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Lonesome tree

Prints

joelpersels

1five1two

'Tamarisk Trees, Southern France'. Guy Rose.

thunderstruck9

Guy Rose (American, 1867-1925), Tamarisk Trees, Southern France. Oil on canvas. 23½ x 28¾ in.

sustancy

seabeck

Cordyceps on western black carpenter ant (Camponotus modoc)

meangirlnurse

fixation of the hour is *spins wheel* lawn alternatives

meangirlnurse

i was hoping to find some native groundcovers/sedges i liked but creeping thyme kinda fucks and at least isn't invasive

meangirlnurse

hello

meangirlnurse

elkeriino

Have you considered:

✨Sagina subulata✨

Its like if cartoon nuclear waste was soft and could photosynthesise

Also it flowers and fills in basically any partial shade / full shade nook

It doesn't love to be trodden on loads but its cute as hell

Just don't plant it in grids or it looks really uncanny and fake:

vintage-tigre

Only a hundred years ago the world still believed it important to design ordinary things with elegance.

Door lock c.1912

ymutate

Helen Whitaker, England

" Sycamore Seed "

Glass , copper and brass

northerlyy

Purple Pitcher Plants (Sarracenia purpurea), taken July 14, 2026, in New Hampshire, US

Thousands of pitcher plants nestled within the sphagnum moss mat of a bog! This was my first time in a bog, and I was (and still am) so in awe of how all of the pitcher plants looked on the vivid red ground. Red and green is one of my favorite color combinations, so to be surrounded in nature by the exact shades I love seeing together was incredible. I took tons of close-ups of individual pitchers, but I started zooming out at the end in an attempt to communicate the sheer number of plants there were. It felt like they never ended, and it was amazing!