#botanize

[climatecalling]

Our planet has nearly 300,000 species of flowering plants. Among animals, only beetles can compete with that number. There are more species of ferns than birds, more mints than mammals, and more beans than butterflies. Measured in total mass, plants make up 82% of all life on land across the globe. We are plant scientists and co-founders of Let’s Botanize, an educational nonprofit that uses plant life to teach about ecology, evolution and biodiversity. In the past several years we have witnessed a botanical boom, with participation in plant-based hobbies surging. ... Botanizing is spending time alongside plants in order to observe and appreciate them as living organisms – like birding, but with subjects that stay in place. When you botanize, a simple walk in the woods becomes an immersive experience shared with many species. Getting to know your nonhuman neighbors is a way to engage with a changing planet. ... There are many ways to botanize. Typically it involves trying to identify a plant species, observing its form and structure or assessing how it survives in the landscape. ... That means looking at plants with appreciation – not simply as products for human use but as foundational and interconnected members of life on Earth.

[zegalba]

Comenius University Botanical Garden, Bratislava

[yuumei-art]

Finally finished 😭 Timelapse at the bottom! I had an idea for my Wings of Pages series, where instead of text, it's a book full of botanical illustrations. The majority of the time was spent on the individual flowers for each feather/page of the wings. I really love the look of old botanical books with the water color paintings and the scientific names written in cursive. So I spent way too many hours painting out 20 of these flower pages, and even then, it wasn't enough for the wings so I did have to duplicate some.

Here are the 20 flowers! The HD image of Atlas Botanicus, and all 20 HD flower studies without watermark will be DMed on Patreon.com/Yuumei on May 5th, along with the hours long video recording of how I painted everything.

[taylornprice]

lemons

[julianplum]

🍄 🍁 🐌 🐜 🪳✨ // Omphalotus illudens, the bioluminescent jack o' lantern mushroom // gouache on paper

[petitworld]

Glasgow Botanics Gardens, Scotland by Simon Hird

[rosieandthemoon]

Common Emerald Moth

[mochipanko]

[Lysimachia europaea] arctic starflower/Siebenstern

[Cardamine pretensis] cuckoo flower/Wiesen-Schaumkraut

[Ranunculus acris] meadow buttercup/Scharfer Hahnenfuß

Some flowers for the end of the year ✨

[feydayarts]

I've been seeing stardew inspired botanical prints all around the place, so thought I'd try my own hand at it! Winter had to include a few more of the special crops than originally intended, but I still love it tbh. What season is your favourite in stardew valley?

[blooming-lenses]

pink tide 2025/05/24

[fialovart]

botanical sea creatures 🦈🌸

ko-fi | instagram | bluesky

[bigjinx]

Ode to dandelions + details

A tribute to the misunderstood, under-appreciated, beautiful, edible, tough, wonderful dandelion!

Pencil on paper, 12”x15”, 2025. Prints are available

[etherealyearning]

Heale Gardens

[miamaimania]

"Entwined" at New Orleans Botanical Garden ☀ Lovers frozen in stone while plants plot their gentle takeover

[taylornprice]

yellow blooms