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Hunter Lindsay May 13, 2025

After two years of growth from seed, Viola pedatifida—commonly known as the Prairie Violet—is flowering in my garden for the first time!

#ViolaPedatifida #PrairieViolet #NativeFlora #PrairiePlants #NativePlantGardening #BotanyInTheGarden #PollinatorSupport #GrowNativePlants #MidwestPrairie #ColdStratification #FromSeedToBloom #Minnesota

Stephen Weigand Aug 17, 2024

I believe this picture is of a rusty patched bumble bee (bombus affinus). Other family members have documented these in our garden. The photo isn’t great but it’s the best I could get and I wanted to share that regular yards with native plants can provide habitat for endangered species. The cliche is true that if you build it they will come. (In our yard the big draw is joe pye weed.) #BumbleBees, #Minnesota, #NativeBees, #PrairiePlants

Stephen Weigand Jul 22, 2023

Apparently this is verbena stricta which I need to try in my SE Minnesota home garden. I didn’t know the plant but my iPhone Photos app looked it up. I have never tried it and hope it doesn’t make me an #AI guy. #PrairiePlants #BloomScrolling #NativePlants

Sisyphus with a Hat Jul 18, 2023

A clay-coloured sparrow sampling the local delicacies along the Meewasin, in this case the berries of the Red Osier dogwood.

#meewasin #yxe #claycolouredsparrow #sparrows #birds #birdwatching #birding #birdphotography #prairebirds #dogwood #nativeplants #prairieplants

Sisyphus with a Hat Jul 13, 2023

The broadleaf arrowhead (Sagittaria latifolia) in my pond is flowering.

#nativeplants #prairieplants #flowers #FlowerPhotography #gardening #ponds #gardenponds #wildlifegardening #yxe

Sisyphus with a Hat Jun 17, 2023

The first of my native Anise hyssop plants (Agastache foeniculum), has started to bloom.

#nativeplants #prairieplants #prairieflowers #hyssop #wildlifegardening #FlowerPhotography #gardening

Sisyphus with a Hat Jun 10, 2023

My harebells, Campanula rotundifolia, a native here, is flowering.

#nativeplants #prairieplants #FlowerPhotography #harebells

Sisyphus with a Hat May 5, 2023

Yesterday became native plant day: First, my order of plugs from "Wild About Flowers" out in Okotoks, AB arrived - including giant hyssop, prairie sagewort, larkspur, dotted blazing star, blue beard tongue, spike goldenrod and marsh violet.

Then I drove to a small aquatic plant nursery near Grandora, SK to get my arrowheads and Alaskan Iris.

A good day!

#nativeplants #wildlifegardening #gardening #prairiegardens #flowers #waterplants #arrowheads #iris #sagewort #beardtongue #larkspur #yxe #Alberta #Saskatchewan #prairieplants