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Albizzia or Mimosa Tree. Flowers smell incredibly good and can be made into a medicinal tea.
I've never smelled them!! Today I will go out a see.
I'd love to try that tea!
Finally posting some pictures from around our backyard since some things have actually grown. Hubby's been really in love with columbine lately and it's quite happy this year. He said columbine can kind of have a four-year life cycle?
Our yellow-twig dogwood has grown more probably just in the past week. It's been rainy the last couple days. Behind him is one of our beloved pines. We want them taller for a natural fence!
We're hoping to sneak a couple serviceberries to try for ourselves before all the cedar waxwings get at them. The plant is already taller than hubby.
More columbine:
The chives are in bloom, next to sugar snap peas and broccoli. Stevie enjoys the occasional broccoli leaf treat.
Our raspberry bushes are happy. The cocoon thing on one of the plants hadn't opened yet, the last time I looked. I'll look again once it dries up outside.
Here's my giant miniature rose bush.
I forgot to trim the branches this spring ... again. My turtlehead is on the left, with the thinner leaves, much bigger this year! There's a little strawberry plant too; we were using the fencing to keep out rabbits but I want to put up something that looks nicer.
We've had rain all week, but today we had beaks of sun in between the showers. took a couple pics.The first pic was taken just as the blooms were starting to change color.
The next is of my biggest blooms this one is over 5 inches.
The last is peaches that are on a volunteer peach tree that started growing in a pot where i throw peach seeds when feeding the box turtles.This year it started with over 30
peaches but over half have fallen off. If I planted the tree in the ground it would most likely do much better.
The next is of my biggest blooms this one is over 5 inches. The last is peaches that are on a volunteer peach tree that started growing in a pot where i throw peach seeds when feeding the box turtles.This year it started with over 30 peaches but over half have fallen off. If I planted the tree in the ground it would most likely do much better.
Great shot with the bee!
I still just find something unnatural I guess about cactus blooming. They are so beautiful though.
Last fall I cut these from a couple palms that I believe are some type of needle palm. If they are viable seeds any one have any suggestions on how to plant them ?
Yvonne I'm moving in with you once the kids move out, I'll clean/cook for you and be your medical emergency assistant for your rescue, all for room and board somewhere on your property if you just let me spend few hrs a day potsing around your gardens and your animals, your know, pull a weed here and there, deaedhead some flowers, thin sime seedlings... bathe some torts... I will be a good worker
Your cacti are AMAZING!!!!
I brought some palm berries from Florida and threw some on top of the soil others I coveres with layer of compost. The covered ones grew, but with our 2-3 days of freeze every winter, they die back and have to start over every year. I don't have a green house to keep them first few yrs in better conditions. I florida I have also planted couple of big coconuts that had fallen off the tree, and seed of Royal Palm (size of hazelnut) the Royal Palm is much taller them my mom's house with it's trunk big enough I can hide behind... so they do grow! They like well (very porous) drained soil and lots of sun, most. Those berries you have so many that you can experiment. Let them dry out in the sun and cure. Then throw some on the ground in few different spots where they will likely get water daily, put few in the pots that you can protect from freeze in winter. The ones that you bury in soil, cover with some compost and water daily throughout summer. See what happens. I'm curious. You have actually given me an idea of doing it this summer when we are in South Florida. There are so many species of palm tree and so many of them drop their berries I should try that myself. Why didn't i think of it before???!!!!
Yvonne I'm moving in with you once the kids move out, I'll clean/cook for you and be your medical emergency assistant for your rescue, all for room and board somewhere on your property if you just let me spend few hrs a day potsing around your gardens and your animals, your know, pull a weed here and there, deaedhead some flowers, thin sime seedlings... bathe some torts... I will be a good worker
You'd probably get bored pretty quickly, but, there's a spare bedroom and bathroom whenever you're ready.
I'm always on the lookout for palm trees that grow fruit because it's a regular in the YFs diet. I'd surely appreciate it if you would gather some seeds for me too.
I found all my palms at walmart, lowes, and homedepot. I wasn't expecting them to do very well in the weather climate here in the northern neck of virginia, but they have done great. I think I am just going to stick some in the ground at different places around the yard and at different depths, that's how I do the cactus seeds. some germinate and some don't. Maybe I'll get lucky.
There are already 3 stems up that are more coming out of the ground,(the last pic) also in the last pic is a migrating small banana tree that if It has roots at the base and would survive transplanting I will send it so you will have the same type that I grow along with all the seeds from this summer. I just need your address I had it but can't find it ..If that tree doesn't have enough roots yet I will dig one that does.
This is my mission for this summer. Will take pics of the mature palm tree and number them and the corresponding berries/seeds. And sometime in September/october after they are all dry I'll be happy to send you some seeds
My banana trees now have growth that's about 1' out of the ground. I know there are different varieties, but really? Yours look almost as tall as a man and mine are still only a foot tall? Thank goodness the tortoises that live in there don't eat banana tree leaves or I'd never get to see them as big trees!!!!
They have grown since the last pic , Took this about 5:30 this afternoon.The golf cart roof (bronze colored thing on the left) is over 6 1/2 feet off the ground.
I'm hoping they grow bigger this year, I left all the tree trunks and leaves from last year under them to help keep the ground moist when our dry season comes later this summer.Everything seems to be working it's way through it.
