#perennial

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 13 December 2024

Growing in the shade of the tropical-style foliage plants of the Sunken Garden of Great Dixter, Sussex, was the rhizomatous perennial Begonia 'Little Brother Montgomery'. Though not hardy this cane-type begonia thrives when shielded from direct sunlight to prevent leaf scorch and ideally in a temperature range between 15-22°C (58-72°F).

Jill Raggett

[gardenvarietygay]

My biggest gardening tip is that if you have $100 to spend on perennial plants you should aim closer to getting twenty little perennials than three or four big perennials. Planting four $25 plants will have a very small impact visually and you’ll be way too precious about them. Five small plants of the same species will make a bigger visual impact than one large plant of the same species. Plants are living things that you’re planting outside in the weather. You should be buying plants with the understanding that they are closer to folding chairs than Ming vases. If you spend $25 on a plant and accidentally step on it, you haven’t killed the plant but you’ve probably broken off about $12 worth of stems. If you step on a $5 plant you’ve caused like $2 worth of damage and it was probably young anyway so it might push out enough new growth to fill back in by the end of the season. You’d have to outright kill 5 of your $5 plants to equal losing one $25 plant. You will always kill some of your plants, or at least they won’t all thrive. Better to lose a $5 plant than a $25 plant.

Also plants grow, usually quickly. Very few perennial plants look good their first year in the ground, buying a bigger plant doesn’t really change that. Most of the time the difference between buying a gallon perennial and a pint perennial is that you dig a bigger hole for the gallon, you pour more water on the gallon, and you watch it look bad more closely.

All I’m saying is that it recently came to my attention that people when people complain about gardening being expensive it’s because they are spending $600 on landscaping that, frankly, looks like nothing bc they’re buying $50 to $100 plants.

[zegalba]

Monotropa Uniflora, also known as Ghost Plant, is an herbaceous perennial flowering plant native to temperate regions of Asia, North America, and northern South America

[basicallyanotherwitchesthing]

Nancy Phelan and Michael Volin - Yoga for Women - Perennial Library - 1973

[fanyeline]

Perennial's forsaken

[evegoldenwoods]

I actually started this drawing back when figure changed playbooks, but it really wasn't working. At the time I was trying to make the galaxy out of Russian sage too, and it just didn't look right. Anyway after the most recent ep I realised I could do the galaxy as stars, and finally finish this off. And now I'm pretty happy with it!

The Russian sage colours are referenced from a photo I took of the bush growing in my front garden. It was there when we bought the house, and it always felt like a pleasing coincidence. If I ever get a Russian sage/perennial tattoo, it'll probably look something like this. It's still an if because it takes me ages to decide on things, but whether or not I do, it's certainly the case that I will never be normal about perennial again.

[nordicsublime]

Holger dribling from the pond in the perennial garden

[margocooper]

Седум обыкновенный (лат. Hylotelephium telephium) на известняковой скале. Ноябрь 23. Sedum telephium  on a limestone rock. November 23.

[eteroutsider]

my secret samol piece for @thecrumpit !

[awakeningthevioletswithin]

Bluebloods

Watercolor On Black Cotton Paper

2025, 22"x 30"

Blue Delphiniums

[seafleece]

disorders of the heart

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Wednesday 1 January 2025

Happy New Year!

Not all window boxes need flowers, here the home owner had used a great selection of Heuchera cultivars (coral bells) to provide winter interest. The neat, low mounds of foliage come in a wide range of bold colours. These herbaceous plants thrive in partial shade in moist but well drained growing media or soil.

Jill Raggett

[luketaluketa]

Freedom.

[nous-teleios]

Hot take of the day: the left vs. right-hand path dichotomy is ultimately a false one and is rooted in a modern misinterpretation of Hindu tantric practice, rather than two historic categories that existed in Western occultism historically. All healthy practices should involve both the light and the dark in a balanced way, the equilibrium is the goal.

[solarpunks]

Oakland's Radical Plant Nursery Breaks the Prison Cycle

Permaculture instructor Andrew Millison journeys to East Oakland, California, to visit the legendary plant nursery Planting Justice, which primarily hires formerly incarcerated people. They provide a fair wage and benefits to former prisoners with unbelievable results: a 2% recidivism rate, compared to 60% for the State of California. The nursery itself has an incredible diversity of edible and useful plant species and varieties, custom selected to grow an epic permaculture garden.

ORDER YOUR PLANTS: https://plantingjustice.org/

[fanyeline]

Perennial's chosen