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geopsych · 7 months

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Rainbow meadow, September of 2019!

This pasture hadn’t been grazed that summer and grew over with asters, goldenrod, and bulrushes.

#pennsylvania #landscape #flowers #asters and goldenrod #meadow #september #rainbow #autumn #autumn flowers

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vandaliatraveler · 7 months

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Otter Creek Wilderness, designated by the Eastern Wilderness Act in 1975, was one of the first wilderness areas established in the state of West Virginia. While Dolly Sods and Spruce Knob are steadily loved to death by east-coast solitude seekers (try finding a parking spot on a fall weekend), the remote, verdant trails of Otter Creek remain comparatively quiet and uncrowded - one of those increasingly rare places in Mid-Atlantic region where true solitude is still possible. On Saturday, Blake and I had this special place - and its countless treasures - mostly to ourselves.

#appalachia #vandalia #west virginia #wildflowers #flora #fall #fungi #allegheny mountains #monongahela national forest #otter creek wilderness #solitude #purple-stemmed aster #appalachian ladies' tresses #closed bottle gentian #andrew's gentian #blue-stemmed goldenrod #forest road 91

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abirddogmoment · 8 months

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Floral

#dogblr #the man the legend: laundry #dogblr flower hunters #i think these were aster and goldenrod but im not 100% on my flower ids

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pallanophblargh · 11 months

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I have so many things I need to catch up on and respond to (I have severely neglected my email which is NOT good) so I apologize. I will get around to it this week I hope!

Old followers will know that this is the norm for me this time of year as I once again rally the strength to try and make the most of my severely neglected little urban hellscape of a yard. I mean, how do you recover from the knowledge that ALL of the native milkweed species you planted over the last 4 years has died, never to return? (I can’t stop being sad about this you have no clue, I had 5+ species native to the state!) All that remains is the common milkweed volunteers that have come up wherever they feel like it, and I’m obligated to let them do as they wish. Feels bad, man. I would have killed to see that purple milkweed flower.

Have spent the last 2+ weeks getting my veggie garden and containers up and running (still need to sow beans and more kale) and I’ve got more natives/ornamentals to go into my nearly cleared side yard. I’m really really REALLY hoping my new virginia bluebells don’t die with this heat/likely drought, but I’m pretty confident everyone else will come through okay. I mean, if the cardinal flower can come back for the 3rd year like a champ, what’s their excuse? (Dear self: be thankful, the cardinal flower likes you and you know it shouldn’t and that’s rad. Also the prairie smoke plant is starting to spread and that’s really cool. So is the hepatica. And your ferns are getting big and beautiful! So remember what’s working out, ok?)

I just want my little plot to be the hopping hot spot for all the local wildlife. It’s nice to see so many critters anywhere I look but I know I can do better and that requires A LOT of work. I’ll never be anything akin to a master gardener, but I like to think I’m learning a lot every day and working WITH nature instead of against it. Battling invasives is one hell of task. (Rot in hell, creeping bellflower!)

Now if only it would rain, and I can find a way to get a rain barrel setup! (No gutters in my back yard to access for rain is a major L...)

#April rambles #gardening season!!!!#urban gardening #native gardening #attempting a kinda sorta woodland planting on the shaded half of the side yard #got my lady ferns and my maidenhair ferns ready #doing my best to keep my native plants as the majority for the yard but I do splurge on some ornamentals #who can resist peonies am i right?#can't wait for the lupines to take off I need to start expanding the native ones!#when in doubt there are always asters #my columbine got defoliated by sawflies and I'm SAD #it's still alive though but I'm babying it #having a WEED fail to return for you is a major blow to the would-be ego #i hope to fuck my new liatris comes in strong because YES!!!!!#so many tall plants that fall over it's pure chaos #looking at you 5+ feet tall joe pye weed and 6+ foot tall goldenrod #absolute beasts!

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hatpinvigilante · 7 months

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favorite fall colors just dropped

#goldenrod & asters #september #wildflowers #fall color #nature

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lunarlightforge · 2 years

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Some wildflowers from around the yard ☺️

#wildflowers #goldenrod #aster #fall flowers

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sidewalkchemistry · 2 years

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I chose botany because I wanted to learn about why asters and goldenrod looked so beautiful together... Why is the world so beautiful? It could so easily be otherwise: flowers could be ugly to us and still fulfill their own purpose. But they're not... Goldenrods and asters appear very similarly to bee eyes and human eyes. We both think they're beautiful. Their striking contrast when they grow together makes them the most attractive target in the whole meadow, a beacon for bees. Growing together, both receive more pollinator visits than they would if they were growing alone... That September pairing of purple and gold is lived reciprocity; its wisdom is that the beauty of one is illuminated by the radiance of the other... When I am in their presence, their beauty asks me for reciprocity, to be the complementary color, to make something beautiful in response.

- Robin Wall Kimmerer in Braiding Sweetgrass

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hotdishwildflowers · 6 months

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you say gatsby season, i say what the fuck are you talking about, it's prairie time!!! My photos: September 2023

#prairie #goldenrod #new england aster #gentiana #wildflower photography #botany #plantblr #original photography on tumblr #bumblebees #midwestern flora #north american flora

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pinejay · 11 months

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christ my fucking yard has a shit ton of invasive ornamentals. winter creeper/fortune's spindle (vine of euonymus, same genus as burning bush), alder buckthorn, and worst of all, horrible horrible english ivy. there's also an uncontrollable amount of vinca. some lily of the valley. poison ivy as well even tho that's native i don't fucking want it in my yard. i'm gonna be battling these plants for decades

#maybe i can try spreading some mayflower to combat the lily of the valley #and wood aster and goldenrod from prospect hill to combat the vinca #or just replace it after i pull it all out. if i ever manage to do that

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inthecityofgoodabode · 7 months

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October 2023: Barely One Week In

Plot 419 & 420 harvest:

We gave our grapevine a pretty harsh trim:

Pumpkins on a stick:

Seen while walking:

The balsam impatiens we have at the house was this color:

But it produced seed that resulted in plants with pink blossoms:

And white blossoms:

Sunday dinner:

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geopsych · 2 years

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Even though the hurricane is probably 1000 miles away its energy gave us strange skies this morning. I took over 100 pictures this morning but I don’t see many I want to post. I’ll keep them for a while just in case.

#pennsylvania #landscape #wildflowers #flowers #goldenrod #asters and goldenrod #asters #september

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vandaliatraveler · 7 months

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Dreary weekend in NC-WV, but once I got over my hangover from the WVU-Texas Tech game this morning, I managed to sneak in a quick fall hike on the Virgin Hemlock Trail in Coopers Rock State Forest. The asters are out in force and quite beautiful this fall. Among them are (from top): purplestem aster (Symphyotrichum puniceum); frost aster (Symphyotrichum pilosum), also known as awl aster; calico aster (Symphyotrichum lateriflorum); and blue wood aster (Symphyotrichum cordifolium).

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butterflies-and-bumble-bees · 1 year

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Autumn Blooms

#these are from like october but i never posted them rip #goldenrod #aster #autumn flowers #fall #autumn #autumn colors #autumn leaves #yellow flowers #purple flowers #pink flowers #my stuff #my photos #nature #outdoors #photography

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leatherpearlslace · 2 years

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#aster #goldenrod #flower #plant #nature #flowers

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verysmallaminal · 10 months

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starting a horticulture program and rapidly learning that mainstream hort culture sees plants as toys, decoration, and maybe food sometimes, and not as living things that exist as part of an ecosystem to whom we have a responsibility as a species. it’s very uncomfortable

#someone pulled up a weed while we were dividing shastas #pulled up an id app and read out that it was an aster and a 'favorite of pollinators'#and someone scoffed and said i'm pretty sure if it's a flower bees will love it #same person in another class said 'who would plant solidago'#and breeds hybrid daylilies #the earth gave us asters and goldenrod and instead of being grateful we talk about it like it's trash and replace it with sterile 'vars...#just a completely alien way of thinking to me

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aisling-saoirse · 2 years

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Goldenrod and Aster - September 26th 2022

#fall flowers #northeastern american native plants #nature #Pennsylvania #original phography #photographers on tumblr #the best combination of flowers just as it starts to get cold #new england aster #goldenrod

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