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Yeah, I'm into useful plants. I started out with peppermint plants, because I love mint leaves. They grow back every year right where I planted them. I dream of having a psychoactive garden of stuff, but it's not really legal where I live. I planted some begonias and coleus leaves this month, because they look cool.
It's only recently that I'm trying to get good at keeping plants alive. I learned how to sprout seeds indoors with some bright lights. I have a bunch of seedlings at the moment, and one plant I found last fall and put in a container indoors so it wouldn't die. It's still growing, and looks like it might turn into a flower.
I see it more as a useful skill than an obsession, though I am slightly obsessed. And I end up liking the plants a lot. I say nice things to them.
Thanks A. Your flower is GORGEOUS.Thanks Tia Maria - my sun sensitivity is is due to SLE (lupus) and not being autistic. Sorry if that was confusing. Lupus is an autoimmune condition totally separate from being autistic. I struggle with that more than being autistic, but being autistic makes struggling with that harder as there is no constant with lupus.
MicroWeiss what kind of psychoactive garden? We are allowed to grow many psychoactive plants here in Australia as long as they aren't grown as drugs to be cultivated or sold. I'm unfamiliar with legislation where you are, but many things are surprisingly permissible. It just depends on what you want to grow and why. Good luck with your work on keeping plants alive. I love that plants are pretty straight forward living things. It's easy to learn what they need, when they are unhappy, how to help them, and keep them alive. A lot more straightforward than most people.
More plants? This is an Australian cultivar Brugmansia called 'Tantra'. This flower was almost as large as a dinner plate.
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Peyote sounds cool, then I heard about salvia divinorum, and of course mushrooms, I can't help but dream of growing such plants/fungis. I only took one psychedelic trip so far, but it was a poisonous mushroom, it was a bad trip, the illegal ones sound a lot better. Oklahoma is the most restrictive state to live in, if it's illegal anywhere, it's illegal in Oklahoma. I'll probably go out of state/country to try all these things, one of these days.
"annominous, More plants? This is an Australian cultivar Brugmansia called 'Tantra'. This flower was almost as large as a dinner plate. View attachment 15088
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-4VId-FmqHh0/UaJtsQw_1EI/AAAAAAAAByw/wgXJJAXO4SE/s1600/P4120066.JPGYou certainly have had some great jobs! It's wonderful you've found a good way to keep gardening, it looks beautiful.I have an interest in Ethnobotany, as well. I haven't really gardened much, aside from a run of the mill vegetable garden, but I usually like to run around outside with an identification manual. I'm very blessed to live in an area where we have many fascinating native and endemic plants. My favorite is Calochortus albus (I'm not quite sure how to insert pictures properly), it's so delicate and ethereal. My favorite subject is Mycology, but the different ways fungi and plants interact is quite interesting!
I had trouble posting it, and it is not my blog, so I hope it's okay. I have seen that flower on my wanderings and hikes in the mountains when I lived in California a long time ago.That is wonderful.
the flower, the lichen, the rock
Wonderful.
I had trouble posting it, and it is not my blog, so I hope it's okay. I have seen that flower on my wanderings and hikes in the mountains when I lived in California a long time ago.
I live in a place that gets very cold, has a relatively short growing season and cold that returns in October. I am new to the area and so have no idea what I could grow here. I'd like to ask around at the nurseries and see if a vegetable garden is possible after the fence gets put in. Otherwise, the rabbits and deer that are habituated in town here would devastate it. The yard has grass with a thousand dandelions, buckeye trees, an apple tree currently madly in bloom, and some rangy old lilacs. Also weeds at each corner which I need to buy a non-power tool to cut them, as I cannot stand the noise of weed wackers.