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Rhys 🌱

Are there any good #Mastodon servers out there for #CommunityGarden projects? (except social.coop, of course 😉)

EDIT: doesn't actually need to be Mastodon. Any fedi platform will do.

#solarpunk #gardening #ecology #plants #permaculture #FediTips #FediHelp

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My Joan Private Idaho 💐😷

@clickhere@mastodon.ie · last month

Hang on - whaaat!? "Plants can 'hear' bees buzzing and serve up more nectar when they are nearby, scientists have found. Amazingly, they can tell the difference between a bee’s buzz and that of a non-pollinating insect such as a wasp."

😮 That is AMAZING.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/21/plants-produce-more-nectar-when-they-hear-bees-buzzing-scientists-find

🌼🐝

#Plants #Bees #Pollinators #Gardening #Insects #Botany #Entomology

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Peter Sketch

@petersketch@toot.wales · last month

I spent yesterday watching some games in the National Softball League at #FarnhamPark just north of #Slough. Of course I took some time off to inspect the weeds' Why would anyone neglect to do that? Common Mallow and Catsear growing on an earth mound around one of the car parks. Much of the ground is football, rugby and softball pitches so a splash of colour is welcome. #WildflowerHour #Buckinghamshire #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

A yellow flower with lots of petals on the end of a long stem. Other stems each have one unopened flower bud on the end.

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Peter Sketch

@petersketch@toot.wales · last month

Star images from my favourite building site in #Bristol this week were Ox-eye Daisy, which has suddenly come out in flower, dozens of them at once, and Wild Carrot which isn't open yet but looks really spectacular while still in bud. #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

An unopened flower which will be large, flat and white when open. The green structures which will be under the flower when open and then wrap around the seed head when it forms can be seen easily at this stage.

A flower shaped like a daisy but much larger, with a yellow centre and white petals in a ring round the edge.

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Peter Sketch

@petersketch@toot.wales · last month

My front yard is starting to look at its best. Although my car might disagree as I'm starting to struggle to find a space to park it in. Beaked Hawksbeard more widespread than last year, Cleavers showing off it's tiny, almost-invisible, flowers, and Red Campion taking over a plant pot near the one its ancestors were originally planted in. #Swindon #WildflowerHour #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography

A plant with bristly green leaves and a small white flower with 4 petals arranged in a cross shape. Each petal is so pointed as to be almost triangular.

A cluster of yellow flowers, each shaped like a slightly smaller dandelion, on branching stems.

Two pink flowers growing in front of a breeze-block wall of the type that might, for example, divide someone's front yard from their neighbours'.

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elbowcrooker

@elbowcrooker@toot.wales · 2 months ago

I was just checking how my First Gold hop plants are doing when I spotted this comma butterfly sunning itself on the wall right next to them. And guess what its caterpillars like to eat.
Clue: it ain't egg-and-cress sandwiches........
More info in alt text.
#butterflies #hops #gardening #gardenwildlife #plants #gardenpests #homebrewing

A comma butterfly, so called because of the white comma shaped mark on the underside of its wing. Its caterpillars love to munch on stinging nettles, which I don't mind, and hops, which I do mind!
A friend lost his whole hop crop to unidentified caterpillars last year. — A comma butterfly, so called because of the white comma shaped mark on the underside of its wing. Its caterpillars love to munch on stinging nettles, which I don't mind, and hops, which I do mind! A friend lost his whole hop crop to unidentified caterpillars last year.

Hop plants growing up a sunny wall. This is First Gold, a 'hedgerow' variety: that is, it only grows to 2-3 metres.