One of my best Astrophytum seedlings to date: myriostigma quadricostatum variegata5yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/cactus
Big Animikie stromatolite I found in the early 1980s, in a riverbed on my family's land in NW Ontario. Paleoproterozoic, about 2 billion years old. Sadly too big for my parents to recover. It disappeared in the spring floods and we've never found another.4yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/geology
Came home to a flower on my Pygmaeocereus bieblii. Smells like gin and tonic with a dash of rose water.7yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
My quarantine project: DIY packraft Telkwa. (A kit build, not my own design.) So stoked for its first voyage!4yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/myog
My father repotted his chonker peyote the other day. He’s had it since the mid-1960s. Weirdly, after decades of being a double-header, it’s suddenly pushing out pups.5yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/cactus
Legal-sized (22”+) coaster brookie, Lake Superior north shore, out of a sea kayak1yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/troutfishing
File under mildly interesting: polypore that kept growing long after the host fell. Lake Superior north shore, Canada.5yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/mycology
Seed-grown Astrophytum asterias forming crests after a couple of near-death experiences.5yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/cactus
Ice-out northern Lake Superior run: day one of a four day(ish) island hop. A bit shocked to have an LTE signal out here.2yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/Kayaking
First flower on my star Neoporteria esmeraldana seedling. Progress gallery and info in comments.5yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/cactus
More tales from winter storage ... when you let your agave keep its pups7yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
As a reward for leaving dormancy instead of rotting, Pachypodium lealii gets a new Brian Paul pot.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Anyone else fish big water from a touring kayak? Pre-spawn Lake Superior lake trout, yesterday evening.2yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/kayakfishing
I got a Phrag to bloom! Sadly it doesn’t match its tag, so it’s a noid for now.5yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/orchids
I'm too curmudgeonly to call my plants cute or babies ... but my Astrophytum asterias hybrid babies are pretty cute.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
This planter by a greenhouse-neighbour caught my eye: a little key lime with Sedum morganianum around its base, both thriving.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Only one American elm in our 200+ acre woodland survived 1930s logging, Dutch elm disease, and regular beaver attacks. This one.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/marijuanaenthusiasts
My next-bench neighbour at the greenhouse has this gollum jade bonsai. It’s nearly three feet tall and about to bloom. Plant goals.7yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
I’m trying not to get too far into CPs (too many plant interests already) but my lone NOID Mexican Ping is making it hard to resist.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/SavageGarden
Leuchtenbergia principis v. trachythele seedlings at approx 4 months. They get weirder by the week.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/cactus
A nice surprise on my greenhouse bench today. I only see my plants weekly in the winter and this inflo seems to have come out of nowhere.5yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/airplants
My benchmate’s variegated Aloe arborescens is blooming. Plant is around 25 years old.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Let your Echeveria setosa pup and sprawl and you’ll have a monster like this someday. (Greenhouse neighbour’s plant. It’s huge. I’ll have to start bringing a banana.)7yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Gymnocalycium mihanovicii fm. variegata -- pushing blooms all summer long7yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Lithops optica rubra seedlings, 7 months old, with a second wave coming on.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Euphorbia millii ‘Thai Hybrid.’ I’ve had this a year and it has never stopped flowering.5yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Lewisiopsis tweedyi, an alpine succulent native to WA and BC. Very happy outdoors in northern Ontario. Blooms in early June.7yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Got my Oncidium ‘Twinkle’ to bloom. It was sold as “red or white” but turns out to be pink!6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/orchids
Winter Wednesday cheer-up: one of my folks’ many clumps of Cyp. reginae. Zone 4.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/orchids
Seed-grown Lapidaria at nine months. This is a natural double-header — there’s only one root system under there.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
I bloomed my Trichocentrum pumilum! Inflorescence is about an inch long. Great musky vanilla scent.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/orchids
Found my most-wanted brom: Quesnelia marmorata. Gotta find a Canadian seller for ‘Darth Vader’ next.4yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/bromeliad
One of my Sinocrassula seedlings has crested. Time to try a few leaf props.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Lithops salicola cv ‘Malachite’ seed pot. Planted last Christmas holiday.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
On the family plants theme, here’s my father’s oldest Lophophora williamsi. It’s not the prettiest peyote, but it’s over 50 years old and flowers every year.7yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Trichodiadema marlothii seedlings. Ready for picking out at four months old.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Fat ’n’ happy Aloinopsis rosulata, sown November 2017. Picked out into a very deep pot in Feb 2018 to allow long straight tap roots to develop.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Copiapoa griseoviolacea seedling at approx 18 months. The transition from juvenile to adult spines is so satisfying.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/cactus
Cyp. parviflorum in my urban front yard, June 2017. A chubby clone from Manitoba.7yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/orchids
Seedling Lophophora alberto-vojtechii. A dwarf species, only described in 2008.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/cactus
I thought I’d never bother with NoID phals. Then I found this mini. It reveals different colours whenever the light shifts.7yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/orchids
My Graptopetalum paraguayense has mutant four-pointed flowers (five is normal)6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Ok, I get the appeal of Gasteria now (seen at my community greenhouse)7yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
Dorstenia foetida. Has put on very little height in the year that I’ve had it ... but its trunk is getting chubbier.5yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/Caudex
Wild Pings! They make my heart sing. (P. vulgaris colony, Lake Superior shoreline.)6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/SavageGarden
Various mesemb seedlings at 2-3 months. Unlabelled one is Trichodiadema marlothii.6yr ⋅ grindle-guts ⋅ r/succulents
