#Tiarella

[geopsych]

Front steps, the containers are filling in.

[faguscarolinensis]

Tiarella cordifolia / Heart-Leaved Foamflower at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC

[froynlaventje]

The second try at playing the Parviflorum family starts with chimes. Ardisia is pregnant again.

Tema Cooke (Strongarm) walks by and Helictotrichor greets her. She ends up talking with Ardisia until late at night, the two pregnant women really seem to like eachother.

Disporum grows up to childhood and his biggest want is to become friends with big sister Bumelia.

The next day Conopholis spots Sanjay Ramaswami walking by and runs out to greet him.

Helicto has been enjoying himself by catching bugs but it seems the bugs have decided they don't want to be caught anymore.

Apparantly Abhishek came along with his father Sanjay and he and Disporum seem to like eachother.

Helicto remembers he can make some food for himself on the hot rocks outside (toy oven). And after that all the kids will use it a lot for the rest of the round.

Silphinum and Tiarella grow up to toddlers. Silphinum is the first of the children to inherit Ardisia's blonde hair! The rest are all redheads so far.

Linum and Disporum have dinner together just after midnight on Thursday.

And in the morning Ardisia gives birth to triplets again! The boy is called Poncirus and the two girls are called Alternanthera and Dandranthema.

The next few days are spent taking care of kids and gardening, and Saturday is here. Ardisia and Conopholis now have nine children so having lunch together seems like a luxury, even if they are standing up while eating.

Sunday night Dandranthema and Alternanthera become toddlers and Poncirus turns out to be our second blonde haired toddler boy.

On Monday morning Ardisia and Conopholis try for another baby without success. Ardisia wants to have ten children so they are only one child away from reaching this goal.

The round ends in complete chaos, with six unhappy toddlers and lots of crying.

[pnwnativeplants]

i think Tiarella trifoliata but not actually sure

[bethlehem-garden]

The foam flower (Tiarella cordifolia) is a perennial plant that prefers moist, well-drained soil and requires partial to full shade. Watering should be consistent, keeping the soil evenly moist but not waterlogged. This plant is native to the eastern United States, including the Appalachian Mountains. Ideal for woodland or rain gardens, this plant will produce the delicate, foam-like flowers of its namesake in late spring to early summer.

[literaryvein-reblogs]

Word List: Flower

beautiful words with "flower" to plant in your next poem/story

Blanketflower - gaillardia—i.e., any of a genus (Gaillardia) of American composite herbs with showy flower heads

Cuckooflower - a bitter cress (Cardamine pratensis) of Eurasia and North America; ragged robin (i.e., a perennial herb, Lychnis flos-cuculi, of the pink family cultivated for its pink flowers with narrow-lobed petals)

Dayflower - any of a genus (Commelina) of herbs of the spiderwort family having one petal smaller than the other two

Flowerage - a flowering process, state, or condition

Floweriness - of, relating to, or resembling flowers; marked by or given to rhetorical elegance

Foamflower - a spring-flowering herb (Tiarella cordifolia) of eastern North America that has white flowers with long stamens and no stem leaves; also called: false miterwort

Gillyflower - carnation (i.e., a plant of any of numerous often cultivated and usually double-flowered varieties or subspecies of an Old World pink, Dianthus caryophyllus, found in many color variations; also: a moderate red; archaic: the variable color of human flesh)

Globeflower - any of a genus (Trollius) of plants of the buttercup family usually with globose yellow or orange flowers

Nonflowering - producing no flowers; specifically: lacking a flowering stage in the life cycle

Pasqueflower - any of several anemones with palmately compound leaves and large usually white or purple early spring flowers

Passionflower - any of a genus (Passiflora) of chiefly tropical woody tendriled climbing vines or erect herbs with usually showy flowers and pulpy often edible berries

Satinflower - honesty; blue-eyed grass; common chickweed; flannelflower; a plant or flower of the genus Godetia

Strawflower - any of several plants having everlasting flowers

Twinflower - a prostrate subshrub (Linnaea borealis) of the honeysuckle family that is found in cool regions of the northern hemisphere and has fragrant usually pink flowers

Waxflower - a climbing plant (Stephanotis floribunda) of Madagascar often cultivated in the greenhouse for its fragrant white flowers; an epiphytic tree (Clusia insignis) of British Guiana; indian pipe; spotted wintergreen

If any of these words make their way into your next poem/story, please tag me, or leave a link in the replies. I would love to read them!

More: Word Lists

[simstorian-blog]

L O T R E V I S I O N - Accommodating the Suite Life Mod by Lot51

The S Hotel @ Uptown

(CC List + Links)

(Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with this hotel by any means. I simply took the 'S' from San Myshuno and slapped 'Hotel' after it. The '@ Uptown' is because I built it within the Uptown neighborhood of said Sims 4 world.)

World Map: San Myshuno

Area: Stargazer Lounge

Lot Size:  40 x 30

Amenities: Bar, Lounge, Nightclub, Pool, Restaurant, Wedding Venue

(These are the venue types that my build meets the requirements of)

Gallery ID: Simstorian-ish

Packs Needed

Expansion Packs

City Living

Eco Lifestyle

For Rent

Get Famous

Get Together

Get To Work

Island Living

Snowy Escape

Game Packs

Dine Out

My Wedding Stories

Parenthood

Spa Day

Vampires

Stuff Packs

Backyard Stuff

Home Chef Hustle

Moschino

Romantic Garden

Recommended Gameplay Mods

(Please read through what each mod has to offer before deciding if it fits your gameplay style or not.)

Dine Out Reloaded

Lock/Unlock Doors for Any Lot

MC Command Center

No Fade On Everything

Spawn Refresh

Build Mode

Harlix

Bafroom (Tall Windows + Tall Doors)

Harrie

Octave Pt. 2 (All Doors)

LittleDica

H&B Store (Lit Letters)

Peacemaker

Old World Wild Plank Flooring

Shaker Paneling

Pierisim

Stefan Kitchen (Tiles)

Syboubou

Lift Elevator (This is NEEDED)

TaurusDesign

Judith Living Room (Walls)

Buy Mode

BlueTeas

Milano Living (Chandelier Medium)

Safford Entertainment Room (Morris Barstool)

Samara Dining (Chandeliers, Sconce)

Felixandre

Chateau Pt. 5 (Tall Bookshelf Pieces)

Grove Pt. 2 (Dining Tables)

Hanraja

S005 Soundbar

Harlix

Baysic Bathroom (Toilet, Toilet Roll, Towel Clutter)

Kichen (All Glasses)

Kichen 2.0 Pt. 2 (All Glasses)

Livin’ Rum (Frame TV)

Orjanic Pt.2 (Chaise, Cushions, Rug, Sectional Sofa)

Tiny Twavellers (Director Chair)

Harrie

Coastal Pt. 5 (Nursery End Table)

Coastal Pt. 6 (Mirror Landscape, Sink Vanity Table)

Coastal Pt. 7 (Bedside Lamp, Leaning Mirror)

KiwiSims4

Blockhouse Kids (Bedroom Lamp)

Max20

Happily Ever After Kit (Bouquet Magnificent, Dining Chair)

No Style x Woodland

Tamasusja Booth Corner

Onyxium

Heilbronn Dining Chair

Pierisim

Domaine Du Clos Pt. 2 (Account Book)

Stefan Living (Curtains + Rod Covers)

PlushPixels

Into Summer (Olive Tree)

Ravasheen

Enjoy the Lentil Things

Shake and Shimmy Dance Floor

Simplistic

RPC x Loloi Rugs II

Sooky88

Oil Paintings

SurelySims

Office Space (Wall Clock Locations)

Syboubou

Bridgerton Wedding (Buffet Table)

Pour Toujours (Petals on the Floor, Tables)

Tuds

IND 02 (Bar, Island Counters, Wine Rack)

IND 03

Valia

Arty Bathroom

Wondymoon

Tiarella Garden Umbrella

DO NOT REUPLOAD MY LOTS.

DO NOT CLAIM THEM AS YOUR OWN.

DO NOT PLACE BEHIND A PAYWALL.

Tray Files: DOWNLOAD

[rebeccathenaturalist]

An App Does Not a Master Naturalist Make

Originally posted on my website at https://rebeccalexa.com/app-not-master-naturalist/ - I had written this as an op-ed and sent it to WaPo, but they had no interest, so you get to read it here instead!

I have mixed feelings about Michael Coren’s April 25 Washington Post article, “These 4 free apps can help you identify every flower, plant and tree around you.” His ebullience at exploring some of the diverse ecological community around him made me grin, because I know exactly what it feels like. There’s nothing like that sense of wonder and belonging when you go outside and are surrounded by neighbors of many species, instead of a monotonous wall of green, and that is a big part of what led me to become a Master Naturalist.

When I moved from the Midwest to the Pacific Northwest in 2006, I felt lost because I didn’t recognize many of the animals or plants in my new home. So I set about systematically learning every species that crossed my path. Later, I began teaching community-level classes on nature identification to help other people learn skills and tools for exploring their local flora, fauna, and fungi.

Threeleaf foamflower (Tiarella trifoliata)

Let me be clear: I love apps. I use Merlin routinely to identify unknown bird songs, and iNaturalist is my absolute favorite ID app, period. But these tools are not 100% flawless.

For one thing, they’re only as good as the data you provide them. iNaturalist’s algorithms, for example, rely on a combination of photos (visual data), date and time (seasonal data), and GPS coordinates (location data) to make initial identification suggestions. These algorithms sift through the 135-million-plus observations uploaded to date, finding observations that have similar visual, seasonal, and location data to yours.

There have been many times over the years where iNaturalist isn’t so sure. Take this photo of a rather nondescript clump of grass. Without seed heads to provide extra clues, the algorithms offer an unrelated assortment of species, with only one grass. I’ve gotten that “We’re not confident enough to make a recommendation” message countless times over my years of using the app, often suggesting species that are clearly not what I’m looking at in real life.

Because iNaturalist usually offers up multiple options, you have to decide which one is the best fit. Sometimes it’s the first species listed, but sometimes it’s not. This becomes trickier if all the species that are suggested look alike. Tree-of-Heaven (Ailanthus altissima), smooth sumac (Rhus glabra) and eastern black walnut (Juglans nigra) all have pinnately compound, lanceolate leaves, and young plants of these three species can appear quite similar. If all you know how to do is point and click your phone’s camera, you aren’t going to be able to confidently choose which of the three plants is the right one.

Coren correctly points out that both iNaturalist and Pl@ntNet do offer more information on suggested species—if people are willing to take the time to look. Too many assume ID apps will give an easy, instant answer. In watching my students use the app in person almost everyone just picks the first species in the list. It’s not until I demonstrate how to access the additional content for each species offered that anyone thinks to question the algorithms’ suggestions.

While iNaturalist is one of the tools I incorporate into my classes, I emphasize that apps in general are not to be used alone, but in conjunction with field guides, websites, and other resources. Nature identification, even on a casual level, requires critical thinking and observation skills if you want to make sure you’re correct. Coren’s assertion that you only need a few apps demonstrates a misunderstanding of a skill that takes time and practice to develop properly—and accurately.

Speaking of oversimplification, apps are not a Master Naturalist in your pocket, and that statement —while meant as a compliment–does a disservice to the thousands of Master Naturalists across the country. While the training curricula vary from state to state, they are generally based in learning how organisms interact within habitats and ecosystems, often drawing on a synthesis of biology, geology, hydrology, climatology, and other natural sciences. A Master Naturalist could tell you not only what species you’re looking at, but how it fits into this ecosystem, how its adaptations are different from a related species in another ecoregion, and so forth.

Map showing Level III and IV ecoregions of Oregon, the basis of my training as an Oregon Master Naturalist.

In spite of my criticisms, I do think that Coren was absolutely onto something when he described the effects of using the apps. Seeing the landscape around you turn from a green background to a vibrant community of living beings makes going outside a more exciting, personal experience. I and my fellow nature nerds share an intense curiosity about the world around us. And that passion, more than any app or other tool, is fundamental to becoming a citizen naturalist, Master or otherwise.

Did you enjoy this post? Consider taking one of my online foraging and natural history classes or hiring me for a guided nature tour, checking out my other articles, or picking up a paperback or ebook I’ve written! You can even buy me a coffee here!

[vandaliatraveler]

Despite its undignified name, Muddy Creek is a lovely mountain stream that normally runs fast and clear on its steep descent to Cheat River. But after a week of heavy rain in NC-WV, the stream looked a bit murky yesterday. Not even the sediment washing away from the mountains dims its beauty in my eyes. And the enchanting, moss-encrusted forest along its bank holds its own late summer treasures.

From top: great blue lobelia (Lobelia siphilitica), which pairs beautifully with cardinal flower to provide late summer color in a native wildflower garden; white wood aster (Eurybia divaricata), which is the most common of the shade-loving white asters in this area; crooked-stemmed aster (Symphyotrichum prenanthoides), also known as zigzag aster, whose clasping, spatula-shaped leaves distinguish it from big-leaf aster, another woods-loving aster with lavender flowers; blue-stemmed goldenrod (Solidago caesia), whose spreading, yellow-flowered stems provide stunning late-season color in a native wildflower garden; an intensely-green collage of moss, woodland stonecrop (Sedum ternatum), Christmas fern (Polystichum acrostichoides) and heartleaf foamflower (Tiarella cordifolia), which I am trying hard to reproduce in my own native wildflower shade garden; the shaggy-maned stem of Coker's Amanita (Amanita cokeri), one of the most impressive mushrooms of Appalachia's summer forests; beech-drops (Epifagus virginiana), a parasitic plant that grows and subsists on beach tree roots; the bright red berries of false Solomon's seal (Maianthemum racemosum); yellow jewelweed (Impatiens pallida), whose explosive seed pods give the plant its other common name, pale touch-me-not; and narrow-leaved tick-trefoil (Desmodium paniculatum), also known as panicled tick-trefoil, a late summer pea whose sticky seed pods commonly hitch rides on shoes and boots.

[geopsych]

Greens and tiarella in the front garden.

[junyphotos]

‘Spring Symphony’

Foamflower

Tiarella Cordifolia

March 22nd, 2024

[froynlaventje]

The third round for the Parviflorum family starts with Disporum becoming a toddler and Ardisia is still pregnant.

They don't have to deal with four toddlers for long though because soon Bumelia, Helictotrichor and Linum grow up to children and things get a lot easier.

Unfortunately Ardisia's pregnancy ends in a miscarriage.

This is the first household where the parents are rolling wants to encourage their children. They are really showing that they are both high motivation sims.

Ardisia and Conopholis have a nice evening together and she becomes pregnant but it ends in miscarriage again. That didn't last long at all. Meanwhile I gave the kids an invisible toy oven over a fire so Helictotrichor can fullfill his want to gain a cooking skill point.

Conopholis and Disporum are really close and have a lot of fun together. The older kids really enjoy fishing so the household has plenty of food in the cellar fridge and Ardisia becomes pregnant yet again. Let's hope my poor simmie can give birth to a healthy baby this time.

Conopholis causes a fire while making dinner and the motive decay that follows almost causes another miscarriage for Ardisia...

But just before the end of the round she gives birth to a healthy little girl they name Tiarella.

[nncastle]

Moved like 10 ostrich ferns today and began to expand the shade garden in the back. Split hostas and painted ferns. Also planted two foam flowers (Tiarella sugar and spice) in the shade garden.

[plantanarchy]

This is year three of my front perennial bed and it's still coming into its own and is a bit more of a botanical garden than anything planned or coordinated as far as height, bloom time, or organization goes, but!!! It was bare grass up to the foundation just three springs ago.

Blooming right now: woodland poppy, tiarella, brunnera, newly-planted ground orchid, and forget me nots

[neverfeltthewinterquitesodead]

tiarella cordifolia heartleaf foamflower albert fw vick jr, 1988, lady bird johnson wildflower center

[lefttoesucker]

Info-dumping time! - okay soI study gardening and floristry, however, we do have mandatory landscaping classes as well. And recently we got a homework to design a flower-bed with 4 or more perennial flowers.

Anyway that means I can cause war flashbacks to my elder emo landscaping teacher by submitting a flower-bed inspired by My chemical romance and I figured why not add it here :)

That's the vision

And here are the used plants :)

1. Datura arborea 'alba'

2. Cimicifuga ramosa 'atropurpurea'

3. Fritillaria persica

4. Dicentra spectabilis 'alba'

5. Astilbe arendsii 'happy spirit'

6. Helleborus 'dark and handsome'

7. Tiarella ‘dark Star’

8. Convallaria majalis