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"AI could help win ‘race against extinction’ of vital plants, say botanists"
#AI #ArtificialIntelligence #Plants

Not-so-common Mullein in front of the fountain where I photographed myself and the bunny
#photo #photography #plants

4 out of 5 of the surviving Lupin #plants have flowered; one of them with multiple flower stalks. When I try this again I'll just make sure to plant the seeds in deep pots initially so their roots are happier and don't need transplanting.

"‘A weed is only a plant in the wrong place’: RHS Chelsea garden celebrates England’s edgelands"
#Plants #Environment

City people think Honeysuckle makes pretty red berries you see in the margin; Good 'ole Boys know it takes over when you quit mowing; people who know their plants know it is a European invader!
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"Can houseplants really purify the air in your home? What the science actually says"
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Can houseplants really purify the air in your home? What the science actually says
The question sounds simple. The answer, once you examine the actual measurement science behind it, is more interesting than either "yes" or "no."

Common liverwort (Marchantia polymorpha) growing on the shady side of my house. The little cups are filled with wafer-shaped asexual buds called gemmae that get dispersed by rain droplets. The thallus is currently sending up reproductive structures so stay tuned for gender reveal (species is dioecious). #liverworts #plants #botany #nature #moss

Indigo Bush by the Cayuga Lake Inlet near Alan Treman State Marine Park -- I am heading out to New England so my posts will be slow this weekend
#photo #photography #plants

"Toxins from Great Salt Lake dust are absorbed by plants, soils and human bodies"
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Toxins from Great Salt Lake dust are absorbed by plants, soils and human bodies
Shrinking water levels at the Great Salt Lake are not just about Utah's water supply—they may pose a serious risk to public health. New research from a team at Utah State University and the University of Utah documents the ways metal-laden dust from the drying lakebed may find its way into human bodies—directly through ingestion and indirectly through food systems.

"Ecosystem of Pansies Thrives on Soil Contaminated by Lead Mining–Turning it into Clean Organic Compounds"
#Plants #Flowers #Environment

Ecosystem of Pansies Thrives on Soil Contaminated by Lead Mining–Turning it into Clean Organic Compounds - Good News Network
For areas contaminated by lead and zinc mining across Europe, a class of plants known as “metallophytes” are helping enrich nature while diminishing pollution. The Guardian reported on this kind of ecological double speak, where wildflowers seemingly grow in healthy abundance on semi-mountainous landscapes in the north of the UK, a place that has seen […]

Purpletop Vervain (𝑉𝑒𝑟𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑖𝑎 𝑏𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑠) in a garden on the side of the Entomology Building
#photo #photography #plants

Water lily and fern are putting on a show at the mini pond. #shadow #plants #leaves #pond #ferns #nymphaeaceae

Just past Litha (Summer Solstice) I am seeing 𝐸𝑐ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑎𝑐𝑒𝑎 (a.k.a. Purple Coneflower) everywhere
#photo #photography #plants

Looking for someone who can make a pixel plant website logo.
#art #logo #commission #plants…

"Rare British Plant Makes Extraordinary Comeback from Brink of Extinction"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Plants

Rare British Plant Makes Extraordinary Comeback from Brink of Extinction
There's something about an endangered plant: rooted, exposed, and unable to run from what threatens it, that unnerves one.

I missed the bloom at the Rhododendron knoll this year because so many things came up but the Laowa 9mm gives a good feel for the space
#photo #photography #plants

Close-up of a bloom on one of my peonies. The label is long gone but seems to match up to images of 'Hillary', a hybrid of herbaceous and tree varieties. #peony #flowers #plants #paeonia #botany

I gave away some fig treelets yesterday and boy did they go fast. If you have one that gets pruned I urge you to do the same: just throw the stems in a bin, cover with moist sand, and ignore in your basement during the winter. In the spring, just pot them up. Easy peasy. #figs #ficus #plants #gardening #swarthmore

This early in the spring and some Dandelions have already gone to seed!
#photo #photography #plants #dandelion

Astilbe in front of Gates Hall
#photo #photography #plants #bloomscrolling

My local arboretum had a plant swap for members and I scored four perennials and a bunch of seed packets from Burpee. It was a mob scene, with numbered admittance so that nobody got into fights about being first. My contribution was nine fig trees, and they went fast, I think. #swarthmore #garden #arboretum #gardening #flowers #plants

If you grow milkweed to support monarch butterflies, spring is the time to pot up all those volunteers in your yard and to gift them to neighbors without asking them whether they want them. #monarchs #butterflies #milkweed #asclepias #plants #flowers #gardening #garden #pollinators

Super envious of the glass-fronted, floor-to-ceiling shelves for herbs and micro-greens at 1906, the restaurant at Longwood Gardens in Kennett Square, PA. When I win the lottery I'm going to get something like that installed. [Screenshot from a video from the garden's Instagram account.] #LongwoodGardens #KennettSquare #restaurant #pennsylvania #kitchen #cooking #herbs #plants

Flowering Prunus tree on Ithaca College campus during ITHACON
#photo #photography #horticulture #plants