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

"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."

"Rare Species of Pink ‘Fairy Club’ Fungus Discovered in UK for First Time"
#UK #UnitedKingdom #Plants

Rare Species of Pink 'Fairy Club' Fungus Discovered in UK for First Time
The "exceptional" discovery was made by a group of Naturewatch volunteers from Somer Valley Rediscovered in England's southwest.

Just a reminder that gardening centers will happily sell you plants such as Pelargonium citrosum that are supposedly able to repel mosquitoes. But don't be suckered. No plant has that ability even if thousands of Pinterest pages insist it's true. #mosquitoes #gardening #gardens #plants

Snowdrops: another very early flower on my farm
#photo #photography #plants #flowers

"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.

"A network is racing to save the Midwest’s native seeds"
#Climate #ClimateChange #Plants

A network is racing to save the Midwest’s native seeds
As climate change intensifies wildfires and other extreme weather events, demand for native seeds is surging.

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

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

Pink flowers heavy on a rose-family tree
#plants #photo #photography #flowers

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

Dried Milkweed pod in a little patch of prairie that seems infinite
#photo #photography #plants #milkweed

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

Cleopatra Canna Lily
#photo #photography #lily #plants

Some very early Catkins
#photo #photography #plants #winter

Strawberry plant blinged out with droplets of xylem sap. I've never seen it, but apparently the minerals in the fluid can leave a white residue when the water evaporates. #guttation #biology #strawberry #fragaria #gardening #plants #xylem

Korean Fir in front of my barn in falling snow
#photo #photography #plants #fir

Frosted Bee Balm (aka Wild Bergamot) in falling snow
#photo #photography #plants #bloomscrolling

Opening tree buds in late march
#photo #photography #bloomscrolling #plants

Made labels for the raspberry, boysenberry, tayberry, black raspberry, and blackberry I planted last year. Quickly realized that the some of the temporary markers had disappeared during the winter and that I'll need to guess which is which. Oops. Hoping they'll be useful differences in stems, leaves, and fruit. #garden #gardening #rubus #raspberry #boysenberry #tayberry #blackberry #plants #berries

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