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Tumbling Raspberries    -   Jacques Soulas

French , b.  1957 -

Oil on linen , 40  x  40 in.

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Lily of the valley 💕🧚🌱✨

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TIL the reason you don’t find much Lyme’s Disease in California is not because we don’t have Ticks, or Lyme Disease Vectors; but rather: because the Western Fence Lizard (if you live anywhere in California this is your regular Garden Variety Lizard) has adapted a passive immune response that makes their blood lethal to Lyme Disease Bacteria. Any Tick that feeds on one gets its gut cleansed of Lyme Disease as a side effect.

Fucking neat.

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"The second best time to plant a tree is now"

But what if I accidentally plant an evil tree

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Saw this anti-wasp screenshot. Fixed it for you :)

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My mother in law bought us a cookbook from an iconic San Francisco restaurant (I have never heard of this restaurant and she’s never mentioned it before.)

I am going to end up on the news about it.

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The really cool thing about hydrangeas is that they can be blue, pink, or purple based primarily on the pH of the soil. A free science experiment in every plant.

Omg this is so cool I didn’t know this! I wonder if I can do this experiment with students

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I'm gonna cry I was watching a bumblebee feeding at this flower and at the exact moment I took a picture a second bee just bodyslammed the first one off😭

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this website lets you listen to the sounds of all different forests around the world 

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hey what the fuck

what is this lemon cartomancy bullshit

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Tatiana Chernykh, Pot of Wildflowers, 2021.

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the problem with yard work is that once I start I go into Gethenian dothe and don’t stop until I’m done. if I don’t put on gardening gloves before I so much as touch a weed then I won’t be able to stop later and will lose half the skin on my hands. which I need for gay sex.

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My mom left an eviction notice for the carpenter bees burrowing into our porch

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Apricot jumpscare

I came home from a trip on Sunday to find my driveway, patio, flowerbeds, and car speckled with rapidly expiring orange spheroids.

This is a precisely annual occurrence. In late June, I have a trip; in late June, the apricot tree yields; ergo, during that trip there is, I presume, a brief window when the apricots are ripe but the tree has not yet seen fit to fling them across every nearby surface. But I once again have missed the window, so the apricot race has started and I am already behind. Each must be hunted down, picked up, washed, cut up, and packed into the freezer, before it rots, or is run over by a car and smears itself into our driveway, or worse yet, hangs out on top of the car for several hours and then, when you least expect it, rolls off the car and into traffic. I still have a voice recording from S this time last year:

It’s like the ticking time bomb of the produce world. It’s like in Stardew Valley when all your ancient fruit wine comes due at once, and you have to rush to sell it all the same day, except this isn’t downstream of my objectively deranged playstyle, it’s just how fruit trees work. It’s like if an Easter egg hunt assigned you chores afterward.

Yesterday’s take was twenty seven apricots; I filled a gallon ziploc. Today I netted twelve. This does not include the four or more apricots a day we eat out of hand.

The tree is somehow still full, bulging ominously with fruits.

Blenheim apricot season is upon us. God help us all.

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while literally every other plant in my garden has been Struggling---given that the weather has been cold and rainy for most all of May---the cilantro took this opportunity to bust out like crazy. So we're making cilantro pesto because dehydrators cost too much and at least I can freeze the pesto.