#bog garden

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Friday 22 September 2023

The delicate flower spikes of Bistorta amplexicaulis 'Alba' (bistort, mountain fleece, Persicaria sp.) are covered with tiny white flowers that catch the late afternoon sunshine. This clump-forming, vigorous perennial needs a moist soil and can make dense groundcover.

Jill Raggett

[wyldeplantlife]

Bog Garden for Carnivorous Plants

[xgh0ulx]

I wanna make a bog garden or at least paludarium so bad

Don’t you want to live in there?

[therudegarden]

Bog update.

Most sarracenias didn't make it, sadly😭. So I added new diff types. But flytrap seems to be loving it more being outside

[houndbaskervilles]

Flytrap seedlings getting their first traps.

[kriosgat]

Pond Landscape Design ideas for a large farmhouse partial sun hillside stone pond in spring.

[ariellam-blog]

Celeste, Belinda, and Sophia have joined Edith in her new digs.

[millionponds]

Pond (New York)

[livwritesstuff]

Absolutely obsessed with your steddie dad’s verse!!! Everything about it is just so good, thanks for sharing!

I love Moe, Robbie and Hazel, and I can’t get this idea out of my head that probably doesn’t fit the vision of this verse at ALL but hear me out. What if one day all the upside down stuff became public knowledge? Somehow documents get leaked, someone talks, idk. And it’s suddenly all over the news. Would be so interesting to see how Steve and Eddie would react to this and how they’d talk to their kids (who just found out about their parents saving the world from the news) about it 👀

So here’s the thing:

Realistically, I don’t think the story would ever get fully leaked, for two reasons (probably more, actually, but two primary reasons).

It makes the U.S. government look terrible, and they do a good enough job of that publically to afford any more hits to their rep so they keep that shit on lock

Nobody would believe it. Maybe there are whispers about the truth of what happened to Hawkins, Indiana in the 80s, but the second the words “monsters” and “superpowers” get thrown in there, nobody buys it. That’s why the cover stories work.

What I absolutely think would happen is ✨conspiracy theories✨

Like, come 2014 there’s a rising interest in true crime and conspiracy theories and some enthusiasts stumble upon the story. A few devoted folks pull a Murray and start building a timeline and they quickly realize that there are some pretty serious holes in the narrative. It kind of takes off from there.

Robbie is Eddie’s daughter through and through, so she’s totally into that kind of stuff. Steve and Eddie have always been relatively upfront about what happened to them in Hawkins (relatively, in that they have the “here’s what you’ll find if you google your dads” conversation with an extensive Q+A, but to avoid dumping trauma on their kids they stay light on the details), so she’s more intrigued than surprised when not only is she suggested a YouTube video about her dads’ hometown, but the video also mentions both of them by name.

Here’s the problem – like most conspiracy theories, it's true that some pretty damning evidence has been uncovered that the government probably didn’t want circulating. However the story is still missing key details in a way that makes the resounding conclusion this close to the truth, but not quite there.

Hence, this conversation Robbie has with her dads after she watches the video:

“So is it true that Uncle Will was abducted by aliens?”

Steve’s eyebrows fly up.

“Are people saying it’s aliens? It wasn’t aliens.”

“Was he though?”

“Uh…kind of. I guess.”

“Is it true the government put a fake body in the lake and pretended it was him and then when Will came back they had to pretend it was another kid?”

“Yep.”

“That’s fucked up. Is it true that Russia used a mall in Hawkins to build a secret lab?” Robbie asks.

“Yes.”

“Is it true they were doing research on the aliens and then one of them escaped and that’s why the mall got destroyed.”

“Not even close.”

“How did the mall get destroyed then?”

“Bunch of people got possessed by a shadow monster and he made them eat chemicals until they exploded and reformed as this giant mass thing that cornered us in the mall. We attacked it with fireworks. I wasn’t there for most of that, though. Just the end.”

“Whatever,” Robbie rolls her eyes, fully convinced that her dad is bullshitting her, “Is it true the Hawkins earthquakes were actually the aliens invading.”

“No – yes…kind of? Not earthquakes. Not aliens.”

“I mean…technically they kind of were aliens ,” Eddie jumps in, “Technically anything from a land foreign to yours is an alien.”

“They weren’t aliens,” Steve insists, “They were monsters. They were big and gray and their faces opened up and they had all these rows of teeth like sharks.”

“Sounds like an alien to me,” Robbie replies.

“Monsters.”

“Is it true Dad was attacked by them and he almost died and you saved him, Pop?”

“Yes, indeed,” Eddie says proudly before Steve can respond, “He’s quite the hero, don’t you think?”

“In space?”

“Nope. In an evil alternate dimension, and he dragged me all the way out through the portal and everything.”

Robbie rolls her eyes again, “Nevermind, you guys are useless. You’d think you weren’t even there.”

Steve sighs, “God, I wish that were true.”

In terms of how Steve and Eddie respond to the story gaining some attention from the general public, they do family viewings of the conspiracy videos made about the situation and make fun of the incorrect narratives. Their daughters fully do not grasp that their dads are telling the truth because, again, the truth does not seem real.

[carnivalcarriondiscarded]

I know a lot of people are really into your human au (belong me I'm to, I'm catching up into the crazy ride that's it is) (ﾟ⁠οﾟ⁠人⁠)⁠)

but personally I keep coming back to the mini telenovela that is Howdy and Barnaby rejected confession (I keep calling it limpieza en pasillo 6) I don't know I all in for the drama; just like Sally, I hope they get a happy ending (no after howdy get a hell of a fail attempts to charm his goof love back) (⁠ ⁠/⁠^⁠ω⁠^⁠)⁠/⁠♪⁠♪

Also I'm eating up the tiny but where Wally juts unlock a protective mood, I keep wondering if he just stare Howdy super hard telling him how unneighborly he's been or just stay close to Barn to be there for him (also trying to crack the jokes he remember from him)

Anyway sorry for the rambling, I just get so excited!! ಠ⁠◡⁠ಠ

Hope you have a lovely day bye!

mini telenovela 😭 LIMPIEZA EN PASILLO 6 PLEASSEEEE that's so good... i cant even write the post im too busy giggling like a madman over that

tbh the whole things is like.... Plotted Out in my brain. before i bed i just press play on the mindplayer & watch it like a movie. w/ Wally i like to imagine that he has no idea what to do with this new emotion. it's more like he just sticks to Barnaby like glue & puts himself between Barnaby and Howdy in a sense. i have a specific scene in mind where Howdy goes to Barnaby's as soon as he Realizes to apologize, but Wally answers the door instead and basically it goes:

Howdy: i need to speak with Barnaby

Wally: he's napping

Howdy: oh! well i can just come in and wait for-

Wally: he's napping.

Howdy: ...oh

Wally: thank you. goodbye *closes door*

(Barnaby was not taking a nap)

[sock-puppet-dinosaur]

Caught a drain fly in the bathroom last night and decided to give it to the sundews. This morning, woke to find... the capensis has accepted the offering!!!!!

[pardomagus]

Nelumbo

[fungivvitch]

[therudegarden]

Can barely tell if it's still there with all the snow

[houndbaskervilles]

Tiny flytrap seedling getting its first traps. Germinated on sphagnum moss in a baking tin. Surrounded by lots of little seeds yet to sprout. My first seed harvest.

[wildavisart]

Here’s another card for a tabletop game I’m running. The prompt was to depict a suitor and for that I went with a frog. I was thinking about the the froggie went a courtin song as well as the story of the frog prince both of which have a frog as a someone seeking love. The whole thing ended up having a real Jason funderberker (the frog not the human) vibe.