For me, it's Grim Dawn, honestly. (And Diablo before that) 10 classes to choose 2 from means a lot of new skills and builds. Tons of random loot, but also recipes to make and collect.
I mostly play with mods now. Grim Internals, full rainbow, some rep and exp gain ones, and the Item Assistant. I play solo, and have enjoyed every hour of it!
No worries! Like I said, I always have to check, between those 2. Looks like you'll have a ton coming in over the next weeks - of both!
So I guess I have a ton of the Asiatic lilies, a lot of the OT hybrid (also sometimes called Orienpet, but that sorta sounds silly to me), a few trumpets, and a couple oriental.
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Also, that many of the flowers that were sold as star gazer bulbs were definitely not.
If they don't smell and tend to stay a lot shorter, they're more likely to be the asiatics. If they grow a lot taller and have a smell (that I personally love), they're probably the oriental type.
Trumpet and daylilies (along with lily of the valley, calla lily, toad lily, easter lily, turk's cap, and several others, are a lot easier to tell apart based on looks, but the Asiatic and Oriental types always confuse me until I smell them!
Some references (which, I have to use something as reference every year):
- https://bygl.osu.edu/node/1096
- https://worldoffloweringplants.com/difference-asiatic-oriental-lilies/
- https://www.thespruce.com/asiatic-lily-care-guide-7510540 (which is where I get reminded "Unlike Oriental lilies, which bloom in late summer and are known for their aroma, Asiatic lilies bloom in late spring or early summer and have little to no scent.")
These are gorgeous! Beautiful colors, and it looks like a lot more to come! ❤️
I'm going to have to move my star gazers after the growing season is done. They only bloom one flower each year, and have never sprouted new stems from the bulbs/scales!
!Portrait shot of tall white and pink OT hybrid lilies (gaucho type) !A single white and pink lily in a small glass vase
I love my Gaucho OTs (Oriental-Trumpet hybrid) - they smell lovely and look a lot like my star gazers, only bigger! This is the 2nd summer - I planted 6 bulbs in spring of 2023 and have several more that sprouted from those bulbs 🥰
Ooh, damn that's rough!
I think we had some bars over asphalt/concrete/cement (I dunno, it was a big solid surface that was also the parking lot, the kickball diamond, the wiffle ball field, and where we had all of our field and track days) but I only ever fell off the ones over the rocks. I do remember friends with broken teeth or busted noses from that, tho.
I think wood chips were added later (after I was out of that school) "for safety" and then rubber mulch was an even later upgrade.
And when did something soft go in the playground area? Waaaay later, the school got actual grass in the playground - instead of playground equipment. 🙄 Building was closed within a few years of that happening.
Your flowers are gorgeous! That's all in one pot?? Beautiful ❤️ I bet they smell great that close to the house 😍
They're one of my faves, too! I have 2 (that I don't water as regularly, so they're still small) that I think I'll move closer this fall/winter. You've done an amazing job with them, and inspired me!
I don't know if or when it came back (there seems to be a 30 year cycle for fashion where everything old is new again) or if you are just your own individual who doesn't care if it's in, just doing it because you like it.
Or maybe you're rockabilly. Or too punk to care.
Or maybe I stopped noticing it and it never actually went out of fashion - it was me who went out of fashion!
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Tight-rolled jeans with rolled-down socks.
Also, aforementioned backwards clothes - even trained my Grandma to reply "jump, jump?" 😁
I've had this stuck in my head all weekend, and hope someone else out there enjoys it too!
That's awesome! Good idea keeping mosquitoes away - I'm a friggen mosquito-magnet and get a new bite almost every time I go outside (and most of the lawn is kept tidy, but we don't clean up all the long grass in the "lily garden" - yet)
Very nice! They bounced back well! What else is in there with them? The bigger bushy leaves look kinda like geranium to me, but it's just a guess
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It's great that you got to keep the original plan, once the trees got a little bigger!
But it's really quite amazing how well hostas do, when given shade. We have so many (in the back) that aren't even the same as any of the other hostas in our back yard!
We had a similar (but reversed) situation - had a giant oak in the front yard when we bought the house. We put hostas in the shade - our front yard was full shade, so they did really well.
A couple of years later, our oak got sick and full shade turned into part shade. Then we had to take it down, so the already stressed and crispy hostas - which had already stopped doing well - seem to be barely present in the front.
We don't have as many hostas in the front anymore.
Ya know, I think those are actually all volunteers - I think we also had only seen variegated, except for this one kind that are giant and blue.
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Thank you, though! We also are loving how little grass can grow between/beneath them!
Shown are some pink and (what I think of as) orange sherbet colored lilies that it seems like all the scales in 3 bulbs for each color came up, and some new (last year they didn't bloom) daylilies "Night Beacon" which had a lot more red on the petals and much less of the yellow throat on the packaging than in my picture... ¯\\\(ツ)\/¯
This is what it looked like a couple of days ago. It's been in the 90's and rainy - so pretty miserable, but at least the rain keeps the plants happy!
In the lower left there are a couple of lilies that are slightly different - deep orange with a maroon or deep red throat: !Two-tone lilies with deep orange petals and a dark red throat I promise you, most of the red/pink/raspberry lilies - the most prominent color in the picture - were actually like the two-tone orange and red ones when we planted them last year! What is up with that? lol
As I was taking this picture of my lilies that are showing some reds, a deer ran from the side yard of my house, and through the back yard, and out the fence in the back! I was actually out there to check damages from the deer that was out there 3 hours before!
I'm getting a little tired of them eating my pansies, but at least they've been leaving the lilies alone. So far. And it helps a little that a mama deer brought her baby to the yard and they didn't eat the lilies, just the Jacob's ladders and sand cherry tree's um… cherries?
The following was all included in the prompt, with some other things set up in the background kind of obfuscated from the view I end up with. Fairly randomized chunks of prompt are fed to an llm which then adds to it:
> Scientific Beauty of Liquid Metals ≈====================≈
> Prompt: A beautiful scientific rendering of mixtures of undulating liquid metal,, , Amethyst Purple, Emerald Green, Burnished Bronze Clear
> Golden Amber, Liquid Copper, Liquid Silver, Iridescent Sheen, Crystal Blue, Shimmering Opal, Fiery Red, Aquamarine, Molten Metal, Reflective Surface, Neon Pink, Radiant Yellow, Ethereal, Shifting Hues, Lava Flow, Platinum, Radiant Orange, Nebula, Prismatic, Fluorescent, Stained Glass, Opalescent, Prism, Optical Illusion, Aurora, Glittering, Glimmering, Dazzling, Radiant, Rivulets, Sparkling, Glittering, Glowing, Glassy, Metallic, Rainbow, Refracted Light, Lustrous, Glossy, Radiant, Luminous
Can anyone tell me how old they think this guy is? Milk crate for scale.
Finally! After taking a bit of time away from crafting at all last year, this guy is finished!
(Pattern from Ravelry: [Sally the Sloth](https://www.ravelry.com/patterns/library/sally-the-sloth by Cuddly Stitches Craft)
Basically a trail cam to see who visits (and eats) my flowers. These guys tend to eat what the birds drop onto the deck instead.
Is it an incoming begonia flower? Most of the plant is in rough shape, and I think it came with pests I didn't know about 😑
Hey guys, I'm starting the research phase before I have seeds, but could use some direction on where to find good advice.
I've done hydro and aeroponic vegetables, (and have had terrible luck with veggies in soil) so I thought I'd try something like a DWC with just 1 plant in a 5-gal bucket, since I have all the equipment for that.
I have seen there are plenty of different places to get info, but as a novice, I won't really recognize bad advice when I see it. 😅
Thanks in advance!
I knit and crochet, so when I saw this amigurumi horror show on display I fell in "love" with the stitches (which are somehow both and neither knit and crochet)
(Sdxl with added details lora and maybe/probably the yarn lora, but it was generated while I was asleep, so I don't have all the details)
Used a details lora and a rainbows lora. Kinda looks like bioluminescence may have also been selected, but that's just a guess 😁
(I don't actually know how much to include but I was really happy with this guy)
Stable Diffusion checkpoint cyberrealistic_v33.safetensors [037e0498f1]
parameters
Alpaca, flooded bay, <lora:Aether\_Bubbles\__Foam\_v1\_SDXL_LoRA:1> mmade of soap bubbles and bath foam, <lora:SDXLPaintSplash:1> Colorsplash, <lora:xl_more_art-full_v1:1>, <lora:Bio-Luminescence:1.0>bioluminescent, glowing,
Steps: 30, Sampler: Euler, CFG scale: 7.0, Seed: 1285792750, Size: 730x1300, Model hash: 00a14cdeaa, Model: starlightXLAnimated_v3, Denoising strength: 0, Lora hashes: "SDXLPaintSplash: 536aefae956d, xl_more_art-full_v1: fe3b4816be83, Bio-Luminescence: 793277619746", Version: v1.6.0
Just tried again today, even though I wasn't expecting any different results from the last few Imagine my surprise! I'm pretty sure nothing happened on my end (Sync settings or instance).
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