Saturday Tweets: Weeds, Bees and General Crankiness

June 2, 2018

Weed Life #permaculture #gardening #weeds #savetheweeds #soilhealth #dandelions #weedshavefeelingstoo pic.twitter.com/xsAz2Ktjs1 — Rascality Now (@rascalitynow) May 30, 2018 Count your bees with a Raspberry Pi and machine learning https://t.co/1tjD8uCaYb — Root Simple (@rootsimple) June 1, 2018 The Silence of the Bugs https://t.co/rdRKfse7JW — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 27, 2018 “America was just wiped out.” @nicolatwilley reports from the “Cl...

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Saturday Tweets: From Zines to Hedgehogs

Mr. Homegrown

May 12, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...Alys Fowler https://t.co/5ZDthQa7H2 pic.twitter.com/yOTRrsvH6V — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) May 6, 2018 ‘I had to guard an empty room’: the rise of the pointless job https://t.co/q8RhMn391u — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 6, 2018 Humility in science communication https://t.co/NAPo2gyqXP via @2020science — Root Simple (@rootsimple) May 12, 2018 Monkey riding Snailman [KB, Thott 291 8º, 15th c.] pic.twitter.com/avTLZxyKTM — Damien Kempf...

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Saturday Tweets: LA’s Grim Streets, Being the Change and More Medieval Marginalia

Mr. Homegrown

April 21, 2018

Saturday Linkages

...| James Wong https://t.co/hO4VeShnL8 pic.twitter.com/LfSuxi1DaS — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) April 16, 2018 Love following these plant hunting expeditions in Tajikistan & Uzbekistan: Adventures along the silk road. Nothing more exciting than seeing plants living free and in the wild https://t.co/h81qvNPDSB pic.twitter.com/qsQjn7IjEI — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) April 16, 2018 How to create a universe, in 4 stepshttps://t.co/jScQytY...

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Lessons from the 2018 Theodore Payne Garden Tour

Mr. Homegrown

April 16, 2018

Design, Gardening, Native Plants

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The gardening equivalent of Beyoncé’s triumphant 2018 Coachella performance took place on the very same weekend. Theodore Payne’s annual garden tour reunited pollinator friendly plantings, low water use and great design in a sort of horticultural equivalent of the return of Destiny’s Child. Lush and traditional garden design even made a Jay-Z like cameo appearance at the stunning stunning Wilson/Leach garden in Altadena (seen above). Native plant...

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Saturday Tweets: It’s 2017!

Mr. Homegrown

January 7, 2017

Saturday Linkages

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...y @bramble36 https://t.co/bWFTOcHVk5 pic.twitter.com/cTOIyap8tz — Guardian gardening (@guardiangardens) January 6, 2017 $100 for a tablet and foldable wireless keyboard https://t.co/9sKiq88hv3 — Root Simple (@rootsimple) January 6, 2017 Love this project! 100% increase in both landscape #biodiversity and residential population #density can be achieved https://t.co/PJwlCZFBTy pic.twitter.com/KE9NWqLqWN — Thomas Rainer (@ThomasRainerDC) January 5, 2...

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