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🌾 Rene 🌾 •ᴗ•
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Rene / Kay ; 💜 BTS Army. 🪴 Plants. 🖋 Fountain Pens. 🌳 Woodcarving. 💸 A hundred hobbies.
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🌾 Rene 🌾 •ᴗ• @renerow.bsky.social · Oct 17
For anyone curious about me, this is my current big plant project.

It's an 18x18x24 ExoTerra tropical terrarium (vivarium) for my ferns and micro-orchids, started in November 2022.
renerow.bsky.social
Working on a little wood frog carving to go with my beetle.
Beetle carving with covver wire legs and antenna, next to a WIP frog carving. A V-gouge and strop are in the background with wood chips
December 12, 2025 at 10:57 PM
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yardgonewild.bsky.social
Opossum doing important opossum stuff tonight
December 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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avian-aves.bsky.social
A satisfying scratch 🐥✨
A blurry photo of a male zebra finch on a perch scratching his chin with his foot. Front view of a fluffed up male zebra finch on a perch.
December 12, 2025 at 2:46 AM
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nicknc.bsky.social
Nepenthes platychila is mainly known for the amazing peristome (collar) on its upper pitchers, but even an immature lower pitcher like this is pretty great.

Friendly onychophoran vibes from the fuzz and fringes. 🌴 🌱
The pitcher of a tropical pitcher plant is long and skinny, red-and-yellow, with long finger-like extensions on the longitudinal wings. It looks like a velvet worm or caterpillar rearing up.
December 11, 2025 at 5:20 PM
renerow.bsky.social
Soon.
Flower spike with growing flower buds on a mini orchid.
December 11, 2025 at 3:43 PM
renerow.bsky.social
May have eaten a whole bag of sunchips for breakfast.
December 11, 2025 at 3:04 PM
renerow.bsky.social
Legos are so expensive. :(
December 11, 2025 at 2:25 PM
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ianpaulsieren.bsky.social
Wee garden
#Fall #lichend #moss #bryophytes
December 11, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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astridbiddle.bsky.social
Drawdown species at Wilstone Reservoir. OK, so we know about the Norfolk Bladder-moss (Physcomitrium eurystomum), Riccia cavernosa, Mudwort (Limosella aquatica)--- but what's the green filamentous stuff? It's the largest constituent of mud-pioneer species. It physically competes with the others.
December 11, 2025 at 10:29 AM
renerow.bsky.social
Just finished washing SO many clothes so I can donate them, but now I have to fold them all.
December 11, 2025 at 1:25 AM
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richterscale.bsky.social
SKULL OF THOMAS AQUINAS: TAKE A LEFT NOW
PRIEST: No, the GPS says we have to keep going—
SKULL: I KNOW A SHORTCUT
PRIEST: Do you remember the last ti—
SKULL: FOR THOSE WITH FAITH, NO EVIDENCE IS NECESSARY; FOR THOSE WITHOUT IT, NO EVIDENCE WILL SUFFICE
sardonicus.eu Sardonicus @sardonicus.eu · 3d
'Skull of St. Thomas Aquinas being transported to Fossanova Abbey.'
Photograph by Daniel Ibanez
a shot of a god botherer in a car, next to him on the passenger seat is a skull in an ornate box
December 10, 2025 at 5:10 PM
renerow.bsky.social
The nurse taking my blood today told me she had been taking blood for fifty years and started when she was 16.
December 10, 2025 at 7:00 PM
renerow.bsky.social
Visited my brother today and spent an hour in a rocking chair crocheting. I am in my grandma era.
December 10, 2025 at 1:47 AM
renerow.bsky.social
Might be my best pic yet of a bloom from my Trisetella strumosa mini orchid. You can see the tongue in this one if you look close.

#orchids
#orchid
And yellow and red/pink bloom from a Trisetella strumosa mini orchid, against a mossy backdrop.
December 9, 2025 at 7:06 PM
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dj-acid-reflux.bsky.social
I can’t think of many rural terms I like more than “witches’ knickers” - to describe old black bin bags caught in fences, hedgerows and trees.
Some underwear once belonging to a witch but now caught forever in the straggly foliage of a dying tree, after the tree, in its last gasp of mischief, reached out and pulled the underwear off the witch while she was in mid-flight on her way to the Devonshire Witches Conference (Good Witch Division).
December 9, 2025 at 2:46 PM
renerow.bsky.social
How much would it cost to have someone do my laundry for me. 'cause this shit sucks.
December 9, 2025 at 1:14 AM
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mosssafari.bsky.social
Urban moss cushions.
Sodden in persistent rain.
💚🔬 #iseemoss
Close-up of vibrant green moss with brown-orange sporophytes growing on a moist vertical surface, possibly a tree trunk or wall, with a blurred background showing a paved road, a moving vehicle, and forested surroundings
December 8, 2025 at 12:52 PM
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dustymcdusterson.bsky.social
A few shots from yesterday's too-late-in-the-afternoon forest adventure.

Curse you daylight savings time!

#WinterSolstice can't get here soon enough!

Thankfully I brought some new lights to continue experimenting with DSLR manual focus adjustments & using focus stacking software.
#FungiFriends
A couple of mycena popping up form the moss covered decaying root structure of a fallen tree as a fern frond rests exposing its spore sites. A couple of fungi and lots of moss and lichen proliferate on the side of this living Douglas fir trunk about a foot above the ground. A lone tiny fungi grows from the dead limb of a fallen tree that straddles one of the streams I frequent. The underside of a fern frond rests on the limb. There was still a little natural light at this point as you can still see the background, but the cloud cover built up and it started raining just prior to this picture with ever super gloomy conditions.
December 7, 2025 at 8:24 PM
renerow.bsky.social
I really want to like eating onions because they're in everything, but I just dont like anything about them. I dont like the texture, I dont like the flavor, I dont like how cooked onions look. 💀
December 7, 2025 at 7:42 PM
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aerialembroidery.bsky.social
'In the winter garden' - my favourite geometric garden aerial that I've ever done! I don't remember if I shared it here or not yet - it has camellia bushes in the centre and beds of winter heather and hellebore :) the geometric landscapes are always more challenging and I love that! #embroidery
An embroidery hoop containing a sewn aerial-view of a geometric formal garden. It has rows of trees, stone paths and beds of pink, purple and green plants.
December 6, 2025 at 6:07 PM
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iambrandondiehl.bsky.social
There should be an app like Tinder but instead of selfies, people post photos of cool rocks they found, and you swipe left or right based solely on those.
June 9, 2025 at 11:26 PM
renerow.bsky.social
I bought a Kangaroo Paw fern. 👉👈
December 5, 2025 at 8:43 PM
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rbgkew.bsky.social
Our mycologists were taken by surprise this week when a visiting researcher found a curious pink truffle-like fungus under eucalyptus trees in the gardens.
The fruiting bodies of Hydnangium carneum or the flesh-pink truffle are found just protruding from the soil’s surface. The lattice like internal structure is full of beautiful spiny spores. The fruiting bodies of Hydnangium carneum or the flesh-pink truffle are found just protruding from the soil’s surface. The lattice like internal structure is full of beautiful spiny spores.
December 5, 2025 at 2:21 PM
renerow.bsky.social
The problem with seeding my large tropical terrarium with as many spore kits as possible, is that that I have no idea what anything is when it comes up.

Though it does look cool af and it's fun to see what ends up growing where.
December 5, 2025 at 1:03 PM
renerow.bsky.social
Any fern people know what type of little fern(?) this is that keeps sprouting up in my tropical terrarium? It's started showing up as volunteers.

#fern
#ferns
Small delicate fern nestled between leaves of a micro orchid and moss, on a branch. Small delicate fern nestled between moss, a mini orchid, and a Peperomia species, on a branch.
December 5, 2025 at 12:45 PM