listen I love drawing but going to art school was such a bad idea no one wants to hire me for anything
14.10.2025 05:53
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listen I love drawing but going to art school was such a bad idea no one wants to hire me for anything
haven't posted on this account in a minute because someone complained to the landlord about my plants and I've been having to cut them back more than I'd like and I got real depressed b ut just applied to a botany-related job that I would really like to have pls pray 4 me
the honeysuckle produced a few berries this year but the birds beat me to em so I’ll have to count on them to start some seedlings for me
bare plum tree with maypops, honeyvine milkweed, and coral honeysuckle growing up the branches
coral honeysuckle in bloom, growing up the branches of a plum tree
this tree’s been dying as long as I’ve lived here so I’ve been encouraging flowering vines to grow up it; the maypops and honeyvine are going crazy now and the coral honeysuckle on the other side covered a lot of territory this year
blue mistflower in bloom
river oats
river oats and blue mistflower
maypops
gettin to the part of summer where I get real sad but there’s lots of nice stuff in bloom and going to seed
current inventory if anybody local wants to preorder for this tuesday's farmer's market uwu
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adult was def a variegated fritillary I think but the cat looked more like a gulf? they both show up in missouri and it's a big maypop patch so ideally there's both
range map of the US and southern canada showing the distribution of sweetgrass (hierochloe odorata). it is not found from missouri southwards.
cultural significance of the plant aside even, it literally doesn't grow here
as i've been selling plants this year I've had several people come up to me (white guy in missouri) and go "wow, native plants! I just read that book Braiding Sweetgrass, do you have any?" and like, I think you may have missed a few pages there big dog
fritillary butterfly on maypop
fritillary larva on maypop
fritillary laying eggs on maypop
tiny monarch larva on honeyvine milkweed
worm season
current inventory if anybody local wants to preorder for this tuesday's farmer's market uwu
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market dates n all that 🌱
market dates n all that 🌱
seed harvest time is starting! got a few species in my shop rn, more coming soon 💚
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seed harvest time is starting! got a few species in my shop rn, more coming soon 💚
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spotted bee balm and other north american native plants in a garden at night, after a rain
wet night plants
always grew it at my house as a kid and it grows uh well, like a weed in other parts of my neighborhood but it hates me 🥲 tried common, butterfly, swamp, spider, and whorled
does anyone else have a bad time growing milkweed....I feel like i'm the only guy that can't get it to thrive but the best I can do is a couple a. incarnata that live 2-3 years and a bunch of c. laeve that gets a lot less monarch traffic. tried ~3 other asclepias but none of them will grow at all :(
dunno if anyone local follows me BUT! if you do you can now preorder plants for pickup at my next market uwu
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tiger swallowtail butterfly on a flowering buckeye (not sure what species)
the zoo is a place of many mixed feelings but I saw this badass swallowtail there
partridge pea, chamaecrista fasciculata
spotted bee balm, monarda punctata
starry campion (silene stellata) and a young pawpaw (asimina triloba)
smooth hydrangea, hydrangea arborescens
partridge pea, spotted bee balm, a pawpaw I direct sowed popping up next to starry campion, and a late bloom on my smooth hydrangea 💚
current event schedule 💐💚🌿
large tuxedo cat sprawled on a couch with a pile of zines titled “I Want That Bug” on him
new zine with help from wormy
she’s been goin off!
local friends please stop by tower grove farmers’ market NOW and get GOODS
two buds on a passiflora incarnata vine, one with a tiny bit of light purple peeking out
another bud with a flower preparing to emerge
feel like fucking ass today however my very favorite plant will be opening her first blossoms of the season tomorrow
smooth hydrangea, southern blue flag, mixed asters, and plum tree.
smooth hydrangea, southern blue flag, mixed asters
smooth hydrangea blooms
smooth hydrangea’s getting massive this year
watercolor illustration of north american wildflowers in the colors of the 1974 pride flag. from top to bottom: rose mallow (pink), fire pink (red), trumpet vine (orange), sunchoke (yellow), spider milkweed (green), virginia bluebell (light blue/turquoise), bottle gentian (dark blue), and common blue violet (purple).
happy pride from hibiscus moscheutos, silene virginia, campsis radicans, helianthus tuberosus, asclepias viridis, mertensia virginica, gentiana andrewsii, and viola sororia 🌈🌱
watercolor illustration of north american wildflowers in the colors of the 1974 pride flag. from top to bottom: rose mallow (pink), fire pink (red), trumpet vine (orange), sunchoke (yellow), spider milkweed (green), virginia bluebell (light blue/turquoise), bottle gentian (dark blue), and common blue violet (purple).
happy pride from hibiscus moscheutos, silene virginia, campsis radicans, helianthus tuberosus, asclepias viridis, mertensia virginica, gentiana andrewsii, and viola sororia 🌈🌱
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