The #WildflowerHour highlight of my week - my first Rue-leaved Saxifrage of the year, growing among a variety of other small plants with small white flowers on a low wall in a car park in #Bristol. #Bloomscrolling #botany #plants #flowers #wildflowers #photography
Lesser Celandine for #WildflowerHour
Happy birthday to botanist & photography trailblazer Anna Atkins (1799-1871), née Children!
Atkins’ mother died when she was still an infant, but she was close with her naturalist father & received a much more scientific education than was common for women in her time. Her 250 detailed engravings of shells were used to illustrate her father’s translation of Lamarck’s ‘Genera of Shells’; 
I will always love lilacs. I plan to plant one at my first home.
Hibiscus is such a fun word to say, and such a wonderful flower.
Dude. Urban Forestry job in Boston accepting applicants, salaried ($62k) and benefits, plant trees and talk about trees and learn about trees and tend trees. Trees!!!
https://treeboston.org/fellow/
Black-Eyed Susans are some of my favorite flowers. I made this when I was just starting out with Aseprite.
Master of Claude de France’s Book of Flower Studies (ca. 1510–1515) book-of-flower-studies
Illuminations of European plants by an anonymous master.
by Hunter Dukes via @publicdomainrev
https://publicdomainreview.org/collection/book-of-flower-studies/?utm_source=newsletter
This week’s Gardeners of the Galaxy Mission Report has algae that could survive on Mars, astrobotany in the SAM analog and AI-generated images causing problems for gardeners.
My free weekly newsletter covers topics related to growing plants in space. You can read online or subscribe to have it delivered directly to your inbox.
https://emmadoughty.substack.com/p/gardeners-of-the-galaxy-mission-report-1d3
Read the full article:
Vintage Botanical Prints – 41 in a series – Ceanothus collina (Mountain ceanothus) from The Floral Cabinet and Magazine of Exotic Botany (1837)
How plants are responding to a warming world — and why it matters.
From MIT Press Reader: "Changing phenology, while seemingly innocuous, impacts our lives in many clear and tangible ways."
#Dorstenia gigas waking up from dormancy
#Succulent from #Socotra #Soqotra #Yemen
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#Copenhagen#BotanicalGardens
You know that spring is finding its way into the year when bumble bee queens are floating all around your garden.
Vintage Botanical Prints – 38 in a series – Nympheacea from Illustrations of the natural orders of plants (1868)
Highlights from centuries of botanical prints
Prints and more available at
https://www.redbubble.com/shop/ap/74194133
#NewSpecies!
Bambusa rushunii
New bamboo from #china!
Treatment: https://treatment.plazi.org/id/B8AEC5AD-D2F3-5BAF-8229-F2F027C66E5F
Publication: https://doi.org/10.3897/phytokeys.253.143389
#PhytoKeys #BambusaRushunii
#FAIRdata
#science #OA #openaccess #biology #ecology #taxonomy #nature #biodiversity #conservation #botany #wildflowers #flowers #wildplants #plants #wildlife #poaceae #bamboo
If you find sexual identity confusing, check out maples.
#Botany #PlantSexualIdentity
#Spring
https://chasingnature.substack.com/p/first-in-flower
