#GROUNDCOVER.

[vintagehomecollection]

Damp shade. Anemone japonica and the tender Aspidistra elatior make up a summer grouping with a stone birdbath against a background of Hedera sp. The green ground cover plant is Helxine sp., which not only tolerates but requires dampness.

The Garden Book, 1984

#vintage #vintage interior #1980s #80s #garden #landscaping #landscape design #green #groundcover #stone #birdbath #shade #plants

[metz-n-matteo]

More spring flowers! Never has the periwinkle (vinca minor) bloomed so much for us as it has this year. ~ Matteo

#periwinkle #myrtle #vincaminor #groundcover #flowerphotography #spring #springflowers #springflowersmakemehappy #spiringhassprung #naturecore #naturelovers #flowerpower #flowercore

[climatecalling]

Dig up your “imperial” lawn and replant it with trees to combat the climate crisis, researchers have urged, after the latest study to lay bare the emissions cost of maintaining that pleasant, green patch.

If a third of the world’s city lawns were planted with trees, more than a gigatonne of carbon could be removed from the atmosphere over two decades, researchers from Auckland University of Technology found. The problem is not the grass itself, but the mowing, fertilisation and irrigation required. ...

The research’s lead author, Prof Len Gillman, said that while abandoning the mower and letting a lawn go wild “might cut down on the emissions due to maintenance, it’s not going far enough”.

“In terms of climate change we need to absorb as much carbon as we possibly can from the atmosphere …. The biggest difference is that shrubs and trees will store vastly more carbon than a lawn.”

In countries such as Australia, New Zealand and the US, the lawn represented a throwback to the colonial era, Gillman said, when lawns were strongly associated with affluence and nostalgia for English landscapes. Now, “a lot of lawns almost happen by mistake, as a default setting”, he said.

#climate crisis #it's not easy to rip out the grass and put in shrubs #i tried just replacing a small area with a groundcover and it's been a disaster #mostly weeds instead of the groundcover expanding to fill the gaps #and you can't just let the grass grow wild because anything over 9 inches incurs a fine

[obscuritaas]

2/16/24

our legacy x stussy borrowed shirt

holland brandt split pants

asics gel-1130 clay

groundcover tsuno bag

#fashion #high fashion #runway #cozycinnamon #menswear #streetwear #our legacy #stussy #our legacy x stussy #asics #holland brandt #minimalism #patti smith #just kids #outfit #wdywt #groundcover

[fluorescentbrains]

my retired neighbors when they see me in the middle of my front yard digging a hole in the barren ground to plant 1 single stonecrop succulent

#d #hey. if it survives i will buy more. and we can have some groundcover that isnt sand and weeds

[aurosoul]

things seen while jogging (part 28)

#picture journal #things seen while jogging #haven't put anything in that tag since OCTOBER #because 1 it became winter and there were no flowers #and 2 i got so busy during spring that i stopped jogging as much #but now i am in a new place and have new neighbors' gardens to photograph #eventually i will take pics of mine own garden but there is so much work to be done on it..... #it's currently being overrun by japanese honeysuckle and i need to spend hours pulling it all out fhjghdj #i'm also planting a succulent groundcover in place of grass! #i have a test patch going to see if it can get established even though the temps are high rn

[lunaiz4-misc]

TRAMS CAN GO ON GRASS. Or grass can go on tram tracks? Unclear. But grass and trams can coexist LOOK:

You could probably put another groundcover on there, too. Like clover or moss or whatever happens to be native and also short enough.

#TIL #fun facts #public transit #green cities #trams #grass #groundcover

[soldier-poet-king]

Not me. Planning native pollinator container gardens at work. I need a will to live. I have no land. I can probs convince my mother to allow me a few planters in the backyard if they're unobtrusive and don't impact her (ill kept horrible mulch reliant) garden or the tomatoes. Yes it's still Actively Cold and might still snow here. But I'm. SO DESPERATE FOR LIFE AND GREEN

#please. please. i just need to stick my hands in the dirt and hope that smthn lives #(also BEES) #might just buy some large ass ugly containers at walmart or the thrift store and use those #not planting perennials bc this is not my permanent abode #and so i guess it could be construed as a waste of money #but i am. so desperate. to grow smthn #i cant even have houseplants my room is in the basement theres NO natural light at all #but ontario pollinators!!! (and also maybe some forget me nots bc i cant resist and they're my fave and also good fillers) #and theyre not invasive just non native #also i have no space to germinate seeds (and its late in the season anyway) #so ill have to buy from the nursery #which again. maybe its a waste of money #but im SO desperate #and also i hate hate hate my mothers mulch garden #WHERE ARE YOUR GROUNDCOVER PLANTS. WHY IS THE LAWN SO BARREN #gonna commit eco terrorism on my parents lawn #they OWN land and they WASTE THIS BLESSED OPPORTUNITY #do u know what i would do with a garden a fraction the size od her flowerbed #my father hates dandelions and loves the military and tbh i think that's all u need to know #actively like #gonna rip out the mulch. plant native grouns covers which will grow better than grass anyway #like!!! it will REDUCE weeds and empty soaces #obvs not in the tomato bed but in the flower area????

[anipgarden]

Ani Reviews: A Step-by-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard

I promised you guys a review and here it is. I've never really done a book review before but I'm doing my best to make this Coherent and Helpful.

[Photo ID: a book, titled A Step-by-Step Guide to a Florida Native Yard by Ginny Stibolt and Marjorie Shropshire.]

Out of all the books I checked out from the library this round, I started with this one because it was the shortest out of all of them--if we don't count the appendix and index, its 101 pages long. You can read where I sort of live blogged a portion of this read here.

I think its a pretty good read! It's definitely a lot more relevant if you are the home owner and most directly in charge of landscaping decisions and such. It gives a bit of advice on how to handle making similar changes in an HOA neighborhood, and provides pointers and resources to other books that can also be helpful in the journey to make your landscape a wildlife-friendly habitat. It focuses on Florida specifically, as denoted by the title, and will frequently remind the reader that gardening in Florida is vastly different from gardening anywhere else. So whether you've been a Florida resident all your life, or are planning on making a move on down here, this book can be a helpful resource if you want to transform some or even all of your yard into a habitat.

After the introduction, the book is separated into seven major sections referred to as Steps. There's Assess Your Property, Plan for Drainage and Stormwater Sequestration, Install Trees, Plant Shrubs, Working with Herbaceous Plants, Build a Wild or Natural Area, and Create Spaces for Human Use. If you're more interested in one part than the others, you can definitely skip around to find what you're looking for. I will say, the Drainage and Stormwater section made my head spin a bit.

I will say this: I don't know if the writers ever fully decided if they wanted this book to be targeted towards those who are already gung-ho about native plants and itching to transform their landscape, or to people who are just beginning to dip their toe into the idea. Overall though, it was a nice and informative read, and the illustrations inside are lovely.

#ani reviews #ani rambles #out of queue #honestly like this book was a nice source of inspo that would inspire a transformed yard FOR ME #however if someone isn't already interested in native gardening I don't think its gonna push them into it #if all the talk about complicated drainage systems doesn't scare them off then honestly like #the alternative solutions they offer for lawns aren't... detailed on much #i would really love to find a book that focused on alternative lawn groundcovers for Florida specifically that targeted the concerns #i find that most people have #like 'can this hold up to kids playing soccer? to dog activities? if I roll my trashcan over it to get it to the curb is it gonna die on me #because like this book recommends dune sunflower as an altenrative to turf grass but even in the appendix section it doesn't mention if it #can handle being stepped on at all #it does say frogfruit is a good turf grass substitute but also like #frogfruit sunshine mimosa and twinflower are the other 3 it suggests forth and theyre ALL butterfly hostplants #and while the possibility of there being bugs in a turf lawn is far from an impossibility idk the idea of stepping on caterpillars icks me #*out. like even if ur not barefoot #and i know my mom and one of my other friends' first concerns would be 'would snakes hide in it' and idk if thats like #a Fringe Concern that most people don't worry about but I've never seen anyone address it when talking about alternative lawns #i am getting off topic #im ending the tags here byebye

[royalhenoil]

#frost #winter #cold #groundcover #grass #leaves #autumn #fall

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Saturday 24 December 2022

The hardy, creeping fern Adiantum venustum (evergreen maidenhair) forms a dense groundcover with a moist soil. It turns a rusty-brown in autumn and winter but can be almost evergreen in mild areas.

Jill Raggett

#Adiantum #evergreenmaidenhair #fern #groundcover #woodlandgarden #plants #writtledesign #gardens #horticulture #garden #aberdeen #CruickshankBotanicGarden #foliage

[lethesbeastie]

One of these days I'm gonna make a brush pack of the plants I draw the most for backgrounds so I can stop hand drawing 30 billion clovers

#beastiebites #artists on tumblr #Clovers are my default groundcover plant for my art #i know #too much about plants to draw them without going ham akfhskfhs

[obscuritaas]

2/17/24

our legacy borrowed shirt

holland brandt split pants

maison margiela tabi boots

groundcover tsuno bag

#fashion #high fashion #runway #menswear #martin margiela #holland brandt #our legacy #outfit #wdywt #tabi boots #just kids #groundcover

[mossmosss]

#my photography #aes #aesthetic #green #grass #clover #white clover #bright #sunny #pictures of the ground :) #flowers #foliage #cottagecore #fairycore #groundcovers #weeds #limited palletes

[seenbythe-sun]

#mossy #sphagnum moss #mosscore #nature blog #amateur photography #vertical nature #photoset #groundcover #outdoors #green #September #goblincore #mine

[bumblebeeappletree]

Join Austin Eischeid from Austin Eischeid Garden Design and Jens Jensen from Jensen Ecology and they share how they developed compositions with local ecotype native plant species for projects of different scales. They discuss how they created display gardens composed entirely of native plants for residential gardens, mid-size gardens, up to a corporate campus.

#Midwest Groundcovers LLC #solarpunk #USA #midwest #Austin Eischeid #Jens Jensen #Austin Eischeid Garden Design #Jensen Ecology #native plants #native species #gardening #garden #plants #residential gardens #mid-size gardens #corporate campus #corporate campus gardens #Youtube