Your flowers are gorgeous! That's all in one pot?? Beautiful ❤️ I bet they smell great that close to the house 😍
They're one of my faves, too! I have 2 (that I don't water as regularly, so they're still small) that I think I'll move closer this fall/winter. You've done an amazing job with them, and inspired me!
I don't know if or when it came back (there seems to be a 30 year cycle for fashion where everything old is new again) or if you are just your own individual who doesn't care if it's in, just doing it because you like it.
Or maybe you're rockabilly. Or too punk to care.
Or maybe I stopped noticing it and it never actually went out of fashion - it was me who went out of fashion!
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Tight-rolled jeans with rolled-down socks.
Also, aforementioned backwards clothes - even trained my Grandma to reply "jump, jump?" 😁
I've had this stuck in my head all weekend, and hope someone else out there enjoys it too!
That's awesome! Good idea keeping mosquitoes away - I'm a friggen mosquito-magnet and get a new bite almost every time I go outside (and most of the lawn is kept tidy, but we don't clean up all the long grass in the "lily garden" - yet)
Very nice! They bounced back well! What else is in there with them? The bigger bushy leaves look kinda like geranium to me, but it's just a guess
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It's great that you got to keep the original plan, once the trees got a little bigger!
But it's really quite amazing how well hostas do, when given shade. We have so many (in the back) that aren't even the same as any of the other hostas in our back yard!
We had a similar (but reversed) situation - had a giant oak in the front yard when we bought the house. We put hostas in the shade - our front yard was full shade, so they did really well.
A couple of years later, our oak got sick and full shade turned into part shade. Then we had to take it down, so the already stressed and crispy hostas - which had already stopped doing well - seem to be barely present in the front.
We don't have as many hostas in the front anymore.
Ya know, I think those are actually all volunteers - I think we also had only seen variegated, except for this one kind that are giant and blue.
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Thank you, though! We also are loving how little grass can grow between/beneath them!
Thank you!
My spouse floated an idea that would double the size of this flower bed.
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I'm all about that! I wanna split and scramble some of the colors around, now that I know what it all looks like!🤞
Shown are some pink and (what I think of as) orange sherbet colored lilies that it seems like all the scales in 3 bulbs for each color came up, and some new (last year they didn't bloom) daylilies "Night Beacon" which had a lot more red on the petals and much less of the yellow throat on the packaging than in my picture... ¯\\\(ツ)\/¯
This is what it looked like a couple of days ago. It's been in the 90's and rainy - so pretty miserable, but at least the rain keeps the plants happy!
In the lower left there are a couple of lilies that are slightly different - deep orange with a maroon or deep red throat: !Two-tone lilies with deep orange petals and a dark red throat I promise you, most of the red/pink/raspberry lilies - the most prominent color in the picture - were actually like the two-tone orange and red ones when we planted them last year! What is up with that? lol
I'm sure they would have been great ~
Sorry to hear that your deer are jerks (and those beetles! Man - those guys suck!)
Like the Santa maggot guy
I kinda like the idea of it being Santa instead of Satan 😁
PAX - before there was PAX Prime or PAX East.
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Oh that's even cooler than decorative grass! The whole bed looks great, man. The scatter planting will be fun, too! Now I know that I like lupins 😁 thanks!
I'm gonna have to do some splitting and replanting this fall, too. The flowers did much better than expected after just one year - lol
Those look soo delicious! How many plants do you have? That's a good haul!
Fantastic! Those are going to have so many beautiful flowers!
That braided decorative grass is cool - way cooler than the regular grass that comes up in my flowerbeds! 😁
But what is that short purple and white guy between the grasses, almost dead-center? 'Cause it looks nice too, but it's hidden away! Lol
This is what my family (and a few friends) use. We have been using it for a while now because it just works. Also, the kids have never complained about using Conversations, or about using it only for us (like if you have that one family member who won't leave SMS behind - we're that guy, I guess), and we can make as many channels as we need for the house, the kids, with each kid individually, for our MTG cards, with our couple of friends that use it, etc…
I don't personally do the hosting, so I can't speak to that. That's the hubby's thing
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Looks like those scattered seeds are coming up pretty well. The raised bed looks great, too!
As I was taking this picture of my lilies that are showing some reds, a deer ran from the side yard of my house, and through the back yard, and out the fence in the back! I was actually out there to check damages from the deer that was out there 3 hours before!
I'm getting a little tired of them eating my pansies, but at least they've been leaving the lilies alone. So far. And it helps a little that a mama deer brought her baby to the yard and they didn't eat the lilies, just the Jacob's ladders and sand cherry tree's um… cherries?
The following was all included in the prompt, with some other things set up in the background kind of obfuscated from the view I end up with. Fairly randomized chunks of prompt are fed to an llm which then adds to it:
> Scientific Beauty of Liquid Metals ≈====================≈
> Prompt: A beautiful scientific rendering of mixtures of undulating liquid metal,, , Amethyst Purple, Emerald Green, Burnished Bronze Clear
> Golden Amber, Liquid Copper, Liquid Silver, Iridescent Sheen, Crystal Blue, Shimmering Opal, Fiery Red, Aquamarine, Molten Metal, Reflective Surface, Neon Pink, Radiant Yellow, Ethereal, Shifting Hues, Lava Flow, Platinum, Radiant Orange, Nebula, Prismatic, Fluorescent, Stained Glass, Opalescent, Prism, Optical Illusion, Aurora, Glittering, Glimmering, Dazzling, Radiant, Rivulets, Sparkling, Glittering, Glowing, Glassy, Metallic, Rainbow, Refracted Light, Lustrous, Glossy, Radiant, Luminous
Can anyone tell me how old they think this guy is? Milk crate for scale.
Finally! After taking a bit of time away from crafting at all last year, this guy is finished!
(Pattern from Ravelry: [Sally the Sloth](https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sally-the-sloth by Cuddly Stitches Craft)
Basically a trail cam to see who visits (and eats) my flowers. These guys tend to eat what the birds drop onto the deck instead.
Is it an incoming begonia flower? Most of the plant is in rough shape, and I think it came with pests I didn't know about 😑
Hey guys, I'm starting the research phase before I have seeds, but could use some direction on where to find good advice.
I've done hydro and aeroponic vegetables, (and have had terrible luck with veggies in soil) so I thought I'd try something like a DWC with just 1 plant in a 5-gal bucket, since I have all the equipment for that.
I have seen there are plenty of different places to get info, but as a novice, I won't really recognize bad advice when I see it. 😅
Thanks in advance!
I knit and crochet, so when I saw this amigurumi horror show on display I fell in "love" with the stitches (which are somehow both and neither knit and crochet)
(Sdxl with added details lora and maybe/probably the yarn lora, but it was generated while I was asleep, so I don't have all the details)
Used a details lora and a rainbows lora. Kinda looks like bioluminescence may have also been selected, but that's just a guess 😁
(I don't actually know how much to include but I was really happy with this guy)
Stable Diffusion checkpoint cyberrealistic_v33.safetensors [037e0498f1]
parameters
Alpaca, flooded bay, <lora:Aether\_Bubbles\__Foam\_v1\_SDXL_LoRA:1> mmade of soap bubbles and bath foam, <lora:SDXLPaintSplash:1> Colorsplash, <lora:xl_more_art-full_v1:1>, <lora:Bio-Luminescence:1.0>bioluminescent, glowing,
Steps: 30, Sampler: Euler, CFG scale: 7.0, Seed: 1285792750, Size: 730x1300, Model hash: 00a14cdeaa, Model: starlightXLAnimated_v3, Denoising strength: 0, Lora hashes: "SDXLPaintSplash: 536aefae956d, xl_more_art-full_v1: fe3b4816be83, Bio-Luminescence: 793277619746", Version: v1.6.0
Just tried again today, even though I wasn't expecting any different results from the last few Imagine my surprise! I'm pretty sure nothing happened on my end (Sync settings or instance).
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(Squirrel standing over the defeated unicorn head in the snow)
This isn't from this year - no snow yet! - but, it seemed a fitting follow-up to the first pic I posted.
