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How We Maintain And Mow Our Clover Lawn! via renovatingourhome on TikTok [Video] [Shared]

@renovatingourhome Reply to @badmistakitty how we maintain and mow our clover lawn! #clover #cloverlawn #backyard #backyardvibes #homeimprovement #lawn ♬ Candy Crush – David Das

Garden Scene 20 From the 2022 Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour via Instagram [Photography]

2022 Mary Lou Heard Memorial Garden Tour

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Ash Leaves Faux Cyanotype [Photography]

Some leaves from our large Ash tree in the back garden. I have digitally turned this photograph into a faux cyanotype. I have made true cyanotypes in the past, but have been trying out various methods of applying them to existing photos. – Douglas

Here are the steps I used in a current version of Photoshop (but you can probably duplicate them using your own favorite tools:

Create a Cyanotype look in Photoshop

• Open subject file (leaves, etc.)
• Switch to Greyscale
• Remove background
• Invert Image
• Convert to Color
• Create background layer
• Fill with cyanotype color
• Set subject layer to Hard Light (to take on the color of the background
• Filter, Add Noise… to give some grain to the background or use texture file.

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Pepper seeds rising! via TikTok [Video]

@douglaswelch Pepper seeds rising! #peppers #chiles #food #plants #container #raisedbed #garden #gardening #nature #outdoors ♬ Outdoors – Colin Tierney

Organza Embroidery Captures Awe-Inspiring View of the Forest via My Modern Met [Shared]

Organza Embroidery Captures Awe-Inspiring View of the Forest

Embroidery artist Sew Beautiful shows the beauty of forests through their trees. Using colorful thread and a lot of the French knot stitch, the UK-based creative depicts nature scenes featuring tall timber full of leaves as well as bountiful fields of blooms. Contained in circular hoops, each frame offers a picture-window view into a lovely landscape; if you long for getting outside and enjoying nature, Sew Beautiful’s pieces are a welcome visual escape.

Some of Sew Beautiful’s most striking pieces feature the use of organza, a transparent fabric that can make stitches look as though they’re floating. This is exemplified through pieces in which we’re looking up at the treetops from a grounded point of view.

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