“Oh I’m on twitter/instagram moreso than tumblr now; too many pornbots, not enough memes.“
You’re right tumblr is bad enough nowadays that I’m getting followed by hentai pornbots left and right this week alone, and the mobile app is absolute shit but plz, plz come baaaack….
Only within the family so sis and mom; to be clear I was asked for this wishlist, and also I do not expect ALL of these to end up being gifted at christmas, I would only expect a small fraction to be gotten; the variety is so that if one thing cannot be found, other things can be chosen instead for purchase.
I’ve been told in the past that my selections in my wishlists tend to be a bit tricky to acquire….
Contrary to the invitingly exotic sweet smell they give when crushed (kind of reminded me of Magnolia seed coating for sweet smell), the majority of sources say “no they are too toxic” (especially the berries, some “herbalism” texts say you can make tea from the leaves but with so many warnings on toxicity I really wouldn’t). Apparently it produces a chemical that’s similar to caffeine, so when poisoned they say its akin to caffeine overdose.
Treasures! Here small wood lots that I’m told once had lots of natives are almost completely overrun with invasive. I have seen many plants that must have grown here for millennia disappear over the last ten years.
Luckily despite the invasives I’ve seen here and there (Garlic Mustard, Miscanthus, Phragmites, Common Buckthorn, Norway Maple), they haven’t grown en-masse traction locally at the very least. For whatever reason they just haven’t gone further than a meter from wherever they’ve taken root. Hope it stays that way as I’d hate for beautiful native stuff I’ve seen to disappear… We really need to work hard on more invasive species removal programs.
Crying is appropriate. Those plants are the same as magic.
Calling them magic is the corniest clichest wiccan thing I’ve ever read…
but at the same time
you’re not wrong yo…. The native plant sights out there can be pretty enchanting.. Its near impossible to simulate it in restorations or in gardenscapes.
Age differences is one of those finicky things when it comes to creating a relationship between two characters. Especially if you’re going into supernatural entity territory i.e. a centuries old vampire with a younger partner.
Oh yeah that is definitely one of the trickiest things to balance in such stories (makes me glad that 100s of yrs old Raven and even older Saka are not placed in such an equation or I’d have an aneurysm; they stay single for the end of their lives and I’m relieved that they are so).
That’s not even factoring in other complications like experience (something I need to balance especially carefully with Dema/Riivar); A sheltered inexperienced rural bumpkin x a very experienced urban expert are a coupling that has to be written very carefully if one wants to write it as a healthy relationship; it could be far too easy to have the experienced character take advantage of the inexperienced character, and as this distinction is moreso written improperly vs properly in the majority of media, it can be quite a challenge to do it right.
thanks for mentioning botanical adventures!!! i was looking forward to the moment when it would get on your list one day, now it finally happened!! thanks 😀
A fair-sized yew shrub in Black Rock woods just died last year and I thought, oh well, probably planted here a long time ago when an adjacent part of the woods was a picnic grove. I never even considered it might be a species native to that wood.
It’s definitely a genus you wouldn’t expect to be native to North America I have to agree. I’d give tips on how to tell it apart from the non-native european yews but sadly I don’t really know their calling card if they were both in a garden beyond possibly their growth form.
It would seem however that it’s a very wide-spanned (7ft according to one source) sprawler that rarely exceeds 4ft in height (one online source says they can reach 6ft but tbh I’ve hardly even seen wild ones in my area reach 2-3ft in height). European Yews (save for cultivars) tend to go more tree-like?? At least I think….
Whereas for me I have never even seen Wooly Adelgid (though haven’t seen enough Canadian Hemlock to really give REASON to be seeing Wooly Adelgid to begin with). When talking to a professor back at Cuddy Gardens he said that native in-situ Canadian Hemlock here is pretty uncommon, as historically in Ontario it was one of the trees commonly taken/effected by lumberwork.
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