#caring for plants

[malinaa]

if i think about the hunger games in peeta's perspective i WILL start sobbing

[0xn0n53n53]

I need to be in a miniskirt and tights walking around in a botanical garden for research with a clipboard and messy hair please thank you

[konoko]

[watermelllonarchive]

Medo shared this update on July 2. (The caption reads "Day 8🍉"). Since his first plant post, he has recieved comments suggesting plant care tips and asking about where he gets the plants. Medo gets his sprouts from his cousin, who it appears has created a green house tent for growing plants in the displacement camp.

Medo is on Instagram and Threads @ medo_halimy. You can support his GFM at this link.

Available Go Fund Me campaigns for people whose stories have been shared on watermelllonarchive can be found in the resources post.

[rhiangalaxy]

Shen Qingqiu's guide to causing emotional damage to your martial siblings (ft. a bonus under the cut)

[ID: A Scum Villain Comic. The first part depicts, from left to right, Shang Qinghua, Mu Qingfang, Yue Qingyuan, Liu Qingge and Qi Qingqi. SQH has his hands gripped together and looking nervously towards a system screen that has a shrugging kaomoji, a thought bubble leads from him saying "System WTF". MQF with his hands folded down in front of him looks on in surprise. YQY with his hands behind this back, looking slightly on the verge of tears says "Uh, What do you have there Shen-Shidi?". LQG looks on in angry confusion with '???' next to his face. QQQ has one hand curled towards her chest and the other on her hip looking vaguely disgusted/judgy. The next part depicts SJ!Shen Qingqiu holding a baby Plant!Yuan swaddled in his teal outer robe, and holding a closed fan in the other hand replying to YGY with a blank expression by going "... A Fan." End ID.]

[ID: A Scum Villain MSPaint Doodle. Characters in chibi style. YGY rests his chin in his hands and his elbows on a table, crying with a pitiful expression and saying "I can't believe Xiao Jiu had a baby with someone else. MQF with a hand on YQY's shoulder as if comforting him replies "Okay Shixiong lets get you to bed" with another box pointing to him that states "Knows damn well that Shen Yuan is the spitting image of YQY" End ID]

[fleshengine]

Fucken uuuuhhhhhhh Independent Terran who gets a wellness check called on them by their hab because they’re sick and not eating/moving enough. The affini that shows up starts taking care of them, and is doing a fine job of respecting their autonomy. Shenanigans of some kind ensue and the human asks the affini to pretend to be their mom. The affini obliges and pulls the human into its vines, wrapping them tight and warm against its feverish charge. The human falls fast asleep and is only woken occasionally when the affini has to administer some oral antibiotics it compiled. It feeds them, it cares for them, it washes them and clothes them. Eventually the hesitant “thanks mom”s morph into them adorably saying “thank you mommy!”

[dandelionsresilience]

Dandelion News - November 8-14

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1. Agrivoltaics for sustainable food, energy and water management in East Africa

“[… C]ertain crops […] thrived under the partial shade provided by solar panels. The shade also helped to reduce water loss through evaporation, leading to more efficient water usage. Additionally, rainwater harvested from the panels could be used to supplement irrigation needs.”

2. The world’s largest wildlife crossing is now standing in California

“The structure crosses a 10-lane freeway and has been built to help protect all sorts of wildlife[….] And it’s not just for fauna: some 5,000 plants grown from seed collected within a five-mile radius have been nurtured in two specially created nurseries. The bridge will be topped with wildflowers, shrubs and native grasses that will also benefit insect populations.”

3. Judge rules the military must cover gender-affirming surgery for members' dependents

“[Judge] Torresen found that [gender-affirming] surgery is indeed medically necessary and that the Defense Department had not shown that any important governmental interest was advanced by denying the coverage.”

4. Social Media Can Boost Caracal Conservation

“The team found that searches on the species doubled after the project [using “social media to educate about the caracal”] launched. […] ”The research demonstrates how a public interest in urban ecology and the global phenomenon of ‘cats on the internet’… can be harnessed to leverage conservation action.””

5. US Labor Board Bans Captive Audience Meetings to Ensure 'Truly Free' Worker Choice

“[T]he National Labor Relations Board on Wednesday ruled that employers cannot force workers to attend anti-union speeches. [… W]orkers will no longer have to take part in so-called "captive audience meetings," which employers often use as a union-busting tool and a form of coercion.”

6. Study links grazing with plant phenology and abundance

“In general, plants where caribou or muskoxen were present experienced earlier green-up and greater abundance later in the growing season. “We're used to thinking of the timing of plant availability as impacting the productivity of grazing animals, but not the reverse," Post said.”

7. Frog populations once decimated by disease mount a major comeback

“"These results provide a rare example of how reintroduction of resistant individuals can allow the landscape-scale recovery of disease-impacted species, and have broad implications for amphibians and many other taxa that are threatened with extinction by novel pathogens."”

8. California Announces Special Session To Protect Trans People

“Newsom’s directive is clear: safeguard reproductive healthcare, support immigrants, and shield LGBTQ+ people from what is viewed as existential threats to civil rights and democratic norms. […] California has a unique opportunity to set the blueprint for other states in resisting a Trump administration[….]”

9. When ‘OK, Boomer’ Means ‘Let’s Go Protest’

“Youth activists across the country recognize the efforts of their eco-minded predecessors and welcome them as mentors, role models, and collaborators in their battle against the climate crisis. […] “The idea that Boomers don’t care, he said, is “just misinformation.””

10. How Aussie Waste Warriors are Redirecting Excess Food to Those in Need

“A growing movement is working to reduce perfectly good food going to waste by redirecting it to homes and charities. [… C]haritable organisations [… are] transforming fresh produce that would otherwise have gone to waste into millions of cooked, nutritious meals for people in need each year.”

November 1-7 news here | (all credit for images and written material can be found at the source linked; I don’t claim credit for anything but curating.)

[polisena-art]

Love the idea of José and Panchito raising a bunch of plants together (yes, they all have names and they're all girls) 🪴🌵🌺

[prinsomnia]

astrologer’s mirror🪞✨🌕

[simdertalia]

🎍 ACNH Harmonious Set 🌺

Sims 4, Base game compatible | 55 items

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I hope you enjoy!

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[atelieron]

got some laundry done this morning so im feeling extra productive today!

goal: finish this week's seminar book, take some time for a self care night

🎧 listening: when i grow up - the pussycat dolls 🎶

[zodelydraws]

Crowley's neck is sensitive

[nidbaesenpai]

Viet blasts Loop as well ✨✨✨

[grimfantas]

[liberaljane]

Always trying to grow 🌿

Digital illustration of a Black fem covered in roses sitting in the flower pot. Text reads, ‘the day you plant to seed is not the day you eat the fruit.’

[zipper-neck]

I took some of @headspace-hotel 's advice and let a part of my front lawn go unmowed. I chose a spot that, two years ago, was just dry dust. But even though we planted grass seeds and all kinds of fertilizer, the patch is now lush and blooming with everything BUT grass.

I don't even have names for what is growing there; I've only ever known grass. There is some stuff with a bouncy texture that grows outwards more than upwards, and I think it is doing the most water retention. There are some things with long, tall stems and purple pigment in the center of their top leaves, like a proto-flower. And of course there are the vines that bloom white flowers.

The HOA of course mistook this menagerie as weeds and sent a letter wanting to cut it down. So to make it more clear the patch is deliberate, I put a decorative low fence around it.

And as I was installing it, I saw a TOAD. I have never seen that in suburbia before! Our great plains climate is typically too dry. I'd like to think it was because of the uncut patch that the toad found habitable, with more shade and more bugs.

This patch is significant to me now, and I really hope I am not forced to cut it. Something about the absolute fervor of how the plants are determined to grow and life itself to thrive when given the smallest space to do so spits in apathy's face.