I fucking love plants

maybe I really wanna know how your garden grows if u want to show my ig some love: @ifuckingloveplants

[ifuckingloveplants]

good gravy, you are stunningly beautiful!

heyy, thank youu <3

[ifuckingloveplants]

hellow 🙋🏼‍♀️ just checking in

we had an earthquake yesterday. we're still having some after shocks. I think thousands of people didn't have a good sleep last night. I'm a bit terrified too. like I'm chill, still taking care of plants, and I'm even gonna make some cake (after five years!!!!!) but then again I'm anxious too and sleep with a little bag with a whistle and torch and some other shit.

[depsidase]

[punkiefart]

Leaf your leaves on the ground (no, seriously.) They provide so much for bugs, places to lay eggs places to hibernate. This comic does a great job at showing WHY we don't see our little friends as often, because our systems and social expectations are anti-earth and anti-life. Don't eradicate your friends (maybe just that one) let the leaves lay

[evilwizard]

fyi i will be extending some dark tendrils across the sky later today. just a heads up

[darkhexqc]

The Red ones are mine try not to get tangled please

[evilwizard]

i thought we scheduled around this

[obeliskthetormentorsfeetpics]

i know its last second but is it ok if i send green lightening arching into the heavens while all this is going on?

[evilwizard]

for fuck’s sake guys

[botanyshitposts]

very obvious that carnivorous plants live in the wild but none of my times seeing carnivorous plants in various commercial and enthusiast settings had prepared me for almost stepping on them at [redacted southeastern US location] i got to go to on the conference plant field trip last weekend. they were actually eating flies and stuff next to like mud and grass and some sand. sundews and pitcher plants there too. just in the bushes. crazy stuff out there folks

[botanyshitposts]

pov you're a fly or other suitable creature and you're approaching the mundane perennial grass patch that kills you instantly. no thoughts and why would you have any

[fickdichistwarum]

I would like to see carnivorous plants in the wild, but sadly I don't think there are any anywhere near to me (and I am not touching the entire North American continent with a ten-foot pole right now). Do you know of any carnivorous plants native to Australia?

[botanyshitposts]

you need to go view Cephalotus follicularis right now. the cutest of the bizarre independently evolved pitcher plants and they are scaling sandy cliffsides on the southwest coast of your country as we speak. also all the other sundews and stuff but it's hard to compete with that

[ifuckingloveplants]

more rock garden beauties 💜

[ifuckingloveplants]

guys look at this rock garden!!!

[nemfrog]

"Insectivorous plants Sundew and Butterwort." The natural history of plants. 1894.

Internet Archive

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[mysteryteacup]

*Scrolls past*

*reluctant sigh*

*scrolls back up*

*rebogs*

[depsidase]

[transientpetersen]

Sustaining a garden required me to get very comfortable with killing plants. I did not expect that going in - if any one warned me, I missed it.

And it's not just the weeds that are constantly intruding and need to be fought back. Sometimes it's the plant that the previous person placed precisely in that portion of the plot that gets the good sunlight and it's just the wrong plant to be taking that space. Sometimes it's the plant that was the right plant but was let grow so wild that it's suckers are going to destroy the rest of the garden unless it is removed. Often it's the many seedlings that were started because, hey, some of them will fail, but now you've gotten good enough that twice as many survived as last year and you don't have room for twice as many.

Plants grow. It's great and rewarding to watch them live out their cycle over the course of a season or years. I work hard to keep them alive and thriving when they're young and not yet established. But there's still so much killing.

[cat-mermaid]

listen man, u wanna know a great truth of the universe?

every plant person stands upon a mountain of plant corpses

i have killed endless plants, and once i've mastered one type i inevitably will kill a new type because so many plants have so many different requirements

[headspace-hotel]

y'all have no idea how true this is

I am a plant mass murderer

You have to try, and fail, and fail, and fail again. You have to try lots and lots of variations of different things until something works.

It's not even just the learning process, though. I'm trapped in an endless loop of: plant seeds or gather transplants-> plants grow-> too many plants-> some of them die of neglect-> need more plants -> and so on.

I usually lose about half my stock to overwintering cause I can never get arrangements for all my potted plants before the hard freezes hit...

I'm getting it under control though. I have lots of plant recipients now that are more skilled and don't kill my adoptees as much.

Right now my trouble is with the seeds. I launched a huge personal seed starting project this winter and I got HUGE success with some species (jack-in-the-pulpit had near 100% germination!) and huge failure with others (Not a single Scutellaria...)

If you plant 100 seeds you gathered from the wild, it's a reasonable estimate to expect maybe, like, 10-20 plants. BUT you might get 100 plants. Or 1 plant. Or none.

You don't want to be like "Dammit! I wish I had planted more seeds!" But you might end up like "FUCK FUCK FUCK WHY DID I PLANT SO MANY SEEDS"

[headspace-hotel]

Oh yeah and the eternal situation of setting out to grow an equal amount of several different species you want to work with this year, but with 1 species you have insane success way overshooting your expectations and with the others you have hardly anything

so you show up to the pollinator garden meeting like "hi here are 50 american bellflowers! and this is Dave. he is a coreopsis. probably"

Digging up a random fern or something before the meeting to round out the selection might make you feel a little less weird about it, but still.

[ifuckingloveplants]

guilty as charged...

[ifuckingloveplants]

hellow hellow 🙋🏼‍♀️

[ifuckingloveplants]

It's my 10 year anniversary on Tumblr 🥳

[ifuckingloveplants]

Wild petunia from grandma's garden

[los-plantalones]

reblog to share some mint with your followers. just don't let it escape containment, okay?

[los-plantalones]

This went from 300 -> 700 notes in the past 2 hours wtf guys who SPREAD THE FUCKING MINT

[sproutlett]

if you’re not paying attention to trees and how they sway in the wind then what are you even doing

[huariqueje]

My vegetable love (aka The Greenhouse) - Edward Bawden , 1932.

Norwegian, b.1966 -

Watercolour , 17.5 x 12.4 cm.

[ifuckingloveplants]

my beautiful plant in the afternoon light 🎨