🌺IRiS🌈

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Wild Woman of the woods 🇨🇦 Homesteading, Gardening, Foraging, Plants, Animals, Fungi, Nature. Interested in lots of things. Let's trade garden seeds! DMs open for swaps📨🌱💚

Large patch of bright yellow daffodils with bare sticks and trees in the background
Very Large book of Lichens of North America, pictured on book orange Lichens, blueish gray folios lichens, By IRWIN BRODO SYLVIA DURAN SHARNOFF STEPHEN SHARNOFF
Greenish gray shaggy lichen, blue/gray leafy lichen with big brown eyelike apothocia, a small amount of whitish gray dotted lichen all on a branch, with bit of a barrel with a fire in the background
Clear jars filled with sugar maple sap hang off maple trees, a bit of snow, and brown leaves and the ground, more trees in the background and the golden setting sun rays
Light Frost crystal on turquoise wood, bright green moss, turquoise elf cup fungi
Green leaves, yelloiw fuzzy honeysuckle flowers
Snowy trees, and dark German shepard dog
A bunch of greens, baby turnips, berries, Chanterelle mushrooms, a roll of strawberry vines.
Pupleish cannabis plant with fall coloured trees and a ray of golden morning light
Bright coloured sunset sky, bare trees and snow
Many lichens up a stick in a snowy forest
White and purple Ochids in a hall brown walls and green carpet
Green spiky flowers in a sunny window
Sunrise through an icy window
Origami and cut paper flowers
Blue paper hydrangea, on rose patterned paper
A German shepherd dog in a snowy forest
Small paper packets of seeds, set on rose patterned paper, an envelope with postage stamps
A deer, grass, green trees
A bunch of seeds packed in coloured paper, postage stamps
Pink flower with yellow center, green leaves in the sunshine
Yellow flower green leaves and sunshine
Lots of tall garden plants, sunflowers, a rustic stone bench
Trees lots of snow a large hole with partly frozen water
Long haired bicoloured and white tabby cat with green eyes sit on a pillow with book on bookshelf in the background
Rotted tree with hoof fungus, snow, trees in the background
Yellow water Lily flower green leaves
A pile of greens, snow peas, baby turnips, berries, and Chanterelle mushrooms, wild red strawberry vine wound into circle
Lots of Pink daisy like flowers with yellow centres ,buds, and green leaves
Looking up at a tall sunflower with yellow petals, brown flower center, green leaves and trees in the back ground
Pink roses flowers buds and green leaves
Yellow orange daisy like flowers and lots of green leaves
Blueish dragonfly with black and clear wings on a rock with green leaves around
Picture contains text: 1. St John's Wort ( is a mild antidepressant ) 2. Culantro/saw tooth herb 3. Giant Red Amaranth 4. Oregon giant snow peas, 5. Dwarf grey sugar edible pod peas 6. Garden huckleberry 7. Arugula 8. Marigolds 9. Cannabis -mixed hybred &bag seed with some hermaphrodites 10. Red cabbage 11. Ground cherry -Aunt Molly 12. Green tomatillo mixed with Purple tomatillo 13. Eggplant mix 14. Mixed Hot pepper 15. Various sweet peppers 16. Salsify oyster root 17. Beet cilindra 18. Lemon balm 19. Mixed pink and White bachelors button 20. Anise hyssop 21. Good king Henry(perennial greens) 22. Verona red Raddichio 23. Red globe onion market type 24. White globe onion bunching type 25. Purple top white globe turnips 26. White Scabiosa 27. Dill 28. Zinnias 29. Litchi Tomato/morelle di balbis-a spiky member of the solanecae family 30. Grape -"Jeff" hardy to zone 3 dark red, needs 90 days cold stratification  31. Black currants Consort, and Titania, in cold stratification 32. Morning glories -Grampa otts, possibly mixed with pink 33. Pink Mallow 34. Lettuce mixed -cimmaron - red oak leave, and romaine 35. Sea buckthorn berry needs cold stratification and scarification  36. Small Jerusalem artichoke tubers, I have one with torpedo shaped tubers with reddish brown skins and strong sunflower flavor, I foraged from the wilds locally 37. I have a bag of mixed tree and shrubs, including neat stuff like witch hazel, winterhazel, beautyBush, and much more in cold stratification 38. Hopi blue corn, I think is best for flour, I found it grew great with a very dry year 39. Tobacco-  Rustica/wild/Hopi green flowers, this is the original tobacco 40. I can offer a mix of tomatoes, I like to focus on more interesting unusual colours. 41. Snapdragon mixed colours with red and white 42. Orange/yellow Cosmos 43. emerald tassels amaranth 44.A big mix of crab Apple of various sizes
A bunch of seeds packets and a poetry chap book by Russell carisse
By a window with green plants, and a book shelf, sit two cats looking regal, one cat is sleek black short haired and the other is a slightly longer haired bi-coloured tabby tux.
One spike pink flowers green leaves by the road
Small book of poetry, home made wreath with cedar, boxwood, and other bits, a bag of candy, card, paper and postage stamp.
A group of silly faced fuzzy monsters
Icy spicky plant, bare trese and orange and blue sunrise
Bluejay birds and fall colours
Cat with flowers
A wasp nest with several wasps, green leaves
A white gilled mushroom grows out of a rotten wood stump, leaves and trees
A wild sea of green plant, some yellow sunflowers