Babusya Bonkious
@quackersncheese
I follow brain damaged cartoon dogs and throw pickle jars. Sometimes maker of #NAFO memes. Fierce advocate for the rule of law and democracy. Thoroughbred horse racing fan. Animal coat color genetics buff. MSc. 🇺🇸🔔🇺🇦💙💛
If Polymarket had betting on the new Laura Loomer vs Jackson Hinkle fight on social media, I'd go with Loomer every time for the win. I'm gonna need more popcorn. 🤣🍿🤣🍿🤣 #Loomer
🚨 Evolving Tornado Threat in NC and NC Wisconsin! 🚨 Multiple tornado warnings issued including spotter confirmed tornadoes in last 20 minutes. Keep aware and have a safe place to go! #wiwx
This pale pink daylily is Lullaby Baby. I have clumps growing in spots with distinctly different sunlight patterns, and their bloom pattern varies accordingly. This one gets direct sunlight from dawn until about 2 p.m. and always starts blooming the latest. #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin #flowers
I grow tansy for its robust foliage, which looks sort of like a fern but stands up well to full sun and dry conditions. It has small button-sized yellow flowers that last until fall. The foliage is fragrant when you cut or bruise it, and it's a medicinal plant. #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin #flowers
This pretty petite-sized pink daylily is Siloam Baby. It's a small daylily in both bloom size, height and spread of foliage. It's been a difficult daylily to grow, which is unusual as most daylilies are virtually maintenance free for me. 🤷🏻♀️ #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin #flowers
Much as I love black-eyed Susans, the deer love them more. I have a large patch which the deer happily eat the blooms off of as soon as they open. This bloom somehow survived long enough for me to say hello, before becoming whitetail salad. 😵💫 #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin #flowers
This wonderful daylily, with its rich shades of pink and hints of tangerine, is Hall's Pink. Mine tolerate more shade than most daylilies and still thrive. #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin #flowers
No pollinator garden is complete without native bergamot, which is a lavender member of the bee balm family. The bumblebees swarm all over it. You must give it good circulation and a spot where it isn't constantly damp as it gets powdery mildew otherwise. #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin #flowers
This daylily really only has 6 petals... Another bloom hiding behind it snuck into the photo. 😆 This is Country Melody. It's a big daylily with many large blooms, and so pretty south its shades of pink. #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin #flowers
This fun daylily is named Grape Magic. It's gorgeous with purple petals, and a striking deep purple eye with a golden throat. It doesn't bloom as profusely as some other daylilies, but it has such beautiful flowers I can't fault it. #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin #flowers
Our gray dogwood is going through its second round of blooming. This is a native shrub, with red branches and white berries that robins especially adore. It's a big shrub, fully 15' tall and wide and can tolerate full sun to full shade. #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin #flowers
This beautiful daylily is called Chorus Line. One of its unusual traits, in my yard at least, is that the color varies from salmon to a medium pink, depending on the soil and sunlight it has in its location. #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin #flowers
Recognize this? Your cats will. 😻 I have a huge patch of catnip and yes, all of the local outdoor cats love it. #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin
It's been hot and really smoky this week in Wisconsin, but with a GVS N95 respirator I've taken strolls in the yard to enjoy our the #flowers. Here's what's newly blooming. First, our newest daylily, named Fooled Me. It's blooms are ruffled, large and really vibrant. 🤩 #bloomscrolling #Wisconsin
My favorite quote from @warinthefuture.bsky.social's newsletter this week: Trump: "Would you go to Moscow (to meet Putin)?" Zelenskyy: "It's difficult. There are a lot of Ukrainian drones there. It's dangerous." 🤣🤣🤣 #Ukraine #Zelenskyy #Trump #NAFO #Fellas
Finally, for today, here are two of my bicolor daylilies. Lavandelle has ruffled pale lavender petals alternating with light cream petals. Magic Dawn has 3 narrow creamy yellow and 3 dark red/purplish petals. Both of these daylilies, like all my daylilies, laugh at our -20F winters. #bloomscrolling
These are two of my favorite daylilies. The white with purple eye is named Pandora's Box. It blooms like crazy and grows vigorously. The ice pink is Lullaby Baby. It's a lovely ruffly flower in delicate pink. This one survived being crushed by a huge tree that came down in a storm. #bloomscrolling
Two more of my daylilies. The red is a mystery daylily that came free in a box of bulbs in 1990 and has bloomed profusely every year, with multiple divisions now around our yard. The yellow is named Asiatic Pheasant and has narrow curved petals, unlike most of my other dailies. #bloomscrolling
I love daylilies. They are easy to grow, super low maintenance, come in an amazing number of colors and sizes, and the critters leave them alone. Some of my daylilies are almost 40 years old! Here are Golden Prize, which has salad plate sized blooms and lemon yellow Suzie Wong. #bloomscrolling
It's a gorgeous day in Wisconsin. I took a stroll around the yard to see what's blooming. I have lots of daylilies, but first: purple clematis and lovely pink meadowsweet. It's taken me years to get a stand of meadowsweet established and I love it. So do the pollinators! #bloomscrolling
Hundreds of Ukrainian athletes who could have competed in future Olympics can not comment on the IOC's decision to let russia compete because russia killed them in its genocidal war on Ukraine.