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 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...
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 😊
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?
@WorriedMagpie
A few finds on a quick walk, starting with this huge clover!! I'm not sure what kind it would be, but wow...imagine the luck I'd have if I found a huge four leaf one 😮🍀
Next are these ferns, again I'm no expert on what either are other than a fern of some sort? I just really liked their shapes as they unfurl 🌿
And then lastly these - which I believe are golden-saxifrage? Don't quote me on that 😅 super pretty with the yellow middles!
And a bonus, because as an animal lover I have to include this, here are these friendly meadow ladies I met on my walk 🐂
@WorriedMagpie You've been on my mind for awhile now. I hope you're ok
