[Image description: the white and pink flowers of a black lace elderberry peek out from underneath the dark purple leaves]
I'm very hopeful that I will get some seeds from it this year, it would be awesome to grow it out to see how the genetics play out.
Coleus amboinicus -> Plectranthus amboinicus and I'm back to having no coleus, I'll never forgive
600G of strawberries retails for £4.50 (Tesco). If this whole setup cost only a million pounds, a producer would have to grow 133,333,332G worth of strawberries to pay it off, and this assumes nothing breaks (ever) and that there is some way to harvest that many strawberries without paying labor, packaging, licensing, and other costs. I feel like this was a cool tech demo but that's about it
Friendly reminder that lightning bugs need tall grasses present in addition to wildflowers and leaf litter. You can also improve their survival rates by removing artificial lighting or even just setting any safety lighting (like motion activated lamps) to their shortest "on" duration. Another obvious step is to avoid pesticides.
[Image description: a disc of white flowers sits atop a stem of elderberry, Sambucus canadensis]
First and foremost, I appreciate how patient and helpful you've been; thank you.
That's how I've been doing it for a while. Two years at least, as that's when I first bumped into the pictrs limitations. I'd done it before on other message boards but made full use of it since landing at Beehaw. As of yesterday it started giving me the album links instead when following the steps as you've outlined.
The alternative mentioned by Blaze and seconded by PenguinCoder does what I need very conveniently
An all around good egg, who often pops into threads just to be helpful.
Agreed. Most of what kept me using the service was familiarity and the behavioral inertia that brings, but making sharing to message boards difficult (even comparatively) is a deal breaker for me
The only url I'm able to get through the app is
https://imgur.com/a/7sSZfrH#fAh9k4C
Interesting. I made another attempt this morning but all the links are to the site and not directly to the image address
I attempted that, but the long press options don't include the "copy image address" for me. And yeah it seems like this latest update is really pushing the site so they can serve ads.
Self-hosting a service is not all that complicated, but requires some commitment.
Lol I run a small business and have a sleep disorder and a nine month old, any bandwidth I have is at a premium
Wholly agreed!
that IS easy enough even for me
I can't express how honored I feel seeing you reply, it's like a rite of passage
As of mid day, imgur (on mobile) no longer provides the direct image link to allow for mirroring on Beehaw using .
I always try to upload directly first, but tend to share pictures at the same quality I'm using for our business - which is to say at the highest quality image my device can capture. Those images rarely play nice with pictrs limitations so hosting elsewhere and mirroring are the best way for me to post plant and animal photos I take, and provide the best fidelity so others can enjoy them.
So, do folks have some suggestions for other image hosting that would let me accomplish this easily (I'm not particularly tech savvy)? Do I need to just spin up a pixelfed account and mirror/crosspost? I'd love for you to share your thoughts
I'm still waiting on my Pycnanthemum muticum, clustered mountain mint, to germinate. But in more positive news I was allowed to take a cutting of Monarda bradburiana, spotted bee balm, home with me yesterday.
What's growing on with you all?
Edited to add an image of the bee balm:
I pulled garlic scapes the other day, and our strawberries have been coming in gangbusters. The blackberries are just past full bloom, the raspberries are right behind them, and the elderberries look like they're going to go hard.
Blackberries:
Elder:
The front walkway (it needs some weeding)
What's growing on with you all?
My friend at the library asked this morning if I wanted to take home a hosta that someone donated to the plant sale without a pot, as she didn't have the capacity to split it into pots or spend multiple watering sessions keeping it happy. Being the good husband I am, I asked my wife if it's okay with her if I accepted (unapologetic plant accepter here). She said sure, and even understood when I said I needed to bring the truck because it had no pot and I didn't want to dirty her car.
The hosta:
My wife:
[Image description: the white flowers and pale leaves of sea kale contrast nicely with the pink, white and green of the dappled willow's foliage]
At least, I think they do
Apologies for being absent these past weeks, I have been hella busy getting ready for market season. By way of apology here are some smol herbs I potted up for our friends' shop
What's growing on with you all?
There are something like twelve common names in english, it was introduced to me as "oregano brujo" (wizard's oregano). It's most strongly oregano in its aerosol phenols but when I've used it in meals (usually in a slow cooker) it's got notes of the thymol that come through.