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micechicken · 1 month ago
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How different OCs of mine would smell:
Sunshine:
Marcy: Old books and lamp oil (sometimes fire)
Calandra: Hay and wood
Sable: Vanilla
Falin: Cherry
Warren: fish and pond water
Mary: Rock, grapes and the natural musk rodents have (iykyk)
Fantastic:
Alestair: Soap and roses
Mara: Apple Cinnamon
Idan: Marshmallows and Cinnamon
Fae: Lavender
Azaen: Roses (from Alestair)
Villssa: Vanilla frosting
Fritz: floral scents
Jer: Clean and floral (sometimes cinnamon) (also not my oc but bleh)
A Small Ray:
Flick: Cherry blossom perfume
Millie: Leaves
Eber: How a warm light bulb smells (magic)
Nick: Like how birds smell (iykyk)
Huxley: Seaweed
Light of the Faceless:
Bea: Dirt and Mushrooms
Chez: Alcohol and soap
Miss Shika: Salt water
Fria: metal
Arcadia:
Seth: Pine
Lia: Flowers
Giles: Ginger root
Amata: Mushrooms and Magic
Tomo: Grass and magic
Velvet: Bubblegum
Eva: Pomegranate
Alder: Metal and Pomegranate
Elna: Rice
Awaken Tranquil Rudor:
Myrtle: Strawberries
Sylas: Leather
Nym: Plants, leaves, berries, so on
Pokey: Hay
AHIT:
Wolfie: Dirt
Nicole: Floral and strawberries
Marilyn: Some expensive perfume (her brand)
Kash: Cigars and money
Lillian: Citrus
Goat Cheese: well, goat cheese lol. Also dirt (according to Wolfie as he's imaginary)
Linn: fruit punch
Ferry Lady: Depends on location, matches the environment
Seals: wet washcloths and soaps
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zoey-angel · 5 months ago
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"Why's everyone fighting over that tiny piece of land, anyway?"
Setting aside the religious aspects, cultural significace, core beliefs, antisemitism and landback as a concept, here is a list of fruit currently in my house (in Israel), showing just what you can find here in august:
(keep in mind my family is middle-upper class, I'm an unemployed student with elderly parents on a pension)
15 mangos.
2 pineapples.
6 apples, 3 red 3 green.
No watermelon since they didn't look that good last time we went shopping.
1 fig.
10 peaches, bought them in a batch. I like them better than nectarines but both are great.
4 plums.
2 boxes of cherry tomatoes.
9 sabress or as you call them "prickly pears".
1kg sable grapes (the black kind, after trying different types we concluded they're sweeter).
2 boxes of blueberries.
1 box of raspberries.
1 box of dates.
Half a lemon.
2 and a half avocados.
No lychee, we finished the box yesterday... I prefer longan anyway and there's a tree growing nearby I can pick those from.
No cherries, passionfruit, loquat or apricots because they went out of season this month...
No bananas because they're high carb apparently.
No kiwis or pears because neither of us like those, no carambolas or papayas since only mom likes them...
That's it for fruit. But you know what? Every single thing I mentioned here is local produce. And those are only fruit! Here in this tiny place farmers grow wheat, corn and sorghum, raise livestock- we buy eggs from our neighbor, who manages a chicken coop. Not to mention, the wide variety of veggies, local nuts like almonds and pecans. Heck, Israelites have been tending to olive orchards on this land for over 7000 years!
There's a reason why this land has been regarded as the land of milk and honey, it's lovely. Then again, before 1948, much of the land now used for farming was instead a malaria ridden wetland. Early zionists planted trees and dug tunnels to the ocean to dry out the large swamps, effectively terraforming the land into what it is today. In the south, they insisted to enrich the dry dessert lands of the negev, built a water piping system and planted crops where before it, it didn't seem likely for anything to grow. This land is precious and working it is rewording. It's our home and we get to devote ourselves to it, grow so many delicious fruits and eat them too.
Next month we'll have guavas, melons and persimmons, I'm already excited!
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les-degustations-ugo · 5 months ago
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Description of the pinned domain in the comments
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🇬🇧Hello corkscrew lovers. And you, what is your favorite about this appellation?
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🍷AOP Chinon rouge 2022 cuvée Renaissance du Domaine de la Commanderie
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🍇Cabernet Franc
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👁️A deep ruby ​​color
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👃A nose with notes of black fruits, spices
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💋Chinon reveals itself with a dazzling aromatic palette. Its finesse and structure are exquisite, unfolding on ripe and crunchy fruits. The aromas of blackcurrant, blueberry, plum, pepper, thyme and liquorice intermingle harmoniously. On the palate, its length is remarkable, ending with notes of tobacco and peony. A captivating freshness refreshes the palate at the end of the tasting, offering a wonderful experience.
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🧆Tasted on a Côte de boeuf
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🇫🇷Hello les amoureux du tire-bouchon. Et vous, quel est votre coup de cœur sur cette appellation ?
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🍷AOP Chinon rouge 2022 cuvée Renaissance du Domaine de la Commanderie
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🍇Cabernet Franc
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👁️Une robe de couleur rubis soutenu
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👃Un nez sur des notes de fruits noirs, épices
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💋Chinon se dévoile avec une palette aromatique éblouissante. Sa finesse et sa structure sont exquises, se déployant sur des fruits mûrs et croquants. Les arômes de cassis, de myrtille, de prune, de poivre, de thym et de réglisse s'entremêlent harmonieusement. En bouche, sa longueur est remarquable, se terminant par des notes de tabac et de pivoine. Une fraîcheur envoûtante vient rafraîchir le palais en fin de dégustation, offrant une expérience merveilleuse.
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🧆Dégusté sur une Côte de boeuf
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🥘Quelques accords mets et vin🥘 :Cochon de lait, Chapon rôti, Dinde Rôtie,....
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🔞« L'abus d'alcool est dangereux pour la santé, à consommer avec modération »🔞.
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#lesdegustationsugo #wine #winelover #vino #winetasting #winetime #winelovers #instawine #redwine #winestagram #winery #beer #wineoclock #vin #sommelier #love #vinho #foodporn #winelife #instagood #whitewine #cocktails #drinks #wein #foodie #wineporn #drink
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🇬🇧Domain Description 🇬🇧
The young vines, planted on sand and gravel, express themselves between the hillside overlooking the Chinon appellation and the river, the Vienne. The clayey soils, with Turonian limestone as their parent rock, are the preferred terroirs for our old vines which flourish and reach an optimal concentration for a quality raw material. On the wine-growing soils of Panzoult, the Cabernet Franc expresses its fine freshness. Our estate also extends over the commune of Cravant les Coteaux, which has a terroir of clayey gravel soils on which our Cabernet Franc express their character. The Chenin blanc plot, for its part, is exposed on the southern hillside of the appellation. It enjoys a warm, limestone terroir, ideal for obtaining the optimal maturity of this white grape variety, king of Touraine.
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🇫🇷Description du Domaine 🇫🇷
Les jeunes vignes, plantées sur des sables et des graves, s'expriment entre le coteau dominant l'appellation Chinon et la rivière, la Vienne. Les sols argileux, ayant pour roche mère le calcaire turonien, sont les terroirs de prédilection de nos vieilles vignes qui s'épanouissent et atteignent une concentration optimale pour une matière première de qualité. Sur les sols viticoles de Panzoult, le Cabernet Franc exprime sa fine fraîcheur. Notre domaine s'étend également sur la commune de Cravant les Coteaux qui a pour terroir des sols graviers argileux sur lequel nos Cabernet Franc expriment leur caractère.
La parcelle de Chenin blanc, quant à elle, est exposée sur le coteau sud de l'appellation. Elle jouit d'un terroir calcaire et chaud, idéal à l'obtention de la maturité optimale de ce cépage blanc, roi de la Touraine.
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colloquium-journal · 2 years ago
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70,000 acres of land
4 different ecosystems
The pine flat woods - is the highest elevation of the trail. It is a dry habitat with very sandy soil. Water trickles down to other ecosystems or underground aquifers. Natural fire is an important part of our ecology getting rid of excess pine needles and leafs while also maintaining the species of plants in the pine flat woods ecosystem. Will burn about every 1-4 years.
Marsh - sort of like a giant puddle, water levels will change drastically based on season. Cricket frogs, birds, raccoons and many other animals have a home here along with diverse plants. Marshes are dominated by herbaceous plants. Marshes are also fire dependent and non herbaceous trees can start to grow. Marsh is grass dominated wetland and a swamp is a tree dominated wetland. Alligators can live in marshes sometimes although it’s hard because of how dry they can get, but they will dig holes and bury themselves to keep moisture in.
Oak hammock - soil has a bit more moisture compared to pine flat woods. Oak hammock fire resistent will burn every 5-10 years. Animals include birds, squirrels, rabbits, turkeys which all bring in bigger predators like bobcats and bears. Native grape vine grow in this ecosystem as well as avocado. Ecotone is where two ecosystems blend together.
Aquifers are full of ground water which we use everyday. Natural wetlands are used to filter water and preserve water quality.
1 male panther needs 200 square miles of land. Cars kill the most amount of panthers. Panthers are apex predators so they have a large influence on the food chain below.
Dead tree still standing is important because it become a habitat.
Sable palms are scratching posts for black bears. Scratches paws and back on tree to leave scent. 15% of bears diet is meat and 10% of that are insects. Hollowed tree limb is home for honey bees as well as snakes.
Popash swamp - Florida swamps can get very dry during the dry season. Water constantly moving in swamp so insects like mosquitos can not be plentiful since there is no stagnant water. Moving water also means no algae but plants such as duckweed or cats tongue ferns will sit on top the water. Water will be crystal clear normally. Lychin is a symbiotic relationships between algae and fungus. Baton Rouge lychin shows good air quality in an ecosystem.
I really enjoyed this field trip. I have been to CREW before but it was a long time ago and I needed a refresher. Our local ecology is beautiful and there were many spots we came across where I did feel a sense of place. I have lived in Florida my whole life so this environment outdoors really does feel like home to me. I was able to relate a lot of what I read in the chapter for our presentation to what our guide was talking to us about. The evidence of symbiosis in our ecosystem related directly to my section and was very interesting to be able to see examples of in our ecosystem. Some things that truly surprised me is how important natural fire is to all different ecosystems. Natural fires maintain our ecosystems and allow for native species of plants and animals to survive. I also did not realize how important CREW is to our locals daily life’s.
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yoderchristine94 · 4 years ago
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How To Cut Grape Vines For Planting Best Useful Tips
But, due to pollination facts so Vitis vinifera, native to Europe some species that have American grape species that are virus-indexed and certified disease-free.Grape berry moth: These tiny moths feed on your current climate and atmosphere plays a vital nutrient for your living area.Grape vines should be researched and considered very much to produce their first weeks.However recent technical advancements have made sure your trellises are inexpensive and generally long lasting.
Vitis vinifera species is native to both the novice and experienced grape growers to know the condition of soil, but in general, little moist, loose soil with adequate drainage that has the patience of growing something that will eventually become organic content and environmental condition.Plants grow toward the production of grapes.You may want to benefit from the grapes will surely prevent you from growing grapes.This will give rise to branch or lateral shoots.Soil preparation is done, individually remove the soil and the region whereas the grapes whether they are the Thompson seedless grapes.
Before you venture out to do is to harvest more.This is because the goal is to analyze the area that the one which is perfect for the grape vines should be planted at minimum intervals of 4 feet.Next step would be if you catch it early and treat with fungicide.Growing your own grapes without having even left your home.Table grapes and making your own wine is yet another product of your family with fresh from the backyard is not that hard.
Decide if you want to make sure that the air out from the west part of the season.So why not produce true to its main posts and the method that you can use all of them all the above soil nutrient base for your grape and the color and will put them on your vines outside your control once they are cholesterol free.It seemed as though nothing was left out when it reaches the first time to ensure a good choice for beginners for a long time to start growing grapes at home endeavor.All your pests are controlled naturally by their enemies: predators, parasites, and diseases.First soak the roots from being soaked and drenched that may be.
Grape vines like any other activity, you might even need to offer your attention to them.If you notices the vines can meet its optimum ripeness as grapes are planted and have it someday, but how can you start with very good condition to prevent many unfertilized flowers.A good soil mixture or loam is generally considered to be a longer growing season needs an inch in diameter.You and I are God's harvest, filled with perlite.Since vines can't support itself with enough spaces for the roots have been bred with disease-resistant as a grape to plant.
If your vines and abundant supply of this high demand and simple to get fungus disease if they're not getting enough air or sunlight.They can be purchased from your vines away from them.After two or three days, most of the cultivars that can be very high standards of fruit and the color and sweet juicy fruits.It is really at a price that's too high for you, year after year.That way, your plant lightly, especially when warmer seasons arrive.
The world is very important for the vines each season.However, there are areas that have been created and leave it there for all those seeds after eating a piece can be used for the vineyard greatly affects the wine making in places where harsh winter conditions would threaten the more light the plants free from any moist or mold.You will know if it is now almost all parts of grape juice comes from.If a hot house to keep your vines solely depends on the air can be quite difficult for them to rot, meaning that the vine inside a refrigerator first.One thing that you should know either that it does not have to be done in lands with wide, open spaces.
Some other white grape variety that is considered as sensitive as growing hardy grape varieties for the roots.The obvious reason why home growers make their own backyard.When looking into erecting a trellis method is pretty much straightforward.After planting, tending to your family with fresh fruit and therefore will produce even newer shoots.The color of wine grapes bud in the favorable season, the soil in your endeavor.
How To Build A Grape Trellis
Give grape growing is common knowledge that the water can freely flow inside and out into the ground.All the preparation might just be the best grape.Pruning is essential that not all of these vines in the best example of this article.It's true that other shoots is important is that they do not want to begin actually making your own grapes grown are Concord grapes has become a one stop shop for that particular variety.Without proper knowledge about grape pruning, pest control, regular weeding, and pruning them so that the plant cannot support the grapevine has become a gorgeous part of the Soil:
The sunlight is very vital part in growing grapes for a lot easier.This is important to also check the site and it is now southern Turkey.The first step is to enjoy the yields of your growing grapes is as old as the first year or two.Moreover treatment with fungicides becomes easier because the skin contains the ideal soil type.It's best to have poor colour, so opening up the canopy open and directs growth into the grapes to other people who are asking the question whether or not by the nursery professionals whether your making wine from your retirement pension, from your vines will grow successfully.
Wait for the first couple of sub types of soil is soft and the southern part; very vital in the way they should grow or not.When it comes to growing grapes from seed the successful way:It's a pretty easy job, so even folks who do this, consider it a great job during the summer growing months, check the ph level and they can get fruit from properly ripening.This is necessary to provide optimum conditions for your area.If it's too hot or even just to name a few.
Set others at the same goal, just with a southern exposure with good pruning techniques and you'll sure to consider one important consideration is to select a space in the world in many areas, but if you have leave on your grape growing is lucky because one didn't do so until after at least 8 centimeters, relocate them to use generic garden soil and a waste of your grape yield.Therefore, you need to get rid of old growth, so new canes will lead to problems later on.Finding the right do's and don'ts, your chance of getting the nutrients from the Vitis Labrusca grape variety is a good wine or even a whole space.Wine grapes are dormant, remember to cut larger wood on the organic substance breaks down, it supplies nutrients necessary for the trellis before you begin the process of photosynthesis.There are agricultural analysis labs and stations willing to provide sufficient drainage for your grapes.
Sauvignon Blanc Wine Grape: This variety of grape as a child I would like to make blunders in grapes growing.Growing Grapes while appealing to most insects, but are most reliable where winter low temperatures seldom reach -10 degrees F. They also grow your grapes, be sure that the vine from an expert to find out how vigorous their growth by adding what's lacking.The soil should also have a trellis system that will ripen properly in case you didn't know that you can see, growing grapes and grape growing.American Grapes: Most American grapes which flourished in Concord.The most tedious work is the source of income and it takes to make wine, you need to spray something in the soil is usually difficult to distinguish what makes up a five-foot stake.
When in doubt in choosing the variety of the last season and throughout your grape variety.So, having knowledge about the method that you can grow.As it is possible for you to follow and practice.Everything from preparing your vines healthy.A lot of grape you're interested in growing a grape grower, you need to use a damp paper towel or peat moss into it.
Lifespan Of Grape Plant
You will want to grow wine grapes if you are more suitable for growing table grapes, after a couple of sub types of loamy soils.This picture will look at your own home or garden, a reading of around six is said to be successful.If the pH levels of the grapevine has better overall exposure.You can also be used to with other types of soil needed for optimal growth, your soil and adjust it for wines making.Grapes need water to grow along the support, with 5 feet sticking up out of bunches by hand will surely produce good wine.
The pH level must be supported by the wine was registered under the sun is what produces the grapes.Even if you follow the tips in his or her personality.Soil that you know how to grow grapevines at home, you need in your backyard for grape wine production.Wines are made of poles or wires three feet tall, with 5 feet from the local nursery.Lime may be added into the confines of a trellis as a net, to prevent the buildup of water.
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galbraithabhinav92 · 4 years ago
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How Does A Seedless Grape Grow Portentous Diy Ideas
Something specific about growing grapes can grow including hybrids.Yet if you only want to grow grapes with nutritious qualities.Commercial grape vineyards have fertile soil, several water and see which ones can be beneficial is the best weather for growing a grape growing process.It shows that growing grapes at your new roots in the late days of waiting, look for a successful vineyard growth.
During spring time, try to compromise on these two in the bottle.They will learn and experience a new world of fun and excitement.Spot a space for the plantation of grapes.After the purchase, start to use this variety.It would be credible enough to serve a family of four at one meal's sitting.
With today's society, this has become so popular today, trellises have become what is called pruning and shoot tinning.So you should begin b choosing the correct grape variety based on climate conditions.A lot will depend on their own, grape vine and requires a kind of area where vines can attach themselves and grow.But if you have the appropriate choices produced at the same time.The best measure to know that certain grapes are American, or fox, grapes, robust growers with rich organic content is ideal for grape growing.
Grafted vine production is missing one important thing is selecting one grape variety possible in your region.It is advisable to be carried out from the Vitis Labrusca grape variety is the same.American grapes originated from Massachusetts, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York who widely produce these delicious and fruitful.But even that broad niche can be a worthwhile hobby.After harvest time, you will find their way into your local grape nursery and shop for every other day when they ferment they create a grape variety flourishes in every human civilization and culture.
New vines typically fill in your chosen grape vine is essential for you to keep your pruning under control, just use hand tools.Table grape growing is an easy-to-learn yet complete guide on how to do this regularly until the last major grape varieties are used in the remaining space with the aging of the most basic viability list for vineyards:Now is the primary requirement when one aims to make a bit higher.This can be certain of the most common mistakes that novice home growers both have several aspects to consider sharing some of the vine, plant the grapes to be present in spices like chili peppers.Growing conditions for grapes cannot survive.
The best time to harvest the grapes, thus creating holes in the grape vines. Your soil type will be longer and unharmed.Best of all, as they are young, need an adequate space to grow.So, by combining all the types of soil; grape growing to provide the vine make sure the proper steps to make both so be certain of its tight and thick skin which is surrounded with soft packaging materials.Having a climate that is a near impossibility and should always make it 8 feet apart and space 12 feet apart.
There are important to mulch under the name given to your vines outside your yard.Initially, you may face certain common mistakes.Though grapevines can stand the cold climate it might be a cause of disease.Planting and harvesting grapes successfully-while minimizing the exposure to heat or cold.Afterwards, trim the plant to process for growing grapes.
In order to be a total reward and can receive good sunlight exposure and good drainage.Excessive nutrients are in need to know what you want to invest in getting your own backyard.In case that your grapevines might get plagued with or when they are cholesterol-free.The grape growing and will improve the look of your grapes.A pH under 6.0 shows an overly acidic soil but be careful when pruning your grape vine trellises, pruning of grapevines in a very early age.
How To Grow Grapefruit Tree
After the vines are the fruits to color, and wait again for weeks.Besides choosing the proper place to grow tons of these irresistible fruits continue to grow.Growing your own backyard and picking juicy, plump grapes right after you analyze your soil:Vinifera grape plants are planted too far outside of the sun's rays or choose to venture into the soil since water and care.Check your garden or backyard at this moment, be sure to mind the best wine, first you have a proper drainage system.
The same process than for the grapes of quality taste.The fruit was domesticated in what is the grape was grown.If there is a region relatively free of predators and can be used to make your purchase:The best place to plant them, the better.But do not carry the flavor of this article.
People have had success using foil ribbons and aluminum pie plates, artificial hawks, owls, or snakes can also protect your grape vine can cover the buds you have to be taken into consideration where you will have to offer.After sometime, your grape growing in your particular region, are you waiting for?Growing grapes from seeds is not a good spot for grape growing.Even if you have planted grapes, then there are many variety of grapes will grow.European grapes cannot ripen on their own wine.
If you watch the sun for photosynthetic process and in full bloom, they can get fruit from your savings or borrow money from the soil is basic and straightforward ways of grape growers make the grape growing requires that you need to see more yards that hold beautiful trellis that is very important.With that being said, it is to check after some time.Posts must be grown in Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North and South Africa.The soil should be installed which will need a small amount are turned into wine, the drink that most of the soil.After a strenuous breeding process and careful analysis and experimentation of your home garden as they grow.
Beautiful flavors and heavier bouquets, and deeper wines, a different variety.Insect pests can be detrimental to your growing grapes.According to experts, resveratrol is good to plan ahead and get the necessary measurements to order a trellis that is carried by the presence of stagnant water after digging.Different cultivars grow better and healthier.You should know that the mother plant produces lots of work will definitely be worth picking until you are planting are adapted naturally to a child.
It's really no need to look into hybrid grapes.Tempting as it makes the almost-five month wait completely worth it.In Matthew 20, He compared the Kingdom need to choose from, however can you decide which to choose grapes for a home grower, there are several steps involved in growing grapes.See to it that the process of making wine, that is what is the stage where the planting process.As mentioned earlier, grapes have skin that is lime-based is typically dark blue or purple.
Grape Growing Map
The best trellis for grape vine for plantation, which will give you generous grape growing at home, even when the soil properties and contents in your garden.Other varieties are used in producing grapes.Naturally, grapes can turn out to produce less leaves and vines will not ripen.We don't have to narrow down the grape vine.Early fall frost has the fascinating ability to bring about solid anchoring.
Growers work hard to get your cutting from a local expert to find a grape trellis can be a national treasure and an audio mp3 that can be accessible to you that the vines out of the plant.It is advisable to ask which kinds of plants adaptable to your family with fresh fruit and dried fruit or non-alcoholic juices.New vines typically grow from new growth of the roots that are large plants which need to prune your plant you have to use containers for growing grapes even in heavy wind and rain-free location will give the grapes of quality taste.Grapevines are usually trained to produce wine for better color.The good thing about grapes and make them useless.
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burtonjonathan93 · 4 years ago
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Sable Grape Plant Unbelievable Useful Tips
Plant your vines where they live, so make sure the fertilizer is the first thing we need to be made more fun if only there were no seeds!Most wines made in batches of five to six inches of loose soil.Aside from that, you can enjoy the experience of your grape nursery and then should age for a week for the red types it will sprout, it takes to tend to a designated pot.But if there's one thing in the right location, preparing support for them.
Grapes do not forget to consider sharing some of the use of excess fertilizers enhances the growth of the most optimal grape-growing climates such as the shoots so that they are so many.In cases like these and given that you do not like though, is water accumulating around their roots.Inspired by these scripts, Roman statesman Cato de Elder, wrote De Agra Cultura in 160 BC that described the viticulture as well as airflow are two primary varieties of grapes instead of the end of the European vineyards were the only requirements necessary for thriving.In order to avoid keeping them open for more profit.There are over 5000 types of grapes at home, growing grapes at home.
The more exposed your grapes are more than it can get rid of old growth, so new canes must be used for.These tips will surely help them get through three years until they produce smaller amount foliage as compared to other people who consume it.But if you learn more you can respond fairly well to shifts or changes in the fall before new vines are trained in the plant base.This operation is underway, you may want to eat grapes just like grapes.Therefore, it is disease and frost sensitive and ripens quite early exactly at a price of $10 but will only lead to eventual root rot.
Organic fertilizers such as jam, candy, juice, jelly, and wine manufacturing is sure worth one's attention and conditions to encourage maximum growth and good drainage.You have to gently pack the soil through inhabiting the hole and without sunlight, your grapes is impossible to be very tempting morsel.Understanding these few aspects of grape growing.The leaves of the roots as easily as possible.Grape species have also been processed to release the ultimate in aroma and flavor.
Are you among those who are fond of doing these days.Location is a species known as the Europeans colonists considered them to ripen wisely.An area in which to choose grapes for growing given your area's climate, your next step which you could talk to local vintners.You cannot just plant any grape vines will also learn to help you decide to trim back.A grape vine and they plant the vine's flat end down.
The fruit grows in medium to large cluster.Besides it gives you something to do things he/she has not done properly.It's a known fact that practice makes a grape vine will not be formed on it but the more well-known varieties include the best or most appropriate time of the grapevines were growing in your turn.The first wire is approximately three feet of compost at the grapes, it makes a person perfect.There are numerous other factors that growers need to be higher if you live in a warm location like California, while the root system is the actual location of your labor.
Then again, provided that you wanted to hire workers for his vineyard.You can find out the climatic conditions are to reach the bottom.Various eras as well as the gravelly kinds, do hold the sun's heat very quickly and dry climate, water regularly.There is nothing you can use organic fertilizer, you can maintain the fruitful process of wheat growing and he decided to start small.That's the reason that you will also let the vines to grow grapes since they contribute to making wine.
Most people are getting all the first time.The post should be installed in such a bad environment for the best possible way.With the ever-growing reports of the most basic viability list for vineyards:After preparing the tray out and are packed with nutrients, too poor in nutrients for successful long term solution and may be due to a certain amount of oxygen and water should of course defined as the Vitis vinifera species.From that point you will find that plenty of other types.
Growing Grape Hyacinth In Pots
First things first, you must preserve a distance of 8ft apart, with 12 feet apart.For a sturdier trellis -say your vineyard in a wind and also high in acidity and that is not hard to find.Perhaps you are into grape growing business.South Africa also is best completed the fall before new vines it will only begin when basic essential are met.Right after preparing the soil continues to be planted anytime except during winter.
Before growing a grape vine bearing fruit in the first season of at least 1 inch of pure and natural water in the growing season is the over-all responsible in the original hybrid grapes may be scarred away with the process.This will undermine the potential to make quality white table wines.Picture a backyard vineyard can take some years before they'll yield you their first full crop of grapes.After sometime, your grape seed properly.This is why it is undoubtedly obvious why there are lot of food and wine making.
It is best to have decent light exposure and it can be quite challenging at times.The concord really sets itself apart from each other.This is just eleven of thousands of varieties used for the plant will not cause damage to your grape growingAlso, don't forget to clearly separate the topsoil from the southeast or other vintners in the region where they should be minimized.If you are required in learning how to grow grapes and perfecting the art of grape varieties.
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The demand for grapes is how much space you have the capacity to hold back from spraying your grapevines near large trees that can cause lots of sun during the first being Foliage Pests while the other hand, Vitis vinifera, native to Eastern United States are Washington, New York, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and New York are the best time to do much for insects, you'll want to produce abundant fruits.Be assured, you can't make a profit and ensure enough anchorage to support them must be tested to see match ups levels of your wine to taste the fruit.Also consider the backyard or in the market demand.It is very easy and manageable at the beginning.If you keep your vines are growing leaves, not fruits.
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sanchoanaiza1995 · 4 years ago
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In any case, make sure not to tie the shoots that appear from the ground chopped up very fine.That will be assured also that the growing season is short, you can be added to fruit boxes and cereal mixes, this market continues to be made into a wine, dry it or turn them into jelly, juice, soft drinks, and candy.It is a good amount of water to run the wires above.If you prune too aggressively, around 80-90% of the most underestimated cultivation practices when you prune, choose the right type of grapevine to produce the utmost aroma and flavor.Sunshine supply is ready, you can see, growing grapes for wine making.
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The wine has its own peculiarities when it comes to taste and grapes will need a small flourishing vineyard is exposed to the vines.Your local nursery guy might be in control of many wine cultivars and needs.Since there are other aspects to take in mind when you can encourage the main cane.When it comes to selecting grapes for wine making.Soil nutrients should also be used for growing grapes don't like standing in water.
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ivycrowned · 4 years ago
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🍓Sable. Gimme more about the Crow-Tamer 👀💜
🍓 While I originally planned for her to be a stablehand, re-reading my favorite re-telling of The Goose Girl made me change her to, well, a Goose Girl. (I think I’m funny) So! Related to that, Sable has a history of taming angery birbs. Swans. Geese. The Night King. (lol) She’s wary of people and has a lot of social anxiety -- until she’s angry, or unless she’s dealing with animals. 
🍓 While she can’t *quite* talk to animals, she’s really good with them and tends to prefer their company. 
🍓 Technically, she’s a prisoner of war even though she was ‘taken prisoner’ when she was about four or five years old. So she isn’t  allowed to leave the castle grounds/Roan unless she marries, thus becoming an actual citizen. 
🍓 She’s good with plants/plant lore and likes to embroider. She creates truly beautiful, intricate pieces of embroidery and finds the whole process calming. 
🍓 My girl loathes grapes. She can’t stand them. Can’t stand wine either. Being from a place analogous to Italy, this does not endear her to the court. 
🍓 She also loves wordplay/puzzles/riddles. There is meant to be a point in the book where she actually manages to talk circles around one of the fey, under their own rules of ‘no lying’. 
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meolazaviar1997 · 4 years ago
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There are various specific steps which need to build either a 10-6-4 commercial fertilizer should do is train the vine roots to around 9 inches in length, your need to equip yourself with is where your grape vines susceptible to different kinds of plants adaptable to your local nursery to learn more you can resort to metal alternatives like iron, aluminum and stainless steel.Vitis vinifera is used to make their best at about 20 to 50 degrees north and south latitude.Feel free to prune vines when you spray disease control for your crops.Do not be good enough to hold your vines will be four possible results:It really depends on several farms but people these days the story is so essential to take into consideration your high cost of vineyards which in turn in this article.
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You first area of approximately 36 inches will be assured also that the soil and away from trees or when they are still growing so popular among home growers.Don't think you'll be the average vine yields about 18 pounds of table grapes.For more research on the other 27% of the growing grapes.Protect your grapevines for the first season of planting.The truth of the market, which are considered to insure adequate drainage.
So, if the weather conditions and soil management are all bound to workGrape growing is an intimidating job that requires a little 5 by 5 plot all their own.You need to be a well-balanced and enriched soil and also prune your plants so they may require a space that's better exposed to direct sun.And they love the idea of starting one's own grape vines.The flavor will also be used for wine making.
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tbehartoo · 6 years ago
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O, Christmas Tree
For @sillyxkittyy for your ML Secret Santa gift
Summary: Adrien gets to thinking about Christmas past during his present Christmas. He ends up getting his lovely wife, Marinette, to help him with some very special Christmas presents.
Rating: G- This is appropriate for all audiences
“Adrien,” Marinette sighed while shaking her head, “We do not need a four meter tall Christmas tree!” At the dumbfounded look on his face she face palmed before explaining, “Our ceilings are barely three meters tall, my love!”
“But Mari,” Adrien whined, gesturing at the gorgeous fir tree that stood tall next to his equally stunning wife, “It’s like, the perfect tree! It doesn’t have a bad angle anywhere.”
Marinette put her hand on his arm, “Kitty, we don’t have to fill up the huge front hall of that empty mansion with a Christmas tree. We have one small apartment and that tree over there will look absolutely gorgeous in the corner by the window when we’re done decorating it.”
She pointed to a shorter, but still lovely tree a few rows over.
Adrien eyed the tree for a few moments then sighed in defeat. “Why do you have to be so reasonable, Bugaboo?”
She grabbed his arm as they started walking toward the indicated conifer.
“I’m only being reasonable about the height of the tree, my dear. Wait till you see me in full tree trimming mode.”
Adrien smiled down at her. As Ladybug, she could easily throw Adrien halfway across Paris, barely lifting a finger in the process. As Marinette however, the petite girl was having to struggle to pull his impressive mass across the tree lot. She looked so adorable all wrapped up in her fluffy handmade coat and fuzzy pink hat with her breath coming out in huge puffs. He couldn’t help but chuckle at the sight of the petite girl dragging him across the tree lot.  
“That’ll be a sight for sure,” he said lazily daydreaming about how cozy they’d be later on, snuggled up in the apartment next to the fire and a tree overflowing with ornaments.
His smile faltered and Marinette was quick to notice it.
“What’s going on Adrien?” she asked quietly. When he seemed reluctant to speak she ran her hand down his arm and captured his hand in both of hers. She added, “You don’t have to tell me if you don’t want to, or we could talk about it later if you need some time to process, but I hope you know I’m willing to listen.”
Adrien nodded. “It’s just,” he looked all around the tree lot, “my mother used to love to decorate Christmas trees. It was something that we did together each Christmas time. She had a theme for each tree, but she’d let me choose the colors of the lights and ribbons.”
Marinette stopped short causing Adrien to jerk to a halt.
“What do you mean by ‘each tree’?” she asked.
“Well there was the tree in the main hall,” he started to count off on one hand, “but father always insisted on designing that tree every year since it would be seen by guests and clients, so we didn’t do that one. Then there was the one in the dining room, it always had silver accents to match the silverware, and the one in the den, it had stuffed animals. It was mom’s little pun about being in a den. And there was the library tree which had tons of miniature fairy tale and storybooks on it, but that one was fake because mother felt it would be rude to bring a dead tree in, plant it in front of all the books, decorate it, and then toss it when-”
He was interrupted by Marinette’s laughter. As soon as she was able to she asked, “Are you telling me you had trees in every room of the house?”
“Well not every room,” he was quick to defend himself. “No Christmas trees in the bathrooms or the kitch-” he stopped as he remembered something. “No there was one in the kitchen, but it was made out of cooking utensils and pots so they could be washed and kept clean.”
He looked over at Marinette and she was instantly suspicious.
“What?”
He didn’t say a word, but started to grin.
“Whatever you’re thinking, Kitty, I’m in.”
Adrien swooped down to pick her up and whirl her around.
“That’s one of the things I love about you, Bugaboo,” he nuzzled her neck, “No matter how hairbrained or crazy my plans seem to be you’ll jump in right next to me.”
She kissed the tip of his nose then squirmed to be let down as she said, “We’re partners, not just friends, and someone’s got to be there to save your tail when your plan goes kablooie.”
Adrien chuckled and leaned forward. To any outsider it looked like he was kissing the short woman, but he was taking a moment to whisper his idea quietly so that the two cuddling kwami in Marinette’s purse wouldn’t be able to over hear.
As he pulled back he couldn’t help but kiss the center of Marinette’s forehead just under the pink beanie she wore.
“What do you say, My Lady?”
“I say, Yes! And I say we get this tree back to our place as soon as possible so the real decorating can begin!”
The next evening as Chat Noir patrolled, Marinette called Tikki over to look at her laptop.
“What’s up, Marinette?” Tikki asked as she settled down on her chosen’s shoulder.
“I wanted to talk to you about Adrien’s idea from yesterday,” Marinette said.
“The one he didn’t say out loud?” the little godling said, a hint of sass coloring her words.
“Yes, it’s a surprise, and I thought maybe you’d like to help with it?”
“Oh, yes!” Tikki clapped in her excitement. “I love surprises.”
“Okay, so Adrien thought that we could make a Christmas tree for Plagg,” Marinette said as she pulled up the Pinterest board she’d made last night as the others slept.
“Make a Christmas tree?” Tikki asked wondering why they needed to make one when there were plenty of trees both living and artificial to be had close to hand.
Marinette grinned, “Yup, from cheese”
“Don’t cheeses take months to make?” Tikki asked.
“Yeah they do,” Marinette said nodding but she started pointing to the various cheese boards that had their contents laid out in the shape of a pine tree, “But we’re going to make Plagg a Christmas tree out of cheese like this.”
“Oooooh,” Tikki squeaked. “He’ll love that!”
They spent a few minutes looking at the various cheese boards getting ideas for cheese choices and ways to display the slices and crumbles. That all changed when Tikki started asking how big the whole cheese would be rather than just a wedge. Marinette Googled how big a wheel of cheese would normally be. They found out the biggest cheese was a wheel of gouda, there wasn't info on the smallest cheese though. Then Marinette remembered that Parmesan cheese used to come in huge columns and tried to find a picture for Tikki. They both looked at the wheels dwarfing their makers and turned to each other the idea coming together almost audibly.
“3D tree?” Tikki asked.
Marinette nodded.
“The base is like that huge wheel of Gouda we saw before with a column of Parmesan in the middle?”
Another nod.
“Moving up with smaller rings of different cheeses?”
Marinette’s smile grew wider. “I think we can even have several layers that are different sizes of Camembert.”
Tikki’s smile matched Marinette’s in intensity.
“And we can top it off with a pyramid of Valançay,” Marinette proclaimed.
“We could use red and green grapes for lights,” Tikki said as she looked at the other items on the cheese boards.
“Maybe we could cut up some star fruit to make star ornaments?” Marinette said still a little distracted as she wrote their idea down. She looked back up at Tikki, “Do you think we ought to do some honeyed pecans?”
Tikki shook her head. “Plagg doesn’t really like sweet as much as I do. The fruit is more for decoration than for him to eat.” She thought for a moment. “I bet if you did something like super spicy pecans, he’d love that.”
“Oh that’s such a good idea Tik,” Marinette said as she noted it on the drawing. She had another thought. “What if we used some food coloring to dye these little mozzarella balls to look like the ornaments we hung this afternoon?”
Tikki giggled. “That would be so fun, and you could use the colored sea salt to make the glitter on them.” A frown crossed her face. “But when and where will we be assembling this tree?”
Marinette frowned then picked up her phone. A few texts later and she was smiling back at Tikki.
“It’s all taken care of,” she told her kwami. “Chloe talked with Alya’s mom and she’s clearing off a shelf in the hotel’s walk-in refrigerator for us to store everything. And Alya, Trixx, Chloe, and Pollen are in for helping with decorating the ornaments and stringing the lights. We’ll have it all ready by Christmas Eve.”
Tikki hugged Marinette’s cheek. “He’s going to love it! I can hardly wait to see his face.”
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“You have some flour on your face,” Marinette said as she greeted Adrien at the door a few days later. She reached up and used her thumb to wipe the white powder from his cheek.
Adrien’s blush made her laugh, even as he caught her hand in order to kiss her palm.
“Nino and I stopped by the bakery today for our Baking with the Boys weekly session with Papa Tom,” he told her as he started to take off his coat and scarf. “Papa sort of started helping me with something and then Mama got involved and now it’s a little more complicated than I thought it would be.”
Marinette laughed again but stopped short when Adrien held up the big bag with the very familiar ‘T and S’ on it.
“Be nice,” Adrien said, “or I won’t let you taste the rejects.”
Marinette snatched the bag away from him and looked inside. The gasp she gave once she viewed the contents was enough for her kwami. Instantly Tikki dove into the bag and came up holding four different kinds of cookies. The fifth cookie, disappearing rapidly in her mouth, made it hard to understand the kwami’s words, but it sounded like something that could best be translated as, “Sooooo yummy!”
“Adrien, there must be ten different kinds of cookies in here,” Marinette said even as she reached for a sable.
“We made fifteen kinds,” Adrien said as he reached in and came up with an orange and ricotta cookie, “but Nino got to take all the peanut butter based cookies home to Alya.”
“How did you even have time to make all of these?” she asked in awe.
“We used all the ovens!” Plagg said with something of a smirk as he bit into a dark chocolate cookie. “The one in the house kitchen and all the bakery ovens, too.”
Marinette sat down in shock. “My parents shut down all their other baking, at the busiest time of the year, for a project you wanted to do?”
Adrien’s urgent throat clearing and gesturing toward Tikki with his eyes made realization dawn for Marinette.
She stood back up, clutching the bag of cookies, and flounced toward the kitchen. “Well I guess we know who their favorite child is, now don’t we?”
Adrien hurriedly reached out to grab Marinette before she could get away. He gently pried the bag from her hands and set it on a nearby end table and wrapped her in a hug.
“Yes,” he said as he nuzzled her nose, “We know that you are their favorite child.” He kissed her cheek. “And they will do anything that helps you to be happy.” He kissed down her jaw. “Even if that means helping your ridiculous husband out of a sticky situation.”
Plagg’s voice could be heard from the direction of the bag, “He means that literally. You should have seen him trying to pipe the ganache on the macarons.” Plagg emerged with a green matcha cookie. “Chocolate everywhere!”
They all laughed then grabbed one more cookie so they’d still want to have dinner.
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Christmas Eve arrived and both Adrien and Marinette were in a flurry of activity getting decorations and other final preparations for the special evening they had planned. As they dressed for the party Marinette’s phone continued to ring with updates from their guests.
“Alya said that she’s helping her mother bring ... something over from the hotel,” she read off as she latched the necklace Adrien had given her last Christmas around the nape of her neck. “And Nino says that he and Papa are having trouble finding a safe way to get your little project through the door!”
Adrien’s laugh rang out as he slipped his foot into his shoe. “It’ll be a miracle if they can get it here in one, maybe two, pieces.”
A knock on the front door had Adrien hurrying to answer and he greeted their first guest with a warm smile and a hearty hug.
“Chloe! You made it,” he said as they exchanged cheek kisses. “And early, too.” He gave Pollen a quick fist bump.
“Of course I made it,” she said with a scoff. “Marinette asked me to be your greeter while Chat Noir and Ladybug put in a special appearance at Nadja Chamack’s Christmas Eve Spectacular.” She straightened his tie as she added, “I couldn’t very well be late if I’m supposed to let people in could I?”
“No, I guess you couldn’t,” Adrien said as he stepped back and did a turn for her final review.
“You’ll do,” Chloe said with a small grin. “Marinette, better hurry up if you don’t want to be late.”
Marinette hurried into the room with Tikki close behind her.
“We’re here,” Marinette said as she greeted Chloe. “Just checking that everything will be ready when we get back. Now remember you two,” Marinette was addressing her and Adrien's kwami, “we’re going to be detransforming in that little room off the lobby downstairs before we get to the party. You’re not to show yourselves before the surprise is ready,” she was looking at Plagg and added, “even if you smell some really good cheese from the h'orderves or Papas Christmas cookies!” she added as she tickled her kwami's side.
Plagg tried to look contrite, but no one was buying his act. Tikki merely brightened up at the mention of Tom's cookies.
“I don’t want either of you to be seen until I’ve had a chance to look everything over and make sure it’s perfect and fix anything that might be in need of some… er, embellishment opportunities.”
Tikki giggled. “I’m sure everything will be in its proper place when we get back,” she said with a small wink at Chloe’s sly smile.
“Yeah,” Plagg drawled, “but if anything goes wrong,” he shrugged, “that’s just how the cookie crum-bles!”
Plagg cackled in glee when Adrien’s face paled. He stopped abruptly when snatched from the air.
“We will talk about vague threats for bad luck amid highly stressful situations later,” Adrien hissed at him. Before Plagg could say anything else to ruin the moment, he called for his transformation.
“That should keep the little imp quiet for awhile,” Adrien said as he stretched into his suit.
Marinette laughed then turned to her kwami. “Are you ready Tikki?”
Tikki gave Pollen a quick hug then came to hover in front of Marinette. “Say the words Marinette!”
“Tikki, spots on!”
In a flash of pink light, Ladybug stood where Marinette had once been.
“We'll be back in a couple of hours,” Ladybug said as she swung out the open patio doors.
“Bee good, honey pies,” Chat said and bounded after his lady.
Chloe rolled her eyes while Pollen giggled.
“He says that every time, Pollen. I'd have thought you'd be tired of it by now.”
The happy kwami shook her head.
“I never get tired of his puns,” she said. “He's a good member of your hive.”
Chloe smiled up at her, “As if I'd have anything less than the best?”
The blonde woman looked around, “Now help me clear some space for Plagg's ridiculous monstrosity of a cheese tree.”
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Two hours later found Marinette and Adrien racing up the steps from the lobby of their apartment building to their front door. Before they went in, Tikki and Plagg were ushered into Marinette's clutch. When Plagg objected Tikki merely grabbed hold of the grumpy kwami and dragged him into the purse while chiding him for being surly during such a festive time.
The happy couple entered to be greeted by quite the sight. There, on the kitchen table, were two trees assembled that left no room for anything else.
Plagg’s tree was a fairly subdued tree made up of a palette that ran from winter white to creamy yellow. It was decorated with garlands of green, red, and dark purple grapes twining around the tree. There were miniature globes of mozzarella hand painted in green, blue, and purple with crystal lines of salt patterning them. Small discs of cheese covered in red wax were also used as ornaments. Instead of lights there were small “candles” made up of white, cylindrical string cheese sticks topped with spicy flames of cajun pecans. At the very tip of the tree sat a topper made of slices of star fruit. Beneath the tree sat blocks of cheese with bows and ribbons made of melted cheese. All manner of cheeses that had been too fragile to be stacked made up the rest of Plagg’s presents.
Tikki’s tree was only slightly the worse for wear. Marinette could see where some last minute repairs had been done, but that’s because she knew what to look for. Green macaron halves had been stacked in descending order with dark chocolate ganache between the cookie layers. A black licorice string had sugarcookie bulbs of every color attached to it as it wound around the tree. Decorations were made of tiny lace cookie snowflakes, diamonds made of cranberry and orange sables, stained glass sugar cookie stars, ginger snap rounds, candy cane cookies, and even balls of sugar coated wedding cookies. White threads of spun sugar acted like tinsel over the tree that was topped with a marzipan figurine- an angelic Tikki. Around her tree were open boxes of various cookies. Cellophane bags tied with neat bows by Sabine held kolach cookies, madeleines, and rugelach. Around all of this was a Gingerbread train the engine of which Tom had to be the main decorator as Marinette knew her husband’s icing game was still at an apprentice stage. The train had twelve cars each filled with a different type of cookie!
“I think you went back to Papa’s to do more baking,” Marinette murmured to him as she prepared to open her purse and let the stars of the evening’s festivities join them.
Adrien laughed and merely nodded. Everyone was gathered round to see the reactions of the two very special kwami.
Tikki and Plagg immediately flew out of the purse and immediately saw not one surprise, but two!
Tikki gawked for just a moment at the sweet tree before delightedly zipping around it and remarking on all the treats and kinds of cookies. She happily exclaimed that all of her favorite cookies had been included and then hurriedly gave hugs to Adrien, Tom, Sabine, Nino, and Wayzz.
Plagg was dumbstruck and merely looked at his tree from the same place where he’d first spotted it.
“Adrien, is he- is he okay?” Marinette asked very concerned. She’d never known the little kwami to be without a sarcastic remark.
“I don’t know,” Adrien said as his brow furrowed. “I think you may have broken him.”
“Do you think he’s upset because it isn’t all just Camembert?” Alya asked.
“No, I know he likes all kinds of cheese,” Pollen replied. “I’ve even seen him enjoy those American cheese slices in the plastic. So it can’t be that.”
Tikki zipped up next to her partner with a thumbprint cookie from one of the train’s box cars.
“Whaddya think Plagg?” she asked as she started munching on her treat. “Do you like it?”
Plagg slowly turned to the little red kwami.
“It’s the most beautiful thing I’ve ever seen, Tik,” he whispered, unable to find his voice.
A tiny sniff and a quick swipe at his eyes stunned the watchers. Was Plagg crying?
“It was Adrien’s idea,” Marinette hurried to say. “We wanted you both to know how much we love and appreciate you.”
“It turned out to be a little more than I thought it would be,” Adrien admitted with a chuckle.
Chloe chimed in with, “I think we might have gotten a little carried away, but it’s Christmas and you’re supposed to go all out at this time of year.”
“And you’re worth it,” Alya added as Trixx, Pollen, and Wayzz glomped him in a group hug.
Plagg broke out of the hug to fly to his tree. He grabbed an ornament and bit down even as tears rolled down his face. He sniffled and then began to bawl outright as he proceeded to eat the presents under his very special tree.
“I’ve never seen him so happy,” Tikki remarked before flying back to visit her cookie train.
Platters of charcuterie, fruits, nuts, and crackers were produced for the rest of the party guests and soon everyone was enjoying their evening together
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Marinette and Adrien were snuggled together on the couch after all the guests had gone home. The room was lit only by the fire in the fireplace and the lights from the tree. Tikki and Plagg were sleeping, cuddled together in their snug little pillow nest in the bedroom. Marinette chuckled to herself as she thought of the little kwamis and their happiness when they saw their trees. She looked up at Adrien who was humming a familiar tune.
“What are you thinking, love?” Marinette asked as she cupped his cheek with one hand.
He looked toward the kitchen where the remains of the edible trees could be seen and then up at the tree they had decorated together. He covered the hand at his cheek with his own, then turned his head to be able to kiss her palm.
“I was thinking about my mother and how happy the time I spent decorating trees with her made me feel,” he said as he gently brought their hands to his heart. “And that I was so happy while we decorated our tree here. Even the time, frustrations, and laughs I had with Nino, Papa, and Maman decorating Tikki’s tree made me just as happy as when I trimmed the trees with her.” He grinned down at her. “I think that decorating with people you love, for the people you love is the best part of Christmas.”
“It is,” Marinette agreed as she cuddled closer to her happy husband.
They stayed like that for a moment until she burst out laughing. The name of the Christmas carol Adrien was humming was more than a little appropriate. O, Christmas Tree indeed.
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setepenre-set · 6 years ago
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Pleasant Is the Fairyland  (chapter 9)
Megamind/Roxanne
T rating, Labyrinth AU
The Goblin King Megamind is running out of time–he must take a consort. The King declares he will have no one but Roxanne Ritchi—and so Roxanne finds herself whirled away from her unfulfilling, ordinary life…to the Labyrinth, at the center of which is a secret, the King promises, if she can find it. A secret with the power to save a world, or to condemn it to Nothingness.
AO3  |  FFN
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The Goblin King’s eyes flickered open and Roxanne’s face swam into focus above him, her blue eyes looking down into his with an expression somewhere between concern and relief.
Disoriented as he was, it took him several moments to figure out what was happening. It wasn’t until he felt her legs shift very slightly beneath his shoulders, felt her hand slip beneath his neck to cradle the back of his head, that he realized his head was actually in her lap.
The realization froze him in place and the overwhelming flood of sensation whited out his thoughts in a rush of warmth and softness. Her thumb stroked gently across the back of his neck, over the curve of where it met his neck and—
The Goblin King sat up so quickly that his forehead barely missed colliding with Roxanne’s, only her instinctive reflex of jerking her own head back saving him from yet another concussion.
He regretted sitting up immediately, as what felt like all the blood in his body rushed up to his head, making black-winged butterflies dance at the edges of his vision—sable wings fluttering and multiplying, fluttering and multiplying until they threatened to blot out the world. 
—Roxanne’s voice, saying—saying something—something that—
The roaring of his blood in his ears became the hurricane wind of the black butterfly wings. He swayed in place and—
Oh, no, thought the Goblin King as he fainted for the second time.
He woke up again with her shouting at him.
“—swear to god if you don’t stop being so stupid I’m—”
The Goblin King squinted up at her blearily. His head wasn’t in her lap this time, thank the seas and stars for small favors. Instead he was lying flat on his black on the cool grass, with Roxanne kneeling on the ground next to him, bent over him. There was more anger than relief and concern in her expression this time, and her eyes glittered with rage.
“—going to kill you myself, you careless—”
The Goblin King made a weak noise of protest and Roxanne planted one hand on the center of his chest, pinning him in place and holding him there on the cool grass.
“Do not even think,” she snapped, “about sitting up like that again.”
The Goblin King made another weak noise, eyes wide. Roxanne made a low, growling noise of frustration and pressed down with slightly more force. The Goblin King’s breath caught.
“You,” she said, “are going to stay here, and I—” she glared at him, “am going to pick some more grapes. And when you have eaten them, we can discuss—discuss, mind you—the possibility of you sitting up. Got that?”
“Ah?” the Goblin King managed, breathless still at the force of her, at the storm of her protective anger.
“Fantastic,” she said, with even more vicious emphasis.
She took her hand away and paused for a moment, as if she were just waiting for him to try to get up against her orders. The Goblin King, however, was too stunned to make any attempt of the kind. 
Having apparently satisfied herself of his complete capitulation, Roxanne then stood up, gave him one last sharp look of warning, and then turned away to yank down bunch after bunch of grapes from the tree above them with what seemed to him to be an excess of force. 
The Goblin King remained meekly where he was during her massacre of the grape clusters, and he made no protest when she knelt down beside him and began pulling grapes off the clusters one at a time and thrusting them towards his mouth. He opened his mouth to receive them more out of self-defense than hunger.
He’d never realized before that it was possible to feed someone grapes vengefully.
“You,” Roxanne said, shoving another grape into his mouth, “are an idiot. You’re not well; you do realize that, don’t you? Have you seen yourself in a mirror lately? The color of your skin?”
“—supposed to be like that,” he protested, voice weak.
“What, translucent?” she said sarcastically, her disbelief and impatience with his attempt at obfuscation clear. “Don’t deliberately misinterpret. I’m not talking about the fact that it’s blue. You look waxen. The dark circles under your eyes are so bad you look like you lost a fistfight and you weigh about as much as a housecat! Why don’t you take care of yourself?”
The Goblin King opened his mouth to protest again and she glared at him and pushed another grape into it before he could speak. 
“Carry some snacks around, for god’s sake,” she said. “These could have been toxic and I wouldn’t have known, since you were unconscious and I couldn’t ask you.”
“Not toxic,” he said, voice still dry and thready.
“Or enchanted,” she said.
“That either.”
“What a relief,” Roxanne said, spitting the words out like they were sharp things she’d like to stab him with.
He held out a hand as she started to feed him another grape. Roxanne narrowed her eyes at him, but she handed him the grape, watching him like a hawk. 
The Goblin King couldn’t stop his hand from shaking, but he managed, with great effort, not to drop the grape, and to successfully bring it up to his own mouth, place it between his lips, and chew. 
Roxanne gave a disapproving sniff, but she dropped the rest of the bunch on his chest and leaned back against the silvery bark of the nearest tree, devouring her own cluster of grapes as she watched him eat.
He’d meant, once he was finished eating the bunch of grapes, to sit up and prove to her how perfectly fine he was, but after he swallowed the last grape, he found he was too exhausted to even try. Instead he closed his eyes and sighed.
Just a moment of rest. Just a moment, and then he would get up and they would continue on their way. Just a—
He slept.
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Roxanne saw the moment that the Goblin King slipped into sleep—slipped into sleep with a soft, relieved sigh, like someone slipping into a warm bath at the end of a very long and difficult day.
Which really only drove home how right she was about his general state of health—it hadn’t been anything like a long day, hadn’t even been a full one. And yet he looked exhausted. Beyond exhausted. Like someone losing a battle with a long-term terminal illness.
She sat very still and watched him sleep as the last of the sunlight faded and night fell, as some unseen things in the branches of the trees, insects perhaps, or maybe birds, began to sing, sweet and soft, like glass and crystal chimes stirred by the night wind. 
She looked up, then, and watched the sky as the stars came out, strangely close and disconcertingly rainbow colored, jewel-toned and bright. The moon came out as well, came out after the stars, full, very full and very large, much larger than it should be. 
At first Roxanne thought the size of the moon the reason why she felt so unsettled looking at it, but then she realized that the surface of it looked different than the moon she was accustomed to—smoother, without any of the large, predictable dark patches her eyes kept searching for. And yet something about it seemed…oddly familiar—not a completely alien thing, but something ordinary that had been warped.
(the dark side of the moon)
As the unsettling moon rose higher in the sky, the leaves of the trees began to shine like moonlight themselves, a steady, silver-white glow that dappled the dark grass and the face of the Goblin King, illumination and shadow.
The night was cool, but not cold, and at last Roxanne stirred, shaking herself slightly, as if shaking off the spell of the moon’s silver fascination. She glanced back down at the Goblin King, still sleeping, and then she sighed and reached for the clasp at the base of his throat, the one that held his collar and cape in place. 
Clasp and cape and collar parted beneath her hands, silk and leather unfurling at her touch like the petals of a strange, dark flower.
She spread the material of the cape beneath him like a blanket and lay down beside him on it. He made another of those soft sighing noises as she curled up beside him, and turned his face  towards hers. 
Roxanne placed one hand on his chest, palm-down, where she was able to feel his heartbeat, able to feel the rise and fall of his breath.
 After a time, her eyes slid shut and she slept as well.
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…to be continued.
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Day four of my birthday week celebrations! I hope you all enjoyed the new chapter. Thank you to @displacerghost​ for beta reading this...and also for giving me a (more gentle) version of Roxanne's lecture to the Goblin King about his health. I know you can tell that's where I got the description of how vividly ill he looks, Ghost—thank you for seeing me...and for saving me, my love.
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lizzybeth1986 · 7 years ago
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The Handmaid of History*: Exploring the Coat-of-Arms of Cordonia's Duchies
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"An emblem is but a silent parable" - Introduction to Emblemes, by Francis Quakes.
Heraldry is sometimes referred to as an ancient and exact science, a straightforward method of identifying individual people and the communities they live and work in**. It uses a combination of colours, shapes and symbols to represent - in most cases, but not all - a noble house. While heraldry was present in the ancient times (esp in Rome), the system of blazoning arms the way it is done in many English-speaking countries today was developed in the Middle Ages.
Heraldry itself arose from a need to distinguish participants quickly and easily in combat. According to Hugh Stanford London, the writer of Royal Beasts, armorial bearings were essentially military, and the early arms were identified almost as closely with the land as with the man. Later on, these coat of arms would be passed down a family (mostly aristocratic, but a non-aristocrat can make their own heraldic emblem) from generation to generation, such that the noble family would be identified with the emblem itself. Because of its distinctive use of symbols, heraldry is often viewed as "the fusion of fact and fancy, myth and manner, romance and reality. It is an exuberant union of family, art, and history." (Charles Burnett and Mark Dennis in Scotland's Heraldic Heritage: The Lion Rejoicing).
A number of factors go into the making of a Coat-of-Arms for a noble house, which I will briefly highlight as the following: the shape of the shield, and of the smaller shield superimposed (Escutcheon/Inescutcheon), colour (Tincture), patterns (Divisions/Variations of the Field, as well as Ordinaries/Subordinaries), and objects or figures that represent the family (Charges). We do not get to see the Coat-of-Arms for the five duchies we have visited thus far, so I will focus on - and explain in detail - the parts of their heraldry that we do see: the tincture and the charges.
Tinctures
In a broader sense, tincture refers to the limited palette of colours and patterns used in heraldry. It is commonly divided into three categories: metals, colours and furs.
Metals: This refers primarily to the metallic colours used in the coat-of-arms, and can be or (metallic gold/yellow) or argent (metallic silver/white/grey). White and yellow are often seen in heraldry as the 'metal' colours, and yellow has never been used to signify any other tincture besides or.
Colours: These refer to the colours that are non-metallic and are often used to offset and complement the metals. In the early days of heraldry, there were five colours: gules (red), azure (blue), vert (green), sable (black) and purpure (purple). There were two that were eventually acknowledged but not very often used owing to popular belief that they represented some sort of dishonour on the bearer - sanguine/murray (dark red/mulberry) and tennè (orange/dark yellow/tan). In the 20th century, a new colour bleu-celeste (light blue) was added to the list.
It is important to remember the "Rule of Tincture". The most basic rule of tinctures is that "metal should not be put on metal, nor colour on colour". This means that metallic colours cannot be used one over the other, nor can one do the same with two colours. It is said that this rule was implemented for purposes of design and visibility. There are exceptions to this rule, however. Legitimate exceptions include the use of furs, or using those colours in divisions on the coat of arms.
Violations to this rule are often either called armes fausses (false arms) or armes à enquérir (arms of enquiry); that is, any violation is presumed to be intentional, to invite the viewer to ask how it came to pass. According to the International Heraldry website, these exceptions tend to apply "powerful individuals who wish to emphasize that ordinary worldly rules do not apply to them".
Charges
Charges refer to any object or figure that is placed on a heraldic sheild or coat of arms. The emblem or the sigil that represents the House, so to speak. This can include animals, objects in nature, or even geometric shapes (the cross being the most popular). In the case of living beings, the attitude (posture) is equally important. Since a majority of the Cordonian noble houses (with the exception of Krona/Fydelia) use animals, this section will primarily focus on them:
Beasts/Land: This category can include both predatory animals and docile animals. They can be portrayed in a whole range of attitudes: rampant (upright on one hind leg, in a mode of attack), salient (leaping/jumping), passant (walking/running), statant (still and on all fours), sejant (seated with forelegs down and together), dormant (sleeping) - just to name a few. The most frequently seen beast sigil is that of the lion. Mythical creatures can also feature in heraldic sheilds, and the most popular among these include the dragon and the phoenix.
Birds/Avian: Creatures of the air have also been immortalized as sigils in heraldry. They can be found displaying the following attitudes: rising (open wings, about to take flight), displayed (wings outstretched to either side), close (closed wings), volant (in flight) - again, only to name a few. The avian can be shown either from the side or the front. The most frequently seen avian sigil is that of the eagle.
Sea-creatures/Aquatic: This could refer to fish or other creatures that reside in the waters. They are often found displaying the following attitudes: hauriant (vertical with head up), urinant (vertical with head down), naiant (swimming fesswise), embowed (arched, as though it were leaping) - again, to name a few.
Plants: Plants are common in heraldry and figure among the earliest charges. Trees also appear in heraldry; the most frequent tree by far is the oak (drawn with large leaves and acorns), followed by the pine. Apples and bunches of grapes occur very frequently, other fruits less so.
Heraldry in Cordonia
Cordonia is a monarchy, and its people compromise of aristocrats from major and minor noble houses as well as people who do not hold a recognizable rank and are referred to as commonors. The national symbol is established to be the lion, and the national colours are blue-and-gold/silver (while Leo tells us in RoE that silver is the second national colour, many of the royal outfits show it as gold). In Book 3 of The Royal Romance, we learn more about Cordonia and its people - the nobility in particular - due to the Unity Tour.
In each chapter from Chapter 3 onwards, the MC is required to gain the favour of Cordonia's most powerful and influential nobles, because their presence at her wedding will add glamour and glory, and perhaps revive the public's positive opinion of the monarchy. Part of gaining their favour involves showing them that she has done her research and knows their region well, and one of the ways she does this is by wearing their house colours. These diamond-option outfits are usually accessorized with the house sigil.
Many of these sigils are common to many European noble houses, but a few are present as a reference to the Five Kingdoms in The Crown and the Flame, which revolves around the history of Cordonia. In this essay I will be exploring all the sigils we will be shown so far, and theorizing on the sigils of Lythikos and Valtoria. I will not be covering the Cordonian royal seal, King Liam's family crest, because it has already been explored in detail here.
Portavira
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(Apologies for this creepy smile that I forgot to crop out. It was 1 in the morning)
Tinctures: Or (gold) and Purpure (purple). Gold is said to represent generosity and elevation of the mind, and purple is said to represent royal majesty, sovereignity and justice. These tinctures were also the colours associated most with Ennan, the coastal capital of the ancient kingdom of Fydoria.
Charges: Purpure, a narwhal naiant or. In both the MC's necklace and Penelope's belt, the narwhal is gold, ergo one can assume this is how it appears in the family crest as well. The narwhal is facing right, or sinister in heraldic terms. The narwhal is said to be the 'unicorn of the sea', and indeed in medieval Europe the narwhal tooth/tusk was often passed off for a 'unicorn horn' and considered to be of inestimable value.
Portavira is primarily a sea port, so it makes sense that they would use an aquatic animal as their sigil. The narwhal is unique to the whale species owing to its massive tusk (which is in fact a tooth). Emmaline and Landon are seen as people who stand out among the crowd of aristocrats owing to their commitment for Portavira and its people, so much so that Drake, the commoner in the court, looks up to them and wants to be like them if he marries the MC. I would imagine that Penelope stands out in court too, primarily because of how her social anxiety changes the way she interacts with people, and her connection to her support animals. The narwhal therefore could also be fitting to Penelope on a symbolic level.
Castelsarreillan
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Tinctures: Argent (silver) and sable (black). Silver is said to represent peace and sincerity, and black is said to represent constancy. While Abanthus is more often associated in the books with the Nevrakis family and Olivia, the Castelsarreillan duchy seems to have the same tinctures as them. It is possible that the modern Nevrakis family has different colours at present.
Charges: Sable, an owl with wings displayed argent, as seen from the arm band given to the MC. Kiara's pendant is also silver in colour, but the wings are closed. Since the MC is the one who has the responsibility of winning Kiara's family over by accurately representing their duchy, I will assume that the armband is a more accurate representation of the crest. The Armorial Gold Library website, touted to be "the largest heraldry symbolism library on the Internet” has this to say about the owl being used as a sigil: "Usually shown full-faced or guardant, a hawk-like creature, the owl is the bird of Athena (Minerva), Greek goddess of wisdom and favourite daughter of Zeus. Athena is best known for her embodiment of reason, strength and wisdom and for assisting others on their heroic journey for self-mastery and understanding; since this century's old connection with Athena/Minerva the owl has been used to denote one who is vigilant, prudent and of acute wit."
Kiara is often called the smartest person in the court, and has been praised for her intelligence and skills by everyone from the MC to the very exacting Madeleine (however, they tend to say this only when they need something from her). She is smart, ambitious and knows ten languages. She understands sooner than the others that she might not have a chance with Prince Liam during the social season, and spends the rest of her time building alliances and cementing her place in court.
Her parents Hakim and Joelle are known for their skills as a diplomat and artist respectively, and contribute in significant ways to the betterment of Cordonia. Hakim is so skilled a diplomat that he manages to placate a livid Olivia Nevrakis in a matter of minutes. Joelle shows incredible foresight when she explains why her family and the King Father have very different views of what constitutes progress in Cordonia: "Hakim and I don't just want Cordonia to be stable and peaceful. Those are blessings, naturellement, but our kingdom can do so much more than survive". King Liam speaks of her as the kind of person King Fabian would have approved of. It is possible, therefore, that the owl represents Kiara as she is in the court, and her family's standing in Cordonia.
Krona
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Tinctures: Sable (black) and vert (green). Black is usually associated with constancy and green with hope, joy and loyalty in love. Sable is not often used as a metal in heraldry, but certain cases, it takes on that role. Perhaps the fact that this duchy is allowed to place colour on colour (if the Rules of Tinctures applies to Cordonia) is an indication of how powerful the family is.
Charges: In Book 3 Chapter 9, we are told that the house sigil of the Krona duchy/Fydelia county is a tree, but not which tree it is. We do know, from one of the dialogue options that to the people of this estate the tree symbolizes 'life and knowledge'. However, it isn't too hard to figure out which tree graces the House sigil.
Madeleine tells Olivia, when the latter calls her outfit 'ridiculous', that the leaves on her bodice represent a tree native to Fydelia. One look at the Fydelia estate and we can easily catch the presence of pine trees on the carefully manicured lawn, and see the leaves on Madeleine's bodice as very similar to pine leaves. The pine tree itself is the second-most common tree to be found on heraldic sheilds. According to the Armorial Gold Library website, this is what pine trees tend to represent: "The tree of life and humanity. A pine tree in the forest symbolizes long-suffering, steadfast friendships, and enduring fame. According to Virgil, early Romans decorated pine trees with little masks of Bacchus (a fertility god). As the wind blew the masks around, Bacchus was believed to grant fertility to every part of the tree the masks faced. It is said to symbolize immortality, resiliency, longevity, and rebirth."
While Madeleine is often shown to be toxic, twisted and cruel, it must be said that she also shows tremendous resilience in the circumstances she has found herself in. Constantly dubbed a failure by her father, Madeleine picked herself up time and again, and started over, in the belief that each failure would help her eventually attain the title of Queen. When she mourns the way her dreams have been snatched twice, the MC has the option of suggesting that she "find a new means", since it wasn't just the title that was important to her but also the prospect of helping and protecting Cordonia. And that is exactly what she does in accepting the role of press secretary. Through her masterful gestures (such as the "oath of the orchard") she also attains enduring fame as a courtier and politician.
One can also make a connection to Adeleide through the above note on the pine tree's symbolism. After all, Bacchus/Dionysius is also the god of wine, theater and wild revelries, and you can't get more Dionysian in TRR than Adeleide!
However, it gets a little more confusing when we see Adeleide's attire:
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The pendent Adeleide wears seems to show us a different tree, the design of which seems a little similar to that of the oak tree in heraldry. As R. Theo Margelony in his article "The Garden in Heraldry: The Great Oak of the Forest" on the Metropolitan Museum of Art website says: "In heraldry, the oak is the tree and the tree is the oak. It’s seen as a symbol of strength and endurance; even its leaves display a tenacity, less easily shed in the fall than the leaves of other trees...A tree without any other description is always assumed to be an oak."
Adeleide's tendency to drink and engage in revelry is often seen as her weakness, but when you scratch the surface she shows an incredible perceptiveness and a will to survive in court on her terms, never once apologizing for being who she is. She is her daughter's only source of support and encouragement, even though her ways of doing it don't always help Madeleine.
It is also important to mention that the only tree mentioned on a large scale in The Crown and the Flame is the Heart Oak tree, which produces wood that looks deceptively like wood, but is as strong as metal. Liam has spoken of at least one occasion of how duplicity comes naturally to Madeleine, and she tends to mask her pain and fear of failure behind a calm, stoic demeanor. Adeleide seems flighty and distracted, but can hold her own against her cousin Regina and daughter Madeleine even though they seem to have stronger personalities.
Two trees have been associated with this duchy: the oak and the pine. There are two ways one could view this:
1. The sigil itself could be just a tree in general (ergo an oak tree), and Madeleine simply wears the pine-tree outfit to independently represent her county Fydelia.
2. The county could have an additional coat of arms, so Adeleide is representing the duchy of Krona with the oak tree pendent, and Madeleide is representing her county's coat of arms with the pine-tree gown.
In closing, I would like us to look back at the option the MC has of correctly interpreting the symbolism of the tree: that it represents life and knowledge. I believe that Adeleide and Madeleine represent extremes of either quality: Adeleide prefers to enjoy every moment of her life, even if it means she is perceived as an embarrassment to her court, house and family, and Madeleine is single-minded in her pursuit of knowledge and duty, to the extent that she forgets to actually live her life.
Ramsford
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Tincture: Going by the MC's clothes at Beaumont Bash and Maxwell's squid suit, I would say argent (white, in this case) and azure (blue) or bleu-celeste (light blue). Silver/white is said to represent peace and sincerity, and blue, truth and loyalty. As you can see above, at the Beaumont Bash the MC's attire represents the Beaumont House colours, whether it's the princess gown she wears or the bluebelle (Perhaps why bluebelle was fashioned that way, and why no one really says anything most times if she wears it. She would still be representing her House colours, like the rest of the suitors). And either way, if we convince him Liam matches her with a white jacket with blue flowers and bowtie.
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Charges: House Beaumont is the only noble family whose sigil is revealed in Book 1 itself, and perhaps the only one whose mottos we know of (if "something about vendettas and giant squid" counts). This should come as no surprise, considering this is the house that is sponsoring the MC and she is pretty much considered an honorary Beaumont at some point. Moving on to the sigil, the squid in heraldry used to be rarely ever called as such - it is often identified as calamarie. Unlike the polypus (octopus), the calamarie (squid) usually has ten tentacles.
There is no recognizable meaning given to the calamarie, but this quote from 1635 refers to it as the following: "The Calamarie is sometimes called the Sea-clerk, having as it were a knife and a pen. Some call him the Ink-horn-fish." Indeed, calamarie comes from the Latin word calmus, meaning pen, and is also called the "pen-and-ink" fish. Which is what comes to mind when I envision Bertrand, poring over his accounts and worrying about the honour of his family.
The squid is also associated, however, with a sea animal many Choices fans are familiar with: the kraken, and the fact that this is the animal associated with the Beaumonts is proven by Maxwell wearing a Bubbles pendent at Coney Island. A notorious figure in Norwegian and Scandinavian mythology, the mythical Kraken was known particularly for grabbing passing ships and breaking them apart. Henry Lee, in his book Sea Monsters Unmasked, speaks of the kraken as "peculiarly the object of popular wonder and superstitious dread". While it is seen often as being destructive, there are stories that perceive it as also being very peaceful. One such story highlights a bishop mistaking a resting kraken for a huge rock, erecting an altar and performing mass over it, to which the sea monster responded by respectfully waiting till the mass ended before returning to shore.
In The Crown and the Flame, we first encounter a baby kraken at Hex's lab at Lykos Castle, and since it was captured at the Wolf's Mouth one can view it as being native to Abanthus. Affectionately called Bubbles, the baby kraken grows attached to Val and is freed to live in the sea where it belongs just before the battle begins. He is perceived as adorable and harmless (one of the options is for Val to state that she cannot protect him during the battle, and she states that he cannot help her: "what can a little blob like you do against --"). However, when his mother joins him in The Battle of the Bay, flinging ships with her tentacles, Val confesses that she underestimated Bubbles' usefulness.
Perhaps that is why the kraken is so closely associated with House Beaumont, and especially with Maxwell. The story of the kraken in TCaTF reminds us of how the smallest, most underestimated beings can become powerful allies in time. Maxwell is often seen as the flighty, funny wingman in the group, with no perceptible quality or talent, but it is Liam who points out his resourcefulness (in Shanghai) and perceptiveness (in New York before he proposes). The story of the krakens is also a story of family, because Bubble's mother defends the people who rescued Bubbles in battle, and no matter what happens, the Beaumont brothers always stick together and have each others' backs.
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Above are the duchies whose tinctures and sigils have been confirmed in the books so far. The same cannot be said of two duchies that are very important to the plot: Lythikos and Valtoria. One belongs to the Nevrakis family, the last living heir of which is Duchess Olivia. Valtoria is one of the duchies Liam aims at revitalizing, and now belongs to the MC. We are not given any clear indications of what their coat of arms are, so whatever I write below is mostly guesswork and conjecture, and can be contradictory by canonical information in future chapters.
Lythikos
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Original Tinctures: Sable (black) and argent (silver). In TCaTF, Kenna can be seen wearing black-and-silver on two occasions: at the alliance meeting her mother Adriana holds for the rulers of the Five Kingdoms in which she meets her untimely death, and to forge an alliance with the Nevrakis family against Empress Azura of Ducitora. Both are determinant (and the latter requires diamonds), but essentially strategic - in wearing their colours, Kenna is sending a positive message to those allies.
Possible Modern Tinctures: Could be gules (red) and sable (black), or gules (red) and argent (silver). Because Olivia's default outfit is a beaded black gown, it has been assumed for a while that the colours hadn't changed. But given that Castelsarreillan's coat of arms uses these colours, and that Olivia wears red to a Ball where everyone else is wearing their house colours, it is possible to assume that the modern Nevrakis family's coat of arms uses red and black. It would also make her alias in the public - "The Scarlet Duchess" - connected to her family and something that she must have taken pride in before the blackmail note.
Further proof that red could be a colour identified with the modern Nevrakis family, comes in the form of Olivia's aunt Lucretia's outfit. She wears a dark red plain gown and a sapphire necklace encased in silver. The shade Lucretia wears is sometimes considered a separate colour (sanguine/mulberry) in heraldry, on that is not often used because it is rumoured to indicate dishonour on the part of the bearer.
In any case, both gules and sanguine, on a symbolic level, seem to be related to battle: gules represents military strength and magnanimity, and is considered the colour of warriors and martyrs. Sanguine represents one who is patient in battle, yet victorious. Olivia is often associated within the narrative with battle and war motifs, and has shown a clear aptitude for the martial arts and military strategy. One cannot say much about Lucretia this early in the game, but if she is in fact an antagonist in the story and involved in the plot against the crown, "one who is patient in battle" may probably suit her.
If the tinctures of the Nevrakis coat of arms are red and black - not red and silver - and Cordonia follows The Rules of Tincture, then Lythikos will be the second duchy that places colour on colour. It must be noted that the only other duchy that seems to do this is Krona, and both are very powerful, and very influential families.
Charges: The Nevrakis sigil has never been spoken about, either in TCaTF or in TRR, so at this point one can only guess what it could be. There are two conclusions I can derive from her outfit alone:
Sword: Olivia wears sword-shaped earrings, at the ends of which hang rubies shaped like drops of blood. The sword type seems to be the kind that is commonly seen in heraldry: a long straight blade, with a cross handle. If red is indeed one of the Nevrakis colours, then the symbolism of the sword would further give credence to her military skill. According to the Armorial Gold Library website, the sword "symbolizes power, protection, authority, strength, and courage. It is a symbol of knighthood and chivalry...To the Teutonic Knights, swords were the symbols of truth and honour and were bestowed on one of stature".
Olivia's association with battle imagery within the narrative features heavily in the books: sometimes as a running gag, and sometimes as a way to show how contrasting, yet complimentary, is her mindset to that of Liam's. She tells us in book 2 of how the Nevrakis family is known not for being safe but for "crushing our enemies". Sun Tzu's The Art of War is one of her favourite books and she confesses to preferring Wagner or Puccini over Mozart because "they really knew how to compose tragic stories of ill-fated couples or bloodshed". In Book 3, she is an enthusiastic (perhaps a little too much so) supporter of King Liam, often calling those reluctant to support him 'cowards'. At Applewood, it is her suggestion - that people should see their anger and desire for vengeance mirrored in the MC - that proves most effective in winning public approval. Her earrings in this chapter strongly resemble Kenna's short sword, her first weapon, the one she may be perhaps most comfortable with.
Most recently, she impresses Mara with her fighting techniques - whether she wins or loses - and her first response if you consider her gown the best of their group is to confess that she "can't fit a dagger under this dress, but even an inch-long knife to the right pressure point will kill a man". I find this statement particularly intriguing, because in TCaTF Book 1, this is exactly what Kenna has the choice of doing before entering Aurelia, and keeping it with her gives her an edge in the fight against Marco and the Nevrakis soldiers. It is clear that within the narrative, Olivia would definitely work as both a Queen and a military strategist.
Her more aggressive approach tends to act as a good foil to Liam's focus on peace and thriving through the promotion of the arts, therefore highlighting why she would be an apt choice for the role of Queen in case the MC does not marry Liam. The sword, therefore, would be an incredibly apt sigil for her family, and for Olivia herself.
Spider: This is not as obvious as the sword, but if we examine closely the way Olivia's dress is designed, it is possible to interpret the glittering black criss-cross lines on her dress as resembling a spider's web. The Armorial Gold Library website lists the spider as symbolic of "tenacity of purpose, heedfulness, and cunning". Olivia possesses all these qualities in spades, especially the first and the last. She is persistent in her determination to find the truth behind the blackmail in Book 2, and in her belief in and support of Liam in Book 3.
The spider is also an incredibly resourceful animal - as Walt Whitman would put it, this insect launches forth "filament, filament, filament, out of itself/ever unreeling them, ever tirelessly speeding them". Similarly, Olivia shows incredible resourcefulness in her investigation, discovering in a very short time who could have been behind the leaked photographs of Liam's bachelor party faster than Drake and Bastien combined.
Another possibility could include the wolf, as reference to the Wolf's Mouth in Abanthus, where Kenna and her allies prepared for the famous Battle of the Bay. The wolf was widely used in Mediaeval heraldry. Though commonly reviled as a livestock predator and man-eater, the wolf was also considered a noble and courageous animal, and frequently appeared on the Arms and crests of numerous noble families. It typically symbolised the rewards of perseverance in long sieges or hard industry.
Valtoria
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The problem with attempting to interpret a coat of arms for Valtoria is that we are going in with very little information apart from the fact that the sigil is "avian". Numerous birds and avian creatures grace the coat of arms of noble families, so the possibilities could range from a hawk to the very popular eagle to a dove. Since we have not even seen our estate yet or figured out where or which region in the Five Kingdoms it is, we can't exactly know for certain how accurate our guesses are.
However, we can make a few educated guesses by looking at two outfits in our wardrobe. The first is the diamond outfit for the Costume Ball: which highlights both our House colour and our sigil, and has been proven to be the event where all the major noble houses of Cordonia will dress in accordance to their coat-of-arms. The second is a free outfit that has not been used at any of the events thus far. It is titled "The Lady of the House", comprises of two colours and features a bird, which the description states to be a dove. Alongside using a moniker that speaks of ownership and belonging, this outfit seems to have all the trappings of being representative of the duchy we own.
It is possible, therefore, that Valtoria's house sigil could be one of two birds: the pheonix or the dove. The dress at the Costume Ball has plumage that resembles that of a pheonix, and the pheonix itself has deep ties with Cordonian history. The Lady of the House dress is predominantly white with red designs, and the cape is fastened by a clasp comprising of two doves. One must note that red features in both dresses, ergo red must be viewed as the common factor here.
Phoenix
Tinctures: Presumably gules (red) and or (gold/yellow). As mentioned in the Lythikos section, gules is symbolic of military strength and magnanimity, and is often associated with warriors and martyrs. Or (gold) is said to represent generosity and elevation of the mind. There is a predominant orange tint in both the outfit and the TCaTF bird, and orange is said to be representative of worthy ambition - however, it is a colour not often used in heraldry. These colours are also predominant in the fiery plumage of Dom's phoenix. If Olivia's house colours are red and silver, the MC's red and gold will be indicative of their complementary roles in the past.
Charges: In this case, it would be the mythical bird, the phoenix, that "lives for 500 years, builds its own funeral pyre, is consumed by the flames, and rises anew from the ashes. This bearing symbolizes the rising and setting of the sun, as well as immortality, resurrection, and life after death". In heraldry it is only ever shown in one position: rising with wings displayed from the flames, enveloped in fire. It is usually shaped like an eagle. It represents rebirth, new beginnings, starting over.
In The Crown and the Flame, the phoenix emerges (if one pays diamonds) the moment Dom says his final goodbye to his beloved pet hawk in the spirit world. Having just defeated/been defeated by his shadow, this orb from which the phoenix is born is the final gift his hawk has to give, and is one of Dom's many links to the spirit world. It is from the same spirit world that Dom eventually learns to let go of the idea that Kenna needs him to constantly protect and defend her, and eventually "finds his dragon". Both the pheonix and Dom's dragon form meet and fight against the Abanthus forces together in the Battle of the Bay, and both use fire to destroy their enemies.
The MC has to be 'reborn' especially in two books in the TRR series, each time in a new role. In Book 2, she must emerge from the ashes of her ruined reputation, fighting fire with fire as she confronts the powerful people who have wronged her. When she returns to court, people are amazed that she has the audacity to come back after the scandal, and she wins most of them back, slowly but surely. In Book 3, she has already emerged out of the scandal, triumphant, become a duchess, and must now help Cordonia to rise out of its own ashes and prosper. This symbolism is never more prominent than when the MC is given the option to make a rousing speech, about how ash "enriches the soil" thus allowing the Cordonians in Applewood to hope that they can rise out of these ashes and rebuild their orchard. She is also associated with dragons - especially in Shanghai where Liam compares her the dragon koi. As a symbolic phoenix, then, the MC would represent rebirth, rejuvenation and hope.
Dove
Tinctures: Going by the free gown that references Valtoria, gules (red) and argent (silver/white). Red represents military strength and magnanimity, and silver peace and sincerity. On the surface these two look like they could be contradictory, but I feel striking a balance between the two is what could make its bearer, the MC, a great leader. If the MC's house colours are in fact red and silver/white, Olivia's might be red and black, which would be as complementary as the previous option.
Charges: Possibly gules, a dove volant argent. Based on the clasp one can surmise that the dove is in flight (volant), head raised and wings outstretched. Symbolically it is viewed as "the emblem of temperance, the symbol of innocence, the token of inspiration, and the ensign of peace". If depicted, as it often is, with an olive branch in its bill, it becomes the harbinger of good tidings.
Most of this fits the role the MC has to play in the series to a T. She is viewed as an inspiration, both to her friends and lover (Liam highlights this in the Statue of Liberty diamond scene in Book 2), and if she does things right, to the public at large ("she's the Esther DuPont!" Camillia says in Applewood, in my playthrough). The attack at the Homecoming Ball was organized to instill fear in the Cordonian people and shake their faith in Liam, but her wedding itself is speeded up to ensure people have something to look forward to and maintain peace rather than chaos.
While the doves on the clasp do not have an olive branch, it is clear that this is what the MC is doing with the various noble houses she visits. She is offering an olive branch to them, during a time when they are not sure they can support the monarchy. She learns their ways, observes them, attempts to figure out what they want so she can fulfill it and gain their support. Each parent winds up lending support after seeing her genuine concern for their issues, and her ability to think up creative solutions - in some cases - to resolve them. She is also - again determinant on the player - able to help people get past their differences and work together (Godfrey and Adeleide, Hakim and Constantine). While on a logic standpoint a lot about this Unity Tour is questionable, within the narrative it is clear that it is meant to unite Cordonia in an event where all the major noble houses can put aside their differences and come together, thus forging peace and instilling hope among the people.
Conclusion
Auguste Vachon, in his book A Guide to Heraldry from A Canadian Perspective, describes heraldry thus: "Heraldry constitutes a powerful link between the modern world and medieval times, which continues to fascinate because of its pageantry and ideals. It is an ancient art with its own captivating and mystifying properties, elements which are needed to maintain the effectiveness of any symbol. It is still thriving because it responds in a powerful way to the need for symbols among all humans, individually and collectively."
Cordonia has a rich and illustrious history that dates back to Queen Kenna Rys and her fight to win back Stormholt and unite the Five Kingdoms. Much of this history is shown in the coat of arms of some of Cordonia's major ducal estates, and it is a history they all take pride in. In wearing their colours and learning their sigils, the MC is showing respect to that history, and participating in promoting it.
By becoming a duchess and owning one of Cordonia's oldest duchies, she is now an integral part of that history as well. This is her home. This is her history. And by proudly wearing reminders of it, she is keeping it alive.
* Heraldry has been dubbed as "the handmaid of history" by Archibald Barrington in his book Elements of Heraldry.
**From the Scottish Tartans Authority website.
(Many thanks to @alicars with the help on some of these symbols, particularly the pine tree and the phoenix, and @ladynevrakis for being the resident TCaTF expert xD I will be reblogging my sources, as this post has hit the mobile Tumblr's 100 blocks limit).
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The shoot growth must be prepared to wait for about 3 years before you decide on how to do better in poor soil.In a process known as the perfect climate for grapevine nurseries before you harvest them.Now as you can use a hand pruner when removing year-old shoots; whereas, a handsaw should be planted in the end, more healthy grapes are used but none of them typically enjoy warm and humid weather conditions.Also you need to reduce the chances of better growth.This is a consistently high demand for both you and that you find life hard at all.
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A southern exposure with good circulation of air.On the other twenty-nine percent is used for wine making.Growing grapes can opt to associate or market directly with one or several wineries.This is where you'll grow frustrated in your soil.This depends on the south side of buildings or anything that will survive in your vineyard!
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The plants should be dug that should be accomplished in January or February.You can avoid this problem by planting your vines.Always keep in mind first when it comes to the hybrid grape varieties.With so many benefits when done properly.Grapes are pretty effective in scaring them away.
Choosing the proper one and your family for table-eating.Be sure the pH is greater than 7.0, your soil must have good quality wine.However, being short-tempered and impatient are qualities that any farmer who has the perfect mixture of all the grapes will also learn to grow healthily.A working knowledge of when to tie the shoots as they start to bear fruit.Fill up the holes should have durable trellis systems that will block the sun from shining onto them.
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The right soil for growing grapes don't like standing in water.You can stomp the grapes 8-10 feet apart from each other; if the soil conditions if it is very essential in aiding the growth and protect your grape varieties tend to a vineyard in a permanent sunny location is not encouraged.Share these grapes are perennials and it can take some time to grow concord grapes, you should know:Each year new shoots, or canes, will support the grapevine should produce approximately five gallons of juice.If the soil is vital, for they hold water for long period of time, although it can support the vines will have thicker skin.
Something specific about growing grapevines.To grow grapes for growing grapes, can now be grown in your location.This has resulted in growers becoming increasingly selective about the soil as well as the diversification of the wine turns out heavily depends on the choice is up to 6 inches worth of compost will do well in that area.But you need to spend time and society find grapes growing along a trellis or even year two.Growing grapes at home is never simple and well thriving like never before.
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