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‘It was our hope spot’: scientists heartbroken as pristine coral gardens hit by Western Australia’s worst bleaching event | Climate crisis | The Guardian
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/jun/07/wa-coral-unprecedented-bleaching-event-ningaloo-reef

Strolling the streets of Dublin.

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on #BBC6Music's #CerysMatthews
Virginia Astley:
🎵 From gardens where we feel secure
#VirginiaAstley
https://virginiaastley.bandcamp.com/album/from-gardens-where-we-feel-secure

Sleeping duck (possibly Muscovy?). Descanso Gardens. La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. #descansogardens #bird #birds

They Planned Parties and Salsa Music for July 4th.
ICE Raids Made Them Think Twice.
Some communities in the Los Angeles region canceled events over fears of immigration raids,
as Latinos grapple with how, and whether, to celebrate Independence Day.
Bell Gardens, where more than 96 percent of residents are Hispanic, is one of more than two dozen so-called Gateway Cities that make up a hub of largely Latino working-class communities.
In recent days, the mayor of …

They Planned Parties and Salsa Music for July 4th. ICE Raids Made Them Think Twice.
Some communities in the Los Angeles region canceled events over fears of immigration raids, as Latinos grapple with how, and whether, to celebrate Independence Day.

Wonderful #biochar making workshop yesterday at Bellingen Northbank Community Gardens. After all our worry about the ECL that is forming, the weather ended up being perfect. Booked out and then extras so it was a big and enthusiastic group with an inspiring range of applications for it and lots we leaned from them. We emptied the cooled down demo barrel this morning and there was a nice barrow …

the Plant Labeler strikes again
this guy is going all over SF labeling sidewalk plants with a QR code to his vibe-coded AI landscaping startup. he thinks you’ll think he created these gardens
he didn’t, and can’t even tell what are weeds: he’s labeled invasive thistle and pellitory

How innovations in garden technology, including AI-driven watering systems and robotic mowers, originally built for agriculture, are now reaching home growers (Mark Lane/Financial Times)
https://www.ft.com/content/8a7831a5-657a-4b26-9929-c593104597e8

The gardens that AI grew
From laser scarecrows and solar-powered weeding robots to trees bred to capture more carbon, high-tech horticulture is in full germination

Did our first longish trip in the EV over the weekend, Albury to Melbourne and back. Things we learnt:
1. I was worried about range since there was a lot of 110kph highway and a fair bit of stop start city driving. This proved unfounded as the range was pretty right.
2. There are chargers everywhere along the highway ranging from cheap 7kw AC chargers to expensive 200 kw DC chargers. You pay for the convenience of speed . Even using the most expensive chargers, costs were about a t…

More music, more art, more poetry and prose, more gardens and parks, more solidarity.

Pond Slider on a rock. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. March, 2021. #descansogardens #turtle #slider

gardening trivia of the day / no I don't want to get into roses I am just rabbit holing rose varieties and gardens for no reason
#TIL #roses

Muscovy Duck. Descanso Gardens, La Canada-Flintridge, California, USA. February, 2025. #descansogardens #duck #muscovyduck

My latest historical analysis, this time about the craze for Japanese gardens in the US, how they got here and why we should look at the thought behind the Japanese garden, not just the plants and furniture. It can be found in two places, depending on your reading preference.
https://varnelis.substack.com…

Interminable Flights | Kazys Varnelis | Substack
architecture, art, technology, and their intersections. native plants too. Click to read Interminable Flights, by Kazys Varnelis, a Substack publication with hundreds of subscribers.

AI would have done the patterns slightly wrong, relative to the mathematically perfect patterns that nature produces deterministically. https://ecoevo.social/@danmccullough/114698742002848774

Dan McCullough (@danmccullough@ecoevo.social)
Attached: 1 image Contrary to first glance, this was not created by AI. No, this was created by gardening. 😁 Sempervivum aka Hens & Chicks #Gardens #Plants #Succulents

Great weather, finally for beer gardens. #Löwenbraukeller
#munich #Muenchen #beer

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on KEXP's #MiddayShow
Winter Gardens:
🎵 Hyacinth
#WinterGardens
https://wintergardensband.bandcamp.com/track/hyacinth
https://open.spotify.com/track/5CD2QCU6u3wcu3hC4JIuct

If you ever need reasons to use #linux and leave the usual walled bs-gardens out there... watch the video I stumbled across today. (sry.. its on yt and kinda long.. but still worth watching every minute)
as Gardiner Bryant said a couple times: goosebumps!
And wait for the dickmove that #Adobe

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #ThroughTheNight
Kaija Saariaho & Lorenzo Colombo:
🎵 Excerpts from 'Six Japanese Gardens'
#KaijaSaariaho #LorenzoColombo
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Topiary garden at Pierrepont Holme Hall, February 2025
#photography #heritagephotography #historichouses #gardens

Pond Slider and Leaf. Descanso Gardens, La Canada Flintridge, California, USA. May, 2025. #descansogardens #turtle #pondslider

🇺🇦 #NowPlaying on BBCRadio3's #NightTracks
Benjamin Britten, Julius Drake & Christopher Maltman:
🎵 The Salley Gardens (Folksong Arrangements Vol. 1 'British Isles')
#BenjaminBritten #JuliusDrake #ChristopherMaltman