paton.bsky.social
Parody botanist
Plant-related blog: http://pattheplants.blogspot.com
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What about old people's dreams?
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But your president is a Russian asset, so the misinformation is now a government policy and your national security is safe in Putin's hands.
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At least 32 centuries, as the mummy of Rameses II had his grey hair dyed with henna.
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Nice ALT work. Tricky to describe those weird flowers.
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That is cyan rather than blue, surely?
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I signed this afternoon and just went to check - 100,255 so "Parliament will consider this for a debate". So the government can explain "Work has started on a new eradication strategy to drive down TB rates, protecting cattle and farmers’ livelihoods, and to end the badger cull."
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UK residents as well as citizens.
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Use text-to-voice then.
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New Peelian Principles needed?
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peelian...
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Ruina terrae?
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"And God can't stop me, even if he exists."
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Or without the extra full stop, damn its eyes.
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Like this. Open the picture and the text should be displayed below it, depending on your device. That text can then be converted to voice, if needed. It can also be used to label things that many might not be interested in, like the correct species, location, date, etc. of a flower in a photo.
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Imagine if people could just get grants to pay for them to do science courses because people doing science courses is good for humanity.
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Alcohol loves water and it is very difficult to separate them. So many people assume it will boil off because you can distil spirits. That takes many, many hours at a high boil. Even then they tend to leave the last bit as it takes too long and contains unwanted stuff.
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One of my grandfathers was at Gallipoli and was a part of the General Strike in 1926 as a Welsh miner. He hated Churchill. Starmer saying this shows how he is devoid of any knowledge of socialism or decency.
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You would never know they were part of a walnut tree if you were blindfolded. Umami pickle with all sorts of depth of flavour but no walnut. No bones.
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Lucky that homosexuality was so frowned upon at the time or Isaac Newton might have been happy and distracted rather than a legend.
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Wow! What a gem.
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Unripe ordinary (English/Persian) walnut fruit gone black when processed properly - delicious delicacy. Almost time to harvest.
honest-food.net/pickled-waln...
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You chose a bumblebee rather than a worker honey bee for your symbol? I wrote a very long article about the symbolism of the bees of Manchester and Salford. It might be of interest to you. To read, not to publish - illustration rights would be complicated.
pattheplants.blogspot.com/2023/10/on-o...
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And accessibility.
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I give all my succulents 1ml of Vitalink PlantStart per litre of water in every watering from March to November. I never found an organic feed that works, too much goo that clogs up the soil. This definitely has all the needed minerals in the right forms.
hollandhorticulture.co.uk/products/vit...
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Just read your bio, so clearly your tap water is cold in winter. Repot so the surface is closer to the top of the pot with a well-draining mix. Wind the vines back onto the pot so they can root into it. Lose the decorative outer pot and use a shallow saucer to remind to empty it. Do as Nicky said.
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Do you feed it? If your tap water is cold in winter, let it warm up to room temperature before watering.
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More like something out of Dune. I mean, it is probably out of an actual dune but also the SF franchise that had a recent film.
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Bt products specifically for box moth control are made. However, none are registered for use by amateur gardeners in the UK. Of course, the current online sales free-for-all means that many UK gardeners buy and use them without realising they are breaking the law.
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Careful visual inspections in Spring, combined with pheromone traps to catch the adult males. Remove caterpillars as soon as you see them. If you are getting an infestation, try the nematode predators. The caterpillars are toxic, I don't know if birds will take them.
dragonfli.co.uk/collections/...
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You are saying Stainless steals all the awards?
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They probably just did a search for the word "Diversity" and defunded everything that came up.
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Less of an exaggeration in the US now. The body counts will rise over the next few years.
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But those who used it were not respectable, were they? Some people use "woman" as a pejorative, should we stop using it and give those bigots the credit for changing English usage?
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Do you have a cat? When I gave away Salvia Hot Lips cuttings at work most people agreed with me that the leaves smelt of blackcurrant - except for the cat owners. Some people avoid Sauvignon Blanc wines for the same aromas. Or it may be like asparagus and coriander, some smell it differently.
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I never understood how anyone could think that being a warrior for Social Justice was anything but the coolest thing ever - short of Dragon of Protecting the Weak.
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Ethnobotany history is sort of my thing, so I already knew where to look for the info. I have known about the difference between males and females for over 40 years!
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Having to listen to someone on the train watching an American dating reality show was a bit irritating.
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Look again. I can watch it now.
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By then everyone will have to show their birth certificate to prove that they are conforming to gender stereotype and show their regular attendance at an officially-accredited church before they can upload a video. Then they check your social media to see if you ever said anything against Trump.
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They don't realise that it is free advertising for a moribund franchise? It has been 13 years and they don't even get mentioned in the biogs for Pattinson and Stewart anymore. Nobody is going to see your video and think "That's all I needed to know about Twilight, no need to watch it tonight now."
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being the only extant male ones. The female herb was generally seen as "lesser" in some way, either in perceived effect or some part of the plant being smaller. archive.org/details/gree...
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way. Dioscorides wrote that the male had leaves like a walnut, the female like alexanders. The only feminine survivors I could find in modern botany appear to be Athyrium filix-femina, Cornus foemina and Lysimachia foemina. Cornus mas, Dryopteris filix-mas, Orchis mascula and Paeonia mascula 2/3
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The discrimination has been made since ancient herbalists. Lyte, translating Dodoens, stated "The flowers in like manner be great and red, but yet lesser and paler than the flowers of the male kind." Many medicinal herbs used by the Greeks and Romans were named this 1/2
archive.org/details/bim_...
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I love paeony fruits, they are just so bizarre.
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I saw your camel post first and my immediate thought was Astragalus and Alhagi. Just from book-learning, I have never been further than Spain. Probably some chenopodioids and salsoloids as well, if that is what we call them now. Any asclepiads toughing it out in the desert?