Jim the Gardener
Veteran, Botanist, Aquarist & Amature Lepidopterist who loves Cactus, Daylilies, Hoyas and Midwest Flora & Fauna. Eco-based Nihilist Catastrophist. #KillYourLawn #PlantNatives #FightDepressionWithPlants #NoKings #EarthenRealm #ListenToRatatat
- Ariocarpus kotschoubeyanus ssp. Elephantidens Blooming fir the first time in since having it in my collection. My heart stoppd when I saw this bloom as I came down to my growroom. I love Arios so much. #ariocarpus #seedgrown #indoorcactus #cactusflower #cactuslover #bloomdcroll
- I walked outside of work this morning. 7:30 AM #inspiration #vibe #nebraska #nebraskasunrise #photography #vaporwave #sunrise #sunrisephotography #sweetumspollution #sweetums
- I heard the guy who threw the sandwitch was acquitted. If the club doesn't fit, you must acquit. ✊️
- This is hands down, the most beautiful wild #Ratibita columnifera I've ever seen. The #petal shape is large and perfect, the #ombre is insane from red to yellow and the bright yellow #margins are nuts. I took some seeds and scattered some seeds. #native #bloomscroll #conservation #wildflower #mendel
- I bet elves have leaf shaped nipples. Like, I bet Legolas has hastate areolas.Wood elves for sure have maple, linden and poplar. Legolas is a wood elf, yeah, but he's a main character, so he stands out... ...whats that...we're live? ... Hey kids! Welcome to Jim the Gardener's talk on leaf shapes!
- Hey, it's been awhile. I guess seasonal depression has been encroaching into fall for me this year. Kind of a bummer. Here's a #cactus. #Copiapoa #hypogaea First time #blooming for me. A relatively #spineless cactus, this is one of my favorites. The flower looks like Hypericum - St. John's Wort.
- #Stagmomantis carolina Carolina #Mantis - Male & Female My job is rough on me mentally sometimes, but it's finding #friends like these little beauties that give me a serotonin boost. #ThoughtsAndPrayingMantis #NativeBeneficialInsect #AndOhMyGodDoIPray #cranberries
- My #Astrophytum #caput-medusae has finally bloomed and it's magnificent, just wanted to share. Have a great day and stay cool. ✌️ #bloomscroll #cactus #cactusflower #PsychRockSavesTheSoul #SuckItMrCrabs
- Hey everyone, it's been awhile ✌️ Mental health check, everyone okay? Can I share with you some lovely #lepidoptera? Limenitis arthemis ~ Red-spotted Admiral Papilio glaucus ~ Eastern Tiger Swallowtail Libytheana carinenta ~ American Snout Asterocampa celtis ~ Hackberry Emperor 🤘
- I made a very beautiful friend today in the #garden. She was shy until she knew I was a friend and happily climbed up for a photo op. She was placed back on her daylily so she could go back to hunting #Paraphidippus aurantius Golden #JumpingSpider #ArthropodLove #IBeatArachnophobia #Spodermen
- Double prizes of #urushiol. #Toxicodendron #radicans - Eastern #PoisonIvy & Toxicodendron radicans subsp. #negundo - #Midwestern Poison Ivy (First time seeing this.) ☠️🤌Handle with care and wash your hands even if you're immune like myself.🤌☠️ Urushiol smells so good btw, sorry if you're allergic.
- #Agapostemon virescens Bicolored Striped Sweat #Bee This beautiful female was having the best morning. The official bee of #Toronto, is #1 for me. Tied with B. griseocollis, this is the most common bee in my yard and I'm all about it. #PlantForPollinators #BloomScroll #PollenPants
- Three turbs and a gymno #blooming for today. Turbinicarpus lophophoroides Turbinicarpus klinkerianus #Turbinicarpus alonsoi #Gymnocalycium bruchii #cactus #cactusflower #bloomscroll #IndoorCultivated #FuckPoachers #ListenToDanielDonato #StaySane #breathe 💜✌️💜
- Out hybridizing #Daylilies yesterday and we found a primo #bee. #Mellisodes communis Common #Longhorn Bee Top 3 #native bees for me right here. This beautiful lady was resting from the rain and was kind enough to let me photograph her. "It's so fluffy I want to die." #PlantNatives #NoPesticides
- I understand the irony of preaching to plant natives while showing a bee on a daylily, but we plant an excessive amount of natives to offset our side business. Also, there's sooooo many small bee species who love the daylily pollen. Like, go bananas over it. Like this Sweat Bee I'm still IDing.
- Margined Leatherwing Beetle #Chauliognathus marginatus New boot goofin! This beetle is sporting some #HauteCouture #milkweed pollinia booties. Too cute to handle, and a pretty solid #pollinator. A perfect gentleman to take home to your parents. 👍 #NoPesticides #PlantNatives #BeetlesIsMoneysToo
- I went to the annual Mulhall's #cactus & #succulent show this Saturday and won 1st place. I'm elated and honored. I brought in my #Lophophora #jourdaniana potted up in a 6" Italian terra cotta pot that sadly #bloomed a day late. #seedgrown #fuckpoachers #listentoratatat #bloomscroll #cacti
- I'm happy that so many #native #solitarybees utilize my #daylilies. I love seeing this while I'm out pollinating. *Note: I see #bees frequent the #hemerocallis with fragrance over non #fragrant cv.* Augochlora pura Pure Green Sweat Bee Lasioglossum gemmatum [No common name] #bloomscroll
- Wilke's Mining #Bee Andrena wikella Found this incredible bee a little bit ago while on a job. I watched it clean itself for a minute (cutest thing) and then it took off. #entomology #beepictures #plantnatives #protectnativebees #sofluffy
- #Lucidota atra Black #Firefly Easily one of my favorite insects in the #coleoptera family. I'm glad to have seen many in my yard this year, probably about 7 now. Let's me know I'm doin somethin right. #PlantNatives #KillYourLawn #NoPesticides #NoKings #InsectPhotography
- Incredibly proud to hang this in our yard. (It will be actually hung up soon.) We are now officially a certified #pollinator habitat in the state of NE.
- #Agapostemon virescens - Bicolored Striped Sweat #Bee pollinating ther ever loving heck out of a #Lactuca pulchella - Common Blue Lettuce flower. My first time seeing a Lactuca in person and it was super cute, but the real star is this bee absolutely dusted in pollen adorned with #pollen pouches.
- #Bombus griseocollis Brown-belted #Bumble #Bee In the garden earlier I saw a queen Brown-belt and a squad of her drones. She was polishing up the #Monarda while her drones did work on the #Baptisia. Note: Queen doesn't have the brown belt. The male drones on the other hand do have the brown belt.
- #Lepidoptera report 🚨 #Polites themistocles, Tawny-edged Skipper 100% polite. 200% cute. I almost missed this guy, being so dainty at about 1". Skippers are rad. They look like little shuttle spaceships. #lepidoptera #butterfly #ListenToTheDonkeys
- #Espargyreus clarus - Silver-spotted #Skipper Saw a couple on the job today. This one was sunning on a bench and getting harrased by another male flying around. Always a favorite. #AmateurLepidopterist #MidwestNative #PlantNatives #SkippersAreHellaFluffy
- G'mornin' Before I'm off to work for the day, here's one of my wife's favorites in the house #blooming today. #Mammillaria schumannii globosa. I really need to buy 2 more for outcrossing genetics. Have a good Monday ✌️ #bloomscroll #cactus #cactusflower #seedgrown #indoorcultivated
- I found a #fasciated banana at Aldi. It was a first for me and I instantly bought the bunch, just out of curiosity. Being as nanas are #berries, I wasn't sure how the flesh would look, and it did not disappoint. Double prizes, just as I had hoped! #BananaForScale #WhoSheTellsYouNotToWorryAbout
- Update on taste as I just got done talkin with my wife about it. Couldn't put my finger on it, but it tasted like banana lite. As if someone took just a little bit of sugar out of it. I imagine it's due to splitting nutrients between the fruits.
- #Bee time on the Tradescantia! I love a good buzzing #Bombus in the morning. #bloomscroll #plantnatives #pollinatorgarden #killyourlawn
- #Toxicodendron radicans - Eastern Poison Ivy entwined with #Rosa blanda - Prairie Rose. I found a good sized patch of Prairie Rose lining a ditch between jobs. It smelled amazing and the Ivy being wrapped within the roses was very beautiful. Thought of @toxicoradica.bsky.social when I took the pic.
- #Cardinalis cardinalis - Northern #Cardinal First time seeing the neighborhood female for the year. I love her so much. Photo taken with a Samsung S10 + monocular. While I do like this photo, if anyone has a recommendation for a nice (affordable) camera bundle, I am open to suggestions. #Birding
- #Penestemon grandiflorus - Large Flower #Beardtongue (purple flower) Penstemon digitalis - #Foxglove Beardtongue (white flower) #BloomScroll #SerotoninGardening #BumbleBeeDreams #PlantNatives #KillYourLawn
- *Fun fact* The stripes within the flower, on the lower petals, act as a runway/landing zone for bees. Due to how bees see, this makes the lines stand out against the rest of the flower, kinda like black light posters.
- I'm a simple man, I like the #mints & the #peas. Today I bring unto you, a mint. #Scutellaria leonardii - Small Skullcap If you don't have a lawn like me, you need some fillers. #Skullcaps are amazingly beneficial to early #pollinators and do an awesome job at being #groundcover. #bloomscroll
- For the #Lamiaceae gods have gifted upon me, seed pods.
- #Spilosoma virginica - Virginian Tiger Moth This chonky lady was gettin whipped all over by the wind, so I picked her up for a photo-op and to move her. It's funny when they tuck n' roll. Never let anyone tell you #moths are ugly, call them ugly instead. 🤘 #LepidopteraLove #MothPhotography
- Suns out, #GuerillaGardening, Plant that shit now! I rehomed a couple of #Gaillardia aristata - Great #Blanketflower from a new build site I was working near. It's a massive bummer to know the lot will be plowed in a year. I'm collecting seeds in the fall.
- Found in a small #microprairie next to some (god awful) new construction. I was working on a yard and noticed a very small #butterfly toot by and land on a False London-rocket. Took me a couple mins to get some clear shots, but holy shit, what an incredible little #Lepidoptera.
- If you know me, you know I love the #Hairstreak family. #Callophyrus gryneus - Juniper Hairstreak This has been a bucket list species for me ever since I read my midwest butterfly guide book a couple years back. Easily made my entire day, I'm elated. #FightForFauna #ProtectPollinators
- Can I get a "what what", for some #Amsonia hubrichtii - Thread-leaf bluestar? Not truly native to NE (OK & AR), but a rockin early bloomer to have in your #pollinatorgarden regardless. Such a cool ass species that pollinators go crazy for. I've seen a couple smaller #bees & #butterflies today.
