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(24,653 posts)Botany
(70,524 posts)Heuchera richardsonii (Prairie Alumroot)
This plant gets a tiny little flower and a neat little native bee. (cellophane bee)
If you love the earth plant native plants this is critical.
https://homegrownnationalpark.org/
Botany
(70,524 posts)pollinators is very important.
pazzyanne
(6,556 posts)Where would we bee without them? I hope we never find out!
NJCher
(35,690 posts)He/she was a bumblebee and he followed me around the garden from raised bed to raised bed. Each bed has flowers in it, because I consider flowers in a garden to be as essential as tomatoes or cucumbers.
I as fascinated watching the bumblebee fly: like a helicopter.
I did not, however, see him on the tulips or the daffodils or even the creeping Charlie which has lots of blue blooms right now. Maybe he just satiated himself and wanted a companion.
Botany
(70,524 posts)If you get a chance watch a bumblebee on a native plant such as a bluebell because they
are "buzz pollinating" aka sonication because as they are getting nectar their bodies are
vibrating which cause the pollen to fall off the flower and onto the bee.
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I_UndergroundPanther
(12,480 posts)Around here about 4 plants I will gather the seeds into seed balls and scatter them everywhere.
You don't see many milkweed plants anymore.
Doing it for the monarchs
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)We have a native green-leafed variety here people call Coral Bells. Not sure why.
Botany
(70,524 posts)H. richarsonii is harder to find but it is one of the few Huechera that can take full sun
and it is drought resistant too. Its genetics come from "goat prairies."
There is a H. americana with green leaves, a H. villosa Atropurpurea with Purple Leaves, and another
native H. ?? that has multicolored leaves. All are native.
The nursery industry has bastardized the plant into things that sell but do not fill their needed roll
in the ecology.
BTW native Huechera like many native plants are much slower growing than the garden center/landscape
varieties.
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)The conditions around here are temperate rainforest, and it takes a specialized kind of plant to thrive.
Thanks for the info!
nevergiveup
(4,762 posts)I am not good with words
and everyone knows it
but on this one glorious day
I will thrive to be a poet.
Peace to All
moof
(3,390 posts)Wilson : [Reading from an encyclopedia] "P-O-O-K-A. Pooka. From old Celtic mythology, a fairy spirit in animal form, always very large. The pooka appears here and there, now and then, to this one and that one. A benign but mischievous creature. Very fond of rumpots, crackpots, and how are you, Mr. Wilson?"
llmart
(15,542 posts)I'll be picking up trash near a wetland by my house. There's a sidewalk and a brand new wooden bridge that I can walk to from my house. There is also a 7 Eleven store farther down that sidewalk and the neighborhood kids buy their junk snack food there and ride their bikes and throw their trash over the railing into the water that leads to the wetlands.
I'm always amazed by what is floating in the water and sometimes it stops the normal flow of the water.
mountain grammy
(26,630 posts)Just beautiful! Happy Earth Day from my mountain, where it's cold, gray and snowing.
This post so brightened my day.
ShazzieB
(16,437 posts)Thanks, Heartstrings!
BobTheSubgenius
(11,564 posts)And I wish the Earth many more.
CTyankee
(63,912 posts)It inspires me.
crickets
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(17,641 posts)NNadir
(33,532 posts)...any of them represent a good aspiration.
LakeArenal
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