrift stores 4 pots/containers
- seed swaps & free libraries
- join a garden club
#resistancegarden
April 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
Meet Maude, Louise’s sister. We split our time between the city & country. Maude: M for Michigan, named after my favorite, brassy feminist TV sitcom character. English muffin dough is doing it’s first bulk ferment. @kingarthurbaking.bsky.social recipe. More involved than discard recipe🤞 #sourdough
March 23, 2025 at 2:17 PM
Thank u for sharing this whole thread, giving me hope. ❤️ Ironically I just visited & picked up my special order book in town, took a week-didnt care. But look how beautifully my order was packaged?! This area is purple, and the shop is an inclusive island for young adults in a small town in SW MI.
March 22, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Me during this current “find out phase”. #fafo
March 22, 2025 at 6:07 PM
#sourdough discard grissini came out pretty good. Super easy. Next time I’ll add herbs. Maybe more parm? Bake 5 min less.
March 22, 2025 at 12:36 AM
We are @ SW MI restaurant. Couple next to us scowls as I show hubs recent Stephen King posts on Bluesky. Their food comes, they hold hands & pray. We hear them asking God to save her govt. job hoping not to be fired next week. Kept asking “Why is he doing this?” to each other. The find out phase.
March 21, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Seed jug check! I have wild indigo seedlings this early!? #seeds #seedsowing #winterseedsowing #gardening #nativeplants
March 19, 2025 at 12:45 AM
On a positive note on my sourdough exploits, I think I nailed it finally! Whole Wheat Boule. Niw I need to improve my scoring skills. Do u reuse your lame blade? How many times before it’s dull? #sourdoughbeginner #baking #sourdoughbread
March 16, 2025 at 5:17 PM
Sourdough discard english muffins. Not sure what is happening, but I lost my nooks and crannies. 🤔 Same recipe. Atleast I thought it was. Just made them bigger. So re-evaluating. Down the rabbit hole I go again. 🥖 #sourdoughbeginner #sourdoughdiscard #baking
March 16, 2025 at 3:00 PM
My response to magas from now on:
March 12, 2025 at 11:55 PM
#sourdough people.
😍
March 12, 2025 at 11:52 PM
Another sad day in our new reality.
#epa #savetheplant #eparollbacks
March 12, 2025 at 9:40 PM
W/ first 65 deg day of 2025, hubs & I checked out the @kalamazoonaturecenter, lovely facility w/exhibits & extensive trails. Things R just starting to come up. Can’t wait to go back see some blooms! 😍
#woodlandwalk #springnatives #gardening
1 wood aster
2 elf cups (fungi)
3 Hepatica
4 log
March 10, 2025 at 8:12 PM