#plant things

[horatio-fig]

There’s a plant called Purple Passion and I imagine it’s the kind of plant that grows on Lasan/Lira San. It has these little purple hairs and it would be easy for Lasat to hide amongst them.

But what I didn't know was that when the Purple Passion blooms, it has these amazing yellow/orange flowers.

It’s like a Kalluzeb plant!

[verdantlyviolet]

Rosemary harvest ✌️

[killanyone4you]

surprise! 😂😂

[loumauve]

a short little story from your local 'if I find it I'll try and grow it' gardener:

one time on the way home from getting groceries I found a lone, solitary, tiny potato and picked it up thinking I'd either put it in a soup or maybe buy more potatoes later, but kind of forgot about it until it started sprouting

at that point I thought 'well, this mango is about to die anyway so I'll just use that pot instead' (which is how things at my place usually go) that mango only grew in the first place bc I bought a mango to eat and then felt sad about wasting a good seed.

anyway, back to the tiny, sprouting potato.. I planted it, watered it. forgot to water it. panic-watered it (also how things go at my place. how any of my plants survive idk) but it started sprouting and even had a few blossoms, and then I kinda forgot about it again until a few days ago when I saw that the stalk had turned all brown, and was all dried up, so I figured it probably just died.

but just now when I was tugging on the dead stalk to try and clean up my windowsill I saw it had grown yet another tiny potato. life is a circle, y'all

look at this goofy lil potato!

anyway, I've replanted that one now and watered it. guess we'll see if young potatoes can just grow this quickly again or not.

[rejectofsociety]

Tell me about your plants?

HI okay so the heat has been so hard on these lil guys but most of them are doing okay. I got like, thirty plants now and I’m not aloud to get any more. At least not until I graduate

This lil dude ^ actually died for a few weeks, but I kept watering it out of habit, and it’s starting to come back!

we also got this guy, which my grandfather got for me when he went to Texas to visit family. How he got a plant through an airport, I have no idea

I also got this Hydrangea, which was originally blue. But, the flowers were evidentially dyed, and returned to their natural green color. I hate when people dye flowers. They do it a lot with Orchids and cacti

speaking of orchids, mine’s doing really well! she went through a resting phase, which is when the flowers fall off and the stem goes brown, but a few weeks later she was back in business. A lot of stores alter orchids so they don’t have resting phases, which doesn’t feel like it’d be good for the plant. But idk

I also got these plants from my uncle, because he’s moving back to Mexico and doesn’t want to deal with them.

I also got this plant from my uncle, and it originally belonged to my great grandmother. Right now it just has one leaf because it’s a tired old man. But there’s a little notch on the stem, and another leaf will grow from there.

so yeah! That’s what my plants got going on right now. Thank you for asking about them! 💙

[thedizzydinosaur]

Dear trees.

I don't care how windy it is.

Fall over now.

I dare you.

[pleiadia7]

[priestessofthepoeticprophesy]

[reyblogs]

hearts in trees ♡

[jagalart]

Yarrow and Feverfew

Art trade with the incredible @liscepu, I'm so grateful for the chance! Thank you for fueling my love for the game again <3

[headspace-hotel]

I saw this book entitled "Plants Have So Much to Give Us, All We Have to Do is Ask" by Mary Siisip Genuisz and i thought oh I HAVE to read that. The author is Anishinaabe and the book is all about Anishinaabe teachings of the ways of the plants.

Going from the idiotic, Eurocentric, doomerist colonialism apologia of that "Cambridge companion to the anthropocene" book, to the clarity and reasonableness of THIS book, is giving me whiplash just about.

I read like 130 pages without even realizing, I couldn't stop! What a treasure trove of knowledge of the ways of the plants!

Most of them are not my plants, since it is a different ecosystem entirely (which gives me a really strikingly lonely feeling? I didn't know I had developed such a kinship with my plants!) but the knowledge of symbiosis as permeating all things including humans—similar to what Weeds, Guardians of the Soil called "Nature's Togetherness Law"—is exactly what we need more of, exactly what we need to teach and promote to others, exactly what we need to heal our planet.

She has a lot of really interesting information on how knowledge is created and passed down in cultures that use oral tradition. The stories and teachings she includes are a mix of those directly passed down by her teacher through a very old heritage of knowledge holders, stories with a newer origin, and a couple that have an unknown origin and (I think?) may not even be "authentically" Native American at all, but that she found to be truthful or useful in some way. She likes many "introduced" plants and is fascinated by their stories and how they came here. (She even says that Kudzu would not be invasive if we understood its virtues and used it the way the Chinese always have, which is exactly what I've been saying!!!)

She seems a bit on the chaotic end of the spectrum in regards to tradition, even though she takes tradition very seriously—she says the way the knowledge of medicinal and otherwise useful plants has been built, is that a medicine person's responsibility is not simply to pass along teachings, but to test and elaborate upon the existing ones. It is a lot similar to the scientific method, I would call it a scientific method. Her way of seeing it really made me understand the aliveness of tradition and how there is opportunity, even necessity, for new traditions based upon new ecological relationships and new cultural connections to the land.

I was gut punched on page 15 when she says that we have to be careful to take care of the Earth and all its creatures, because if human civilization destroys the biosphere the rocks and winds will be left all alone to grieve for us.

What a striking contrast to the sad, cruel ideas in the Cambridge companion of the Anthropocene, where humans are some kind of disease upon the Earth that oppresses and "colonizes" everything else...!...The Earth would GRIEVE for us!

We are not separate from every other thing. We have to learn this. If I can pass along these ideas to y'all through my silly little posts, I will have lived well.

[verdantlyviolet]

Spent the morning cleaning, separating and even potting (!!) the cuttings I’ve raised in water. Some are almost a year old with root systems 15cm long, but only one or two leaves.

All pothos, philodendron, one jade and one snake plant.

[grassyeggroll]

Another one of my AUs that I haven’t worked on in months 🌲💫

[loumauve]

You posed the dreaded bird question so I will be mean in return: do you have a favourite plant (species) and if so, what kind?

OOF

so many plants, all wonderful, and you ask me to choose?? *dismay*

I will cheat:

favourite kind of tree:

based on botanical name: Cedrus atlantica 'Glauca' (bc it is literally the same in German and also they look beautiful -- Blaue Atlas-Zeder

based on me liking them: Fagus sylvatica 'Atropunicea' -- Blutbuche

favourite plant to grow from seed:

Pitaya and Mango (so easy)

favourite outdoor plant that's generally not a tree:

Amelanchier lamarckii -- Kupferfelsenbirne

favourite indoor plant:

I just... **succulents**. I love them. I have so many and they're so easy to grow just from a leaf, also tend not to mind if I forget to water them for a while

but I also love anything that has purple leaves or variegation.

BUT ALSO FERNS!!! AND MOSS!!! and I love Dahlias and Paeonia!!!!

[hollycircling]

chains are still chains, no matter how comfortable

[jayrockin]

The avian homeplanet's plants, and worms pretending to be plants.

Plantworms tend to out-compete the true plants in wet climates with nutrient poor soil or unstable substrate (such as wetlands and rainforests) because of their opportunistic carnivory and mobility. The true plants out-compete them in arid climates (such as tundra and deserts) because they have more robust water gathering and anti-freezing mechanisms. While both can form mycorrhizal associations to aid in water and nutrient deliver through the soil, true plants have extensive root systems and are not completely reliant on rainwater and condensation in the absence of mycorrhizal partners.

Both plantworms and true plants have clades that partner with pollinator animals to reproduce, but some plantworm "flowers" are honey traps. They use their colorful genitals as a lure to snare and eat potential pollinators, and reproduce "the old fashioned way," as in, reaching over to their same species neighbors to exchange gametes.

I've posted a little about avian flora before, though this is more up-to-date.

PATREON | Runaway to the Stars