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"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.

"Toxins from Great Salt Lake dust are absorbed by plants, soils and human bodies"
#Plants #Environment
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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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

"‘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."

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

"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 […]

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

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

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

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

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

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

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