Some of my personal favorites I grow in my own garden(images taken from the web):

Catnip

Stinging nettle

Calendula

Echinacea

Oregano

Plus there are so many more medicinal plants that I wish to try someday!

It’s less that Santa is on strike, and more that his sleigh is quagmired in a foot of melted permafrost

Is this meme recommending the destruction of:

1. generative AI Godzilla

or

2. generative AI, Godzilla

?

#commasmatter

I sometimes get sent/click on shorts too, however I absolutely cannot stand that YT shorts auto-repeat, which keeps me from watching more than one video at a time (hit that back button at light speed). Plus the clickbait videos are almost always disappointing (“I tuned in for 90 seconds for something that could have been summed up in a sentence and ended up being a total dud anyway!?”).

I am only just getting into medicinal gardening, but my impression thus far is that there are basically two kinds of plants in this category: “normal” garden plants that happen to have medicinal properties but are usually grown for other reasons (basically all herbs, like sage, parsley, lavender, etc, as well as plants often grown for ornamental purposes, like calendula and yarrow), and “unusual” garden plants that are rare in standard gardens and are typically grown specifically for their medicinal properties (such as stinging nettle, mugwort, ashwagandha, tulsi, arnica, etc).

You would be really surprised at how many plants have medicinal properties! Even plants like strawberry and raspberry: their leaves make great tea for easing menstrual symptoms. But like all medications you have to be careful about allergies, side effects, and drug interactions. For that reason, I’d highly recommend searching for a book or reputable website that goes into the topic at length (I’m just starting out so I don’t have any offhand to recommend, sorry). “Medicinal gardening” or “garden pharmacy” are two search terms to get you started.

All over the world, humans have been growing and foraging plants for their medicinal properties for thousands of years (in fact, even other animals have been observed intentionally seeking out medicinal plants to treat specific ailments!) so there is certain to be a local culture for medical plants in your area. Unfortunately with modern medicine a lot of this knowledge has been lost/forgotten, but it’s being unearthed and reexamined all the time (for example: urtication with stinging nettle for arthritis).

More info on plants for pollinators:

For bumblebees I’d also highly recommend lupine (make sure to track down a native variety, and don’t plant lupine in the eastern hemisphere where it’s highly invasive), followed by fireweed (native to most of the temperate northern hemisphere), although these both require a decent amount of space to grow properly. If you’re balcony gardening, bees of all kinds seem to enjoy many flowering herbs, such as mint and lavender, as well as many vegetables after they bolt, such as the brassica family, meaning you can easily grow plants for both your and their use!

Lastly, don’t forget that bees aren’t the only pollinators: flies, wasps, and beetles are all pollinators too! Attracting them to your garden may sound unappealing, but that’s only because some especially gross and ugly species give the whole group a bad rap. Most wasps are not aggressive, and many fly species are actually really cute and super fun to watch, such as bee mimics and hover flies. These pollinators tend to prefer large clumps of small flowers, such as yarrow, coriander (bolted cilantro), parsley, and carrot (again, lots of plants also edible for humans!) Attracting bees is great, but it was only once I started growing plants for these other pollinator types that I began to notice a true ecosystem forming, with spiders, dragonflies, and birds coming by to prey on the flies and wasps.

For attracting native bumblebees in North America, I cannot recommend echinacea (Echinacea purpurea) enough, especially if you live in its native range (marked in green):

It’s not native in my region but I have it in my medicinal herb garden, and let me tell you I have never seen the native bumblebees go more gaagaa over a flower (the non-native honeybees, on the other hand, were generally uninterested). Echinacea would prefer some room, but I’ve successfully grown them in containers before (I’d recommend one plant per 5-10 gallon container). Unfortunately echinacea won’t bloom in its first year, but they’re worth the wait!

Stinky ginky? Nah, yellow fellow.

Pretty ironic, given that Oregon Republicans are best known for taking the ball and going home…

I do this (I watch the first season when it comes out and then if I really liked it I’ll wait until the whole series is complete so I can binge it in one go, and if I just thought it was just okay I’ll watch the seasons as they come out because I don’t care that much if I miss stuff on account it forgetting what happened previously) and I know it screws with viewership numbers when it comes time to decide what to renew/axe but when the alternative is rewatching the entire series every time a new season comes out…

(Otherwise known as the tale of why I’ve watched Bojack Horseman S1 five times)

DS9 is a funny example because (relative to contemporary shows TNG and Voyager, but other TV of that era too) they oftentimes doesn’t wrap up the philosophical/moral/ethical conundrum neatly by end of episode and leave things more open or unresolved or ambiguous, which is simultaneously dissatisfying and refreshing IMO. Also, I think some of their best episodes from a conceptual perspective ended up a bit clunky in execution, like they don’t have enough time to properly explore the subject at hand in only one episode so they squeeze it into a more superficial plot that then as a result feels a bit drawn out (also Star Trek dialogue usually ranges from mid to meh–with a few standout lines sprinkled in–which unsurprisingly taints the acting too). There are a number of single-episode plots that were good but could have been great if they’d given them more time to marinade over multiple episodes, but they already had a huge number of balls in the air for an episodic show in terms of plot and character development, so maybe that would have been disastrous to attempt idk.

Absolutely wild ride of an article. Unusually long for The Guardian, but totally worth the read, regardless of your personal interest in birthing methods. Went in expecting medical woohoo beliefs, left with a better understanding of the growth and formation of radical online movements. Make sure to read to the end!

Currently anticipating the inevitable sequel once they get hit with manslaughter charges.

I am keenly aware of the relationships between police budgeting, enforcement, and traffic safety. Hence why I paired it with an equally useless action (getting a thin blue line tattoo) for comedic exaggeration of my frustration around a chronic issue.

Y’all need to come to the Pacific Northwest, where people drive 60-70mph on the highway in torrential rain without headlights in a silver vehicle.

It’s like a battle between “Fuck the Police” and “Fuck Cars” ideologies out here: ten minutes on the road on an average rainy Tuesday in November and I’m 'bout to tattoo a thin blue line flag on my forehead and personally petition tripling of the police budget just for even a smidge more enforcement of headlight laws.

(inb4 all the Europeans start up about their mandatory headlight regulations)

World’s oldest science fiction proven world’s oldest science fact. The Japanese were right all along!

Dagashi Kashi has some questionable thigh gaps, but this one from ch 60 is so bad I was compelled to drop everything and post it. I’m still pondering the physics and anatomy necessary to maintain a thigh gap in this sitting position.

Dagashi Kashi has some questionable thigh gaps, but this one from ch 60 is so bad I was compelled to drop everything and post it. I’m still pondering the physics and anatomy necessary to maintain a thigh gap in this sitting position.

adolescence

I assume you meant infancy?

Quite a number of these seem mislabeled, or at least they don’t match their namesake objects (e.g. lavender, lilac, grape)

That said, another vote for “iris”

I would consider this mildly infuriating, yes.