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happy hew year!!! plants have no sense of time and exist in a state of simultaneous life and death, so in 2019 watch out!!!

bidoof

Q: do you think it's ok to take the succulent leaves on the ground of, say, home depot and repot them ;-; I feel bad but dont know if I should?? Idk they were probably just going to throw them out so like?? Idk ;-;

a lot of people (myself included) even pluck off leaves from succs at stores. I usually do it when the plant is in a bad shape because they will probably end up in the trash anyway

so yeah, if the leaves are already on the ground then i see absolutely no problem with taking them!

I absolutely adore your blog!!

thank you so much!!!

it's kinda abandoned now because i dont have much time but maybe i will bring it to life somewhere in the future, i still love botany

growingsucculents

The good boys, always happy and blessing me with millions of babies vs. the grumpy ones, always complaining about the weather

megansplants

I agree

llovinghome

artfoli

‘The Hated Flower,’ made from thousands of real flowers, by artist Rebecca Louise Law, at the Coningsby Gallery, in London.

*mumbling through tears of joy* im so glad plants exist

30/7/18

yo, this is insane i got this glorious mf at the supermarket while buying food and i still can’t believe that they had beauties like this one. look how fucking big it is compared to my hand. it must have been a new delivery because all of these succulents were quite healthy. they had lithops too! im an idiot for not taking them home too, damn it

this one only had few old leaves that needed to be plucked off, generaly in a very nice shape but someone had a terrible idea to put rocks all around the root ball (from the sides and on the top). and it’s in a plastic pot, just sayin. it was also very dry so the first thing i did next day was give fresh soil and a good watering

#my plants #echeveria #perle von nurnberg #succulents #houseplants #indoor plants

internationalemeteorologie

Slava Fokk

After the Rain

Arum

Rosa de Monte

Banana

Jungle Queens series, 2017, oil and gold leaf on canvas

#art

ayanefujioka

woven (and combined technique) sample collection inspired by primary forest in Yakushima, Japan. All yarns except embroidery threads are hand dyed or painted.

#art

just-shower-thoughts

Building a treehouse is the biggest insult to a tree. “I killed your friend, here hold him.”

unclebeanbag

“Friend”

Its more of I killed a potential enemy. Hold his dismembered corpse in victory.

ulysseus

Plants don’t wage war

unclebeanbag

Ever heard of blackberries?

Yes, plants do wage war

kasaron

Mint and strawberries, too. They need to be quarantined or they will kill basically everything else.

systlin

I planted mint in the ground 2 years ago.

It’s currently fighting a bitter battle to the death against the raspberries attempting to invade from the east while trying to annex the patio.

Could go either way at this point TBH. Unless, of course, I take a shovel and the blowtorch out there and battle both back to within their original boundaries.

And anyone wondering if a blowtorch is overkill for weeding back mint has never actually planted mint.

moirakatson

This post did not go where I expected it to.

deathbeforednf

Our garden plot at my childhood home slowly got overrun by wild blackberries after we stopped managing it while my sister and I were in nursing school. And by overrun I mean it was like a 4 foot tall thicket of wild blackberries. It hadn’t been touched by humans in at least 4 years. I started the ultimately futile task of trying to clear this plot with a machete and discovered to my amazement a patch of mint several feet across underneath the canopy of blackberry, still fighting the good fight all those years later.

Ultimately it took two jars of homemade napalm and some creative fire placement to clear that patch but I damn sure saved that patch of mint. It earned the right to be there.

norseminuteman

Yall mother fuckers don’t even talk unless you’ve had to wage war on kudzu (it’s an ivy strain directly from Hell) that shit doesn’t just wage war with other plants, it wages war with all living things on planet earth. It’s some gnarly ass Blood for the Blood God, Chlorophyll for the Chlorophyll Throne demon weed.

breadgunner-deactivated20181003

Can second the comments of Kudzu.

I forget where I read it but there’s this one tree that creates an extremely flammable substance that’s in both the bark and leaves. Dead trees become torches and crushed up leaves become dust-incendiary, all while the plant’s seeds are Giant Redwood levels of resilient to open flame. IE it has a goddamn scorched earth policy. It’s even more badass than plants that use toxins to starve other plants.

booksandwildthings

I’d like to third the comments on Kudzu. These are the battlefields:

See those weird pillars? Those were trees. See that strange lump in the middle? That was a house. Everything green you see in this photo is kudzu.

elegantmess-southernbelle

Southern Gothic knows Lovecraft. We have fucking kudzu.

thehats

Trees definitely do war. My little sister and I both got tiny fir saplings for arbor day when we were sprouts. We planted them about 8′ apart. 25 years later, mine is a mighty forest giant, at least 50′ tall. Hers is a dead stump because mine stole all the water and sunlight.

#plant facts