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Ann Amato
@annlovesplants.bsky.social
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Plantswoman & Horticulturist 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️🏴‍☠️🇮🇹
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annlovesplants.bsky.social
Autumn in the garden…
November 22, 2025 at 7:09 AM
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hcrichardson.bsky.social
On September 8, 1974, President Gerald Ford pardoned President Richard Nixon:
Ford Pardons Nixon | Talk & Draw with Liza Donnelly and Heather Cox Richardson
YouTube video by Heather Cox Richardson
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September 8, 2025 at 3:15 AM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
When you garden more 🪏 for your cats than yourself. 😁

I do love plants and cats.

#gardening
#pnwgarden
#gardencat
#asparagusfern
#portlandor
August 30, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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nobodynursery.bsky.social
Today through Labor Day: 20% off

Special hours: Sat-Sun 10am-6pm

Automatically applied when shopping in the online store

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Photo of monkey-flowers with text: "Labor Day Sale: 20% / online and in-person / Special hours: Sat-Sun 10am-6pm / Des Moines, WA
August 30, 2025 at 7:34 PM
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naturerecovery.bsky.social
Fabulous news! Congratulations to our Centre Director, @ymalhi.bsky.social who has been recognised for his outstanding contribution to the field of Ecology. 🎉

@ecioxford.bsky.social @oxfordgeography.bsky.social @ox.ac.uk @socsci.ox.ac.uk @orieloxford.bsky.social @britishecologicalsociety.org
Yadvinder Malhi awarded prestigious Ramon Margalef Prize in Ecology
Yadvinder Malhi recognised for outstanding contribution to the field of ecology
naturerecovery.ox.ac.uk
August 27, 2025 at 10:44 AM
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dukesjeff.bsky.social
New paper from the (long-finished) Boston Area Climate Experiment shows how water stress during plant growth affects the chemistry of leaves, with later consequences for decomposition rates. Led by Vidya Suseela's lab at Clemson. 🧪 #drought
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Climatic stress‐induced changes in plant chemistry alter the compound‐specific degradation of litter during decomposition
Plant litter decomposition sustains ecosystem productivity and modulates soil carbon cycling. Drought directly impacts decomposition by decreasing soil moisture and indirectly by altering plant tiss.....
nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com
August 25, 2025 at 4:40 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
For the love of the tuberous begonia.

#bloomscrolling
#summer
#pnwgardening
August 24, 2025 at 3:18 AM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
Alfie helping me to water the garden a week or so ago.

#cats #gardencat #gardening #junipergate #pnwgarden #portlandor
August 12, 2025 at 1:33 PM
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I’m watching a live stream
August 7, 2025 at 2:26 PM
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when they close it all up, I do believe this will go down as the funniest video on the internet
July 24, 2025 at 7:51 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
This. Glad to be part of the problem.
#sarcasm
July 22, 2025 at 9:19 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
Life’s a journey through a series of garden rooms for many of us in horticulture. It’s time for me to leave one room, and enter into another, into a bit of the unknown.
#horticulture
#gardenblog
#gardenwriting
#pnwgardening
#annlovesplants
#gardenmemoir

amateurbotannist.com/2025/07/17/a...
Ann Loves Plants: the garden memoir continues…
The post introduces a rebranding journey from “Amateur Bot-ann-ist” to “Ann Loves Plants,” reflecting personal growth and a renewed focus on gardening. The author shares exp…
amateurbotannist.com
July 17, 2025 at 1:46 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
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Poet Andrea Gibson, candid explorer of life, death and identity, dies at 49
Gibson and their wife, Megan Falley, are the main subjects of the documentary "Come See Me in the Good Light," a Sundance award-winner that's scheduled to air this fall on Apple TV+.
www.nbcnews.com
July 15, 2025 at 4:17 PM
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RIP to poet Andrea Gibson. This is one of my favorites of theirs that I have revisited over the years (but one of many)

youtu.be/f77CqY-MMtg?...
Andrea Gibson - The Year of No Grudges (Official Video)
YouTube video by Andrea Gibson
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July 15, 2025 at 4:06 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
Sometimes the benches full of plants in the sales area at the nursery are just so beautiful.
#secretgardengrowers
#bloomscrolling
#cuphea #coreopsis
#perennials
#horticulture
#garden
#gardening
#pnwgardening
July 15, 2025 at 5:17 AM
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governor.ca.gov
Hope you enjoy your family time, @jd-vance-1.bsky.social. The families you’re tearing apart certainly won’t.
July 12, 2025 at 10:06 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
10 years ago I hosted my first #undergrounddinner in my garden. I did these before and after the pandemic. Friends, family, and strangers donated to attend. I paid off debt from a spinal laminectomy by cooking 5-course Italian meals from scratch—hard work!

#garden
#italianfood
#cantbelieveIdidthis
July 12, 2025 at 4:33 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
Am excited to be included again as a speaker through the Northwest Horticultural Society. #begonias #nhs

northwesthort.org/event/hardy-...
Hardy Begonias: Secrets to Success with Ann Amato - Northwest Horticultural Society
Years ago, while working at Cistus Nursery, Ann discovered its begonia collection in the back corner of a stock greenhouse…and she’s been working with them professionally ever since. She points... Rea...
northwesthort.org
July 10, 2025 at 6:45 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
Been rebranding from #AmateurBotAnnist to #AnnLovesPlants

My blog Amateur Bot-Ann-ist started 18 years ago and my life has changed since then. To say that I’ve grown up is an understatement.

Health and happiness is easier to communicate and I do love plants. 💚

#felixthegreatcat
#cat
#gardencat
July 6, 2025 at 5:32 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
Someday… Been wanting something like this for a long time. Quilts are one of my favorite things in life. It’s beautiful.
libselliott.com Libs Elliott @libselliott.com · Jul 4
I only photograph quilts on the windiest days.
Generative Threads Quilt 13/13. Designed with 13 year old code and handmade with love. 🖤
Credit where credit is due: my Processing + Hype framework started as a collab w/ Joshua Davis. Forever grateful.
#generativeart #generativetextiles #genart
July 5, 2025 at 2:41 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
Tigridia pavonia, a plant my coworkers at Little Prince know from Mexico, where the bulbs are roasted and eaten. We grow them here as ornamental plants.
#tigridia #tigridispavonia #mexicanshelflower #bloomscrolling
July 5, 2025 at 2:38 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
So amazing to sit in a DIY hot tub, in a friend’s amazing garden, backlit by her greenhouse. #summer #summergarden #DIYhottub #portland
July 4, 2025 at 7:53 AM
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nytimes.com
More than 100,000 people marched in Hungary’s annual Pride parade in Budapest on Saturday after Prime Minister Viktor Orban’s ban on the event backfired, turning what is usually a low-key parade into a mass rally against his government. www.nytimes.com/2025/06/28/w...
A bridge is packed with people, with scattered pride flags in the crowd. A headline reads: "Budapest Pride Parade Was Bigger Than Ever, Despite Government Ban." Photo by Janos Kummer/Getty Images.
June 28, 2025 at 8:42 PM
annlovesplants.bsky.social
Gentiana asclepiadea, the willow gentian. From the Gentianaceae family, this perennial is native to Central and Eastern Europe.

#secretgardengrowers #perennialgarden #pnwgardening #gentiana #bloomscrolling
#summersolstice #gentianaasclepiadea #gentian
June 22, 2025 at 2:49 AM
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Considering the absurd week-end we just had, let me present you an absurd creature with a no less absurd name for #MolluscMonday 🦑

The Anadon's babakine (Babakina anadoni), a sea slug living in the Atlantic. Quite uncommon but a really cool guy, simply grazing on hydrozoans, as we should all do 🌊 🌿
Dorsal view of a specimen of Babakina anadon. The body and foor are bright pink, while the structures covering the surface of the body (cerata) shows deep blue and yellow hues, with pink tips. © Laurent MARY A specimen of Babakina anadon, crawling on the sea floor. The body is bright pink, while the structures covering the surface of the body (cerata) shows deep blue and yellow hues, with pink/red tips. Credit : Corine Picard Front view of a specimen of Babakina anadon on the sea floor. The body is bright pink, while the structures covering the surface of the body (cerata) shows deep blue and yellow hues, with pink/red tips. Credit : David Blin
June 16, 2025 at 8:11 AM