I'm a Gardener, and I've Been a Gardener for a Long Time.

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i was just tong ubot, dabbling aoud, toking for advisers. Didn't intend really to study corniver's plans. I don't even know where carnivorous plants exist in california. But why? What kind of habitats do they prefer? i didn't flot heeor four years. Wor egan, like my curiosity for them has been a very long, long relationship.

Flesh hungry plants. The world’s fastest hunters. Botany with brains? Seymour, it’s time to feed because we’re doing meat-eating plants with conservation ecologist and carnivorous phytobiologist, Hali’a Eastburn. Can a Venus Fly Trap digest human flesh? Do frogs think of pitcher plants as home or hell? How fast is a bladderwort? Are scientists anesthetizing plants? Why exactly DID they name a fly trap after the goddess of love? Also: homicidal plant tattoos, nature’s grossest vending machines, and what plants are most goth with a pair of real #bogbitches.

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Donations were made to North American Sarracenia Conservancy and Kauluakalana