Some bad photos of plants

    I have always liked the kamon, Japanese clan emblems. Particularly the flowery ones. Very nice examples of graphic design. For a long ti...

  My little Kewa salsoloides plants have been flowering continuously for months. Very pretty, pale pink and with a sweet floral fragrance. ...

An ultrathin section of " Parakaryon myojinensis ". Drawing based on Fig. 1 of the 2012 paper.¹  Artist: Ian Alexander for Wikiped...

I have been doing a very interesting free foraging course run by Lad from the Boiler House . This is my homework. All of these photos were t...

  Cotton flower in a Manchester mini-greenhouse with a Manchester hoverfly.  I tried to get a photo with a bee but the cotton was late fl...

  On May 31st this year, I visited the Bridgewater Canal by Stretford Mall to check out the orchids. Yesterday afternoon (August 11th), I vi...

  I've just noticed that I have got buds on two of my cotton plants. The plants are not terribly happy, I think I have not been feeding ...

  I only have one individual of this plant, now 2 years and 4 months old. Last year it produced just one fruit, despite the fruit coming in ...

  I had a bumper crop of Asclepias syriaca fruit last year. Compared to the one fruit I have had in the previous eight years, any crop is s...

I have added some updates to my original article on Stephanotis floribunda (warning: Too Much Information, now over 19,000 words). The pict...

  Apteranthes (Caralluma) tuberculata Herbarium sheet from the Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew ¹  UPDATE: 16/9/2024 David Goyder of Kew Gardens (...

I first read about Ceropegia bulbosa over 30 years ago and have finally got to eat the tuber. Of course, I could have visited India and fou...

  This plant was sold to me as Alpinia formosana and I have no reason to doubt that. The usual common name is "pinstripe ginger" ...

I have been growing this plant since I received it in October 2020 under the name Trichocaulon flavum . That is an old name, that plant is n...

  The photo above was taken last Saturday, the first of January 2022. I am immensely pleased that it flowered so soon.

  Ceropegia bulbosa , with edible leaves and tubers much sought after in India. My photo from September. I was looking up some descriptions ...

Stapelia adscendens , from   Plants of the Coast of Coromandel  ¹  Picture file from the BHL Pro Flickr albums. What is the origin of the na...

Linnaeus named⁹ the genus Ceropegia in 1737 in his Genera plantarum .  Linnaeus referred to the description and picture of a plant in the H...

I received this Hoya carnosa  from Italy last September as a stunted succulent with a little bundle of roots that fitted with plenty of roo...

I found a much larger original photograph of the Star Carr pendant. I decided that I wanted to make a new version of the coloured one I mad...