#the garden is eepy

[pyururen]

💤🌱

[airegin7]

My cat Silvie <3 Currently grinding to get as many prints done as possible for a craft fair next weekend!

[soulzerofever]

you'll never guess who has more stickers to share! :D it's me! WE GOT OVER THE GARDEN WALL, GRAVITY FALLS, AND DAVID TENNANT THE LEGEND HIMSELF! GO CHECK THEM OUT!! (especially the DT ones! i'm raising money for charity!!)

[atinorx]

handpainted falloween magnets :3

[carry-on-my-wayward-butt]

Last Memorial Day I was freshly separated and my life was falling apart around me so my mom pulled out the kiddie pool and we sat under the big ass tree and my one year old and I splashed in the water for an hour.

Today’s Memorial Day I laid out the 12x24 tarp and inflated the 10x6 pool and my two year old and I splashed in the water for however long the runtime for Jaws is.

Life is so good.

[littleplantfreak]

its sleep time

[rookmeo]

-> ulysses wilhelm icons ✧･ﾟ: *✧･ﾟ:*

-> day 003 — a character with your MBTI type OR a character that shares your birthday (march 15)

[For @essthereal's 850+ followers event !]

[thegoldenavenger]

How can one person sleep so much asdfghjkl

[foundationsofdecay]

going through my drafts is wild i don't remember making half of these and i have the most incomprehensible "wtf are you even talking about" takes on st lyrics sometimes like damn okay

[fluffysymphony]

Hi Lou! Do you have a favorite rarepair?

Snakefruit x Hydrangea has stolen my heart and soul and ran away full speed /silly

In all seriousness, yeah! These two have to be my favorite, I love the Lotus Paradise so much and they just hammer in that love for that entire aesthetic and they are so pretty.

Snakefruit and Hydrangea were also separately (before I shipped them) both some of my favorite cookies. Hydrangea for her design and Snakefruit for their story, it’s a surprise my brain didn’t connect the dots until I saw someone else post about them.

And they have been living in my head rent free ever since!

[hanto161]

this pedestal is now hedges perch

[dreamartv]

What can I say here, it's just a precious picture of eepy cuteness :3

[ilike2drawxd]

Bonus bois for the night

Once again sorry for the bad image quality I’m still trying to fix that lol

Also this was done in Roblox free draw btw :)

[atinorx]

seven mini falloween pieces :•)

acrylic on 2x2 canvas!!

[muscari-melpomene]

Fuck everything else I just want to tend an herb garden and make fresh scones for my friends and love without being in love. So fucking sick of everything being complicated social dynamics and keeping up with all the ways the world is ending I want to sing in my kitchen and drink lemonade on the porch and not date or marry but still find commitment and I want a pen of ducks and a dog to take care of. Is that so much to fucking ask. Shit.

[pansy-buttercups]

Western Red Columbines (Aquilegia Formosa)

West Coast Native Flora Wednesday #1

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Western Red Columbines, scientifically known as Aquilegia Formosa (not to be confused with Aquilegia canadensis, which is the wild eastern Columbine), is a 1 meter tall, herbaceous, taprooted perennial that belongs in the family Ranunculaceae (The buttercup family!).These flowers bloom from June to August, so best get your outdoor gear ready for some Columbine photoshoots, but where are they?

Home is where the Red Columbines are (Habitat/Range & Ecology) :

Western Columbines exist ranging all the way from Alaska down the coast to California, and in Canada, it extends to Alberta. These Columbines primarily like their environments moist, beyond that they like a bit of openness and partial shade, but they will grow just about anywhere. In forests is where they seem to most enjoy being, but they also grow in sub-alpine (and alpine) meadows, roadsides, woodlands, beaches, and river banks, just about in damn near any environment.

Surprisingly, despite looking wildly similar and often being mixed up visually, Western Red Columbines and Eastern Wild Columbines have completely different ranges that haven't overlapped ever. So if you live on the west end, you definitely have an Aquilegia Formosa, and if you live on the other end, you've most certainly got an Aquilegia canadensis.

Link for range map of Western Red Columbines (Though its doesnt show the specific regions of each Province/State):

What's in the name? :

Birds play a big part for these plants. Firstly, both the common and scientific name make references to birds! Columbine comes from the Latin word for "dove." because of how the spurs look like a mass of doves gathering around in a circle. The spurs also coincidentally looking like talons led to the name Aquilegia derived from the Latin word for "Eagle." The second part of the scientific name (Formosa) rightfully dubs the plant as " Beautiful" once again in Latin.

(These look like chickens, but i swear they're doves. I just suck at drawing birds <//3 )

Exclusive Pollinators:

Names, however, are not where birds' involvement with these plants ends. In between the 5 brightly hued petals are 5 (Sometimes 4) long modified tubular petals that have become nectarine spurs (for Western columbine, these spurs are straight). Far back inside the spurs, they secrete sweet nectar, which is high in sugar and attractive to many pollinators. In the north, where the flower has slightly shorter spurs, this may be insects like butterflies and hawkmoths. However, in the southern regions, a major pollinator for the longer spurred flowers is hummingbirds! These flowers were believed to have gone through what's called 'Co-evolution' , however, for the columbine and many other long-spured flowers, this is more of a one-sided ordeal. Usually in a co-evolution relationships both parties (Columbine and Hummingbirds) would grow and adapt as a result of the other, Hummingbirds would evolve longer beaks to reach further in the nectar spurs, and the flowers would develop longer spurs. This was however discovered to be NOT what's happening instead it seems only the columbine had grown longer spurs to accommodate the pollinator shift from bees to hummingbirds, and after a while would no longer continue evolving longer spurs.

Regardless, when a hummingbird attempts to drink some nectar, they will end up also bumping their head on the extended stamen of the flower. This along with the jittery movements of the bird will result in pollen being deposited on top of their head and when they go to drink from another columbine they will end up bumping their pollen dusted head against the pistil of the flower effectively pollinating it.

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Long story short, Columbines are pretty neat! And if you have any Hummingbird friends (or even some insect friends), you wanna take care of, grow some columbines for them! Instead of putting out those hummingbird feeders that can grow bacteria and ferment, making your buddies sick. I've heard they're quite easy to grow, too, so why not give a shot once the Autum rolls in?

Happy Native Flora Approcating!!!