Your Begonias are taking it too far this time, Mel.

Check out this French poodle of a lavender pansy. 🌸🌱

The tic-tac sized flower buds of Curry Leaf plant beginning to open. In the blurry background are small apartment buildings and a blue evening sky with dramatic clouds.

Murraya koenigii (Curry Leaf) starting to bloom on the balcony. The flowers have a lovely subtle smell 🌱

Pieris Flaming Silver. Looks spectacular under the cherry blossom 🌱

Here's Begonia White Chandelier', a Cane-like type of hybrid Begonia from Japan. Long, deep green colored leaves are narrow & red on undersides. Plant branches freely & makes a nice full specimen. Blooms: large clusters of white flowers. Origin: Uemura, Japan, 1982. Easy care houseplant.🌱 #begonias

Photo credits & permissions: (L) (R) - Emily / In Search Of Small Things, Portland OR, USA.🌱

Clusters of large white trumpet like flowers with long green leaves.

The clusters of flowers on this huge rhododendron tree are as big as dinner plates. Seen at the Ballard Locks today. 🌱

Neighbors donated many different Irises and its cool to see the variety!🌱

@norska11.bsky.social I forgot to show you the Begonia triage station earlier. 😀

A photo of a shrub with bright pink flowers. The leafy tips of the branches are bright red.

A close-up photo of fingers cradling two red, leafy stems. The axillary fruits are immersed in the stem.

Gongylocarpus fruticulosus, from islands off Baja California Sur, Mexico, is a shrub with axillary flowers & ovaries so inferior that the fruits are immersed in the stem, like in Cactaceae. 🤯 📷1: Gemina Garland-Lewis. 📷2: jrebman. both CCBYNC4 #Onagraceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Hauya elegans (📷: Tony Rodd CCBYNCSA2) is a tree from Mexico & Central America. It has classic #Onagraceae flowers: long hypanthium tube, reflexed sepals, capitate stigma (like Fuchsia et al.), inferior ovary. And it has color-changing flowers that start white and age to dark pink. #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Close-up photo of the bases of corn stalks. Adventitious roots emerge from nodes above the soil surface and grow downward. Roots from lower nodes have penetrated the soil, while those from upper nodes have not yet touched the soil.

This week is devoted to #roots we can see, like these from corn/maize (Zea mays;📷: 305 Seahill CCBYND2). Corn is famous for its prop roots that emerge from the stem above the soil line. When they penetrate the soil, they brace the main stalk. Structural engineering! #Poaceae #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Photo of the base of a palm with a mass of dark, thick roots with red root tips emerging from the stem above the soil surface and growing downward. A small garden sign identifies the palm as C. harlandii. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

A photo looking up into a very tall cone of aerial stilt roots. The crown of the pandan is obscured by nearby palm leaves. A baseball cap provides scale. Photo by Scott Zona CC BY-NC 2.0.

To see prop roots on a larger scale, look to the palms and pandans. 📷1: Clinostigma harlandii, a palm. 📷1: Pandanus sp (to get an idea of the scale of this giant, check out the green cap in the lower left). #Arecaceae #Pandanaceae #root #Botany 🌾🧪🌱

Looks like a Monstera or a Philodendron this time. 😂

Here's unidentified Begonia U292, a Rhizomatous type of species Begonia from Thailand. Shiny green, deeply indented palmate leaves on a large growing plant. Blooms: n/a, likely pink or white. Origin: S. Hoover, 1990. Published: n/a. Likes extra humidity.🌱 #begonias

Wow!

Here's Begonia 'Elsa', a Cane-like type of hybrid Begonia from Australia. Leaves very large almost black w/ faint silver spots. Underside blood red. Leaves 12" to 14" long w/an upright growth habit. Blooms: white to light pink. Origin: Lila Kilpatrick, AU 1997. Easy care houseplant.🌱 #begonias

Okay, I just ran across some native shooting stars yesterday, and I can confirm that they are delightfully fragrant. They don't bludgeon you with aroma like mock orange, but it's a delicate treasure for those willing to pause and get on their level. I never knew! #nativeplants 🌿🌱

Bagels' slightly out of control Dracaena (Sansevieria) trifasciata. It all started with three small leaves a few years ago...

#Dracaena #Sansevieria #Asparagaceae #Convallarioideae 🌱

Trimezia martinicensis, yellow walking Iris starting to make new foliage.

#Trimezia #Iridaceae 🌱

Pinguicula gigantea still in winter mode

#Pinguicula #Ping #Lentibulariaceae 🌱

Pinguicula laueana CP2 x emarginata

#Pinguicula #Ping #Lentibulariaceae 🌱

Pinguicula cyclosecta.

#Pinguicula #Ping #Lentibulariaceae 🌱

Pinguicula calderoniae. I wanted one of the weirdly Drosera looking Pinguicula for a while, and it seems as though that this one isn't super finnicky. We'll see.

#Pinguicula #Ping #Lentibulariaceae 🌱

Pinguicula 'Hanka' plantlets.

#Pinguicula #Ping #Lentibulariaceae 🌱

Pinguicula 'Sethos'

#Pinguicula #Ping #Lentibulariaceae 🌱

Pinguicula 'Razzberry Blonde'

#Pinguicula #Ping #Lentibulariaceae 🌱

Begonia amphioxous, B. susaniae (fingers crossed), B. dracopelta (looks like it'll make it), and B. melanobullata.

#Begonia #Begoniaceae #saladbowl #bubblebegonias🌱

#Begonia #Begoniaceae #Episcia #Gesneriaceae 🌱

Episcia 'Pink Panther' in the front. Begonia 'Jive' (a rescue that was completely dehydrated with sad, wilted foliage. Not sure it'll pull through, plus my track record with eyelash-Begonias is not great) and a piece of Begonia 'Texas Shield' rhizome that unfortunately had its leaves snapped off.