Plant Blog

[lenorestreetgarden]

Things have gotten out of hand, but I’ve come to realize that your harvest has nothing to do with how manicured your garden is.

[ahoychrispineda-deactivated2022]

[jetblacktplants]

Was walking around the city today and I totally fell in love.

[eternity-in-your-eyes]

Pachyveria lookin’ like a mini tree 🌳

[cattraxplants]

new plants!

[distinguishedbaloney]

[ahoychrispineda-deactivated2022]

Today in my garden - 8.9.2017 💚🦄🌈

[skeletonkeynk]

⛈🌿 summer storms got me like ahhhh 🌿⛈

[yamothy]

Made some succulent bowls 💚💙 (ft. My dirty ass table)

[botanyshitposts]

PSA

-theres a succulent species called Conophytum burgeri

-it looks like a lump

-when it flowers it looks like this:

-its native to south africa and is endangered 

-you can read more about it in a book called Dumpling and his wife (??????)

-that is all

[botanyshitposts]

so ive just been informed that the newly germinated ones look like this

[witch-niko]

Those are slimes, lv.1 dungeon monsters

[long-liv-prairies]

I got some new plants this weekend and now my plant corner looks all planty!

My first plant got a new pot. It was about three inches tall when I got it and now it’s about a foot!

Cole also got a new pot. I got him this winter and though he had a run-in with some mealybugs he’s doing better now and looks very purple!

One of the newcomers. This is Haw, and my friend who got a matching plant at the same time named hers Thia (they are from the genus Haworthia).

And finally this one! It’s a Walmart plant so I’m not sure what it is, and she doesn’t have a name, but she’s cute!

[fat-gold-fish]

how do u actually save bees?

[viva-la-bees]

Plant bee-friendly flowers

Support your local beekeepers

Set up bee hotels for solitary bees

If you see a lethargic bee feed it sugar water

Spread awareness of the importance off bees

[l0veyu]

+Don’t eat honey✌🏻

[ogaycanyousee]

NO.

That will not help save the bees at all. They need the excess honey removed from their hives. That’s the beekeepers entire livelihood.

[libertarirynn-deactivated202006]

Seriously refusing to eat honey is one of those well-meaning but ultimately terrible ideas. The bees make way too much honey and need it out in order to thrive (not being funny but that was literally a side effect in Bee Movie). Plus that’s the only way for the beekeepers to make the money they need to keep the bees healthy. Do not stop eating honey because somebody on Tumblr told you too.

[jumpingjacktrash]

excess honey, if not removed, can ferment and poison the bees. even if it doesn’t, it attracts animals and other insects which can hurt the bees or even damage the hive. why vegans think letting bees stew in their own drippings is ‘cruelty-free’ is beyond me. >:[

the fact that we find honey yummy and nutritious is part of why we keep bees, true, but the truth is we mostly keep them to pollinate our crops. the vegetable crops you seem to imagine would still magically sustain us if we stopped cultivating bees.

and when you get right down to it… domestic bees aren’t confined in any way. if they wanted to fly away, they could, and would. they come back to the wood frame hives humans build because those are nice places to nest.

so pretending domestic bees have it worse than wild bees is just the most childish kind of anthropomorphizing.

[foxthebeekeeper]

If anything, man-made hives are MORE suitable for bees to live in because we have mathematically determined their optimal living space and conditions, and can control them better in our hives. We also can treat them for diseases and pests much easier than we could if they were living in, say, a tree.

Tl;dr for all of this: eating honey saves the bees from themselves, and keeping them in man-made hives is good for them.

[passthecavasier]

The Pacific Northwest is fucking Perfect

[thesucculentgarden]

[houseofjonn]

[impatient14]

Golden Girls was more progressive decades ago than half of America now.

[bethplusplants]

So when my Lauii bloomed I took a try at pollinating the flowers (while not even knowing if Lauii are self fertile or not) and ummmm! Look at all these seeds!!

[gardenermaycs]

My ClickAndGrow set that I planted two days ago! Two chili peppers and one basil plant. The chili peppers haven't sprouted yet, but I can already see some green in the little basil container! That was fast!