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TRUMPET FLOWERS

Beautiful Plant

Making Seed Balls and Scattering Seeds for Wildtending

Dried seed balls ready for tossing!

This is the last post (for a while) in my series on wildtending. In the last month, we’ve explored the philosophy of wildtending as a sacred action, explored the refugia garden principle, I shared my own refugia garden preparation and design, and finally, we are ready to start scattering the seeds! Perhaps these seeds were gathered from the wilds, given as a gift from a friend, or perhaps, they were gathered from a refugia garden. Wherever you get them, now is the time to begin to scatter these amazing little balls packed with life, love, and magic.

Seed balls were invented by Fukuokoa and described in the permaculture classic, One Straw Revolution. They have a number of benefits over other methods for scattering seeds. First, and foremost, they are easy to throw and toss into spaces you can’t reach. A lot…

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PINE TREE

Beautiful!!

Enchanted Forests

The enchanting Himalayas sing songs of their own through Flora and Flora unique to them.

Enchanting Forests of Pines, Deodar, Fir , Oaks and Rhododendrons have painted the Himalayas Green at Mussoorie,Uttrakhand in Northern India.

Himalayan Forests of Oak and Pine

The Coniferous Forests of the Queen of Hills “Mussoorie” are dominated by The Himalayan Pine, Blue Pine ( English) or Pinus wallichiana ( Scientific Name).

They belong to the family Pinaceae.

The Blue green gracefully drooping needles ( leaves) and the slender Pine Cones are two distinguishing features of these Pine trees Unique and Native to the Himalayan range.

with a himalayan backdrop Pine tree within a Pine Forest

The Pine Tree can grow upto a majestic height of 25 m or 82 feet .

Fallen Pine needles carpet the entire ground ensuring very few trees can coexist with the resinous Pine Tree.

pine tree Reaching out to the skies

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Game review: Battle for Big Blue

Legendary producer Pharrell’s line of sustainable denim for iconic brand G-Star is heading for its fourth collection. But the collaboration’s raising awareness campaign of the perils of plastic pollution on ocean life doesn’t stop at the collections. Battle for Big Blue is a free app that has been developed as part of G-Star’s RAW … Continue reading Game review: Battle for Big Blue