I originally started this blog to document my garden and follow other gardeners, but in reality I reblog anything remotely plant- or animal- or bug- or science-related. Queue currently spits out 10 posts a day.
Started my garden in 2019 on a sunny dry third floor balcony. This year I moved to a new place on a slope with shade and some irrigation, so I'm figuring everything out from scratch again!
Original posts are tagged #my garden
I reblog a LOT here and I don't tag consistently, but let me know if you need a trigger tagged and I'll do my best. Currently spiders or similar-looking arachnids are tagged #spiders. I probably won't tag for bugs in general, I post too many of those.
Other people's gardens are tagged #gardens or #garden design or #harvest when I remember to do so.
You can find me as lamiafaae on Instagram and iNaturalist
I also run @identifying-ladybugs-in-posts
About my garden: Zone 10b, Southern California. East facing, on a hillside, largely shaded by trees. Scarce rainfall. Poor local soil, most growing done in containers. Local animals: coyotes, raccoons, squirrels, finches, towhees.
Original text of my bio: she/her. 29. struggling intermittently with a south-facing balcony container garden in a hot sunny dry big city. absolutely love observing a super common thing/bug/plant and going to research it online digging for hours through blatant seo-bait misinformation to find basic accurate facts. syrphid flies my beloved. mint family my beloved. i don't tag reliably. content includes lots of insects, plant facts, art and ~aesthetics~, and sustainability musings. personal posts are tagged #my garden regardless of whether they're strictly about my garden. posts tagged #ai are relevant to a story that's been knocking around my head a while, not necessarily actual ai.
sex is a distraction from your true purpose in life which is to go to the aquarium and look at the fish and go "wooooooaaah.... fishies". cmon guys we all need to lock in.
Hey so a small thing that literally everyone who sees this is capable of is correcting any “used to” statements about native people in this country.
“Native people used to live in this National Park” No. They still do.
“Native people used to tell these stories-” No. They still do.
“Native people used to use this plant as a natural remedy-” No. They still do.
Better yet, familiarize yourself with the tribes local to you. Odds are, they do not yet have federal recognition. You can still read the stories they have to share, you can share their ongoing battle for recognition with others, you can sign petitions and spread the word to others to do so as well. But do something.
a lot of people don’t tell you this when you’re starting to remodel your own home but occasionally under the floorboards you’ll find the entrance to an unimaginably sprawling and vast complex of underground lakes connected to each other through intricate networks of tunnels where suburbanite mermaids have set up mermaid strip malls with mermaid verizon, mermaid driving school, the mermaid liquor store, and so on. and many people will think this is a plumbing issue, but it’s actually a zoning problem
