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[butters]

Yeah, this is where I'm thinking reflective surfaces that are being shattered at force create concentrated areas of rapidly dispersing reactivity.

Conservation of mass doesn't really allow for spontaneous light creation, but reflection and shadow, sure.

the sounds forces the bubble to collapse in upon itself, causing the air molecules within it to smash together at such force they emit light and intense heat. or something.

star in a jar seems such a mundane expression for what i'm looking at.

 

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I love violets too, one of my favourite things to smell in the world When we started losing grass I picked the violets out of it and now we have patches in the beds .

I will google image Jonny jump ups. .

Johnny Jump Ups are little leggy pansy hybrids, and the ones all over the place here look like this:

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1008/4432/products/1_69487706-53b2-48e6-a31e-a349c3e682a1_large.jpeg?v=1452124789

 

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Edit: oh violas! These are such joyful little plants. I grow them on my farm yard and the self seed into cracks in the concrete, I love their strength and cheerfulness. If we were all like these little plants we'd do well.

Yes! My particular favorites for growing in tiny cracks in concrete!

 

[thør]

Johnny Jump Ups are little leggy pansy hybrids, and the ones all over the place here look like this:

http://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1008/4432/products/1_69487706-53b2-48e6-a31e-a349c3e682a1_large.jpeg?v=1452124789

Very cold hardy!

 

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the sounds forces the bubble to collapse in upon itself, causing the air molecules within it to smash together at such force they emit light and intense heat. or something.

star in a jar seems such a mundane expression for what i'm looking at.

Yes. I don't agree with the way the science is presented particularly, they're pouring tons of power into it in the form of sound waves, so yeah, microscopically it makes sense. It just won't create more power than you put into it.

Very cool tho.

 

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Very cold hardy!

Alaska made me SO happy with all the flowers blooming, and Anchorage put out such gorgeous flower arrangements on every corner.

Pansies would love the place. My mother just bought me a flat, it's a tradition to go out in the early spring and for me, buy pansies. They are my favorite. In Florida I had to grow them in December-January.

Here they're good and I'm sure they'll survive (except for the deer eating them...) and my mom says "as long as they're not buried in snow"

It DID snow yesterday...they just didn't get buried.

 

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It's my experience that which ever type you start with, in seeding they revert to these. . And why not? They wear it well.

Yes, I think so. They don't make it into the grass like the tiny violets, or maybe they do and they're just too tall and get guillotined by the lawnmower.

But yeah, they tend to revert to this genetic variant no matter what you set loose.

My gardening philosophy is to value the plants that take care of themselves, so it's a bit different from my mom, who tried to grow figs...

Displaced southern Belle.

She worked miracles on the yard, but the figs...did not make it. And the fig tree...lasted one season.

 

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Denny & Dollie

Bullet point: I don't hate anybody.

Bullet point: I am not anybody else.

That's easy on my part.

We are a team but do take turns here. It's my computer, my forum, I'm boss.................................... if I'm nice to her!

We don't hate anybody but as we check more threads this is more difficult as time passes.

We are nobody else because no one else wants us and no one else can be exactly like us. We like us even if nobody else does.

As someone once says it's easier to by yourself and easier to tell the truth. At our ages we can't remember many lies.

As for where we are, right now NW Florida deep in the woods. It's 86 degrees, sunny, and a slight breeze. It's not Heaven but a long way from Hell.

We've had many colors of Azelieas all winter and the Dogwoods, Day Lilies and more, are beginning to bloom. Deer, ferrel hogs, Hoot owls, Eagles, amd other assorted birds and wildlife stop by to say hello. Maybe it is heaven!

 

[pete]

When do the cherry blossoms come out? Soon?

most have already peaked, but there's still many in full bloom around the tidal basin

 

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We are a team but do take turns here. It's my computer, my forum, I'm boss.................................... if I'm nice to her!

We don't hate anybody but as we check more threads this is more difficult as time passes.

We are nobody else because no one else wants us and no one else can be exactly like us. We like us even if nobody else does.

As someone once says it's easier to by yourself and easier to tell the truth. At our ages we can't remember many lies.

As for where we are, right now NW Florida deep in the woods. It's 86 degrees, sunny, and a slight breeze. It's not Heaven but a long way from Hell.

We've had many colors of Azelieas all winter and the Dogwoods, Day Lilies and more, are beginning to bloom. Deer, ferrel hogs, Hoot owls, Eagles, amd other assorted birds and wildlife stop by to say hello. Maybe it is heaven!

My husband also posts here. I came here first, posted some of my stories, then fell in love with the forums and begged him to come keep me company. I am not always here, but I always check back in. I can often cheat because he gives me the best bits by turning around and saying '_________ said this' and I get to answer 'Sounds like them' and every now and then I'll just come back and say what I say instead of him saying.

I am very philosophical about the hate. Hate is contagious, I develop an immune system. As Oscar Wilde said "Always forgive your enemies, nothing annoys them so much." I have extended that to not letting people on the internet decide they are my enemy and having me agree with them.

I'm in New Jersey but I spent about 15 years in Orlando, so I do know the climate. I do not miss the fire ants.

We're right on the edge of a state park, so we have bears, deer, coyotes, foxes, bunnies and all manner of plant nibblers.

The bear made certain I no longer have a bird feeder because she kept dismantling it...

http://i.imgur.com/OCs0t8H.jpg

 

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most have already peaked, but there's still many in full bloom around the tidal basin

I am a fan of when petals try to take over the world.

 

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Well, you get quite cold hardy figs. I have several, and as G always points out to me, they grew in his garden in Italy where the winter snow is more than Here throws at it. Our problem in England is not winter temperatures so much as lack of summer heat. I should think the cold hardy varieties would do better in many places in northern states for that reason. I'd be like your mother and try

I also saw that you need a ... fig wasp ... to pollinate here...

Sorry mom.

 

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[Lancecastor]

Bees & Bats are disappearing.

:-(

 

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When I dead head in the summer I sprinkle the petals on paths. I should point out this is very bad gardening as can increase spread of any disease or fungal infection.

But......rose petal strewn paths....( until the wind carries them away...)

I am really lucky here also with the roses, we have so many and again, deer don't eat 'em, so we have peach and white, pink and red...the arbor in the back of the herb garden is all white roses.

Lavender also does really well.

 

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Bees & Bats are disappearing.

:-(

Bee populations are recovering statistically...at least wild bees. Domesticated bees are still struggling from monoculture weaknesses, fungus and mites.

White Nose Syndrome for bats.

Look, nature, do you HAVE to be so mean? I mean really, is it ABSOLUTELY necessary?

 

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I feel slightly bad. I have inadvertently perhaps steered you to a gardening thread when I already have one on lit. . It's greedy, huh?

*points to thread title*

Pre-Hijacked. So...this is how I like it.

If I went INTO your gardening thread, I'd probably start talking about sonoluminescence...

 

[pete]

Blooming here now, not in my garden, I don't have them.

when they're in bloom its quite beautiful, and i mostly think that's because of the sheer number of trees, many hundreds stretching out around the water.

but after bloom season, they're just trees, rather plain.
in other words, i'm not sure they have a good return on investment

 

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