Spring Garden Day(s)!

[wewillwewill]

Prior to April 1st/next platform day, Elidibus will be aiming to gather a collective of people to turn the rock garden car once more into a seasonal display. Provided nothing about the mission conclusion changes things that is! While not yet discussed with mods, will be requesting this to last about two to three IC days.

Update! Has been approved by mods along with having it run multiple days.

Update II An overview and a list of ideas presented.
The basic groundwork will provided; earth to plant/grow things in, protections to make sure the regular features of the rock garden that aren't converted for the setting will be preserved (memorials, existing crafts and cards, etc) regardless of the 'weather', a pseudo climate and seeds for the desired flowers/grass/trees/bamboo(also a grass iirc?)/etc. Ideas and activities, both pre garden days, during and even post so far offered are listed below. Thanks everyone for the suggestions!

Flower pots- People who have personal flowers bringing them for display. Or harvesting some of the flowers to place into pots (if available) for a memory if people like.

Spring Decorations (arts and crafts)

Potpurri/extracts

collecting petals and drying them/making extracts/etc after the three day Spring Day is at an end (or doing it!)

Netting/mesh around the carriage for many of the decorations, etc.

Holographic Displays, possibly to make the garden seem more 'extended' beyond the walls. Or for other things!

Blankets, pillows, picnic atmosphere and food.

A selection of books on a covered table so people don't have to go to the library.

Growing fruit trees (cherry, peach, plum, oranges for example) and maintaining their grow so they go from flowering blossoms to pickable fruit to harvest on the final day. (probably modest amounts given size of car/etc but probably enough that everyone can have a bit of something!)

growing flowers, especially spring-themed ones (daffodils, primrose, tulips, etc)

Garden arrangement/flow/zen! (Suggested by Sanzo with willingness to teach about it!)

Roland is willing to sort of head/suggest/ICly implement egg painting and possible egg hunt, easter style.

The possibility of chocolates and candies being ordered/baked/etc.

Roland's higgledies will be helping to maintain the grounds, etc (so that things like over-traffic don't turn things to mud/etc, maybe collecting fallen petals for later drying/extract?) May or may not be seen.

Supplies for sketching or painting while in the spring garden will probably be brought in.

Music! Either someone bringing instruments from the music carriage and doing impromptu stuff or playing music on devices!

If I've missed something in this list, it's probably my bad memory or I missed it. Please let me know!

Snow Day Garden was something I assembled in haste in a couple days before the Platform Day. This time Elidibus will have more IC time to preplan and I also want to include more people who might be interested, particularly some of our plant ability/nature/weather themed folk!

Edit! Just to be clear, anyone's welcome to participate, not just plant ability/nature/etc themed folk! Sorry if I didn't make that clear earlier! See: Tidus's ideas for folk with nonmagical contributions! There will also be a pre-planning IC log going up post mission if anyone wants to scene something about the preparations.

Because he is still recovering from events during his trip home, he will be doing a more supervisory/assembly role this time. But he will approach the people he knows that can help him set this up and can learn of/network/connect with others ICly.

The theme will be Spring. I have loose notions of fusion of cherry blossoms, picnic spots, fresh new grass, daffodils, tulips, and primrose. A weather 'climate' of 'sun and light breezes' with a hint of rain as if it recently rained or is going to soon (though don't look up at the 'sky' too long, it only diminishes the presence of the kaledioscope of voidspace and its built-in rainbow, not completely covers it.

Also any ideas would be fantastic!

Please reply below if you're interested, what you could contribute, any ideas you have for the theme. Even if you can't participate ICly in the setup, feel free to add ideas of what you'd like to see!

Comments

[smithandwesson]

If he could have some cigarettes, he would 100% be smoking throughout.

Unfortunately, the poor monk is suffering from severe nicotine withdrawals due to the item rules this month.

But grass and trees are something he would be happy to help organize, and although a good rock garden is appreciated, Sanzo is also quite good with traditional garden aesthetics. Spending 70% of his life inside monasteries has made him pretty aware of tending to and caring for such things, and although he will grumble about it the whole way through, he will end up helping if just out of sheer boredom.

Prospering fruit is a good sign of a radiant spring, so cherry trees are 100% perfect. (We can hold a blossom viewing event to get them to grow fast enough!) There are also plenty of other fruits and plants that represent a prosperous spring!

Peach blossoms, in particular, are a preference of Sanzos. (And heck, perhaps if we're growing fruit, we can sort up a small community garden space so the train will no longer have to ultimately rely on what the kitchen gives us for food). Heck, we can even have a blossom viewing event once the garden is done being set up!

[wewillwewill]

Oh thanks for the links. Definitely several would be worked in if Sanzo made insight about them. Elidibus largely does this for morale, not for personal reasons. I also! Like the idea that if over the three day period, the trees were encouraged to grow to fruit-stage and they can be later used. Already had Tidus suggest making potpurri and sachets and the like out of any flowers that aren't kept.

Also since it may not have been noticed, there IS a greenhouse car independent of the Rock Garden car. My character doesn't involve himself much with it but I know there's a small group of folk on the discord that do if you want to reach out to them with your ideas! I've seen Yondu, Persephone and Ryo make mention (I'm sure there's more but I have a terrible memory :( ). Anyway I don't know what they're growing in there right now but if there's no trees/fruit trees it'd be great to get some.

[smithandwesson]

It's great to know about the food garden as well! I vaguely remember browsing my eyes on that but still finding my way around all the links and carts (lol) so pinpointing certain information still takes a bit of searching for me.

If that's the case, then maybe just a focus on fruit plants that specifically create spring blossoms for that beautiful garden aesthetic? Cherry, peach, and plum blossom trees. Get all those lovely flower petals to bloom during the season. And maybe some bamboo, too, just to balance it out?

More than anything, I just think it would be creat to have a blossom viewing event in this garden for the train residents at some point. (laugh) Everyone sits out on blankets and enjoys watching the flowers fall together after spending so much time working together to build it as a group.

[wewillwewill]

Yeah. That's why I tossed a few people to reach out to that I know do a lot with the greenhouse. Figured it'd be easier to reach out and touch base with them as well as look for the specific setting info.

I was thinking that myself. I mean you can only fit in so many types of trees even if they're all spring. Maybe sneak an orange tree in there. But basically max of four trees; it's not a huge carriage all told. I love the additional idea of bamboo too!

Anyway blossom viewing would be an image I imagined too. Since it's allowed to have a three day stretch ICly, a progression of maybe the first couple of days having blossoms/blossoms falling and then the last day bearing fruit if the nature ability folk are willing. So the last day can be a harvest of the fruit which can then be used in the kitchen. Well maybe not the cherry trees if we're going for the more ornamental/flowering ones. Might not be a huge supply but at least everyone should be able to get a bit of something. And collecting the blossoms to use for extracts and flavoring and so forth is also an option. Just about to edit the main post here with a list of what's been suggested so far! Let me know if I got any of your suggestions wrong or missed something.

[smithandwesson]

These are perfect! Ah, I can't wait! All of this has got me so excited. It's so great to see something going on that I know he will actively participate despite his constant sour personality.

And four trees sound perfect since we are still fitting it into a train-cart-sized space, especially since we still want some room for people to sit around and enjoy themselves in it.

Watch him preach about zen and the purpose of blossom viewing in spiritual beliefs. Just sit there smoking with a cup of wine in hand as he talks about meditation and finding inner peace. lol