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Designing the dreary days of winter away đ.
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
A beautiful evening at the Market Hall in Peterborough tonight celebrating international monarch conservation initiatives. Local artists brought together a beautiful display of works for the event that will be sent to Mexico where it will reside in a museum near the reserves of the monarch butterfly.
Thank you for the magical and inspiring evening @the_monarch_ultra @carlottasjames
Post-secondary academia can look like this, at least when you're at this awesome school! #frostcampus #flemingcollege #ecosystemmanagement
Today I got to spruce-up this creation from last year. The hibiscus is stealing the show right now!!
Fourth pic is what it looked like in May of 2021 before I began the build.
Critters eating your plants? Don't panic! It might be okay.
This time of year, I ease up on the gardening and take my passion back to the classroom to help inspire and coach next generation ecologists to do the important work of collaborating with Mother Earth!
The mix of instructing at a college and running my own business is such a beautiful manifestation of my passions and desires at this stage in my life. So much gratitude for these opportunities. I am one fortunate woman!
Does anyone know why wasps moved in to decapitate and eat the carcass of this dead wasp? At the end you can see it flew off with it
Our half acre is comprised of carefully curated garden spaces and a lawn area to kick a ball with our child, but the very back of our property is reserved for this pollinator meadow that was created through naturalization (letting it grow on its own), then supplemented with seeds and starts of flora that I wanted to include. I occasionally selectively weed the space to keep bad guys out or to prevent the goldenrod from completely dominating the area. These vignettes showcase my pride and joy, and how this space completely flourishes in August. In these photos you will see many Ontario native plants including #newyorkironweed #cupplant #joepyeweed #culversroot #purpleconeflower #greyconeflower #anisehyssop #jewelweed #blackeyedsusan #monardadidyma
Isolation with covid means I have time to build my garden gate at last!!