Karen Sloan
@karsloan.bsky.social
Bookish #gardener 😼 #cats 🐾 #flowers #folklore #amwriting 🇨🇦 Canada wallflowerstudiogarden.com * No dm's thx.
"She is called ‘the Green Glaistig’ from her wan looks and dress of green, the characteristic Fairy colour. She is said to have been at first a woman of honourable position, a former mistress of the house, who had been put under enchantments and now had a Fairy nature given her." (J.G. Campbell)
Even in parks and commons you find Wood Sprites. To be honest, that aren't exactly hard to detect. If you've live in the county for an length of time I think it becomes instinctual. You look at a tree and just know a Wood Sprite lives there. – Becky Roper #VOH
"Rabbit rabbit rabbit", something people say on the 1st day of a month ensures good #luck for the whole of it. US President Franklin Delano Roosevelt once confessed to a friend that he did so, "and would not omit the utterance on any account." 🐇🐇🐇 #FolkloreSunday #rabbits #superstitions
Our next online talk will be taking place via Zoom on Saturday 16 May when ecological storyteller Lisa Schneidau will be joining us to tell TREE FOLK TALES Folklore, storytelling and trees! Book now at bit.ly/flaevents - tickets £5 plus fees, which includes access to a recording of the event
In the owl's opinion everyday is long 🦉 Kobayashi Issa (1763–1828) #BookWormSat 😍Yukio Katsuda (1985)
“Monarchs aggregated in trees covering about 7.2 acres of forest in Mexico, up substantially from 4.4 acres the year before and from 2.2 acres the year before that” 🌎🧪 www.vox.com/climate/4829...
Scientists finally have something hopeful to tell us about monarch butterflies
A first look at new research from the forests of central Mexico.
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Long before modern science confirmed the neurophysiology of it, nursing founding mother Florence Nightingale, born on this day in 1820, wrote beautifully about the healing power of nature www.themarginalian.org/2022/05/22/f...
The Healing Power of Nature and Beauty: Florence Nightingale on Expediting Recovery from Illness and Burnout
“People say the effect is only on the mind. It is no such thing. The effect is on the body, too.”
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Phlox divaricata, another American, is lovely in a shady place, pale blue and a rampant grower. #gardening
New #ebook at Project Gutenberg: The fairy caravan by Beatrix Potter https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/78504
A spectral woman dressed in white accompanied by a white stag is reputed to wander Hillborough Lane. In a rhyme attributed to Shakespeare, he described Hillborough as “haunted”. Could she be one of the shades he alluded to?
Native plant nursery at GreenUP's Ecology Park in #Ptbo opens for the season on the Victoria Day long weekend. Many hands are involved in preparing the nursery for the season opener on Saturday, May 16. kawarthanow.com/2026/05/07/n...
Native plant nursery at GreenUP’s Ecology Park in Peterborough opens for the season on the Victoria Day long weekend | kawarthaNOW
By GreenUP. Many hands are involved in preparing the nursery for the season opener on Saturday, May 16.
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Dandelion clocks looking like an army of spirit orbs.
Restaurant for #BlueMorpho #butterlies. Orange slices are the only item on the menu, but no one seems to mind. #ButterflyConsevatory, #Niagara, #Ontario #butterflies #ButterflySky
Looking forward to this workshop at Abbey Gardens! 💮 Designing Gardens with Native Plants 🐝 Thurs. April 30th - still time to sign up! abbeygardens.ca/event-detail... #gardening #gardensky 🐝 #workshop #comewander #myhaliburtonhighlands
SALC Program - Garden Design with Native Plants | Abbey Gardens
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The witch in legend of the Rollright Stones megalith complex on the Oxfordshire/Warwickshire border turned herself into an elder tree. Local lore held that if the tree was cut it bled. #FolkloreSunday
Common chickweed (I think) tangled up with cleavers in a Stoneleigh hedge #wildflowerhour #hedgerowchallenge
A little patch of blue in the garden is a welcome site! 💙 Scottish folklore states that b/c they're a favourite flower of the fairies it's bad luck to pick bluebells & take them indoors. #fairy #folklore #flowers #bloomscrolling #gardensky
Pollinators have been disappearing. It’s time to bring them back! Whether you’re tending a yard, a community garden, a local park, or even just a tiny balcony, our Bring Back the Pollinators program has you covered with guides, videos, free events, & more! Get started ➡️ bringbackthepollinators.org
For folklore often holds the swan as the witches' bird. A deliverer of messages to our dead sisters. A wide-wing psychopomp that can fly between life and death. We make cloaks from its gifted feathers. We tell it our submerged secrets. – #EmilyCBanting, 1982 #FolkloreSunday
Straight up #Botany being given a boost on the New York Times today with this story. And yes, botany is fun, interesting, educational, entertaining, but also crucial to understanding our world! Gift article. www.nytimes.com/2026/04/01/r...
Taking a Birder’s Approach to the Botanical World
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