June Flanagan
@juneflanagan.bsky.social
🍁 Botanist, environmental horticulturist, nature photographer, author/coauthor of 5 books for prairie plant enthusiasts and gardeners. Aspiring botanical illustrator. 🇨🇦 www.juneflanagan.ca
The latest issue of my botany and evolution newsletter is out! Look here for imaginary trips to the Carboniferous, new clues about photosynthesis, and a great new book about field science. 🌿 mailchi.mp/be3e6226be6a...
A Feast for the Curious, Issue 29 🌿
A newsletter of botany, evolution, science history, and scientific illustration.
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As an amateur birder, I felt lucky to record and identify the call of this dickcissel bird yesterday evening near the Oldman River, after hearing that experienced birders were seeking it in the area. Apparently, a rare sighting here. #Merlin app is great! #birds #Merlinapp #nature
Our native prairie harebells are easy to cultivate in sun or shade and have a long bloom season. Also known as Scottish bluebells, it grows wild in northern latitudes across N. America, Europe and Asia. #nativeplants #wildflower #prairie
I spent the last month obsessed with finding colors that can't be displayed on a conventional screen. This is what I found. moultano.wordpress.com/2026/06/19/w...
Where to Find the Colors Your Screen Can’t Show You
An atlas of the vibrance of the real world
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If you’re out early in the morning, you might discover our native evening primrose (Oenothera caespitosa) blooming on dry prairie slopes. This beauty unrolls its large flowers at twilight, luring pollinator moths in with a lovely scent. Each blossom lasts only one night. #nativeplants #wildflower
Just found a metallic green sweat bee among my native blanketflowers (Gaillardia aristata). #nativeplants #pollinators
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
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
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
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
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.
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...
After 1,200 years, cherry blossom record to live on despite Japanese scientist’s death
Prof Yasuyuki Aono’s meticulous work charted shifting bloom dates as a marker of climate change
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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
These native prairie crocus seeds I planted last October are getting some welcome snow from today’s winter storm. When it melts, the moist, chilly soil will be just what they need to sprout this spring. 🌱 #nativeplants #seeds #garden
Best (and easiest) time to sow your native plants for pollinators is in fall, but there’s still time to successfully germinate your seeds if you set them outdoors in containers this month. Learn how from the free handout on my website. www.juneflanagan.ca/newsevents/
Grow – June Flanagan
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Alberta’s lichens play a multitude of different roles in our ecosystems. Neither plant nor animal, these strange symbiotic partnerships can be incredibly diverse and colourful. Take a look for them on old trees and rocks the next time you’re out on a walk! #whatsyour60 #naturefacts #albertalichens
Wrapping up #ArtAdventCalendar with a bit of sparkle to wish you joy this season and in the coming year ✨ Thank you all for your likes, reposts, follows and lovely comments and special thanks to @jayispainting.earthskyart.ca for hosting this event.
This piece was in our main library in 2015 for a couple of months & a woman told me she would stop by on her lunch break & just sit & look at it almost daily because it gave her some peace. Few better compliments. Shore 55×40 140×101cm Oil on Canvas 2015 #ArtAdventCalendar
Day 23 of #ArtAdventCalendar!! Another older cyanotype, made using an orange slice and salt crystals as well as pressed plants. :)
This is a piece I did at the and of last year. Seeing a hummingbird often symbolizes joy, love, resilience, and good luck. Here’s to a fabulous New Year. Watercolor, JD cake layers, TH inks and stencils for the flowers #artadventcalendar day 24
It's a lovely winter day in Glasgow, cold but sunny, and the first snowdrops will soon appear in the garden. Here's a reminder that spring will arrive before long. But for now... Merry Christmas everyone! for #ArtAdventCalendar day24
