. I can't remember their names, but I just got a handful of tropicals and succulents while moving to a new city, and love them to pieces already. ❤️
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They look really cool!
Here's some of my indoor salad greens! Love a fresh arugula leaf in a sandwich
Those look tasty! I grew some chili peppers that I have yet to use. Gotta grind them up for a dry rub or something.
Bees (how do we address this community?)
the discord has suggested "beeple", "beefolks", and "beehawers" among others
I like y'all. Then you can say, "Hey y'all, what's the buzz?"
These are all good!
I saw 'beeple' once and stuck with it, but bees is probably also a good way to adress people. Maybe you can just do it however you like? It's not like there's a rule how to adress the community.
This is a cutting I grew of my favorite plant, Ceanothus americanus/New Jersey Tea, with my tattoo of its botanical illustrations from a survey done a few centuries ago (and my pasty I-wear-jeans-all-summer legs)
That's awesome! We have a Russian tea plant in our backyard. It likes the climate and promptly became a bush, haha.
Fun fact - Ceanothus americanus and Camellia sinensis both produce similar compounds. C. americanus was seen as a way to break the stranglehold that the East India Trading company had over the tea trade and played a role in the continental congress' decision to declare independence from the British.
That is so cool! I've thought of getting a tattoo of a tomato plant, I love how yours looks.
Thank you! I say do it, but I love tattoos
Here’s a before and after of my kitchen garden that was started as indoor starts, winter-sown seeds, or cuttings. The pots have now been moved and the raised bed is vegetables. The surrounding borders are a mix of common and native berry plants. It’s only a few months difference in the photo (fall -> early spring) and it’s much fuller already this summer.
I guess the original post asked for pictures of plants and I just posted my yard (which tbf has a lot of plants) so here’s a picture of a madrone I adopted. They’re my favorite tree but in serious decline in my area, so I propagate them and have started a colony of them on my property.
That's awesome! They grow like crazy where we live. My childhood home had one, I always loved playing with it's dried leaves and peely bark when I was little. It's wood is such a beautiful white too.
We had a lot where I grew up but the area I live in now has been owned by logging and paper companies for 100 years so it’s mostly been wiped out. The only remaining ones I see are beaten up along roadways (rare) or hanging off of cliffs.
Is this is the pacific nothwest?
That looks awesome! What native berry plants do you have? :)
Thank you! I have thimbleberry, service berry, and evergreen huckleberry so far, and I added some highbush cranberry to the front yard because it has such stunning foliage.
Service berry sounds cute! We have thimbleberries here, I love their soft leaves brushing past me on hikes :)
Here's one of my cactus. It always blooms for mother's day
Jealous! I want my little cacti to bloom again. I think they want more natural sunlight though. Hopefully I can get them to bloom this summer :)
This one blooms on its own just fine but it went into overdrive when I started giving it some superthrive every once in a while
Well, best I can do is killing three calatheas per year
I personally like Bees.
Grew an acorn into a small oak, a before picture and almost current picture attached. Still haven't solved what to do with it next. Two cats are out to get it if I don't protect it, but I have to get a new place for it since it's grown a lot.
Ooooh, awesome! Perhaps a sunny window in a room cats can't access, like a closet with a window?
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