Trump: We're taking nearly
$200M that was set aside for the Green New Scam, and repurposing that money so that we can restart coal #plants #Trump

Some front yard garden bloom scenes.
California #poppies & #WoolySunflowers
#Buttercups & #toadflax

#Spring #perennials #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #flowers #botanical #plants #garden #Bloomscrolling #florespondence #PollinatorGardens #FlowersIdentification #WhatsInMyGarden #WhatsBlooming

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Bright orange California poppies and yellow wooly sunflowers bloom in our front garden with green foliage and a large crabapple tree in the background under a clear blue sky.

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Close-up of bright yellow buttercups and a stalk of purple toadflax wildflowers in our front garden.

While I wasn't paying attention, my chilli plants are doing odd things! 🌶️

One fruit is green and finger-sized, but all the others are tiny and black. Any idea why they're growing so differently?

I got these seeds in a swap from a friend in Germany. The envelope was labelled “Buschpfeffer”.

@gardening
#ChilliGrowing #chilli #chili #chilies #Plantjournal #plants #growing #gardening #SeedExchange

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Close-up of a chilli plant with two developing peppers hanging side by side. A larger, glossy green pepper hangs vertically beside a smaller pepper that is dark purple to nearly black. The plant has green leaves and purple-tinged stems, with a blurred garden background and a bamboo stake visible behind the peppers. Foto by Ronja Biernat

#Hydrangeas
#Clematis
#Phacelia
#Cornflowers
All blooming.

#Spring #perennials #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #flowers #botanical #plants #garden #Bloomscrolling #florespondence #PollinatorGardens #FlowersIdentification #WhatsBlooming #WhatsInMyGarden

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Collage of three close-up shots of light pink and green hydrangeas in bloom with green leaves.

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Close-up of a single, large, deep purple clematis flower with crinkled petals and a bright yellow stamen against a backdrop of lush green foliage.

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Cluster of purple phacelia flowers with delicate, spiky petals and prominent stamens, surrounded by lush green foliage in our backyard garden.

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A light blue Nigella/cornflower with delicate petals and a spiky green center is in focus, surrounded by blurred green foliage and a second blurred blue flower in the background.

hey #plants or #gardening or #botany , i could use some help
I recently transplanted my citrus, a calamondin, and it seems to be dying. i had sprayed for scale a short while before transplanting using a mix of neem, alcohol and soap, and it didnt seem to react to that.
the way its dying seems to be from the inside out? the branches are turning brown as fully green and healthy looking leaves are just dropping. no yellowing or curling. i thought at first it was transplant stress but now i'm starting to panic.
wondering if there is some rot, i watered with a cinnamon mix just now, its helped with surface mildew and other fungal problems before, so i figured watering it in might help?
has anyone seen this before?

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Against a hand held up as a background, two stems of a citrus tree are centred, with green tips but browning lower down, and showing petioles of dropped leaves still green and attached.

I realized I have not posted about my tomatoes this year! Decided to go with plants from the Chicago Tomato Man. He specializes in unique heirloom tomatoes. This year I prepared the soil with compost and worm castings and they are doing fantastic! There is something really magical about growing things yourself. And this year I have a little help in the Garden 🤗

#gardening #Chicago #UrbanGarden #tomatoes #city #vegetables #garden #plants #parenting

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A large white planter contains a growing tomato plant and a basil plant. The background features a brick wall and a view of parked cars outside a balcony.

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A white planter on a balcony holds a young tomato plant supported by a wire cage and a basil plant. The background features a brick wall and leafy trees, with a glimpse of a street visible.

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A toddler is watering a potted plant on a balcony. Gardening gloves and a small pot are visible nearby, and there's chalk writing on the ground. The scene is well-lit, with a brick wall in the background.

There was one tree on our street. 🌳

The council cut it down. 🪾

All that was left was the stump, which people started to throw their litter in. 🗑

So my daughter and I cleared out the trash 🚯

And then filled it with soil, daffodils, and seeds. 🌼

The daffodils have since died but the seeds have started growing 🌱

It has been a nice little activity for my daughter and I to do. When we leave the house each day, she often wants to see the progress. 👧 🔍

#UrbanLiving #Plants #Gardening #Oslo

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A tree stump pictured from the top down, hollowed out and filled with soil and dead daffodils, with a few seedlings appearing above the soil. This image is date marked 4th July 2026.

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A close up of the newly sprouted seedlings. This image is date marked 4th July 2026.

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A photo from inside the same tree stump with plants growing over or almost twice the size as the previous photos. This image is date marked 8th July 2026. Just four days later.

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A second photo from inside the same tree stump with plants growing over or almost twice the size as the previous photos. This image is date marked 8th July 2026. Just four days later.

They call it Dogwood. 😾 #plants #blossomingtree

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Tree with white 4 single-petaled blossoms against background of blue sky with 2 small streaks of misty cloud.

In early 2023, I took 2 cuttings from a rose plant at Jubilee Hospital gardens. I propagated the cuttings in our front yard. I grew them for my parents. Dad passed away before any of the cuttings propagated had matured enough to bloom. This year, it's blooming a lot. This is one of the roses from that propagation.

#Spring #perennials #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #flowers #botanical #plants #garden #Bloomscrolling #florespondence #PollinatorGardens #FlowersIdentification #WhatsInMyGarden #WhatsBlooming #rose #PlantsPropagation

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Close-up of a coral pink rose with velvety petals unfurling, with blurred green foliage and white peony flowers in the background.

Voodoo lily flower, close-up.

#Spring #perennials #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #flowers #botanical #plants #garden #Bloomscrolling #florespondence #PollinatorGardens #FlowersIdentification #WhatsInMyGarden #WhatsBlooming #spathe #spadix #JackInThePulpit #DragonLily #VoodooLily

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Close-up of a deep purple spathe of a Jack-in-the-pulpit/voodoo lily flower with a dark spadix in the center.

Blue-Eyed grass looking up at lilac in full bloom overhead. I think it has a comment, but I'm not sure what exactly. #bloomscrollling , #plants

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Upper photo of a lilac bush in bloom against a blue sky. Lower photo looking down at the ground beneath where some Blue-Eyed grass is in bloom, the blossoms facing upwards.

Got it! 🙌

#books #plants #pacificnorthwest https://mastodon.social/@ncgleason/116695720352880670

Anyone else a fan of Pojar and Mackinnon?The best book I’ve ever found for plants of the Pacific Northwest has just been updated, so I backed the kickstarter! I'm a shoot-first-identify-later kind of photographer, and this is by far my favorite resource for any plants in the PNW. Please consider backing this incredibly valuable reference, and get a copy for yourself or to give to the plant lover in your life. It’s the best!
#PacificNorthwest #plants #biology #botany

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/cansciencebooks/plants-of-the-pacific-coast-from-alaska-to-oregon?fbclid=IwZnRzaASPL7JleHRuA2FlbQExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkCjY2Mjg1NjgzNzkAAR7TfG6dIraStOQd64nlz_owY-z8K8RyipvMFsgXi6edYpkKNLbLdfsF8i2yiw_aem_kDJ7d-gW54iEhfEs-1lPvg&utm_id=97758_v0_s00_e0_tv2_a1den1nd6ws4tq

#TIL
I don't know how I thought growing Dragon Fruit would look, but it was definitely not this.
#nature is #weird #plants #gardening

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lots of growing dragon fruit trees sort of if Aloe Vera grew upside down and had pink naval mines hanging from its cactus dreads.

Hi Jack. #plants #smallplants

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A Jack-in-the-pulpit in a shared field of greenery.

Yucca update. The challenging part is getting a good photo without getting stabbed by the spiky leaves. 🌸

#plants #flowers #bloomscrolling #Colorado

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The center of a banana yucca plant with a large floral mass in the middle of tough, green spikes that is now mostly in bloom with dozens of creamy white flowers, some fully opened and some still waiting to open. The open flowers sort of point downward rather than upward and have a bell-shaped, lily-like appearance with multiple overlapping petals spreading and curling open to reveal the center pistil and stamens.

Warm Sunday morning, Lilies are blooming in the pond.

#Bloomscrolling #plants

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A pink Water Lily flower is seen from above surrounded by green lily pads. The flower has many pink petals with yellow stamens.

fuck an AI app. get yourself one of these.
#plants #botany #books #killYourLawn #Bloomscrolling

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cover of a paperback titled, 'jerbs & healing plants of britain & europe'. a sticker below the title indicates that the book was bought from 'the national trust' for £2.99.

My sketches of lotus flowers and lotus leaves with my favorite sketching pen, the Energel 0.7. I did these in preparation for a capybara painting with lotus plants.

#sketchbook #art #plants

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A sketchbook page with pen drawings of lotus flowers and leaves. The date 4/26/24 is written at the top and Energel 0.7 is written next to it. The pink Energel 0.7 pen is on the opposite page.

Steampunk Greenhouse sits hidden behind a shield of dense vegetation, tucked away inside an Italian country park.

The elements have slowly reclaimed the site, rusting the elaborate wrought ironwork into a deep brown. Thick vines twist and contort their way up the metal framework, while larger, rope-like roots coil across the floorboards near the entrance.

https://www.obsidianurbexphotography.com/leisure/steampunk-greenhouse-italy/

#Italy #Greenhouse #Steampunk #Architecture #Plants #Rust

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A decaying steampunk greenhouse in an Italian country park, overgrown with lush green vines. Rusty frames and a dirt floor show its abandonment.

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An abandoned, ornate cast-iron greenhouse is being reclaimed by a dense forest, with green foliage heavily growing over its structure

RE: https://biodiversity.social/@mizoraman/116629810748690942

This looks like a great book! Added to my to purchase list the next time I am in India.... And the illustrated cover looks gorgeous!

#mastindia #trees #plants #southasia #nature #environment #bookstodon #books #india

🌿An abandoned greenhouse, reclaimed by nature. Somewhere in Italy.

#Italy #Photography #Abandoned #Plants #Greenhouse #LostPlace #Explore #Travel

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An overgrown, abandoned greenhouse, its glass panels broken and covered in vines and green foliage. Nature reclaims the structure.

This week in Master Gardener I worked in the Plant Clinic, which was FASCINATING! I got to work with a more experienced master gardener mentor to help solve plant problems from people in the community, and provide science-backed advice.

So, here are some of the problems people brought to us in the Plant Clinic today: 🧵
#Garden #Gardening #Plants

1/ Jeff brought in samples from his Gala and Honeycrisp apples. The samples from the gala were completely dead with a burnt look, which is a pretty clear sign of fireblight. He said he had fireblight on the same tree last year, had pruned tit out and sprayed it with copper fungicide, but it had come back.

Fireblight is a big problem here and gala is prone to it, so we told him he should keep at it (pruning the dead parts out) but the tree might need to come out. 😞
#Garden #Gardening #Plants

2/ The honeycrisp samples just had a few dry leaves and did not look like fireblight to me; more like the tree was just stressed. He had fertilized it earlier in the spring with 13-13-13, and a lot of it, and we raised eyebrows at that but that was probably not the core problem. Could have been frost or drought. No diagnosis. We told him to keep an eye on it.

(The Master Gardeners encourage organic methods but we do not judge if people go conventional.)
#Garden #Gardening #Plants

3/ Marion brought in a trap with two enormous dead yellowjackets in it. She was surprised how big they were. I had also been trapping huge yellowjackets at home so this was a question I wanted to know the answer to!

We did some research into yellowjacket varieties and these were plain old western yellowjackets. My theory is that these are queens, and it's good to nab the queens early so they don't make nests (and many more ywllowjackets). She hoped that was the case.
#Garden #Gardening #Plants

4/ Marisa sent us an email with photos of her apples and peaches and asked about the problems the was having. The apple photos all looked like more fireblight. 😞

The peach leaf photos had raised orange blisters on them, which is a sure sign of peach leaf curl, a fungal disease. If it's just one or two leaves you can just cut them off. The tree will need to be sprayed with a fungicide (sulfur is organic) in the winter and spring but now spraying won't help.
#Garden #Gardening #Plants

5/ Ellen brought in some samples from a rhododendron that were covered in what looked like black soot. We looked closer and found mealybugs, which secrete a sticky waste called honeydew. Given that rhodies are often grown in shade the black soot is a mold from the honeydew.

Fortunately this is an easy fix, remove the mealybugs and the mold will go away. You can just wash off the mealybugs with water from a hose or use insecticidal soap (organic, safe).
#Garden #Gardening #Plants

6/ IN SUMMARY: Plant Clinic was super interesting, and other than the need to talk to people on the phone (UGH, the worst) I learned a lot and had a lot of fun. I have two more sessions this summer for my Master Gardener class and I hope they will be equally as interesting.
#Garden #Gardening #Plants

“Laura Alice Bracken, a #Geelong-based artist, started building her own cyberdeck as an extension of her creative practice, in which she was experimenting with #MIDI controllers that take #biofrequencies from #plants and transform them into #soundwaves.

But Bracken, 39, wanted something she could take out into #nature and, after falling down a rabbit hole online, her mind started to widen to the world of #cyberdecks.

The device she is making – housed inside a vintage abalone shell – will also double as an e-reader.

“I just found out my #Kindle is about to be made redundant,” she says (Amazon recently announced they would no longer support #eReaders made before 2012).”

“It is a perfectly good Kindle ... so why is it suddenly going to be trash? It’s because they want to sell new ones.”

#PersonalComputing / #computers / #hardware / #DIY <https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/life-and-relationships/the-young-women-building-their-own-computers-as-a-middle-finger-to-big-tech-20260424-p5zqvv.html> / <https://archive.md/t0DR4>

This is a very manecured place. It's part golf course to keep the Tesla and Corvette drivers busy and off of the highways during the day, but if you walk out far enough, you can still find some rustic rather untouched wilderness, my kinda stuff.

I did end up walking out of the woods and finding Mallard lake right in front of me and beyond it, part of the golf course itself, but it was a pleasant surprise to walk out of the woods after half a mile of walking and "BEHOLD... LAKE".

Oh yeah and happy first post on the new instance. Holla back y'all, my ego needs it.

#photography #wildlifephotography #naturephotography #landscapephotography #canon #mirrorless #bofipho #r8 #cameras #northcarolina #nc #winstonsalem #highpoint #greensboro #tanglewood #trees #flowers #plants #blueways #greenways #summer #forestphotography #forest #thewoods

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Some of the gardens around the Arboretum. Most of the flowers have come and gone... gotta be faster about these things, still mighty green tho.

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Another garden area, like this one a lot.

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Playing with reflections never gets old, Mallard Lake and the golf course beyond it.

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A spiderweb illuminated by a ray of sunlight