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Elk
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Elk is a gardener who likes fun facts and little guys

Vivi is a forest cat who likes cable ties and swift clean vengeance

Bristol, UK 🐛 she/her
Cute!
July 26, 2025 at 8:54 AM
Awoo!
June 26, 2025 at 7:25 PM
It's like gambling, but you do bits with your friends instead of losing all your money
June 17, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Second post in 4 hours that's just nothing to do with its picture

Shame there doesn't seem to be any humans running this page
June 14, 2025 at 4:11 PM
Buncha pigeons in the rain.

The seagull in the back is jealous of their camaraderie
June 10, 2025 at 9:09 PM
Reposted by Elk
Below-ground relationships of trees and other soil organisms are complex and barely understood. Is the wood wide web (WWW) proven or a theory? It's neither, and books on the subject are not based on science. We will learn more, but for now, we just don't know enough. Biologists avoid the WWW term.
The wood-wide web: A story too good for its own good?
Hard questions about one of our most popular scientific narratives
gabepopkin.substack.com
June 4, 2025 at 2:18 PM
*cartoonish, not implying that this is wealth not seen since the echelons of both Hanna and Barbera
June 2, 2025 at 5:10 PM
Smells like oxo cubes!

One of my favourite botanical names, it's fetid yet fancy ✨
June 1, 2025 at 9:05 PM
Honestly it's just this cartoonist level of oblivious wealth, way beyond what I saw when I was a life model in Bath for the idle rich

And I just find it really sad.

Horticulture lends itself so naturally to an opulence and an abundance that anyone can enjoy, but it can't escape its own history yet
June 1, 2025 at 10:13 AM
And now I'm working as a maintenance gardener for incredibly wealthy clients in Bristol, I see the remnants in these attitudes.

One of them told me I "speak very well"

Another said, upon seeing a second gardener that day "my empire groweth"

And very few will let me use their toilet
June 1, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I have a background in post-colonial literature, so I'm primed for this shit, but it's maddening.

Even just the history of the lawn is deeply colonial and a display of wealth and power.

The same with garden design, sodding Capability Brown carving up the 18th century landscape to assert dominance
June 1, 2025 at 10:06 AM