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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I love ferns. Found this picture I took some years ago and thought I would share it.
@EmbStitcher33 I recently learnt that in Victorian times, there even was a fern-mania (pteridomania), where people collected them, and put them in terrariums. In Great Britain, this led to some ferns still being rare today.
I like how they look, too!
@WorriedMagpie
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
@Helpingheart23 These are beautiful!
@mytwistedsoul
Thank you ☺️
Very beautiful! Love the birds of paradise!
@WorriedMagpie
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So pretty 😍
@Helpingheart23 Thank you! It's a Pivoted morning glory 🙂 I've been waiting all summer to see it bloom!
I took this one several years ago. We planted a whole bunch of tulips
behind the mobile home we lived in. Was so happy to see so many
actually come up. I got down, next to the grass and took this one
looking up at the beautiful blue sky with puffy white clouds in it...
@mytwistedsoul wow how beautiful, what flower is it?
Listening - One Step At A Time!
@MistyMagic I think it's called Pop star Phlox
@mytwistedsoul I love that name lol Pop Star! Thanks
Listening - One Step At A Time!
@MistyMagic You're welcome! :)
Here's a pic I took a few weeks ago at my neighbours' house. I asked their permission to upload this pic here. It's such a nice house with so many 🌼🥀🌻🌷flowers and home grown vegetables. It really inspires me to grow veggies that they don't have so we can share, and exchange our food/veggies 😊
@Helpingheart23 I love all the colors! I bet the hummingbirds and butterflies love it there! That sounds like a great idea! We do that with our neighbors tbh - they grow better cantaloupes at their house than we can here - I guess they get more sunlight and have less rocks at their house but we get better potatoes because we started growing more things in containers
@mytwistedsoul
Thanks, I love all those colours too! Glad to hear you have great neighbours. By the way, I love potatoes😍 What dishes do you usually make with them?
@Helpingheart23 Most of the potatoes get done up into French fries or wedges and frozen. But some are used to make garlic potatoes. They're sliced really thin but not the whole way through and then brushed with garlic and butter and baked. The last ten minutes sprinkle some shredded mozzarella cheese on them. Yum!
What's your favorite way to have potatoes?
@mytwistedsoul
Hey, I like garlic potatoes too!
🥔Btw, this recipe is totally rad:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-BYPCJNm5uo
What's your favorite way to have potatoes?
I actually like my potatoes best cooked.. anyway? Lol.
My current favourite: Roesti
What I eat frequently: roasted potatoes, and potato salad.
@Helpingheart23 very pretty, thanks for posting, I can almost smell the flowers!
Listening - One Step At A Time!
@MistyMagic
I was looking for this thread!! It finally showed up in my notifications.
Here's a picture I took in my sister's woods. We took a walk. Just the two of us. It was a precious time.
Hmmm, that one was reversed from the original... something wacky with photo posting is going on.
Could someone PLEASE turn this one right side up, and reverse the direction horizontally???? (Then delete this line, thank you).
Yay, the first one that posted the right way...
Anyway. Thought of you guys when I took these. When the middle picture gets fixed and you can see it better... what kind of fungus or plant life is this thing on the tree?
@EmbStitcher33 I can't turn it around for you, but it looks like a jelly ear: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia_auricula-judae
@cloudySummer
I wonder why pictures post like that.... some go right, but some just go wonky.
Thanks for the info 😊
@EmbStitcher33 The orientation of the phone is saved into the image file. Some programs honor that orientation, but also some don't. 7Cups seems to use one that has a bug and does not honor the orientation.
@EmbStitcher33
