#tuberous

Plant of the Day

Monday 15 September 2025

In a sunny, sheltered corner of a front garden these pompon dahlias or ball dahlias are providing some early autumn colour. The flowers of this Dahlia cultivar are created from tightly-placed involute petals with a honeycomb effect.

I haven't made any post like this, and I feel it's important to (finally) share my story, so I will!

I go by Ciyhil, my real name is undecided as of now, and I'm a nonbinary transman who goes by he/them pronouns. I'm 22 years old, and when I was 13 I found out what tuberous breasts were. I found that there was little information out there on them, and that even my own doctor at the time had no clue what "tubular/tuberous breasts" meant, or that that was what mine were called.

Soon after, I decided to make this blog! I was struggling with the knowledge that this was not commonly talked or even known about, and I wanted to do what I could to make sure people who saw that, and felt strongly on it too, could come together with me to help make some noise about it. Or be able to have hope, seeing someone was.

I found individuals also speaking on it. Amazing! I probably did cry, I know tumblr is diverse but I wasn't expecting to see posts already about it, it made me feel so much less alone just reading those. I began sharing and making posts on this blog.

What I didn't expect out of all of this, was the outpoar of other individuals who have similar experiences coming into my inbox, liking and sharing posts. Ranging from people who were also advocates and proudly braless, to younger individuals struggling to find love for their breasts, struggling to find confidence in a regular-boob-dominated world. And may I say, I have an immeasurable amound of love for each and every one of you. There is a place not only in this movement but in this WORLD for ALL of you, and you all are so loved (by me at least, so you can't say you're not!!)

Plant of the Day

Sunday 16 November 2025

Single-flowered Dahlia cultivars are highly accessible for pollinators including bees and butterflies. These tender perennials need the tubers to be planted outside after the danger frost, or started off in pots under glass in late winter to early spring.

Plant of the Day

Saturday 22 March 2025

Most often grown as a flowering pot plant or cut flower is the dramatic Ranunculus asiaticus (Persian buttercup, garden ranunculus). This tuberous perennial is usually treated as an annual since it is a challenge to get the plant to flower the next year.

Plant of the Day

Tuesday 1 April 2025

In a partially shaded border in St. Ninians Garden community garden, Dunkeld, Scotland, the flamboyant Corydalis solida (solid-rooted fumewort, bird in a bush, fumewort) was flowering. This tuberous perennial is summer dormant so the grey-green, divided leaves appear in spring with racemes of pink flowers though they can sometimes be brick red, purple or white. The plant grows best in a well-drained moderately fertile soil.

Plant of the Day

Saturday 15 February 2025

The tuberous perennial Arum italicum subsp. italicum 'Marmoratum' (Italian arum) has these stunning arrow-shaped dark, glossy green leaves veined creamy-white which appear in the autumn and persist through the winter. Large greenish-yellow spathes with a yellow spadix are produced in summer followed by showy spikes of orange-red berries. Note that this plant is toxic if eaten and is a skin or eye irritant, so it is best to wear gloves and other protective equipment when handling it.

Plant of the Day

Monday 5 August 2024

In this herbaceous border the late summer display was provided by the orange flowers of the tuberous rooted Alstroemeria sp. (Peruvian lily) and these contrasted with the blue blooms of the cormous perennial Triteleia laxa (brodiaea, grassnut, Ithuriel's spear, triplet lily).