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snowdrops for spring equinox!

(Galanthus nivalis)

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Happy Spring Equinox!

(Hepatica nobilis)

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Botanical illustrations of ferns taken from 'The Octavo Nature- Printed British Ferns' by Thomas Moore.

Published 1859 by Bradbury and Evans.

Wellcome Library.

archive.org

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Sea spleenwort fronds glistening in a dark crevice on the rocky shore.

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Field of snakewort

Yokosuka, Kanagawa, Japan

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carnivorous plants

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2018-09-10

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taxus brevifolia (pacific yew) bark

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twitter and instagram are both R-selected species while tumblr is K-selected. this is very clear to me

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by Emily von Trapp

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Plant of the Day

Sunday 9 June 2024

Providing early colour in an herbaceous border is Lamium orvala (balm-leaved red deadnettle, dragon flower, Hungary deadnettle). The clump-forming growth habit of this plant means it remains where it is placed and for best results it grows in a moist, well-drained soil in partial shade.

Jill Raggett

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no offense to salmon but it seems a lot easier to swim with the tide than against it

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There are ten trillion pictures of flowering trees to the point where they sometimes seem trite and overdone. But then you see a tree in full flower and go holy shit this rules and I've gotta show this to everyone so they can experience the same magic and wonder and there are ten trillion and one pictures of flowering trees

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monoculture forests are deeply unsettling in a way that is hard to explain to people who do not spend a lot of time looking at forests

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Samuel Kilbourne (American, 1836-1881)

"The California Salmon" (ca. 1879)

"Leaping Brook Trout" (1874)

"Yellow Perch" (1878)