#blue vetch

[greencheekconure27]

[allthatgreen]

[ayanos-pl]

川べりにクサフジが咲いている（4月28日）

[dansnaturepictures]

11th June 2024: Roses, view, kidney vetch and Swollen-thighed Beetle on my lunch time walk at Lakeside Country Park today

Stunning views of singing Whitethroats, the Great Crested Grebe chicks seen flying which was lovely, Moorhen and chick seen and heard nicely, Meadow Browns, Blue-tailed and Common Blue or Azure Damselfly, lesser stitchwort, yellow rattle, poppy, viper's-bugloss, scabious and young House Sparrow and Goldfinch at home were other highlights today.

[quaranmine]

april is the best month in texas fr indian paintbrush bluebonnet crimson clover NOBODY is doing it like her!!!

[inthecityofgoodabode]

April 2024: Sunday Quest

In this post, I mentioned finding some irises growing wild & receiving a quest from my queen to retrieve seven. This is the tale...

It's always nice when something is where you left it... like my walking stick that I leave at this abandoned building site:

Hairy vetch in the wild:

The woods where the great blue herons roost:

Like any good adventure, there were side quests. The first was to locate an ear bud I had lost in this field the day before. It was not recovered:

But I did get to see a lot of crawfish chimneys:

The second side quest was to venture into the woods to see if I could spot some nesting herons.

Wood ducks. This is as close as they'd let me get:

This was the only great blue heron that I saw in the woods:

I finally got back on track & headed towards where the irises were located with a couple of distractions on the way:

Heading home with a backpack full of irises for my queen. From start to finish, the trek was 6.75 miles:

The well-earned reward - steak & peas with grilled peppers, onions & fruit:

[lesbinewren]

andor does not get credit for its comedy

[mothmiso]

Zypern (2) (3) (4) (5) by tombomba2

[walkman-cat]

the winning wip is EIDOLON VETCH!!! yippee :D!!

i've got lots of long rambles and tagged posts under the #eidolon vetch tag wbwbwbw! in case you wanna know more

BADLY EXPLAINED WIPS TAG :D

Rules: Explain each of your WIPs badly, then have people vote on them in a poll. Reveal the name of the winning WIP afterwards.

thank you @vsnotresponding for tagging me :D!!

thief gang have to deal with the fact that they have lives outside of heists. shenanigans ensue.

2. local gentleman thief realises local private eye is also God (but God is dead?????). how will this tie into the mystery she has tasked herself with solving?

3. what if superhero story but it's about being trans and adhd and is also set in athens!! a lot of physics-based superpowers for a story by someone who isn't studying physics lol

4. being a gcse student sucks. depression sucks. the power of friendship, cats, and a weird little girl save me! save me the power of friendship, cats, and a weird little girl!

5. con artist who is alive but also isnt joins supernatural detective agency run by twins who both can and cant see/hear ghosts. ends up with a family. crazy how that happens

hmm and tagging (no pressure)... @alt-rnativv, @pigeonwit, @piedoesnotequalpi or anyone who feels like talking about their stories/wips :)

[yearningaces]

About those valentine's requests, how about:

A history nerd nerding out with their ancient dragon friend that hoards books and relics from the past.

The cave was silent. Carved out of the side of a mountain, with tunnels and caverns, hidden nooks and crannies, and a deep pit filled to the brim with the blue dragons treasure. And within that pit, lies the massive dark blue scaled dragon, lazily curled up, smoke slowly rising from their snout. The moment is peaceful- tranquil even. Absolute rela-"You have a first account story of the burning of the Alexandria library!!!" A human cried out, making the giant lizard grin brightly, watching his little companion dig through his treasures, producing the old papers, only held together by his own magic, ensuring the items in his keep are timelessly preserved.

"That I do. Written in the late year of 48 BC. The only copy as well."

Though his tone was collected, he quickly evolved to a more delighted and quick paced tone. "And you of course know how it was of course set ablaze by Julius Caesar during his civil war?"

"And that no one actually knows how many of the books are truly gone because so many did burn but there are those that were saved or recreated!" You chirp happily in response, clutching the old book to your chest as you look up at Earen from your spot among his coiled form.

The dark scales dragons grin only grew as he lowered his gigantic maw, nuzzling gingerly against the side of your head. "My little scholar." He cooed softly, a newfound determination in his eyes as his snout lowered to the pile of old writings, nosing aside some in search of a particular- "Ah. Here we are." And with that, he lifted a specific light leather bound book, depositing it before you as you set the one in your hands to the side to read later.

"what's this?" You question, lifting the surprisingly heavy book that has no name, no author, just old leather.

Earen perks up, waiting with baited breath for you to open this specific book, waiting for your reaction.

And so, you open the book.

"..." it's a book... You read the first few words.

"... THE DOMESTICATION OF LENTILS, VETCH, PISTACHIOS, AND FUCKING ALMONDS?!"

Earen roars in a booming delight at your excitement. "Humans! You have been the most fascinating aspects in history, and 11,000 BCE Greece is where things started happening! Of course other advancements were made, but I found a hand drawn depiction of this! I even had a scholar lable and bind the pages for me!"

And this was how the night went. One book after another, a conversation of excitement and the next book found.

[blackswallowtailbutterfly]

My Garden Flowers Part 6

All photos mine, unedited.

In order of appearance:

151. Canada Ginger (Asarum canadense) Not a ginger; the root just tastes like it. Flowers are springtime only and you miss them entirely if you don't get close to the ground!

152. Ohio Spiderwort (Tradescantia ohiensis) Was able to get her by calling up one of the plant places I order from directly during the COVID years. Their usual boxsets weren't listed as available so I asked if they ever would be that year, as a repeat customer, and listed the plants of theirs that I'd like and they put it together for me! She's a morning flower only, but she's stunning.

153. Harebell (Campanula rotundifolia) One of my very first. Grassy green foliage and cute little light blue bell-shaped flowers.

154. Panicled Aster (Symphyotrichum lanceolatum) Well behaved for an aster. When she starts growing onto the sidewalk I ease her back into the bed and she stays.

155. Smallflower Columbine (Aquilegia brevistyla) You can eat these flowers too but she's not quite as profuse as her taller red cousin so I'll wait before trying one.

156. Swamp Milkweed (Asclepias incarnata) Considered much more well-behaved behaved than her cousin the common milkweed, and therefore favoured in garden settings, I find she's not nearly as fragrant, but her flowers are stunning. In spite of her name she's quite drought tolerant. And while she doesn't spread by rhizome (well-behaved), she does seed prolifically. But like her common cousin, her young pods, young shoots, and flower clusters are edible cooked!

157. Wild Bergamot (Monarda fistulosa) She moves around. Died back in the area I initially planted her but has popped up in several places nearby and considerably further away. Her dried flowerheads still smell amazing after the winter if you give them a squeeze.

158. Wild Geranium (Geranium maculata) A beautiful plant from spring to fall. Her foliage is roundy in the early spring and then she has these wonderful pink flowers against the dark green of her leaves. After the flowers are done the foliage is still interesting, and then it turns red in the fall.

159. Sweet Corn (Zea mays saccharata rugosa) Not technically native to the area and can't survive the winter, but grown here long before colonization. She makes a rather handsome garden plant in my opinion.

160. Purple Poppymallow (Callirhoe involucrata) Just a strikingly beautiful groundcover for a dry area.

161. Smooth Rose (Rosa blanda) She doesn't bloom very often and suckers very slowly, but a non-aggressive rose is exactly the sort I need for property that isn't mine.

162. Anise Hyssop (Agastache foeniculum) Beloved of the bumblebees, and I like to use her in flavouring my pies.

163. Redroot Amaranth (Amaranthus retroflexa) Not pictured as I don't have pictures yet. Not sure if she reseeded this year. I rescued her from a fallow area and she has reseeded at least once, so we'll see.

164. Purslane (Portulaca oleracea) Not pictured as I don't have pictures yet. Also one I rescued from a fallow area. I don't know why so many people don't like purslane. She's a cute succulent groundcover in my opinion, and a nice snack too.

165. Crowfoot Violet (Viola pedata bicolor) Not pictured as I don't have pictures yet.

166. Mountain Laurel (Kalmia latifolia) The only one I planted without any known food use--it's poisonous--but purely because I saw a picture in David Attenborough's The Secret Life of Plants and always wanted one.

167. Wild Chives (Allium schoenoprasum) Beautiful flowers and tasty all around. What more could one want?

168. Field Thistle (Cirsium discolor) The parent of that field thistle, which appears to be dead in both halves, sadly, though her younger siblings are still alive. Her flowers are quite lovely and I do hope to see them in the garden next year if they don't get cut too.

169. Canada Milk Vetch (Astragalus canadensis) Interesting yellow-green flowers become deceptively inviting bean-looking fruits, but those don't have a known edible use. Other parts do, though.

170. Rattlesnake Master (Eryngium yuccifolium) I can't remember if she's named as such because she was used to treat snakebites back in the day or if her flowerhead kind of looks like snake's rattle. Anyway she's interesting.

171. Compass Plant (Silphium laciniata) Not pictured because she hasn't made a flowerstalk yet. Must be young. Her relative the cup plant has been flowering reliably every year.

172. Heath Aster (Symphyotrichum ericoides) Not pictured as I haven't got any pictures yet.

173. Rough Blazing Star (Liatris aspera) A very drought-tolerant blazing star species. Not quite as showy as dense blazing star but a nice tall plant for the back of a sunny garden.

174. Blanketflower (Gaillardia xgrandiflora) A hybrid with one parent native to here and the other out west. Not sure if she's fertile or not. Got her because I needed another plant for the minimum order and she looks nice enough not to be mistaken for a weed.

175. Graceful Cinquefoil (Potentilla gracilis) Flowering in her first year in the garden! She's hopefully going to form a groundcover in a relatively short period, over which her flowerstalks will sway in the breeze.

176. Pale Purple Coneflower (Echinacea pallida) Glad I got pictures before the landlord cut her. (:

177. Wild Savoury (Clinopodium arkansana) Not pictured as I don't have pictures yet.

178. Small-Leaved Pussytoes (Antennaria parvifolia) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

179. Common Yarrow (Achillea millefolium nigrescens) Not pictured as I haven't seen any flowers yet.

180. Red Elder (Sambucus pubens) Not pictured as she hasn't flowered yet.

[greencheekconure27]

[project-sekai-facts]

any chance you happen to have a list of flowers in everyones 1st year birthday cards?

i just got these off the wiki so apologies if any of this is wrong

Virtual Singer

Miku: sunflowers, gentians, hibiscus, chinese milk-vetch (on her dress)

Rin & Len: pansies, lady slipper orchid (on blazer)

Luka: grape hyacinth, sagebrush buttercups, society garlic flowers

MEIKO: egyptian star cluster, moss roses

KAITO: hyacinths, snowflake flowers

Leo/need

Ichika: geraniums, creeping zinnias (also some small flowers I couldn't identify)

Saki: dogwood flowers, white clovers

Honami: gerberas, chocolate cosmos, multiflora rose

Shiho: magnolias, violets (on her accessories)

MORE MORE JUMP!

Minori: daisy fleabanes, scotch broom, blue milkweed

Haruka: yellow cosmos, spider flowers

Airi: star jasmines

Shizuku: strawberry begonias, blossoms (the wiki said this was firethorn but imo it looks closer to some sort of blossom. the leaves aren't the right shape)

Vivid BAD SQUAD

Kohane: persian buttercup/ranunculus, iceland poppies

An: larkspur, tickseed

Akito: elatior begonias, lemon flowers

Toya: persian buttercup/ranunculus, yuzu flower (on blazer), pansies, wisteria (in the background)

WonderlandsxShowtime

Tsukasa: yellow tulips, persian violets, peonies

Emu: sea asters, skunkvine, chrysanthemum (ogiku style)

Nene: bougainvilleas/paperflowers, sunflowers, prairie gentians

Rui: common vervains/verbena, astrantia/great masterwort, hypericum erectum (a type of St John's Wort native to Japan, China and Korea. It doesn't have a common name)

25-ji, Nightcord de.

Kanade: crocuses, winter daphne

Mafuyu: cape marguerite, japanese rowan flowers, and i believe plumeria rubra

Ena: mountain laurels, baby blue eyes

Mizuki: bottle gourd flower, st john's wort, garden balsams. i'm not sure what the flower in their hair is, possibly some sort of lily?

the flowers are mostly the same on the second set of cards, though some are changed (notably Len who now has different flowers to Rin), and a few others gain or lose a flower or two. Tsukasa has fuchsias, An has paperflowers, airi i think has blossom and ena i think has yellow lupins now and that's as far as my flower knowledge goes.

[ayanos-pl]

クサフジ（4月28日） #路傍の植物園

Wyka ptasia (Vicia cracca)

tufted vetch, cow vetch, bird vetch, blue vetch, boreal vetch (Vicia cracca)

[dansnaturepictures]

27th May 2024: Bramble flowers, beautiful views and stunning burnt-tip orchids, Chiffchaff and Adonis Blue on a great bank holiday Monday walk at Martin Down

My first ever Hook-streaked Grass-Veneer moth, Five-spot Burnet, Small Heath, Stonechat, Skylark, Chaffinch, Red Kite, Buzzard, a trio of Cuckoo, Yellowhammer and Tawny Owl heard, Rook, dame's-rocket, common rock-rose, thyme, kidney vetch, horseshoe vetch and early purple orchid were other highlights with Grey Heron enjoyed on the way home.

[shadowstarkanada]

The symbol of the Moriarty family is the red rose, but when William James Moriarty orders a bouquet of flowers to be delivered to 221B Baker Street the day after the night he is to die, roses are entirely absent from the bouquet.

It is instead composed of rainflowers, baby blue eyes and purple milk-vetch, surrounded by mixed rue and butterfly weed.

Sherlock isn't there to receive it.

Mycroft is there instead, disappointed when the person who arrives is not the man he ordered to not die. He accepts the bouquet even though it is clearly meant for Sherlock, and he takes the time to look up the meanings of the flowers.

"You are my one and only," is the meaning of the little baby blue eyes, and Mycroft shakes his head at it. "I love you back. I must atone for my sins," is what the rain flower is intended to say, and Mycroft wonders what Sherlock would have said to those messages.

The rue is relatively simple: "Regret and repentance."

The last two flowers take quite a bit longer to look up. The purple milk-vetch is not a common English flower; it's been imported from China, and while Sherlock does have a book that includes it, it is not close at hand. "Your presence softens my pain," is what he works out, eventually.

The butterfly weed is American, an orange fire mixed in with the yellow rue of regret, and this, too, is obscure. It takes Mycroft time to find. "Let go of your grief," it commands.

Mycroft shakes his head, and lets his wounds settle in his gut, burning coals of anger and sorrow deep inside of him, and wonders how William James Moriarty has so thoroughly miscalculated his last action.

As if a Holmes would ever take orders from a flower. ** I cannot art.