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Last fall.

A Spring Affair 

once i was on a lichen field trip and we drove past a cemetery and my lichen professor was like “graveyards!!!!! great for lichens!!!!!” and i thought he was joking until i found this 2 minutes ago and realized he was serious

The obesa seedlings have grown really big over summer and they haven’t stretched at all. They really look like miniature beach balls now. Or regular sized sea urchin shells, whichever one you prefer. Wait, aren’t they called baseball plants?

My mom’s orange Dahlias formed a hedge in front of the Callicarpa and the contrast with the purple and orange is really striking in person. Next year, she’s expanding the edge of the bed so they fit better. Dahlias are annuals but grow from tubers that can be lifted and stored over winter and replanted.

Fuchsia ‘Firecracker’ at Kew Gardens temperate house

Here’s to fresh coffee, sunshine, morning walks, blooming flowers, good books and all the other simple but glorious pleasures of life.

Botanical Gardens of Ireland, Dublin - August 2018

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in my brief wikipedia exploration to find out how old they could be for this ask i found out that there was a dude in 1982 who was vandalizing one (which is also highly illegal) by shooting at it and then poking at it, and not only did the 500 pound arm of the cactus he was shooting at fall on top of him, but the actual trunk of the cactus then also proceeded to fall on him. he died. smited by the cactus gods for his transgressions 

Sorry it’s dusty lmao no idea how to clean it

they’re called bones. these are cactus bones

Some succulents have translucent leaves to allow sunlight to penetrate deep inside their tissues.The glass-like Haworthia cooperi ‘Dodson’ has taken this phenomenon to the extreme.

© Doug Hickok   More here… hue and eye tumblr

Flora and Fauna, Azuma Makoto

Second harvest of wild tomatoes from that volunteer plant. It grew so much, I took a picture of it 2 or 3 weeks ago and back then it only reached that brown post in the middle, now is way past it and almost reaching the garage gate. While the main crop of tomatoes in the garden is mostly wilted and ready to be pulled out, this one is as green as ever and still full of flowers.

Blechnum nipponicum

Various berries.