#flower friday

[meolog]

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[shokupanko]

Happy 10th anniversary to the most handsome lady ٩(๑❛ᴗ❛๑)۶

[carolrain]

Flower Friday

Thank you for tagging me, @a-noble-dragon and @jamilas-pen !

It's foggy and frosty in the mornings now.

In the park this morning. There's a little treehouse some kids made that has been there a long time. I like the bracket mushroom at the base of their ladder.

That's a hare's foot inkcap in the upper right, which I have just learned about. They only last a few hours until they dissolve into black "ink."

Somehow still hanging on.

I took a walk. There were clouds and water.

Those are freshwater mussels you can kind of see in the canal there.

Tagging @mostlyinthemorning @ramonaflow @stargazer56 @leofdaeg-sand @flowertrigger

and @stereopticons @saraminia @tyfinn @filet-o-feelings and whoever I missed, if you want to join in with flower or related talk or just say hi.

And a shout out to @mammameesh who posted some nice butterflies yesterday.

[mostlyinthemorning]

Flower Friday

Thanks to @carolrain for the tag!

It’s fully fall here now, which means gorgeous skies and fall colours, but the flowers are mostly gone.

Look at those colours!

And these!

Great blue heron pondering life

Black capped chickadee friend

First hint of frost

Open tag for anyone who wants to share!

[glittter-vamp]

Flower Friday 💐🖤

[nastylittleghouls]

🌸 Flower Friday 🌸

Birb and Snail/Slug edition

[dyingroses]

Where flowers bloom so does hope! - Lady Bird Johnson

[highandbroken]

Oleanders!

Oleander (Nerium Oleander) are so widely cultivated that their region of origin is uncertain, but it’s usually associated with the Mediterranean Basin!

The genus name Nerium is the latinised form of the Ancient Greek name for the plant nẽrion (νήριον), derived from the Greek for water, nẽros (νηρός), cause of how their natural habitat is along rivers/streams. There’s multiple theories about the origin of the name ‘oleander’, but the one I believe it is dates back as far as the first century AD, where a Greek physician cited it as a term for the plant used by the Romans.

They have a meaning of caution! Given this meaning by the Victorians cause of its toxicity, it's also said to be because of its association with the Greek cautionary tale of Hero and Leander. They were in love, and though they lived on opposite sides of the Hellespont Sea, Leander swam across it every night to visit Hero. One night, during a violent storm, Leander died trying to swim to Hero. When she saw his body wash ashore, she called out “O, Leander! O, Leander!” and drowned herself to be with him in death. Because of that, it’s suggested this is why oleanders grow along rivers/streams.

When you grow them in a pot, place in a well-lit spot away from central heating (or plant outside in a sunny, sheltered spot). They don’t tolerate frost, and need regular watering (but reduce frequency of watering in winter!)

Please don’t eat them!

There’s no clinical evidence to support specific doses of oleander. It’s literally no longer considered safe due to extreme toxicity, and it’s potentially lethal!

If you’re gonna use these for any kind of magickal purpose, DON'T burn them!!! Don't make incenses out of them because they’re toxic to be inhaled as well! But you can still use them for emotional healing, or to banish negativity!

You can pair them with azaleas to warn someone they’re about to make a poor choice, or sunflowers to caution a friend against a bad investment! Hell, if you want you can pair them with roses if you wanna tell someone you think their relationship won’t last!

but that last one is, like, break glass in case of emergency LMAO!

[farehamflorist]

Having put my nephew to work on Wednesday, I allowed him a little time to himself whilst his Mum was helping me. He found some fake toadstools, a box of moss & created a "field" 🍄

Since then two other little people have been in & wanted to move them about❤️

It's The Little Things

[histsciart]

Flora Friday

Orchids (Cattleya labiata, var. Perfecta). Botanical art from Lindenia, Vol. 16 (1900), which you can see more of in Biodiversity Heritage Library.

[vellatra]

FE ArtScuffle attack on @moonlightleafs ! Have some flower children for Flower Friday. :)

[carolrain]

Flower Friday

Thank you for tagging me, @a-noble-dragon and @stargazer56 I have some flower and flower-adjacent photos from this week to offer:

Something yellow and a wild carrot (Queen Anne's Lace).

A giant puffball, some kind of stump that looks like a pie graph of decay, and a sunflower.

Some very dramatic bug photography:

Great green bush-cricket. Hmm. Maybe. That's what my app says, but googling tells me they are not seen around here. So maybe another kind of katydid.

Variable ladybird beetle and a brown-lined looper.

Turkey-tail.

I'll tag, no-pressurely, @mostlyinthemorning @ramonaflow @mammameesh @characterassassination-at-9am @leofdaeg-sand

[mostlyinthemorning]

Flower Friday

Thanks to @carolrain for the tag!

The last few flowers are hanging on in my garden.

But seed pods are pretty too!

And the weather is glorious

And I saw some wildlife friends

Tagging @chelle-68 @flowertrigger @stereopticons and anyone else who wants to share!

[glittter-vamp]

First flower Friday in Massachusetts 🩷🌸

[floronicjas]

Flower Friday!

Plant: Rhododendron - Rhododendron macgregoriae

Taken April 7th 2023, Kew Gardens, London

[nastylittleghouls]

🌺 Flower Friday 🌺