NPR put together this really cool visualization tool for how USDA plant hardiness zones have changed. 🪴

It’s super interesting and does a great job of explaining what the maps and data really mean! 📊

#Gardening #Outside #USDA #Data #NPR #Agriculture #Farming #ClimateChange #GlobalWarming #Garden #Plants

https://apps.npr.org/plant-hardiness-garden-map/

#gardening #autumn

Tiny apple tree has produced enormous apples, and ... is flowering. Thanks, climate crisis?

Guess what? Bee butt!

(on a meyer lemon flower)

#Gardening #BloomScrolling

#CatsOfMastodon #cats #gatos #iowa #gardening

The competition for sunlight in an ecosystem. Here: Purple coneflower plants vs. Ronronia the cat.

Grilling on an overcast day, posting pics of yard flowers and such on the interwebs. Another day, another celebration of mundanity. Enjoy y'all :)

#bloomscrolling #plants #flowers #camas #rhododendron #wildflowers #gardening

The Palm Tree Building of Łódź opened in 1956 and preserves trees that had previously grown in the private green houses of industrialists and Czarist officials. The glass building has repeatedly been expanded to accommodate growing trees, until nothing remains of the 1950s structure. But the tallest trees are still in their original places.

#travel #poland #gardening #polska

Our other clematis vine is doing well & blooming like crazy. Didn’t even notice the caterpillar till I was looking at the photos later. Everything in the #garden does great here until about June when the blast furnace heat arrives.

#flowers #bloomscrolling #photography #flowerphotography #gardening

Now here's some Weird Science for ya: "Forced rhubarb, which is made to mature in near total darkness, grows at such an alarming rate—as much as an inch a day—that it actually makes squeaks, creaks, and pops as it gets bigger." Click through to the article for more info and to get a listen to the veggie-beats. 🤣 🌱

#WeirdScience #rhubarb #gardening

https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound

Listen to the Sick Beats of Rhubarb Growing in the Dark

Snap, crackle, produce.

^{Eric Grundhauser (Atlas Obscura)}

I don't remember planting this! Looks ready to harvest

#gardening #CatsOfMastodon #cat #plant

Fritillaria michailovskyi.

#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling #botany

Decided to grow a street lamp.

Here it is at 3 weeks, 2 months, and fully grown at 6 months.

#solarpunk #joke #gardening

Looked up how tall Mullein usually grows, median answer is 6 ft, one site says up to 10 ft/ 3m.

My exuberant plant that's ~ 12ft/4m tall is looking down and laughing. Will save the seeds and share around. Heh, I love the idea of thinking of plants as Earth's middle finger to entropy that rules rest of the universe.

#gardening #mullein