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A floral arrangement image on a dark cool-toned background, cropped to show the rightmost side of the arrangement craning towards natural light. The flowers arc in a gentle c-curve from bottom to top, with large apricot colored tulips, cream and yellow daffodils, and purple and pink ranunculus opening to the viewer.

A closer crop of the arrangement I posted yesterday.

📸 📷 #FlowerReport🌱 #homegrown #BloomScrolling

Poster about art and photo competition associated with Botanical University Challenge. See text and link in post for what it says.

🌱🌍🧪🌿🍄🌾Delighted to announce the launch of the Botanical University Challenge 2024 Art and Photography Competition! Submit your entries from Friday 22nd March. Categories of Photography (Survivor; Overlooked) & Art (Realism; Abstract). Full details & entry form at: forms.gle/9jqgFVZvQ4p2...

Bees, and Wasps burrow into the pith of roses to lay eggs and the larvae burrows further.

A watercolor of a Venus flytrap plant, a rosette of leaves and three stems with white starlike flowers.

Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula). Mary Vaux Walcott, 1918. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 🌱 #MarshMadness #SciArt

Illustration of grove of fossil trees. Trunks 2 -4 metres, with a tuft of slender green branches at the top. Leaves not evolved yet.

🌍🌱🌾🍄‍🟫🧪Oldest trees trees in the world appear in the news, 390 million years late! Lived on the (now) Devon and Somerset coast. theguardian.com/science/2024/m… lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.114 

That’s really interesting. Many of us made the argument to start removing Ailanthus since is considered invasive in MA anyways. It’s been a losing battle so far with trying to remove eggsites.

Squashing lantern flies isn’t enough. Here’s how to kill them. For years, officials asked people to crush invasive spotted lantern flies. But as the pest continues to spread, some researchers say it’s time to send in the birds.

Gift Link (I understand the ailanthus grows in Brooklyn) Why some birds eat some lanternflies, and why not. 🌱 🌿 #birds

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A hand-colored etching of a variety of flowers that can be found growing in the month of March. The bouquet of flowers is in a decorative vase and at the bottom are the names of each flower.

March, from Twelve Months of Flowers. Henry Fletcher (English, 1710-1750). Art Institute Chicago. 🌱 #SciArt #Art

Library Fees? No Problem. Just Show Us Your Cat Photos. A program this month encourages library patrons in Worcester, Mass., who have lost or damaged books or other items to reactivate their accounts. All they need is a picture of a cat.

The Worcester Public Library in Massachusetts announced that people who have lost or damaged a book can bring a picture of a cat this month to one of its branches and get their library cards reactivated. The program, which it calls March Meowness, has generated hundreds of returns.

BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Mysterious Plants Kirsty Wark with Chris Thorogood, Kelsey Byers and William Milliken

🌱🧪🌍🌿🍄🌾Plants hit the big time! 'Start the Week' BBC Radio4 with Kirsty Wark. Flavours, fragrances, evolution (Kelsey Byers, John Innes Centre) & plant-based veterinary medicines (William Milliken, RBG Kew) including Chris Thorogood, Oxford Botanic Gardens on Rafflesia.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Close up of small bulbous plants. Their leaves are pointy and narrow, a very pale greenish white with darker green splotches, sometimes described as silver and green leopard print. The bulbs are a dark papery brown. Little pale green tips of the flower spikes just visible in the center of three of the plants.

🌱 Ledebouria beginning to bloom. I have them potted with a couple of Lewisia and they seem happy together.

Picture Leif Bersweden. QR code for recording of quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge.

🌱🧪🌍🌿🍄🌾Mega excitement yesterday in the quarterfinal of Botanical University Challenge 2024! Many thanks to Leif Bersweden, author and science communicator, for cool, confident questioning to the teams. Now calmer until the semifinal & final in August.

I’m now on here ! Where are all my Warhammer people ?? #warhammercommunity

Team name and pictures for one of quarterfinal teams. Quarter final starts 14:00 Wednesday 28 February, streamed on YouTube and recorded for later

🌱🧪🌍🌿🍄🌾Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 starts 14:00 Weds 28 Feb. Team from Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh for the first time - and through to quarterfinal! How much further can they go? Streamed on youtube.com/@BotanicalUn... and recorded for later.

Sorry. Assuming each day is 8 hours of work.

To true. I always think of professional doing a job in three days feels quick, but when you break it down that’s like 48 straight hours of work for just two people with all the tools. Not a lot of people can spare that time on top of their life. It’s a tough interest to have.

Drying your own herbs, that you eat and use for home and personal care, things like having an entire winter's worth of tea and culinary that you dried from fresh yourself, especially if you use multiple kinds everyday...

... It's just a lot of f****** plants man 🌱😆

#SundayYellow is well needed today as it’s started out dreary, transplanted lots of seedlings yesterday with more seed sowing today.😃🙌🌱#gardeningfeed #flowers 📸#flowerreport #plants

A hand-colored engraving of a purplish blue flower and its leaves, in the lower corner the artist has drawn the various structures of the flower.

Throwback Thursday:
Plantae Selectae: No. 42 - Plantae Selectae: No. 42 - Pulmonaria. Georg Dionysius Ehret, published 1750–73. The Cleveland Museum of Art. #SciArt 🌱

What variety is the black one in the top left corner?

Got damn Hellebores rock. 🌱

Scientists Find Tree Older Than Christianity In A North Carolina Swamp It's the oldest of its kind worldwide.

The 5th oldest tree was discovered in North Carolina. She's the oldest of her kind, and she's older than christianity 🌱🌾🌳
allthatsinteresting.com/fifth-oldest...

scoreboard at end Round 2 Botanical University Challenge 2024

Final result in Round 2 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 8 teams with highest scores into Quarterfinal starting 14:00 Wednesday 28 February. @bsbibotany.bsky.social

Picture of burnt trees

🌱🧪🌍🌿🍄How do plants adapt to fire? Questions in the Botanical University Challenge 2024 contest on YouTube now and answered by the 18 teams in Round 2 today. Streamed live and recorded to see later www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_g...

『タネちゃんの視線』
葉っぱの裏から熱い視線を感じます！植物は「オオイヌノフグリ」です。もっと素敵な名前を付けてあげて！w

"Tane-chan's hot gaze"
From the underside of the leaf on which Kokedama-chan sits, you can feel someone's hot gaze. The plant's name is "Oinufuguri" in Japanese, and the name means "dog's testicles. It's a terrible sense of naming.

I’m sorry, I have to tap out. Variegation is throwing me off, and a zone 9 area is very warm and different from 5.

Can I ask what temperature region you are in? I think plant A is a climbing hydrangea. But close photos of buds and leaf would help.

O I’m still super jelly.