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Plant of the Day

Friday 10 June 2022

Great for a woodland garden or shady border is Convallaria majalis var. rosea (rosy lily of the valley). This spreading perennial with rhizomes has very fragrant, bell-shaped, pale pink flowers on arching stems just above the foliage.

Jill Raggett

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Syringa vulgaris (common lilac)

As I've said before, It's too bad that tumblr doesn't support Smell-O-Vision because the perfume of this lilac growing in the front garden is divine. Unfortunately, this is the last year that I will be able to enjoy it. The neighborhood is changing. The 'monster house' under construction next door has forced my hand. It will have six windows that will look into my, once, very private back garden. Yesterday, I put my house up for sale. I'll miss the garden the most.

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Chasing the moss somewhere in Switzerland by @90377

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never let a good notebook go to waste!

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bee

2024/03/23

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Took me until about halfway through college before I realized “study” means “play with the material in a variety of ways until you understand it” and not just “read the assigned chapters and do the homework” and I think that probably should have been discussed at some point prior to that.

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Decided to start a new project on the farm following a conversation with one of the directors about the apple trees we have on-hand (ie. they were bought, potted up and forgotten about).

Fairly simple project in theory - transplant the spare apple trees into the main orchard where there's currently a large amount of empty plots that either contained trees previously that didn't quite make it for various reasons or were dug in the wrong place due to a contractor error (the error is that he was a little stupid but shit happens). We have so many good trees just hanging around it'd be a shame to leave them to get root-bound in a tiny corner so I'm taking charge, especially because there's so much potential for the orchard to bring in money from various activities and, being a charity, this farm could use all the income it can get.

Based off of another short conversation with the farm founder who is an expert in apples and the guy who keeps buying the apple trees, potting them up and then forgetting about them (to be fair he's like 75) there's quite a lot to do but it is all fairly straight forward. The only things that may trip me up are:

a) finding time to meet with the farm manager to discuss a grazing and cutting regime for the orchard - difficult because he's only in during the week and I'm only in during weekends except for large events and these regimes will somewhat determine what I can do and when.

b) sorting out the budget for the project - there is apparently a £1200 p/y budget already set aside which isn't a lot and we need to repair a lot of the current fencing as well as buy materials for new fencing/irrigation/etc.

c) soil prep - the orchard has a heavy clay soil which I think is the reason so many of the original trees didn't make it, and a lot of the plots have overgrown so it'll mean a lot of work from day 1.

My plan for the coming weekend is to take a long walk around the orchard to note any repairs/potential problem areas and fix the taps, weather permitting. We have an event on sunday so I'm hoping the farm manager will be in to have a discussion about it then.

#project apples #super excited for this project actually #I've really enjoyed working with the animals over the past 2 years on the farm but I want to branch out a bit #a lot of volunteers focus solely on the animal management so I'm switching my focus a little bit to land management #I've also been working on the wildflower beds and the memorial orchard (though it's mostly weeding) which has been fun #hoping I can find a few other volunteers to help me out but I'm also content with doing it solo #thought it would be nice to keep a little record of project apples on tumblr bc it'll help me get back into posting lol

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look at these little darlings !!

bopeep_valaisblacknose

#sheep posting #AAAAAAA #valais blacknose sheep make me want to cry every time I see them #they're so precious #thanks for tagging me <3

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April 19th, 2024

Rainy days and my mood is low. I'm exhausted to my bones, really tired. I'm running on caffeine, sugar, and painkillers. This is definitely not healthy and I hope things will change soon. At least I know that in a few weeks it's all over but the end seems far away.

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1日4月2024年　「月」

I’ve already gotten a lot done and it’s not even noon. Yesterday I didn’t post because I barely left my dorm, but I got a lot done yesterday too.

What I’ve Done:

Anki

WaniKani

Writing drills

Watched one episode of Given (no spoilers, I’m up to episode 9 so I’m almost done)

What I Have Left To Do:

Genki Chpt 4 review

I’m glad I took a rest day on Saturday, but also I realized Friday night that I was kinda gonna be forced to because I went to my girlfriend’s brother’s house to see my niece and nephew.

I’m taking a break for a few hours and then I’m gonna get back to it.

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and is your shame helpful? is it inspiring goodness and change? or is it keeping you frozen in time unable to move on and be everything you have expanded to be?

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27日3月2024年

It’s raining! And I have to walk home in a bit…without my umbrella…

Things I’ve done:

WaniKani

Vocab

Grammar review

Things left to do:

N/A

I’m really tired because I didn’t sleep well last night so…probably gonna take a nap later. But we’ll see.

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today on neat hozier retweets: disappearing birds!

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By claudiadeyondesings

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Mitsuo Mukao

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Chasing the fog somewhere in Switzerland by @90377

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I want to reincarnate as this beautiful weeping cherry blossom tree