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Darrow's blueberry a native blueberry I bought from nursery and planted bonus many leaves are purple!
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my native red buckeye will soon have flowers!!! Bought at local nursery. It's only 3 feet tall but they start blooming so young!! Hummingbirds love
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You are making me so jealous for spring we had sun today and it felt beautiful everything’s better with sunshine
 

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You have some really beautiful and interesting plants!
 

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I'm really passionate about backyard conservation! ( Sneak into pots for front yard )
Seeing is believing and the amount of butterflies and birds drawn to my yard has really inspired my neighbor to go native or pollinator friendly one neighbor is all in on monarch and milkweed she's upto 25 pots of milkweed in her backyard
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Tropical sage
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Oak leaf fleabane

A neighbor gave me best in show ribbon :pinklol2: it's staying there till it is dust lol
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You get hummingbirds, consider me super jealous! How cool, and you have an amazingly diverse natural garden, love it.
 

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You get hummingbirds, consider me super jealous! How cool, and you have an amazingly diverse natural garden, love it.
Thank you!!
So many hummingbirds!!!!
I love being able to watch everything from my windows

The inspiration for me was wanting to see Summer Tanager . They are wasp and bee specialists and don't eat seeds. After looking for them for 14 years .....so secretive. I decided to bring them to me by planting native and drawing,in their food sources! It worked!! I get to see them all the time and they nest on property now!!

I look through see if I still have their pictures,( lost most everything with phone crash) they aren't back this year yet ...but soon!!
 

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Nonr found but will get more this year
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Must include this meadow beauty ( trying to get them in my yard! Not yet tho )
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Last year my sunshine mimosa ( native ground trailing flower) attracted endangered southern plains bumblebee
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Such an inspiration. I want a natural garden too (it was a bit of a waste dump when we got here) and this is just amazing. That you got lure them to your garden and that they even nest there, wow just so cool and inspirational!
 

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We had this plant in our back garden when we moved in dogs have peed on it hoping it grows back in summer but don’t think it will

you are so good I definitely don’t have green fingers every plant I get dies
 

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We had this plant in our back garden when we moved in dogs have peed on it hoping it grows back in summer but don’t think it will

you are so good I definitely don’t have green fingers every plant I get dies
The natives in your area will do well! I don't have to anything other than water when we have droughts
 

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Such an inspiration. I want a natural garden too (it was a bit of a waste dump when we got here) and this is just amazing. That you got lure them to your garden and that they even nest there, wow just so cool and inspirational!
Yay!!! Share your progress! :cheer: :chrisphoto:
 

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We had this plant in our back garden when we moved in dogs have peed on it hoping it grows back in summer but don’t think it will

you are so good I definitely don’t have green fingers every plant I get dies
That looks like Canna Tropicanna Black. One of my neighbors used to grow it, but this far north she had to bring it inside each year in the winter.
 

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That looks like Canna Tropicanna Black. One of my neighbors used to grow it, but this far north she had to bring it inside each year in the winter.
What a fitting name for Emma's gorgeous flowers.

Emma I hope they come back!!!! The ones my neighbors have are s different kind and they aren't back yet
 

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Perfection. Love them all, especially the swallowtails. I used to make calendars from photos. Yours are truly amazing.
 

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Perfection. Love them all, especially the swallowtails. I used to make calendars from photos. Yours are truly amazing.
Thank you,,! I take a bunch and save the good ones .
This is our Florida State Butterfly Zebra longwing. My favorite butterfly on joe pye weed . Really s must have for butterfly) pollinator garden . Bumblebee love and nearly all species of bumblebee are declining or red listed. Butterflies love it! Later in the summer bloomer this one is over 10 feet tall!!
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