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boschintegral-photo · 16 hours

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Lilac

#photographers on tumblr #nature #flowers #spring #purple #floral #flores #primavera #lilac #syringa #lilacs #gardening #garden #original photographers #original photography #vertical

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thewillowoaklady · 8 hours

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Some random dandelions

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bendenbirseyler · 12 hours

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Grevenbroich, NRW, DE, 2023

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nncastle · 6 hours

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Sitting and having my coffee in the back deck - can’t help but admire how happy our wisteria is. So many flower buds! It’s a beautiful spring day, the birds are singing and the wind chimes playing to the breeze.

#garden #flowers #gardening #mygarden #gardens #spring #wisteria

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littlepawz · 5 hours

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ahh, spring is here. My gardening assistants and I are busy planting and creating decorative floral baskets. It's an exhausting job...

#kittens #basket kittens #floral baskets #felines #cat lovers #LOL #asleep on the job #so tired #hard work #spring planting #baby cats #big helpers #pets #aww those toe beans #gardening

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thrivingisthegoal · 2 months

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Golf Courses ARE Being Converted

The Solarpunk "fantasy" that so many of us tout as a dream vision, converting golf courses into ecological wonderlands, is being implemented across the USA according to this NYT article!

The article covers courses in Michigan, Pennsylvania, California, Colorado, and New York that are being bought and turned into habitat and hiking trails.

The article goes more into detail about how sand traps are being turned into sand boxes for kids, endangered local species are being planted, rocks for owl habitat are being installed, and that as these courses become wilder, they are creating more areas for biodiversity to thrive.

Most of the courses in transition are being bought by Local Land Trusts. Apparently the supply of golf courses in the USA is way over the demand, and many have been shut down since the early 2000s. While many are bought up and paved over, land Trusts have been able to buy several and turn them into what the communities want: public areas for people and wildlife. It does make a point to say that not every hold course location lends itself well to habitat for animals (but that doesn't mean it wouldn't make great housing!)

So lets be excited by the fact that people we don't even know about are working on the solutions we love to see! Turning a private space that needs thousands of gallons of water and fertilizer into an ecologically oriented public space is the future I want to see! I can say when I used to work in water conservation, we were getting a lot of clients that were golf courses that were interested in cutting their resource input, and they ended up planting a lot of natives! So even the golf courses that still operate could be making an effort.

So what I'd encourage you to do is see if there's any land or community trusts in your area, and see if you can get involved! Maybe even look into how to start one in your community! Through land trusts it's not always golf course conversions, but community gardens, solar fields, disaster adaptation, or low cost housing! (Here's a link to the first locator I found, but that doesn't mean if something isn't on here it doesn't exist in your area, do some digging!)

#solarpunk #sustainability #climate change #gardening #activism #hope #climate justice #news #new york times #golf courses #habitat #conservation

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boschintegral-photo · 12 hours

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Apple Blossom

#photographers on tumblr #nature #flowers #spring #white #pink #floral #flores #primavera #blanco #blossoms #apple #gardening #garden #original photographers #vertical #original photography

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thewillowoaklady · 23 hours

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Pink dianthus

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inkcurlsandknives · 2 months

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I'm doing it gang, I've spent stupider gardening money before like when I dropped $300 on shade loving perennial bulbs only to learn they were also plants that rotted with wet feet and all immediately died in my swampy gumbo soil

I'm buying two firefly petunias. I've never grown petunias much because where I live they're a winter annual but fuck it I'll grow them as an indoor plant I certainly have the sun to do it.

They're supposed to ship to me in April, I'll report back on if they immidiately die or this is the coolest thing I own. My biochemical engineering design project was using a similar chemical pathway to modify bacteria to glow in the presence of specific toxins so I absolutely need glowing petunias in my window box

#gardening #women in stem #glowing plants #real life is weirder than fantasy

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lennonslittlegarden · 3 months

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