Botany With A Side Of Chaos

Nature themes with a botanical bent, as well as some comforts. I hope you like it here.

[franticbotanics]

While it’s fantastic and freeing while out on your adventures, I’d like to remind you that it is not only ok to take a rest during them, but encouraged!

So, take a second today to:

- Stretch (if you are able to comfortably do so)

- Drink some water! And if you’ve been sweating and only drinking water, drink something with electrolytes in them!

- Sit down/ lay down in a cozy area and listen to the wildlife around you. Maybe you’ll hear a lot of cicadas, perhaps something else. Maybe even make a game out of what all you can hear.

- Take a little cat nap if you’re in need of one. If you think you’re likely to fall into a full blown sleep and you don’t want to do so, make sure to set an alarm!

Be safe on your travels, and find wonderful things out there!

[franticbotanics]

Hello! I have not posted in some time. I do not have any plants this time, but instead, a tool I use quite often!

The jeweler’s loop!

Mine has 2 different lenses, as well as a small light in it. Which is incredibly helpful! It is also cantankerous because the batteries are non-standard coin batteries. Acursed but beloved jeweler’s loop.

If any of you use one, I would love to see it!

(Yes I drew on it, I was a touch bored and I have paint pens!)

[wizardhecker]

Birduary day 8: red winged blackbird

[earthen-were]

To celebrate my new handle, it's raffle time‼️

There will be two winners!

1st- your choice of a custom ceramic sculpture (6"x6" max) OR a large woodburn (~11"x8" max, have several shapes) or coaster set.

2nd- custom pendant of any animal + woven cord!

feel free to ask any questions! for the sculpture, it is up to you- a pipe, a plate, a sculpt of your oc, whatever you want!

to enter, simply follow and repost! ends Dec 1st!

[franticbotanics]

Spring is certainly here! Along with it comes the spring guard, and I have some of them right here!

Dicentra cucullaria, known as Dutchman’s breeches

Trillium recurvatum

And an odd Asculus glabra (ohio buckeye). I would venture a guess that there is something strange with the pigment production of this one. Curious to see how it grows!

I unfortunately did not get photos of the trout lilies, but they are certainly out as well!

Below the read more are a couple of bugs. If anyone from the bug side of Tumblr would like to take a chance to ID them, that would be very fun! I am no entomologist, but I at least know the mite is a velvet mite.

Ant on Antennaria neglecta, known as Field Pussytoes

A VERY small velvet mite! Such a handsome color!

[felitomkinson]

my friends r so talented. rb if ur friends are talented

[franticbotanics]

I believe I have made my stance clear on here before, but allow me to make it crystal: my siblings are always welcome here. They deserve to be here, and should be here.

And if you think they shouldn’t? If you wish they would simply stop being who they are?

Then leave. You have no place here.

[amnhnyc]

Have you ever spotted a fairy lantern? Members of the genus Thismia, these plants don’t use chlorophyll to photosynthesize. Instead, they feed on fungi in the soil. Growing just a few centimeters tall, their unusual-looking, vibrant flowers bloom briefly to attract pollinating insects—like fungus gnats. There are more than a hundred known species of this elusive plant around the planet, ranging from parts of Asia to Australia to the Americas.

Photo: Matheus Moroti, CC BY-NC 4.0, iNaturalist (Thismia mantiqueirensis pictured)

[franticbotanics]

I have made. A Salmon.

[zambicarts]

I wanted to make some kind of new merch before the year was over, and apparently entered an owl-related fugue state this morning.

Tessellating all these birds took ages, enjoy!

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[catadromously]

reasons.

[franticbotanics]

Those who follow me, you have my permission to “boop” as much as you so wish. Go forth. Cause chaos.

And may your Halloween be filled with mirth!

[franticbotanics]

Possums are hitting me with their little hands

[franticbotanics]

Those who follow me, you have my permission to “boop” as much as you so wish. Go forth. Cause chaos.

And may your Halloween be filled with mirth!

[drizzledrawings]

I’m gnashing my teeth like a child of Cain

If this is a prison I’m willing to bite my own chain

[franticbotanics]

Every once and a while, I get the urge to sculpt again. It hit recently, and I had some clay available to me, so I made a very fun salmon lady.

She sits on my desk for the moment.

(If I post more art and you do not wish to see it, the art tag will be ‘Botanic’s Baubles’)

[keymintt]

how does one ask for kindness?

[benditozorrito]

@kf-tea

[shpepyao]

Recently I drew some bears from photos as a study