Thread 510053608

If you feel atomized and live in or near a big city, I highly suggest you find the nearest botanical garden to you and volunteer your time there, you should be able to email or call them about it. A plant farm or a nursery might also work too.

It feels so good to be surrounded by God's bounty and be a steward of Paradise on earth. You can learn the skill of gardening, and marvel at all the different kinds of plants that can grow in your area. You can interact with smart and interesting people you wouldn't meet from dating apps or wherever, who are also interested in helping a little part of their community to stay beautiful. I've never seen thugs or other riffraff infect a botanical garden, it's too patrician for their kind there.

> And I bet you there's a good chance the jannies will send this thread to /bant/ or prune it like they did with /sig/, that shows you where their hearts really lie :/

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=as5ZdjYGdRY

Grow your own garden

>>510053608 (OP)

Here's a list of them in the US, for the Amerimutts itt:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_botanical_gardens_and_arboretums_in_the_United_States

>>510053608 (OP)
>>510053736
lolno

beaners jump the fence and steal the plants and cuttings

>>510053736

> Grow your own garden
Do that if you can by all means, there's a good reward in it. Botanical gardens have so many different kinds of plants, and usually a network of donors and sometimes universities who fill them with cool stuff

>>510053884

> beaners jump the fence and steal the plants and cuttings
Where does this happen exactly? What a worrywart you are kek

Love botanical gardens

>>510054093
anywhere shit skins roam

Florida, Cali, NYC etc..

they just hop the fences when park close and grab anything they want

>>510054165
your mom looks sad and unsatisfied sexually

>>510054284

Even if this has some truth to it, why would you just give up, assuming that the botanical garden is a good idea to you? Sounds sad

>>510054500
no

if yiu cant beat em join em

why would you volunteer being a cuk when being the shitskin is normalized now

>>510054607

>why would you volunteer being a cuk when being the shitskin is normalized now

Nah, that sounds like a pathetic cop out. No place for that in a beautiful place like a botanical garden. Going against the grain sounds better :)

>>510054732
>build the sexxxy vagina garden for the shit skin to rape and plunder

thats white neoliberal history of modern western beta suicide

>>510054093
anon was pretty on the money.
>live opposite botanical garden/park.
>out on my balcony one fine spring midnight smoking
>see somebody cutting bunches of daffodils and sticking them in a bag in the darkness
>light them up with my excessively bright torch
>yep, it's the jeet dude who has the shop down the end of the road that sells bunches of the same flowers
>watch the cunt cover his eyes and shuffle off quickly

>>510055060

Well, never heard of that issue before, you live and learn. I still say to volunteer, it's a good experience

>>510053608 (OP)
I was thinking about it.

>>510053608 (OP)

Sounds fun!

>>510053608 (OP)
>no entry
What's the point then?

Thanks anon. One nearby. Be a nice way to spend time.

Based botanical bros

>>510053608 (OP)
I volunteered at the local botanical garden's library. It was incredibly comfy and I met a lot of sweet old ladies

>>510053608 (OP)
Please grow endemic local plants

>>510056929

>Thanks anon. One nearby. Be a nice way to spend time.

If I actually helped you with this thread today, I'm very glad I did, fren :)
Go get your green thumbs, as your ancestors did

I got into aquariums and aquscaping. Made me a less hateful evil person

>>510054165

Is this OC? It's a nice picture

>>510054967
you're just too spineless to do anything about it, so you'd rather wallow in pessimism and "wait for le happening" that's never gonna happen in your lifetime because so many other wites are spineless in the same way and will never do anything about it.
It's precisely why the day of the rope is never happening.

>>510057885
>>510057938

Hello pajeetfren, welcome to the thread! I was learning a bit about Mughal chaharbaghs, I know that India has some of the most beautiful gardens in the world. What do you like about India's plant life and gardens the most?

> I got into aquariums and aquscaping. Made me a less hateful evil person
I grew some trees to make bonsais with after a friend suggested it, even after I stopped doing that, it did ahave an effect on my peace of mind

>>510058411
have you heard the good news about sedum, brother?

>>510058411
. butiful gardenings is where sexy rapenings happen to white moderchuds

good luck getting to volunteer at botanical garden without a 5 year degree in botany or gardening

>>510058598

> have you heard the good news about sedum, brother?

No, please tell me.
If I had my own plot of land, I would try to grow bottlebrush buckeye which is local in my area. A park in a nearby town has these in its gardens, it's so beautiful

>>510053990
I don’t live any but sounds neat. Can you take cuttings from them to grow in your garden?

>>510059172

Well, according to some of the posters itt, pajeets do it all the time lol. If you want to act like a white man about it, I bet that if you spoke with the garden, they could tell you if it's possible, or at least where you could find cuttings. Nurseries would be a great place to get some plants, they're not too expensive

>>510053608 (OP)
Generally being in nature is good for your soul. I live in the city but have a big enough yard that we have a pretty big garden in the front and back. Touching grass is always good.

>>510053736
where.

>>510059018
there are over 400 types of sedum and
>These plants are extremely low-maintenance. They don't need deadheading (removing spent blooms), and they often look good even into winter.

they love sun and poor soil and little water

>>510059172
>>510059440
oh, and sedum are extremely easy to propogate from just a cutting. you see one you like you just pinch a stem off and stick it in your own ground.

>>510059172

>I don’t live any but sounds neat. Can you take cuttings from them to grow in your garden?

One plant I suggest for cuttings is angel wing begonias, there should be some in the nurseries in your area. It was very easy for me to take a clipping and bury part of it in a flower pot. You leave them out in the summer usually, then put them inside for the winter since they're tropical plants

>>510057572

Is it easy to grow flowers in leafland?

>>510059604

Sounds like a blessing!

>>510057885
> Please grow endemic local plants

Agreed, invasive species do a lot of damage in America

>>510060344
it is if you're growing sedum

>Many types of sedum can grow outdoors in Canada, particularly those that are cold-hardy and suitable for USDA zones 3-9. Popular varieties include Sedum acre, Sedum reflexum, and Sedum spathulifolium, which can thrive in various Canadian climates.

>>510060442
sound too good to be true? you just have to believe.

>>510054093
You'd be surprised. Poaching as actually a very real issue in the botanical world. South American aroids, African succulents, dudleya, peyote, etc. Entire ecosystems have been cleared to supply the retail market.

>>510060627
>Entire ecosystems have been cleared to supply the retail market.

It's so tiresome. I feel for our Africanfrens who are in charge of guarding the parks over there, those poachers are basically in active war with them

>>510060627
>>510061156
i would poach this garden if i had the owner's permission

>>510061599
>trimming overgrowth with your dick
>poaching

pick one

>>510061156
The rangers there are also privately funded and are the only things standing between the extinction of many species and the ecological collapse of Africa. Mainly thanks to retarded Chinese buyers.

>>510061156

Me too :( South America has had some pretty major events in recent years, too. Entire species wiped out from the wild. It makes me so sad.

>>510061599
Well then it wouldn't be poaching anon, they would be sharing :) sedums are based though. My first plant loves were succulents and cacti

>>510053608 (OP)
Based thread OP.

Been gardening for like 12 years. Worked on a local produce farm for a while when I was a chef to see the seed to table process. Shit was dope. Still friends with the owner. I do way more ornamental plants these days , but if you don't have a local botanical garden, there's tons of plants societies gears towards everything from succulents, cacti, palms and cycads, orchids, etc. There's something for everyone

>>510062093

> Mainly thanks to retarded Chinese buyers.

Fucking Chinese traditional medicine… I wonder if some of that stuff actually works

>>510062524
if it did then chinks would have been cured of down syndrome eons ago

>>510062524
If it were legit you would see industrialized farms breeding whatever animal or plant that produces it so they can extract and synthesize it into a drug to sell.

>>510062093

I remember reading an article a couple years ago that was talking about China's poached plant market, and I think multiple million conophytum were traced back to smuggling operations.

Those rangers are seriously incredible. I hope they get more help, or something.

>>510062513
succulents are for those who are addicted to giving head
cacti is for those tired of their dragon dildo

>>510053608 (OP)
i live near filoli gardens in california, that place is nice.

>>510062930
based poacher anon

>>510062717

Might I introduce you to tissue culture labs. There are hundreds of labs world wide. There was a big boom during lockdowns. Ornamentals skyrocketed in price, then everyone got into the TV lab game to start creating more supply.

Now labs are at a point that there is deliberate genetic alterations to create new mutations to keep the collector markets fresh, and continuously fetching high prices for new releases. Straight up genetic exploitation at this point, really. Recently interacted with one in China that has literally hundreds of millions of plantlets in vitro ready to distribute. Never seen anything like it

>>510053608 (OP)
Not bad advice at all
Gardens are nice and they have a calming effect on people.

>>510062750
Its a de facto unofficial warzone. They can't exactly march out the captured poachers through the fucking bush for days just to hand them over to the cops as then there wouldn't be any one on guard. So they kill them, feed the corpses to the local scavengers, and stay on duty until their shift ends and the next shift shows up. In turn, the poachers also shoot at them to kill.

In turn the donators if they're hunters to get hunt old and sick animals while protected and under escort by the rangers. While the government looks the other way as the rangers are known for their deadly effectiveness and they want to keep the money coming while still being alive. Still a real tough job though.

>>510062990
The point still stands. I do have a lab and grow room but I deal in mushrooms. Got some strains I plan to breed. I am curious about developing some drought hardy strains and changing the substrate preference for improved yields with other kinds of material. Plus they making amazing fertilizer and dirt while my birds are spoiled little shits thanks to all the compost but they exist so I can enjoy eggs and not have to churn it myself.

>>510062990

China scares me sometimes

>>510063225

> I do have a lab and grow room but I deal in mushrooms.

I grew some cubes once, with the mason jar of rice and the vermiculite. I had more fun growing those mushrooms than taking them, mycology is cool too

>>510053608 (OP)
based and blessed

>>510064714

No problem!

>>510060344
It’s actually harder not to grow flowers in leaf land There’s so many trees here you couldn’t even count them. Rocks too