@ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social
2026-08-20 17:06 UTC
What’s this, a wild, native orchid has just popped up in my very cookie-cutter suburban yard?
Mind officially blown.
You can’t buy this. You can’t even move it, because wild orchids need a specific soil fungus as a partner, or they die.
It was just waiting there in the soil until conditions were right. Who knows what else might be just waiting?
#NativePlants #Orchids #WildlifeHabitat
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@mdione@en.osm.town 2026-08-21 17:57
@ClimateJenny@biodiversity.social in 2001 someone left me a fern. I forgot to water it and dried off. Someone else told me to keep watering, it might come back the next year, so I did. Instead I got a morning glory, and since I was living in a 8th floor with the windows mostly closed, and the seed is round and doesn't fly, I'm pretty sure it was in the pot's earth. Now I'm getting a plant I think is a morning glory (similar leaf and stems, no flowers yes) in a pot that has had all kinds of plants, most dried up.