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So I repotted all my tomatoes, uhhh, a month ago. And I'm repotting them again. Because they got big. But. I missed one the first time around.

Everyone behold the dixie cup tomato.

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Sarracenia flava / Yellow Pitcherplant at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

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it's dark now so I have to take weird ominous photos with our phone's flash but here's where we're up to

introducing our new plant: Selaginella lepidophylla

we ordered it a few days ago and it arrived today in its dried out form but we've currently got it sitting in a little bit of water to watch it rehydrate and unfurl so we'll probably post updates later as it does that

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it's been a couple more hours so here's another update

introducing our new plant: Selaginella lepidophylla

we ordered it a few days ago and it arrived today in its dried out form but we've currently got it sitting in a little bit of water to watch it rehydrate and unfurl so we'll probably post updates later as it does that

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it's been about 3 hours and here's how it's doing now

introducing our new plant: Selaginella lepidophylla

we ordered it a few days ago and it arrived today in its dried out form but we've currently got it sitting in a little bit of water to watch it rehydrate and unfurl so we'll probably post updates later as it does that

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another update: look at all those layers of leaves (are they leaves? branches? I need to learn more about how these little guys are structured)

introducing our new plant: Selaginella lepidophylla

we ordered it a few days ago and it arrived today in its dried out form but we've currently got it sitting in a little bit of water to watch it rehydrate and unfurl so we'll probably post updates later as it does that

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update: it's started unfurling

only a little bit, but still, look at it go!

introducing our new plant: Selaginella lepidophylla

we ordered it a few days ago and it arrived today in its dried out form but we've currently got it sitting in a little bit of water to watch it rehydrate and unfurl so we'll probably post updates later as it does that

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introducing our new plant: Selaginella lepidophylla

we ordered it a few days ago and it arrived today in its dried out form but we've currently got it sitting in a little bit of water to watch it rehydrate and unfurl so we'll probably post updates later as it does that

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I had a bunch of meltdowns yesterday so my husband took me to see the ferns of the Sonoran desert. Here they are. You probably didn't know that the desert has ferns but it definitely does! They're super cool and adapted to high heat and little water. There are many species but we only found three right now. They like rocky outcroppings underneath trees and they frequently grow near seasonal creeks. Nobody grows these guys unfortunately. They're much more interesting than the ferns for sale in most nurseries, I think.

Here's the first fern. Pellaea truncata. Spiny Cliff Brake. It has a very unique look. Notice the bluish leaves that help handle excess light. There was a lot of this guy!

This fern was growing right next to the first! It's Myriopteris fendleri, we think, but we're not a hundred percent sure. Fendler's Lip Fern. These guys are a more traditional looking fern, but very small. Here's a pen for scale.

This one I found all by myself! A big milestone for a new fernhead! This is Myriopteris covillei. Coville's Lip Fern. Look at the back of the leaves! I think they recently made spores!

Anyway, I will keep you posted on my fern adventures. Sadly desert ferns are not much studied or cultivated by the native plant people. Not one of these are at any of the local botanical gardens. It's very sad.

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Sedeveria 'Lilac Mist'

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I was going to make one big post with all the cactus flowers from the past few weeks, but this is a new plant I'm obsessed with. One of the local nurseries got a shipment of various Echinocereus. This was labeled E. viridiflorus, which I knew was wrong (size, appearance, buds much too large), but the buds also looked too large to be E. triglochidiatus, the other species they had. So I took it home, and the brown buds eventually opened to beautiful coral flowers. This is a hybrid, possibly one of the naturally occurring ones like x lloydii or x roetteri. Both are supposed to be crosses of E. coccineus (typically red-flowered) and E. dasyacanthus (typically yellow-flowered), with the main distinction apparently being where the population originated. The hybrids are fertile and display tons of variety in spination, size, and flower color. Like all cacti, this one is extremely popular with our native pollinators. I'm hoping it sets fruit!

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i am leaving my precious baby tomato seedlings outside overnight for the first time, and i feel like a mother who just dropped my infant off at daycare

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fat little peperomia dolabriformis and what its tiny white flowers look like.

my lithops pseudotruncatella in the process of splitting, kalanchoe tomentosa, and pachyveria pachyphytoides

crassula ovata hummels sunset

crassula swaziensis, echeveria pulidonis

sedum dasyphyllum, crassula tetragona and hatiora salicornioides

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This stem is really making a comeback! 😍

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Delicate little baby beans… (Hopniss, Apios americana, 17 days after sowing)

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me after planting seeds, approximately every 10 minutes: sprout??? sprot?? sprut??? sprought? spr-

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Bc Rustic Spots H&R opened another flower for me! Only one this time but it’s ok. I’ll never complain about a flower from this plant.