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The world needs more #serviceberries
#ontarionativeplants #nativeshrubsofnorthamerica #nativeshrubs #nativeontarioplants #nativeplantsofontario #nativeshrub #ecogardeningchallenge #plantsfornature #plantsforwildlife #ecofriendly #ecofriendlygardening #regenerativelandscaping #regenerativelandscapes #regenerativegardening #fornaturegardeningandlandcare
2 weeks, still blooming. #pasqueflower #nativeontarioplants #springflora #peterboroughpollinators #pollinatorgardening #fornaturegardeningandlandcare #fornaturegardening #fornature
New Garden Creation Part 3: Sod Removal using a sod cutter. #sodcutter #gardencreations #gardencreation #buildingagarden #newgarden #fornewgardeners #newgardener #pollinatorgarden #serviceberries #serviceberryinbloom #fornaturegardeningandlandcare
#virginiabluebells #ontarionativeplantsofspring #ontarionativeplants #peterboroughpollinators #gardenfornature #fornaturegardeningandlandcare
Loving playing this game as a family, adding to our son's suite of #natureconnection skills and #landcareethic with a healthy dose of #faerielore !
#wildcraft #wildcraftgame #herbalism #wildedibles
#serviceberry coming into its glory! This Ontario native shrub produces delightfully delicious berries (also called #juneberry ) that are edible to us, but also feed the birds (because we're thoughtful caring humans who shares the land and its bounty, right?!). I often see cedar waxwings feasting on them!
If you don't have one of these shrubs yet, you need one!!
#fornaturegardeningandlandcare #grownative #forthebirds #forthebees
#goodforthebeesandgoodforme #dandelion #dandelionfritters #eatyourweeds #nospray #careforyourland #fornaturelandcare #fornaturegardeningandlandcare
1/3 c. Coconut flour
2/3 c. All purpose flour
1 c. Vanilla almond milk
1 LG. Egg
1 tsp Cinnamon
1 tsp Vanilla
2 Tbsp honey
Blip of salt
Fry in coconut oil.
Eat warm.
Le yum.
Raindrops hanging on all these pending blossoms and freshly emerged leaves has me swooning. #rainydaygarden #prairiesmoke #serviceberry #wildcolumbine #ladysmantle #lungwort #virginiawaterleaf #bloodroot #pasqueflower
Ooo this beauty magnolia blossom suspends in time waiting to unfurl in warmth of sunshine.
As College faculty I am excited to announce that today my final grades for my students were submitted, and I am officially back in client gardens. This rainy day finds me doing site visits and taking stock of pending schedule and tasks. Happy to get away from that world of screens for a while and back into the earth!
#anisehyssop is an amazing herbal tea! #goodforthebeesandgoodforme #nativeplantsofontario #aestheticpleasure #ecologicalfunction #ediblefusion
A lovely burst of spring colour! #pasqueflower #mayapple #hyacinth #tulips🌷 #forsythia #plantainleavedsedge #pansies #forthebees #biodivetsitygardening #nativeplantsofnorthamerica #fornaturegardeningandlandcare
A gorgeous mature red trillium about to bloom and with just a touch of frost burn from the snow earlier this week.
#redtrillium #wakerobin #trilliumerectum
Garlic Mustard seedings (pics 1 and 2) look a lot like other "little green things". Pic 3 shows garlic mustard next to herb Robert, 4 shows Motherwort, 5 shows Ranunculs acris (buttercup). Garlic mustard is the only one of these plants that I would pull.
HAPPY EARTH DAY!!!
"I am myself and what is around me, if I do not save it, it shall not save me."
- Jose Ortega y Gasset
Bloodroot, wrapped in their blankets on this snowy Ontario spring morning! Aren't they the cutest?!
Bloodroot gets its name from its blood-red sap. This one unfortunately got stepped on, so I thought I would take the opportunity to show you that incredible red!
My beloved patch of #bloodroot, started from 1 piece of root that I planted 20 years ago. I got it from a nursery that I used to work at as a teenager in Belfountain, Ontario. I cannot express the joy this patch brings me each year!
#ontarionativeplants #nativeplantsofontario #grownative #grownativeplants #fornaturegardeningandlandcare #fornaturegardening #earlyflora #firstflowers #forstflowersofspring #woodlandephemerals
The beautiful trout-shaped and patterned leaf of Ontario native groundcover, #troutlily .
The incredible #maidemhairspleenwort .
The fuzz of the unfurled flowers of the #anemoneacutilobia #sharplobedhepatica reminds me very much of the sweet unfurled Pasque flower that I posted last week.
More lovely #springephemerals awaking on our Ontario landscape days of late.
#nativeplantsofontario #nativeplantsontario #ontarionativeplants #ecogardening #fornaturegardeningandlandcare #fornaturegardening #fornature #growwild #bringnaturehome
#carolinaspringbeauty #springbeauty #ontarionativeplants #springephemerals #fleetingbeauty #beforethetreesleafout #beforethecanopycloses #naturalgarden #naturalgardening #ecogarden #fornaturegardeningandlandcare #fornaturegardening #fornature #pollinatorfriendly #earlypollinatorfood #forthebees
Bloodroot was a high traffic area today! #nativeplants #happypollinators #naturalbeauty #fornaturegardening #forthebees #ecofriendlygardening #bloodroot #sanguinariacanadensis #springephemerals #gonativeplants
A freshly-created palette awaits the native plant nursery down the road to open. I forgot the before photo, but this is going to be a stunning, low-maintenance, drought-tolerant pollinator meadow garden. It will contain mostly native plants including #indiangrass , #yellowconeflower , #purpleconeflower , #queenoftheprairie , #falsesunflower #monardafistulosa #liatrisspicata and #monardadidyma , and hardy tough #rugosarose . A backdrop of #serviceberry might be included. A few others will likely find their way in there just for good measure.
Stoked about this first garden creation of the year.
#fornaturegardeningandlandcare #pollinatormeadow
Some of the first sources of pollinator food on the landscspe appears on our trees and shrubs. These are an important source of much-needed nourishment for early-rising pollinators.
#softmaple (red, silver or Freeman's), #speckledalder #catkins
#plantanativetree #pollinatorgardening #pollinatorgarden #pollinatorfood #pollinatorfoodsource #healthylandscapes #gardeningforwildlife #gardeningfornature #fornaturegardeningandlandcare #fornaturegardening #fornature #ecofriendlygarden