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Clover VI  - Beth Edwards , 2019.

American, b.  1960  -

Oil on canvas , 24 x 22 cm.

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Aster and goldenrod season.

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Plant of the Day

Tuesday 2 August 2022

These clumps of Hemerocallis 'Marion Vaughn' (daylily) were flowering and you could smell the fragrance as you walked by the border. Here the plants were growing in a semi shaded location.

Jill Raggett

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me: :(

the northern catalpa trees on the side of the road with their slightly-too-big-to-be-normal leaves and huge inexplicable gangly seed pods: :)

me: :)

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Pretty wood sorrel flowers and leaves (Oxalis laciniata)

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More Solanum pyracanthum because I love the spines! The best punk rock/Hot Topic tomato. When it’s dark and the light is more directional, they glint very noticeably.

The leaves also are fuzzy. Not really velvety but more like felt.

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More botanical illustrations taken from ‘The Ladies’ Flower Garden of Ornamental Perennials’ by Jane Loudon.

Published 1843 by  W. Smith.

Smithsonian Libraries

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a Euphorbia millii and the smaller of two monsteras that my boss keeps in one of his greenhouses

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something i never noticed until this year is that the styles (that star-shaped part) of purslane flowers (Portulaca umbraticola) are shifted to the sides of the flower, rather than sitting in the middle :o)

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link to pdf 

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Plant of the Day

Tuesday 14 June 2022

Hakonechloa macra (ornamental grass) forms clumps of elegant arching foliage and grows well in moist, humus-rich soil in cool shade. It works well edging a path, underplanting shrubs or in containers.

Jill Raggett

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Milliat Fleurs 

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excerpt from “The Book of Delights” by Ross Gay (transcript under the cut) 

Keep reading

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Timelapse of the Liverwort Plant

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Front cover, frontispiece illustration and floral illustrations taken from ‘The Romance of Nature’ by Louisa Ann Meredith.

Published 1836 by Charles Tilt.

 opensource 

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via Wikimedia.