#Garden Adventures

[ribesaureum]

Giant purple flowered sage (salvia pachypylla)

[friend-crow]

I found some garden treasures today!

I finally got this big green planter out of the sketchy garage attic recently, and got around to using it today, but first I had to excavate the crap that was in it, which included this antique copper (or some manner of copper alloy) watering head, and shards of painted pottery (these are too cute and will be going on the ancestor shrine).

Then as I was digging a hole to plant wild ginger near the old lilac stump, I noticed half a walnut shell tucked under its root. I pulled it out and flipped it over and discovered a teeny tiny baby snail! Then I put it back where I found it.

The wild ginger got a protective rock circle, mostly to protect it from my mother, who very kindly offered to come over and help with weeding last year, and ended up very thoroughly removing the previous wild ginger, which was just starting to spread.

Earlier today when I was at the community garden I met this cat. It wasn't interested in letting me pet it, but I was able to entice it into playing with a piece of grass with me. This is a tried and true cat befriending technique of mine.

[miri-tiazan]

Behold the seven smol white oak seedlings I rescued from my yard! They were unfortunately in a spot that’s gonna get mowed, so now they will live in pots until they get big enough for me to plant them back out as part of my backyard reforestation project. 😍

There’s way more oak seedlings that I haven’t even gotten to yet, so I am going to continue to dig them up until I run out of available nursery pots or the lawn guys come. Also there’s a few other seedlings I ID’d as black gum seedlings, so I’ll be rescuing those too, since they’re native here and also apparently make nice berries that birds like.

Shoutout to @headspace-hotel for the inspiration and the educational posts about their own seedling rescue and acorn sprouting endeavors, without which I wouldn’t even have realized these were tree seedlings growing in my grass and not just random weeds!

Also today I realized these random weedy flowers popping up in my yard are actually Common Fleabane, which is a native wildflower to here, so I am going to mark that area off with twine so they don’t get mowed and try to collect seed from them this fall to sow in the native prairie zones I’m trying to establish.

My yard, like lots of places, does have a lot of invasives, but it’s encouraging that all these native babies are still finding places to pop up and do their thing!

[axololtls]

kofi

[pyrocherub]

Just doodled a bit at a botanical garden n this is one of the drawings I made :D

[lady-halibuts-chambers]

...Something burried an egg in my scallions.

My scallions, which live on top of a four foot tall ledge with one walkable entrance that we closed off after the woodchucks ate everything up there a couple years ago.

The scallions and the other pots have been down on the deck for a couple hours while things were being cleaned so maybe it just happened but, what?? What put an egg in my scallions?? A squirrel??

[treetreader]

Squash vine borer moth! native to the usa but a pest if you're tryna grow squash, pumpkins, zucchini, ect.

[tiny-pteranodon]

Sem (flat bean) looks and acts like an innocent cute vegetable but a quick look at its growing patterns reminds you why vines are compared to friendly looking enemies in hindi literature

[lowqualitycatphotos]

[ribesaureum]

I have been reseeding the poppies from the seed heads for 5 years and the first year I bought seeds and had red and orange and purple and lavender poppies and years 2-4 I just had red and red-orange poppies. This year starting to see some interesting genetics pop up again.

Look at this gorgeous coloration!

[cansu-m]

[lanndscape]

[spooksier]

these will be colored later but in the meantime, ily 2010s cartoons 5ever

[landsccape]

[ur-daily-inspiration]

Cute cakes appreciation post

[mrsmountainchicken]

What I assume to be Xysticus cristatus, Thomisidae (feel free to correct me!). I met her a while back on an evening stroll 🕷🌿

Picture taken on June 19, 2024 in Olten, Switzerland.