New Duds from our Studio and Rare Flowers from our Greenhouse
A shirt that attracts bees, flowers that look like carpets, and more
With all the super mega blue moons, Mercury retrogrades, and everything else, life’s been feeling extra extra loco. Why not self-medicate with a tee that’ll make honey bees think you’re cute?
Yes, we've been up to more mischief—are you surprised? This time in the form of wearables and time-lapse videos of flowers that have never been captured on time-lapse before… UNTIL NOW! We hope this brightens your day!
Love & Guilt-Free Carbs,
Cactus Store Studio
UPDATES & ANNOUNCEMENTS
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LOS ANGELENOS : Mark thy calendars for our September Greenhouse Extravaganza Parking Lot Sale and Show: Sat & Sun September 7th-8th 🎪. Gonna be lots of goodies for the whole family at this one!
Welcome back, we’ve missed you a bunch!
RARE FLOWERS FROM OUR GREENHOUSE
Our friend Mars finally (!) got us going with a time-lapse video setup in the greenhouse, and the results have been truly wonderful. Enjoy some of our favorites below.
Haageocereus tenuis
Possibly the only extant time-lapse footage of *H. tenuis*! This one blooms so late at night that we’ve never actually caught it. So you can imagine; time stopped when we finally saw this secretive flower in the biological act. Hearts are full over here!
Whitesloanea crassa
The seldom encountered bloom of this exceedingly rare plant hailing from Northern Somalia.
Selenicereus grandiflorus
A stunning night bloomer, this one has to be seen to be believed.
Edithcolea grandis
Also called “Persian carpet flower”, the patterns on the interior of the flowers on this monotypic plant are, well, you take a look. Unreal.
TEES & OTHER STUFF
WAYS OF SEEING
Humans see the world in binocular trichromatic vision. The Lonestar tick sees infrared radiation, which it uses to locate warm-blooded hosts. It can also see chemicals like butyric acid and detect surface tension. Dragonflies have souped-up, ultra-multicolor, almost 360-degree vision that’s better than anything known in the animal kingdom. Some critters see in the dark, while others perceive colors that we cannot. There are as many ways of seeing as there are things that see. Nobody can see all of it. We all just get a piece of the puzzle.
BEE ATTRACTORS
CAUTION: This shirt was designed to be attractive to honey bees. Wear at your own risk!
Honey bees (Apis mellifera) are attracted to shades of blue, violet, yellow, and sometimes white. Additionally, bees can perceive ultraviolet (UV) light (100-400 nm), a spectrum of color invisible to the human eye. Flowers also employ a combination of radial patterns in these colors, which function as "nectar guides" to attract bees to the floral center. These nectar guides include simple geometric shapes that contrast sharply with the surrounding floral structures for facilitating pollination.
JOHN WILSON & MOLLY LEWIS IN NYC
We’ve never had so ravenous a response for an event that we’ve hosted in NYC. Tickets sold out in a saint’s whisper! For one, we invited John Wilson from HBO’s How To with John Wilson to take viewers on a live narrated safari into one of the strangest human habitats on Earth, New York! And we invited Molly Lewis, Earth's most iconic whistler, to hypnotize viewers with her wind-talking ways. For those who couldn’t make it, get the shirt and pretend that you did!
THINK DESERT
Reissue of a shirt a that friend of ours found in an Arizona trash heap.
STOP
Know when to stop.
Illustration by Carlos' father, the great Tony Morera.
GEOPONIKA
The official gear for our landscape design studio, GEOPONIKA. Named after an ancient Byzantine Greek manual of botanical wisdom, GEOPONIKA embodies our core philosophy: to make gardens that are not just inert backdrops in our lives, but important characters in our story.
Illustration by J. Pastor of GEOPONIKA garden design for Junzo Yoshimura house in Atami, Japan.
For more follow @geoponika_
Thank you for reading!
Why you guys make the best merch??? So hard not to buy something every drop. 😭🔥