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Laisser le premier, le dernier aussi, et en garder pour les oiseaux
Samuel LeGresley
Laisser le premier, le dernier aussi, et en garder pour les oiseaux
Samuel LeGresley
Samuel LeGresley
Une demande spéciale à la rangée de framboises
Samuel LeGresley
Une demande spéciale à la rangée de framboises
Samuel LeGresley
Samuel LeGresley
«L’arbre aux oiseaux» et la cueillette responsable
Samuel LeGresley
«L’arbre aux oiseaux» et la cueillette responsable
Samuel LeGresley
Samuel LeGresley

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Voir en taille réelle L’archipel des mottes de terre : ode à une vie en campagne - NOUVEL ARTICLE (In French only) Voulez-vous savoir l’histoire derrière ces photos? Samuel parle de sa jeunesse dans un nouveau carnet de nature! Visitez le lien d
Voir en taille réelle QUESTIONS FOR MAY /// QUESTIONS DU MOIS DE MAI This might just look like a regular lawn, but it does have our native wild strawberry in it! This week the blog (link in bio) links to the new Resources page. It has most of the useful links I use to i
Voir en taille réelle Saw this Mourning dove perched atop a wonderful Amelanchier spp. (Serviceberry) tree! Swipe for the Trout lilies (Erythronium americanum) in their meadow along the Wolastoq (Saint John) river. / / / Aperçu le long du fleuve Wolastoq, une tourt
Voir en taille réelle Round 2 of questions for No Mow May have been added. Curious? Visit the link in bio. /// La ronde 2 de questions sur Pas de tondeuse en mai est ajoutée. Curieux? Visitez le lien en bio.
Voir en taille réelle For many of us, the lawnmower will be in the shed next month. But are we asking the right questions when we talk about No Mow May? Let's launch our NEW website, amelan.ca, with an article on which questions we should ask ourselves this coming month
Voir en taille réelle Some sketches from last fall's harvest / Quelques sketches des récoltes de l'automne dernier || Staghorn Sumac (Rhus typhina) Sumac vinaigrier / Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) Asclépiade incarnate #naturejournaling #nativeplantsof
Voir en taille réelle THE FLOWERING HOBBLEBUSH I had to capture this moment before noon as I don't know how long the flower will last. This hobblebush (Viburnum lantanoides) branch, which I found broken on a trail two weeks ago, and then picked up and put in a glass of wa
Voir en taille réelle Drawing plants is somewhat of a puzzle. The intricacies of every individual are hard, if not impossible, to capture fully on paper. That's not even talking of the species' identification, which can take lots of practice depending. This dried plant, w
Voir en taille réelle HEART-LEAVED AMERICAN-ASTER / BLUE WOOD ASTER /// ASTER À FEUILLES CORDÉES (Symphyotrichum cordifolium) Asters are a pollinator favourite and one of the late flowers to bloom! They might just crop up in your yard if you decide not to mo
Voir en taille réelle HAWTHORN /// AUBÉPINE/SENELLIER (Crataegus spp.) Even though the individual species are hard to separate, it is relatively easy to identify a hawthorn among other kinds of trees for the needle on its branches, which is in fact a modified sub-
Voir en taille réelle ART CHALLENGE - 30 days of wildflowers DÉFI ARTISTIQUE - 30 jours de fleurs indigènes /// September just begins in ten days, but I decided to take a break on plant features and reflect until spring! In the meantime, I have decided to ta
Voir en taille réelle GHOST PIPE - MONOTROPE UNIFLORE (Monotropa uniflora) The Ghost pipe or Indian pipe, found in most of Canada and the United States, is a fascinating plant. It is white because it does not produce chlorophyll, the pigment that makes other plants green