Kate Ferguson
@kateleighferg
Plants and politics 🌱🔵
More beautiful blooms from the community garden this weekend: an extra fluffy zinnia, a bed full of flowers, and a very cool cockscomb. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #gardening #communitygarden
An absolute TREE of a sunflower. Spotted today at one of my town’s community gardens. 🌱🌻 #gardening #bloomscrolling
Just a few of the zinnias I saw at the community garden today. The flowers in this bed were particularly large and striking. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #gardening
It was zinnia heaven today at the community garden. 🌱 #gardening #bloomscrolling
In today’s episode of Cool Bugs In My Garden: these strange caterpillars, each wearing bits of dried flower petals. Anyone know what they are? I’ve seen them on my purple coneflower too. Bonus game: find the caterpillars! There are at least four in the second photo. 🌱🐛 #bloomscrolling #gardening
Spotted this scary-looking fellow on my mouse melon plant. Turns out it’s a squash vine borer moth. It flew off. Hopefully it won’t be back. 🌱 #gardening #insects
The latest zinnias to bloom. My 6yo didn’t believe the flower on the right was real. Zinnias are just that pretty! 🌱 #bloomscrolling #gardening
A few of my starry sky petunias turned out more yellow than purple this week. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #gardening
More zinnia photos! Petals filling in nicely, plus another flower on the way. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #gardening
Bees are loving the purple coneflower 🌱🐝 #bloomscrolling #gardening #pollinators #nativeplants
A new one for me this year in the vegetable garden: mouse melons aka cucamelons. They just started blooming this week. I gave the plant a trellis to climb, but at this point the vines are spreading like crazy through the rest of the garden. 🌱🍉🥒 #gardening
The first zinnia is getting ready to bloom. Can’t wait! 🌱 #gardening #bloomscrolling
Spotted a little friend taking a rest on a shady zucchini leaf 🌱🐝 #bumblebee #pollinators #gardening
Vegetable garden update: lots of peppers growing, our first cuke (since picked, photo is from a few days ago), and so many tomatoes on the way. 🌱 #gardening #vegetables
Blooming this week: striped purslane (I should really plant these in my hanging baskets); speckled petunias; the first nasturtium blossom; and finally, a flower on the eggplant. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #gardening
I know they’re evil and everything, but they do look really cool. (Yes, I squashed it after I took the pic.) 🌱 #gardening #insects #invasive #spottedlanternfly
Today in the garden: black-eyed susans! Spotted a little green inchworm and two bees brawling. 🌱🐝🐛 #gardening #bloomscrolling #pollinators
Spotted some six- and eight-legged friends in the garden this week. 🌱🕷️ #gardening #bloomscrolling #insects #spiders
Was delightfully surprised to see him recently, playing bass for Ben Kweller
Baby rabbit update: He’s eaten just about all of my son’s lettuce plants and most of my baby celery. 🌱🐇 #gardening
I always let clover grow in my garden too! It’s currently almost leafless thanks to this little guy though.
“First he ate some lettuces and some French beans; and then he ate some radishes; and then, feeling rather sick, he went to look for some parsley.” 🐇🌱