#pavement plants

[geopsych]

Another sidewalk dandelion—they’re my heroes.

[anecologistinthecity]

Pavement plants: great Willowherb growing in the cracks

[awkwardbotany]

Introducing Weeds of Boise

Weeds are the wild flora of our cities. Their occurrence and continued existence is not directly reliant on humans in the same way that the plants in our yards, parks, gardens, and other green spaces are. They may take advantage of the disturbance that we cause when we stir up the soil or cease maintenance in a particular spot, and they certainly appreciate the runoff from our sprinklers and the…

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[headspace-hotel]

I have been trying to ID all of my plants, a challenge since there are 80-100 of them now (really)

This experience has been incredible. A person can spend their entire life thinking that growing beautiful plants is incredibly difficult and requires spending hundreds of dollars on plants. Meanwhile almost all of my plants have been pulled up by the roots from pavement or gravel and furnished with nothing but potting soil in a red solo cup with holes cut in the bottom.

And not only are most of them thriving, I have like 2 dozen species that people pay good money for. What

[headspace-hotel]

Pavement plants update:

Working on transferring plants to larger pots. I'm also going to keep track of them somehow and label them because there's too many now.

6 (?) sycamore seedlings survive and seem to be doing well, and an additional two or three I'm not quite ready to pronounce dead.

Observations:

Small pots bad. My plants should never have been in such small pots.

Too much shade seems to be bad but plants in direct sun in midafternoon have a rough go of it. Maybe rotate the location of the pots??

I'm not actually sure anymore if cutting leaves is good for helping the sycamores' survival. It seems like it introduces rot and pathogens even though it helps with water loss. Don't cut leaves then.

I've been using toilet paper rolls to make shields to put around the seedlings so they don't get roasted and the shielded plants have mostly done well. I think the fact that the cardboard gets moist also helps??

There seems to be a specific period when you can successfully pull up a seedling and have it survive. Almost everything I've tried to transplant that was under a certain size has died.

If the leaves get wet and dirty when I'm watering, the plant isn't long for this world. Don't get the leaves wet and dirty. In general just don't mess with/touch too much.

Don't jump the gun too quickly on pronouncing a plant dead, because one seedling that appeared super dead has produced two new leaves and has been looking better every day.

One of these is a pokeweed. Oops.