amphiboys:

me: ):

rain: *rain noises*

me: (:

is-the-owl-video-cute:

Shrencks bittern is the only one polite enough to put that neck away

Sigh. Never mind.

lt-cmdr-titties:

i’m starting a collection of enterprise captains in their post-op compression bandages

ALT

ALT

lesbianrey:

reddit childfree people are lowkey kinda fascist. ‘we want childfree airplanes’ ok children and mothers/parents caring for children are still humans in society who deserve rights so put on your noise cancelling headphones and stop being an antisocial freak

quiet-doll:

recently saw ppl discuss whether they put their medicines in a kitchen cabinet or a bathroom cabinet and i was shocked by the fact that many ppl said kitchen cabinet. so now i need you to reblog this and say where you keep yours

admiral-derbyblossom:

fictionz:

Good for drama, bad for everything else.

This worked so well because when Winn became Kai I was in such disbelief that it took multiple episodes affirming that she was Kai for it to fully sink in. Like, four episodes later Sisko would be like “Kai Winn is coming to the station” and my brain would be like “what the fuck??”

catgirl-catboy:

headspace-hotel:

headspace-hotel:

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headspace-hotel:

Looking at landscaping things on Pinterest, I’m starting to see why people think gardening is hard

The Deadly Sins of Suburban Landscaping:

1. being convinced that visible roots at the base of your tree is some unforgivable flaw and attempting to cover them with a pile of dirt or mulch and/or putting a whole ass flower bed with a retaining wall on top of them
2. flowerbeds that are 80% an empty expanse of black mulch with little plants spaced 2 feet apart
3. hostas in full sun
4. burning bush (sTOP PLANTING THESE)
5. putting down black plastic as “weed barrier” (!!?!?!)
6. Rocks?????? As mulch??????
7. “Increase your house’s curb appeal!” [ugliest flower bed you’ve ever seen in your Damn life]

I’m again remembering that study that said yard biodiversity is inversely correlated with income (richer people have less biodiverse yards).

It theorized that more lawn maintenance=less biodiversity, which makes sense, but. I’m also getting the feeling that general knowledge about plants just plummets as income level goes up.

There’s a ton of pins on native plant gardening and sustainable gardening, and gorgeous prairie and wildflower gardens exploding with life, which is super exciting! and for me those are the first ones that pop up.

But when you get to the Type Of Posts that say things like “curb appeal” and pins made by landscaping bloggers with photos of half-million-dollar-looking-ass houses, you start seeing stuff like “Ideas for landscaping around trees that add appeal to your outdoor space!” [instructions on how to carry out an attempt on your tree’s life]

And the photos are all hyper-maintained green lawns and identical-looking garden beds full of ugly black mulch and with the same 5 non-native plants in them, 2 of which are virulently invasive hellspawn and 2 of which will just be dead by next year

fascinated with how the inhabitants of McMansions and super-swanky suburbs have forgotten that mulch serves any actual purpose and are just…putting down big empty expanses of ugly black mulch for no reason except to provide a contrasting background for a handful of arborvitae, some boxwoods, various juniper cultivars each uglier than the last, and maybe some miserable-looking daylilies

I don’t even want to think about the amount of herbicides

first of all you’re building your own personal hell for yourself by making a garden like this. This is like, 35% plant 65% empty mulch. You will be seeing crabgrass in your dreams.

Pretty sure the plant in the foreground is burning bush which is invasive and evil

And lets talk about those hostas. Why would you do this. They are also non-native in the United of States, but it’s not like they’re going to invade anything in a flowerbed that 90% likely receives full sunlight. Hostas thrive with zero direct sunlight. They are shade plants. Ours literally are scorching and withering to death exactly following where the shadow cast by our house ends because our neighbors cut down a tree that died and the ones on the edge of the flower bed get a couple hours of sunbeams now.

And those boxwoods(?) and that ornamental birch tree? First of all, why did you pick out the exact plants that would be planted outside a dentist’s office. Second of all, are you assuming these plants are going to just die before they reach full maturity, or what? Two of the boxwoods will have to be almost sliced in half so you can use the path, which is gonna look real Aesthetic, and those blue spruce trees are going to partially overwhelm and displace the shrubs below them.

I mean, it’s not a bad assumption that they will die (dying is an ornamental birch’s favorite thing), but if you’re leaving that much space empty you’ve got to be looking toward the future, right? Right???

I think people have no idea how big some of these plants get, as well as no idea that empty mulch is theoretically to accommodate for the growth of plants, for the same reason: they’ve never seen the fully mature form of this type of garden…simply because Black Mulch Boxwood Arborvitae Hell Garden rarely, if ever, fully matures.

No one maintains this for 10+ years without losing their mind. You’d have so many weeds in all that empty space, it would be like trying to mow with your hands.

I think a lot of places, like the dentist’s office mentioned above, are landscaped with the assumption that the plants will die after a couple years and get replaced. And the sheer miserable heat of parking lots, the pollution exposure, and the neglect often make it happen.

The black mulch sucks, because not only does it give off heat as it decomposes, the dark color makes it attract more heat. Plants don’t like it when the temperature of their roots flops around.

I read somewhere that the average lifespan of an urban tree ranges from I think 7-28 years. I talked to a guy at the forestry center who was telling me about his dogwood tree that died after 15 years, and he said, “I don’t know, maybe that’s the lifespan of a dogwood?”

That’s really sad. The lifespan of virtually every tree species is at least as long as the lifespan of a human being, and for many is over 200 years, with most tree species having extraordinary specimens known to reach 400+ years. That doesn’t mean most trees will make it to their “full” lifespan, but it does put things in perspective.

Samwise Gamgee would be so dissipointed with you all. 

rongzhi:

A game