You know you're a botanist when typing.... you keep trying to spell "left" but muscle memory keeps making you type "leaf". Even better if...

You know that 'adult thing' where you like slipping on a fresh new pair of socks? It's like a cozy snuggle for each foot. It's a thing....

This use probably won't make it onto a toaster oven box or manual, but it was only too obvious for me. How else can you encourage some...

Talking with fellow gardeners today, I noticed (again) how commonly we have plants in our pockets. It's what I call "Botanist-ID", like...

You know that excitement of seeing new tiny life emerge from the soil, poking its little cotelydon'd head through the harsh grains and...

collecting fall leaves, then giving them a bath