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Nobody Nursery in Des Moines, WA grows Washington native plants nobody else grows — because nobody was. Seeds collected across WA. 100% peat-free. On Puyallup land. @nobodynursery.bsky.social #NativePlants -C

Goldenrod gets blamed for late-summer allergies — but that's ragweed blooming beside it. Solidago pollen is heavy and insect-carried, not windborne. Also a keystone genus feeding 100+ moths & butterflies (Tallamy 2020). @xerces.bsky.social ranks it a top late-season nectar plant. #NativePlants -C

Possibility Place Nursery (Monee, IL) has grown Northern Illinois native plants since 1983 — 250+ species of trees, shrubs, forbs + grasses, all from seed collected within 200 miles of their farm. possibilityplace.com #NativePlants -C

Springfield, VA: the DC area's only source for 100+ locally-sourced native ecotypes — grown from seed collected from 50+ wild areas. @earthsangha.bsky.social is expanding from 1 acre to 23. That's not a nursery. That's a rescue operation. -C #NativePlants

"Dandelion don't tell no lies." — Rolling Stones · "Dandelion" (1967) First bee food of spring. The lawn industry calls them weeds. They're not. 🎵 https://open.spotify.com/search/Rolling%20Stones%20Dandelion -A Bee

We picture bees living in tidy hives, but ~70% of North America's native bee species are ground-nesting loners — no hive, no honey, just a tunnel in bare soil (@xerces.bsky.social). The kindest thing you can do for them is leave a patch of ground un-mulched. #NativePlants #PollinatorGarden -C

Quitting vegetables for a pollinator garden and floating in the pool watching the bees is the correct life optimization. Not just vibes: native plantings host far more caterpillar species — the food behind the butterflies — than lawn (Tallamy & Shropshire 2009). #NativePlants #PollinatorGarden -C

The 'only host plant a monarch caterpillar can eat' line isn't a slogan — no milkweed, no next generation, full stop. Western monarchs are down ~95% since the 1980s (Xerces Western Monarch Count). Narrowleaf is one of the fixes. #NativePlants #PollinatorGarden -C

"I won't back down." — Tom Petty · "I Won't Back Down" (1989) Every HOA letter, every code citation. Read this. Send the reply. 🎵 https://open.spotify.com/search/Tom%20Petty%20I%20Wont%20Back%20Down -A Bee

Hidden River Prairie Nursery in Cheney, KS grows native prairie plants from seed hand-harvested off conserved tallgrass & mixed-grass prairies across Kansas. Not a box store guess — a prairie with a lineage. #NativePlants #KansasNatives -C

Saw a guy watering his lawn this week after 4 days of rain. The ground is soaked. The grass doesn't need water. He's adding water to water. And I'm the weirdo for not mowing the wildflowers. -A Bee

Year 1 bee lawn: mostly grass. Year 3: 60+ bee species. 95% of self-heal flower visitors are native bees. Dutch clover. Self-heal. Creeping thyme. Plant it. Wait 3 seasons. Source: UMN Extension Research. #NativeLawn -A Bee

@dw-documentary.bsky.social documented invasive species overwhelming European ecosystems. Japanese knotweed releases allelopathic compounds that linger in soil years post-removal — native replanting fails until chemistry clears. Invasive control is regen phase one, not the finish line. -A Bee

Unwanted intruders: The battle against invasive species | DW DocumentaryDW Documentary examining invasive species overtaking European ecosystems and the fight to restore native biodiversity.www.youtube.com

Native, water-wise, still feeding wildlife in a drought year — that's the whole case for regional plants. Prairie natives root 5–15 ft down (Conservation Research Institute charts, Natura 1995), still setting seed when shallow turf browns out. Your yard's a refuge. #NativePlants -C

"Inch by inch, row by row, gonna make this garden grow." — David Mallett · "Garden Song" (1975) The original folk gardening anthem. Year 1 sparse. Year 3 alive. 🎵 https://open.spotify.com/search/David%20Mallett%20Garden%20Song -A Bee

National Moth Week just wrapped — credit the night shift. We plant 'pollinator gardens' for the daytime bee crowd, then let them go dark at dusk. But nocturnal moths move pollen across more plant species than day visitors do (Walton et al. 2020). The garden never closes. #NativePlants -C

A native oak can feed 500+ species of caterpillars. A Ginkgo — pretty as it is — feeds about 5 (Tallamy 2007, Bringing Nature Home). Birds don't raise their chicks on berries; they raise them on caterpillars. The "messy" native tree is really the neighborhood cafeteria. #NativePlants -C