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I feel like part of this is a lack of gardening. I used to love gardening and watching plants grow as a child in my grandmother's garden. Carrots, beets, berr

by cbanek 4y ago

I feel like part of this is a lack of gardening. I used to love gardening and watching plants grow as a child in my grandmother's garden. Carrots, beets, berries, onions, etc. All pretty easy, as long as you aren't worried about having too many! Even though I don't have a lot of knowledge about plants, I do certainly have more of an appreciation. I was just looking at a house yesterday and spied a garden growing in the side yard and remarked I think those are onions! Of course the agent had no idea apparently what an onion plant looks like, which kind of surprised me. But then after a bit, it also didn't surprise me! Of course I have to mention the amazing and great youtube channel "Crime pays but botany doesn't", here's a neat recent video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThU0SUcf6Ws https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThU0SUcf6Ws

NCC1701DEngage 4y ago
Here is an interesting channel doing predatory plants: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1nQ1UONnucPttZ96w8Jk4A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1nQ1UONnucPttZ96w8Jk4A
- cbanek 4y ago
  Love this, subbed to that one! <3
progre 4y ago
For a nice way to start discovering plants around you I recommend the excellent iNaturalist app/site: See a plant, snap a photo and the app will suggest what it thinks it is. Other users can help with identification if the app fails. Besides beeing a kind of nerdy pokemon go (how many organisms can you collect?) it's also crowd-sourced science. My latest catch is this guy: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62060-Palomena-prasina https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62060-Palomena-prasina
- germinalphrase 4y ago
  The iPhone photos app does something similar if you take a photo of a plant and click the “i” info button.
  - brnt 4y ago
    What's fun of I naturalist is that with someone confirming your ID (or two others agreeing) your observation is included in a variety of databases used by researchers. It's fun to help out in a low key way.
brnt 4y ago
In my country (NL) stonyfication of garden is a real problem. Apart from looking like shit, the loss of seasonal flowering plants and water absorption in the soil are becoming major problems. There's peer pressure too: a neighbour is angry because leaves get stuck on our bushes and blow onto her gravel. People rave about being able to vacuum their garden. It's insane. Terrace tax can't come soon enough.

by cbanek 4y ago

NCC1701DEngage 4y ago

Here is an interesting channel doing predatory plants: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1nQ1UONnucPttZ96w8Jk4A https://www.youtube.com/channel/UC1nQ1UONnucPttZ96w8Jk4A

cbanek 4y ago
Love this, subbed to that one! <3

progre 4y ago

For a nice way to start discovering plants around you I recommend the excellent iNaturalist app/site: See a plant, snap a photo and the app will suggest what it thinks it is. Other users can help with identification if the app fails. Besides beeing a kind of nerdy pokemon go (how many organisms can you collect?) it's also crowd-sourced science. My latest catch is this guy: https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62060-Palomena-prasina https://www.inaturalist.org/taxa/62060-Palomena-prasina

germinalphrase 4y ago
The iPhone photos app does something similar if you take a photo of a plant and click the “i” info button.
- brnt 4y ago
  What's fun of I naturalist is that with someone confirming your ID (or two others agreeing) your observation is included in a variety of databases used by researchers. It's fun to help out in a low key way.

brnt 4y ago

In my country (NL) stonyfication of garden is a real problem. Apart from looking like shit, the loss of seasonal flowering plants and water absorption in the soil are becoming major problems. There's peer pressure too: a neighbour is angry because leaves get stuck on our bushes and blow onto her gravel. People rave about being able to vacuum their garden. It's insane. Terrace tax can't come soon enough.