Saturday Tweets: Gardens, Grilled Cheese and Infinite Chocolate Chip Cookies

The latest Piet Oudolf design? No, a 17th century Japanese Iris garden (Horikiri Shobuen) https://t.co/oA5taACLaa pic.twitter.com/6edCbU3PJb — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) June 6, 2017 Stich Meadows, QE Olympic Park – roadside plantings with white Leucanthemum and yellow Bupthalmum and Galium, and pink Dianthus pic.twitter.com/NJ8TsqiXvI — Nigel Dunnett (@NigelDunnett) June 6, 2017 Fergus's magical layering @GreatDixter pic.twitter.com/3KW...

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Saturday Tweets: Cow Appreciation Day

...iotic fungi. This gives new insight to plant invasions & how to prepare sites for restorations https://t.co/ldBMjI2O0H pic.twitter.com/UUjSRy25IG — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) July 13, 2018 How to Design a Wildlife-Friendly City Whether it’s giving endangered species a break or providing our children with a firsthand look at nature, the benefits of biodiversity are bountiful. https://t.co/4jtwbEzrWn via @undarkmag — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRaine...

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The Upside Down Fire

...have a good supply of twigs and small branches on top, the big logs in the under layers didn’t catch fire fully. In video #2 the fellow builds a complicated teepee structure on top with his twigs. I don’t think that’s necessary, either. I mean, it’s okay, but it seems like work. You can just pile lots of little stuff on top any which way and light it. It’s like Goldilocks. I think the first guy has too little tinder, the second guy, too much. But...

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