#Gardening
my wife and i planted peony tubers last fall and just got our first bloom 😻
It‘s that time of the year for jasmine! https://www.allforgardening.com/504161/its-that-time-of-the-year-for-jasmine/
My first beautiful zucchini flower on this smokey day https://www.allforgardening.com/504159/my-first-beautiful-zucchini-flower-on-this-smokey-day/
Progression of my land over 2 years :) https://www.allforgardening.com/504155/progression-of-my-land-over-2-years/
#countrylife #farming #gardening #homesteading #self-sufficiency
Also gave away sunflower seedlings from my driveway because I grew so many! Yes I know I need to weed the driveway. #gardening
Lots of different greens and textures in a small part of the garden #gardening #photography #wales
My first beautiful zucchini flower on this smokey day https://www.diningandcooking.com/795615/my-first-beautiful-zucchini-flower-on-this-smokey-day/
A happy find, not in the woods, but in the local #Fairhaven #Massachusetts #Walmart, was Phlox divaricata, a native that the big box decided to stock as one of its perennials this season. I bought a couple and planted them under my pine tree.
As an avid gardener and member of several online garden groups, it's fascinating to me how obsessed people are with wanting to know the name of some particular plant species. Someone once said that words are a tool of ego. That feels right. To know it, is to control it. I fall into this trap too. But on my best days, I can just experience nature and my wonderful little garden without needing to know things.
I find the history of agriculture in North America so interesting, here’s one of the reasons why. This is a chinampa, they were shallow lake bed gardens used by the Aztecs for farming. Their proportions allowed for optimal moisture retention for crops. https://www.allforgardening.com/504037/i-find-the-history-of-agriculture-in-north-america-so-interesting-heres-one-of-the-reasons-why-this-is-a-chinampa-they-were-shallow-lake-bed-gardens-used-by-the-aztecs-for-farming-their-proportio/
#countrylife #farming #gardening #homesteading #self-sufficiency
Is there any better time in the garden than this? #gardening #florespondence #bloomscrolling
Allium Yellow Fantasy… I love their otherworldliness.
“Because of your smile, you make life more beautiful.” ~ Thich Nhat Hanh
#Flowers #Gardening #Inspirational #Photography
Hello, Happy connecting. It’s a friendly place.
I live in NM, #writingcommunity , #gardening , #horses and traveled a lot. Now it’s all naked eye #astronomy , #history #caturday . Antifa, aging hippie!
My garden’s reaction when it’s finally June after an unusually cold and gray May but then smoke from thousands of miles away blots out the sun https://www.allforgardening.com/503931/my-gardens-reaction-when-its-finally-june-after-an-unusually-cold-and-gray-may-but-then-smoke-from-thousands-of-miles-away-blots-out-the-sun/
Take that you adorable bunny bastards! https://www.allforgardening.com/503929/take-that-you-adorable-bunny-bastards/
Our moonflowers are blooming. I love the elegant curls they have before they open.
https://iris-richardson.pixels.com/featured/moonflower-bud-iris-richardson.html
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A few red potatoes planted and garlic with it in a box so far today, in a few minutes - I'll do a little more hilling of my purple potatoes and plant some white ones. Also I'm hoping to finish grafting the citrus fruit trees today. #gardening
Some of the nemesia flowers in my garden.
#Lupinus x Russellii, Russel #Lupin
#garden #gardening #flowers #horticulture #photography #bloomscrolling
Alt: one stem of lupins. The flowers are light pink and dark pink, tightly spaced on the scape, and still have water drops on them.
Take that you adorable bunny bastards! https://www.diningandcooking.com/795412/take-that-you-adorable-bunny-bastards/
Him: I just wanted to thank you for your organic gardening policies! Thank you especially for the little lemon tree!
Me: No worries, little buddy. The nesting birds in the tree above you have thanked me for my policies as well. Snack away.
Him: ...
#gardening #nature #insects
My turmeric pieces are already getting little roots after only two weeks in soil 🌱 :yayblob:. The ginger not yet.
May try garlic soon... 🧄
Jut, ich gebe es zu: Der #Pastateller sieht verfressen aus. Ist aber auch lecker. Der #Spinat hat auf dem #Balkon bis Anfang April gut durchgehalten und war im März kräftig gewachsen.
#balkongarten #gartensaison2023 #balkongärtnern #balkongemüse #balkonpflanzen #selberanbauen #eatwhatyougrow #balconygardening #gardening #growyourownfood #homegrown #urbangardening
My garden sits in the haze, waiting for the sun to reappear...
https://pixels.com/featured/august-twenty-seven-admiration-renata-natale.html
#flowers #Gardening #poetry #writing #hibiscus #MastoArt #art #photo #buyintoart #ayearforart #Artwork #nature
Enjoy some photos of an English inspired garden I’ve been tending to for the last decade https://www.allforgardening.com/503833/enjoy-some-photos-of-an-english-inspired-garden-ive-been-tending-to-for-the-last-decade/
A beautiful morning in the garden. https://www.allforgardening.com/503831/a-beautiful-morning-in-the-garden/
Just closed on these five acres. Lots to do, but for now I’m gonna focus on finishing my beer. https://www.allforgardening.com/503827/just-closed-on-these-five-acres-lots-to-do-but-for-now-im-gonna-focus-on-finishing-my-beer-2/
#countrylife #farming #gardening #homesteading #self-sufficiency
Foxglove flowers. I have grown cultivars before (candy mountain is a recommendation) but these spring up for free all around my garden, year after year. They are spectacular! Some have flower stalks as tall as I am. Bumblebees are eager visitors.
Honeysuckle in full bloom in the garden - bees are loving it 🐝 #gardening #plants #photography #wales
Verbena hybrida flowers in my #garden
I grew them from seed and they started to come into bloom. The snails love them through but some powered through.
So this is sort of a corollary to yesterday’s rant about landscape fabric and I know it goes against people’s ideas of “gardening” but…
you don’t actually have to get rid of weeds.
What we call “weeds” are typically just very resilient plants that function as pioneer species which establish quickly in degraded & disturbed areas.
If you improve the conditions of the soil (via better aeration, water retention, nutrient & mineral cycles, etc) then the weed problem will solve itself.
TIL that potatoes can make FRUITS?! https://www.diningandcooking.com/795306/til-that-potatoes-can-make-fruits/
This is a Peony from my garden last year. They're just about to bloom again and I hope this weather clears up and it gets warmer. It's cold here... Hoping it's not the new "norm." Hope everyone in the path of the smoke is safe...
https://pixels.com/featured/pink-peony-in-the-garden-renata-natale.html
#peony #Gardening #flowers #floralart #buyintoart #ayearforart #enjoy #MastoArt #art #photo
The bright red dot in the first photo is the sun this morning, blood red from the wildfire haze. Fortunately, we had a little rain yesterday so the air quality is improved today.
In other news, the flower beds around my deck are filling in nicely. When I moved here last summer, there were only overgrown irises.
My new article about common mistakes to avoid when designing a garden is live at @washingtonpost. Have a great #gardening weekend, all!
https://www.washingtonpost.com/home/2023/06/08/avoid-common-gardening-mistakes/
@MaggieCi it's 98% perineal and we've been working on it for 18 years at this point so it's mature. Every year we get to watch the plants fight it out amongst themselves too, the hops tries to strangle everything, the valerian marches slowed away from the shade, the comfrey tries to smother everything and the evening primrose expands it's territory in its battle with the echinatia.
It's a very slow war and it's beautiful!
#Gardening #Flowerstodon
More gardening with wildflowers. Cow parsley, Buttercup and Green alkanet cover an overgrown path in the garden. Faint in the background Red campion.
(Portrait format. Click to see the entire photograph.)
#artistsgarden #garden #gardener #gardening #artist #wolfkettler #gardenwiltshire #wiltshiregarden #wiltshire #weedgardening #weeds #wildflowers #CowParsley #selfseeded #buttercup #RedCampion #GreenAlkanet #overgrown #GardenPath
Spent the last month finishing up clearing a gravel pit in the backyard left by the previous owners in hope of putting in some sort of garden. This involved months and months of digging and more recently I was able to fill in some soil in an attempt to make up for the lost mass.
So here is a thread of me building things out. In case it isn't obvious, I have no idea what I'm doing. Questions and comments welcome!
#gardening #plants #irrigation #raisedbeds #raisedbed #composting
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I might have let the garden get too wild near the veggie patch. Bunbun has a straight shot from the garden shed to the strawberries via the wild patches.
#gardening #rewilding #HomeGrownNationalPark
Why do these bunnies got to be so darned adorable in their destruction of my strawberries?
#gardening
Pulled up some green bean plants that stopped producing. The goats love them!
実がならなかったインゲンを引き抜きました。 ヤギが食べてしまいました！#ヤギ #goats #gardening #GoatsOfMastodon
Wednesday afternoon view of neighbor's Gorilla Roses. And his deep red hydrangias. Seems he fed them a healthy amount of rose food. It is hard to differentiate the hydrangeas from the roses in front of them. Those roses are trimmed short. #gardening #garden
Mystic Garden. Sunlight penetrates through the dense lushness of my garden, bathing a butterfly and flowers in a golden glow.
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Now that almost everything but a few spares have been planted out in my garden and I've installed the automated watering system on my balcony what remains is watering, weeding and harvesting.
Those aren't small chores, but it's an odd transition after a month of furiously planting out all the seedlings I grew.
I get to enjoy the flowers.
My timeline is an eclectic mixture of gardening stuff and programming stuff.
Some people who follow me for gardening reasons may be mystified by my programming utterances.
But I feel oddly mischievously happy about exposing my fellow programmers to pictures of flowers.
A few days ago rain was predicted to possibly happen in a few days but that offer has since been rescinded for unrelenting heat.
I wanna build something like this so I can take a chair to a raised bed and be able to garden without stressing my spine
A red hot poker, Last of last years supply of red chilis.
Plus todays harvest.
A bit of softness for your timeline.
Realized I hadn't posted roses in a while. They always seem to be blooming and tbh I don't really pay attention. They're just kinda like pretty background noise in the garden, lol.
Meet #SalviLeucantha, the Mexican bush #sage!!
Is the vibrant purple bract flowering masses just beautiful?
It is a herbaceous (non-woody stemmed) plant that is native to subtropical and tropical conifer forests in central and eastern Mexico.
The flowers are usually white, emerging from coloured bracts. It is often grown in warmer locales for its prominent arching velvety blue or purple flowering displays.
Even though we’ve just hit winter here in Oz, this is blooming all the same. And is a welcomed burst of colour on a cool but sunny day (so far!!), today!
🙌💙💜
#urbanflora #flora #gardening #garden #melbourne #MostLiveable #aesthetichedonist #flowersofmastodon #gardeningAU #gardening #narrm #victoria #Australia #downunder #makesmehappy
Please people, I’m begging you, do not bury landscape fabric in your gardens!
It’s terrible for soil health and for all the organisms that live in the soil. Plus, it doesn’t really even prevent weeds that well because they just grow on top of it.
Signed, someone who is pulling up thousands of square feet of landscape fabric buried under gravel by the previous homeowners.
Just use mulch instead, pretty please.
New Blog Post: Today I'm talking about our first big feijoa harvest since planting our shrubs three years ago.
#garden #gardening #gardeningblog #gardennz #gardeningnz #feijoa
https://www.craftygardener.co.nz/?post_id=19&title=this-years-feijoa-harvest
I love this Digitalis Alba so much. I keep going and watching the bees climb in and out of the flowers.
Have some new plants in my indoor garden. Shungiku is a type of edible chrysanthemum that is commonly used in Japanese cuisine. It has a unique flavor that is slightly sweet and earthy. Shungiku is rich in vitamins A and B, contains many antioxidants, and is a reliable source of potassium.
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#Shungiku #Gardening #IndoorGarden #HomeGarden #GrowYourOwnFood #Tea #Greens #Chinese #Cooking #VeroWellness #TMGcommunity @gardening
In a backyard setting, a small pond will be very beneficial to #wildlife. Here's the hand-dug bi-level pond in my garden. The upper section is shallow for animals to bathe and drink: bees, birds, bunnies. The lower section is wider (<4.5 feet) deeper (<3 feet). #Frogs in my area prefer small quiet ponds.
The special black liner can be purchased, seen here because deer, my nemesis, knocked many rocks off.
More in future toots.
Info requested by:
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As #gardening season blooms and you make your plant list, consider adding #NativePlants to your gardens & pots this year. Carolinian #Canada defines native plants as "plants that existed in our region prior to European settlement; they have evolved alongside our native insect, bird and other animal species." Each province will have its own list of native plants, though there's a lot of overlap across the country.
https://www.cbc.ca/life/home/growing-native-plants-in-gardens-1.6862140
I came home after a holiday to find our front garden looking rather spectacular despite several weeks without rain. I rather hope the neighbours are viewing their short brown grass and wishing they’d left the mower in the shed #meadow #wildflowers #YellowRattle #gardening
Can I just extend this advice to the whole garden? I would be happier and less stressed 😁
I am trying to get 4 tomato plants in pots out on my back patio to survive the awful bugs that kill them every year
I read that peppermint is a good bug deterrent so I wiped a little peppermint oil on the edges of each pot
I plan on buying netting to keep birds away too and I will look for other bug repellent plants to set near my pots
What else should I do to minimize bugs pls? There's so many types in huge numbers near this 100yr old WV house
#gardening #plants #tomatoes #horticulture
The tropf blumat is an ingenious device. I've seen many hobby projects involving digital sensors for automated watering. The tropf blumat is completely analog.
It's a ceramic cone, filled with water that you stick in the ground. A little tube goes through the top, which you can screw tighter or looser. The tube is connected to a thin hose connected to the water mains (with a pressure reducer).
The osmotic pressure from the cones opens the drip tubes whenever the ground is dry.
roots of love run deep
anchor us to memories
long after leaves fall
#dailyhaikuprompt - roots
ART
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Yum; blackberries on the way.
Rubus laciniayus (cutleaf blackberry)
Bombus pratorum (early bumble bee)
#bloomscrolling #florespondance #insects #flora #UrbanNature #gardening #pentax #PentaxK70
This guy loves asparagus and growing it.
#gardening #Asparagus #Growing
:youtube: 5 TIPS How to Grow a Ton of Asparagus in a Raised Garden Bed Container
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K83HnbMKbqo
I have a lot of containers with chili peppers, long sweet peppers, eggplants and hanging baskets with petunias on my balcony. I just got done installing the tropf blumat automated watering for it. I had to redo parts of the old setup so it was a bit of a chore. But I have found it to work really well: the plants get whatever water they need, automatically.
My morning trip to the vegetable garden interrupted a sparrow, who took off and flew through the pea trellis at full speed. 2-inch mesh. Show-off.
#gardening #birds
Nine pounds of veggies and fruits donated to our local food pantry. I harvested on Sunday, washed and bagged today, then dropped them off tonight! Boy was it needed. Their fridge was mostly bare 😢
Consider growing a row of veggies to feed your local citizens in need.
#gardening #farming #volunteer
I just dead-headed #roses like an adult! #gardening #flowers
Does anyone on here grow loquats?
I picked some Phlox drummondi flowers today. Here are some bouquets.
Ellie is helping me weed, mulch and plant by standing and looking cute right where I need to dig.
Fresh green colour for a hot day here is Scotland.
I do like succulent and cactus plants. They are fun to draw too, they have lovely shapes.
Original watercolour painting - Echeveria https://etsy.me/3qqomJa via @Etsy
#plants #succulent #gardening #painting #watercolour #FediGiftShop #ScottishArtist #MastoArt #CreativeToots
Sorry, I know I have Science to do but there's a spotted lanterfly infestation in the weeds that grow over the fence from my neighbors' yard into my garden so that is clearly and unapologetically getting top priority. #gardening
The Chelsea chop will cause the plant to rebranch. The downside is that it delays blooming, so you might want to chop only a portion. Since this can stress the plants, it should only be done to plants that have been in your garden for at least a year.
https://www.longfield-gardens.com/blog/?p=how-and-why-to-prune-perennials
Which one is your favourite? https://www.allforgardening.com/501103/which-one-is-your-favourite/
#countrylife #farming #gardening #homesteading #self-sufficiency
The local council are using anemones in some of their bedding displays this year. They're almost neon-like in the intensity of the colour...
#BloomScrolling #Flowers #MacroPhotography #Gardening #Florespondence
It is so wonderful to see the Monarch butterflies as they are now endangered. This beauty was sipping nectar from the pink Buddleia in the summer garden and the morning light cast a lovely soft glow on the butterfly and bloom.
Available here
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The tall beautiful bearded Iris named after the Greek Goddess who rode rainbows, comes in many magical colors. This Iris in burgundy,pink, yellow and purple is stunning in the spring garden!
Shop here
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Also: #TodayInMushrooms
This little wine cap was growing sufficiently far away from the main cluster, that I could pick him by himself, and put him in my lunch without disturbing the rest of them.
Now I'm going to finish eating it, and then get ready to go legal observe at an action. We'll see whether the protest profiteers are planning to come stalk me.
Take THAT you little birdie bastard!
And it turns out it's a lady cardinal eating my strawberries no more.
Thanks @BetaCuck4Lyfe for the reminder. Won't tell the bird who suggested it for your safety, heh.
