Tiny Urban Wilderness

Midwest IA/IL. elderly Latina. Nature nerd. One acre mid-city. Certified wildlife habitat. Plant native plants to your area. Buy straight native plants online, garden stores are usually crap. I follow back with @sadderbutwisergirrl, this is a secondary account. On Tiktok, YouTube, and Instagram too.

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Some flowers, a few insects, and a John Denver song that stirs the soul.

[kittyit]

look outside. do you see a tree? it’s time to create a SOFT LANDING!

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I was out for a walk in the neighborhood this morning when I heard a bird sound I had not noticed before. Merlin ID thinks it’s a yellow billed cuckoo. How cool is that?

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Meet the women protecting the last remaining gorillas in Nigeria: 'Our men have failed to stop the threats'

The successes of the pioneering women’s collectives have inspired the formation of similar initiatives in other villages surrounding the san

Women are doing it for themselves. And others.

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I couldn’t help it. They’re near the end of their time at the nursery. Do you want them to go unadopted and die? They were 50% off. Nobody in my part of town wants native plants so it’s up to me to support the local plant store. It wasn’t my fault, I swear!

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Campanula rapunculoides, creeping bellflower, is highly invasive. Tall Bellflower, Campanulastrum americanum, is a native plant that pollinators love. It grows naturally in my yard popping up in random locations.

[xalatath]

IMPORTANT

[vhsdruid]

wildlife of the great plains

[geopsych]

Now blooming in the garden: Allegheny monkeyflower, Mimulus ringens.

[summerswages]

a small fortune

of teasel

and butterflies

[krimellowarden]

People really out here acting like global warming is still an “in the future” problem when people are overheating to death by the thousands right now.

[geopsych]

Another picture from the woods, with black cohosh flowers high on their almost invisible stems like ghosts, or like their common name fairy candles

[forestdeity]

seeing wildflowers and birds and critters and sunsets really can keep you going

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Both of these sounds are so cool.

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What an amazing conservation organization! International Crane Foundation does remarkable work. 🪶 The native plants were just as much of an attraction for me!! #cranes #birds #birdsoftiktok #conservation

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I’ve been waiting for years to finally see one of these! I believe this is a moth called a Hummingbird Clearwing (Hemaris thysbe). Music: A sip of small joy by onsradio #homegrownnationalpark #hummingbirdmoth

[electricponymouse]

pretty compass plant I saw on my walk today! they can live for up to 100 years and grow 8+ feet tall if given the right conditions :)