#Coreopsis

[jenfoundabug]

Gorgeous creature <3

I planted a small patch of native wildflowers this summer, and it's amazing how many more species I'm seeing. This is a male Agapostemon texanus, a type of sweat bee. Females of this species are solid metallic green and don't have yellow and black stripes. They're quite beautiful but even more skittish than the males. Northern California, US

[nwalthall]

The state of Mari's garden

© 2024 ned walthall

[indigrassy]

Plains coreopsis

[wiley-treehouse-gardens]

[prince-liest]

I got some wildflowers for my front patio and day one there are already pollinators taking advantage! :)) I'm pretty sure this is a Fiery Skipper.

[bethanythebogwitch]

Native Wildflowers collection

Native wildflowers from my previous job. All pics by me. Not an exhaustive list. Split into multiple posts due to the image limit.

Starting off with everyone's (read: monarch butterflies') favorite: milkweed. Common milkweed is on the left. I think what we called common milkweed was actually 2 closely-related species. On the right is swam milkweed, which likes wetter soil. Butterfly weed in the bottom is a milkweed, but its sap is clear instead of white so some people don't realize that. It's also much shorter than most milkweeds.

We have 2 main gentian species. These flowers don't open all the way and only larger insects like bees can force their way in. These bees then seek out gentians as an exclusive food source, making it more likely for them to pollinate the gentians. Cream gentian (left) is white and can get very tall on good years. Bottle gentian (right) is a small, low-lying plant that hides under other plants. This picture was taken early in the season so they're pretty pale. They turn bright blue when they're in bloom.

Yellow (left) and purple (right) coneflower

Mountain mint (right) and downy wood mint (left)

Wild raspberry (left) and dewberry (right). My personal nemeses when I was moving through the prairie. Thorns are not my friend

Foxglove beardtongue, which comes in a common white color (right) and a rarer purple variant (left). Below is false foxglove, which is a hemiparasite (plant that gains nutrition through parasitism and photosynthesis) that leaches off of oak roots

Bee balm, this one has a lot of ornamental cultivars

Rattlesnake master, a badass name for a weird and spiky plant

Ironweed. We have a few species and I don't know how to tell them apart

Wild quinine. In the 3 growth seasons I worked here, this one became much more common.

Prairie coreopsis (left) and tall coreopsis (right). Guess what the difference between these two is

Rosinweed (left) and cup plant (right). Two closely related species.

Maryland senna (left) and partridge pea (right). Similar (but not closely related) species that grow pods full of seeds. As they dry, the pods peel open and send the seeds flying out.

Prairie dock. These grow very tall and have huge leaves that are cool because the roots bring up water from deep underground

Ashy sunflower, a hemiparasite that kills goldenrod and tall grasses. As those two are very aggressive plants that can take over whole fields. ashy sunflower seeds are a great way to fight back against them and help increase biodiversity.

Cardinal flower. This one is endangered so its great that it's doing well and even spreading where I worked.

Common thistle. This one is unfortunately losing ground to invasive Canada thistle (not actually from Canada) and isn't very popular, but bugs love it.

Black-eyed Susan (left) and sweet black-eyed Susan (right). The latter is larger and doesn't tolerate shade as well.

Continued in part 2

[the-diary-of-vivienne]

[faguscarolinensis]

Coreopsis verticillata 'Moonbeam' / 'Moonbeam' Whorled Tickseed at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[ainawgsd]

The chicory is blooming!

And the cosmos and coreopsis are really starting to take off too.

[junyphotos]

Tickseed

Coreopsis

[tomorrowsgardennc]

evening seed harvest. 7 varieties, 5 of them flowers. answers at the end of the tags.

[lphaneuf]

My lovely SIL bought these gorgeous hand spun, naturally dyed yarns for me. Top one for a hat, bottom for ear warmers? In these quantities, I think that's the best options. Any other ideas?

[nwalthall]

Strengthen your core...

© 2023 ned walthall

[wumbologyandecology]

Wildflowers enveloping the monuments at Mt. Auburn Cemetery

[indigrassy]

Prairie coreopsis

[bumblebeeappletree]

Ice dyeing is a fun way to create colorful patterns on fiber using flowers from your garden. Plus, it is a simple technique that you can do to capture a slice of summertime color. This tutorial will show you how to ice dye with whole flowers, as well as the resulting tie dye effect on silk gift bags pretreated in different mordants.

CHAPTERS

0:00 Intro - Ice dyeing with flowers

1:49 Dye flower fun

3:26 Flower pickin'

4:08 Silk fiber

5:07 Frozen flowers

5:52 Ice bundle build

8:29 Midway thaw

9:13 Reveal

11:37 Ice dye results

13:09 Wrap up

14:13 Sneak peek of next tutorial

15:00 Blooper

SUPPLY LIST

Dye flowers - coreopsis, sulfur cosmos, scabiosa/pincushion, geranium, marigold

Shears

Ice

Strainer

Pot

Mordant - alum acetate & gallo tannin used in video

Textile of choice - silk featured