#Jasmine is blooming again. We keep them indoors for 3/4 of year & move outside for late Spring-Summer. Good indoor natural air purifying #plant. Flowers are #edible & used to make tea & fruits used in #Chinese#TraditionalMedicine.
Hello #gardening#plants#florespondence friends- spotted this plant on a walk and am having trouble ID'ing it. Fairly certain it belongs to the Lamiaceae family, and #PlantNet says it thinks it is spearmint (with 13% certainty, anyway...), but I've never seen a variegated variety before.
Spotted on the Canadian prairies in CDN hardiness zone 3b/4a, but in a well-kept yard, so may not be native to here.
I mowed the lawn today just to keep it under control. The #CompostBins have a whole community of #fauna and #fungi in them but as soon as you lift the lid and expose them to bright #sunshine, they scurry away looking to retain moisture and out of the sight of likely predators like birds. It’s difficult to get a good #photograph of any #arthropods.
However, I did manage to capture an image of this #woodlouse.
It’s that time of the #year where I make a #calendar for the next one. I decided the theme for next year would be #pollinators. All #photographs are by me and were taken either in our front or back #garden. Hope you like the pictures. You don’t? Well never mind, you can print out just the months instead.
Hey #horticulture peeps. What's your suggestions for #indoorPlants that would be good for an elderly person with #dementia? Things that are hard to kill by either neglect, or overwatering, for a bright room but with no direct sunlight in cool temperate climate lutruwita/Tasmania).
Distracting myself from a big anxiety-inducing Change happening at work this evening with some photos of how glorious it is at home today, and my newly de-weeded Front Garden (was out at lunchtime finishing it off)
It's a gorgeous 21c degrees here today thanks to an unusual orb in the weirdly-blue sky that, lol, a passer-by informs me might be our parent star. Pfft. As if. #DinnaeLookUp
Back Garden....has a whole butt-load of weeding to do yet. 😁 Baby steps hehe.
With all this greenery on show I also thought you'd enjoy seeing my living house companions: Planty who was a Moving In gift last year, and brand new offshoot, Mini-Planty. As Planty has somehow, incredibly, survived in my care I reckon Mini-planty might be ok.
Have you ever heard of #haskaps? (You may also know the plant as #honeyberry, or (blue) fly honeysuckle, depending on where you come from!)
I hadn't until probably a year ago.
They're a species of #honeysuckle, essentially, with edible #berries, and some growers cultivate them as a commercial crop. They're quite niche in the UK still (but there are a few specialist growers), but more prominent elsewhere. (Apparently, though in some countries they're believed to be toxic!)
Unless you have bad soil or can't grow in-ground, there's really no reason you should be using those raised bed containers (e.g., Birdies). I see people who have enough land and good enough soil using these raised beds. You're wasting money. Just grow in-ground!
Yarrow, with its delicate fern-like leaves and clusters of tiny, dainty flowers, is far more than just a picturesque addition to the wild meadows and gardens...
#Lilium pardalinum, leopard lily, a native to the west coast of North America. Never did well for me in Seattle until I moved it into full shade next to a lilac. Then a squirrel ate it 😭
Last October I discovered a Horse Chestnut (Aesculus Hippocastanum if you're fancy) tree in the gardens of a local abandoned house and I realised that there are no broadleaf deciduous trees around here, so, over a few dog walks I collected pockets full of conkers.
Around 80 went into bags and into the fridge to stratify over the winter, and now they are germinating.
We are going to have a lot of Broadleaf deciduous trees around here soon.
Buying plants online,:a short thread. There's no substitute for a good plant nursery/garden center near where you live. I'm lucky to have several. But not everyone does, and sometimes if you're after something specific, something rare, you can find what you want online. But will you get what you paid for? Will they survive?
Forest communities in southwestern Ghana use 70 species of medicinal trees to treat up to 83 ailments, according to a recent study. These plants contain high levels of bioactive compounds with pharmacological benefits, but many are also threatened by factors including overharvesting and agricultural expansion in the area that...
Ghana’s Medicinal Plants, the ‘First Aid’ for Communities, Are Under Threat (goodmenproject.com)
Forest communities in southwestern Ghana use 70 species of medicinal trees to treat up to 83 ailments, according to a recent study. These plants contain high levels of bioactive compounds with pharmacological benefits, but many are also threatened by factors including overharvesting and agricultural expansion in the area that...