Plant Love Stories

Share your story. Grow a movement. We believe that everyone has a plant love story: a story about how plants have shaped your life.

[Plant Love Stories @PlantLoveStory]

Want to make someone's heart skip a beet?

Don't have thyme to make your own valentine?

Check out our #PlantHeartArt (we've got four years of amazingly punny plant valentines) to share today!

https://t.co/94DBoasETa

[Botanical University Challenge @BUCBotany]

Really large picture of a #plant. Yellow gentian (Gentiana lutea)? Are there any larger pictures of plants?

[Echinacea Project @TeamEchinacea]

We had a brief period of sunshine @chicagobotanic today, so lab managers Lindsey and Alex explored the woods and found some flowering friends! The skunk cabbages and winter aconite are looking lovely.

[Plant Love Stories @PlantLoveStory]

Also, leading up to #ValentinesDay2023, do you have a #PlantValentine?? Let us know about it!!

[Plant Love Stories @PlantLoveStory]

You can also find threads about previous #PlantHeartArt here (https://t.co/6y3IEOFasv), here (https://t.co/fA95UyIbsZ) and here (https://t.co/VC86OwMKpm)

[Plant Love Stories @PlantLoveStory]

HELLO PLANT LOVERS!!!

We're sorry for our hiatus.
We hope that you don't hate us.

We're here to share plant cheer.
And so many plant-y valentines.

Search #PlantHeartArt to see the good stuff,
or find it all, right here: https://t.co/94DBoasETa

[Dr Shakira Onwuka @ShakiraOnwuka]

I've had my peace lily for 6.5 years now. It started out as a semi baby plant 🪴 that I cycled home comfortably with from @PrahranMarket it's a reminder of growth @PlantLoveStory

[Plant Love Stories @PlantLoveStory]

@katefpetty @PenAHay Thank you for sharing!!

[Houseplant Hobbyist @HobbyistPlant]

That crisp crisp air 🌿

[Jack Wallington @jackwallington]

Every person who photographs mushrooms and lichen, flowers or frogs. You are the non-weird people. Weird is walking past it all not noticing it any of it. I mean life is amazing, not seeing or caring about life is weird. And I will always be here thinking how cool you all are.

[Plant Love Stories @PlantLoveStory]

Just in case

Thanks to all of you that shared your plant love stories with us!!!!! We’ve loved hearing about all the special plants in your lives!

[David Haskell @DGHaskell]

For about two hundred million autumns, ginkgo and its ancestors have gilded the soil. An old rhythm and celebration. The golden circle around each tree is a sun disk, a memory of summer's light.
The sensual gifts of plants come to us from deep time and will far outlast us.

[Susan Gonzalez (@susangonzalez.bsky.social) @TheNewsan]

THE STUDENT LOAN DEBT RELIEF APPLICATION IS OPEN TELL YOUR FRIENDS https://t.co/wCFqwrHJGB

[Daria M @dare2bloom]

One thing I really enjoy doing as a #BlackBotanistsAtWork is educating others about plants. I give presentations and tours to groups of all ages, covering topics such as general botany, native plants, plant pests and diseases, and climate change. #BlackBotanist #educator

[Botanist @msiyamwa]

Really humbled by the #BlackBotanistsWeek2022 initiative. I thought I was all alone in this field and didn't have many people to connect with, particularly in Africa, but I have now met a lot of awesome people whom I look forward to sharing wonderful experiences with. Asante!

[Mizpah Hoffman @MizpahHoffman]

#BlackBotanistsWeek2022

Tell me you're a botanist without telling me you're a botanist.

📱+🌷 = #BlackBotanistsAtWork

[Plant Love Stories @PlantLoveStory]

@StumpedGrad So cool!!!

[Tsumbedzo L. Ramalevha @Matari_Tsumbe]

Day 4: #BlackBotanistsAtWork #BlackBotanistsWeek2022

I am a field person but lab work is an integral part of my project. Here I was counting belowground buds of grasses and forbs.

[Marco Pellegrini (he/they) @MOOPellegrini]

I know I'm a whole day late for #BlackBotanistsAtWork, but it was due being working very hard! Here are 4 pics of me present and past doin' ma thang!
#BlackBotanistsWeek2022