We picked up a bunch of native plants from a local eco organization and added them to the garden over the weekend. To go along with existing pollinator plants like butterfly weed, chives, and Joe Pye Weed, I am now the proud owner of flowers like wild bergamot, yellow tickseed, and black-eyed Susan.
Also approximately one million extremely itchy bug bites, and as anyone who knows me knows, I really hate mosquitoes.
But.
Birds and butterflies and pollinators in general need food and shelter. These plants will live outdoors and I had to get them moved into their new homes; the mosquitoes just took advantage of my helpful nature. (Also my delicious blood.)
So both arms are itchier than I’d like, plus I have a row of awkwardly-placed extra bumps on my spine (particularly fun) and what I’m pretty sure is a spider bite on my wrist, which is now extra red, itchy and swollen.
Still worth it!
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Photos by Evan Buchholz, Joshua J. Cotten, Aaron Burden, Karl-Heinz Müller, Ilana Grostern, Gaétan Marceau Caron, Zdeněk Macháček on Unsplash
J.R. Johnson 
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