Flora Archive's mission:
Come and take a closer look.
Flora Archive is an independent, long term archive and portfolio. It is part a large knowledge archive and part an excuse to keep asking questions.
Who's the one behind the archive?
I am a student with an interest for plants and all of their ins and outs.
I have a particular affinity for said beings that seem to be background noise for others.
Flora Archive gives my interest and questions somewhere to go. Me being in area not really known for any sort of agricultural activity (at all) or a supportive community doesn't really limit me, shut me or my questions down. I just could not accept letting go of my main interest so I can appeal to someone's wretched opinion and become what they want. Hence, the creation of Flora Archive commenced. If nobody is there to validate my reasoning and accept my interest, I'll simply make a place where I can show others my rigor without needing their opinion and acceptance. After all, the most important part of my life is for me to accept myself first, the rest will follow. And what can even accept you more than your own portfolio and archive?
The Mother Plant Mission
The mother plant idea of Flora Archive may not be simple, so, pay attention.
Plants all around us suffer from plant blindness. a term coined in 1999 by botanists James Wandersee and Elisabeth Schussler. That term suggests that people tend to ignore plants and treat them like an almost non-existent background. I seem to be one of those people that aren't under the effects of said term.
I get excited when I see a generic non-identifiable plant in the background of a show, or a weed growing in the dreadful cracks of a sidewalk. I'm not so easily fooled by how they beautifully blend in the background. so, I subconsiously made it my mission to make a place where I'm not the only person recognizing the plants, a place where others see how much plants mean. This makes the mother plant purpose of Flora Archive is to be a place for plants to appreciated and honored. As they should. Though this is only the vague and shady mother plant purpose of Flora Archive, it serves other, more specialized purposes. I like to call these missions, "The Offspring Missions."
The Offspring Missions
The Offspring Missions... The specific side uses of Flora Archive. They tend to be more personal than you'd imagine going off of the Mother Plant Mission's description.
There are 5 total offsprings and they all serve a different specialization. I can have pretty weird analogies, but think of it like this: You are trying to make a nursery and you need people with different specializations. e.g, an accountant, a salesperson, a plant tissue expert, etc. That is how the specializations of Flora Archive work.
The following missions are not the ONLY side purposes of Flora Archive, but they represent the clearest, most understandable pavilion sides of the diamond that is Flora Archive. While the Mother Plant Mission represents the table of the diamond.
Legacy Archive
Flora Archive will serve as a place to Archive certain achievements I do or things that relate to my legacy. Be it botanical or not. Because yes, I have more to me than being a radical plant person. Not that I'm radical of course. This purpose is also shared with the section of Flora Archive that news and things that I feel like sharing, though to a lesser degree.
Project Containment and Design
You may think of Flora Archive's Project Registry as a glorified project management site based off of the title, but trust me, it is quite a lot more. It serves as a place to include all my projects (keep in mind, I didn't say "botanical projects"), design them however I want visually and in terms of work style, have set times for them and introduce them to others who may be interested or just want to observe.
Personal Literature Journal
This ties directly to the Flora Archive Library, the place where any sort of literature I review, make, summerize or read is safekept. Examples of things it may contain can manifest as literature reviews or research I do. It will also contain any media I make that feels right in its place, be it educational or not, botanical or not.
Education & Illustration
Well, that has a ring to it. This is the purpose related to Flora Archive's social media account and educational content in general. It will contain research packets I make for other people, my educational illustrations, links and previews to posts I find important from Flora Archive and my resources for the people that I might make educational content for or research packets.
Photography of the Archive
This contains all photographic content that belongs to Flora Archive, pictures I used within the site or accounts associated with Flora Archive, general illustrations, and videos directly shared on the site itself. My Inaturalist photos/observations are to be viewed by going to my Inaturalist account through the resources section at the bottom of the homepage.
Future Vision / Goal of the Archive
I seek not make this some big-buck money maker site or a place where all I do is post an opinion. I hope to change people's minds about the plants that inhabit this world. I wish to make botanical education more accessable. I want others to not have to learn such basic things about plants only when they rarely specialize in it. I want people who are like my past self, stranded looking for information and easy education, to find information that can help them.
Who's going to aid young botanists on knowing the paths available? Who's going to make people recognize the efforts of plants? Who's going to help you know which places care about your efforts or how to contribute to the plants and climate when and where nobody will? Only miniscule amounts of people are going to. And I'm going to be part of them. Flora Archive's vision is to be a resource not for scientists or my blog, but a place for people who want change or progression but feel trapped, and the plants' blog, portfolio and archive too. I imagine it as a place where not only am I going to enjoy sharing my life, botanical or not, with others, but it'll also allow me to share my education and knowledge. And maybe, just maybe, when I become a plant biotechnologist, a pharmacognosist, a botanical forensic expert, whatever it be, me and Flora Archive will contribute something amountable to the already dwindling community of botany.
“Grow as vigorous as a Tradescantia zebrina, be as dramatic as a Ficus benjamina and own your shine like an Aglaonema 'Silver Queen'.” [A self love motto I once came up with based on my indoor plants, ~06 September 2026]