A beautiful splash of red and orange on my rather white current conditions. A poisonous fruit to us but a vital food source for winter birds. There just so happened to be a family of black-capped chickadees nearby.
Towering talipot palms in a Rio de Janeiro park are flowering for the first and only time in their lives, decades after famed Brazilian landscape architect Roberto Burle Marx introduced them in the 1960s.
I was on a long walk yesterday and noticed this unfamiliar plant with red berries growing by an unkempt fence line. I snapped a picture to ID later and found out it’s wild asparagus. Truly wild.
I live in a "rustic" house made of wood that is not naturally termite-resistant and was apparently not treated before/during the construction. There are termites here. I know that borax works for termite-proofing wood, and it is possible to get borax in the big cities in this part of the world, but I would need to disassemble the house and treat each piece of wood. I would rather not do that. The borax is also prohibitively expensive.
Southern Finland. I've found these and some more bluish ones. They are fairly small (the flower itself is about 4-6cm) and have these long, pretty thick leaves. It isn't visible in the photos, but the petals have this glittery look on them.
Here's one of the blue ones, in a vase:
I've mostly seen them near yards or gardens, so I think they aren't native.
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