thegardendude 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🇵🇸

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Husband, #dog dad to two goofball #Frenchies; #bi, #DemSocialist. Passionate about #gardening and wildlife/habitat restoration. Guitar and travel are my secondary interests and hobbies.

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Pronouns: He/Him
Location: Richmond, Virginia (US)
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Blog: https://medium.com/@firmlyplanted

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2025-09-21 02:09:47 UTC

Spent the morning at the @npub1hnx…ntuj botanical garden fall plant sale; so encouraging to see so many vendors selling not just natives, but a lot of lesser-known and under-appreciated natives like boneset, swamp sunflower, golden ragwort, and whorled loosestrife. Would be great if the big box stores would get on board with promoting natives...

2025-07-12 16:14:10 UTC

Me, making plans for yard work over the weekend:
“I’ll cut the grass, then weed whack around the house and the shed, clean up the over-grown area and…."
Me, after the reality of dew points in the upper 70s is felt after just mowing: “On second thought, that’s good enough for today.” 🥵

2025-06-07 13:09:50 UTC

Deeply concerned about cuts to NOAA (among so many other things) and the immediate danger to public safety this will cause, as we reverse course on addressing climate change 🤬 It feels like this regime has opened so many lines of battle that people are feeling overwhelmed and paralyzed as to where to even start. I hope I’m wrong, but that’s certainly how I’ve felt at times.

2025-05-08 03:28:40 UTC

Found this little fella while weeding loriope this morning at the nursery 🐸 #frog #wildlife
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2025-03-13 16:42:31 UTC

Spring has sprung at the nursery!
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2025-03-02 18:19:18 UTC

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I won't be using Firefox anymore. LibreWolf is completely separate from them and they seem to be much more committed to user data privacy than Mozilla is.

2025-03-02 18:07:28 UTC

#Firefox removing a statement from their terms of service saying they'll never sell your data is pretty disconcerting, so I'm switching to #LibreWolf (a browser with Firefox underpinnings but much more dedicated to user privacy, lots of great features built in to stop data collection). https://librewolf.net

2025-02-09 22:58:47 UTC

I was today years old when I found out that Echinacea purpurea is actually NOT native to Virginia, and now I'm feeling like I need to go back and double check everything else I thought was native to Virginia and/or the Mid-Atlantic...

2025-02-09 18:45:22 UTC

#SilentSunday
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2025-02-02 04:31:52 UTC

A few tips for growing better strawberries #gardening https://youtube.com/shorts/J1AZwJPLur8?si=Bw-LhfRh8InKHm41

2025-01-25 15:44:54 UTC

Found out yesterday that the nursery I work at is going to stop selling even more invasive plants (discontinued Barberry and Burning Bush last year); next year, no more Mahonia, Nandina domestica, and I'm hoping Miscanthus will also be dropped. Instead we'll be increasing our stock of natives...adding Sourwood this year and native Styrax (Silverbell)

2025-01-18 02:08:04 UTC

Boss told me today that because of the severe cold coming next week (9ºF mornings!!) that we won't be working Monday to Thursday. I'm going to go stir crazy, I've already been home a lot the last three and a half weeks between the holidays and snow days. Also not really keen on dipping into PTO so early in the year

2024-10-29 22:19:51 UTC

So many people are indulging their worst anxieties and doom posting that I can’t practically keep muting and adding words to exclude from my feed. So…. I’ll be taking a few days off from social media 😮‍💨

2024-09-03 22:54:58 UTC

Southern Magnolia, Magnolia grandiflora (Little Gem?) #flowers #BloomScrolling #trees
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2024-09-01 19:31:15 UTC

Fruit fly traps have become our new home decor, sadly. If they don't start going away in another week, we're calling pest control because we're at wit's end as to what they're going after, how they're getting in, etc.

2024-08-31 14:29:05 UTC

Britain's rarest wild orchid discovered again after one man's 15-year search https://www.positive.news/environment/britains-rarest-wild-orchid-discovered-again-after-15-years-of-searching/

2024-08-29 22:11:37 UTC

Not sure if anyone else is seeing this but there's been an explosion in the number of houseplant stores in my area, I count at least three in/around Richmond, VA that have opened in the last few years. They sell (obviously) houseplants but also have workshops for potting up your own and creating terrariums. Interesting trend!

2024-08-28 02:09:10 UTC

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#FoliageFriday?

2024-08-27 23:29:09 UTC

Feta is the best cheese and you cannot convince me otherwise! Enjoying an avocado/chickpea/feta salad for dinner 😋

2024-08-22 17:51:04 UTC

We need a decentralized platform for sharing and searching for recipes. Searching Mastodon for something specific results in either nothing or having to comb through too many posts.

2024-08-22 00:19:57 UTC

I hate that the Dems are nearly identical to the GOP on immigration. Less cruel in that they won't lock kids in cages like Trump did, but I find it hard to believe we can't find a way to welcome people fleeing violence and poverty. Instead we turn them away "sorry, we're closed."
#DNC

2024-08-18 20:39:48 UTC

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Interesting. I would think the problem would be cardboard coated in that thin waxy material, and/or cardboard with a lot of lettering and graphics on it (the ink). I haven't seen any negative effects from plain cardboard in the few times I've used it so far.

2024-07-15 21:21:28 UTC

Friendly reminder to check yourselves for ticks if you’ve been out in nature at all. Removed three in the last week.