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grape hyacinths are one of my favorite spring ephemerals. not only are they adorable, but the flowers can be used for making syrup that tastes faintly and sweetly of grapes.

and if that’s not your thing, they can also be used for making color-changing ink. the initial ink might look purple in color, but as it hits the paper and begins to dry it will turn blue. and if you add an acid, it will turn pink. and if you add a basic it will turn green (you can do this with the syrup, too!)

this happens because of naturally-occurring pigments called anthocyanins – the same pigments found in purple cabbage, violets, and blueberries!

COLOR SCIENCE 🧪

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Did some 3am plant Tetris, as one does

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Texas spiderwort (Tradescantia humilis).

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The ZZ plant was well overdue for a repot so decided I'd do it before tree pruning today. Shouldn't take that long right?

Oh darling

How greatly I underestimated what I was getting myself into. It took me several hours to untangle and tickle apart the roots from themselves before I could even think of repotting. I wish I took a photo after I got the roots free but I got interrupted during the repotting process due to having to help with a lamb and ended up forgetting.

The rootballs were so huge that I decided to instead divide apart some of the tubers where I could and repot them into several pots instead of a single giant pot.

one chunk of tuber got separated from the greenery but still had an eye so I threw it into a tiny pot to see what happens as well.

Two okay-ish stems got broken off accidentally so I decided to throw them in water to try rooting more up- not that I need more ZZ plants when one specimen has already become 3

While tree pruning outside is taking main priority I've been wanting to work on cleaning repotting up more of the houseplants so may try to juggle a little of each done each day. Will try to report for whichever houseplants get done next.

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••• March 2nd, 2024 •••

My big baby tre outgrew the moss pole it was climbing on so i bought a trellis for it!

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Plant of the Day

Friday 1 March 2024

It was only a few days ago I wrote about Iris 'Blue Note' (Reticulata) but my friend had such a lovely display of this small, early bulb, protected by a frame of Cornus alba (dogwood) stems, that here it is again!

Jill Raggett

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Almost open.

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Grotteschi particolari dei cactus 🌵

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Sticky

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My special orb boys got some attention today. And tried to escape a little

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Plants 🌱

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Alocasia baginda ‘Dragon scale’

via James Wong, Botanygeek

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Conophytum Wittebergense is an uncommon succulent belonging to South Africa. It belongs to the Mesembryanthemum family and is known for its small, globular shape and unique, pebble-like look. The plant has little white or pink flowers that flower in the summer.

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If people make cutesy posts about growing food and herb spirals and composting but never talk about stuff like preventing and getting rid of rats in a garden, I get this suspision that they either haven't actually gardened much or they're more interested in presenting an aesthetically pleasing image than in actually preparing people to deal with a garden.

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Hoya carnosa. July 2022.