Plants are the Strangest People: 7/8/12

Infrequently Asked Questions

Have questions about PATSP? See the Infrequently Asked Questions post, or ask directly by e-mail. To e-mail, remove the two "d"s from the below address:

mrsubdjunctive@doutlook.com

Please note: I am a person, not a houseplant-care-advice vending machine. If you've asked a plant-care question and I responded, that took time and effort that I could have spent on something else, and it's nice if you acknowledge that with a "thank you."

Also: no, I will not help you draw attention to your Kickstarter. No, I do not need the services of a blog-ads optimizer. No, I'm not interested in promoting/reviewing/giving away your products. Fuck, no, I will not write for free for your blog. I know these things are important to you, and you feel that your case is so special that I would obviously make an exception to the rule if you asked me because of how special your thing is, but I assure you: it is not special, and I will not make an exception. (This means you, Mother Earth Living.)
As of 20 June 2021, comments may not be approved for several days, because Google / Blogger has made it less convenient for me to check them.

Awards and Crap

Blotanical Awards 2008 -- Best Indoor Gardening Blog (tie for 1st place)
Blotanical Awards 2009 -- Best Iowa Blog (1st place)
Blotanical Awards 2009 -- Best Educational Garden Blog (3rd place)
Blotanical Awards 2009 -- Best Container Gardening Blog (3rd place)
Blotanical Awards 2009 -- Best Blog Name (3rd place)

Interflora Top 50 Flower and Garden Blogs (as of 30 Sep 2009; they claim it's subject to fluctuation)

Mouse and Trowel 2010 -- Best Indoor Gardening Blog (winner)
Mouse and Trowel 2010 -- Post of the Year (for List: Houseplants You’ll Want to Be Growing During the Zombie Apocalypse of 2014) (winner)
Mouse and Trowel 2010 -- Best Writing (finalist)
Mouse and Trowel 2010 -- Best Container Gardening Blog (finalist)

Licensing

Photos on this blog attributed to mr_subjunctive are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial 3.0 Unported License. All other photos retain the licensing preferences of their owners and require permission for reuse. Contact mr_subjunctive for help in locating the sources for other photos. Text on this blog: all rights reserved. Text may not be duplicated by any means without permission of its author, who is actually pretty easygoing under most circumstances and will probably say okey-dokey if you ask to reproduce something (but you still have to ask, and credit mr_subjunctive as the author of the excerpted part).

Ass-covering legal disclaimer that should really be perfectly obvious to anybody reading this anyway

The thoughts, opinions, life choices, etc. discussed in this blog are those of its author, and are not necessarily endorsed by his former employer, nor were they ever necessarily endorsed by his former employer before she was former. In fact, I'm pretty sure we disagreed about a lot of stuff, which was additional incentive not to discuss anything that didn't relate pretty directly to plants. And as far as it goes, we disagreed about a fair amount of stuff directly relating to plants, too.

In any case. Nothing in this blog should be taken to represent my former employer's views on anything, except for the few things explicitly identified as her opinions, and even then it's possible I've misunderstood or exaggerated what her actual views were. So if you want to know what she thinks about stuff you should just ask her.

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Pretty (?) pictures: Bulbophyllum saurocephalum

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Pretty picture: Paphiopedilum NOID

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Ass-covering legal disclaimer that should really be perfectly obvious to anybody reading this anyway

Plants are the Strangest People

Pages

Wednesday, July 11, 2012

Pretty (?) pictures: Bulbophyllum saurocephalum

Sunday, July 8, 2012

Pretty picture: Paphiopedilum NOID

Just so you know:

Infrequently Asked Questions

Blog Archive

Search PATSP

Subscribe To PATSP

Plant Difficulty Levels, So Far (from most to least difficult)

Why all the Latin?

Other plant-related sites

Houseplant-Related Books I Endorse

Your blogger

About Me

Awards and Crap

Licensing

Ass-covering legal disclaimer that should really be perfectly obvious to anybody reading this anyway