Allyn🍁

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

A giant swallowtail butterfly on the orange flowers of Tithonia
An orange and dark brown butterfly on an orange flower
Female black swallowtail (black with a blue band ) flying close to a dill plant at the edge of a patio
A yellow and black striped swallowtail caterpillar on dill weed
Headshot of two people with sunglasses and bike helmets - and big smiles - on a sunny day
Poster describing native plant sale inn Hamilton Ontario, with photo of a monarch butterfly on pink milkweed flower
Poster with photo of monarch butterfly on a swamp milkweed, advertising a sale of plants native to Hamilton Ontario on June 6
A cluster of tiny Iris reticulata, both purple and pale yellow, surrounded by last autumn’s old leaves
A man sitting in a bistro with exposed brick walls and great light fixtures
City of Hamilton, including the Hamilton Brick Works, seen from a snowy wooded trail
Fallen brown and yellow leaves lying on green grass
Red Japanese maple leaves on snow covered ground
An urban backyard in November with colourful flowers and leaves
A tiny oak sapling about a foot tall, in autumn
A branch of autumnal witch hazel, losing its yellowing leaves just as it blooms with tiny yellow flowers
Early evening in mid-September, Athens Greece, from a rooftop. Wine and cheese on the table in the foreground
Spotted bee balm with a digger wasp feeding on it
Peck’s skipper on Joe Pye weed, with a bee coming in to land
Poster with link to https://haltonmastergardeners.com/garden-journeys-open-days/
A bumblebee on Monarda fistulosa (wild bergamot), a delicate mauve flower
À front yard garden with nodding onion, pearly everlasting, black-eyed Susan plants amongst many others
Parsley plant with a black swallowtail caterpillar in the foreground and a second father away
A black swallowtail butterfly perched on a zinnia
À small herb garden in à container, with cubes, dill and cilantro
À native plant garden in southern Ontario with prairie smoke, golden Alexander, and Canada anemone in bloom
Screen shot TorStar article saying Vaughn is pausing photo radar because people getting tickets are mad
Two people on a city street wearing bike helmets and high visibility shirts
A backyard in Spring with lots of greenery and Siberian iris, wild blue Uris, and purple alliums in bloom
Poster advertising open garden event in Hamilton Ontario, showing QR code
A backyard covered in about 20 cm of snow
A cluster of golden Alexander plants, just starting to show the buds of yellow flowers
A group of white trilliums, some starting to fade away to pink
A garden bed beside a fence with ferns, trilliums, and the red and yellow flowers of Aquilegia canadensis
Plant with yellow flower and hairy pods
A wooded area in early spring with tres beginning to leaf out and moss greening up
President Clinton’s Oval Office. Lightly adorned fireplace in natural colours
Tiarella stolonifera or foam flower, a ground covering plant with tiny white flowers on a stalk
Pierre Poilievre eating an apple while being interviewed by the editor of a community newspaper
Garden containers with herbs and vegetables on an asphalt parking pad
Snow covered urban backyard with muskoka chair buried up to the armrests
A snowy plowed and shovelled street with a man carrying a snow shovel walking over to help a neighbour
Snow covered urban backyard. Shrubs and trees covered with snow as is à Muskoka chair
Woman standing in front of a banner from Canadian Blood Services
Front garden in summer with native plants and no lawn
Snow covered small containers in a corner of a native plant garden
Small snow covered urban backyard with animal tracks in the foreground (?rabbit) with evergreen trees, a fence and a garden in the background
Monarch butterfly on a milkweed plant
A branch of witch hazel with dried leaves and flowers hanging on after a snowfall
A all garden with evergreens and deciduous shrubs frosted with a little snow
Seed heads of Eupatorium maculatum (Joe Pye weed)
The yellow blossoms of Hamamalis virginiana
A front yard garden with plants native to southern Ontario