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I can't help but notice many toots from helpful newbies encouraging you to support the Mastodon Patreon.
It's fine to do that but understand it goes to just two big instances and the official Mastodon dev team.
It does NOT trickle down to YOUR instance. If you want to support your server, donate to it directly. Nearly all the costs of the explosive growth of the past few weeks is borne by local instances.
Mastodon is decentralized. There is no Mastodon Inc. This is not Twitter.
With more gardeners moving over to this site, I thought I'd recommend some #gardening resources I've found helpful over the years.
#Podcasts -
The Joe Gardener Show (Joe Lamp'l)
Let's Argue About Plants (Fine Gardening Magazine)
The Plantastic Podcast (Jared Barnes)
The Native Plant Podcast
#Books -
The Tree Book (Dirr and Warren)
Gardening Secrets for Attracting #Birds (Rachel Lanicci)
Grow Fruit (Alan Buckingham)
Native Plants for the Southeast (Larry Mellichamp)
Websites/TV -
P. Allen Smith https://www.youtube.com/@PAllenSmith
Edible Acres https://www.youtube.com/c/edibleacres
Epic Gardening (also on Discord) https://www.youtube.com/@epicgardening
P. Allen Smith is a landscape and garden designer, horticulturist, preservationist and television host. His passions span the subjects of community, health, sustainability and history. He has designed the grounds at many of the nation’s most notable estate properties, townhomes, and commercial complexes. And, for over 19 years, he has shared his green knowledge and insight with the public via ABC, NBC, CBS, Fox, his own PBS television, and six book titles. Currently, Allen is focused on residential, commercial and community designs that are beautiful, improve our connectedness, and our social and physical health. To learn more about Allen’s horticultural interests and secrets, sign up for his weekly newsletter: https://pallensmith.com/
Curious to know if anyone has a mental list of #plants they would rather pass on. I have a hot take 🔥
I don't like crape myrtles. Mostly from a maintenance standpoint. They require SOOOOOO much pruning and shaping and staking to get them into that three-stem vase shape you see when you buy one at a nursery. The amount of suckers they produce that need to be removed 😮💨 It takes me about a full week (or two) to prune all of our crape myrtles at the nursery production farm. And then just to see people commit crape murder later on 😭
Also not a fan of winter jasmine (Jasminum nudiflorum) which I basically call Forsythia Junior, which like Forsythia just looks like an animal had its tail stuck in an electrical socket when not in bloom. 😵💫
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