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TradescantiaHub , 1 day ago to plants group

I'm liking the look of this T. zebrina seedling. In good light the leaves develop purple speckles and a pronounced central stripe, over a bright green background.

I've had about fifty seedlings, and it's really tricky narrowing them down and deciding whether any are worth keeping. Especially when there are so many zebrina cultivars already! Is this different enough from 'Discolor' and 'Burgundy' to be interesting?!

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Closer view of the leaves. The background colour is bright green, with speckles and a central band of purple, as well as two silver stripes on each leaf.
View of the leaves on another stem, with the same pattern of purple speckles.

cohanf , 3 days ago to plants group

A Tale of 3 Buttercups: flowering now on the acreage and/or the farm 1) a falshy #invasive Eurasian species Ranunculus acris abundant at times in mesic/moist meadows 2) a nice but modest native wetland species (nice leaves!) and 3) a (sometimes? in this case for sure) tiny delicate thing, here growing in a mowed area in the yard.
@plants #florespondence #BloomScrolling #Alberta #NativePlants #WildflowerHour #Biodiversity

A single modest buttercup flower, 5 shortish rounded somewhat spaced apart yellow petals surround a ring of yellow stamens and smoother central part. The upper stem leaves can be seen behind the flower and are highly divided, looking a bit celery like though fuzzy on the backs and leaf stems.
The leaves of the second butterbup, growing up through grass they are highly divided, looking a bit celery like though fuzzy on the backs and leaf stems, with irregularly branching fine veins on the surface and the faintest hint of red along the outer edges.
A small patch of tiny single stemmed plants crowned with itsy bitsy buttercup buds and flowers which are rather sparse looking: 5 narrow yellow petals are almost upstaged by a mounded central sexy part of yellow and green. Blurred lower stem leaves are scalloped half moons, upper stem leaves are narrow, so divided they almost appear as linear leaves. (many somewhat rounded leaves in the blurry background actually belong to Mitella nuda)

cohanf , 9 days ago to random

While heat waves hit parts of NA, this is the forecast here! We had some decent rain this wknd, which made me happy since I did get a few veg things planted. Around -1C last night, have been needing fire inside a few times a week(although many pleasant days). Original forecast -2 tonight, we'll see! Meantime, sun has come out a bit, reached 11C at noon. 'Hot' this weekend as #SummerSolstice approaches
#ShareYourWeather #Alberta #ABwx
#summer #weather

cohanf , 11 days ago to plants group

@plants I haven't done very well getting #Alberta #MayPlantCount photos posted, after having taken piles...lol oh well! Viola nephrophylla Northern bog Violet, abundant here in both open and wooded wetland/edge sites on the farm. Just starting in late May when this was taken #WildflowerHour #nature #flowers more on #iNat 🌿 #BloomScrolling #florespondence #NativePlants

a plant with several ight pinky lavender/violet coloured violet flowers, this plant has extra chunky wide petals close together, giving the flowers a very full look. I is just poking through emerging grass and horsetails/equisetum

cohanf , 18 days ago to plants group

@plants A short video of me potting up an oversprouted potato left from last year's harvest.. in my usual rather casual #gardening style...lol no views of me in this one, just the soil etc and me jabbering.
#Spectra #Peertube link- slightly smaller file size, and YouTube
#permaculture #NaturalGardening #VegetableGardening #potatoes #NativeSoil
https://spectra.video/w/d1cPExXtzYgx8GE1RkvJdv
https://youtube.com/shorts/tJcRsr252nI?feature=share

cohanf , 23 days ago to plants group

@plants
#Alberta #MayPlantCount
Caltha palustris / Marsh Marigold - we always called them Cowslips, but no connection to the Engllish Primula by that name! I just call them Caltha, my only species locally...lol
They are abundant in seasonally/wet habitats here, both open and wooded. The colour varies only a little (biright yellow to nearly orange,) but flower size and sepal (not actually petals!) shape vary considerably.
#Wildflower #NativePlants #CountryLiving #BloomScrolling #florespondence

See flower description for previous photo- though in each photo the shape of the sepals varies: more narrow or wider, more less pointed, closer together or more spaced out. In this less close view 4 flowers over a healthy clump of kidney shaped foliage, medium green but still purpled tinged from cool spring nights. Growing out of grass and sedges with the new green just overtaking last year's dry grass.
A view into a fairly densely wooded area, seeing the lower half of modest sized balsam poplars plus some smallish willow trunks- more clumps of those farther back.The ground is littered here adn there with fallen branches and small trunks of the willows- the local species tend to be multi-stemmed shrubs to small trees, and not very reliably erect- trunks often fall. Mixed with other low and just emerging vegetation, the Calthas are scattered liberally throughout the view, with many golden flowers brightening the half shade as the trees leaf out.
Another closer view of Caltha plants in wet woods; around a foot/30cms tall or more- they will get even taller after flowering, especially in shaded areas like this one. Behind the plants is a bit of a tangle of dry willow branches a few spruce boughs and the trunks of an old willow, leaning to the left-at around 6-8inches/20cm these are large for the local species, covered in lichens and moss.

TootTropiques , 23 days ago to bookstodon group

"We tend to forget that there are people who are simply after money and power, and they have no psychological complications at all."

--Len Deighton, The IPCRESS File

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cohanf , 26 days ago to plants group

@plants Another for #Alberta #MayPlantCount
Antennaria species: not one of the small silver rosette Pussytoes, this one is also rosette and mat forming, but larger than the silvers, medium green leaves(they darken over the season) with white backs, and flowers are earlier than the silvers. This patch is beside the house, growing in a (not yet this year) mowed area with dandelions, clover, grass + #NativePlants Viola adunca, Fragaria virginiana, etc.#WildflowerHour #florespondence #nature

Bright green newly emerging leafy rosettes showing the white leaf backs as white leaf margins, against dry and green grass.
A mass of the Pussytoes flowering stems emerging from low green mixed foliage, with a few dandelions in flower and lots of purple violets in foreground and mixed in.

botanyone , 1 month ago to random

Dissection of rhizosphere microbiome and exploiting strategies for sustainable agriculture (OA)
https://botany.fyi/2ych5u

The rhizosphere microbiome, influenced by soil and plant genetics, can be divided into environment-dominated and plant genetic-dominated components. Xun et al present the challenges that need to be overcome to implement strategies for modulating these two components of the rhizosphere microbiome.
#Botany #PlantScience

botanyone , 1 month ago to random

Plant cover and biomass change on extensive green roofs over a decade and ten lessons learned (OA)
https://botany.fyi/0790np
MacIvor et al. present findings on plant cover and biomass from a green roof testing facility in Toronto, Canada that was monitored for over a decade. They examine the contributions of growing media, planting, and irrigation in the first seven years (2011–2021) of the eleven-year monitoring period.
#Botany #PlantScience