#PacificAster is one of my fave #NativePlants to use for #rewilding & for attracting more #pollinators.

It's a small, hardy, beautiful purple #NativeWildflower which is found from BC to California. It's tolerant of many different coastal habitats, from ocean sand dunes to rocky outcrops to salt marshes to grasslands to forests. Great plant to use for soil erosion & slopes stabilization work. It has a deep, clumpy, extensive fibrous root system - don't grow beside plants with weaker root systems.

Pacific aster is extremely easy to grow in it's native grow zones, across coastal PNW areas. You'll love their long bloom time, from late May into late October. It provides pollen sources for pollinators in Fall. After they stop blooming, they'll produce fluffy seed heads, full of prolific wind-born #seeds. Snip off tops of seed heads to save them. I store mine in airtight jars & share a lot of them too.

#gardening #Bloomscrolling #florespondence #Saanich #Gardeners #botanical #Flowers #PollinatorGarden #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #Zone8 #perennials #VictoriaBC #Wsanec #PlantLovers #FallFlowers #Autumn #Nature #SeedSavers #SeedKeepers #SeedSharing #SeedBanking #SeedCollecting #SilentSunday #biodiversity

A Guide to Collecting Seed from Native Trees and Shrubs in the UK
https://treegrowersguide.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2025/04/A-GUIDE-TO-COLLECTING-SEED-FROM-NATIVE-TREES-AND-SHRUBS-IN-THE-UK.pdf

#SolarPunkSunday #Seeds #Trees #SeedCollecting

"Seed: collecting and storing
Growing plants from seed is generally straightforward and inexpensive. It is an opportunity to increase the number of plants in your garden for free."
https://www.rhs.org.uk/propagation/seed-collecting-storing

#SolarPunkSunday #SeedStorage #Seeds #SeedCollecting #SeedSaving #Gardening #RHS

How to Collect Seeds And Save Seeds
https://www.gardenersworld.com/how-to/grow-plants/how-to-collect-and-save-seeds/

#SolarPunkSunday #SeedStorage #Seeds #SeedCollecting #SeedSaving #Gardening

How to Collect Seeds
https://thehiddengardens.org.uk/collecting-seeds-from-your-gardens/

#SolarPunkSunday #Seeds #SeedSaving #SeedStorage #SeedCollecting #Flowers #Vegetables #Gardening

This weekend is the #AudubonSociety #RockyMountainBioBlitz . Yesterday I went #SeedCollecting with #WildlandsRestorationVolunteers so I made lots of observations, but today I am at home. I can't use any of the plants I normally take pictures of, because iNaturalist doesn't want captive and cultivated beings, but you know what I can observe? My weeds! All my weeds! Muahahahah!

#gardening

Some highlights from the #APCAW conference on #AshTrees and #EmeraldAshBorer

#JohnDaigle mentioned chemical treatment on selected trees combined with biological control releases. May not need to keep using chemical treatments if the bio-control takes hold.

EricTopper: "Pheromones could draw EAB away from places which would fall under the bio-control umbrella."
John replied that it has not been tested, as far as he knows.

John Daigle: "The goal ultimately is to co-exist. Get brown ash to evolve to be more resistant, possibly by cross-breeding with other ash trees. That is being done with Manchurian ash and is having success."

Ella MacDonald: "Brown ash used for Wabanaki basket making. Green ash not as suitable for basket making.
We might breed brown with green ash - green ash might be more resistant to EAB. Possibly white ash with brown? However, there us no federal store of black or brown ash seeds. Seed collecting of those two are important. Folks can collect it themselves, after positively identifying the species."

FMI about #SeedCollecting from #APCAW / #UMaine

#Ash Protection Collaboration Across #Waponahkik

Seed Collection and Ash Regeneration

Includes:
- Collecting Ash Seed
- Seed Collection Map and Reporting Tool
- Processing and Storing Ash Seed
- Growing Ash From Seed

https://umaine.edu/apcaw/seed-collection-and-ash-regeneration/

#SolarPunkSunday #Biodiversity #Rewilding #PreserveTheSacred #Maine
#EAB #EmeraldAshBorer
#AshTrees #InvasiveSpecies #Wabanaki
#ProtectTheForests
#MaineNews #SaveTheTrees #WabanakiCulture #WabanakiBasketry #WabanakiTradition #Forestry #ProtectTheSacred #TraditionalEcologicalKnowledge #NativeAmericanBasketry #Sustainability #IndigenousStewardship #CulturalPreservation #InvasiveSpecies #EAB #PreservingNature #TEK #TIK #TraditionalIndigenousKnowledge #Basketry #PreservingTheSacred #PreservingTheForest #WabanakiConfederacy
#WabanakiAlliance

Volunteer with us!

Get outside, get your hands dirty and build a better connection with the environment around you! We have several excellent opportunities to volunteer and get involved. For more information, please visit www.raresites.org/about/volunteer

#WaterlooRegion #Cambridge #Kitchener #Waterloo #Wilmot #Woolwich #Wellseley #NorthDumfries #ExploreWR #WRawesome #DTCbridge #GaltLove #DiscoverON
#VolunteerWR #CommunityInvolvement #InvasiveSpeciesRemoval #FoodbankGarden #SeedCollecting

Seed collecting is an almost magical process. I began with one seed, and now I have a bowlful.
#SeedCollecting

Spent some time collecting seed from our Honesty plants. This is such a satisfying gardening activity! Soundtrack in my head: Honesty... is such a lovely herb...
#SeedCollecting

I got my #Covid #booster!

I scheduled it for today because I was going on a #NativePlant #SeedCollecting on Wednesday and didn't want to risk being too sore, but then the seed collection got cancelled. "Hot, dry weather and winds have been a challenge for Native Seed Collections this season." It might still be rescheduled for later this year.

Today I'm cleaning the seeds for Lance-leaved coreopsis / tickseed (Coreopsis lanceolata). This #NativePlant is yellow and drought tolerant.

I've never collected seeds from this particular plant before; instead I bought them.

Now I know that, generally speaking, if seedheads are brown and dried, the seeds can be harvested. You can collect seeds without being a nursery "professional" and they will grow.

#Coreopsis #Tickseed #Seeds #SeedSaving #SeedCollecting #Seeds #NativePlants

*pop*
*Chit*
*Tak!*
The sounds of #seeds randomly popping out of their #seedPods every other minute or so. ;)

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@Siiw and l went out for a long walk in the forest with #BeardGrabber today, and she did some #seedCollecting, while I picked some #berries for us (and the little one in particular).

#gardening

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