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šŸŒŽNature based solutions
šŸ”„for Climate resilience:
šŸŽÆInvasive plant mitigation.
ā¤ļøā€šŸ©¹Habitat regeneration.
šŸ›Biodiversification.
šŸŒˆQueer womxn owned
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This is a first- for a limited time, the EcoLogic nursery is opening to the public! Help us relocate by ensuring our overstock goes to a good home. All of our plants are native to the Atlanta area and most were started from seed. Every pot contains a primary species (many listed below) and companion ecotypes, meaning you will always get more than one kind of plant when you buy from us and you can be sure they are natives that prefer to grow together. We have a range of sizes and primary species, including (in no particular order): Christmas Fern $15-25 Sensitive Fern $15-25 Dwarf Crested Iris $12-20 Giant Rivercane $18-35 Nodding Onion $8-15 Penstemon $10-20 Pawpaw $25-40 Virginia Sweetspire $15-30 Mountain Mint (various) $5-20 Blue Mistflower $4-15 Monarda (various) $6-15 Coneflower (various) $8-20 Coreopsis (various) $4-18 Aster (various) $5-20 Goldenrod (various) $6-15 Prickly Pear (various) $10-25 River Oats $5-15 Spiderwort (various) $12-20 Trumpet Vine $10-25 Buttonbush $12-30 Rush / Sedge (various) $3-10 Grasses (various) $3-15 Beautyberry $15-35 Black Locust $30-50 Redbud $30-60 Wapato $10-20 Swamp Milkweed $8-18 Swamp Hibiscus $10-20 Evening Primrose $3-12 Sunflower (various) $8-20 Lyreleaf Sage $6-15 St. Johnā€™s Wort (various) $10-20 Native Strawberry $8-25 Stokes Aster $8-18 And many more plants not listed!! Send a DM to receive location details and to reserve your space for one of the following time slots: 10-10:30, 10:30-11, 11-11:30, 11:30-12, 12:30-1, 1-1:30. Due to limited space, we are allowing three sign-ups only per half hour slot, so be quick and reserve your space ASAP! But if you canā€™t get in this Friday, donā€™t fret, weā€™ll be hosting again next Friday. After that, weā€™re done! by @ecologic.atlanta
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4 months ago
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Vicious predator cosplaying as a lā€™il booger. Uses the corpses of slain prey and lichen as camouflage. The original ghillie suit. Halloween inspo. 10/10 by @ecologic.atlanta
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4 months ago
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Rock fact of the day! This is a beautiful piece of quartz, the second most common mineral on earth. Donā€™t let that fool you, though, quartz has a variety of unique and impressive qualities that make it such a beloved stone. Quartz can come in many different colors, from the dust pink of rose quartz to the misty gray of smokey quartz. This variation in color is caused by imperfections in its chemical formula, SiO4. Amethyst, for example, gets its vibrate purple coloration from a type of gemstone irradiation that causes iron (Fe3+) to replace the silica, creating a composition of [FeO4]^0. Quartz is also a mineral that fractures instead of cleaves. This means that the atomic bonds that hold it together are roughly the same strength in every direction. Usually, when a stone is broken, it will break along its weakest atomic bond in a process called cleavage. However, because quartz has no weaker atomic bonds, it breaks in a conchoidal fracture. Minerals that fracture this way break in a manner similar to glass, with a smooth, curved surface. Another interesting aspect of quartz is that it makes up nearly 70% of the sand on earth, and it has a Mohs hardness of 7. You might be thinking, ā€˜Oh, EcoLogic Inst, why did you put those two random facts together?ā€ Well, these two things mean that it is very easy to tell the relative age of a certain beach, depending on how fine the sand is! A beach with very small quartz grains will be older, while beaches with coarser grains will be younger. This is due to the amount of time it takes for quartz to be worn down by the water. How cool is that? by @ecologic.atlanta
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8 months ago
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This lovely imprint is the trace fossil of an ancient fern! Iā€™m not sure the exact species, but I can tell you that this particular fossil was created through a process known as carbon printing. Carbon printing is a type of fossilization in which organic material is pressed between many layers of sediment, with pressure and heat increasing during diagenesis (the process of physical and chemical changes in sediments). Eventually this process, so long as the organism doesnā€™t have a hard skeleton, leaves only a thin carbon residue imprinted on the rock. Ferns are one of the oldest plant groups on earth, with a fossil record that dates back all the way to the middle Devonian period (approx. 383-393mya), though recent divergent time (or the moment two evolutionary lineages split from their common ancestor) estimates that they may be even older, possibly evolving around 450mya! While most ancient fern species have gone extinct - from Rhacophytales, which were possibly some of the earliest progenitors of ferns, to the ancient tree ferns Pseudosporochnales and Tempskya. The extreme diversity we see from ferns today evolved relatively recently, with many of them evolving in only the last 70 million years. Prehistoric plants, right in your backyard! by @ecologic.atlanta
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9 months ago
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This is an example of a type of trace fossil known as a mold fossil! There are many ways for fossils to form, and some of the most common (and most easily confused) are cast and mold fossils. Molds are formed when an organism is buried in sediment and decomposes completely, leaving behind only the imprint of its body, like pictured above. A cast fossil, on the other hand, is formed when that cavity is filled with other minerals, leaving behind a 3d replica of the organism. This particular example is of a trilobite, found in the Conasauga Shale Formation found in North Georgia. This rock formation is a Cambrian aged part of the Appalachian thrust and fault region of Alabama, Georgia, and Tennessee, and is one of the easiest places to find trilobite fossils. Trilobites themselves are an extinct arthropod from the Cambrian period, and one of the first arthropods to appear in the fossil record! They were one of the most successful of all early organisms, existing in the oceans for almost 270 million years, with over 22,000 species having been described as of today. An interesting note, the Cambrian Explosion is often falsely thought of to be an explosion of life on earth, but in actuality, it wasnā€™t. It was instead an explosion of life in the fossil record, owed to the fact that it was in this period that organisms began to evolve to have hard parts that would actually fossilize, such as our above trilobite! Pretty neat, right? by @ecologic.atlanta
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9 months ago
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A distinct trait of eastern redbuds can be found in the accentuated shape of their young branches šŸ‘€ All alternately arranged woody plants exhibit a slight back and forth growth pattern but redbuds have a pronounced zigzag šŸ“ˆ See if you can spot a zigzaggy redbud in the wild !! by @ecologic.atlanta
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9 months ago
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Rock fact of the day! This is a lovely chunk of Kaolinite clay - not to be confused with Kaolin. Kaolinite is a pure clay mineral with a 1:2 aluminum/silica ratio, while Kaolin is found sedimentary deposits mixed with quartz and feldspar particles. Kaolinite clay has a variety of uses, from being used as building material for early civilizations, to its more modern uses in paints, ceramics, and paper. Itā€™s also one of GAā€™s largest natural resources, with Washington County often being nicknamed the ā€˜Kaolin Capital of the Worldā€™. What a nifty little mineral! by @ecologic.atlanta
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9 months ago
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Whatcha know about zombies??? If you didnā€™t already know, let me be the first to tell you that they exist. These ants have all been infected with Ophiocordyceps unilateris, a fungi that uses their host to incubate and disperse its spores. When spore release time is neigh, the fungus co-opts its antā€™s brain and tells it to climb towards the tips of the lower branches of the closest plant (usually a tree). Then the fungus tells its ant to clamp its mandibles down and wrap its legs around the branch in preparation for the fungal stalk to burst violently out of its head. From this stalk, spores are released. There are so many cool things I could tell you about this fungus, but these two facts particularly caught my attention: 1- ā€œResearchers have found that the fungus seems to act on the antā€™s muscles directly rather than through the brain. When researchers set out to investigate the spread of O. unilateralis throughout an infected ant, they found fungus in every part of the antā€™s body except for the brain. The fungus grew around the brain but seemed to be careful to not obliterate the antā€™s central control system.ā€ (from the Library of Congress) 2- ā€œAnd if all that isnā€™t weird enough, this parasitic fungus also has its own parasitic fungi, which infest it. Hyperparasites are parasites whose hosts are themselves parasites. Niveomyces coronatus and Torrubiellomyces zombiae are just two of the more recently discovered of several species of hyperparasites that have been found on O. unilateralis.ā€œ (also from the Library of Congress) No, they do not affect humans. Yes, they are extremely cool. by @ecologic.atlanta
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10 months ago
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Creature Feature #5! Get sum knowledge in ya !! #ecologicatl #ecological #ecology #environment #ecolife #environment #nativespecies #mushrooms #southern #fungi #fungus #fypage by @ecologic.atlanta
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This is a fun rock called pegmatite! Pegmatite is an igneous rock characterized by its large, interlocking crystals, which are formed by the slow cooling of magma deep blow the earthā€™s crust. Pegmatite can also contain rare gems, such as tourmaline, aquamarine, rubies, and sapphires! Itā€™s also a prime source of lithium, which is used in electronics and batteries. Pretty cool, right?šŸŖØāœØ by @ecologic.atlanta
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10 months ago
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Would you look at that lovely chunk of Gneiss! This piece was likely metamorphosed from granite, due to its natural abundance in GA. This one has been worn smooth by the continuous flow of water by @ecologic.atlanta
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10 months ago
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I have found jumping worms in the pots of plants from some of my favorite native plant nurseries- not gonna name namesā€¦ yet. But for all you out there using vermiculture, please get wise to this issue šŸ™ by @ecologic.atlanta
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