derek arnold

Plectranthus ernstii bloomin!

prickly pear fruit kind of smells like bananas to me

I picked seeds out of an eighth of a dragonfruit and planted less than half the seeds and this is my reward

when’s the last time you bought a plant from home depot because it had a big ass

you could eat a small piece of baklava offa this thing

I don’t respect plants that can’t cause at least minor injury

I came across this randomly and I couldn’t remember what body part of mine this was already. It’s my wrist ok

turns out the key to germinating Opuntias is saying fuck it and leaving all the fruit junk on the seeds

looking forward to having a few dead tree yuccas in a couple years

19 Sept

Gentianella quinquefolia (agueweed) prefers calcareous soil, and I spotted this in a former quarry spot without topsoil. Calcareous areas are somewhat uncommon in Iowa but inat has observations across the state, guess it pays to have the wind disperse your seeds

I said this wrong, we got calcareous areas out the ass, I meant calcareous glades, which isn’t what the info says where this plant grows, so I guess…..cool!

sequoiawithboris.blogspot.comGrowing a Sequoia in Zone 5A blog about growing Giant Sequoia from seeds. Seedlings. Секвойя. セコイア Sekoia 红杉 Sequoiadendron giganteum secoya Mammutbaum

I'm glad someone else is growing doomed Giant Sequoias in Iowa so I don't have to. This is some classic internet energy sequoiawithboris.blogspot.com

Thing has so many leaves now I can’t even tell if the caudex is growing damn

This was over a month and a half ago

new friends

19 Sept

I told you people to stop doing this shit

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15 Sept

its been a minute since i said this so i gotta remind yall: strat shape guitars are boring and overplayed, please make ANY other shape, the body shape does not affect the sound of an electric guitar so you can literally do anything i cant believe we're stuck on a design from the fucking 50s

10 Sept

People who go around adding a third Danaus plexippus supporting identification on iNaturalist are like those people who give three star reviews to individual McDonalds on google maps

8 Sept

You can make planters out of anything. Like a destroyed mall’s landscaping wall

8 Sept

The mall is not destroyed, the wall was

2 Sept

I will murder three thousand moths driving at night and spend five minutes safely capturing a single tiny moth without killing it

1 Sept

in this house we nurture Rhipsalis

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31 Aug

unsung.aresluna.org“I just chose words carefully.” – UnsungA blog about software craft and quality

29 Aug

be free, my cacti children. The snow and ice shall be harsh but some of you will survive

28 Aug

Found a randomly variegated weed

27 Aug

I may not have great interpersonal skills but I know what the hobo stick with all your worldly possessions gathered into a handkerchief is called

17 Aug

God Damn I can’t wait to take a big bite of this

5 Aug

The corpse flower lawyer has informed us that we need a warning! So.. if you are under the age of 18 or find th1s photograph offensive, please don't look at it. Thank you!

5 Aug

autechre - cormfield

30 July

Cholla budding. The iPhone’s macro mode looks like shit.

24 July

I made it this long in life without knowing what jesuits are so I just go about my life assuming they are catholic ninjas

16 July

me: inaturalist.org: Iͯṭ́'͕̲͖̺ͩ͑ͣs̢̫̘̙̏̂͒ͥ M͢_̯ȏ̸̭̞̳̌ͪ̀̋̉͛t̡̩͙͈̟̦͘h̡̖ W͇̟̖ͥ̇ͮ̕ĕ̠ͧe̷̩̣͙͑͌̀ͥͣ̕k̜ͮͧͨ́

15 July

flank roid light

4 July

maybe JWs are right and we shouldn’t just reward people for existing for an increasing amount of time

4 July

If you’re confused by this acronym it stands for Jorts Willing

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3 July

Required listening youtu.be/mE2kpA0jAaw?...

29 June

Every time I see the words “diatomaceous earth” I imagine a character named Diatomaceous Earl, a clonal colony being made of pure algae

28 June

The scourge of the Mountain Dew donuts has clearly impacted the standard vanilla variety. No box newer than two days old and they have a different taste. The Strategic Kwik Star/Trip Reserves are clearly depleted in favor of donuts nobody eats more than once

bees.cals.iastate.eduShould YOU Keep Bees?There are many great reasons to become a beekeeper! Honey bees are fascinating animals! For some people it is a rewarding hobby and for others it can develop into a small business. However, there are ...

28 June

fuck honeybees I guess? bees.cals.iastate.edu/should-you-k...

27 June

i wish

26 June

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macro lenses rule. here's a sedum

I forgot I took this picture. Ancient Nikon D50 with a Helios-44-2 2/58 I borrowed from my Zenit-E

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and a slightly motion blurred picture of some kind of sunflower hybrid

macro is better

I forgot I took this picture. Ancient Nikon D50 with a Helios-44-2 2/58 I borrowed from my Zenit-E

apparently in the intervening 20 years between buying this zenit and now these helios lenses became way overpriced, which is weird because it kind of sucks. Anyway here's a Portulaca umbraticola 'Mojave Fuchsia' from my front steps I took with that lens, maybe it doesn't suck after all

they look nicer with a 55m nikon macro lens though

21 June

Not enough people on here who strive to remember they really only exist as a volatile self-organizing fart on a deep timescale. The reflecting pool should be converted into a sphagnum bog ringed by drosera