#GardeningMastodon
Any ideas what these are? They are on a thorny shrub type of thing in my front garden. #Gardening #GardeningMastodon
My bestie (from over the MO border) traded me a flat of mixed #HotPeppers, since I fell prey to #JalapenoGate & wasn't able to grow any of my own, for some green beans, seed garlic, and black-eyed peas. So, I decided to make fermented hot sauce with the majority of them. 🌶🌶🌶🌶 #Spicy #GardeningMastodon #GrowYourOwn #Food
#Butterfly Bounty
Putting in effort to create a #garden that promotes #biodiveristy has paid off. Here's a view with three #butterflies.
Can you find the Tiger Swallowtail, the Gulf Fritillary and the Monarch? The intense orange/scarlet flowers they are on is Mexican Sunflower, a #NativePlant in the Americas. #Pollinators love it!
Having many butterflies fluttering around during the day is very calming and diverting.
Today's #garden loot. My tomato plants have also set more fruit. 🤨 #GardeningMastodon #GrowYourOwn #Food
ついでに先日の「種無し巨峰」のタネを蒔いてみた。
have sown the seeds of "seedless Kyoho grapes" 😆
植物も届いた！上手に冬越しできれば多年草として楽しめるアフリカンブルーバジル。紫がかったダークグリーンも美しく、とても香りがいいのよね。何度も冬越しに失敗してはだめにしているワタクシ、今回はうまくいくかな
my favorite plant "African Blue Basil" has also arrived ! it smelles really good and purplish dark green colour is so beautiful.
チューリップの球根が届いた！
have received the first tulip bulbs, "black hero" and "flaming flag" !
バラThe Nunの鉢増しをした。6月に新苗で買ったんだけど、発送時に「1週間前に鉢に植え替えた」と言う連絡をもらったので、2〜3週間したら大きめの鉢に植え替えようと思っていた。ところがその後猛暑が襲来。ここで植え替えたら一気に弱ってしまうのではと躊躇して、結局そのまま夏越しすることになってしまった...ようやく少し涼しくなったのでようやく7号程度の大きめの鉢に植え替えることができてほっとしている。元気に育ってきれいな秋花を見せてくれるといいな。その前にラベルをなんとかしないとねw
repotted rose "The Nun" at last !
Turns out the enlarged calyx on our "Chocolate Ghost" plant does turn red, just like a 7 Pot Bubblegun... Is anyone familiar with Chocolate Ghosts and whether they have a bleeding calyx?
#hotpeppers #peppers #GardeningMastodon #gardening #growyourown #bhutjolokia #ghostpepper
Autumn is barely here but the umbrella leaf (Diphylleia cymosa) is already crisping up. It’s a gorgeous plant, related to May apples and native to Appalachia. Just look at those red peduncles blaze in the autumn light. This is its first year in this spot, and it’s suffered from either too little water, too much sun, or both. I’ll upgrade its drip line, but if it does this next year I’ll need to find a new spot for it.
#garden
#gardening
#GardeningMastodon
#InMyGarden
#BloomScrolling
#PNW
Green beans are finally getting there! 😅 #GardeningMastodon #GrowYourOwn #Food
#Pickled a quart of banana and pepperoncini #peppers. #FridgePickles #GrowYourOwn #Food #GardeningMastodon
I know summer is over when these begonias start blooming. We think of them as annuals—bedding plants or hanging pots— but from USDA zone 7 and up there are a few Begonias that are perennial. This is an 8 year old clump of Begonia grandis subsp. evansiana ‘Alba’ (aka big white begonia). Native to Southern China and Japan. Can be picky about conditions: rich, consistently moist soil, some morning sun will do them well.
#garden
#gardening
#GardeningMastodon
#InMyGarden
#BloomScrolling
#PNW
The Nun。3つ目も咲いた！
The Nun, the third flower has also bloomed !
I feel really guilty about this, but one of the really big things that I did wrong this spring/summer was to not harvest my collard greens all at once, parboil, & freeze them. Instead, I ate some, gave some away, & then left the leaves on the plants thinking I would snip a few to eat as I went. Well, time went by, bugs took over, & I lost the rest of this beautiful crop! 😫😭😤😢😠 I'm so mad at myself, but I've learned my lesson. #FoodSecurity #GardeningMastodon #Mistakes #GrowYourOwn #Food
Side 2
I cut all the flowers I could that were open enough, knowing that they might all be ruined by the storm. Here, they are seen from the outside looking in, so welcoming from the dull day and storm outside.
Happy Saturday and keep safe everyone.
#bloomScrolling #floralFriday #flowers #dahlias #dahlia #myGarden #gardening #GardeningMastodon #EllieKPosts #Lee #hurricaneLee #NovaScotia
I cut all the flowers I could that were open enough, knowing that they might all be ruined by the storm. They are so cheering on the windowsill against the dull day and storm outside.
#bloomScrolling #floralFriday #flowers #dahlias #dahlia #myGarden #gardening #GardeningMastodon #EllieKPosts #Lee #hurricaneLee #NovaScotia
Here’s what’s blooming now in my garden: Rucola selvatica, perennial arugula. The arugula you buy at the grocery store is an annual, Eruca versicaria, which grows fast and is harvested young. This plant develops a semi-woody stem. It tastes very similar to but stronger than the grocery store kind; only the early leaves are tasty in my opinion—later growth has a wasabi-like bite that is a bit much for most palates.
#garden
#gardening
#GardeningMastodon
#InMyGarden
#BloomScrolling
#PNW
Behold, the Peter Pepper. You'll never guess how it got its name...
It's not just a novelty, though. It has a crisp, sweet heat that is fantastic as a topping pepper. We'll be growing these next year for sure.
#peppers #hotpeppers #GardeningMastodon #gardening #growyourown
I'm working my way into #autumn with some #Homemade #FromScratch #pumpkinspice pancakes for #lunch. I am so glad I froze back some #pumpkin two years ago when I grew a glut of Jarrahdales! #GardeningMastodon #GrowYourOwn #food
今朝のThe Nunと昨日切り花で買ったカタリナ
rose "The Nun" this morning and rose "Catalina" that i bought at florist yesterday
グリーンアイスはとっても元気。どんどんつぼみがあがってくる。
rose "Green Ice " grows so well. has a lot of buds.
Can you guess what I'm #cooking? All the peppers, black-eyed peas, and garlic came out of my #garden! 😌 #GardeningMastodon #GrowYourOwn #Homemade #FromScratch #Food
Been doing pretty good #SeedSaving this year. (I normally forget or get too busy to save seeds... 😆)
Have you saved any seeds?
Need to start planning the fruit, veg, preserve, pickle, drink, decoration and otherwise planting and gardening for next year…
The risk is that I try and do all of the things, and end up doing them all badly 😅
#garden #gardening #GardeningMastodon #gardener #fruit #vegetables #pickles #preserves #drink #flowers #decoration #planning #prep
Jude the Obscure, 夏剪定というのをしてみた。といっても、花の咲いた枝を切り戻しただけだけど。切った枝、もったいなくて挿し木したw
Jude the Obscure, tried pruning the branches which had had flowers. have rooted its cuttings in water 🌱
The other rose bush is blooming too. These are called "Drop Dead Red" Floribunda Roses.
🌹
#Roses #BloomScrolling #gardening #GardeningMastodon
Oh no, what have I done?! 😱🤪 Bought 105 bulbs to plant this fall. 😤 Definitely going to be trying the drill and auger bit method for these! 😂 #GardeningMastodon #bulbs
Found this little bastard (aka hornworm) while picking this evening.
Looks like a Manduca sexta (Carolina Sphinx). #Gardening #GardeningMastodon #hotpeppers #bugstodon #bugs
Current garden harvest haul. We keep it on the kitchen island so we remember to eat it, and because we're so proud of it, we want to keep seeing it all the time!
Purple Cherokee, beefsteak, glacier, sungold, Golden jubilee, Chadwick, pear, San marzano tomatoes, green rainbow bell and chili peppers, cube of butter squash, green onions, swiss celebration chard, and dinosaur kale
#gardening #gardeningmastodon
It's cool this morning. Autumn is coming, but I'm determined to squeeze every last 80°+ F #summer day out of the season. Many plants coming to the end of their life cycles, while others are almost done creating their one giant squash, watermelon, or pumpkin, and still others readying their big #harvest for one final big picking. #GardeningMastodon #GrowYourOwn #Food #BloomScrolling
Marvelous late summer hydrangeas.
#BloomScrolling
#Hydrangeas
#GardeningMastodon
Our first Smurf Meyer Lemon of the season. #Garden #fruit #bloomscrolling #gardeningmastodon
I love seeing everyone’s harvest posts. Your gardens seem so bountiful and lush. Thank you for sharing these snapshots of your lives. 🥗 🍎
Around the garden this week.
#SevenOnSunday
#Gardening
#GardeningMastodon
#GrowYourOwn
Zoey, showing off today's loot from the #garden. #GardeningMastodon #GrowYourOwn #Food #CatsOfMastodon
So at my grocery store we’ve three, maybe four kinds of potatoes... just look at what we’re missing. These are all types of potato still grown in Peru, birthplace of potatoes in general.
#garden
#gardening
#GardeningMastodon
https://www.tumblr.com/mutant-distraction/727103269103599616/different-varieties-of-potato-from-peru
Now that’s a carrot worth growing. “Black nebula”, a type of black heirloom carrot.
#garden
#gardening
#GardeningMastodon
https://www.tumblr.com/mutant-distraction/727102583982981120/heirloom-black-carrot-nebula
The Nun のつぼみとサルビア・インディゴスパイヤーズ
rose bud of "The Nun", flowers of Salvia "Indigo Spires" 🌱
@bespacific @rmordecai The info in this article squares with what I’ve learned in #MasterGardener training about insecticides. They’re indiscriminate —they kill off beneficial insects that may be predators of some pest species— leaving you possibly worse off than before. Insect problems can often be managed through other means, and the vast majority of crawly things in your garden are harmless to you and your plants.
#Gardening
#GardeningMastodon
#pollinatorgarden
#pollinatorFriendly
The war is over! The squash bugs may have won, but I massacred them all in the end. They didn't see it coming as I had the element of surprise. However, there will be no more zucchini this year. 🤨 #GardeningMastodon
Another big day of composting and a shirt basket for tomatoes since I did not plan on picking tomatoes.
The wife’s new rose bush is bouncing back after some rabbits got to it.
#roses #rose #gardening #gardeningmastodon #flowers #flower
#GardeningMastodon #pottedgardens #flowers
#plants
Finally finishing up my potted flower garden
had to wait at least until sunset.It was to hot this
afternoon.
Okay, all set on two of the #watermelons. Free hammocks! Cat approved! 😂 #GardeningMastodon #CatsOfMastodon
Guess it's time to make #watermelon 🍉 hammocks. 🤣 #GardeningMastodon #GrowYourOwn #Food
This is too many chile de ancho-poblano plants too close together, right?
#GardeningMastodon #chiles #plants #RaisedBedGarden #poblano
Yesterday’s harvest of bell peppers and tomatoes
After a good feed and all the rain that Hilary dumped on us, the peppers are looking promising!
The tail on this scorpion pepper is insane and the black cobras are the biggest I've ever grown!
#SuperHotPeppers #GardeningMastodon
The true blues of August. On the left is a summer annual for shade that just blooms its fool head off, Browallia 'Endless Illumination', and on the right is one of my favorite perennials, also growing in a container garden, Gentiana 'True Blue.'
#gardening #BloomScrolling #AugustGarden #FridayFlowers #horticulture #flowers #GardeningMastodon #ContainerGarden
Today it's supposed to hit 98 degrees in the northern suburbs of Atlanta, but there are still some August work-horses in the perennial garden boasting jewel-tone shades of pink and purple: coreopsis, Joe Pye weed, purple cardinal flower, and Angelica. Full botanical names are in the AltText.
#gardening #FridayFlowers #AugustGarden #GardeningMastodon #horticulture #BloomScrolling #perennials
I'm 8 days into a little experiment comparing store bought seed starter mix to some unsanitized sphagnum based mix I made.
So far, the difference between the two is stark!
More late-blooming plants in the garden. This is Ligularaia dentata. The first two photos are of cultivar ‘Desdemona’ and the third photo is ‘Britt Marie Crawford’. Big, bold foliage emerges very dark bronze and greens somewhat over the season, then these brilliant orangey yellow blooms appear in late summer that seem so at odds with the broody demeanor of the leaves. Likes moist to wet soil, part shade. USDA zones 4-9.
#garden
#gardening
#GardeningMastodon
#InMyGarden
#BloomScrolling
#PNW
Die Tomaten leben immer noch.
Natron sprühen scheint tatsächlich etwas Verzögerung gegen #Phytophtora zu bewirken.
Spätestens in 2 Wochen ist dennoch endgültig Feierabend.
#ernte2023 #garten #gartenliebe #Gardening #GardeningMastodon #opensourceseeds
Today’s haul: three biggish tomatoes, a bunch of little ones, and five chicken fruits.
Decided I would try #dehydrating some #heirloom roma #tomatoes. This is essentially the same as sun-dried, right? #Food #GrowYourOwn #GardeningMastodon
I'm glad I checked the #garden today. Apparently I was behind in picking. Currently 83°F feels like 94°F at 87% humidity. Now I'm drenched in sweat! 🥵 #HeatDome #GardeningMastodon #GrowYourOwn #Food
Picked myself a posy on the way back in from tending to livestock. #flowers #bloomscrolling #GrowYourOwn #GardeningMastodon
August is kind of a wind-down time in my garden. One thing that’s blooming now is Francoa ramosa, one of my favorites. Chilean bridal wreath is a common name (which it shares with its more petite sister species, Francoa sonchifolia). Partially evergreen in part to light shade, USDA zone 7, easy to grow but hard to find. Good pollinator plants can be a rarity in the shade garden, but this is one of them.
#garden
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#GardeningMastodon
#InMyGarden
#BloomScrolling
#PNW
I had an area that needed something tall that would attract attention, and also mix with other reds in flower during the summer. The Black Diamond Crape Myrtle was the needed statement in the landscape. Nearly black foliage and bright red flowers preferred by my Beloved. You can even choose other flower colors that work for you. These are still filling in and are not in full flower, but really catch the eye.
First of this year's Monarch butterfly caterpillars went into a J-hang today and then into chrysalis - next step is to turn into goo and then form into a butterfly and emerge again to continue on the migration, if all goes well! #garden #gardening #butterfly #butterflies #gardens #GardeningMastodon
When I'm really organized, I make table top beer gardens to hand out to the neighbors for summer holidays and picnics using whatever cans I happen to have on hand. I must make it a point to do more of this...
#gardening #picnic #BloomScrolling #BeerGarden #whimsy #flowers #crafts #homemade #makers #GardeningMastodon
I grew the sunflower, lavender, and the marigolds myself. The lillies are perennial gifts from former owners.
Magnificent ❤️
#BloomScrolling #GardeningMastodon #FlowerFriday #FridayFlowers
It's my first time growing sweet #corn! Happy, yet bitter sweet success. The seed belonged to my father-in-law who passed away from SARs-CoV-2 in February this year. 😔
I hope he would be proud of me. He was like a real father to me. 😫🥺
It's jurassic under here. Insane. Got 0.64 inches rain last night. #GardeningMastodon #shadecloth #GrowYourOwn #food
Foliage frenzy. What a couple of show-offs: Persian Shield and Coleus 'Campfire'.
Sometimes, you just gotta help the little guys.
#bee #SaveTheBees #friend #gardening #GardeningMastodon #nature #wildlife #insects
I'm starting to get overwhelmed! Need to start #preserving this produce! 🤪 #GardeningMastodon #GrowYourOwn #food
Deep into summer, as other flowers fade, the #lilies are blooming.
#SixOnSaturday
#BloomScrolling
#GardeningMastodon
One of the old standbys in this part of the continent, Crocosmia. I’m not sure the variety—this clump came with the house and it’s at least 20 years old. We’re in partial shade so they flop a lot, but they still bloom and the hummingbirds still visit.
#garden
#gardening
#GardeningMastodon
#InMyGarden
#BloomScrolling
#PNW
One of my client's shaded flower beds, installed earlier this season, is filling out nicely. Coleus, begonias, impatiens, and caladiums - these will all last through the end of October here in Georgia.
#gardening #GardenDesign #GeorgiaGardenDesigner #flowerbed #ShadeGarden #Summer #flowers #plants #JulyGarden #BloomScrolling #GardeningMastodon #GardenersOfMastodon
This weekend in the veggie garden...
#GardeningMastodon #gardensofmastodon
#gardenstodon #foozma73 #veggiestodon #igrowstuff #igrewthis #growyourown #foodstodon
Going to be hot today in #PNW, so here are #SixOnSaturday from the morning 💦
#GardeningMastodon
#Gardening
#July
Okay since I’m posting, here’s a few more shots of the garden and artwork. I participated in an open garden tour as part of the Northwest Perennial Association last month. The larger ceramic pieces here are almost all sculpted by me; the tiny ones on the shelves are all painted & glazed by my kiddo at the DIY ceramics shop.
#garden
#gardening
#GardeningMastodon
#InMyGarden
#PNW
#PortfolioDay
#contemporaryart
#artistsonmastodon
#sculpture
#woodworking
It’s #PortfolioDay so here’s what I have been working on. I’ve been a sculptor for decades and I’ve worked in everything from bronze to neon tubes to taxidermy. Now I’m mostly doing wood and ceramics for my garden. The wooden columns were my covid project (one each done in 2020, 2021, and 2022). The other pieces are high fire ceramic.
#contemporaryart
#artistsonmastodon
#sculpture
#woodworking
#garden
#gardening
#GardeningMastodon
#InMyGarden
#PNW
It's lily season! Asiatic lily ‘Pink Giant’ has an extraordinary shell-pink bloom. These are growing in containers with caladiums and begonias. 🤩 It’s like having seashells blooming on my deck.
#gardening #GardeningMastodon #AsiaticLily #PinkGiant #flowers #lilies #lily #BloomScrolling #GeorgiaGardens #SummerBulbs
The Tiger Babies (Asiatic hybrid) are blooming now, and lightly fragrant.
#gardening #GardeningMastodon #Lilies #AsiaticLily #TigerBabies #HybridLily #gardens #flowers #GeorgiaGardens #BloomScrolling
Look what I grew! 😃
"And these native plants you talk about. Are they difficult to grow?"
Nah
A Juniper Hairstreak butterfly lands on my finger while I #garden. Later, while it is on the ground, I try to capture the unusual luminescence of its feathers in different views.
Caterpillars of this species feed on Red Cedar. Several years ago, I moved some Cedar saplings from the gardens, where they were not wanted to a more naturalized area with trees.
This butterfly is my harvest.
#nature #butterflies #NaturePhotography
#biodiversity #insects #gardening #GardeningMastodon
Heat’s not slowing down the #sunflowers, if anything they’re accelerating. Growing over 2” (5 cm) per day now.
Officially taller than me, by 1”.
#sunflower #sunflowers #suburbia #GardeningMastodon #gardening
Here, take some flowers because tomorrow is Monday.
My garden is now full of flowers, so today's version has to be a double-header!
#bloomscrolling #FlowerReport #sundayfeels #GardeningMastodon
It’s finally raining again here, and the delphiniums are drunk with joy.
“But it rains all the time in the #PNW”
No. It used to. Before climate change, May and June were awash in light rain. This year, this is first rain we’ve seen in over a month.
The rain we get now postpones the wildfires and may save some acres from burning in July.
And now that’s what I think about when it rains.
#ClimateChange
#garden
#gardening
#GardeningMastodon
#InMyGarden
#PNW
I was very happy with myself setting up a rain barrel timer system to irrigation hoses running through my pollinator garden. But today I checked and only a small trickle of water goes through the timer when it says it is running. No idea why it isn't letting more through but I'll be sad if I don't get this working and I have to go back to manually watering every day.