#another coreopsis

[ainawgsd]

The chicory is blooming!

And the cosmos and coreopsis are really starting to take off too.

[roseadleyn]

𝘈𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘢.

the woman who fought to survive,

the former empress.

❝ and when she wept, stars fell from her eyes. ❞

tagging ; @parkykwho, @elychee, @mysticmeena, @loekas, @d10nsaint, @dion-s-lawyer, @hmerus, @dxmoness, @nxccolo, @sidra-29, @cerisearan, @lady-navier0357, @that-one-pretty-bitch and @giyuus0nlywife.

[neverfeltthewinterquitesodead]

no one talk about money or credit cards or anything i have the extreme urge to buy every plant in the world but in reality only the ones that naturally occur in my county.

[bigintorobotsrightnow]

Just Ted and AM enjoying the flowers, I wrote a little fic to go along with this art piece as well if anyone wants to read it— A gentle breeze cascaded across open fields of wildflowers, where AM laid peacefully amongst petals and blades of grass. His head rested upon his arms, dozing off to Ted’s delicate touch as he strung flowers into his circuits. So meticulous with the colors and arrangement. AM couldn’t help but watch from the corner of his eye with interest. 

“And what purpose does it serve for you to kill the flowers and put them in my wires,” AM pointedly asked with a chuckle in return from Ted. He plucked yet another flower, this time a black eyed susan that he perched atop AM’s beak. His fingers traced along the sharp, metal ridge and AM raised his head from his arms to glance back at himself and observe Ted’s handy work. 

“Don’t put it that way— I mean, you’re not wrong I just I thought you’d look, well… pretty,” Ted whispered the last part, a bashful shift of his eyes. 

“And?” AM inquired then stood and craned his neck to put the arrangement of flowers on full display under the sun. They shone bright against the dark chorded circuits, a bloom of color against a dreary mechanical form. And Ted awed at his vibrance against a blue sky. A warmth quick to dance across his cheeks. 

“And…I was right,” Ted uttered so breathlessly and AM could only scoff to himself at such a ridiculous notion. Pretty, only Ted would think to call a machine, pretty. 

“You’re a moron,” AM quipped back and scoured the field of flowers for the perfect one to embellish Ted with in exchange. He found himself drawn to a cluster of bright yellow coreopsis, in which his long, jagged talons reached to pluck the flowers from the earth. Only for them to crumple and tear under their razor sharp edge. He hissed through his speakers as petals fell from his claws.

“It’s alright, you just have to be gentle. Here let me help,” Ted chortled then scooted forward to take AM’s hand with his own. The computer recoiled initially then eased into Ted’s grasp. He allowed him to carefully bring his talons back underneath a nearby blossom. He eased them closed to snip them from the stem, then followed through to bring AM’s hand back to his hair where he neatly placed the flower for him.

His hold on AM’s hand sank back to his wrist and he smiled. While AM stared at the bright yellow flower that stood in stark contrast to Ted’s dark locks.. Pretty, the word echoed within his processors and he craned his neck around to find another cluster of flowers. Pristine ones that he plucked just the way Ted had shown him. He arranged them neatly into Ted’s hair, and Ted began to laugh again as they fell out shortly after he’d placed them.

“Hold on, they won't stay like that,” Ted uttered and collected the flowers back from the grass, “God I haven’t done this in… well over a hundred years at least.” 

He pulled both of AM’s hands into his lap and AM followed closely as Ted began to weave the flowers together one by one. “There, just like that, then you can make a crown,” Ted explained then left the rest to AM. He struggled at first, as his big, clunky talons lacked the tact for something so small and delicate. But AM was determined to get it right, and Ted was there to nudge him in the right direction. 

The finished product was by no means glamorous, but when AM lifted it to place on top of Ted’s head, it was…perfect. AM admired his work in silence a moment, gazing down at Ted with a warmth he wasn’t even aware of himself. But Ted’s face darkened and he turned away from him. 

“Don’t look at me like that, it’s creepy,” Ted teased and AM blew a raspberry at him. 

“What, I just thought you looked, pretty,” he echoed Ted’s words and butt him with his head before he nuzzled his beak to the side of his face.

“Oh shut up,” Ted laughed and pressed his cheek back against his.

—

[deerspherestudios]

Can't decide myself so I'm making another poll!

What's it for? Who knows ::-)

[yalocalfanficaddict]

I'm back from the dead and hear Me Out...

Royalty AU were Sir Eijirou is putting flowers in Lord Katsuki's hair.

(This is a little drabble of the idea, sorry for any spelling errors, I was tired when I wrote this)

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"I never needed protection," Katsuki stated as he twisted the stem of yet another orange coreopsis. "Yet here I am, with my unguarded heart captured by you."

Eijirou merely laughed as he slid another red anemone in his lover's light ash blond hair. "Oh, the irony," he answered with teasing lightness, a soft smile, and half-lidded eyes. Eijirou glanced down at the hands in his Lord's lap, a half-ring of coreopsis was being worked away at, as another chuckle escaped his lips.

"What are you doing, my Lord?" Eijirou asked as he cautiously attempted to pull Katsuki's hands away from the flowers to examine his ward's work.

Katsuki brought the knot of flowers to his chest, encasing them in his hands. Eijirou wondered if the vibrant shade of orange would stain his square-cut linen tunic. He prayed that it didn't. If word got out and the King and Queen knew—if the public knew—who knew what would happen to them? Eijirou couldn't have that, he cared too much for the beautiful young man in front of him.

"Did I give you permission to touch me?" Katsuki shot Eijirou a wary glare, uncertain on how to react.

Not even a beat later, Eijirou already had his hands on his folded knees and his head hung in apology. "Forgive me, my Lord, I wasn't thinking correctly and I deeply apologize."

"I was only teasing," Katsuki scoffed and sat the flowers to his side, he then rocked onto his knees and pinched Eijirou's chin between his index and his thumb, pulling Eijirou's brick-red eyes into his volcanic gaze. "But I'm afraid that a simple apology just won't seem to cut it, Eijirou."

Soft lips met brittle ones as Katsuki used his free hand to coil fingers around Eijirou's dark hair. Eijirou gasped, but immediately shut his eyes to savour the moment, cupping Katsuki's face with his calloused hands.

Even with many sharp, angular attributes, everything about Katsuki was soft. His hair. His skin. His lips. When Katsuki thought Eijirou didn't notice, the Knight had often caught his paramour sending delicate looks in his direction.

When Katsuki pulled away, they both paused, resting their foreheads against one another. Eijirou waited and waited for Katsuki to pull away first. But when he didn't, Eijirou took the hand that pinned his chin and gingerly brought it to his cheek to give it a lovingly caress.

Surprised, Katsuki pulled his head away to exam Eijirou's action. He was shocked by the sudden action of warmth. When Eijirou knew that Katsuki wouldn't further the distance between them, he brought Katsuki's wrist to his lips. The thin fabric radiated with Katsuki's warmth as Eijirou brushed his lips over the back Katsuki's wrist. Once Eijirou slowed his racing heart, he pressed a firmer kiss, one full with affection and care, on the back of the pale wrist in his hand.

"Will that suffice as a proper apology, Lord Katsuki?"

Katsuki's wide eyes narrowed as he struggled to compose himself and school his features. "Yes," he said as he slowly intertwined the hands of the future Marquess and the Knight in training. "I suppose so."

With that, the pair sat in comfortable silence, both enjoying the other's company. One the wind picked up again, blowing some of the loosely placed flowers out of Katsuki's hair, Eijirou glanced down at the faint rustling of orange. "What were you doing with those, coreopsis, my Lord?"

"Eijirou," a sigh escaped Katsuki's lips as he gathered the unfinished ring and plucked more of the surrounding flowers. "I told you to stop calling me that in private. You may be my knight, but you are also my lover. And should be treated as an equal especially when behind closed doors."

"Apologies, my Lor—Katsuki, but you are the son of the Marquess and I am only but a humble Knight." He uttered a low and pained laugh. "How could I be treated as an equal by you?"

Katsuki reached up and gave Eijirou's armoured shoulder a comforting squeeze. "Listen to me, Eijirou. I've known you since the age of seven, I've seen your strength, listened when you've had something to say, and respected your decisions. And you've done the same for me. Isn't that what equals are?" 

The Knight averted his gaze from his Lord. "I suppose so..."

"As for the coreopsis," Katsuki continued as he began twisting more flowers onto the chain. "They are for you. It shouldn't be fair that only I am decorated by the flowers of your love."

A smile melted onto Eijirou's face as he watched Katsuki loop the string of orange flowers. When Katsuki placed the floral crown onto Eijirou's head, a small smile flitted across his features. "You look as beautiful as a million sunsets. As breathtaking as thousands of sunrises. And as inviting as a fire on a bitter winter's day." Katsuki murmured as he inched impossibly close. "What have I done to appease the universe and be granted someone like you in my life, Eijirou?"

Eijirou grinned as rose tinted his cheeks and nose. "I feel like I should be the one to ask you that, Katsuki."

When their lips met for a final time, it felt like coreopsis and anemones blooming on a warm spring day.

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[argentum-1127]

the rose, the coreopsis, and, in the dark, the gold dome of the capitol converted to an alloy of moonlight, shape without detail, the myth, the archetype, the soul filled with fire that is moonlight really, taken from another source, and briefly shining as the moon shines:

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

My Garden Flowers Part 4

All photos mine. The Pennsylvania pellitory is edited for because the plant app I took the photo in washed it out. The scarlet bee balm is edited for colour because that old phone's camera sucked.

In order of appearance:

091. Pennsylvania Pellitory (Parietaria pensylvanica) A common garden weed, but as it's native it can stay in some places.

092. Perennial Flax (Linum perenne) In spite of the name she sadly didn't come back or reseed. Shame because she looked really nice in that area. Oh well. I'll have to try in another spot.

093. Showy Tick-Trefoil (Desmodium canadense) She tricked me! I thought she hadn't made it as she hadn't come up by late June so I got another one and put her in a different area...only for this one to come up. And if you're thinking, oh, she's just a late bloomer, I should have waited, well, she came up in May this year. Because of course she did.

094. Virginia Mountain Mint (Pycnanthemum virginiana) She smells like something you'd want to season steak or something with and would probably do very well at that but I've never cooked a steak before. Maybe I'll try her in pesto some day.

095. Devil's Tongue (Opuntia humifusa) She flowered for the first time last year and is flowering again this year!

096. Fragile Prickly Pear (Opuntia fragilis) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet. She's still quite little. I might break off a piece of her to try growing in that really tough spot. If she can survive summer to winter in a pot, surely that area shouldn't be too harsh for her.

097. Thrift Seapink (Armeria maritima) She's tough enough to survive winter in a pot and did so for three years, but last winter was apparently too much for her. Again, I think it was just too dry. She was pretty much only happy there in the spring and fall, though, so maybe it's just as well. The new one I planted elsewhere seems happy in all seasons.

098-099. Lance-Leaved Tickseed (Coreopsis lanceolata) Usually only the cultivars have those red markings! I'm assuming there's been some cross-pollination with other gardens because I did not plant that. My tickseeds are all straight amber. Unless she independently produced the colour on her own as a sport. Interestingly enough, none of them are showing that colouration this year.

100. White Sagewort (Artemisia ludoviciana) I wasn't actually supposed to have this one. I'd ordered the less aggressive A. frigida, but oh well. Maybe she'll attract American lady butterflies some year. Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet. She smells like something you'd use to season stuffing.

101. Blue-Eyed Grass (Sisyrinchium angustifolium) After several attempts in different areas, trying my hardest to follow what the information online said she would need, but somehow failing, this one at last seems to be doing fine.

102. Dotted St. John's Wort (Hypericum punctata) I didn't plant that. Either a gift of the wildlife or a dormant seed came to life when I removed the grass.

103. Roundhead Bushclover (Lespedeza capitata) Another one I've had several attempts with, but she seems to like it there.

104. Curlycup Gumweed (Grindelia squarrosa) Flowered nicely that year and I thought she didn't reseed because she didn't come up last year but there is a plant this year! It's good to remember that seeds can lie dormant for some time. :)

105. Upright Prairie Coneflower "Mexican Hat" (Ratibida columnifera) This is a cultivar and has since passed away during the winter.

106. Rocky Mountains Bee Plant (Cleomella serrulata) She reseeded for several years but apparently not this one. Hopefully they're just skipping a year and will come up next spring. If not I'll have to attempt a different area. Anyway, pretty much the whole plant is edible with preparation, and lots of insects love the flowers.

107. Spotted Horsemint (Monarda punctata) Beloved of many insects. Sometimes I just like to sit next to her and watch the activity.

108. Wild Black Sweet Tomato (Solanum ptychanthum) She began as a weed on this property, but not anymore. She is a welcome part of my native garden with her wonderful fruits in the summer.

109. Common Sunflower (Helianthus annuus) The wild type this time, but no evidence of reseeding this year. :(

110. Alpine Rock Cress (Arabis alpina) She flowers in April before most trees have even blossomed.

111. Field Chickweed (Cerastium arvense) By the time I got to plant her in the fall some years ago, I was sure she'd die over the winter. She didn't but struggled through the warm months. But she managed to bounce back the following spring and makes a nice little carpet now.

112. Yellow Wild Indigo (Baptisia tinctoria) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

113. Butterflyweed (Asclepias tuberosa) Finally decided to flower this year! She is the only orange species of milkweed native this far north.

114. Upright Prairie Coneflower (Ratibida columnifera) The wild type. Didn't like that spot in the winter either, so I'm trying a different area this year.

115. Fringed Blue Aster (Symphyotrichum ciliolatum) Not the most colourful or compact, but makes a nice spray of pale blue violet over her dark green foliage.

116. Bluestem Goldenrod (Solidago caesia) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet, but she's likely to this year.

117. Black Walnut (Juglans nigra) She's been on the property long before I got here. Not pictured as I haven't gotten any pictures yet since she is very tall.

118. Field Pussytoes (Antennaria neglecta) Compact and low-growing foliage create a mat, with these delicate stems poking out with what looks like kitten toes that pass for the plant's flower.

119. Aster (Symphyotrichum) I don't know what she is yet, but she decided to take up residence with my pussytoes and I guess that's okay. Haven't gotten pictures of the flowers yet.

120. Dotted Blazing Star (Liatris punctata) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

[geosesarma]

Yep. Plants Time

Pontederia cordata - Pickerelweed Verbena hastata - Blue Vervain Monarda fistulosa - Wild Bergamot Asclepias incarnata - Swamp Milkweed Sagittaria latifolia - Broadleaf Arrowhead Coreopsis lanceolata (!) - Lanceleaf Coreopsis (Nonnative to New Jersey, but often included in native seed mixes used for restoration projects, though considering its native range on the east coast ends in Virginia/How well it does up here and further north maybe it did range up here prior to glaciation?) Cyperus squarrosus - Bearded Flatsedge Solidago juncea - Early Goldenrod Echinacea purpurea (!) - Purple Coneflower (Another nonnative-native, a classic plant of midwest prairies thats been spread nationwide through both garden escapees and inclusion in native seed mixes) -8/23, Bergen County, NJ

[beardedmrbean]

Dominion Energy’s 1.6 MW Black Bear Solar project in Buckingham County is now partnered with Mountain House Apiaries, using Italian honey bees to maintain the land around the solar arrays while benefiting the local agricultural community.

The project falls under the category of agrivoltaics — another way to label pairing solar panels with agricultural uses — and is an effort by Dominion to show and see how solar can live in harmony with the land and surrounding agriculture industry. 

“A lot of people are very, very passionate about making sure the area stays agricultural,” said Adam Fillius, electrical distribution program manager at Dominion Energy, while out on a tour of the facility. “If you can provide them with clean energy and still be able to stay agricultural. That’s a win for everybody.”

The honey bee, which almost became the state’s official pollinator species by way of legislation earlier this year, is lost at a 35% rate each year, but has spiked up to a 48% loss in one year.  Honey bees are needed for about one-third of all food production.

“There’s plenty of feral bees out there, ones that live in the tree,” said Chuck Burden, beekeeper at Mountain House Apiaries. “The honey bees are endangered.”

Interconnecting with honey

The $7.5 million solar project, which can produce enough electricity to power 400 homes, came online in 2023 after the State Corporation Commission approved it as one of the first projects proposed under the VCEA.

Through a mutual contact, Fillius got connected with Burden, who reviewed some online maps to see if there were other bee farms within a five-mile radius, since bees travel within this range, that might create competition for food. He also checked to see what farms are in the area that might use herbicides, pesticides or insecticides. 

Buckingham County, located in the middle of the state, has 375 farms totaling about 80,900 acres with an average of about 216 acres per operation, according to the United States Department of Agriculture, but Burden said he didn’t find any conflicts.

“Part of my thinking is the solar farms don’t do herbicide spraying or insecticide spraying, so the earth that they’re sitting on, regardless of what it was used for prior to, is allowed to heal and get back to its natural state,” he said. Burden also saw added appeal from the security fence and trees surrounding the facility to protect the bees from bears.

Dominion has a requirement to have a percentage of their seed mix be pollinator friendly, which helps the bees, Burden said. That resulted in a traditional turf mix planted under the panels surrounded by native pollinator plants: white clover, little bluestem, black-eyed susan, eastern columbine, lance leaf coreopsis and more.

“Keeping all the clover and the other pollinators that we have mixed in with this grass that’s growing here, it’s a big benefit,” said Steve Voreh, compliance program manager in the renewable energy department with Dominion. “You can see here there’s almost no erosion at all, just a nice big green field with clover and other pollinators.”

Busy bees

Since August, the about 14-acre site Dominion Energy leases – has been home to about 45,000 bees in each of the about four hives made with wood and nailed together at the corner joints, for a total of about 180,000. 

Burden bears the costs of the bees, with room to add another four hives and possibly up to 24 across the whole site. He’ll check on them by testing the pollen for chemicals and weighing them to make sure they get enough food. He’ll harvest about 20 pounds of honey, with about 60 to 80 pounds left so the bees can make it through the winter. 

The hives join the roughly 200 that Burden has at 10 locations across the state to sell product at his shop on State Route 151 in Nelson County, turn it into mead or let his daughter consume it to avoid her needing daily allergy shots.

“Virginia is probably the allergy capital of the world,” Burden said.

The goal

Tension between solar developers and the farming community is centered around the Virginia Clean Economy Act, a 2020 law that seeks to transition Dominion to renewable generation sources that don’t emit climate changing emissions by 2045. 

Developers want to build, but farmers are concerned about land loss and disturbances.

The idea of honey bees is an extension of other agrivoltaics efforts that use sheep to rotationally graze about 40 acres of land every few days, and potentially planting crops on the middle of panels after more research is done.

“Dominion is very focused on looking at agrivoltaics right now with its solar farms,” said Tim Eberly, a Dominion spokesperson. “We’re exploring other sites where we could put bee hives.”

“Dominion is very focused on looking at agrivoltaics right now with its solar farms,” said Tim Eberly, a Dominion spokesperson. “We’re exploring other sites where we could put bee hives.”

Martha Moore, senior vice president of governmental relations with the Virginia Farm Bureau who has pushed for legislation to preserve farmland, said the concept of agrivoltaics is “interesting,” but the jury is still out as Virginia Tech conducts research on the viability of the concept.

“We’re certainly open to the discussion,” said Moore, while also wanting some more details:  “What does that entail? How is it economically viable for farmers?”

But for Burden, the project with Dominion is a “very promising” part of the transition to a natural environment.

“The other thing that’s promising is, what better opportunity do you have to be right in the middle of all the farmers to help educate them to strike a balance?” he said.

[meta-sequoia]

yeah so the reason for this sudden woadposting is because, well, last weekend i ripped out my lawn. the process:

peel up the sod (almost entirely straw and nylon backing now)

rent a rototiller because of the incredibly compacted top layer of clay that was thus revealed

avoid killing myself hefting the rototiller in and out of the van, or indeed at any other point when wrangling a noisy creature that’s made entirely out of blades and hot metal

draw out the yard in autodesk fusion (this was a bad decision; use almost any other program) as a fill-in template for planning out plantings

dig in compost and plant cover crops and groundcover and shade-tolerant perennials for under the existing trees (we are here)

dig in compost to prep food and herb garden in the sunniest part of the yard, about 200sqft because I am restraining myself

get a chipdrop, just as soon as I get a weekend together where no one needs to uh. use the driveway. spread the woodchips everywhere that needs mulch (kimberly also hated mulch, apparently?)

plant existing herbs plus cover crops in the food area, probably red clover if my seeds are still good

however, after I have begun to plant groundcover, S, the resident knitter, remembers that, hey, they wanted to grow dye plants! fortunately i am very on board with this plan, and had already left open space in my plan for when I inevitably remembered there was yet another herb I wanted to grow. candidates include:

woad: the aforementioned brassica. Also has a big-ass taproot for breaking up clay soils (which, bonus). May be weedy here, so I should look into how and if we need to control for that.

indigo (Indigofera tinctoria to be specific): a legume, sometimes grown as a cover crop?? we could use one of those. this is apparently a tropical plant but a nonprofit has managed to grow it in Point Reyes, so we might be okay.

madder: Red tones. Originally mediterranean, but a slow grower, and spreads by rhizomes, so might not be worthwhile for a small area

coreopsis (this blogger managed an orange that was practically neon)

marigolds: mostly seems to produce a lemon yellow. Still, marigolds are super easy to grow, and I’m planting them anyway (classic companion plant) so we might as well.

avocado: you can use avocado skins and pits to produce a pink or peach colored dye. And we’ve already got an avocado tree, assuming it produces next year.

black walnut: we don’t have an actual walnut tree, but there is one nearby, and the nuts are constantly going ungathered, being kicked around by pedestrians. And it seems like we’d only need a small amount, since anyone who’s ever handled an unhulled black walnut can tell you that they’re a pretty concentrated dyeing agent, whether you like it or not. End color seems to be a chocolatey brown.

I am not really a knitter, so I know nothing about this, but I am excited to learn, and to experience weird small-batch custom yarns, dyed with regeneratively-farmed hyper-local plant-based ingredients (aka just some plant I picked up near my house).

[fox-bright]

Potted up half a dozen Asclepias tuberosa seedlings this morning; started dahlia seeds and Coreopsis lanceolata.

Have to hold off on all the really fun stuff for another few weeks--nightshades grow quickly!-- but I'll be getting herb seeds into a tray today or tomorrow, I think.

[anipgarden]

Local plant sale 1/2

By the time we got there the native plants were cleared the fuck OUT. I’m talking empty table and maybe 6 plants left from a vendor. Nothing but some tomatoes, peppers, ginger roots, and way too many houseplants remained. I did manage to buy a goldenmane coreopsis though!

Did hear that the zoo is hosting an art sale where they’re also apparently selling plants and one of the vendors will be there. So I guess that’s another plant sale to look forward to, in May this time. And I guess that makes this local plant sale 1/3.

Though there was another plant sale that happened on the 1st. Where they were selling milkweed. And I didn’t hear about it until today…. RIP.

Got sent into Home Depot later to buy potting soil and found a bigass bag of liatris bulbs. It just… spoke to me. 55 bulbs! For $15 dollars!

I bought it.

I don’t know where all of these are going to go yet but boy I sure do have them.

The ones I planted a few weeks back are doing well! I was starting to wonder if I should mix in some other flower seeds into the pots, but considering my most recent purchase… more liatris bulbs, probably.

The next plant sale is next Saturday, and it’s an explicitly native plant sale, so fingers crossed! I’ve learned my lesson—don’t get to a plant sale late.

[mysterycharacterflowers]

A bouquet of lotuses, dandelions, sunflower, gerberas, forget me nots, nemophilas, narcissus, lilies, purple and light blue hydrangeas, leaved corepsis, yellow cosmos, roses, peonies, periwinkles, bellflowers, white paper daisies, christmas rose, dahlias and carnations VS Buttercups

First, let's talk about the bouquet of lotuses, dandelions, sunflower, gerberas, forget me nots, nemophilas, narcissus, lilies, purple and light blue hydrangeas, leaved corepsis, yellow cosmos, roses, peonies, periwinkles, bellflowers, white paper daisies, christmas rose, dahlias and carnations

Meaning and why: So fuckin uhh starting with the ones for the group as a whole, lotuses and dandelions. Both represents end and rebirth representing this group disbanding and how it's necessary and not a bad thing because their time in the spotlight is up and they've paved the way for the new generation of idols to flourish. Now for the individual ones. Character 1, sunflowers and gerberas. Sunflower can represent her sunny-ness and how she's the light of the group? Er like she's the one to help them grow and all that stuff. She's like the sun. Gerberas can represent hope and running forward which is like a big part of her character. Like her catchphrase is literally "fight on". She rarely gives up and always moves forward. For Character B, forget-me-nots and nemophilas. Forget-me-nots can mean true love and remember me. Nemophilas can mean solemnity and prosperity. For Character C, narcissus and lilies. Lilies can mean pureness which yeah she's pretty stereotypically pure. Also she's gay as fuck but that's not really saying much in the gay as fuck franchise. Narcissus can mean selfishness and conceit. She's the opposite of that. She usually just follows whatever Character A and Character D does. Like most of her decisions have been made by someone else or are for the sake of someone else. She is the least selfish out of everyone in the franchise. But, once she had a chance to go away to follow a dream but like. Basically she doesn't want to stress out Character A and Character A doesn't want to hold her back and it ends with Character C staying not because Character A wants her to but because she wants to. For Character D, purple and light blue hydrangeas. Purple hydrangeas abundance, elegance and royalty. And light blue ones represents forgiveness, regret and rejection. For Character E, Lance Leaved Coreopsis and yellow cosmos. The first one means always cheerful, and the second one means optimism, happiness, and the contagiousness of laughter. For Character F, roses and peonies. Roses meaning chances depending on their color, examples being beauty, love, friendship and fascination. Peonies mean romance, prosperity, good fortune. For Character G, periwinkles and bellflowers. The first one means faith, trust, and everlasting love, and the second one means gratitude, constancy, support, and romance. For Character H, white paper daisies and Christmas rose. White laker daisies means purity and innocence, while christmas roses mean relieve my anxiety. For Character I, dahlias and carnations. The first one means devotion, love, beauty and dignity, and carnations means Love, Captivation and Distinction Description: They're the legendary 9.

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Now, let's talk about the buttercups

Meaning: growth, youthfulness, good health. Why this flower was chosen: this character is heavily associated with this flower Description: — Mischievous, if perhaps a bit lonely. Resenting their own species, they found comfort in a family of another kind. They would go on to sacrifice everything for this family. — They killed themself for their family, but their brother also got killed because of it. They are a ghost who narrates the story now.

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[bluefury5]

Wip Briarlight ref ^^

Not finished obviously, but thought I'd share anyway!

The flowers/leaves seen here are tickweed (or another name for it is coreopsis also). They symbolize the wearer being always cheerful, and I thought that would fit for Briarlight, seeing as she's so hopeful and positive throughout the books ^^

I'll add her sexuality later, and possibly more info

[shuckleberrysims]

Hey there guys! Welcome to another challenge I’ll attempt to complete, which is Sims in Bloom created by @a-sims-garden which was then converted by @capygarden!

This is our protagonist, Linden Coreopsis!

His Gen Rules:

Try not to buy ingredients from the fridge/grocery store often - grow your own produce, go fishing, etc.

Grow a PlantSim baby

Grow 5 perfect plants

Marry a Sim who shares the ‘Loves the Outdoors’ Trait