#garden space

[brackenblythe]

After an insane week of classes a walk through an autumn garden is a welcome respite 🍂

[tarynandre]

Ordered seeds for fruits, vegetables, medicinal herbs and a soil testing kit so I can start working on the garden this upcoming week.

[dunsterhouseblogs]

How to Transform your Fitness Routine with a Log Cabin.

Finding time for regular exercise can be a challenge. Find out how having a home gym in your garden log cabin can offer a convenient and versatile solution to stay fit.

[xpaigeturnahx]

Rustic Pool in New York

Pool fountain - small rustic backyard stone and kidney-shaped natural pool fountain idea

[ai-dream]

Springcore.

[allinonedemo]

Austin Landscape A picture of a medium-sized farmhouse's partially in the sun and drought-tolerant side yard garden path in the summer.

[lilsag3]

i actually need these its not even funny

[trainerjoshie]

Pokémon TCG Pocket (2025) Space-Time Smackdown (Garden of Smiling Flowers Set) illustrated by the amazing Narumi Sato 💐

[mollybeenoel]

Insects infected by Ophiocordyceps Unilateralis, otherwise known as cordyceps or zombie-ant fungus, fungus that infect insects such as ants and spiders — like other parasites, cordyceps drains its host completely of nutrients before filling its body with spores that will let the fungus reproduce.

[reasonsforhope]

"A recent World Meteorological Organization report called heat waves the “deadliest meteorological hazard” from 2015 to 2019, affecting people living on all continents, and setting new national heat records in many regions.

‍Canada’s top weather event in 2021 was British Columbia’s record-breaking heat, according to Environment and Climate Change Canada. The temperature in Lytton, B.C., hit 49.6 C on June 29. The following day a wildfire destroyed 90 per cent of the town, killing two people and displacing 1,200 others.

Heat waves also exacerbate existing health issues, including cardiovascular and respiratory disease. They’re associated with increased hospital admissions, psychological stress and aggressive behavior, as well as excess mortality.

During heat waves, the highest temperatures are often found in urbanized areas. Urbanization is almost always associated with an increase in paved, impervious areas, and often a decrease in greenery. Concrete and asphalt roads, and other built materials readily absorb, store and release heat, raising city temperatures, a phenomenon called the urban heat island.

Many studies have shown that urban forests can reduce the urban heat island, and many policies focus their attention on large green spaces.

Small green spaces, such as yards, rooftops and small parcels of undeveloped land, can make impressive contributions to lowering urban heat, but they are often overlooked when developing strategies for urban cooling.

The effect of small green spaces

Cities rarely have the opportunity to add large green spaces to help counter the effects of heatwaves. Smaller vegetated spaces, however, can still meaningfully decrease local land temperatures.

Small green spaces, such as yards, rooftops and small parcels of undeveloped land, can make impressive contributions to lowering urban heat, but they are often overlooked when developing strategies for urban cooling.

A recent study in Adelaide, Australia, found that tree canopy cover and, to a lesser extent, grass cover decreased local daytime surface temperatures by up to 6 C during extreme summer heat conditions. Further inland, suburban yards and gardens can decrease local surface temperatures up to 5 C.

At a quite small scale, on the order of tens of square metres, trees reduced daytime surface temperatures twice as much as grass cover. But grass and other small, low-lying plants, grow relatively quickly, compared to trees.

Cities should adopt short-term and long-term strategies to respond to extreme heat, including the replacement of paved and impervious surfaces with grasses and turf, and increasing tree plantings to boost canopy coverage.

Amplifying the cooling effect

Furthermore, when managing small green spaces, city planners and foresters can select tree species based on their ability to cool the environment. Green spaces with a high diversity of tree species have a greater cooling effect in spring, summer and fall. They also have a larger maximum drop in temperature in the summer, compared to spaces that are less diverse.

For example, tree canopies with large leaves and high transpiration rates — the evaporation of water from plants occurring at the leaves — could provide more cooling.

Planting a variety of species, of different heights, can have a larger cooling effect than tall trees alone.

The structure of green space may also influence its cooling efficiency. In summer, a plant community with multiple layers of trees, shrubs and herbs can further decrease air temperature by 1 C on a sunny day and 0.5 C on a cloudy day, compared with an area only dominated by tall trees...

But overall, trees usually have a stronger effect on cooling than grass. Planting trees in groups, not individually or in lines, is recommended for regulating the microclimate (local climate conditions near the Earth’s surface).

Small green spaces can offer a lot of summer cooling in cities. And cities can learn to manage the configuration of small green spaces better to get more cooling benefits and minimize the trade-offs."

-via GoodGoodGood, July 4, 2024

[puppetmaster13u]

Prompt 279

Now Danny didn’t mean to make a Bootube channel. He’d meant to send that sleep deprived ramble to Tucker, but he had clicked on the wrong app and yeah. Apparently people enjoy his space rambles- or it could have been the ghost blob-cats that had decided to flop onto him. (Honestly he wasn’t surprised they would start to mimic the shapes of things in their surroundings)

Tucker? Found it hilarious, as did Sam and Val and… um, okay this has become their shared channel now, nice. Though there are some strange comments on some of the videos. Really, what do they mean green sky and crazy tech???

[tarynandre]

I’ve been watching this gargantua of a tree be cut down in my backyard via the blink camera app over the last several hours. I wasn’t expecting for it to be cut down so soon but it had to go. The leaves that fell made the yard look messy, and the trunk and branches towered over the house. Now that it’s gone, I’ll be able to start the garden space within the next few months.

[ministarfruit]

day 10: love is devotion ♡

(femslashfeb prompt list)

[cileklipalet]

[coolthingsguyslike]

[kmn7]