For those who want me to touch the grass, today I literally touched, pulled, and cut the grass, also weeds, around my home.

#sofiaflorina #ソフィアフロリナ #grass #cut #cvt #cutting #cvtting #cutspo #cvtspo #weed #weeds #home #myhome #house #myhouse #outside #active #gooutside #beactive #literally #literallyme #meliterally #touchthegrass #touch #touching #touched

Duh! I ask you! Donned all wet gear, went to the plot and... it stopped raining. Bah!

Two hours trimming the plot and adjacent area, this one to get rid of all yellow flowers, on the grounds that they are presumably not bee-friendly, so went around slowly carefully to keep lillies and orchids which are bee-friendly. So far so good but haven't finished, more tomorrow.

Phew!

#allotment #weeds #buttercups #gardening #photography #bees #lilly #orchids #flowers

I spent months cultivating the chamomile I sowed in my little greenhouse. I was so proud that one of the plants finally grew its first few flowers, then my husband came home and said "hey, that looks exactly like the weed growing on our driveway."

Well, fuck me and my efforts I guess 🤣

#chamomile #kamille #weeds #gardening #onkruid #LifeUhFindsAWay #upstagedbymothernature

How To Grow Your Business Like A Weed, According Stu Heinecke

‘Process should be highly adaptable to challenges and changes of circumstance.’

‘Winning requires persistence, which requires unrelenting effort, energy, and resources.’

‘Trust, reputation, and positioning are force multipliers in the marketplace.’

‘Weeds tell us the function of persistence is to control the velocity of growth, much like throttle.’

‘Urgency can also be produced by reducing the word count in your communications. The wordier it is, the less urgent and thus the less important it is.’

‘Urgency is based on first on the knowing the true value of your time, which is many times larger than whatever you’re being paid.’

‘Resilience is a choice we make about outcomes in life.’

‘Delay kills growth, diminishes our relevance, and devalues our time.’

‘Of all the other attributes of the weed mindset, resilience is a choice we make about outcomes in life.’

‘We should give our seeds wings– unfair advantages to spread our marketing message- to maximize our reach in our markets.’

‘Names act as powerful seeds, giving ideas, products, services, and companies greater life and visibility in the marketplace.’

‘Our brands are our promise to our customers, present and future, for a better life.’

Source:

Stu Heinecke (2022). How to Grow Your Business Like a Weed: A complete Strategy for Unstoppable Growth

This week I found what I think is the first wild seedling of a tulip tree I've seen in NZ. It's the first record of a wild tulip tree from the greater Christchurch area, and one of few from NZ, on #iNaturalist.

Why does this matter? Because this is how most tree weeds start. Ingo Kowarik's classic 1995 study from Branderburg, Germany, showed that "on average, there was a time lag of 147 years between the introduction to Brandenburg and the initiation of invasion (170 years for trees, 131 for shrubs)" and that the most successful invaders were not neccesarily the earliest to go wild.

My tulip tree seedling is the first offspring of two tulip trees planted on Lincoln University's campus about 60 years ago. The species had been rarely planted in the city until recently. It was fashionable at the time the city was rebuilt after the earthquakes, so now we've got lots of them planted. We may see many more wild tulip tree seedlings in another half century.

Time will tell how well suited it is to NZ's environments.

https://www.inaturalist.nz/observations/365601855

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Ingo-Kowarik/publication/230693763_Time_lags_in_biological_invasions_with_regard_to_the_success_and_failure_of_alien_species/links/0912f50dc8d572fd12000000/Time-lags-in-biological-invasions-with-regard-to-the-success-and-failure-of-alien-species.pdf

#botany #weeds #BiologicalInvasions #WoodyWeeds #nz #Liriodendron

Well, my harvest (dandelions from the Beltline Trail in Toronto) is all washed and soon to be part of my evening supper soup.

#food #weeds #supper #dandelions #vegan #toronto