Flower Fest Meet and Greet

[ysabetwordsmith]

While researching community activities, I came across the idea of thematic meet and greet events. That seemed like something which might work here, given a membership of several hundred people and a new theme each month. So I made one for this month's theme. It gives people a place to meet folks with similar interests, and to squee about the current theme.

Here is the basic outline. Fill in as much or as little of it as you wish, depending on your interests as they relate to the Flower Fest.


Name: Whatever you wish to be known by.
Sex/Gender Identity: Share any descriptions you wish people to know about you, including pronouns.
Find Me At: Your other blogs, services, or venues.

What I Love About Flowers: Favorite species or cultivars, crafts, activities, stories, etc.
What I Hate About Flowers: Things you wish would go away, whether species, cultivars, practices, etc.
What I Enjoy Doing With Flowers: Do you grow a garden? Keep houseplants? Buy clothes with floral prints? Throw seed bombs? It's all fine!
Flower Failures: What are some that you can't grow? Things that grew but were disappointing? Things you'd like to grow but are unsuited to your locale or just too intimidating?
Favorite Places: Gardens, greenhouses, nurseries, arboretums, etc.
Flower Names: What do you think about flower names? Silly or serious? If you could name a flower, what kind would it be and what would you call it?
Flower Reproduction: Do you prefer modern hybrids, heirloom, open-pollinated, promiscuously pollinated, landrace, or what? Do you save seeds or otherwise propagate plants? What and how? Are you into swapping seeds or plants?

Favorite Blogs or Communities: Anything on Dreamwidth, or other venues, relating to the above topics.
About My Blog: A general description of your blog metaphor, what your blog contains, common formats / media, activity level, typical rating level, featured fandom(s) or original work, etc.
What I Create: Anything you make that relates to the flower theme or above topics; fandoms, formats, recurring motifs, and so forth.
What I'm Looking For: Things you would like to get from this activity; readers, comments, recommendations of fandoms or fanworks, new friends, wider representation of something, etc.


Feel free to copy this Meet and Greet into your blog as well as filling it out here -- you may catch some of the holiday traffic.


<br /><strong>Name:</strong> <br /><strong>Sex/Gender Identity:</strong> <br /><strong>Find Me At:</strong> <br /> <br /><strong>What I Love About Flowers:</strong> <br /><strong>What I Hate About Flowers:</strong> <br /><strong>What I Enjoy Doing With Flowers:</strong> <br /><strong>Flower Failures:</strong> <br /><strong>Favorite Places:</strong> <br /><strong>Flower Names:</strong> <br /><strong>Flower Reproduction:</strong> <br /><br /><strong>Favorite Blogs or Communities:</strong> <br /><strong>About My Blog:</strong> <br /><strong>What I Create:</strong> <br /><strong>What I'm Looking For:</strong> <br />
 

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[nsfwords]

Name: NSFWords, Brandy.

What I Love About Flowers: Nearly Everything!
What I Hate About Flowers: I don't super love all the insects that make that part of our ecosystem work, but I understand they're necessary, and I'm working on myself.
What I Enjoy Doing With Flowers: Looking at them, smelling them, tasting them as appropriate.

So, can I squee about a plant that isn't a flower? Cuz I'm really jazzed about this, but lack plant people to be excited for me... Here goes! In April of 2025 I played hooky from work with the Husbando and explored the Ionia State Park. The entire park was CARPETED in ramps! Even in the area where they had built a disc golf course, and they were just being trampled underfoot. The whole area smelled like fresh green onions!

So, I asked the ranger at the gate if I could snag a few. Normally he said the law only allowed me to harvest the leaves, and not take the whole plant with roots, but he agreed that the ones in the disk golf course were being destroyed by foot traffic anyway, so I chose the best clump I could find and dug them up with a stick.

I brought them home and planted them in a shady tree row, watered them in well, and hoped for the very best. And Look! I have ramps! In my yard! All 4 little shoots survived!

[smallhobbit]

I had to look up ramps, but I think they're what we (UK) call wild garlic, which yes, has a distinct smell. Congratulations on transplanting them!

[nsfwords]

If not exactly the same as wild garlic, then very similar! They're also called wild leeks. My favorite way to have them so far is as a compound butter with salmon. But I also want to try them in a compound butter with another spring ephemeral - morels! Over steak. YUM!

But! Not this year. I'm going to treat the transplants like rhubarb or asparagus and give them this whole year without harvesting, next year limited harvesting, and by year three they should be well established and I can take my 3rd without hurting the plants.

[smallhobbit]

Name: smallhobbit/Small_Hobbit

What I Love About Flowers: The colours, all the different appearances

What I Hate About Flowers: Strong smells as they make me cough

What I Enjoy Doing With Flowers: Looking at them, receiving cut flowers, having a vase of our own flowers

Flower Failures: Shall we say I'm trusted to do the deadheading, but not much else.

Favorite Places: Aberglasney Gardens near Llanelli in Wales