Plant of the Day

Tuesday 8 August 2023

The white umbel flowers of Myrrhis odorata (sweet cicely, anise, British myrrh, great chervil, sweet bracken, sweet fern) are over now but the seed heads make a feature in the wild garden

Jill Raggett

Wer vertrocknete Pflanzenstängel und verblühte Samenstände stehen lässt, hilft vielen Tieren: #Insekten nutzen die Stängel und welken Blätter als Winterquartier. #Vögel, wie der Distelfink, fressen die Samen. 💚 Faul sein und damit Gutes tun. 🌱 So einfach kann #Naturschutz sein. #Naturgarten #garten #mygarden #wildgarden

Off-topic tangent.

I've only been using Tumblr for a few weeks now since Twitter started going down the Xitter, & honestly, I'm having a lovely time here. You're all very kind & upbeat & I appreciate that. ❤

Here's an Elephant Hawk-Moth Caterpillar I found in my wildgarden to show my appreciation

Found the right novel ~ Work the Angle

First day of the eighth moon; morning. #goldenrod #flowers #trees #autumn #fall #wildflowers #plantmedicine #nature #naturelover #naturephotography #landscape #wildgarden (at Miccosukee Canopy Road Greenway) https://www.instagram.com/p/CjMmsgbDC9d/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Bleeding hearts ❤️💕❣️

605 New blooms this week. Always daffodils. This time very built or deconstructed. Trumpets and trombones. Yellow, orange, white and pink. After all, this is also architecture. Botanical architecture. #narcissus #daffodils #wildgarden #selfcaregarden #naturework #springcolors #garden #bulb #bulbous #botanicarchitecture (presso Casarsa, Friuli-Venezia Giulia, Italy) https://www.instagram.com/p/CqJHyBnszlQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Axel Aucouturier - Natural perennial garden : Red Lychnis chalcedonica, Yellow Kniphofia 'Yellow Sunningdale', Blue Salvia 'Blauhügel', Purple Salvia 'Caradonna'

Finishing touches -picket railing and a cute custom mailbox among the low water plantings -Cottage garden on the Lane in Long Beach. #alfordsgardens #kathyalfordesigns #fencedesign #wildgarden #romanticgarden #cottagegarden #gardenlove #gardensofinstagram #outdoorliving #gardendedesigner #homedesign #cozycottagestyle #longbeach (at Alford's English Gardens) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cm6t6y9LijS/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Inspiração. Porque quadro? É só olhar para a paisagem! Feliz dia. ________________________________________________________ @the_foxed_house . . . Follow 👉@soniafragadias👈 . . . the_foxed_house The garden room on the evening of the warmest day of the year (yesterday) when the mercury tipped 26 C in Dublin 8! Woweee we didn’t know ourselves 🥳 Then today happened..28 C in D8 and it’s probably a record. Thank goodness for Dublin’s perpetual breeze. We are not built for this heat! But loving it just the same.. 🙏🏼 Happy Day 💞☀️🌸🌅 #gardenroom #summerevening #wildgarden #urbangarden #rewilding #sustainableliving #ecofriendly #environmentdesign #bringingtheoutsidein #indooroutdoorliving#soniafragadiasdesign #soniafragadiasdesigner #felizdia #paisagemdejanelas (em Dublin, Ireland) https://www.instagram.com/p/Cg32tzJOmLQ/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Here is the first painting from my observations of my neighbour’s garden. I took so many pictures that i plan to use as references to some new mixed media drawings as well. Now I’m off to a new neighborhood garden to sketch and paint flowers again! @sherryyounker @fredartsalliance #floralpainting #flowers #nbartist #wildgarden #fredericton #gardenpainting #flowersfordays #artistinresidence https://www.instagram.com/p/CgwUONiOuco/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Fantastic Mrs Fox came round & asked us to keep the noise down, because playing black metal in the garden was keeping her cubs awake! #fox #wildgarden #urbanfox #blackmetal https://www.instagram.com/p/CgNK2ofIUm5/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

Die Große #Klette hat sich im ganzen #Garten & Hof ausgebreitet. Fugenritzen und ungenutzte Blumentöpfe haben es ihr besonders angetan. Sie wird häufig von #Wildbienen und #Hummeln besucht.

PS: Reife Kletten sollten nicht berührt werden, die Klettenhaare können zu Haut- & Augenreizungen führen.

Off-topic tangent.

I've only been using Tumblr for a few weeks now since Twitter started going down the Xitter, & honestly, I'm having a lovely time here. You're all very kind & upbeat & I appreciate that. ❤

Here's an Elephant Hawk-Moth Caterpillar I found in my wildgarden to show my appreciation

Garden ghosts 🌸 Work the Angle

When I potted Marigold seeds in my backyard, I expected cute little mounds of flowers that would serve as a natural mosquito barrier through summer. Instead, my Marigolds went wild during Florida's recent round of monsoonal rains, spreading out into a long-stalk, beautiful mess of flowers. The Lantana plant nearby was so excited, it extended itself over to Marigold land. (you can see their little pinks behind this orange beauty). Due to the rains, today is the first day in many weeks I was able to sit on my porch and gaze at this wonderous development. Butterflies and bumble bees have been feasting on the flowers all morning. I am so delighted by this and other backyard outcomes this year, that I decided to release myself from the burden of finding someone to cut it all back into neatness, which I never liked anyway. I'll just do some minimal trimming myself. PS I haven't seen a mosquito all summer. 😄 #marigolds #florida means #flowerland #flowersinurbia #flowers #flora #floral #garden #wildgarden #backyard #wild #nature #naturephotography #naturelovers https://www.instagram.com/p/CinMISArrp-/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=