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Historical Seed Catalogs – 89 in a series – Flowers : Christmas, Easter, midwinter and spring (1901) by Miss Mary E. Martin
Historical Seed Catalogs – 76 in a series -Seeds bulbs plants by Emma V. White
Rescue Rose. Something for nothing via TikTok [Video]
Historical Seed Catalogs – 84 in a series – Baker’s Seed House (1921)
Another propagation success – Mums via TikTok [Video]
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Pomegranate Flower…and hopefully fruit in the garden via Instagram
First Paperwhites (Narcissus papyraceus ) 2019 via Instagram
Vintage Botanical Prints – 15 in a series – Naranja Alotonilco variety of oranges (1904) via U.S. Department of Agriculture Pomological Watercolor Collection
Artwork from Our Sentimental Garden (1914) – 12 n a series
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@douglaswelch Flowering Now: Daffodil Closeup#daffodil #floweringnow #flowers #closeup #droplets #nature #outdoors #garden #gardening ♬ Pure Imagination – Kathleen
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Top 10 Best Flowers for Growing in Pots – Birds and Blooms
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Even if you have a small garden, deck or patio, you can still grow beautiful flowers! We found the best flowers for pots.
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Self Watering Pots via Bless This Stuff [Shared]
Rainy Day Garden View – One Square Foot – 45 in a series via Instagram
Flowering Now: Poinsettia in the Container Garden via Instagram [Photography]
From bean to pod in 42 days 🌱 via BoxLapse on Tikitok [Video]
10 Plants Gardenista Readers Will Never Grow Again via Gardenista
@douglaswelch Flowering Now: Lady Banks’ Rose Flowers Closeup #slomo #closeup #flowers #floweringnow #garden #gardening #nature #outdoors #yellow ♬ cottage – mt. fujitive
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Top 10 Hummingbird Plants That Grow in Shade – Birds and Blooms
You can attract hummingbirds even in a spot with little sun. It’s easy, just plant these 10 hummingbird plants for shade.
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Rainy Day Garden View – One Square Foot – 45 in a series via Instagram
From bean to pod in 42 days 🌱 via BoxLapse on Tikitok [Video]
Captivating Cactus and Striking Succulents – 40 in a series – Cactus is a succulent but succulent isn’t a cactus!!! via Partly Sunny Projects on TikTok [Video]
10 Plants Gardenista Readers Will Never Grow Again via Gardenista
Master Gardeners Offer Tips As People Plant Pandemic Patches via Urban Organic Gardener
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Self Watering Pots
Wet Pot is a self-watering terracotta pot that helps your plants take care of themselves! Available in three sizes, the pots work with a two-part system that allows your plants to water themselves as needed. Water supply is regulated by different co-operating factors. The technique is called Capillary Attraction. Your plant lives in the absorbent terracotta pot which in turn floats inside a perfectly sized glass cylinder. Just add water as needed to the glass exterior and watch your houseplants reach their full potential, with minimum worry on your part.
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If You’re New To Gardening, Start By Planting These 10 Plants via BuzzFeed
Time to water the garden via Instagram
Garden Gear To Covet, And To Give, With Ken Druse Via A Way To Garden [Shared]
Historical Seed Catalogs – 121 in a series – Seed annual (1912) by Mills Seed Company
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We have several, large, poinsettias carried over from previous holidays.
@douglaswelch Flowering Now: Poinsettia in the Container Garden#poinsettia #flowers #brachs #plants #nature #outdoors #garden #gardening #containergarden ♬ Sunset Lover – Petit Biscuit
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“There is one book that I would rather have produced than all my novels,” Willa Cather rued in her most candid interview about creativity. That book was Rocky Mountain Flowers: An Illustrated Guide For Plant-Lovers and Plant-Users by the pioneering plant ecologist and botanical artist Edith Clements (1874–1971).
Together with her husband, the influential botanist Frederic Clements, she pioneered the science of plant ecology, lending empirical substantiation to her contemporary John Muir’s poetic observation that “when we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe.” In her 1960 memoir Adventures in Ecology: Half a Million Miles: From Mud to Macadam , penned shortly before Rachel Carson awakened the modern ecological conscience with Silent Spring and half a century before the climate calamity we are now living, Edith Clements prophesied:
“There seems little doubt that the application of the principles of ecology to human affairs, whether personal, national or world-wide, would go far in solving the problems that beset us.”
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Macro geranium flower via Instagram
Succulent Garden Bed Pretty little succulents all in a row in Palm Desert, California. [Photo]
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Historical Seed Catalogs: Hoveys’ illustrated guide and bulb catalogue for 1878 – 56 in a series
‘Cyborg soil’ reveals the secret microbial metropolis beneath our feet
Dig a teaspoon into your nearest clump of soil, and what you’ll emerge with will contain more microorganisms than there are people on Earth. We know this from lab studies that analyse samples of earth scooped from the microbial wild to determine which forms of microscopic life exist in the world beneath our feet.
The problem is, such studies can’t actually tell us how this subterranean kingdom of fungi, flagellates and amoebae operates in the ground. Because they entail the removal of soil from its environment, these studies destroy the delicate structures of mud, water and air in which the soil microbes reside.
This prompted my lab to develop a way to spy on these underground workers, who are indispensable in their role as organic matter recycling agents, without disturbing their micro-habitats.
Our study revealed the dark, dank cities in which soil microbes reside. We found labyrinths of tiny highways, skyscrapers, bridges and rivers which are navigated by microorganisms to find food, or to avoid becoming someone’s next meal. This new window into what’s happening underground could help us better appreciate and preserve Earth’s increasingly damaged soils.
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10 Plants Gardenista Readers Will Never Grow Again via Gardenista
Historical Seed Catalogs: Dreer’s garden calendar (1877) – 57 in a series
Video: Valley Carpenter Bees from The Earth Minute
Video: In the garden…July 17, 2014: Sweet potatoes run amuck, containers revive and cuttings grow
Agave all in a row
