#Vinca

[geopsych]

Last evening we had a big windstorm that knocked over plants and broke one of my pots 😢 but later the storm beings threw handfuls (handsful?) of jewels over the garden as if to say sorry.

[hyssopandbee]

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XIATION - VOID

After waking up in a colourful world without his memories, a jester must learn of his family's troubled past and confront his maker.

XIATION is an ethereal based alternate reality outside of our own.

GENERAL DISCLAIMER: XIATION and REVERIE PEAK may occasionally contain mature themes mostly intended for older audiences as well as material that may be disturbing. Discretion advised.

(VOID) MAIN CHARACTERS UNDER CUT

HAPPY (THE FOOL) - (HE/HIM) Our protagonist and jester in question! Despite the occasional terrors, he remains a cheerful explorer. With a tendency to see the bright side in everything, he can often be blinded by the active horrors of everything around him.

SPRITE - (IT/SHE) Don't let the simple appearance fool you, this bowl is entirely sentient and capable of feeling. . . ! Adoptive sibling to Happy as well as Numen's assistant. "How can I assist you?" ^ ^

NUMEN - (HE/HIM) oɿbʞodl b'xʞm Ƨ He'll do anything to keep playing the game of life his own way. Happy's father. (He rather loathes his son.) In the planning phase he was going for a ringmaster, though the fact that his life is cruel a joke translates well with his more clown-like appearance.

VINCA - (SHE/HER) The love of Numen's life, and Happy's mother. She always overcooked the food and Numen always undercooked it. While it was a beautiful dynamic in it's own way, the fact that neither of them could cook should've been her cue to run away to save the both of them trouble from the start. "He turned the divorce papers into an origami crane. I didn't know he could do origami, then again I didn't know he was sick in the head either."

[iwillneverlosemywhimsy]

7.8.24 🌸🌿

[thebashfulbotanist]

Stumbled across your blog and hope this isn’t a strange question to ask, but you seem knowledgeable on plants. I saw these strange markings (phenotype?) on some periwinkle a while back. Do you have any insight or recommendations to research more? I can’t seem to find anything about it online!

I shared this with my advisor, by the way, because I'd never seen such a thing in Vinca specifically. Because this occurs in multiple flowers, we'd guess that this is a random mutation. This doesn't seem to be a common color modification in Vinca!

(One thing to note is that Vinca minor and Vinca major can be pretty nasty invasive weeds. If you've found this outside its native range, maybe yank it, or, if you love the color, take it home!)

[cirruscastle]

Verbena and Vinca

The reference image for this painting was taken at a local park in the summer.

[uxbridge]

Ladybug on the periwinkle 🐞

[los-plantalones]

springtime 💜

[alexlacquemanne]

Vinca major

[falseandrealultravival]

Today's Haiku with Picture 878

The vincas

Outside their sleeping place

Bloom up

日々草の

寝床の外に

咲き出でる

(2023.07.11)

[woodsy-hoe]

busy moth enjoying the vinca

[hyssopandbee]

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[uncleasad]

Blooms of October 1st

It’s October 1st and “only” 80°F, so summer should be coming to an end soon. The season’s blooms are mostly gone, but I thought I would have a look around the yard to see what was still blooming; this is one of just about everything—and some bonus fauna.

Gardenia, black-eyed Susans, Chinese forget-me-not, phlox, crape myrtle, vervain, marigold, zinnias, beefsteak plant, camphorweed (yellow) and late boneset (white), vinca, spider flower (cleome) with bonus gulf fritillary butterfly, brown-eyed Susans, “volunteer” yellow cherry tomato plant.

And bonus full-sized (red-shouldered, probably) hawk, ~20 feet in the air in a pecan tree, from ~50 ft away through the screen of my bathroom window, max digital zoom. Terrible photo, fun visitor! (This hawk is 3x to 4x the size of the hawk I posted yesterday!)

[nncastle]

That little pink vinca planted itself somehow in the perfect spot.

[bukobean]

old stuff