Jenifer 🌻 plants wildflowers for fun and profit

It was right there. Yes. Yes, I did.

That's not a dog, that's a tub of Cookies 'n' Cream.

Street greening transformation before and after in Paris

New forest in front of Paris city hall

New “school street” with greening in central Paris

According to the City of Paris, in the last 10 years 150K trees have been planted & 45ha of parks created in the already hot city, all intended to not only improve quality-of-life today, but also help the city adapt to & manage summer heatwaves of 50℃ (122F) by 2050.

Just the start.

Common sense.

Very insightful.

I've got friendships formed in the 1980s that went online-only in the 1990s as people moved away. Some of them have outlasted four different social media platforms - and somehow we still find each other after the ships sink.

(Also, I've kept my books and CDs because bits vanish.)

Skyline cleanse.. his name is Emmanuel Savary…🔥🔥🔥

convinced half the appeal of Strange New Worlds is the alluring fantasy of a supportive workplace with a caring and inspiring boss

NGL, this has been noodling around in the back of my head all day long. So bizarre.

(And my sympathies! Sucks to have your space and privacy violated like that. I hope you both get the swords back and also get a chance to safely confront the thief.)

Selfishly, I’m gonna miss your posts.

But do what you need to do - you owe us nothing!

The cognitive load aspect is real, though. It's why I love being in cities for a few hours - it's fun! it's stimulating! - then need to go home and stick my head in a pillow for a while.

This feels like truth to me. As someone who LIKES random urban social interactions with strangers - up to the point where it exhausts me and I need introvert time - I can see why cities are invigorating to some and stressful to others. (Beyond the well-acknowledged racism factor.) Insightful thread!

Dwarf cultivars do tend to be the "safest" for anything that eats leaves (invertebrates especially) or pollen. I try to avoid cultivars that change leaf color, as you probably do too!

Tallamy and Narango's paper on that:
journals.ashs.org/view/journal...

Unsweetened cocoa powder

...I did that.

Best thing for my soul I ever did, but not great for the income, I tell you what. 😂

Speaking as a designer - very real. I use plugs and 3-4" pots whenever possible, but often the local ecotypes only come in larger sizes! And I don't have much of a grow operation for seeds (or to grow-on plugs).

Man, I'd love to see a more robust native-plant economy. Someday?

Informative, well-balanced, and doesn't garden-shame! Thank you, Maddie.

Ecotypes have been on my mind a lot lately. I try to balance their benefits against cost, because locally sourced and grown plants are sadly expensive and out of reach for many of my clients. But I'm glad they're an option.

Photo of Tom Lehrer

My last living musical hero is still my hero but unfortunately no longer living. RIP to the great, great Mr. Tom Lehrer.

(Posted those links for the rest of y'all reading the thread, as Ursula probably already knows 10x more than I do about it.)

Piedmont Discovery Center Piedmont Discovery Center advances biodiversity education and conservation in the most lived in ecoregion in the nation, the Piedmont.

This stuff is my intellectual and emotional happy place. Yay.

Grasslands are underrated. But folks are starting to advocate for them and search for remnant old-growth grasslands, which is cool. Even in the East! Here's two orgs doing that work:

www.segrasslands.org
piedmontdiscoverycenter.org

A few states north, I stood outside this afternoon while thunder and dark clouds approached - and they slid just south of us. We got 30 seconds of tantalizing light rain. Gah.

WTF, friend.

Coming in here to insult someone's garden without actually knowing context? These folks worked WITH the conditions on their site (desert conditions, notably) and planted appropriate things.

A four panel comic titled Bird Sounds. In panel 1, labeled thrush, a wood thrush sings its beautiful eeohlay song against a forest background. In panel 2, labeled wren, a winter wren delicately sings tweedly tweedly tweedly. In panel 3, labeled warbler, a yellow warbler delicately sings sweet sweet. In panel 4, labeled heron in a death metal font, a heron screams KRAAGH against a background of fire.

Bird sounds.

My teen is SO HAPPY that a certain item was not, in fact, sold out. What a lovely surprise at the end of the day, when I refreshed the item page and IT WAS THERE!

Y'all have outdone yourselves with this collection. Gorgeous work. (Also, I spent too much, but that's okay, all things considered.)

A small plant, lit up by golden sunset light, against a background of brown dead leaves. Featured in the foreground is a delicate heart-shaped leaf with ten perfectly arched palmate veins.

Wild yam (Dioscorea villosa) newly planted in the former woodpile area.

This is the most perfect leaf. I will not brook any argument.

Really nice design, and I appreciate the details you gave about the native plants! Such a totally different aesthetic from the Eastern half of the country.

Why am I not seeing this reported on the usual news sites? This seems like quite a breach of international law.

If I were Canadian, I'd be deeply offended.

I mean, I'm offended on behalf of Canada. Geez.

I will. Later. Thanks!

Once you're past today's rush - can't imagine how busy you're going to be in the immediate future! - would it be possible to request that your artists reproduce specific pieces? (My teenager had their heart set on a couple of things.)

Well, it was a wishlist in my own head. I didn't know until now that I could have signed up and done a *real* wishlist. Sigh.

Everything on my wish list was gone by 1:02. Arrrgh. Is this a malfunction, or are things really just gone?