Greenleaf dendrology

30/06/2025

In 1997, a juice company dumped orange peels on barren land in Costa Rica.
16 years later — that land became a lush green forest.

Nature always finds a way to bounce back.

30/06/2025

This guide can be useful for vegetable farming as well as backyard gardening.
Understanding their characteristics enable one to improve your production yield.

🌱📏 Planting Guide for Bulbs, Vegetables & Fruits: The Right Depth for Stunning Blooms and Harvests! 🌷🥕🍓

📏 5 cm deep
🌸 Bulbs: Snowdrops, crocuses, dwarf irises.
🥬 Vegetables: Garlic cloves (pointy end up).
🍍 Fruits: Pineapple tops (set just below the soil surface).

📏 8–10 cm deep
🌸 Bulbs: Grape hyacinths, ranunculus, hyacinths, tulips.
🥔 Vegetables: Onions, seed potatoes (first stage).
🍌 Fruits: Banana suckers, planted deep to anchor well.

📏 15–20 cm deep
🌸 Bulbs: Daffodils, alliums, lilies, fritillaries.
🥕 Vegetables: Sweet potatoes, Jerusalem artichokes—deep planting for strong roots.
🍇 Fruits: Young grapevines—deep roots mean stronger, healthier plants.

🌿 Key Tips:
✔️ Always plant bulbs and crowns facing up.
✔️ Keep proper spacing according to plant or bulb size.
✔️ Enrich the soil with compost or bone meal.
✔️ Water after planting, and mulch if temperatures drop.

📅 Best Planting Times:
🍁 Fall: For spring flowers and hardy root veggies.
🌱 Spring: For summer blooms, strawberries, melons, and heat-loving crops.

🌷🥔🍇 With the right depth, your bulbs, veggies, and fruits will thrive and reward you with a beautiful, productive garden!

30/06/2025

Ditch the Lawn Chemicals—Let Nature Do the Work 🌿

🧪 Harsh treatments cause real harm:

Kill 90% of earthworms

Poison birds and bees

Pollute water

Raise cancer risk for pets

🌼 Nature-friendly lawns support life:

Dandelions feed pollinators

Clover builds soil and feeds butterflies

Native plants invite helpful birds

🌱 Start small—less spray, more life!

30/06/2025

🌿 16 Plants You Can Easily Propagate from Cuttings 🌱✨

1. Pothos → vine magic in water
2. Coleus → colorful in water or soil
3. African Violet → baby plants from a leaf
4. English Ivy → fast-growing vine
5. Begonias → leaf or stem in moist soil
6. Geranium → quick roots from stem cuttings
7. Fuchsia → softwood cuttings + blooms
8. Aloe Vera → pups from the base
9. Rosemary → semi-hardwood magic
10. Lavender → softwood or semi-hardwood cuttings
11. Hydrangea → non-flowering stems in soil
12. Jade Plant → leaf or stem in dry soil
13. Apple Tree → hardwood cuttings
14. Blackberry → stem or root cuttings
15. Mulberry → softwood cuttings in summer
16. Raspberry → root or stem cuttings

✨ Multiply your garden the easy + fun way! 🌿🌸

29/06/2025

Big shout out to my newest top fans! Duncan Huasimahe

28/06/2025

Plants are essentials of earth, without plants there wouldn't be any living creatures on earth.
It would have been deserted all covered with bare land, sand dunes and dust.
So plant a tree to save mother nature.
🌿✨🌴🌳

🌍🏞️🏜️

28/06/2025

28/06/2025

The bees and insects played an important part in the lives of every angiosperms.
While birds and bats, wind, water systems and any other mechanism that disperse seeds can be referred to as farmers. They help dispersed the seeds to various location far and close by.
If you are to generate a forest, plant a variety of plants in a woodlot and attract the birds.
Over time you notice that different plant species starts to regenerate.
That's the power of nature and it's interactions.
Plant a tree to develop a forest.
🌲🦗🐝🌿✨

27/06/2025

Do plants talk?