Tag: gardeners on tumblr

Do you have any garden blogs you’d recommend here? I love yours and I’m looking for some inspiration.

Thank you I’m glad you love my blog but-

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I must confess that this question often stumps me whenever I get it. Not cause there aren’t any other gardening/plant/nature ish blogs, but because there’re so many, I hate to forget other bloggers (which are a lot, and there are a lot of new ones this past year that still haven’t stuck to my memorybank yet), and also some of the bloggers that still stick to my memory have long come and gone and are technically inactive/out-of-action for the past few years.

That’s not even factoring in that there are so many kinds both in location as well as blogging/gardening style; the diversity is amazing but also daunting.

[EDITOR’S NOTE- despite the list that I’ve made, I HIGHLY recommend you search the #plantblr and #gardeners of tumblr / #gardeners on tumblr tags, a lot of active gardening bloggers use those tags- unless that’s changed since the last time I’ve browsed those tags personally]

Rambling aside, I’ll try to do just what you asked; recommending plant/gardening blogs. My apologies my fellow gardening mutuals if somehow you slip the list (I am but a very forgetful airhead), mention yourselves onto this post if you wish, and we can hopefully use that to get you in view despite me not writing you down here.

Gardening/Plant Blog Reccomendations

I’d add a lot more but since I’ve gotten halfway through this list tumblr’s been freezing up on me sooooo this’ll have to do for your list of ones to check out.

And to wrap up the woodland walk post spam; the loot.

3 Sugar maple leaves, 7 canadian yew berries, and spore filled Christmas fern fronds (which tragically I THINK I’M TOO LATE TO SOW NOW WITH THE CRUSTY STATUS OF THE FRONDS!!!!).

Did not find hopniss vine in this forest (I’m not the least bit surprised though disappointed) but it was still a fun albeit exhausting forest trek.

I’m not super adept at ID of dogwoods (at least ones that aren’t SUPER distinct) but someone informed me that this tol boi is likely Gray Dogwood (Cornus racemosa) the floral form (which btw SHOULD nOT BE FLOWERING IN SEPTEMBER) would give even more implication that it is so.

If it weren’t for this blackspot problems I’d probably take note of these specimens for future seed harvesting, but ah well. Still learned something.

The view on the way out; a view of the most impenetrable part of the woods. It is the north side of the forest.

A thicket of saplings, raspberry brambles, and dogwoods block the way in, but, I DID get some see some colouring up of some Sugar Maple foliage at the woodland’s edge.

@geopsych ID’d these fungi as Turkey Tails, and I have to agree; the turkey-tailfeather-like morphology is hard to ignore.

I would give a specific species/genus but it appears that Turkey Tails is sometimes a lumped name of a handful of shelf fungi of north america.

I’ll let MushroomExpert.com take it from here when it comes to this group and how to tell its similar mimics apart from each other. I personally do not have the patience to try to figure out the exact identity of these fungi in the photos.

IM SURE THESE ARE CHRISTMAS FERNS (Polystichum acrostichoides)! I have never see  so many in the wild before. They were scattered all about the sparser part of the woods (not far from the Canadian Hemlock zone).

I took some fertile spore-frond bits, but I haven’t sown them yet so…. fuck. Will have to try again when I have more on-hand equipment for such a thing.