Some bad photos of plants

Shindal Makudi is the local Marathi name of an unusual little succulent found wild only in the state of Maharashtra in western India. It is ...

Continued from Part One   Cultivation in India One of my two plants, again. Growing in Manchester. We don't know whether Shindal Makudi ...

Hoya bella , the Beautiful Hoya This beautiful plant may still be the most cultivated species of Hoya , 174 years after it was first collect...

This Orbea variegata flowered today and is a spectacular, peculiar and interesting flower. That does not stop it being an intense disappoin...

My Curio just flowered. The flower is 12mm (½ inch) across and 22 mm (⅞ inch) tall. They don't flower very often but are widely-...

The first flower on my Frerea indica (or Boucerosia frerei ) was badly placed for taking a photo. This was the best I could get. The flo...

Never forget.

Hawthorn or Mayflower Yesterday, I went for my first recreational stroll since being locked down. I took one hour and a little under 20...

I went for a short walk today on a mission to get photos of horse chestnut flowers. I thought they would complement the article  that I...

THESE THREE ARTICLES ARE UNFINISHED I have been distracted by a large project that I put aside in 2014 and am working on that for the nex...

THESE THREE ARTICLES ARE UNFINISHED I have been distracted by a large project that I put aside in 2014 and am working on that for the ne...

Adenanthera pavonina pods, open and showing the glossy scarlet seeds. Photo: © G P Lewis from  Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew Royal Bota...

I decided a few weeks ago that I should make a little decoration for a book that I am compiling on the ethnobotany of the asclepiads. The...

Stephanotis floribunda flowering in habitat in southeastern Madagascar. Photo: © Nivo Rakotonirina  from Tropicos Attribution-NonC...

Borage flowers photographed on 19/10/2019. It looks like I have been using my Fuji FinePix F770EXR camera for over 6 years, I just di...

Walking down Demesne Road by Alex(andra) Park in Moss Side I noticed that several of the puddles were remarkably frothy. It has been ver...

Yesterday afternoon I noticed a Red Admiral butterfly on the flowers of my kusagi tree . Known to entomologists as Vanessa atalant...

Manchester Council plants a strange mixture of street trees with quite a variety of species. I would prefer that they planted native trees t...

I have been watching quite a few of the videos uploaded to Youtube by the excellent Mancunian amateur local historian and urban explorer Mar...

I am putting together some articles about plants that have provided substances called Dragon's Blood. I aim to write four separate a...