Magpie's Plant Discovery Challenge Extraordinaire
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“MAGPIE’S PLANT DISCOVERY CHALLENGE EXTRAORDINAIRE”wooyay🌿🌱🌻🌲🎉
Are you a nature lover? Love yourself some planty goodness? Appreciate a good leafy fern? 🌿🌿🌿Well you are in the right place!
Anybody can get involved! -- no need for a fancy camera, or druid level plant knowledge !
*~ HOW TO PLAY! ~*
The aim of the game is to explore your local area and find cool plants 🌻🐦
This could be your houseplants, in your garden or street, out walking the dog, on your way to work, or even on a hike if you want to get super adventurous!
** Please please please! always be careful when approaching a plant you don’t know! If ever in doubt you can always admire from afar! ** 🌻🌱
🌱Once you’ve found a new plant, come and let us know about it !
🌻You could take a photo or leave a description. Bonus cookie if you can figure out what the plant is! - Feel free to help others identify their plants too!
🌿Try to leave nature as you find it & refer to your local wildlife rules before picking anything 😊💚
** There’s no hard rules on how to do this - you could upload a photo, draw or paint it, describe it with words or in a poem or even knit one! I’d be mega impressed to see some knitted plants :O -- have fun and do it your way! <3
*~ TADA! ONE EXAMPLE COURTESY OF MY GARDEN :D ~*
This is a Welsh poppy that has popped up in my back garden :)
Its a small plant but bigger than ones i’ve seen before --a few weeks ago it had loooaadsss of pretty flowers but right now it’s going to seed, the flowers become the little green pods that eventually dry out and if you pull one of them open you get a handful of tiny blacks seeds, I can’t smell anything from them but the bees seem to love them! 🐝🐝🐝🌻
*~SMARTPHONE USER? TRY GOOGLE LENS :D ~*
If you’re taking photos with your phone and have access to the internet then you can use an awesome tool called “Google Lens” to try and identify your plants 👀🌿
Here’s a quick tutorial for you to check out :)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mTcxLZnv9fg
I can’t wait to see what you all find! :D
Have a bunch of fun out there, stay safe & happy plant hunting!
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This is Peperomia Napoli Nights. It is a small bushy plant that creates snake-like flower spikes. I have enjoyed seeing it grow over the months and it was a surprise to notice it needs quite strong light, I had previously placed it on my desk which receives little night, its growth was not as flourishing.
The leaves have an interesting pattern.
The hanging pot contains Brassavola Cucullata. It is a cattleya orchid species and the pendant thin leaves are amazing to me. This plant has been quite vigorous, I had no roots in the beginning, placed it in the normal setup and it grew roots immediately. I felt this was an achievement for me. It has also grown three new leaves since it arrived. I will offer an update about flowers.
Orchids have been a challenge and they help give me confidence when I figure out their growth.
This is my ICU (intensive care unit) setup. I feel quite proud of taking action for sickly orchids (since some were lost in the past due to not knowing how to implement this). It is a glass cloche with sphagnum moss on the bottom to increase humidity which helps promote root growth. I have three plants in here (A small cattleya Little Hazel, Cattleya Cosmic Delite, Oncidium Holm's Wizard) which have had issues with root promotion and I noticed that since placing them in here, one has 2 little extra root bumps on the new growth. So it works! I also take time to allow some air in 2 times per day.
The smaller version for now.
I love ferns. Found this picture I took some years ago and thought I would share it.
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I no longer have much access to my own place to grow plants, but I remember one of my favourite plants is this: (had to find a picture online)
[image of stemless evening primrose plant]
To look at it, most people thought we had giant dandelion plants growing in our garden, especially when they weren't in bloom because the plant itself looks similar. But come evening you'd often find us all gathered around waiting and watching as these stemless evening primrose plants would rapidly open in minutes before your eyes just as it started to get dark and cool off. Growing up we always just called them moonflowers. I remember we'd even have the neighbours turn up to watch these little flowers burst into bloom. There is something about watching a flower open in real time I guess. From what I understand my mother was able to get herself some new plants over the last few years, but I haven't been out to see them and see if it's still as exciting as I found it when I was young.
@WorriedMagpie
I love tropical flowers and plants, they always amaze me with their beauty and exoticism. Here are some pictures of flowers and plants I photographed and I like them very much.
Birds of paradise
Hibiscus
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