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Happy First Day of SPRING!!
Cannot wait to get back into gardening SOON!!!!
This is how I invest in my gardening company in the winter.
My body is my tool, and being over 40 means I need to work harder than I used to to keep it sharp so I can hit the ground running in the spring. This is my commitment to myself and my clients, and so I can do the important work I need to in support of Mother Earth.
#feelingstrong #115pounddeadlift #mybodyismyincome
First winter for this lovely garden that I built last year. I am so in love with the warm shades, and the shapes and movement of the #littlebluestem cast on the background of old grey cedar stumps, grey skies, and icy cold snow. #winterinterest #nativeplantsontario #grownative
Plant regenerative gardens, ones that support life on earth, not destroy it. #nativeflora #pollinatorgardening #forthebirds #beefriendly #monarchbutterflies #gardeningforbodiversity #forthebees #forthebeesandbutterflies #grownative #grownativeplants #supportlife #biodiversity #abundance #beauty #arstheticpleasure #ecologicalfunction #ediblefusion #ecogardendesign #ecogardening #fornaturegardening #fornaturegardeningandlandcare
A massive design job in the bag for a food forest pollinator garden.
#wintergardenwork #pollinatorgarden #designdesigndesign #frenchcurving
One of many reasons not to cut everything back in the garden before winter.
It is such a joy to see how winter plays with the structures of last year's growth. #virginiamountainmint #wintergarden #nativeplantsofontario #ontarionativeplants #fornaturegardening #winterbeauty #gardeningfornaturr
#glaminthegarden winter edition.
To showcase how glamorous gardening can be. To showcase the beauty of a winter garden (look at those beautiful grasses at the Peterborough Depave!). And to showcase how glamorous your local Peterborough gardening folks can be, eventhough most of the time we are covered in the earth we tend.
Making fun on these long dreary days of winter.
Tune in for glam in the garden in every season this year!
@carbonwise.landscapedesign @threesistersptbo @handinglovegardening @fornature_gardening
#peterboroughentreprenurs #localgardeners #gardenersofpeterborough #gardenersofinstagram #gardeningfornature #gardeningforbiodiversity #beautifytheearth #businessessupportingbusinesses #letsgettogetherandfeelalright
Designing the dreary days of winter away 😍.
This one has me particularly excited. It's a series of pollinator gardens to go in an opening around a swimming pond in a food forest. So dreamy!!
Letting some veggies like brocolli go to flower and seed makes for some wonderful fall forage for sleepy, cold bees like these ones that spent Monday night riggght there. #veggieflowers #broccoli #VeggieTales #permaculture #gardeningforsustainance #gardeningforbiodiversity #gardeningforsustainability #gardeningforwildlife #pollinatorgardening #gardeningfornature #beehappy
Midterm exams @flemingcollege look like this sometimes. Beautiful week in the woods!
#ecology #frostcampus #schoolofenvironmentalandnaturalresourcesciences #lindsayontario #flemingcollege #soilscience #ecosystemmanagement #barredowl
Harvesting knife making short work of the grand hosta clean-up. In previous years I used secateurs, but my wrist couldn't take it anymore.
P.s. I don't cut many things back in the fall, but hostas get mingy! If it were my own garden, I would leave them until they dessicate enough that the leaves just pull off easily, but in client gardens, scheduling does not allow the wait. Also, things that look nasty in the winter get cut back, but leaving a good 4-6" of the stem for stem-nestinging pollinators to use in the next growing season. The fresh foliage will soon disguise these in the spring.
#gardentips #limitfallcleanup #naturalgardeningtechniques #gardeningfornature #fallcleanup
The For Nature trailer is in-style with the trees this time of year.
"Ghost ferns" - as ferns senesce into dormancy in the autumn, the deterioration of their Chlorophyll causes some of them to take on a ghostly appearance. Have you seen any ghost ferns yet this fall?
#senescence #autumninontario #nativefloraofontario #nativeplantsofontario #fernsofontario #fernlove #frostcampus #Halloween plants
A gorgeous day to garden in Peteborough!
New England Aster and Rudbeckia triloba (not black-eyed Susan, rather brown-eyed Susan, has smaller flowers) come in as "weeds" (aka volunteers)in one of my client's gardens. I selectively let some of them stay all summer through for this autumn reward! The pollinators are very happy about that too, as they're are few other food sources around for them right now.
When #gardeningfornature consider your garden from the perspective of the wild ones, large and small. Is there somerthing for everyone? Is there an offering at all times of year?
Grow food, connect with the land. Feel the joy!!
Something for the wildlife and pollinators, and sormething for you. Feels especially great in tthese times of crazy grocery prices!
#growfood #feedyoursoul #lovetheland #gardensforlife
The invertebrate activity around these native flora in the sun today was out of this world!
#theworldneedsmoreinvertebrates #insectconservation #insectdieoff #insectsforlife #biodiversity #biodiversitymatters #weneedinsects #wherehavealltheinsectsgone #insectlovers #nativeplantpower #grownativeplants
When we bought our home almost 7 years ago, it came with golf course lawn (our first fix), 2 native sugar maples and a very healthy Norway maple. Sadly this past spring we had to remove 1 of the 2 sugar maples as it had declined to just one living branch. This summer we noticed this happening to our second sugar maple. Sadly, the end is near.
When I'm not gardening, this is what I'm doing... on an ideal day, like today! In the woods with wildlife, plants, fungi, and students!
!!! Found this amazingly huge pupa in my garden this morning. Does anyone know what it is? Maybe Imperial moth?
#unidentifiedmothsofinstagram #soilbiota #thingsifindinmygarden #notill #notillforlife #incrediblemothernature
Update: fairly certain it was a tomato hornworm.