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brokenseed@brokenseed· 6d

nice day to weed the garden. which is mostly taken up with sitting on my stool and watching bugs

brokenseed@brokenseed· 17d

FINALLY got a monarch caterpillar!

yellow, white, and blacstriped caterpillar on the underside of thin, green leaf, surrounded by more leaves, having a snack

brokenseed@brokenseed· Jul 21

surprise surprise lilies! i planted them in may, so i wasn't expecting them this year. so glad i saw them before the deer did!

five pink lily flowers on top of a single, leafless stem. some of the lily petals have blue veins at the tip. there are a few red and orange marigolds and a glass pink flamingo in the background.

brokenseed@brokenseed· Jun 29

saw a pipevine swallowtail and great spangled fritillary! probably!

butterfly perched on a leaf, surrounded by more leaves. its body is blac with white spots, and it has mostly black wings, with blue edges on the bottom wigs with orange an white spots.

fritillary perched on coneflower disc with proboscis extended. it's brown, orange, and yellow, wih white spots on the bottom wing and black markings on the top.

brokenseed@brokenseed· Jun 26

the bee balm is seven feet tall, the new england asters think it's michaelmas, and i think the tiger swallowtails and skippers prefer cultivars. mess. 🌱

extremely tall leafy green plant with a few light purple, spidery blooms

a group of purple flowers with ray-like petals

a few purple coneflowers with bright pinkish-purple petals and fat seed heads the one at center has a small brown skipper with a white flare on its wing

yellow butterfly with black stripes on a purple coneflower with a fat seed head and short pink-purple petals, surrounded by a few more. there are a lot more green plants in the background and a clump of coneflowers with smaller seed heads and longer petals

brokenseed@brokenseed· Jun 18

TIL there’s a snake plant on the porch in American Gothic, but I’m gonna pretend I already knew and just forgot.

Detail of the Grant Wood painting American Gothic, focusing on the porch of the white house in the background. There’s a snake plant to the left of a beefsteak begonia, both in terra cotta pots, just like half the planet has. I knew about the portrait of his mom with those same plants, so this is pretty embarrassing.

brokenseed@brokenseed· Jun 17

Went with the 250th anniversary sticker in Spanish because it has a nice pebbley texture and the others didn't.

Maryland I Voted sticker on its card. Oval with Maryland flag under an open black oval that says "declaracíon de independencia 250 aniversario." Inside that is a circle with a white MD capitol dome with 1776 and 2026 on either side of the spire, over a black silhouette of the state, over a gold background. Across the bottom third of the black oval is a red ribbon that reads "Votante de Maryland." It is extremely busy, as befitting our flag.

brokenseed@brokenseed· Jun 16

and the first swamp milkweed blooms!

two clusters of small pink flowers, the ones in front open, and the ones in back still closed buds

brokenseed@brokenseed· Jun 15

first orange coneflower, first surprise box turtle, first prickly pear blossom, and first black firefly

flower with radiating orange-yellow petals and a black center that looks a lot like a black-eyed susan yet somehow isn't, surrounded by green leaves

turtle with head tucked in, hising feom the asshole who was pulling creeping charlie in its vicinity

closed yellow-orange blossom on the end of a cactus paddle

tiny bug with long black wings and segmented antennae on some lady's index finger

brokenseed@brokenseed· Jun 7

Yeah, this one wasn’t my best, and I was seriously annoyed it wasn’t my best. Rickey Henderson stealing 100 bases and no one else needs to run!

line-up card for a 108-54 contender with cal raleigh, cecil fielder, rogers hornsby, troy glaus, ernie banks, willie stargell, rickey henderson, babe ruth, bob feller, bob gibson, and wade davis

brokenseed@brokenseed· Jun 3

spigelia marilandica! 🌱

green leaves with sprigs of closed red buds that get smaller as you move further down the stem. the flower at center has opened to reveal a yellow, star-shaped flower

brokenseed@brokenseed· May 25

five days of rain made the leaves on the oakleaf hydrangea double in size! and left the choptank azalea with one non-sad bloom.

shrub in mulch bed. it has large five-lobed leaves that look like oak leaves, and four conical clusters of green to white flowers, larger ones at the base.

single white flower with pink base and long, hooked stamen, amid green leaves and bare stamens

brokenseed@brokenseed· May 15

the pinkladies and canada anemone are evenly-matched, so i don't have to worry about this part of the flowerbed

large, pink, cup-shaped flowers and smaller white flowers in peaceful coexistence, with some other overwhelmed plants in the background

brokenseed@brokenseed· May 10

Starting a conspiracy theory that the Exxon next to the Heritage Foundation that "journalists" love to take pictures of is keeping their prices artificially low bc they're usually as jacked up as the Exxon on Pennsylvania Ave SE

gas buddy map of DC east of the Capitol, with prices of $5.69 SE of Union Station, $6.29 SE of the Library of Congress, and prices of $4.79 and $4.59 further east

brokenseed@brokenseed· Apr 25

it's rainy and gross, so here's more azaleas from brighton dam and brookside gardens before the frost!

pink, red, and white azaleas along dirt path with trees, the reservoir, and sky in the background

from left: white azalea, dark pink-red azalea, and tree trunks emerging from clouds of pink azaleas

ball of orange flowers with red tips and long, curled stamens

close-up of five-petaled azalea flower with white center and lilac-pink edges, surrounded by green leaves and more flowers in background

brokenseed@brokenseed· Apr 23

it's my fault for not covering the sensitive plants just in case, but I'm very annoyed that the japanese maple, redbuds, and crape myrtles all look like ass, but the clematis is fine and blooming early. it was a frost warning, not a hard freeze warning!!

four-leaved dark purple flower surrounded by green leaves on vines

brokenseed@brokenseed· Apr 21

following up with a trip to the national arboretum!

bonsai atlas cedar in front of red japanese maple

401+ year old bonsai that survived hiroshima and was gifted to the us

pink, white, likac and red azaleas with a red japanese maple in rear, other trees surrounding

understory of red, white, and pink azaleas winding uphill

brokenseed@brokenseed· Apr 20

and then follow it up with a trip to brookside gardens

medium pink azaleas on the left, light pink with a few dark pink azaleas on the left

close-up of double-flowered light purple azaleas

brokenseed@brokenseed· Apr 20

tight shot of salmon pink azaleas, with ine fuzzy bumble bee butt near the top center

bright, darknpink azaleas at center in front of paved path and dozens of white, pink, purple, and red azaleas, trees, in the background

brokenseed@brokenseed· Apr 20

close up of clustered light pink and single white azaleas

.5 of 3.5 benches with various colors of azaleas, trees, and brighton dam in the background

landscape with medium pink, then white axaleas, with clumps of various colored azaleas and the reservoir in the background

curving grass path lined by six+ foot pink, white and red azaleas and trees under a patchy blue sky

brokenseed@brokenseed· Apr 20

sun's out ten minutes later

brokenseed@brokenseed· Apr 20

april is great

brokenseed@brokenseed· Apr 17

first spiderwort of the spring! already fading!

hot pink three-lobed flower emerging from grass-like leaves

brokenseed@brokenseed· Apr 14

woodland phlox next to a hosta in full midday sun, because i only make good decisions. of course they're doing better than the one i put in the shade 🙃

clump of five-petaled light purple flowers

brokenseed@brokenseed· Apr 8

rare occasion on pinterest where i wish something were ai. only $685.71!

screencap from pinterest of snot green, yellow, and white marbled toilet with the words “shop now. the home depot 1-piece elongated toilet. sponsored” below it

brokenseed@brokenseed· Mar 12

smarch

brokenseed@brokenseed· Mar 12

It was 86 yesterday. It was 73 at midnight. My head may actually explode from the weather change.

brokenseed@brokenseed· Nov 6

brokenseed@brokenseed· Oct 18

pretty good sunrise this morning!

trees and fence in silhouette in bottom foreground, colorful sky in background, starting with blue, gold and pink at the bottom, then pink, peach, and light lurple in the middle, and purple and pink clouds at the top

trees in silhouette in foreground of pink-gold glow, and dusky blue sky above

brokenseed@brokenseed· Oct 6

i forgot i had black-eyed susans right there when i planted the calico asters this spring and ran into some spacing issues! i think i like it, though.