#bush tea

[chalkrub]

art trade from twitter!! funky guy comin through

[maysrinn]

In the Captiol au, is Coriolanus still insanely jealous and possessive of Lucy Gray?

Coriolanus jealousy and possessiveness is 🔛🔝 she is his victor, his prize, his girl, his wife, his First Lady and his Lucy Gray.

She is fully aware of it, everyone and their dead grandma is aware of it. Sometimes the jealousy and possessiveness do come in handy, for example at parties or gatherings, when everyone wants accompany the First Lady while smothering her with flattering words. She knows Coriolanus can always shut it down without an explanation and a lot of times she even counts on it.

Tho in other situations it should be concerning how much he is aware of her whereabouts …and he takes full pride in it-

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Lucy gray: *enjoying some pastries and tea in the afternoon sun*

Coriolanus: *overseeing her from afar* well I’d say, what a magnificent pair of…

Lucy gray: *turns around, death glare*

Coriolanus: OH GREAT HEAVENS!!

still a caged bird tho…

[chaoticreader139]

My theories for Empire of Death:

Ruby has unknowingly been wearing a perception filter this entire time.

There’ll be a Master cliffhanger at the end but the doctor won’t know about it. (Outlandish).

Susan will appear at the end of the episode.

Susan is the person that dropped Ruby off but she isn’t her mother.

Something is wrong with Kate Stewart.

Mel dies. Probably not permanently but who knows.

Ruby is the child of Sutekh, created to help him. Like what was intended for The Sarah Jane Adventures with Sky being the child of the Trickster.

Harriet fights to gain control over her body and succeeds. Probably dies though.

There’s probably another anagram reveal.

Some classic who references.

Susan is able to point to Sutekh due to her psychic abilities.

Mrs. Flood is a Time Lord.

Susan helps defeat Sutekh and subsequently regenerates into Verada Sethu.

Sutekh destroys the Earth but the Doctor reverses that by the end.

Mrs. Flood knows what Ruby is.

Another parent theory for Ruby is that she’s Susan’s daughter who she had to give up in order to protect her from Sutekh.

Cherry FINALLY gets her cup of tea.

The TARDIS gains a human like form so that she can slap the Doctor for not doing anything to help her.

[53v3nfrn5]

June 4, 2024: Rio Samba Rose Bush Update

Top 4 photos: taken in the morning when the roses were mostly a soft yellow.

Bottom 4 photos: taken this evening, now a bright coral.

[tyrianludaship]

This isn't completely related to selfshipping but i unironically love making up shipnames for my s/i and the tf2 characters.

[also to note: some of these are not canon; pyro and scout are friends; and saxton hale is just kinda there. idk he's alright.]

Engineer x Morale: Radio Repair

Soldier x Morale: Roger That

Spy x Morale: Esprit de corps, Radio Drama

Medic x Morale: Herzschlag / Heartbeat

Demoman x Morale: Boombox

Sniper x Morale: Radio Silence, National Outback

Heavy x Morale: Tea and Jam

Scout x Morale: Skip Distance

Pyro x Morale: Smoke Signals

Miss Pauling x Morale: Two-way Radio

Saxton Hale x Morale: Mating Calls [this one is just dumb ignore]

Proships DNI

[spicedtealeaves]

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[bonnies-trash-corner]

I'm always complaining that my friends don't invite me to stuff, but today my friend invited me to tea and I told her I was busy prepping for louigan week.

She said, "Ohh! is it the thing with the moon?" And I didn't know how to keep going from there tbh.

[yourcoffeeguru]

Vintage Australian Bush Fire Burnt Tea Tree and Flora 3D Bark Painting Signed || SWTradePost - eBay

[timeteaca]

African Treasure: The Story of Rooibos Tea

What do you prefer: tea, coffee? Maybe chicory? Wait, we know – rooibos! Did you guess it? Oh, even if not, TimeTea is sure that you will be interested in reading about where and how this amber-red drink comes from.

So, rooibos (or rooibos) is a herbal tea made from the shoots and leaves of a plant called aspalathus linearis. This specimen belongs to the Legume family and is a shrub up to 1.5 meters in height with small, needle-like leaves.

Aspalathus lineara in its natural form grows exclusively in South Africa – 200 km from Cape Town within the boundaries of the Cederberg mountain range. Today, of course, the plant is cultivated on an industrial scale, but still the plantations do not go beyond the Cederberg Valley. And all for the sake of a pleasant-tasting and energizing drink, which at one time replaced tea for local residents, and then for settlers from Europe.

The first to collect leaves and branches of Aspalatus lineara were the indigenous people – the Hottentot people. Only in the 18th century did the Dutch learn about the plant, and then – closer to the 19th century – the British also caught up. The fact of the “discovery” of rooibos for Europeans is attributed to Carl Peter Thunberg, a Swedish naturalist who was in South Africa on behalf of a Dutch company back in the 1700s. The drink was liked by sophisticated society, and at the beginning of the 20th century they began to export it with might and main. Today, the annual production of rooibos is about 12,000 tons, and half of this is exported.

If you are already tired of coffee and tea or need/want to give up caffeine, rooibos is a great option. It quenches thirst well, tones up, is useful for both adults and children, and can also be drunk without sugar. This herbal tea itself contains a sufficient amount of glucose.

Ready! We’ll dry it and sell it. In addition, rooibos contains enough vitamin C, flavonoids, and a number of minerals. In particular, the flavonoid quercetin has antispasmodic, anti-inflammatory, antioxidant and antitumor properties. Some studies show the effectiveness of rooibos against mutagens, CNS damage and free radicals. Although we, of course, recommend that if something happens, contact doctors, and not tea sellers.

Today you can find this herbal tea in any form: loose, in bags, in pure form and with additives. They even make so-called espresso from rooibos. In general, be sure to try it if you haven’t already!

[kaito-spotted]

Spotted !! Looking For His Sunglasses !! (Photo by Junchen Zhou)

[minecraftbookshelf]

so about this post...

can you do katherine? or maybe joel?

How did you know that the brainrot that inspired the post was Katherine-centric!

So have some Katherine snippet, I'll do Joel in a seperate post and make sure to tag you.

Katherine's mother grew roses. Lady Blossom was one of the greatest contenders for Queen of the Court and was famous for her ruthlessness and her roses. And she taught Katherine everything she knew.

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AU Masterpost

[balkanradfem]

So, remember a few posts ago when I made up a game to go outside and identify every tree I see, but I had to give it up because it's February? And nothing has leaves? I remembered later this doesn't apply to evergreens! Evergreens are still out there, and actually much more easy to point out, now that everything else is bare.

So. This is the knowledge I gathered from various sources from the internet!

Pines have long needles and they grow together in bunches, their silhouette is rounded at the edges, distinct and easy to recognize.

Spruce's branches are always pointed up, and grow upwards. Their needles grow in all directions out of the branches. Their needles also have 4 sides to them, and are easy to roll between fingers.

Fir's needles grow only to the left and right, and leave the middle of the branch exposed. The back of the needles have 2 white lines. Their lower branches point down.

Yew's needles are soft to touch, their color is more vibrant than the other evergreens, they grow red berries on them. Their needles also only grow from the sides, and not in the middle. Yew is the poisonous one that must not be mistaken for the rest!

With this info in my mind, I set off! This is the first evergreen tree I found, right in front of the building. I never tried to figure out what it was before.

It looks majestic. What I can see here, is needles growing in every direction from the little tip I took off, so I decided it has to be spruce.

The next tree I noticed was in someone's backyard, but I wouldn't let that deter me! It was big and noticeable from far away! So. I sneaked in to take a picture:

Isn't it beautiful? This one also has needles growing from all directions, so it has to be another spruce. But, this one also has some tiny cones growing? I noted that as interesting, and moved on to the next.

Then I saw these two in people's backyard:

And I thought, well what are these? At first I thought, cypress, but these are obviously two different things, and they seem to be bushes at that, and I didn't research any bush varieties, so I had to let that go for now. If anyone can tell me their names I would love that!

And then I found lots more of similar trees!

They were definitely planted for decoration, and they're planted all together, but some of them have kind of a purple berry (cone?) growing on them, while some don't, and I'm not sure if they're the same species. Though I do think sometimes trees will grow their fruit only from the side that is more exposed to the sun, so it's possible the branches without berries are just underexposed to the light.

So the next several trees I found were spruces, or so it seems. I'm starting to get suspicious, because first, why didn't I know we were in a spruce-supremacy biome, second, why do all of these trees look so different? Look at them:

Look how janky some of them look! That is fun! Is that really a spruce? They all had needles growing in all directions, and the tips of their branches pointing up, but I'm starting to get suspicious and feel like these are different varieties of trees and we just called them all 'spruce' and moved on.

Then I, on purpose, went to the place with pines, where I usually harvest my pine needles for tea. This is, one of the most beautiful pines in the city:

This is not even a good picture of her, this being is divine. She's about the only thing that makes this place livable, every time I see her I'm astounded and filled with awe, she's so gorgeous and lush and perfect? Her shape? The feeling of being closer to heaven when you look at her? She has it all. I don't even know how they made that gorgeous tree grow next to such an ugly building. Anyway.

Close by is a little park made out of pine trees, I was able to find a little pine cone! And here are the pine needles:

These can be eaten, added into meals, they can be made into syrups, tinctures, and they make a very calming tea! You can also weave a basket with them, which I did once! Blessed source of life.

Spruce and Fir needles are also edible and medicinal, but I've never tried them, so I'm not gonna talk about that yet. But here's whats NOT edible. The deadly yew tree:

She's so soft to touch, it's almost impossible not to recognize. If you touch an evergreen and it's super soft and pliable, do not eat it! She's also beautiful and vibrant with her colors, I took pictures of this tree before, just because it was so pretty. You can see the needles also grow only on the sides, and not in every direction like the spruce.

And then, I noticed this tree from the road, and it was Different from all of the others. Firstly, it was growing new shoots, which most of the others were not into. Second, it looked super lush and healthy. I couldn't back out further to take a better picture because of the cars behind me, but I grabbed a little shoot, and checked it.

And see these needles how they're only growing to the sides, and not from the middle? And when you turn the needles on the other side, I know you can't see it, but there were 2 white lines on them! I've found a Fir!

That was the first, and the only fir I've found. I was so happy, relieved, and thrilled to find, all 4 evergreen species in walking distance of my residence. I also was pleased to know that my methods of recognition were true, firs really do have white lines on the underside of needles. Who knew!

Now, these are not all of the trees I've found, but the rest I found only gave me more questions than answers. I've found some baby spruces that looked completely different, like this:

And while I do find these adorable, I wanna know why are they so different? Is it because they're tiny? They look more lush and healthy, is it because they're cared for or they're different, imported species? Why is that last tree in the middle of cone production, while the other spruces are after different businesses? If this is a matter of different varieties then I'm personally offended nobody explained this to me.

Also, I found this bush? And it smelled? Incredible??

The scent of this was thousandfold the power of any other plant. Smelling this transported me into a thousand old forest and underground. After touching this, my entire hand smelled like it for the rest of my trip, I could smell nothing else. It was pine-like but also plant like, and deeper, stronger, like I was smelling not the ends of the plant but the middle of a tree, the center, the roots and the soil. I took a bit of it home to smell. I think it will do me good. Further research revealed that this is a juniper bush, well known for its intense and overpowering scent!

I'm happy to report that this tree ID mission has cured my anxiety for the day, made me feel like a sneaky little secret scientist, gave me special inside knowledge of the evergreen tree society around me and had me meet some awesome trees! I also found some I didn't even know were growing close to me. I looked into making the syrup from the needles, but found out it required outrageous amount of sugar, so I gave up on it. I'm going to use little branches and shoots I took to make tea out of all of the edible plants instead.

[chewbokachoi]

Kuai Liang: I'm loyal to Earthrealm! Bi-Han: No I'm loyal to Earthrealm! Smoke: I'm loyal to both of you Kitana: I am loyal to my sister and all of Outworld. Cassan: I'm loyal to Ryu. ... Oh and I guess this asshole -gestures to Rain- Rain: And I'm loyal to-- Everyone: -stares intently- Rain: --to...hm. Ryu: -pops out from the bushes- Well this is pretty awkward now isn't it? Rain: !!! Doing the right thing! I am loyal to whatever is right. Ryu: ... Rain: Which by extension makes me loyal to you. Ryu: Good answer.

[sensitivedead]

texting my mother

[our-beautiful-nature]

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[plantstudyspace]

Monday, 28th March, 2022 🌿

Finally got around to getting these friends in bigger pots. I can't wait to see them even larger and blooming.