Our native prairie crocus flowers blooming on #EarthDay give bees a warm place to rest and plenty of pollen in their solar-collecting bowl-shaped blossoms.
June Flanagan
A beautiful piece by Julie Francella
juliefrancella.substack.com/p/grandmothe...
Just learned from a post by Dr. Theresa Crimmins @theresacrimmins.bsky.social acknowledging valuable work done by Dr. Yasuyuki Aono,
that he passed away earlier in 2025. Here’s the good news that his remarkable cherry blossom record-keeping will continue. 🌸
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...
June Flanagan
June Flanagan
Excited to find the first native prairie crocus buds in my garden today, all dressed in fur to protect them from tonight’s incoming snow.
#nativeplants #spring #garden
Our wild saskatoons (aka serviceberry or shadbush) that are beginning to bloom on the prairies are also great native shrubs for gardens, with white blossom-smothered branches that supply food for pollinators that emerge in early spring. 🐝
#nativeplants #garden #spring #pollinators
June Flanagan
Just found a metallic green sweat bee among my native blanketflowers (Gaillardia aristata).
#nativeplants #pollinators
June Flanagan
What Artemis II, an Anishinaabe-Designed Mission patch, and a scarred moon can teach us
Spotted the first cherry blossoms last week in Vancouver.
Welcome spring!
#spring
Our native purple prairie clover is a great plant for your pollinator garden, with summer-blooming flowers that are rich in nectar and pollen for bumblebees.
#WorldBeeDay #nativeplants #garden
Another rainy day and I’m curled up on the couch, thoroughly inspired by David George Haskell’s descriptions of how flowers transformed our planet, sustain us and connect us with nature in his latest delightful book.
@dghaskell.bsky.social
Bumblebees are busy working the last of the ‘Aurora’ haskap flowers (planted next to ‘Borealis’, its compatible companion for cross-pollination).
Edible blue berries develop from pollinated flowers, ripening by mid-June for us and backyard birds to enjoy.
#ediblegarden #pollinatorplant
Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change
