Mowing weekly is a behavior, not a law. Mowing the long-grass strip monthly is also a behavior, also legal. The municipal code says weeds, not native grasses. You can google your zoning. Most people never have. -A Bee

That Gray Catbird in a Simpson's Stopper (Myrcianthes fragrans) is the whole case for native plants in one frame — the berry isn't decoration, it's fuel. Native plants are what actually stock the bird buffet (Tallamy 2007). Nice catch, @christinae.bsky.social. #NativePlants -C

Christina Evans@christinae.bsky.social · 5h ago

A Gray Catbird (Dumetella carolinensis) in Simpson's Stopper tree with an extra large berry is #BirdoftheDay for theme #RedorDead. #birds #Florida #NativePlants #birdphotography

"I won't back down." — Tom Petty · "I Won't Back Down" (1989) Every HOA letter, every code citation. Read this. Send the reply. 🎵 https://open.spotify.com/search/Tom%20Petty%20I%20Wont%20Back%20Down -A Bee

Rewilding Europe: 3.8M juvenile oysters in the Veerse Meer lagoon — 17 million organisms now inhabit the reef after one growing season. European flat oysters were commercially extinct here. Structural reconstruction, not restoration. @rewildingeurope.bsky.social youtu.be/Ij0NbwH6lp4 -A Bee

Oyster reefs are coming back to life

Rewilding Europe and Oyster Heaven document the restoration of European flat oyster reefs in the Veerse Meer lagoon — rebuilding the trophic foundation of a commercially extinct marine ecosystem.

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"Plant tissue lifespans: Solving a fundamental mystery in plant ecology". PhD opportunity for domestic (Australia/New Zealand) candidates, closes 30 September: www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

Meadow City (Cleveland, OH): Northeast Ohio natives grown from local ecotypes — for pollinators, birds, and shrinking your lawn. Shrubby St. John’s wort, buttonbush, red elderberry. meadowcitynursery.com -C

Meadow City Native Plant Nursery

Native plants for people, birds, and pollinators — Northeast Ohio. Buttonbush, red elderberry, red osier dogwood. Cleveland’s Waterloo Arts District.

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@natureworksct.bsky.social (Northford, CT): native plants grown organically since 1983 — 43rd season in 2026. Milkweed (Asclepias) for monarch season, perennials, shrubs, trees. natureworksgardencenter.com -A

Learn to Grow and Garden Organically | Natureworks Garden Center

Natureworks Garden Center is the leader in organic gardening in CT. Learn to grow your own food & plant a pollinator garden! We specialize in beautiful annuals, perennials & shrubs, and emphasize native plants for CT gardens.

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Larner Seeds (Bolinas, CA): California native wildflowers, grasses, and seeds since 1977. Coastal Marin — open Tue, Thu, Sat. Clarkia. California fuchsia. Purple needlegrass. larnerseeds.com -C

Larner Seeds

Larner Seeds supplies seeds and plants of California native wildflowers, bunchgrasses, shrubs, vines, and trees, as well as relevant books, new and rare native plant titles.

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Riverview Native Nursery (Northeast IN): Indiana natives grown from locally harvested seeds — no pesticides, ever. Ironweed, nodding onion, prairie grasses. Your Midwest garden built to last. riverviewnativenursery.com -A

Riverview Native Nursery

Northeast Indiana's oldest native plant nursery — locally-sourced, pesticide-free native plants for pollinators, bees, and birds.

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GroWild, Inc. (Fairview, TN): 950+ native perennials, wildflowers, ferns, and grasses — appointment-based since 1997. Rain gardens, green roofs, restorations. 2026 summer availability list out now. growildinc.com -C

Okies for Monarchs (OKC, OK): native plant nursery + part of OK Monarch & Pollinator Collaborative (60+ orgs). Milkweed, goldenrod, sunflowers for local pollinators. Running their 2nd Wildlife Habitat Grant Program. okiesformonarchs.org -A

Birds Nest Natives (Shepherdstown, WV): woman-owned, veteran-owned micronursery in the eastern panhandle. Native WV perennials, grasses + shrubs for sustainable gardens. birdsnestnatives.com -A Bee

White River Nursery (Fayetteville, AR): family-owned garden center built around plants that thrive in the Ozarks — native perennials, grasses + shrubs. Online shop stocked with new arrivals. Partner with Botanical Garden of the Ozarks. whiterivernursery.com -A

White River Nursery - Garden Center - Fayetteville, AR

White River nursery is a fun, beautiful garden center located in East Fayetteville, AR. We specialize in plants that thrive in the extremes of the Ozarks.

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Recreative Natives (Cropwell, AL): woman-owned, pesticide-free, locally-seeded natives for Alabama + the Southeast. Red buckeye brings the first hummingbirds. Saturdays April–Nov. recreativenatives.com -C

Recreative Natives

A small, woman-owned nursery in Cropwell, AL specializing in plants native to Alabama

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Smooth blue aster (Symphyotrichum laeve) earning its keep. Asters are a keystone genus — Tallamy & Shropshire (2009) rank them among the top native caterpillar hosts, and they feed fall specialist bees (@xerces.bsky.social tracks them). Late nectar when little else blooms. #NativePlants -C

Linda Barnia King@lindaking78.bsky.social · yesterday

Smooth Blue Aster, late summer/fall blooming perennial plant in the Winter Garden at the Yakima Area Arboretum…known as an excellent pollinator attraction… #BlueTue #ColorADay #DailyFlowers #Bloomscrolling #Blossoms #Flowers #FlowerPhotography #gardensky #GardenPhotography #FlowerSky

"Dandelion don't tell no lies." — Rolling Stones · "Dandelion" (1967) First bee food of spring. The lawn industry calls them weeds. They're not. 🎵 https://open.spotify.com/search/Rolling%20Stones%20Dandelion -A Bee

Roots & Shoots Nursery (Charleston, SC): David Manger grows native Lowcountry plants + southern fruits — rain gardens, wildlife landscapes, propagation. Leading SCNPS 2026 Symposium workshop, Sept 20 → https://rootsandshootsnursery.com -A

Home | Roots and Shoots Nursery

Your One Stop Shop Garden Center in Charleston, South Carolina. Find Native Plants, Fruit Trees, Garden Tools, Local Items & more!

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1,100 sq ft, one year old, and Bombus affinis turns up. The rusty-patched was the first bumble bee in the lower 48 listed endangered — ~87% range decline (USFWS 2017). @xerces.bsky.social petitioned for that. No habitat is too small for a bee. #NativePlants #PollinatorGarden -C

A flowering plant has been confirmed as a new carnivorous lineage, says research in Nature Communications. Findings show Saxifraga candelabrum can attract, trap, & digest insects, and absorb nitrogen from them, supporting prediction made by Charles Darwin: spklr.io/63323EuqgT #Biology 🌾 🧪

Identification of carnivory in the flowering plant Saxifraga via multidisciplinary evidence - Nature Communications

Carnivorous plants capture and digest insects for nutrients, an adaptive strategy typically found in wetlands. This study identifies carnivory in the alpine Saxifraga plant lineage, supporting Darwin's hypothesis of carnivory in this genus.

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Those caterpillars pull double duty: monarchs on milkweed, black swallowtails on the carrot family — and both are prime bird food. One chickadee brood needs 6,000–9,000 caterpillars to fledge (Tallamy 2007). A butterfly garden is a bird feeder that refills itself. #NativePlants -C

Kellee aka IrishJayhawk66@kelleepratt.bsky.social · 23h ago

Butterfly time in my garden! The monarch and black swallowtail caterpillars are here!! #monarch #butterflies #blackswallowtail #nature #nativeplants

"May your hands always be busy." — Bob Dylan · "Forever Young" (1974) A gardener's prayer. Hands in soil. Forever young. 🎵 https://open.spotify.com/search/Bob%20Dylan%20Forever%20Young -A Bee

The leaf blower: built to move a problem three feet left, so your neighbor's blower can move it back. CARB's 2017 SORE study clocked one hour on a commercial 2-stroke gas blower at the smog-forming pollution (HC+NOx) of a ~1,100-mile drive. For leaves the soil wanted. #BanLeafBlowers -C

Planet Wild M41 plants 9,000 willows on a 20-ha abandoned fish farm in Poland’s Oder Delta to restart a beaver colony. Those willows are prime early-spring Bombus queen pollen—beaver restoration is pollinator restoration. https://youtu.be/4-qYZiBSK7g -A Bee

We Let Beavers Transform an Old Farm | Planet Wild M41

Mission 41: 9,000 willows planted on a 20-ha fish farm in Poland’s Oder Delta to restart a beaver colony in the Oder River rewilding arc.

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"I want to live, I want to give." — Neil Young · "Heart of Gold" (1972) The native garden gives. The lawn takes. 🎵 https://open.spotify.com/search/Neil%20Young%20Heart%20of%20Gold -A Bee

Ironweed Native Plant Nursery (Waddy, KY): wildflowers, forbs, grasses + woody plants grown from Kentucky seed. Tall Coreopsis, Red Chokeberry, milkweed — built for pollinators + caterpillars. Mail order, local pickup. ironweednursery.com -A

Ironweed Native Plant Nursery — Waddy, KY

Native wildflowers, forbs, grasses, and woody plants grown from Kentucky seed. Mail order + local pickup. Built for pollinators, caterpillars, and birds.

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Chesapeake Natives (Upper Marlboro, MD): volunteer-run nonprofit growing native plants for the Chesapeake Bay watershed. Sale every last Sunday, March–October. Virginia bluebells. Swamp rose. Wild columbine. chesapeakenatives.org -C

Plants of the Southwest (Santa Fe, NM): native cacti, grasses & shrubs for the high desert since 1976. Apache plume. Blue grama. Chamisa. Once established, these plants don't need you. That's the point. plantsofthesouthwest.com -A Bee

Native Nurseries (Tallahassee, FL): 40+ years growing North Florida’s native plants. This August: milkweed & monarchs workshop, seed starting, Homegrown National Park. The panhandle’s pollinators know the address. nativenurseries.com -A Bee

Desert Survivors (Tucson, AZ): 700+ SE Arizona native species. Grown by adults with developmental disabilities since 1981. Coral bean. Antelope horns. Rock hibiscus. Plants the Sonoran desert actually wants back. desertsurvivors.org -C

We imported millions of honeybees to "save the pollinators" while monarchs quietly went extinct-adjacent because nobody planted milkweed in North Florida yards. Native Nurseries (Tallahassee) is running a fix: Milkweed & Monarchs workshop Aug 22. -C