Green Goyle

Just a place for me to dump my gardening thougts

[tea-with-mrs-mourning-dove]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

today I found out my mother doesn’t know what dandelions are and now I’m wondering what other strange secrets she’s been quietly harboring

[krystal-prisms]

Where do you live that you don’t have dandelions?

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

we have dandelions EVERYWHERE, they are basically our State Weed, it is absolutely impossible that my mom has never interacted with a dandelion before, this requires further investigation

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

So after extensive interrogation I have an update:

my mom is in fact aware that dandelions exist. she temporarily forgot the name and there was some miscommunication.

the truth is actually weirder

she’s aware dandelions look like this

she is familiar with this flower. she knows the name of this flower. she declines to believe, however, that these are also dandelions

she does not believe these are the same plant. I tried to explain, and she thought I was either misinformed or lying. so I asked her what exactly did she think the yellow ones were called?

she answered, with complete confidence: Daffodils.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

gosh I enjoy this website

[authoratmidnight]

For comparison, this is a daffodil

[quietlygrousing]

See, folks in the southern US will tell you up and down those are buttercups, actually.

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

i don’t think so? i’m southern and buttercups are what we call these things (much tinier)

[maejacrezz007]

Wait I thought those bigger cup ones were Easter Lillies???

[fractiousrvt]

This is an Easter Lily. It is an actual lily and therefore deadly to cats.

[blood-trip-god2]

They’re marigolds and I know a bitch when I see one!

[delphinidin4]

This is a marigold:

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

….we need to start taking the phrase “go touch grass” more literally. go outside and examine a flower i beg u

[baygeethefirst]

[jabberding0]

tree grafting techniques

[greengoyle]

Tree grafters really said "what if we used joinery techniques on living wood" and then they did

[myworldofwhimsy-deactivated2026]

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

HUGE fan of trees growing in places they should not reasonably be able to

[biggest-gaudiest-poltergeist]

upside down 

sideways

out of a rock

upside down in a freakin LAKE 

 out of an Indiana courthouse

out of ANOTHER

GODDAMN

TREE

none of that is a reasonable expectation!!!

[flygutzz]

i like trees

[biomaterial]

The night gardener once asked me if I knew how citrus trees died: when they reach old age, if they are not cut down and they manage to survive drought, disease and innumerable attacks of pests, fungi and plagues, they succumb from overabundance. When they come to the end of their life cycle, they put out a final, massive crop of lemons. In their last spring their flowers bud and blossom in enormous bunches and fill the air with a smell so sweet that it stings your nostrils from two blocks away; then their fruits ripen all at once, whole limbs break off due to their excessive weight, and after a few weeks the ground is covered with rotting lemons. It is a strange sight, he said, to see such exuberance before death.

When We Cease to Understand the World, Benjamín Labatut

[biomaterial]

thank you for the insight

[happymiko]

藤の花/日比谷花壇大船フラワーセンター

[innko]

[venomousdoll]

Feb 2026, looks like a little fairy lives there

📷: @venomousdoll

[greengoyle]

Did you know that oxalis, the purple and black clover there, will fold like butterfly wings if it's too bright, to prevent sunscald?

[venomousdoll]

Oh that's so interesting! I've had one a few years ago and always assumed it just moved accordingly to the times of day.

Sooo.....basically they could get a sunburn 🫢⛱️

[greengoyle]

Yep! They do close at night and open during the day, but they also do that in excessive sunlight!

[venomousdoll]

Feb 2026, looks like a little fairy lives there

📷: @venomousdoll

[greengoyle]

Did you know that oxalis, the purple and black clover there, will fold like butterfly wings if it's too bright, to prevent sunscald?

[brievel]

Y'ALL?!

[brievel]

#LOOKY LOOK!!!!! :D#PLANT#IT’S GROWING#IT *HAS* GROWN#plants#reblogs w/ friends#bri

More to the point, it's blooming. I had completely forgotten that aloes even did that.

[greengoyle]

Blooming aloe is sooooo cool! (It's not hot enough to happen here, but maybe in a greenhouse... (One day))

[brievel]

Is there anything I ought to know about it?

[greengoyle]

The plant won't die after it blooms, so you're good there, but you'll still want to trim the flower once it wilts and before it goes to seed anyway, so the plant doesn't waste energy on trying to reproduce. Trim where the flower stock joins the plant when it's time.

[brievel]

Y'ALL?!

[brievel]

#LOOKY LOOK!!!!! :D#PLANT#IT’S GROWING#IT *HAS* GROWN#plants#reblogs w/ friends#bri

More to the point, it's blooming. I had completely forgotten that aloes even did that.

[greengoyle]

Blooming aloe is sooooo cool! (It's not hot enough to happen here, but maybe in a greenhouse... (One day))

[beardedmrbean]

[geopsych]

Three years ago today. I love this bit of video. Not sure why.

[dearydeerling-deactivated201904]

Because this looks like a Monet painting or an old watercolour anime background come to life?! I was in utter disbelief until it started moving.

[wisegirlandseaweedbrainforever]

More than just a Monet painting, one of the ones just after he started going blind! When things started getting brighter, more colorful, and soft around the edges! A true living masterpiece!

[boundless-nocturnalsoujourn]

This is an environment post

Because even environmental activists are stupid

[greengoyle]

Also, even if there is a crop, you have to factor in:

Soil erosion requiring topsoil replacement

Soil amendments like (chemical) fertilizers

Equipment to till, plant, and harvest the crops creating impacting by manufacturing and maintenance

The fuel needed to run the equipment

Impact of using pesticides and herbicides on the surrounding environment

GMO crops cross pollinating and ruining organic farms in the area

[pointnclick]

does anyone else remember grass. the warmth of the sun

[petaltexturedskies]

Do you remember the Shire, Mr. Frodo? It’ll be spring soon. And the orchards will be in blossom. And the birds will be nesting in the hazel thicket. And they’ll be sowing the summer barley in the lower fields… and eating the first of the strawberries with cream. Do you remember the taste of strawberries?