Waves crashing against rocks with a colony of sea palm, Postelsia palmaeformis, a marine algae.

Sea palms? Yes.

Kings? No.

Stay safe out there. Stay peaceful. Like marine algae firmly anchored to the rocks, unmoved by the crashing waves.

This is a proudly anti-fascist account.

Silene vulgaris, aka sculpit or stridolo, is a fast-growing edible plant.

Silene vulgaris, aka sculpit or stridolo, grows so fast you can harvest it every 2 or 3 days. Very young shoots taste a bit like pea shoots, but slightly bitter. The bitterness intensifies quickly as the leaves age, esp. in hot weather, so cut often!

#silenevulgaris #ediblegarden 🌱

Flower of Vasconcellea x heilbornii, babaco or babaco papaya. This hybrid only produces parthenocarpic female flowers, producing seedless fruit without needing pollination.

A young Vasconcellea x heilbornii, or babaco, aka babaco papaya

My little babaco is finally holding onto its flowers after giving it a larger container. Can't wait to sample the fruit. Here's hoping I like it! 😅

🌱 #bloomscrolling #babacopapaya #vasconcelleaxheilbornii #ediblegarden #fruitygarden #containergarden

Flowers of Pelargonium 'New Gypsy'

Closer photo of Pelargonium 'New Gypsy'

Life is a mess but at least I have flowers.

Pelargonium 'New Gypsy'

#bloomscrolling #pelargonium #flowers #gardensky #gardening #containergarden 🌱

Flowers and foliage of Pelargonium 'Eskay Saar'

Flowers and foliage of Pelargonium 'Eskay Saar'

Adding to this now that more flowers are open!

#bloomscrolling

It's thought the spots are an adaptation to trick scale insects or other pests into thinking the plant is already occupied, so the insects move on to a plant that has more food and space available for them.

Aspidistra sichuanensis 'Dappled Expectations' leaf showing yellow spots in young leaf.

Aspidistra sichuanensis 'Dappled Expectations' leaf developing the pale halo around each spot.

Aspidistra sichuanensis 'Dappled Expectations' leaves from last year, with fully developed spots and halos.

Watching the spots develop on this Aspidistra sichuanensis 'Dappled Expectations'. They start as yellow pinpricks and expand, then develop a pale green halo.

#aspidistra #castironplant #houseplants #gardening #bloomscrolling 🌱

Flowers of Pelargonium 'Eskay Saar'

Pelargonium 'Eskay Saar'

On top of those fantastic flowers, the leaves smell like cinnamon

🌱 #bloomscrolling #pelargonium #flowers #scentedleaves

Same. It's so good!

A fantastic seedling of Fatsia polycarpa 'Needham's Lace', from seed sown by @amateurbotannist.bsky.social

(Hose included for garden realism, not because I'm lazy... 😛)

#fatsiapolycarpa #garden #seedgrown #foliage 🌱

Thank you. I've liked them for years but didn't start growing them until a few months ago. They're hardy outside where I live but I'm keeping them inside for now. My older ones have done well indoors.

Pyrrosia lingua 'Futaba Shishi'

Pyrrosia lingua 'Futaba Shishi'. I already have a lant labeled Futaba Shishi, but I'm not sure it's accurate, so I wanted another from a reliable source to compare.

Pyrrosia hastata

Pyrrosia hastata

Unboxing a package of Pyrrosia

Pyrrosia lingua 'Shigei'

Pyrrosia lingua 'Obake'

Pyrrosia lingua 'Sango Cristata'

Added some new Pyrrosia to my collection

Pyrrosia lingua 'Shigei'
P. lingua 'Obake'
P. lingua 'Sango Cristata'
P. hastata
P lingua 'Futaba Shishi'

So excited to have these special ferns and, eventually, be able to share them more widely.

#ferns #pyrrosia #plants #gardening 🌱

#bloomscrolling #houseplants #purpleflowers #siderasisfuscata 🌱

Siderasis fuscata with flowers

Siderasis fuscata is one of my all-time favorite houseplants. It's mostly about the leaves, but the flowers, albeit short-lived, are a fun bonus.

I can fit a 15' kayak in the back of my car! 😂

Pakboat Quest 150 on Fern Ridge Lake, Oregon

Usnea lichen

Tule abounds in Fern Ridge Lake

The water was mostly very calm

Sometimes (rarely) I post non-plant things. I took my new kayak out today for the first time. May have overdone it because I seriously questioned whether I'll be able to move my arms at work tomorrow. Worth it.

#kayak #paddling #water #usnea #tule

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Hemerocallis dumortieri flower

Hemerocallis dumortieri flower and buds

Hemerocallis dumortieri flowers

Hemerocallis dumortieri is a small species daylily with dark yellow flowers blushed dark copper on the reverse and a scent like sweet myrrh. #bloomscrolling #daylily #fragrantflowers #gardensky #flowersky

Pleione bulbocodioides 'Garratt Richardson'

Pleione bulbocodioides 'Garratt Richardson' from the Rhododendron Species Botanic Garden in Washington. 🌱 #bloomscrolling #pleione #orchid #gardening

Albuca spiralis flowers

The scent of these Albuca spiralis flowers is overpowering.

Almost as overpowering as the existential dread of trying to envision and build a future for yourself when you can't even envision a future for your failing country.

HA HA HA #gardening #flowers #bloomscrolling #notsocheerfulnihilism

"Excited States." That's a polite way to put it. 😂 I'm less charitable. I have family in the Washington Okanogan area, just a few miles south of the border! It's pretty up there.

Glad you enjoyed them. I hope to see more of southern BC someday. I've only been to Victoria, though multiple times.

Micranthes hitchcockiana, endemic to a few high peaks in the Coast Range of NW Oregon.

Cardamine pattersonii, endemic to a few high peaks in the Coast Range of NW Oregon.

Erythronium revolutum, native to the coastal mountains of western North America

Primula austrofrigida, native from the southern Olympic Peninsula to the Coast Range of NW Oregon.

Two plants endemic to higher peaks of the NW Oregon coast range, seen yesterday on Saddle Mountain, Micranthes hitchcockiana and Cardamine pattersonii. Plus my 1st time seeing Erythronium revolutum and Primula austrofrigida. 🌱

#plants #bloomscrolling #wildflowers #pnwnativeplants

Newly arrived citrus trees. Left to right: US942 citrandarin (trifoliate orange x mandarin) US119 (grapefruit x trifoliate x sweet orange) Keraji sweet lemon Thomasville citrangequat Kabosu papeda Xie Shan satsuma Shiranui

Oh look, more citrus! These arrived today. L-R: US942 citrandarin, US119, Keraji sweet lemon, Thomasville citrangequat, Kabosu papeda, Xie Shan satsuma, Shiranui.

These should be hardy in my climate, except Shiranui (and probably Xie Shan in cold winters). 🌱 #ediblegarden #citrus #garden #fruity

Tahitian pummelo flower, with thick petals and extra thick style.

Tahitian pummelo leaves can grow huge.

Another first time flower (under my care, at least): Tahitian pummelo. Everything about this plant is extra thicc, and I love it. It smells wonderful, too. 💚🌱

#citrus #citrusblossom #tahitianpummelo #gardening #ediblegarden #bloomscrolling #flower

Open flower on a 'Cocktail' grapefruit

A young 'Cocktail' grapefruit tree

The first flower on my recently acquired Cocktail grapefruit, a cross of pummelo and mandarin, opened today and it smells unbelievably good. 🌱

#gardening #citrus #fragrantflowers #flowers #ediblegardening

Pleione Alishan flower

Pleione Alishan blooming on my balcony 🌱

#bloomscrolling #orchids #gardening #flowers

If they were hardy here, I would!