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Mr Warbucks
@mrwarbucks.bsky.social
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Horticulturalist, Arborist, MTG, 40k, Woodworking
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thislitgarbage.bsky.social
A closer crop of the arrangement I posted yesterday.

📸 📷 #FlowerReport🌱 #homegrown #BloomScrolling
A floral arrangement image on a dark cool-toned background, cropped to show the rightmost side of the arrangement craning towards natural light. The flowers arc in a gentle c-curve from bottom to top, with large apricot colored tulips, cream and yellow daffodils, and purple and pink ranunculus opening to the viewer.
April 6, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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bucbotany.bsky.social
🌱🌍🧪🌿🍄🌾Delighted to announce the launch of the Botanical University Challenge 2024 Art and Photography Competition! Submit your entries from Friday 22nd March. Categories of Photography (Survivor; Overlooked) & Art (Realism; Abstract). Full details & entry form at: forms.gle/9jqgFVZvQ4p2...
Poster about art and photo competition associated with Botanical University Challenge. See text and link in post for what it says.
March 22, 2024 at 9:50 AM
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norcal-lynne.bsky.social
Venus Flytrap (Dionaea muscipula). Mary Vaux Walcott, 1918. Smithsonian American Art Museum. 🌱 #MarshMadness #SciArt
A watercolor of a Venus flytrap plant, a rosette of leaves and three stems with white starlike flowers.
March 11, 2024 at 9:42 PM
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bucbotany.bsky.social
🌍🌱🌾🍄‍🟫🧪Oldest trees trees in the world appear in the news, 390 million years late! Lived on the (now) Devon and Somerset coast. theguardian.com/science/2024/m… lyellcollection.org/doi/abs/10.114 
Illustration of grove of fossil trees. Trunks 2 -4 metres, with a tuft of slender green branches at the top. Leaves not evolved yet.
March 7, 2024 at 10:28 AM
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passeriform.bsky.social
Gift Link (I understand the ailanthus grows in Brooklyn) Why some birds eat some lanternflies, and why not. 🌱 🌿 #birds

wapo.st/4c429DX
Squashing lantern flies isn’t enough. Here’s how to kill them.
For years, officials asked people to crush invasive spotted lantern flies. But as the pest continues to spread, some researchers say it’s time to send in the birds.
wapo.st
March 6, 2024 at 12:30 PM
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norcal-lynne.bsky.social
March, from Twelve Months of Flowers. Henry Fletcher (English, 1710-1750). Art Institute Chicago. 🌱 #SciArt #Art
A hand-colored etching of a variety of flowers that can be found growing in the month of March. The bouquet of flowers is in a decorative vase and at the bottom are the names of each flower.
March 6, 2024 at 6:28 PM
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nytimes.com
The Worcester Public Library in Massachusetts announced that people who have lost or damaged a book can bring a picture of a cat this month to one of its branches and get their library cards reactivated. The program, which it calls March Meowness, has generated hundreds of returns.
Library Fees? No Problem. Just Show Us Your Cat Photos.
A program this month encourages library patrons in Worcester, Mass., who have lost or damaged books or other items to reactivate their accounts. All they need is a picture of a cat.
www.nytimes.com
March 4, 2024 at 10:43 PM
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bucbotany.bsky.social
🌱🧪🌍🌿🍄🌾Plants hit the big time! 'Start the Week' BBC Radio4 with Kirsty Wark. Flavours, fragrances, evolution (Kelsey Byers, John Innes Centre) & plant-based veterinary medicines (William Milliken, RBG Kew) including Chris Thorogood, Oxford Botanic Gardens on Rafflesia.
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...
BBC Radio 4 - Start the Week, Mysterious Plants
Kirsty Wark with Chris Thorogood, Kelsey Byers and William Milliken
www.bbc.co.uk
March 4, 2024 at 10:38 AM
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amstorey.bsky.social
🌱 Ledebouria beginning to bloom. I have them potted with a couple of Lewisia and they seem happy together.
Close up of small bulbous plants. Their leaves are pointy and narrow, a very pale greenish white with darker green splotches, sometimes described as silver and green leopard print. The bulbs are a dark papery brown. Little pale green tips of the flower spikes just visible in the center of three of the plants.
March 1, 2024 at 3:40 PM
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bucbotany.bsky.social
🌱🧪🌍🌿🍄🌾Mega excitement yesterday in the quarterfinal of Botanical University Challenge 2024! Many thanks to Leif Bersweden, author and science communicator, for cool, confident questioning to the teams. Now calmer until the semifinal & final in August.
Picture Leif Bersweden. QR code for recording of quarterfinal Botanical University Challenge.
March 1, 2024 at 12:56 PM
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mattpaint13.bsky.social
I’m now on here ! Where are all my Warhammer people ?? #warhammercommunity
February 29, 2024 at 9:48 AM
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bucbotany.bsky.social
🌱🧪🌍🌿🍄🌾Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 starts 14:00 Weds 28 Feb. Team from Royal Botanic Gardens Edinburgh for the first time - and through to quarterfinal! How much further can they go? Streamed on youtube.com/@BotanicalUn... and recorded for later.
Team name and pictures for one of quarterfinal teams. Quarter final starts 14:00 Wednesday 28 February, streamed on YouTube and recorded for later
February 27, 2024 at 10:31 AM
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theoldmaiden.bsky.social
Drying your own herbs, that you eat and use for home and personal care, things like having an entire winter's worth of tea and culinary that you dried from fresh yourself, especially if you use multiple kinds everyday...

... It's just a lot of f****** plants man 🌱😆
February 26, 2024 at 1:03 PM
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ilenagm.bsky.social
#SundayYellow is well needed today as it’s started out dreary, transplanted lots of seedlings yesterday with more seed sowing today.😃🙌🌱#gardeningfeed #flowers 📸#flowerreport #plants
February 25, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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norcal-lynne.bsky.social
Throwback Thursday:
Plantae Selectae: No. 42 - Plantae Selectae: No. 42 - Pulmonaria. Georg Dionysius Ehret, published 1750–73. The Cleveland Museum of Art. #SciArt 🌱
A hand-colored engraving of a purplish blue flower and its leaves, in the lower corner the artist has drawn the various structures of the flower.
February 22, 2024 at 11:36 PM
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spacenerd19.bsky.social
Got damn Hellebores rock. 🌱
February 22, 2024 at 4:57 PM
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anomalouslibrarian.bsky.social
The 5th oldest tree was discovered in North Carolina. She's the oldest of her kind, and she's older than christianity 🌱🌾🌳
allthatsinteresting.com/fifth-oldest...
Scientists Find Tree Older Than Christianity In A North Carolina Swamp
It's the oldest of its kind worldwide.
allthatsinteresting.com
February 22, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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bucbotany.bsky.social
Final result in Round 2 Botanical University Challenge #BUC2024 8 teams with highest scores into Quarterfinal starting 14:00 Wednesday 28 February. @bsbibotany.bsky.social
scoreboard at end Round 2 Botanical University Challenge 2024
February 21, 2024 at 4:53 PM
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bucbotany.bsky.social
🌱🧪🌍🌿🍄How do plants adapt to fire? Questions in the Botanical University Challenge 2024 contest on YouTube now and answered by the 18 teams in Round 2 today. Streamed live and recorded to see later www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_g...
Picture of burnt trees
February 21, 2024 at 2:29 PM
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watanabetakao.bsky.social
『タネちゃんの視線』
葉っぱの裏から熱い視線を感じます！植物は「オオイヌノフグリ」です。もっと素敵な名前を付けてあげて！w

"Tane-chan's hot gaze"
From the underside of the leaf on which Kokedama-chan sits, you can feel someone's hot gaze. The plant's name is "Oinufuguri" in Japanese, and the name means "dog's testicles. It's a terrible sense of naming.
February 21, 2024 at 3:32 AM
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bucbotany.bsky.social
Botanical University Challenge, Round 2 streams from 14:00 GMT Wednesday 21 February on our YouTube channel. Also recorded to view later. 18 teams from UK and Ireland universities and botanic gardens compete for places in Quarterfinals. 🌱🧪🌍🌿🍄🌾https://www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUniversityChallenge
Logos of 18 teams in Round 2 Botanical University Challenge. QR code for YouTube channel to view or https://www.youtube.com/@BotanicalUniversityChallenge/streams
February 20, 2024 at 11:42 AM
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bucbotany.bsky.social
🌱🧪🌍🌿🌾🍄Botanical University Challenge 2024 Round 2 starts 14:00 GMT Wednesday 21 February. 18 teams of students at UK & Ireland universities & botanic gardens. All scored more than 25 points in Round 1 with University of York team scoring an amazing 42 out of 50!

Who will go through to Quarterfinal?
Map and logos of 18 teams in Round 2 Botanical University Challenge. Starts 14:00 GMT Wednesday 21 February. View at QR code or https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XZ_gjivi87Y Recorded to view later.
February 19, 2024 at 10:16 AM
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suenitos.bsky.social
Monochrome Monday.
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Black-and-white photo of a fully opened night-blooming cereus blossom.
February 19, 2024 at 11:56 AM