he came in with a crown of cleavers & I haven’t had the heart to remove it

#dogsofmastodon #spaniels #cleavers

Google has just informed me that I can use a 20% solution of vinegar to kill cleavers. I am curious to see if it works, so I have made some up and sprayed it on a patch of the cleavers in my back yard. If this works, there's going to be vinegar everywhere!

#weeds #vinegar #cleavers

We have both bedstraw and little western #bittercress as "weeds" in our garden. They're lovely native #wildflowers. But I'm ripping out the #bedstraw with extreme prejudice. It can do its take-over-the-world thing out in the wild

#spring #California #wildflower #sfbayarea
#Galiumaparine, #cleavers, #catchweed #stickywilly

And here is what a handful of cleavers roots look like. I shake the soil off and tuck them into a tissue, then in the house I have a paper towel sewn up one side I'm keeping them in.

The maddery-colored parts are the roots, the shiny white bits are stems.

#cleavers #dyeing

This is another of my old comic strip comics, redone. Ink and Royal Talens water colour paint.
Another ‘word play’ comic.

#comic #comics #comicstrip #farside #bizarreo #beaver #beavers #cleaver #cleavers #oldfurniture

I've been taking a class at the #nybg about native plants. This is 1/3 of my final project.

#ink #plants #cleavers #bedstraws #botanicalart #flower