Encyclopedia Botanica

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This is a blog that I want to have dedicated to plants. I want to post pictures of interesting things I see and pictures I have taken. As well I would love to help others out if they have any plant related questions. I love plants and have over 100 different house plants. Always feel free to talk to me ^.^

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eriospermum

Crassula umbella Jacq.

megansplants

You know you’re becoming a pretentious plant enthusiast when you read care articles and scoff

“Don’t worry, your pot doesn’t need drainage holes! Just put some rocks in the bottom! Lava rocks should do the trick!!”

EXCUSE me????

megansplants

@lucrativeislackluster even worse — it was a fiddle leaf fig article

Because everyone knows that FLFs are such TOLERANT and UNDERSTANDING plants

hottiehorti

Reminds of when I was staring at succulents at the nursery and the worker there was like “these are indoor plants. Very easy to grow, and they dont need Sun.”

thebashfulbotanist

If you’ve ever owned an air plant, you’ve owned a Tillandsia bromeliad! This genus of epiphyitic bromeliad is commonly found in drier, high elevation areas, but also includes lower elevation, humidity-loving species like Spanish moss. These two were photographed in Quito and Cuenca, Ecuador.

itscolossal

Majestic Conservatories and Cozy Private Potting Sheds Showcase the Universal Appeal of Glass Greenhouses

cornbread21actual

take note

sovietshopaholic

i love that half of these are just the plant going “please for the love of god stop watering me I’m a fucking cactus”

plantanarchy

Um Big Hort, please explain the name of this cultivar.

plantsrocksthings

Crassula mesembryanthemopsis.

abandonedandurbex

An agave growing massive in this long-abandoned greenhouse [1024x768]

systlin

But seriously, when we got our property, it was all just…grass. A sterile grass moonscape, like a billion other yards. With two big old maple trees. Just grass and maples, that was it.

But then I got my grubby little paws on it, and I immediately stopped fertilizing, spraying, and bagging up grass clippings and leaves. I ripped up sod and put in flowers and vegetables. I put down nice thick blankets of mulch around the flowers and vegetables.

When I first was sweating my way through stripping sod, I saw a grand total of 1 worm and 0 ladybugs. The ground was compacted into something that would bend shovel blades.

Now, six years later, I can’t dig a planting hole without turning up fourteen earthworms, and there are so many ladybugs here. Not the invasive asian lady beetles; native ladybugs. They winter over in the mulch and in the brush pile. I see thousands of them.

The soil is soft and rich. There are birds that come to eat, and bees of many sorts.

Like this is something that you, yourself, can absolutely change. This is something that you, personally, can make a difference in.

systlin

Like, last year I watched no fewer than twenty-nine monarch caterpillars grow up on my milkweed and fly away as butterflies. I watched swallowtails and moths grow. There are hummingbirds fighting over flowers now.

I did that. Me. You can do the same.

ohsounlucky

A few more pics of the Pachypodium brevicaule.

A very small seedling with a very large flower. I’m pretty happy with its current set-up, since it’ll blend in nicely with the agate and pumice chunks when it eventually goes dormant.

sixpenceee

Floating islands in Norway. While bizarre, the phenomenon of floating islands is fairly common around the world. Composed of aquatic plants, mud, and other detritus, they’re generally capable of supporting not only a varied aquatic community below, but also small trees and species above. They tend to form when plants like cattails or reeds extend out into deeper water and are torn loose from shore by storms. Some have been known to last only a season, while others endure for decades or longer. (Source)

seasonsschange

jillraggett

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 20 February 2019

This grove of Hamamelis mollis (Chinese witch hazel) are framed along the path by an arch formed from Ilex aquifolium (holly). The scent of the Hamamelis is retained in the area by the shelter provided by the evergreen Prunus laurocerasus (cherry laurel, common laurel, English laurel). Here these strongly fragrant, bright golden-yellow flowers bloom in late winter on this large deciduous shrub planted in bold groups. These plants will provide their next display in the autumn with some dramatic autumn foliage colours.

Jill Raggett