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[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Bees (how do we address this community?)

the discord has suggested "beeple", "beefolks", and "beehawers" among others

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

These are all good!

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

I like y'all. Then you can say, "Hey y'all, what's the buzz?"

[–] [email protected] 9 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's some of my indoor salad greens! Love a fresh arugula leaf in a sandwich

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Those look tasty! I grew some chili peppers that I have yet to use. Gotta grind them up for a dry rub or something.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

A new, small collection. I can't remember their names, but I just got a handful of tropicals and succulents while moving to a new city, and love them to pieces already. ❤️

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

They look really cool!

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Here's one of my cactus. It always blooms for mother's day

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Jealous! I want my little cacti to bloom again. I think they want more natural sunlight though. Hopefully I can get them to bloom this summer :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

This one blooms on its own just fine but it went into overdrive when I started giving it some superthrive every once in a while

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 year ago

I saw 'beeple' once and stuck with it, but bees is probably also a good way to adress people. Maybe you can just do it however you like? It's not like there's a rule how to adress the community.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago (2 children)

This is a cutting I grew of my favorite plant, Ceanothus americanus/New Jersey Tea, with my tattoo of its botanical illustrations from a survey done a few centuries ago (and my pasty I-wear-jeans-all-summer legs)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's awesome! We have a Russian tea plant in our backyard. It likes the climate and promptly became a bush, haha.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Fun fact - Ceanothus americanus and Camellia sinensis both produce similar compounds. C. americanus was seen as a way to break the stranglehold that the East India Trading company had over the tea trade and played a role in the continental congress' decision to declare independence from the British.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That is so cool! I've thought of getting a tattoo of a tomato plant, I love how yours looks.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Thank you! I say do it, but I love tattoos

[–] [email protected] 5 points 1 year ago

I personally like Bees.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago

Well, best I can do is killing three calatheas per year

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Here’s a before and after of my kitchen garden that was started as indoor starts, winter-sown seeds, or cuttings. The pots have now been moved and the raised bed is vegetables. The surrounding borders are a mix of common and native berry plants. It’s only a few months difference in the photo (fall -> early spring) and it’s much fuller already this summer.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I guess the original post asked for pictures of plants and I just posted my yard (which tbf has a lot of plants) so here’s a picture of a madrone I adopted. They’re my favorite tree but in serious decline in my area, so I propagate them and have started a colony of them on my property.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's awesome! They grow like crazy where we live. My childhood home had one, I always loved playing with it's dried leaves and peely bark when I was little. It's wood is such a beautiful white too.

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

We had a lot where I grew up but the area I live in now has been owned by logging and paper companies for 100 years so it’s mostly been wiped out. The only remaining ones I see are beaten up along roadways (rare) or hanging off of cliffs.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Is this is the pacific nothwest?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That looks awesome! What native berry plants do you have? :)

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Thank you! I have thimbleberry, service berry, and evergreen huckleberry so far, and I added some highbush cranberry to the front yard because it has such stunning foliage.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

Service berry sounds cute! We have thimbleberries here, I love their soft leaves brushing past me on hikes :)

[–] [email protected] 0 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Grew an acorn into a small oak, a before picture and almost current picture attached. Still haven't solved what to do with it next. Two cats are out to get it if I don't protect it, but I have to get a new place for it since it's grown a lot.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Ooooh, awesome! Perhaps a sunny window in a room cats can't access, like a closet with a window?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Yeah that's what we have right now. It's placed next to a window that gets sun and we covered it so the cats can't see it. But it's getting quite big so I think the next step is to put it in actual soil but we live in an apartment complex with no soil of our own. The idea was to grow it and plant it when we move to our own house one day. I might need to get a bigger pot for now so the roots can grow too.

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