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My amazing #beetroot #seeds.
Tapped & saved from excellent mother plants. Watch/listen to video about the mother plants that I harvested these strong seeds from ✌️💚👩‍🌾

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #beet

#beetroot #seeds #igrowfood #foodsecurity #foodequity #foodsystems

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2026-08-22 · 22:00 UTC

My amazing #beetroot #seeds.
Tapped & saved from excellent mother plants. Watch/listen to video about the mother plants that I harvested these strong seeds from ✌️💚👩‍🌾

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #beet

#beetroot #seeds #igrowfood #foodsecurity #foodequity #foodsystems

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2026-08-20 · 20:17 UTC

Winter carrots seeds were sowed. This is two of 8 pots that I sowed with more mini rainbow carrots & some finger carrots. I should be able to harvest these carrots in November/December. I will have round & finger carrots sowed outdoors in pots in October & November, moved indoors over Winter & those should be ready for harvest in January/February 🥕

#iGrowFood #FoodSecurity #FoodEquity #FoodSystems #GrowFood #AnarchoSocialist #GrowVegetables #GrowItEatIt #AntiCapitalist #BeTheChange #SeedsOfTheRevolution #GardeningIsRevolutionary #ResistanceGardeners #GrowFromSeed #DisabledGardeners #FoodGardening #FoodPlants #Saanich #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #PNW #Zone8 #YYJ #Cascadia #PacificNorthwest #VanIsle #HomegrownGoodness #HomegrownFood #ContainerGardening #GrowOnGirl #RootVegetables #Carrots #Seeds

#igrowfood #foodsecurity #foodequity #foodsystems #growfood #anarchosocialist

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2026-08-15 · 21:47 UTC

A very big bin full of oregano flower & seed heads. I'm tapping them indoors, on a tarp. Collecting the seeds to pack up. Saving some for us to sow. Donating thousands to local seed libraries 💚✌️👩‍🌾

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #SeedSavers #SaveSeeds #CollectSeeds #FreeTheSeeds #SeedTapping #FreeSeedsForThePeople #SolarPunk #ZeroWaste #DonateYourSeeds

#saanich #seedlibrary #communitybuilding #communitysharing #grassroots #victoriabc

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2026-08-11 · 15:31 UTC

New volunteering goal: Sort more of my saved seeds + seed donations & get at least 100 new seed packets filled by end of August to stock into our #SevenOaksSeedLibrary 💚

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #Volunteering #CommunityWork

#sevenoaksseedlibrary #saanich #seedlibrary #communitybuilding #communitysharing #grassroots

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2026-08-11 · 00:56 UTC

The first public sneak peek at our brand new #SevenOaksSeedLibrary on Whiteside at Kamloops Ave! It's just the seed packets that I've filled in there right now, with some info papers.

I'm looking forward to continuing to stock it up, with fellow volunteers!

If you're in #Saanich / #VictoriaBC area - please spread the word 😃

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #SolarPunk #SinsAgainstCapitalism #FreeSeeds

#sevenoaksseedlibrary #saanich #victoriabc #seedlibrary #communitybuilding #communitysharing

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2026-08-10 · 20:31 UTC

Collecting #PoppySeeds.
I'll be saving a bunch to sow next year. I'm packing thousands of mixed poppy seeds to stock in 3 different local seed libraries 😃✌️💚

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #SeedsSovereignty

#poppyseeds #saanich #seedlibrary #communitybuilding #communitysharing #grassroots

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2026-08-10 · 13:16 UTC

I also sorted & packed up another 65 seed envelopes to stock up our Seven Oaks Seed Library, over the weekend 💚✌️👩‍🌾🌻

#Saanich #SeedLibrary #CommunityBuilding #CommunitySharing #Grassroots #VictoriaBC #VancouverIsland #Seeds #GrowFromSeed #FoodSecurity #SeedSavers #SevenOaksSeedLibrary #FreeSeeds #ShareSeeds

#saanich #seedlibrary #communitybuilding #communitysharing #grassroots #victoriabc

Tennis @[email protected] · 2026-08-07 · 02:50 UTC

Dutch shocks for Zverev, Medvedev as seeds fall in Canadian Open

MONTREAL: Alexander Zverev and Daniil Medvedev ⁠both suffered upsets against Dutch opponents in the second round of the…
#Tennis #AlexanderZverev #as #Canadian #Dutch #fall #for #in #Medvedev #Open #seeds #shocks #Zverev
https://www.europesays.com/tennis/47838/

#zverev #shocks #seeds #open #medvedev #in

All for Gardening @[email protected] · 2026-08-01 · 22:14 UTC

Companion planting: The best and worst neighbours for tomatoes – Kem Ormond https://www.allforgardening.com/1909197/companion-planting-the-best-and-worst-neighbours-for-tomatoes-kem-ormond/ #and #august #best #Companion #for #garden #gardening #GardeningCanada #kem #labour #Neighbours #ormond #plant #planting #ready #seeds #the #They #Tomato #tomatoes #weekend #when #Will #Worst

#and #august #best #companion #for #garden

nationalparks @[email protected] · 2026-07-30 · 17:30 UTC

Redwood National and State Parks flowering plants this week. Learn more at https://www.nps.gov/redw/index.htm and #nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees #sun #park #summer Image credit Kurt Angersbach / Westernlabs #california #redwood #colors #landscapephotography #travel #plants #wildflowers #trail #tree #statepark #phenology #lily #tigerlily #clintonia #berries #seeds

#nps #nationalparks #publiclands #photography #forest #trees

Douglas E. Welch @[email protected] · 2026-07-15 · 23:12 UTC

Recently Purchased: Vintage-themed Greeting Cards, Postcards, and More

A few vintage-themed items my customers purchased from my store recently. See anything you like?

Available From
http://DouglasEWelch.com/shop/rp1
https://welchwrite.com/blog/2026/07/15/rp1/

Check out all my designs
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#seeds #flowers #food #vegetables #vintage #botany #botanicalprint #history #christmas #forsale #shopping #gifts #prints #products

#seeds #flowers #food #vegetables #vintage #botany

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2026-07-14 · 20:00 UTC

Cedar spray, seedcones & Summer skies.

#Backyard #nature #cedar #tree #foliage #skies #Summer #seeds #Saanich #VancouverIsland

#backyard #nature #cedar #tree #skies #summer

eris @[email protected] · 2026-05-25 · 22:59 UTC

little seeds of the great cloisonné tree

#Seeds #Cloisonné #Sand #Zen #Ripples #Minimalism #Decorative #MacroStyle #Organic
#Img2img #AiArt #AiArtists #AiArtCommunity #StableDiffusion

on normal sized stuff: https://aieris.art/featured/featured/little-seeds-of-the-great-cloisonne-tree-eris-and-ai.html

#seeds #cloisonne #sand #zen #ripples #minimalism

Gay Curmudgeon @[email protected] · 2026-03-01 · 12:23 UTC

A Pumpkin Vine crawls up the Old Geezer's Porch. Pennsylvania. #pennsylvaniagarden #pennsylvaniagardens #garden #gardens #gardening #gardener #summer #summertime #growingseason #fecund #autumn #fall #flower #flowers #flowering #bloom #blooms #blooming #yellow #gold #golden #seeds #oldfart #oldcoot #curmudgeon #greenery #fecund #growing #habitat

#gardens #gardening #gardener #summer #summertime #growingseason

Stefan F. Wirth @[email protected] · 2026-01-17 · 18:44 UTC

#Ribwort #plantain #Plantago #lanceolata was originally native to Eurasia and North Africa, but is now found worldwide. It prefers meadows and e.g. lawns in parks. #Pollinators include butterflies. The sticky #seeds are dispersed by animals. M. Pol et al. (2024) investigated its #rootproperties as #cropcultivation perspectives.
© #StefanFWirth #Berlin 2026

Please BUY me a COFFEE:
https://ko-fi.com/sfwirth
I work too much and live from too little.

Ref
https://doi.org/10.3390/agriculture14081352

#Photos
©S.F.Wirth

#ribwort #plantain #plantago #lanceolata #pollinators #seeds

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2026-01-16 · 22:09 UTC

Over the past year, the #LifeCycles team has been taking a deep dive into reimagining what the #SeedLibrary can be. With the help of many dedicated volunteers, we’ve spent significant time sorting and organizing seeds, and we’re excited to share what’s coming next.

By the end of February, #seed #donation bins will be launched at each of #GreaterVictoriaPublicLibrary branches. The Seed Library at the Broughton branch in downtown Victoria, which will both collect and distribute seeds, is expected to be fully functional by March.

We are also shifting how #seeds are accessed at the #library to make them more #accessible and increase their reach. The Seed Library will function more like a Seed Box - prioritizing ease of access, because we believe that access to seeds—especially amid rising food costs—is an important part of local #foodsecurity.

Alongside this, we are planning to continue the Seed Library’s core work of growing out heirloom and locally adapted varieties so they remain accessible in our region. As these seeds become available, we will put these seeds into rotation in the Broughton Branch Seed Library.

We’re also planning two #SeedWorkshops this year — a beginner workshop in the spring and a more advanced workshop in the summer. More details coming soon!

#Volunteer opportunities - come help us!

We have two remaining seed-sorting shifts and we would love your help:

Monday, January 19, 10:00 am–12:00 pm

Monday, January 26, 1:00–3:00 pm

Shifts take place at our Esquimalt office (808 Viewfield Rd, Unit A). Snacks are provided! You can sign up through the Gleaning Hub under Join → Shifts
https://gleaning.lifecyclesproject.ca/

#VolunteersNeeded #FreeSeeds #SeedsSharing #SeedsForCommunity #SeedsSovereignty #DonateSeeds #SortSeeds #Nonprofit #VictoriaBC #Saanich #Esquimalt #VicWest #ViewRoyal #OakBay #Langford #Colwood #Metchosin #Sooke #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #SeedsForTheRevolution

#lifecycles #seedlibrary #seed #donation #greatervictoriapubliclibrary #seeds

A Stone in the River @[email protected] · 2025-11-09 · 23:20 UTC

Seed for Thought

Saturday’s mail brought the first of the season’s seed catalogs. And Saturday night it snowed. The snow was just a sugar coated dusting, but it was a reminder that winter is coming—eventually—because it is forecast to be as warm as 59F/15C by next Saturday.

But today is gray and very windy and below freezing, a perfect reason to lose myself for a little while in the seed catalog. Yes, yes, I know, the garden just finished up and James picked all the collards Friday and has them fermenting—collard kraut! It’s a thing!

My internet recipe searches told me collard kraut used to be very popular across the southern United States and some people say it is even better than sauerkraut. James has ours fermenting with some garlic and crushed red pepper. I’ll let you know how it comes out.

This is the first year I’ve ever grown collards in the garden, and they’ve been a great success. Not only did they grow well, but we enjoyed eating them too. The small leaves made it fresh into salads and as they got bigger they’d get sautéed with onions and eaten as a side dish or combined with other things like tofu scramble, lentil eggs, curry, or soup. The variety I grew was “yellow cabbage” and came from a Minnesota seed company called North Circle Seeds. I asked James whether he liked the collards enough to grow them again next year, and he said that while it took him a little while to figure out how to use them and get used to cooking with them, he did indeed like them and we should definitely grow them again. Noted!

I also grew Swiss chard for the first time this year and we liked that too. I grew “bright lights” and the plant stalks and leaf vein colors ranged from golden yellow to bright red. We generally ate the leaves while they were small, chopped up in salads, which added some lovely color. The bigger leaves sometimes ended up in a stir fry. This will also make it into next year’s garden. Yum!

Tasty and nutritious!

It’s sunchoke digging time! I dug up the first bowl Saturday afternoon just from one small area in the chicken garden. There are sunchokes in the chicken garden because last year I was silly enough to plant two roots along the outside of the chain link fence thinking—actually I don’t know what I was thinking. At the end of last season I dug up half a bowl of huge roots and thought, there, I’ve got them all. Yeah, right.

This year I had even more sunchokes growing along the fence outside and inside the chicken garden. So I dug and I dug and I didn’t worry about pulling out runner roots I came across because I am sure in spring I will discover that they have spread even more.

The sunchoke patch in the main garden is enormous. There will be more bowls to come as James has time to preserve them and I have time to dig and as long as the ground is not frozen. In spring when the ground thaws I will be able to dig up more, and there will be more, because I will find out as they pop up where all the runner roots have gone to this growing season. It’s a good thing we like them.

My turn for Reaping What She Sows: How Women are Rebuilding Our Broken Food System by Nancy Matsumoto came up on Friday. So far I’ve read the first chapter, “Black Mutual Aid, From the Rural South the Urban Northeast,” and it is fantastic.

As with everything in U.S. history, Black farmers have been, and continue to be, discriminated against. You can read a very good and succinct history in this September 2019 Atlantic article (gift link), The Great Land Robbery: The shameful story of how 1 million black families have been ripped from their farms.

Matsumoto tells pieces of this history in her storytelling about a number of women farmers who have created cooperatives, training and helping Black farmers acquire land, seed, and fair prices through a cooperative distribution network. The women and their stories are inspiring and full of lessons on how to support regenerative farming outside a white-supremacist agri-capitalist system.

Matsumoto is familiar with cooperatives. Her Japanese grandparents were interred during World War II and her grandfather helped create a cooperative network in the internment camps. This network became the second largest consumer co-op in the United States. Given the political and economic situation in the United States currently, I suspect we will be seeing more cooperatives and mutual aid societies popping up all over the country in the coming years.

Throughout history women have been the seed keepers, carefully saving and preserving seeds from season to season and generation to generation. A few years ago I read a wonderful novel called The Seed Keeper by Diane Wilson. It is the story of a current day Dakota woman who is gifted a cache of seeds saved by her ancestors when they ran from being attacked by U.S. troops. It is a story of healing and renewal. I was reminded of this novel while reading the first chapter of Reaping What She Sows because one of the women she profiles is a seed keeper and works for Truelove Seeds, an heirloom seed company that offers culturally important seeds.

Of course I had to look at their offerings, and wow! If you want to read more about the company, The Sierra Club has a great article about them, The Preservation of Culture Begins With a Seed I am definitely going to try and grow green striped cushaw squash! And they also have Korean hong-gochu peppers so I can make kimchi and even collard-chi next year.

The next chapter of the book is about rebuilding the grain economy. Looking forward to learning even more!

While I am on the subject of seeds, I have been a fan of Baker Creek Heirloom Seeds and bought seeds from them many times through the years. But in the last few months I’ve found out that as wholesome as they advertise themselves to be, this is not the case. In 2019 they invited a white supremacist to speak at their spring planting festival. After much uproar, they uninvited him, but issued no statement of apology or anything that I was able to discover. I have also heard that they steal seeds from indigenous peoples and then rename them and don’t acknowledge where they really came from, though I am unable to find direct confirmation of that. However, just last year the tomato they had on the cover of their catalog turned out to be a recently released GMO variety they sold as non-GMO. They said their seed came from France and they tested it and the results were inconclusive. Nonetheless, they pulled it from their stock and destroyed all the seeds.

Along with just discovering Truelove Seeds, I learned a few months ago about Native Seed Search and there is also Bertie County Seeds I just found out about. I generally buy seeds from Fedco who tell you exactly where the seeds come from (corporate grower, independent farmer, etc) and also credit and pay indigenous communities for their seeds. There is also Seed Savers Exchange. And then, as I mentioned earlier, North Circle Seeds, a small independent Minnesota seed company that sells varieties that will grow in my climate.

I guess I am getting a lesson in seed keeping and seed companies that I hadn’t thought much about before. Seeds are more than hybrid, open-pollinated, heirloom, GMO, organic. It’s important to know their origins and to make sure the people who have stewarded them are acknowledged and compensated. For some reason I always believed this was the case, but it turns out to be otherwise.

#collardKraut #collards #cooperatives #firstSnow #NorthCircleSeeds #seedCatalogs #seedKeepers #seedSaving #seeds #sunchokes #swissChard #TrueloveSeeds

#collardkraut #collards #cooperatives #firstsnow #northcircleseeds #seedcatalogs

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2025-10-24 · 17:52 UTC

I'll be representing LifeCycles Project Society, solo, at this upcoming #BIPOC led #FreeCommunityEvent in Fernwood.

Seeds and Synergies. Cultural Foods meet the Good Food 2030 Strategy - please reserve your free tickets.
https://www.eventbrite.ca/e/seeds-and-synergies-cultural-foods-meet-the-good-food-2030-strategy-tickets-1641365461279

The #Seeds and #Synergies is a gathering that aims to bring together community members, growers, farmers, and farmers to be, facilitators, and partners from racialized groups to reflect on the role of #CulturallyRelevantCrops and #LandAccess in shaping the access of these groups to locally grown, healthy and nutritious foods, education, employment opportunities, income, and belonging to the land, to themselves and their communities.

For the past five years, #IyéCreative has been working with community members and local farmers to learn about cultural crops – plant relatives that carry deep meaning for our food, health, and traditions on Coast Salish lands. We’ve also been pushing for fairer land policies so more people can grow the foods and medicines that matter to them.

#CulturalFoods aren’t just products on a market, or grocery store shelf. They’re living connections that tie us to land, spirit, and each other.

We are inviting you to help us make this story come alive!

#FoodSecurity #FreeEvent #FreeSamples #Nonprofit #CultivatingCommunities #CommunityBuilding #CommunityEvent #FreeFood #agroecology #teamwork #CommunityPartners #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #Cascadia #PNW #CommunityWork #volunteers #Community #Sharing

#bipoc #freecommunityevent #seeds #synergies #culturallyrelevantcrops #landaccess

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2025-07-22 · 17:34 UTC

The #seedpods #catkins on #SilkTassel bush look like long dangling earrings, from afar.
Garrya elliptica, the coast silk-tassel or silk tassel bush. It's native to coastal Oregon & California. Many WA & BC landscapers use it for their gardens work - especially as a windbreaker bush.

#TexturesTuesday #seeds #evergreen #shrub #landscaping #Saanich #PlantID #VictoriaBC #YYJ #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PacificNorthwest #PNW #SeedsID #botanical #textures

#seedpods #catkins #silktassel #texturestuesday #seeds #evergreen

anilmc @[email protected] · 2025-06-14 · 13:48 UTC

CW: Unarmada for Gaza: Long bars, extreme content

I know not of owt more important or harder
than #sailing an #unarmada to #Gaza
for all of the mothers, children and fathers
for all the defiled #immaculata
kids with shrapnel wound #stigmata
them who barely dodge #bombardments
griefstruck cardiac infarction
heartshot by hidden marksmen
those who’ve lost all but war-torn garments
those whose tomb is bulldozed apartments
maimed and starved and bereaved and #martyrs
broken-hearted kindergartners
to #BreakTheSiege and create a harbour
make space for peace, for relief and #barter
help the traumatised to heal, inshallah
flotilla, convoy, air - yalla
#seeds to believe in a decent harvest
#saline treatment, cream for #psoriasis
give them a garland, build them a larder
arm and a shoulder to raise them harder
and that’s just for starters we must go farther
say “this is Palestine” like “ #ThisIsSparta! ”
- protected under a #PeoplesCharter
- till all vestiges of #empire are gone
- #RightToReturn to the home they part from
- no matter how long gone or far flung
- reunification; no more carve ups
- no more militarised escarpments
- #sovereign over itself; bar none
- Gaza to #Quds and #Ramallah are one
- #FromTheRiverToTheSea, amen
- if we will it, it will be - if we are among
- #LiberateTheJails; every prisoner pardoned
- #state #RaciaData reduced to #carbon
- if #Netanyahu wants to cause more carnage
- start with us because we’re #GazasPartners
- all #GenocideApologists face full disbarment from every assocation they’re part of
- every illegal settler shall scarper
- the whole of the world must #RebuildGaza

1/7

#Bars #Poetry #Lyrics #Songs #writing #rhymescheme #geopol #MiddleEast #IsraeliWarCrimes #FreedomFlotilla #Sumud #ConvoyOfSteadfastness #FreePalestine #Madleen #AntiFascist #Genocide

#unarmada #gaza #immaculata #stigmata #bombardments #martyrs

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2025-06-13 · 17:31 UTC

All through Summer we are prepping for revival of our free community #SeedsLibrary - will update as things come together. I'm back at HQ on Monday afternoon.
Plan on a soft launch this Fall & a hard launch next Spring. We have millions of locally donated seeds to still sort, package & organize.

#LifeCycles #YYJ #Esquimalt #FoodSecurity #SeedsSaving #CommunityWork #FreeSeeds #VancouverIsland #VanIsle #PNW #Seeds #VictoriaSeedLibrary #YYJSeeds #FreeForThePeople #PlantAGarden #GrowFood #GrowHerbs #GrowFlowers #GrowPlants #CommunityPartnership

#seedslibrary #lifecycles #yyj #esquimalt #foodsecurity #seedssaving

Ms. Que Banh @[email protected] · 2025-06-06 · 16:17 UTC

Before I log off here for a few hours, I want to share this #GoodNews story. It's about the #LifeCycles #community #SeedsLibrary that I'm involved with & been posting about recently.

Learn more about our #seeds sharing & local #FoodSecurity efforts around #VictoriaBC #Saanich areas on #VancouverIsland 👩‍🌾👨‍🌾

"Public can soon check out free seeds at downtown Victoria library.
LifeCycles revamps its seed library now, just in time for planting 2026.

The executive director for the Victoria #nonprofit LifeCycles Project is spearheading a refresh on its seed library with a goal to create open access where people can pick up all the resources they need from the library – including seeds.

Saving, sharing and sowing seeds has been a LifeCycles goal since the 1990s with a variety of projects.:

https://www.saanichnews.com/local-news/public-can-soon-check-out-free-seeds-at-downtown-victoria-library-8049608

#FreeSeeds #SeedsSharing #YYJ #VanIsle #SeedsSovereignty #GrowPlants #GrowFlowers #GrowFood #CommunityWork #PacificNorthwest

#freeseeds #seedssharing #yyj #vanisle #seedssovereignty #growplants

Colin Purrington @[email protected] · 2025-03-09 · 11:16 UTC

My real weakness when it comes to hoarding seeds is peas, especially shelling varieties that can grow up a tall trellis. My neighbors at the community garden think I'm crazy to devote so much space to them, but they are the crazy ones for not doing the same. #seeds #allotment #peas #pisum #gardening #VegetableGardening

#seeds #allotment #peas #pisum #gardening #vegetablegardening

freetobeme @[email protected] · 2024-08-11 · 11:42 UTC

#SilentSunday

When I looked at these, they reminded me of a musical instrument, especially the way that they fanned out like organ pipes, and it amused me to think of what sort of noise they would make if they were played.
I imagine it would be a cross between a harp (by plucking the "string" stalks) and maracas (by shaking the seed heads at the top).

Gave me some fun, anyway, and that has been thin on the ground this week.

#music #poppies #plants #harp #maracas #organ #Autumn #seeds

#silentsunday #music #poppies #plants #harp #maracas

Lukas VFN 🇪🇺 @[email protected] · 2024-07-09 · 09:16 UTC

Meet the smallest animal known to spread #seeds with its poop https://www.science.org/content/article/meet-smallest-animal-known-spread-seeds-its-poop

#Earwigs and #woodlice as some of the world's smallest internal #SeedDispersal agents: Insights from the #ecology of Monotropastrum humile (Ericaceae) https://nph.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ppp3.10519

"the #woodlouse is the smallest animal yet known to disperse seeds by eating them. It and other small #invertebrates play underappreciated roles in spreading #plants far and wide."

#seeds #earwigs #woodlice #seeddispersal #ecology #woodlouse

Mandy Watson @[email protected] · 2023-11-27 · 10:06 UTC

Lots of lovely new additions to my #gardening gift guide for all budgets and abilities - this time from Burgon & Ball. Including National Trust, RHS-endorsed and Sophie Conran goodies.

https://www.mandycanudigit.com/2022/11/04/gardening-gift-ideas-for-all-abilities-and-budgets/

#gardens #tools #BurgonandBall #pots #plants #houseplants #seeds #gifts #giftguide #gardeners #theRHS #SophieConran #NationalTrust