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Shithouse Dave: Aug 5, 2007; each post manufactured to the highest specifications

a hole-y ghost posted:

so was it an actual code language or an emblem-based thing like x flower means sickness, x flower means marriage, etc.

Iirc it's an emblem-based thing, which is where we get ideas like red roses for love, yellow roses for friendship and calla lilies for funerals. Calla lilies and tulips are my favourite. I've got irises, lilacs, bleeding hearts (or scrote-flowers, they balls hang low) bluebells and some of last years brassicas blooming currently. The narcissus and tulips are over. Later on in the season I will have gladiolus, dahlias, freesias an anenomies, a bunch of asteraceae (sunflower, cosmos, echinacea, camomile and callistephus), marigolds and whatever else I've planted that I've forgotten about.

I like flowers

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Shithouse Dave: Aug 5, 2007; each post manufactured to the highest specifications

Maoist Pussy posted:

Which flowers can I make drugs out of, smartypants?

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a hole-y ghost: May 10, 2010

Maoist Pussy posted:

Which flowers can I make drugs out of, smartypants?

Ordrakon posted:

cannabis

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Shithouse Dave: Aug 5, 2007; each post manufactured to the highest specifications

This is saffron, one of the most expensive spices by weight in the world. It is a kind of crocus, and only those orange stamens are used.

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a hole-y ghost: May 10, 2010

Shithouse Dave posted:

This is saffron, one of the most expensive spices by weight in the world. It is a kind of crocus, and only those orange stamens are used.

this thing might seem like a good idea to grow because the spice is worth a lot but it's not that great because you don't get much per plant

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Obligatory Toast: Mar 19, 2007; What am I reading here??

Big Beef City posted:

I have a huge rear end bunch of peonies in my yard, OP.
They own. Not blooming yet this year.

we have three bushes this year, and two of them are crazy huge and have buds the size of golfballs.

i also have a huge lavender bush in the backyard that is just going to kick all sorts of rear end in the growing dept. its already got 50+ flower spikes on it.

was gonna get a lilac start but the store ran out of them and i haven't seen them back in stock. :smith:

my mom also has a white rhododendron that I need to cut back the dead parts on. It's got new growth, so i'm gonna wait until it's done blooming.

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Luvcow: Jul 1, 2007; One day nearer spring

Yay flower thread.
Just south of Boston. Wisteria in it's first bloom a few days ago

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steinrokkan: Apr 2, 2011; Soiled Meat

Shithouse Dave posted:

Every loving year there are newspaper reports of stupid kids trying to get high in poppy seeds and getting poisoned instead.

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Maoist Pussy: Feb 12, 2014; by Lowtax

a hole-y ghost posted:

cannabis

I mean make, like in a lab.

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Maoist Pussy: Feb 12, 2014; by Lowtax

Shithouse Dave posted:

Yes, yes, but tell me something I don't know. Something fresh.

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dont call marigolds hosed up you bitch

# ? May 21, 2014 02:26

Effectronica: May 31, 2011; Fallen Rib

Maoist Pussy posted:

Yes, yes, but tell me something I don't know. Something fresh.

u can synthesize MAOIs from ragweed to make ayahuasca, or you can make them from a bunch of different passionflowers

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Big Beef City: Aug 15, 2013

Whirlwind Jones posted:

Are those the ant bush flowers?

Only if you've got ants.

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Big Beef City: Aug 15, 2013

Obligatory Toast posted:

we have three bushes this year, and two of them are crazy huge and have buds the size of golfballs.

i also have a huge lavender bush in the backyard that is just going to kick all sorts of rear end in the growing dept. its already got 50+ flower spikes on it.

was gonna get a lilac start but the store ran out of them and i haven't seen them back in stock.

my mom also has a white rhododendron that I need to cut back the dead parts on. It's got new growth, so i'm gonna wait until it's done blooming.

Sup someone in a 4b-5a climate?
I've got a scrub-rear end-poo poo lavender and lilac struggling to bust out on the same soil that peonies are going gang-busters.

edit: lmao anime-havers.

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Commoners: Apr 25, 2007; Sometimes you reach a stalemate. Sometimes you get magic horses.

Pick posted:

The "IS" or Joseph Stalin series was a memorable lineage of heavy tank developed in the Soviet Union.

Does this look like a vagina to anyone else?

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stoutfish: Oct 8, 2012; by zen death robot

it's that time of year when oleander is in bloom

it's all over the valley and is also poisonous.

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tough stains: May 23, 2007; Desire gets the upper hand over insight and foresight and the results are often needless entanglement.

Small Allamanda (Allamanda schottii) is everywhere in Hong Kong but touching its leaves makes you itch.

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Big Beef City: Aug 15, 2013

Just an FYI, if you've researched how to grow the best weed, you can grow the best tomatoes.
For whatever the reason, they grow exactly the same. So if you're looking to put your grow-op to bed, think twice! It can grow delicious, ridiculously well-formed champion tomatoes with the correct supports.

Maybe you thought you've moved past growing your own ganj, but you can put all that equipment to use and have tasty heirloom tomatoes you can't even find at your local farmers market.

(*hint: tomato farmers use the most ludicrous hydro products imaginable)

# ? May 21, 2014 02:51

my kinda ape: Sep 15, 2008; Everything's gonna be A-OK; Oven Wrangler

Big Beef City posted:

For whatever the reason, they grow exactly the same.

The reason is they're both plants.

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stoutfish: Oct 8, 2012; by zen death robot

ghetto wormhole posted:

The reason is they're both plants.

let me tell you about zones

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kazr: Jan 28, 2005

Pick posted:

Foxglove is great, and you put them on the ends of your fingers like olives.

Maoist Pussy posted:

Which flowers can I make drugs out of, smartypants?

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kazr: Jan 28, 2005

pretend the quotes are reversed

# ? May 21, 2014 03:06

my kinda ape: Sep 15, 2008; Everything's gonna be A-OK; Oven Wrangler

stoutfish posted:

let me tell you about zones

sorry they're both dicots that enjoy full sun and warm temperatures are you happy now

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Hector Beerlioz: Jun 16, 2010; aw, hec

Fun fact: The word orchid comes from the latin word "orcus" which means testicle, since all orchids have a spherical bulb at the bottom of the stem.

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stoutfish: Oct 8, 2012; by zen death robot

ghetto wormhole posted:

sorry they're both dicots that enjoy full sun and warm temperatures are you happy now

good

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Fun fact: The word orchid comes from the latin word "orcus" which means testicle, since all orchids have a spherical bulb at the bottom of the stem.

also good

# ? May 21, 2014 03:14

Hector Beerlioz: Jun 16, 2010; aw, hec

Hector Beerlioz posted:

Fun fact: The word orchid comes from the latin word "orcus" which means testicle, since all orchids have a spherical bulb at the bottom of the stem.

Edit: it comes from the greek word ὄρχις, which means testicle. My mistake, sry.

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Vacation Tenzin: Jan 23, 2005; I'M TOTALLY CALM AND RELAXED.

This is a daylily. Plant it if you are bad with flowers. Do not plant it if you are not bad with flowers because it will clone itself and destroy everything you love.

Also, peonies are just another kind of ant farm, but they are boss and huge and smell amazing so plant them anyway and welcome your ant bros. If you plant them along your whole fenceline, you don't have to see your stupid neighbours or their hideous puggles.

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Hector Beerlioz: Jun 16, 2010; aw, hec

I like triffids.

# ? May 21, 2014 03:23

Pick: Jul 19, 2009; Nap Ghost

Luvcow posted:

Yay flower thread.
Just south of Boston. Wisteria in it's first bloom a few days ago

Wisteria is beautiful :allears:

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Aves Maria!: Jul 26, 2008; Maybe I'll drown

crape myrtles are cool too

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VendaGoat: Nov 1, 2005

Pick posted:

Wisteria is beautiful .

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Randy Fandy: May 21, 2014; by XyloJW

datura is a dastardly witchcraft herb that grows pernennial. and green and purple!!!!

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stoutfish: Oct 8, 2012; by zen death robot

420DD Butts posted:

crape myrtles are cool too

i've never seen a crape myrtle get that big :eyepop:

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Aves Maria!: Jul 26, 2008; Maybe I'll drown

yeah they can occasionally get pretty big. I saw some large ones when i still lived in Houston

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Waltzing Along: Jun 14, 2008; There's only one
Human race
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Everybody belongs here

I like this thread. It is pretty and it is educational. Thank you, OP.

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gary oldmans diary: Sep 26, 2005

i was holding off clicking this thread but then i saw there were replies and i thought hey maybe theres vaginas
nope

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bonestructure: Sep 25, 2008; by Ralp

ghetto wormhole posted:

The reason is they're both plants.

No, the reason is that they have nearly exactly the same requirements for temperature, soil, light, and nutrients, unlike the thousands of other plants that don't.

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