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[–] alyaza@beehaw.org 10 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Bees (how do we address this community?)

the discord has suggested "beeple", "beefolks", and "beehawers" among others

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

These are all good!

[–] SkepticElliptic@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

I like y'all. Then you can say, "Hey y'all, what's the buzz?"

[–] xylem@beehaw.org 9 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here's some of my indoor salad greens! Love a fresh arugula leaf in a sandwich

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago

Those look tasty! I grew some chili peppers that I have yet to use. Gotta grind them up for a dry rub or something.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 8 points 2 years ago (1 children)

A new, small collection. I can't remember their names, but I just got a handful of tropicals and succulents while moving to a new city, and love them to pieces already. ❤️

[–] HowlingSkeptic@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago

They look really cool!

[–] saltyspoon@beehaw.org 6 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Here's one of my cactus. It always blooms for mother's day

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Jealous! I want my little cacti to bloom again. I think they want more natural sunlight though. Hopefully I can get them to bloom this summer :)

[–] saltyspoon@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

This one blooms on its own just fine but it went into overdrive when I started giving it some superthrive every once in a while

[–] Helix@feddit.de 6 points 2 years ago

I saw 'beeple' once and stuck with it, but bees is probably also a good way to adress people. Maybe you can just do it however you like? It's not like there's a rule how to adress the community.

[–] HrBingR@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago

I personally like Bees.

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 5 points 2 years ago (2 children)

This is a cutting I grew of my favorite plant, Ceanothus americanus/New Jersey Tea, with my tattoo of its botanical illustrations from a survey done a few centuries ago (and my pasty I-wear-jeans-all-summer legs)

[–] thrawn21@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That is so cool! I've thought of getting a tattoo of a tomato plant, I love how yours looks.

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago

Thank you! I say do it, but I love tattoos

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's awesome! We have a Russian tea plant in our backyard. It likes the climate and promptly became a bush, haha.

[–] LallyLuckFarm@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Fun fact - Ceanothus americanus and Camellia sinensis both produce similar compounds. C. americanus was seen as a way to break the stranglehold that the East India Trading company had over the tea trade and played a role in the continental congress' decision to declare independence from the British.

[–] Amiral_Poitou@beehaw.org 4 points 2 years ago

Well, best I can do is killing three calatheas per year

[–] Specific_Skunk@beehaw.org 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

Here’s a before and after of my kitchen garden that was started as indoor starts, winter-sown seeds, or cuttings. The pots have now been moved and the raised bed is vegetables. The surrounding borders are a mix of common and native berry plants. It’s only a few months difference in the photo (fall -> early spring) and it’s much fuller already this summer.

[–] Specific_Skunk@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

I guess the original post asked for pictures of plants and I just posted my yard (which tbf has a lot of plants) so here’s a picture of a madrone I adopted. They’re my favorite tree but in serious decline in my area, so I propagate them and have started a colony of them on my property.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That's awesome! They grow like crazy where we live. My childhood home had one, I always loved playing with it's dried leaves and peely bark when I was little. It's wood is such a beautiful white too.

[–] Specific_Skunk@beehaw.org 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

We had a lot where I grew up but the area I live in now has been owned by logging and paper companies for 100 years so it’s mostly been wiped out. The only remaining ones I see are beaten up along roadways (rare) or hanging off of cliffs.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

Is this is the pacific nothwest?

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

That looks awesome! What native berry plants do you have? :)

[–] Specific_Skunk@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Thank you! I have thimbleberry, service berry, and evergreen huckleberry so far, and I added some highbush cranberry to the front yard because it has such stunning foliage.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago

Service berry sounds cute! We have thimbleberries here, I love their soft leaves brushing past me on hikes :)

[–] baphlew@beehaw.org 0 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Grew an acorn into a small oak, a before picture and almost current picture attached. Still haven't solved what to do with it next. Two cats are out to get it if I don't protect it, but I have to get a new place for it since it's grown a lot.

[–] Wahots@pawb.social 1 points 2 years ago (1 children)

Ooooh, awesome! Perhaps a sunny window in a room cats can't access, like a closet with a window?

[–] baphlew@beehaw.org 2 points 2 years ago

Yeah that's what we have right now. It's placed next to a window that gets sun and we covered it so the cats can't see it. But it's getting quite big so I think the next step is to put it in actual soil but we live in an apartment complex with no soil of our own. The idea was to grow it and plant it when we move to our own house one day. I might need to get a bigger pot for now so the roots can grow too.

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