A little older, slightly wiser

Join me in my next chapter as I try to source and plant mostly plants native to this very specific region. Zone 8b.

[laneynoir]

Fixed it.

[beggars-opera]

"touch grass" uh please get with the times, we are touching natural native plant gardens now, gently to not disturb the pollinators

[rythyme]

i was seeing all these little blue flowers everywhere and kept thinking "dang what are these bitches, i can't remember..." well guess what. they were fuckin forget-me-nots. can't believe i failed step fucking 1, the hot girls on iNaturalist are going to laugh at me and i'm gonna flunk out of hobby botany school.

[rythyme]

!!! Learn From My Humiliation!!! THESE ARE THE BITCHES!!!! DO NOT FORGET THEM !!!!

[deramin2]

[miscellaneous-reblog-blog]

ID: same image with the text "I forgor." End ID

[herpsandbirds]

Acorn Woodpecker (Melanerpes formicivorus), LEUCISTIC, family Picidae, order Piciformes, northern CA, USA

Photograph by Thy Pygmy Owl Tour

[elodieunderglass]

Thank you @isokratos !

[tggardens]

More hope-posting.

We had our trees trimmed in November. It was really necessary and they did a great job (no topping, everything followed the state's fire compliance rules), but they used leaf blowers at the end to clean up, and one of the big branches crashed down and took out one of my elderberry bushes. 😭

Well, we had 3 straight days of rain last week.

And my Creeping Snowberries are coming back! From bare sticks to being covered in tiny leaves again. (First pic)

And the Elderberry is even trying to come back! 🥰 I thought the roots didn't have enough time to establish, but apparently something made it through because look at that tiny little cutie! (Second pic) It'll probably be a few years behind its "siblings," but since these are supposed to get pretty big I doubt it matters in the long run.

[tggardens]

This same bush today, now a foot tall or slightly bigger.

[tggardens]

[siberiantrap]

the bog gave me a vision

[tggardens]

We got a bunch of snow yesterday, and I snapped some neat pics.

[liberaljane]

Digital illustration of an indigenous man with two braids wearing a jean jacket. There's text that reads, 'Columbus didn't discover anything.'

[foxes-in-love]

[tggardens]

Also the garlic and chives are absolutely *nuts.* I think it's going to be a pretty good harvest this year!

[tggardens]

Well hello, old friend.

[tggardens]

The daffodils that we got from my son's school are popping up, and we even have a flower!

[tggardens]

And two years later my Lenten Roses have finally bloomed.

[tggardens]

More hope-posting.

We had our trees trimmed in November. It was really necessary and they did a great job (no topping, everything followed the state's fire compliance rules), but they used leaf blowers at the end to clean up, and one of the big branches crashed down and took out one of my elderberry bushes. 😭

Well, we had 3 straight days of rain last week.

And my Creeping Snowberries are coming back! From bare sticks to being covered in tiny leaves again. (First pic)

And the Elderberry is even trying to come back! 🥰 I thought the roots didn't have enough time to establish, but apparently something made it through because look at that tiny little cutie! (Second pic) It'll probably be a few years behind its "siblings," but since these are supposed to get pretty big I doubt it matters in the long run.

[theplanthropologist]

Native plants blooming in the winter time at the San Joaquin Marsh Preserve’s visitor garden.

[kafka-esquire]

It’s gotten so fashionable on tumblr to hate on The Beatles but who else is going to eat rotten wood and contribute to soil fertility in complex forest ecosystems?