Allyn🍁

@aewalsh

Master Gardener, native plant enthusiast. Recovering workaholic, now retired from health care. Supporting biodiversity and the environment. Hamilton is home

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Allyn🍁@aewalsh· 17d

Swallowtail butterflies love Tithonia! Not native here in Canada and apparently orange is the least favourite colour of gardeners - but totally worth it for the butterfly watching!

A giant swallowtail butterfly on the orange flowers of Tithonia

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· 20d

Here is a swallowtail butterfly I haven’t seen in my garden before - can someone tell me what it is called?

An orange and dark brown butterfly on an orange flower

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· 27d

A female black swallowtail butterfly flitting around the dill

Female black swallowtail (black with a blue band ) flying close to a dill plant at the edge of a patio

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Jun 28

I love seeing my dill being gobbled up by swallowtail caterpillars! There are 6 at different stages and now Thery are starting on the parsley. Lots for all of us to eat!

A yellow and black striped swallowtail caterpillar on dill weed

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· May 31

Best possible day to cycle the rail trail in #HamOnt

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· May 12

Excited about our upcoming native plants sale! June 6, 9:30 am - 1 pm or sold out. Dundurn Pavilion (by the Dundurn Castle parking lot) in #HamOnt Locally grown native plants - plugs and some 1 gallon shrubs. More info: haltonmastergardeners.com/events/plant...

Poster describing native plant sale inn Hamilton Ontario, with photo of a monarch butterfly on pink milkweed flower

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Apr 17

Looking forward to the sale of plants native to the ecoregion around Hamilton and Burlington Ontario on June 6 at the Dundurn Pavilion, 610 York BlvdMark your calendar! More info: haltonmastergardeners.com/events/plant... #HamOnt #Gardening #Nativeplants

Poster with photo of monarch butterfly on a swamp milkweed, advertising a sale of plants native to Hamilton Ontario on June 6

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Mar 31

Spring is here 💚

A cluster of tiny Iris reticulata, both purple and pale yellow, surrounded by last autumn’s old leaves

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Feb 27

Enjoying lunch at The Grand, a just opened restaurant with a hotel theme in #HamOnt

A man sitting in a bistro with exposed brick walls and great light fixtures

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Feb 26

I ♥️ my city after a snowfall. #HamOnt #BruceTrail #NiagaraEscarpment

City of Hamilton, including the Hamilton Brick Works, seen from a snowy wooded trail

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Nov 25

Current events can be so discouraging but then I just go outside and look around me to lift my spirits

Fallen brown and yellow leaves lying on green grass

A tree with almost bare branches against a blue blue sky

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Nov 11

Red Japanese maple leaves on snow covered ground

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Nov 9

What a difference 72 hours makes! #Snow

An urban backyard in November with colourful flowers and leaves

The same urban backyard 3 days later, now blanket in snow hiding all the colour

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Nov 8

This baby Chinquapin oak sapling grew by our garden gate, likely from an acorn buried by a squirrel. Since an oak tree blocking a gate isn’t great we moved it 6 weeks ago. So far it’s done very well. We won’t live to see it get more than 10-15 feet tall but hope it survives 🤞

A tiny oak sapling about a foot tall, in autumn

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Nov 6

My sustainable garden is full of #NativePlants - here is witch hazel (Hamamelis virginiana) Love seeing the spidery blooms in November!

A branch of autumnal witch hazel, losing its yellowing leaves just as it blooms with tiny yellow flowers

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Sep 21

And I’ll raise you our rooftop view in Athens September 15 😉

Early evening in mid-September, Athens Greece, from a rooftop. Wine and cheese on the table in the foreground

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Aug 29

After an hour of scrolling the news, I needed to get a bit of joy back. A quick look at my #Garden photos reminded me of where I find peace and comfort

Spotted bee balm with a digger wasp feeding on it

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Aug 15

The last weekend of our open native plant garden event starts tonight in #HamOnt. Amazing how well biodiverse gardens stand up to heat & drought! #GardenJourneys25

Peck’s skipper on Joe Pye weed, with a bee coming in to land

Poster for Garden Journeys Open Days, a project of Halton Region Master Gardeners with QR code

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Aug 9

When the world seems to have gone nuts, a #NativePlant garden is balm for the soul

A bumblebee on Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot), a delicate mauve flower

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Aug 6

Like all gardeners about to open their garden to visitors, I’m thinking “ I wish the asters and goldenrod were blooming” and “you should have seen it last month”. Plus ça change… #GardenJourneys25 #HamOnt

À front yard garden with nodding onion, pearly everlasting, black-eyed Susan plants amongst many others

À front garden with cardinal flowers, black-eyed Susans, woodland strawberry, and a glimpse of zinnias and red roses

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Aug 3

Happy to see that black swallowtail butterfly got busy amidst my parsley and dill plants! Do you see both caterpillars?

Parsley plant with a black swallowtail caterpillar in the foreground and a second father away

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Jul 21

Finally I’m seeing butterflies in my #PollinatorGarden! So many black swallowtails! Only a couple of monarchs - so far.

A black swallowtail butterfly perched on a zinnia

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Jul 14

The number of pollinators covering shrubby St John’s wort (Hypericum prolificum) never fails to amaze me. All summer long! #NativeBees #Hoverflies #NativePlants

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Jun 22

Looking forward to salmon for dinner tonight, seasoned with dill from my herb garden 😋

À small herb garden in à container, with cubes, dill and cilantro

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Jun 17

There is something so gentle about #NativePlant gardens, don’t you agree?

À native plant garden in southern Ontario with prairie smoke, golden Alexander, and Canada anemone in bloom

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Jun 12

Wow. Speed limit enforcement results in tickets. We can’t have that! Traffic accidents would be reduced and scofflaws are angry!

Screen shot TorStar article saying Vaughn is pausing photo radar because people getting tickets are mad

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Jun 3

@tomflood.bsky.social thanks for the reminder that today is #WorldBicycleDay In honour of it we’ve just returned from a lovely cycle through trails and streets in #HamOnt. Wearing highvis shirts because needs must…

Two people on a city street wearing bike helmets and high visibility shirts

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· Jun 1

After being away the first two weeks of May, it’s taken this long to knock the garden into some sort of shape. Much more to do 😃 #NativePlants #Gardening #HamOnt

A backyard in Spring with lots of greenery and Siberian iris, wild blue Uris, and purple alliums in bloom

A front yard with native plants. And containers with lettuce and herbs coming up

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· May 29

Hey #HamOnt are you an eco-friendly gardener? Putting in #NativePlants and removing invasives? Managing rainwater? Supporting #biodiversity? Become a host garden for this free event showcasing nature friendly gardens. Come visit gardens August 8-20, 15-17 haltonmastergardeners.com/garden-journ...

Poster advertising open garden event in Hamilton Ontario, showing QR code

Allyn🍁@aewalsh· May 22

This constant rain is getting me down because there is a lot to do in the garden. And then I remember that there has been worse gardening weather this year 😜