Want a buzzing backyard? Scientists reveal the ultimate flower mix to attract pollinators like bees and butterflies! Plant diverse, native blooms for a thriving ecosystem.
#GoodNews #PollinatorGarden #NativePlants #BackyardBiodiversity #BeeFriendly
https://scitechdaily.com/scientists-reveal-the-ultimate-flower-mix-for-a-buzzing-backyard/
#Centaurea triumfettii - squarrose #knapweed.
Centaur’ea is a reference to the Centaur Chiron who supposedly discovered the medicinal uses of a plant in Greece that came to be called Centaury.
Balm for the bees.
#Bloomscrolling #Monarda #PollinatorGarden
Mooi plekje in de tuin, om je even af te zonderen, met een en al gezoem en gefladder
Obedient plant and #bumblebee in the front garden.
The 2nd fave flowers that our resident #bumblebees love feeding at, are the #snapdragons.
Black Cohosh is a good choice for filling in the spaces when spring ephemerals have gone dormant… see more at https://washingtongardener.blogspot.com/2025/07/black-cohosh-plant-profile.html #gardendc #nativeplants #pollinatorgarden
FIRST #MONARCH (that I have seen) IN MY YARD!
Woooo! 
I learned in a class the other day that particularly for common milkweed, it's important to plant it toward the edges of your property, because monarchs use *visual* cues to find it. So they really need to see the entire plant, not obscured by any other plants.
I let asclepias syriaca grow at-will in my front yard for this reason. Some of my #Asclepias gets to be between 10 and 13 feet tall!!!
This year, it's not blooming as robustly as I would expect, though. I'm not sure what's going on. (You can see in the video how the plant is blooming, and that is nowhere near normal.)
I have another monarch class coming up on the 19th -- with Chip Taylor his own self -- so I'm excited about that.
Lemony yellow, #daylily.
Home, finally. To the most beautiful front yard in the universe. (Not to mention: the least work intensive, and I haven’t watered it since 2023)
#nativeplants #pollinators #pollinatorgarden #Saskatchewan #Bloomscrolling
Stung By Memory
The biodiversity loss that we are starting to see is scary.
These two photos were taken with an even older phone - #SamsungGalaxy8 - which had been discontinued. The camera on it still works just fine.
I'm always the last of all my family & friends to upgrade any phone. I will use my old phones until they die or until they are lost & never found. I've never felt any need to get a new phone if my old one still works - it goes against my views of consumerism/capitalism. I've never had any FOMO feelings about phones or other digital stuff. I barely use any digital gadgets. I don't feel my life is incomplete without a bunch of those digital things that I don't truly need.
Shiny, satiny petals on Mom's burgundy red #TigerLily plant. The flowers have so much #pollen. They attract multiple different #pollinators 
Busy #bumblebee working on #hosta flowers.
With #instrumental #MetalMusic - Flight of the Bumblebee.
Bumblebees are totally metal, in the world of pollinators 
We have thousands of #RoseCampion blooms.
Warm orange #DayLily.
These are #EdibleFlowers - they don't have much taste but do add vibrant colour to green #salads.
#Feverfew is a longtime #herbal plant that's been used in ancient traditional #Chinese #medicines for generations. Ancient European cultures used it as medicine too. Feverfew is also used to make fragrances. I grow a lot of them.
Read more about feverfew:
https://chineseteas101.com/feverfew-tea-benefits-side-effects
A hardworking #bumblebee feeding on my Himalayan honeysuckle flowers.
