#akeake

[transgender-eichi]

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE

[geoplanidae2]

pink katydid (caedicia simplex) and a damselfly (xanthocnemis zealandica i think, i'm shit at identifying odonates though rip) spotted while on a walk today :-) !!!!!

the katydid was living on some akeake (dodonaea viscosa) and chowing down for an afternoon snack while i watched, so i'm guessing that's the place it's getting its pigment from!

[gayhenrycreel]

my house has a pathetic miserable excuse for a lawn, so i started planting native trees in it. shitty gardening skills from the masses means that i have to deal with my garden having piles of rocks underneath it, which probably has something to do with its former appearance as not even a lawn, but a patch of dirt and moss.

i only plant native plants. ive got cabbage trees, makomako, akeake, and taupata. i have some ferns, in particular a species i cant quite identify because theres several species that look exactly like it, but i found it in a small area behind the house, and noticed that it sends out roots under ground and then pops up as a new plant.

this fern clones itself, so ive separated a few from the parent plant and the clones are doing well. one day they will grow their own new plants, and will form a ground cover.

the ground cover also has carex grass, ideal for the sandy soil im working with. this will be a particularly important species. carex grass grows in sand dunes and sandy soil, and has evolved perfectly for it. it grows a dense mat of fine roots that hold the sand together. this is great for me because the soil is terrible and needs to be held together somehow.

carex grass and ground ferns will be perfect for native lizards. coastal skinks love carex grass, and geckos like to live under ferns and the driftwood ive incorporated.

i haven't got any lizards that ive seen yet, but i did see a wētā a while back.

most of my plants will grow nectar and fruit that native birds can eat. kōwhai, a favourite food of tūī, has symbiotic bacteria that take nitrogen from the atmosphere and turn it into a form the plants can use. ive got a few around the place, and one day theyll be able to act as a natural fertilizer for the whole garden.

my garden has only existed for a little more than a year, and its already on its way to being self sustaining

Imagine if baking bread was a skill any person living independently in their own house needed to have at least a passing familiarity with, so there were endless books, blogs and websites about how to bake bread, but none of them seemed to contain the most basic facts about how bread actually works.

You would go online and find questions like "Help, I put my bread in the oven, and it GOT BIGGER!" and instead of saying anything about bread naturally rises when you put yeast in it, the results would be advertising some kind of $970 device that punches the bread while it's baking so it doesn't rise.

Even the most reliable, factually grounded sources available would have only the barest scraps of information on the particularities of ingredients, such as how different types of flour differ and produce different results, or how yeast affects the flavor profile of bread. Rice flour, barley flour, potato flour and amaranth flour would be just as common as wheat flour, but finding sources that didn't treat them as functionally identical would be near impossible. At the same time, websites and books would list specific brands of flour in bread recipes, often without specifying anything else.

An unreasonable amount of people would be hellbent on doing something like baking a full-sized loaf of bread in under 3 minutes, and would regularly bake bread to charred cinders at 700 degrees in an attempt to accomplish this, but instead of gently telling people that their goal is not realistic, books claiming to be general resources would be framed entirely around the goal of baking bread as fast as possible, with entire chapters devoted to making the charred bread taste like it isn't charred.

Anyway, this is what landscaping is like.

[nonician225]

Gulf Kanawut

Praew Magazine / December 22, 2020

Never Stop Challenging Gulf

[princetuss]

#akeake #silver #earings #charm #magenta (at AKE AKE)

[runzpr]

💥 กระแสตอบรับอย่างล้นหลาม ในแชปเตอร์ #akeakeXVI ทางแบรนด์ขอมอบของขวัญตอบแทนแฟนคลับ #akeake แบบจัดเต็ม!!💥 ⚜️พิเศษ! Top Spender ที่มียอดสูงที่สุด ระหว่างวันที่ 24 พ.ย. - 1 ธ.ค.2562 เลือกรับฟรี! iPhone 11 จำนวน 1 รางวัล หรือเลือกรับตั๋วเครื่องบิน ไป-กลับ กรุงเทพฯ-ญี่ปุ่น โดยสายการบินไทย จำนวน 1 ที่นั่ง (เพิ่มจากเดิมอีก 1 รางวัล สำหรับ Top Spender เมื่อวันที่ 23 พ.ย. ที่ผ่านมา) . หมายเห��ุ สามารถสะสมยอดได้ โดยจะนับรวมยอดตั้งแต่วันที่ 24 พ.ย.- 1 ธ.ค. 2562 ⚜️ รับฟรี! #TheStarBag มูลค่า 9,000 บาท เมื่อมียอดครบ 7,000 บาทขึ้นไป *จำนวนจำกัด 1 ท่าน ต่อ 1 บิล* สอบถามเพิ่มเติมได้ที่ Line ID: @ a k e a k e หรือ โทร 02-251-4922 #akeake #akeakethailand #mensjewelry #siamcenter 🤖💌🏷 https://www.instagram.com/p/B5XuV5Ynw4s/?igshid=skca3iz141fu

[denisehlabel]

A little touch of #NewZealand growing out side #thecolonyhotel #haifa #akeake and #breakfasttime ❤️🇮🇱🇳🇿🙏✈️❤️ (at The Colony Hotel Haifa) https://www.instagram.com/p/B2lMdcUpj2Y/?igshid=e8npyazpbmmp

[ambulanceblog]

#AKEAKE #aw18 #akeakethailand #SIAMCENTER #onesiam #siamsynergy #yarnsiam #bangkok #thaifashiondesigner #AMB_BANGKOK (at OneSiam) https://www.instagram.com/p/BtG63iRA38r/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1xo1sg9820fal

[ainawgsd]

The black robin or Chatham Island robin (Petroica traversi) is an endangered bird from the Chatham Islands off the east coast of New Zealand. Unlike its mainland counterparts, its flight capacity is somewhat reduced. Evolution in the absence of mammalian predators made it vulnerable to introduced species such as cats and rats, and it became extinct on the main island of the Chatham group before 1871, being restricted to Little Mangere Island thereafter.

The black robin is a small, sparrow-sized bird measuring 4–6 inches. Its plumage is almost entirely brownish-black, with a black bill and brownish-black yellow-soled feet. Females are usually slightly smaller than males. Male songs are a simple phrase of 5 to 7 notes. Its call is a high pitched single note. Black robins are territorial. Males will patrol and defend their areas. Females have been known to chase away other females. They make short flights from branch to branch and do not fly long distances.

Black robins live in low-altitude scrub forest remnants. They are entirely insectivorous, and feed on the forest floor or on low branches. Black robins forage in the leaf litter on the ground for grubs, cockroaches, weta, and worms. Black robins will hunt for food during the day and night and have good night vision. Black robins like to nest in hollow trees and tree stumps. They live in woody vegetation, under the canopy of trees - beneath the branches of the akeake trees. To shelter from the strong winds and rough seas around the islands they spend a lot of its time in the lower branches of the forest. They prefer flat areas of the forest with deep litter layers.

There are now around 250 black robins, but in 1980 only five survived on Little Mangere Island. They were saved from extinction by Don Merton and his Wildlife Service team, and by "Old Blue", the last remaining fertile female. The remaining birds were moved to Mangere Island. The team increased the annual output of Old Blue (and later other females) by removing the first clutch every year and placing the eggs in the nest of the Chatham race of the tomtit, a technique known as cross-fostering. The tomtits raised the first brood, and the black robins, having lost their eggs, relaid and raised another brood.

Many females laid eggs on the rims of nests where the eggs could not survive without help. Human conservationists pushed the eggs back into the nests where they were incubated and hatched successfully. The maladaptive gene causing this behaviour spread until over 50% of females laid rim eggs. Humans stopped pushing eggs back in time to prevent the gene spreading to all birds which could have made the birds dependent on humans indefinitely. After human intervention stopped rim laying became less frequent, but 9% of birds still laid rim eggs as of 2011. Conservationists have faced some criticism that they may inadvertently do harm if they allow organisms with deleterious traits to survive and perpetuate what is maladaptive.

All of the surviving black robins are descended from "Old Blue", giving little genetic variation among the population and creating the most extreme population bottleneck possible. However, this does not seem to have caused inbreeding problems, leading to speculation that the species has passed through several such population reductions in its evolutionary past and has lost any alleles that could cause deleterious inbreeding effects. It was generally assumed that the minimum viable population protecting from inbreeding depression was around 50 individuals, but this is now known to be an inexact average, with the actual numbers being below 10 in rapidly reproducing small-island species such as the black robin, to several hundred in long-lived continental species with a wide distribution (such as elephants or tigers).

[mouser26]

"A terracotta pot?"  "A flower, blue as royal blood." "A sylleblossom? No, this isn't a…" The petals of the flower in the pot were short, round, and robust. He turned his hand down to investigate the rest of the plant. "Take care, this breed hides wicked thorns." Ignis pulled his hand away and settled it back on the pot. Sylleblossoms did not have thorns. -Ch 1  A Rusted Door

A tiny frog bounded ahead of the bumbler."Ake! Ake Akeake!" barked Oy as they darted across the street.a [...] It was insanity to assume the frog was Jake, wasn't it? Absolutely nuts. But he wasn't really assuming it; he was taking Oy's word for it. That was different, because if there was one thing you could trust Oy about, it was Jake. -Ch 2  City of Nightmares

Both quotes from 

For a Flower as Blue as Blue as Royal Blood  by JetBlackKobold

A Final Fantasy XV and Dark Tower (books) crossover

So when I get blamed for a whole chapter of a story I can’t help but draw something since well Obviously I love the story enough to get that blame.

Thus we have a sylleblossom mixed with a rose briar which might not be the most accurate but given The Rose has a tendancy to camo itself for safety I’m thinking it’s not far off the mark.

More accurately we have the best of billy-bumblers ‘Oy chasing after a toad suffering Jake (who has been turned into a NY City exclusive breed of Leopard frog). Becuase Jake and Oy for the win forever

[gunblazin]

Back to the basics. Creating characters around the Maori Batallion and Company B. Gathering together some great reference shots and will start model packs soon. Fun mahi #AkeAke #KiaKahaE

[haiimrowie]

Generally native species have native names, so in Aotearoa we have plants like harakeke, horoeka, makomako, akeake, pohutukawa

I love the push in recent years to switch to the Te Reo Māori names for them, perhaps the same might also work in other places?

Maybe people would be more willing to plant native species if they didn't have such terrible names

[wondering-earth]

Some of my favourite things sit in this window frame. A shell from Maketu my father gave to me when he was alive. I love that I can hear the sea and it reminds me of him. I love that @todd_sheridan_artist cast it in glass for me. A clear glass sculpture by our Japanese friend Nobuko who has passed away. A gentle, generous and caring woman, also an artist. Special kohatu from Taranaki, a green glass heart for my mother and some orange pigment stones from the South. And my native trees - akeake, poroporo rewarewa, koromiko, karo, a karamu tucked in behind there too. These will be my creative focus over the next four months as I explore their botanical dye potential. Thankyou @creativenz for the tautoko. https://www.instagram.com/p/CA4T5tDJcWT/?igshid=1e5e08aluev2z

[nonician225]

Mew Suppasit

Praew Magazine / December 18, 2020

Better Version of Mew

[princetuss]

#gymlife #akeake #applewatchband (at Fitness First Club ICON) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBrjXdcHawO/?igshid=14gbrldryntcb