
Finally got around to the Day 7 prompt from International Nature Journaling Week: renewal and regeneration.

Finally got around to the Day 7 prompt from International Nature Journaling Week: renewal and regeneration.

I’d seen a tuning fork used to trigger pollen ejection from nightshade flowers, but an electric toothbrush is cheaper and more accessible for demonstration purposes. I might add one to my school walks kit.

Why had I never heard of imaginal discs before? Such a cool name, and structure!


The plants in our fernery don’t get a lot of attention apart from watering, but could probably do better with some TLC.
In other thoughts, I got curious about the etymology of ‘emergence’ and ‘emergency’ two similar words with very different meanings. They both come from medieval Latin emergentia, from Latin emergere ‘bring to light’ or ‘arise’.