Pretty Gardens And Landscapes

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[mishapeep]

Half a minute with the neighbors (about 20 total, just a few in the elderberry).

[kedreeva]

I'm surprised they didn't manage to eat all the berries before you got some!

[puppygirldick]

Morphological differences between thorns, spines, and prickles

[veliseraptor]

acadia national park | august 2026

[glimpsesofgardens]

ooh that looks like a gorgeous park!!

[cantanopeshitthatwastaken]

It’s interesting how diseases rip through schools at incredible speeds despite being in an arguably modern, clean(ish) environment. I wonder if it has something to do with the whole “you need a doctor’s note to excuse your absence of even one day” combined with the average price of going to a doctor, the lack of education on things like “you’re still contagious even after the fever goes away”, and the overwhelming message of “if you don’t struggle through it, you’re a failure!”

[thatgiraffebutt]

On my campus there tends to be a problem where even I you have the doctors note professors will still take points off of your final grade regardless of how sick you are. I’ve seen people show up to class with the stomach flu, pneumonia, respiratory infections and all sorts of other contagious ailments.

[literallyaflame]

Here’s a fun story:

The school system I grew up in put an absolutely ungodly amount of pressure on kids to Show Up Every Day No Matter What. Many schools are like this, but looking back, my town’s was borderline fucking dystopian. They asked me why I didn’t just “postpone” a surgery at one point— when I was fifteen— to give you an idea of how monumentally obtuse these people were.

So, in elementary school, I started having chicken pox symptoms, right? They were mild because I was vaccinated (yay!) but my mom recognized them quickly and took me to the doctor, because my mom is a reasonable human being with standards. The doctor said “yup, you’ve got those pox, it may seem mild but please for the love of god DO NOT take her to school, she is very contagious even though she may FEEL okay.”

So I had to stay home from school until I got clearance from my doctor to go back. I was an angry little gremlin the whole time, because I wanted to go to the school library and read books about the human skull, but my mother said, “no, you cannot leave this house, and do not scratch the bumps please.” So I sat at home and tried not to scratch the bumps, like a good little gremlin.

A few days into my Chicken Pox Related House Arrest, we got a letter from the school. I was far from the only person with chicken pox, as it so happened. Like… a tenth of my second grade class had Confirmed Pox. We all fell ill within DAYS of each other.

So how did this happen, you ask? Well, a kid had chicken pox, and he came to school anyway. “Ah, well perhaps they didn’t know,” you may very well say. “Maybe his parents didn’t notice!” No. No, they noticed. In fact they KNEW it was CHICKEN POX. They sent him to school anyway.

The kid’s parents…….. were, in fact, teachers at the school. And they KNOWINGLY made him go to school sick, because they didn’t want to risk hurting his precious “perfect attendance” record. They figured that since he wasn’t, like, Literally Dying, it was better for him not to miss school. Never mind the fact that they were actively endangering hundreds of little kids.

Fast forward to my freshman year of college. A kid came to class with mumps because he ‘couldn’t afford to miss’. Guess what happened? Mumps outbreak! Diseases are, as it turns out, good at being diseases! Vaccinations are phenomenal, but they can only do so much, and some people rely on herd immunity to not be killed by preventable illness.

This entire attitude needs to die. It’s dangerous. Food service workers are forced to show up sick, little kids are forced to show up sick, college students show up sick because they’re afraid of flunking out.

And on top of it all, misinformation campaigns are encouraging people not to get vaccinations! It’s 2019 and we’re flirting with the plague! Next thing you know some blogger is gonna be like “actually we should all be fucking rats and eating our meat raw, death to all science and god bless america”

[madd-catter]

Many kids at my school will show up really sick because we only get like three days of excused absences without a doctor’s note.

[gen-is-gone]

this is what those in literary academia call “foreshadowing”

(note the dates)

[anarchistmemedistro]

this post aged like an ice cube in an oven

[deathcomes4u]

worst part is! IT’S STILL HAPPENING! SCHOOLS AND WORKPLACES ARE STILL LIKE THIS!!! THEY LEARNED NOTHING!!!!!!!

[mod2amaryllis]

[thotsoflore]

Literally looking like the kind of note you find in a post apocalyptic horror game jesus

[sunnywalnut]

If only we as a society learned from our mistakes

[whiskeyterrafoxtrot]

Himalayan Blackberry, Washington State

All photos copyright BlackbirdParlor.com for Field Guide entries.

[gothiccharmschool]

Soooooo tasty. Sooooooo invasive.

[glimpsesofgardens]

i've seen pastures turn into thickets of this taller than the 2 story barn next to it. Compleatly unsupported, just vine piling atop vine piling atop vine.

[withdreamsofhereafter]

Snow Gums photographed in Tasmania by Geoff Murray

[germanpostwarmodern]

Little Thakeham (1902-03) in Horsham, England, by Edwin Lutyens

[botanyshitposts]

so many creatures putting SO much effort into putting ‘special’ fluids that TOTALLY aren’t water through every organ possible to clean them so they can use them again 2 seconds later. like why not simply sit on a damp substrate and pull water through your body by evaporating the extra out pores in your leaves lmaoooo

[botanyshitposts]

‘nooo nooo you don’t get it I need the big organ to run the fast firing nerves to run the machines that make the fluid go to work the big organ’. whatever chordate. lol

[shaudo-of-a-doubt]

troubleshooting time: arid area, low on damp substrate. what do?

[botanyshitposts]

good question! you could try closing your leaf pores for a while until more appears… sometimes you can also put more tubes down and feel around until you find some. water comes from the opposite direction of the sun unless it doesn’t ❤️ glad I could help!!

[transcyberism]

omg useless advice from privileged mfs from wet climates as usual... bet you don't even use CAM.

[botanyshitposts]

ok first of all i checked your profile and of COURSE its all meadows, say youre a grass who does C4 without saying youre a grass who does C4 100% speedrun challenge. sorry i wasnt blessed with a whole separate sheath of cells for increasing photosynthetic efficiency and nothing else but some of us actually have to adapt and deal with the VERY REAL AND SEVERE effects of photorespiration... literally imagine having 30 foot deep roots posting this. second of all 'plants in wet climates are privileged' you can literally live in water and use CAM??? isoetes erasure per usual on this website, neglected by an angiosperm monocot no less. why am i not surprised

[robot-roadtrip-rants]

this is why I come to tumblr. Nowhere else could I get Botany Discourse

[sometiktoksarevalid]

[knitmeapony]

She started to transition after 5000 years. It's never too late.

[uroko]

南禅院/苔庭 Nanzen-in Temple/Moss Garden

[velvetnightgallery]

Ferdinand Knab (1834-1902)

[thefugitivesaint]

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941), poem 85 from “The Gardener”, 1914 Translated by the author from the original Bengali. New York: The Macmillan Company.

[grammarpedant]

It is an hundred years hence now. Go open your doors.

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

Rosemary? You mean spicy pine needles?

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Are you insinuating that regular pine needles aren’t spicy???

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

Regular pine needles are regular

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Not by rosemary standards

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

…Have you eaten pine needles?

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

We’ve been friends for like four years, do you seriously have to ask if I’ve eaten pine needles or not

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

I mean I’m pretty sure you have but I don’t want to assume

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Of course I’ve eaten pine needles. Various kinds. Singleleaf pinyon is weirdly the best

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

Are they…

spicy?

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

You know, I’d love to tell you but I’m pretty unclear about what marks the difference between “spice” and “strong-tasting plant that isn’t considered a spice”

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

I’ll have to eat some pine needles myself then to find out

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Ok but it only counts if they’re PINE needles and not just any old needle-like leaf off a tree

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

I’m going to eat every needle-like leaf I see

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Please Don’t Do That

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

Needle-Like Leaf Roulette

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

…I’ll accept this plan as long as you promise not to eat any yew leaves.

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

I can try very hard not to

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Pine needles are distinguished by the presence of a sheath-like structure at the base of the leaf, almost always holding bundles of two or more leaves. Yews don’t have the sheath thing

[aeruh-deactivated20250615]

It’s time for me to go out into the woods and stare at needle leaves

[malus-syl-vestris-deactivated20]

Finally you can gain real insight into my average daily life

[silverjirachi]

this conversation reads like two shakespeare characters who come out in the middle of the play to talk about something completely unrelated for comic relief and then are never heard from again

[mortimermcmirestinks]

god fucking dammit gimme a minute

[mortimermcmirestinks]

Enter AERUH and MALUS SYL-VESTRIS, a pair of JESTERS.

AERUH I tell thee, rosemary is like a pine but with a spicy taste.

MALUS                         Art thou to claim that needles base of pine have not a spice?

AERUH A needle base of pine is merely base.

MALUS ‘Tis not when held, comparing, to anthos.

AERUH My dearest Malus, needles thou'st eaten?

MALUS How many moons have we as friends seen rise? How many suns have we as friends seen set? Thou sixteen seasons in my heart I’ve held, and hope that I in thine hast been the same. With brotherhood as rich and old as this, thou needst not ask me such frivolities.

AERUH I know thou likely has, to tell the truth, but I would not assume.

MALUS                       Well, yes, I have. A multitude of types I’ve eaten too. I’ll tell thee now: the best (though it is strange) is single-leaf pinyon.

AERUH                     And it has spice?

MALUS I truly wish that I could tell thee this, but now, i'faith, I cannot fully tell, the difference in classifying thus: to say “has spice” or merely “herbal strength”.

AERUH To tell this tale most clearly it would seem that eating needles from a pine’s required.

MALUS Aye, it would seem that that’s the task at hand, but caution tells that this is what’s to do: eat only needles of the honest pine, and none of lying leaf with pinelike shape.

AERUH I’ll eat them all.

MALUS                   I prithee, stay thyself.

AERUH Roulette with leaves.

MALUS                     At least restrain from yew.

AERUH I’ll do my best.

MALUS                That is all can we do. The scholars tell that needles true of pine can be distinguished from the lying yew by sheathlike clothing all along the base; the yew has no such guard.

AERUH                          With this new truth I now will venture out into the wood and seek the pines and pinelike fakes alike to stare them down and learn their secret truths.

MALUS With this thou canst at long and weary last Discover for thyself my life’s own path.

Exeunt.

Enter MACDUFF.

MACDUFF. Yo dudes that king there’s dead. Like dead as FUCK.

[0zzysaurus]

get this shit in angsty emotional moodboards NOW

[presto-mistoffelees]

aye aye capn

[0zzysaurus]

PLEASE THIS ROCKS

[festiveferret]

my name is aeruh and plants i like whether herbs or leafs so brite and wen i go to woods so fine i test the spice i eat the pine

[geopsych]

Begonia ‘Fragrant Falls Peach’ on the front porch today. I wish I could post the fragrance too.

Year after year the prettiest flowers I grow. They winter over in the basement without watering and then start up again in spring.

[padek]

Muğla Province of Turkey

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 9 June 2026

The marginal aquatic perennial Orontium aquaticum (golden club, floating arum, never-wets, tawkin) was creating a display of flowers by this pond.

Jill Raggett

[artisheaven]

A Blind Man in His Garden

Homer, Alaska, from the series “American Prospects”

July 1984, Joel Sternfeld

[withbriefthanksgiving]

ID: a bearded man stands in a lush garden, with tall purple flowers towering high above his head. The man wears a yellow buttoned shirt snd dark denim trousers (pants), and beyond the garden there are dark hills in the background. End of ID.