How to plant

I've become a huge plant nerd and our tiny apartment is starting to fill out with them even though most of it is not ideal for any kind of plant. I live in Finland, so the winter time is long and dark, which is not good for many plants. -- This is my side blog, so I follow with How-to-English.

[did-you-know]

There’s an app described as a “Shazam for plants” that lets you take a picture of any plant and then utilizes user data and Google reverse image searching to tell you what species you’re looking at. Source

[lilkittay]

yo plantblr

@omgplants

[omgplants]

Thanks!!!

[awkwardbotany]

Eggleaf Penstemon (Penstemon ovatus)

[los-plantalones]

the gang’s all here! 🌵🌱

[has-feelings-deactivated2022032]

A funny thing about introducing a new queen into a hive that has lost its queen (or one that you’ve killed because her brood was too fighty). 

You have to introduce the new queen into the hive with these special queen cages that are stopped up with candy, and are open enough to let the hive smell the new queen, but not open enough that they can get in there and kill her.

Because they will kill her. 

When you first put the new queen in she smells like an intruder, but by the time it takes the bees to eat through the candy and free the queen, the queen’s pheromones will have had time to work and the hive will have gotten used to her.

From the outside this kinda seems like: 

“Yeh, we were all going to murder you to death before, but we’re full of candy now, so we’re cool. Oh yeh, and how about you be the new queen and stuff. Yeh, that’s cool too.” 

[speciesofleastconcern]

beekeeping is really weird

[angeldrake3]

Listen, strange bee queens lyin’ in cages distributin’ candy is no basis for a system of government.

[darkhairedgirlfromgallifrey-dea]

I’d be willing to give it a shot at this point.

[xion1212-deactivated20190409]

Elect @darkhairedgirlfromgallifrey to empress of the solar system .

[darkhairedgirlfromgallifrey-dea]

Aw that’s sweet! A terrible idea but sweet!

[deactivated-blog]

Sheer can’t be the Empress, that position is already taken… However, she can be elected Imperial Regent.

[sobresaltowhippet]

A few of my plants

[jacculents]

One of the reason I love succulents so damn much: the details you can find in them! Kalanchoe Milotii, also called Thousand Rabbit Ears, are born naturally with thousand furs (so that you can finger-hug them always hehehhehehe)

Definitely my fav kalanchoe!

[jacculents]

Whoah thick powdering you have there Mr. Runyonii! Keep at them makeup!

[markunsan]

Graptoveria albert baynes  

[frolicingintheforest]

[plant-journal]

Mom sent me this pic to tell me my spider plant (left) and the one I pitted for her (right) are doing very well. 😁 (in contrast to the sad, dead cactus lol)

[birdsonqs]

‘Verbena Flower’ by Olga Murina

[spinningorigins]

Does anybody know anything about African Violets? I am having trouble with a cutting.

[kihaku-gato]

You mean growing one from a leaf cutting? they rot easy and dry out easily when starting from cuttings, so a humidity dome can help keep the moisture more balanced and to help increase the speed of cutting development. Also best to hold patience with them, they can sometimes take a while to grow from cuttings.

[markunsan]

Pachyphytum compactum

[markunsan]

Fenestraria

う～ん、今日は　開かず。

[melancholy-manic]

People of the sun

[succ-you-lents]

This is amazing

[crassulacean]

textures (crassula ‘surprise party’, titanopsis hugo-schlechteri, and titanopsi schwantesii respectively)

[frolicingintheforest]