Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, March 30

Happy Easter Weekend, everyone! Got any outdoor plans?

Above is a photo of a Lady Banks' Rose not too far from where we live. This is a prime season for lovely flowering shrubs and small trees. This rose only blooms once a year, but it stays in bloom for several weeks, and it is worth changing your traveling route a little to see it if you have one in the neighborhood.

Wee Kreek Farm Girl first alerted us that this rose, both the yellow one and the white one, grow in the desert, including a record-setting huge rose in Tombstone.

It's not hard to find conflicting information about this rose on the interwebs. On the North Carolina State University page, the yellow cultivar is classified as "white". Well, it's buttery, but it's not white. Though most people can't detect a fragrance from the yellow rose. Most of the other information seems OK, and there's a wonky general video about roses, too.

Many sources say that the white cultivar is fragrant, like violets. I haven't ever been able to detect a fragrance. But this rose is recommended for Central Texas, too.

Some of the roses on the plant I photographed are bigger than a quarter - not "dime-sized". Here's a close-up, with some skinny rose hips.

Though early European plant explorers were known for their derring-do, I think it is true that this rose was found in a famous Chinese nursery. The wild form is single, on an even bigger plant.

Here's a photo and information on the white cultivar.

The rose I photographed is hanging over a fence, with the actual plant and a protective dog on the other side. Wonder if one of these would look nice with AZ Deplorable Moron's cactus?

Or with 40 Miles North's freeway daisies?

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Ever thought about growing citrus in the snow? A guy in Northern Utah has had some success. He'll teach you how to do it.

Puttering

Living in the North? Here are some seeds to wintersow.

Got chickens?

Adventure

Wildflowers near Palm Springs

Gardens of The Horde

What's happening in your garden?

Plant is from a single pad I found beside the road 3 years ago.
AZ deplorable moron

Wonderful.

I hope you are well. Apologies for the absence, but I have to work long hours at the new job - the people that work for me are great, but the project managers are . . . I'll stop talking now.
I hope my membership has not been revoked. I wish I had new subjects for you, but . . . You can use these shots if you like them. Take care,
40 Miles North

Thanks for the photos. Saving a couple. Love the irises.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, March 23

Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

Posted by: K.T. at 01:40 PM

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1 Good afternoon Greenthumbs

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2024 01:45 PM (IJlXh)

2 ?

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 30, 2024 01:45 PM (0JAw6)

3 Well you can call me rookie!

Thanks for the Garden Thread KT.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 30, 2024 01:46 PM (DAb3/)

4 Those are some pretty flowers!

I want to get to Tombstone and check out that rose!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 30, 2024 01:46 PM (DAb3/)

5 My decorative plants are beginning to bloom here at the wind swept outpost. I've been weeding like mad, all kinds of noxious plants, black nightshade, deadly nightshade, sow thistle, blue thistle. The soil was fertilized last fall and then we've had copious rain, so it was to be expected.

Posted by: gourmand du jour put on a happy face! at March 30, 2024 01:51 PM (MeG8a)

6 I'm like the honey badger coming for your Easter eggs. You can run but you can't hide on this hunt. Try to stop me.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2024 01:55 PM (WtvCN)

7 I started GMO tomato seeds from Northland Healthy Produce, "The Purple Tomato". The plant is an indeterminate cherry tomato, incorporating two genes from snapdragons which produce anthocyanins (considered antioxidants). The company says it breeds true which mean seeds can be saved. The company received regulatory approval from both the USDA and FDA in 2023. So far four have germinated with two showing the first true leaves.

Posted by: Lirio100 at March 30, 2024 01:59 PM (I5U35)

8 Now that I'm not in CO anymore, and nowhere near NM, I've figured out that Hatch chiles are super rare and people are willing to pay a lot for them. I think that smuggling chile peppers would be safer and more profitable than smuggling fentanyl and xylazine, in the long run.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2024 02:00 PM (0FoWg)

9 love those eggs! Makes me want to break out a PAAS kit!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2024 02:02 PM (q3gwH)

10 PSA to anyone hiding Easter Eggs.
Make sure you know how many you hide, how many are found: and for your sake where they were all hidden so you can find that last egg before it turns into a stinker.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 30, 2024 02:04 PM (DAb3/)

11 Our basil in a planter kit has yet to show any sprouting. And it's been almost a week! (I fear I lack the patience to be a farmer.) Of course, I still check it a few times a day just in case one of the little buggers decides to appear. I might be better off with forsythia cuttings in winter. They show roots and leaves in short order which suits my attention span.

Posted by: JTB at March 30, 2024 02:07 PM (zudum)

12 By the way, got some late comments on the mystery plant last week. Euphorbia, related to poinsettias.

Apparently, deer won't eat them.

Posted by: KT at March 30, 2024 02:07 PM (rrtZS)

13 If I do an Easter Egg Hunt, it'll be raw eggs for most, and one or two eggshells with $100 bills inside. Just to make it viciously competitive.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at March 30, 2024 02:08 PM (0FoWg)

14 The guy in Utah who is growing citrus in the snow is a true amateur, but quite dedicated.

Posted by: KT at March 30, 2024 02:09 PM (rrtZS)

15 A gal on the neighborhood chat group was inquiring if anyone was interested in trading 18 white eggs for a carton from her flock. Apparently the kiddos announced this morning that dying brown eggs wouldn't be near as fun. Alas I only have a dozen Eggland eggs and their red seals on the ends of the eggs would have negated them being white.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 30, 2024 02:10 PM (wTs+0)

16 Hello greenies! Finally got my community garden plot confirmed, which is good because I've already started a mess o' seeds, mostly maters, hot peppers, and flowers.

Tomatoes: Rebel Starfighter Prime, Cosmic Eclipse, Pork Chop, Black Yellow and Red Brandywines, Canestrino della Garfagnana, Ananas Noir, Sart Roloise, Garden Peach, Oxheart, Boxcar Willy, Cherokee Purple, Pepe's Gifante, Delicious Hunt, and Big Sungold

Hot peppers: Yellow Devil's Tongue, Red Suave, Yellow Suave, and Habanada

Flowers are sunflowers and various butterfly and bee-friendly types

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 30, 2024 02:11 PM (3e3hy)

17 I have irises blooming in the back garden. Apparently the back yard is quite a bit warmer than the front, because stuff seems to be blooming there first.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 30, 2024 02:12 PM (XjtdB)

18 Is the blue flower above flax?

Posted by: Ronster at March 30, 2024 02:13 PM (zzTJi)

19 Also, one of last year's hollyhocks is coming back, and this would be the year it blooms. I think it was a "black" (i.e. dark plum) hollyhock.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 30, 2024 02:16 PM (3e3hy)

20 I heartily approve of wildflowers since they require no effort except to get off my duff and take a walk. My kind of horticulture. Besides, the huge variations in color and shape is fascinating. And after the cataract surgery a few months ago I can see them flowers and colors so much better, which adds to the sweetness.

Posted by: JTB at March 30, 2024 02:16 PM (zudum)

21 Yes, Ronster, it's blue flax.

Posted by: KT at March 30, 2024 02:16 PM (rrtZS)

22 The alba rose I planted in the ground is leafing out. Most of those in big pots didn't make it. I do have an alba in a pot that might snap out of it.

I ordered fruit bushes from Stark last year. (The elderberries were moved before I got a chance to tell rhe guy). I should have requested a refund on the raspberries as they were dead when they got here.

This year, I ordered from Burpee. Small plants but they all have leaves. I have raspberries, marionberry, another bush blueberry and a dwarf fig. My bush blueberries from Stark did survive. I need to either get them into a raised bed or straight into the ground. That's my project for the weekend. My rhubarb made it too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 30, 2024 02:20 PM (yeEu9)

23 Thanks KT. I planted some flax years ago. It self seeds and is still going strong.

Posted by: Ronster at March 30, 2024 02:20 PM (zzTJi)

24 Shopping
Chives and oregano are up, nothing else yet

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2024 02:22 PM (IJlXh)

25 The pollen hasn't been too bad this year, so far. We're at that brief period where the light green of the new leaves is showing through the white and pastel colors of the blossoming trees. Just gorgeous. I especially like the flowering cherry trees where the white blossoms and green leaves contrast with the gnarled and dark trunk and branches.

Posted by: JTB at March 30, 2024 02:24 PM (zudum)

26 My long suffering irises made it too! To have room for those, I just dumped them in trash bags for the move. Planted them when I got here but the dog stepped on them a lot. I put up a low plastic fence and they've had a chance to grow. One is a big yellow iris that the landscapers threw out. The other is Red Chief, which is an heirloom. Blooms would be nice but lots of growth would be good too.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 30, 2024 02:25 PM (yeEu9)

27 A ~~sunny~~ rainy day here in Sandy Eggo.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:26 PM (ynpvh)

28 That Tombstone Bank's rose is quite the plant...almost 140 years old, 12' circumference around trunk, 9,000 square feet area. Most impressive.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:28 PM (ynpvh)

29 I always thought burpees were those push ups where you clap your hands on each one.
Haven't done any of those in a while...

Posted by: gourmand du jour put on a happy face! at March 30, 2024 02:28 PM (MeG8a)

30 9 love those eggs! Makes me want to break out a PAAS kit!

Posted by: Tom Servo at March 30, 2024 02:02 PM (q3gwH)

How Easter Eggs are made...

https://tinyurl.com/3eudf82y

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:31 PM (ynpvh)

31 Bought some herbs (is it my imagination or has the big box store selection *really* gone down lately?), and tomatoes this week to go with the pepper plants I got a couple of weeks ago.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 30, 2024 02:31 PM (XjtdB)

32 I see what look like yummy chiles in that 2nd pic, KT!

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:32 PM (ynpvh)

33 Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 30, 2024 02:20 PM (yeEu9)

I wouldn't recommend Stark for *anything*. They absolutely killed the little Missouri town they are based out of by bringing in a lot of illegals. It's the town John (late, first) husband's employer, DynoNobel, had a plant in so we were looking for a house there but had to get one 30 miles away.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 30, 2024 02:36 PM (XjtdB)

34 My blackberries are putting on new buds and flowers. ETA for fruit is probably late May with these guys. Don't expect quite the havest this year as I removed lots and lots of canes from where they did NOT belong, but finally got out the dead undergrowth.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:36 PM (ynpvh)

35 Those freeway daisies are pretty! Wonder what they're really called.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 30, 2024 02:36 PM (3e3hy)

36 33 Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 30, 2024 02:20 PM (yeEu9)

I wouldn't recommend Stark for *anything*. They absolutely killed the little Missouri town they are based out of by bringing in a lot of illegals. It's the town John (late, first) husband's employer, DynoNobel, had a plant in so we were looking for a house there but had to get one 30 miles away.

Posted by: Polliwog the 'Ette at March 30, 2024 02:36 PM (XjtdB)

When I think Stark I think Ironman's company...Sorry, not thread-related.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:37 PM (ynpvh)

37 >>> A gal on the neighborhood chat group was inquiring if anyone was interested in trading 18 white eggs for a carton from her flock. Apparently the kiddos announced this morning that dying brown eggs wouldn't be near as fun. Alas I only have a dozen Eggland eggs and their red seals on the ends of the eggs would have negated them being white.

Posted by: PaleRider

>First World Problem thread is later. Tell the little scamps to clean the yard and their rooms or they won't get any eggs at all until next year.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2024 02:38 PM (WtvCN)

38 35 Those freeway daisies are pretty! Wonder what they're really called.

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 30, 2024 02:36 PM (3e3hy)

In San Diego county, Caltrans seeds the sides of roads with the state flower, poppies. Quite pretty when they bloom. Maybe one of those unnecessary expenditures I could live with.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:39 PM (ynpvh)

39 I took the sunny day yesterday to mow the front yard. Grass you say? Nay, my field of weeds. At least now it has the semblance of a lawn...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:41 PM (ynpvh)

40 39 I took the sunny day yesterday to mow the front yard. Grass you say? Nay, my field of weeds. At least now it has the semblance of a lawn...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:41 PM (ynpvh)

Although in Kalifornia, Weed and Grass can be the same thing...IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:43 PM (ynpvh)

41 The bluebonnets are really exceptional this year. I just got back from round top and the fields surrounding there are covered in the beautiful blue-ish-violet and some bright pink flowers, which I think are Indian paint brush. Truly God's handiwork.

Posted by: LASue at March 30, 2024 02:46 PM (YDB6U)

42 My guava is insane. Had fruit in December, picked a few off it just last month. More little ones, this time more in season. Cactus (pitaya--like dragonfruit, but smooth skin, no scales on fruit) has no flowers as of yet. My longan and lychee are still alive (despite my not taking care of them). I should fertilize them so what little fruit they bear isn't sour like the last few times...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:51 PM (ynpvh)

43 >>>I took the sunny day yesterday to mow the front yard. Grass you say? Nay, my field of weeds. At least now it has the semblance of a lawn...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:41 PM (ynpvh)

Although in Kalifornia, Weed and Grass can be the same thing...IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

>How gauche. If I'm not getting Tyson's Mike Bites with a pork rind flavor, we're just not on the same level. And being a practicing Muslim has nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2024 02:52 PM (WtvCN)

44 PSA to anyone hiding Easter Eggs.
Make sure you know how many you hide, how many are found: and for your sake where they were all hidden so you can find that last egg before it turns into a stinker.
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 30, 2024 02:04 PM
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Over the decades, we had only lost track of 2 eggs. Not bad for 2, sometimes 3 dozen eggs per year LOL

Posted by: JQ at March 30, 2024 02:52 PM (njWTi)

45 Love the bright colors of the flowers and eggs today!

Taking a break from mowing the wild onions to relax on the screen porch. It might have been a mistake to sit down. I don't want to get back up.

Azaleas are starting to bloom at SiD (Half) Acres. Mom had lovely azaleas at her old house so I'm glad we have some here.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 30, 2024 02:52 PM (+Nu5p)

46 Pecan tree is budding. Crows still around, but not is such large numbers. In September/October, I'll probably lose the fight with the crows yet again. Last year I collected a handful of nuts, those bastards got the rest (probably 10+ lbs).

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:53 PM (ynpvh)

47 43 >>>I took the sunny day yesterday to mow the front yard. Grass you say? Nay, my field of weeds. At least now it has the semblance of a lawn...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:41 PM (ynpvh)

Although in Kalifornia, Weed and Grass can be the same thing...IYKWIMAITYD

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

>How gauche. If I'm not getting Tyson's Mike Bites with a pork rind flavor, we're just not on the same level. And being a practicing Muslim has nothing to do with it.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2024 02:52 PM (WtvCN)

I hear you get an earful in every bag.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:56 PM (ynpvh)

48 Over the decades, we had only lost track of 2 eggs. Not bad for 2, sometimes 3 dozen eggs per year LOL
Posted by: JQ

I'm usually the one that keeps track so I believe we've never had one 'lost'. There have been a few times we noted that were were short one and when found it threw out because we weren't sure it was safe to eat.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 30, 2024 02:56 PM (DAb3/)

49 Talking here this morning we both remember using crayons to decorate Easter eggs

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2024 02:56 PM (fwDg9)

50
Taking a break from mowing the wild onions to relax on the screen porch. It might have been a mistake to sit down. I don't want to get back up.

Posted by: screaming in digital

The bane of all gardeners, sitting down for *just a minute*.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 30, 2024 02:57 PM (DAb3/)

51 And what do chicks, eggs, and rabbits have to do with Jesus' resurrection? Well, it happens when pagan holidays are subsumed into Christian ones...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:58 PM (ynpvh)

52 All those flowers in the post.....and here in my neck of the woods, my meager little crocuses got snowed on. Oh, well, the second batch will pop up soon as the snow bank retreats further.

Posted by: Castle Guy at March 30, 2024 02:58 PM (Lhaco)

53 50
Taking a break from mowing the wild onions to relax on the screen porch. It might have been a mistake to sit down. I don't want to get back up.

Posted by: screaming in digital

The bane of all gardeners, sitting down for *just a minute*.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at March 30, 2024 02:57 PM (DAb3/)

Wild onions, you say? Do they taste good?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:59 PM (ynpvh)

54 Oh dear, I just noticed the date up top. If it is April 30 I am late paying my taxes...

Posted by: gourmand du jour put on a happy face! at March 30, 2024 03:05 PM (MeG8a)

55 AZ deplorable moron: ...so you can find that last egg before it turns into a stinker.

When I was a young'n, I remember our dog, Lady, in the back yard, running up with a decorated Easter egg in her mouth, intact. It was August! I don't remember what happened with it.

Posted by: mindful webworker - Lady was a great dog at March 30, 2024 03:06 PM (poNS8)

56 The sliced raw radishes from the salsa bar at local taco shop have a much "heartier" flavor than usual.

Posted by: Commissar of Plenty and Lysenkoism in Solidarity with the Struggle to maintain Moron standards at March 30, 2024 03:07 PM (0JAw6)

57 Yesterday was garden prep day... sort of. Put out limestone and fertilizer, then tilled it into the soil. We're expecting rain, possibly some storms over the next couple days and nights, so that stuff will percolate into the ground.

Next up, probably in mid-late April will be some peat moss and compost. Planting will be in early May.

Deciding how soon to plant potatoes. I think it might be a few weeks too early.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2024 03:09 PM (Q4IgG)

58 I love those Shrek hand cactii!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at March 30, 2024 03:09 PM (5AVMW)

59 When I was a young'n, I remember our dog, Lady, in the back yard, running up with a decorated Easter egg in her mouth, intact. It was August! I don't remember what happened with it.
Posted by: mindful webworker - Lady was a great dog at March 30, 2024 03:06 PM (poNS

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She buried it!

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 30, 2024 03:13 PM (3e3hy)

60 >>>Wild onions, you say? Do they taste good?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)

>They are delicious. I've often picked wild onions while hiking and they're like high altitude green onions. Be careful, though, there are some poisonous plants that look like wild onions and they will kill you.

Posted by: Dr. Bone at March 30, 2024 03:18 PM (WtvCN)

61 April Fools early I guess

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2024 03:19 PM (fwDg9)

62 That gigantic rose is just amazing! And no natural disasters have struck.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 30, 2024 03:19 PM (w6EFb)

63 Miley, are you planting okra this year?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 30, 2024 03:21 PM (3e3hy)

64 > They are delicious. I've often picked wild onions while hiking and they're like high altitude green onions
__________

Sounds like "ramps." A wild onion of sorts. That's what we call them in West Virginia. Strong. Hints of garlic too.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at March 30, 2024 03:23 PM (Q4IgG)

65 From Boise area: Lows 34-40 F, highs 52-59. Warmer temps predicted for this week. Several rain storms and one band of hail.

Got 46 onions planted, still need to figure out where to put the other 154. Spotted the first potato sprouts and first pea sprout this morning. Busy watching our seed-sprouting pots - some stuff is just not coming up yet, despite our exhortations - we'll need to replant some pots.

Our 3 midget forsythias are blooming. Daffodils next to them have come up and a few have flower buds forming. Hyacinths are at peak. Johnny Jump-Ups have been out for a while - not as many as some years. Lilies of the valley starting to sprout.

We raked up 8 giant trash bags of leaves for our trash company's "we'll take almost anything" week, to finish the fall leaf cleanup, at last!! Husband has moved some irrigation risers near the lilac row. He worked on the tractor/mower and found he had to order a new mower blade because one is bent. Both of us shifted a pile of compost from one bin to the next - we only have 2 piles going. (Compost production was poor last year due to my knee surgeries - we'll do better this year.)

Don't forget - partial solar eclipse April 8!

Posted by: Pat* at March 30, 2024 03:25 PM (wd7fb)

66 We had at least two inches of snow this week. Had one more cold day, started warming and most was melted the next day. Then it almost hit 70 yesterday! I was concerned about the rhubarb but the leaves are fine. I am still putting away winter stuff.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 30, 2024 03:28 PM (yeEu9)

67 My Begonias only lasted 4 weeks . Definite black thumb here.

Posted by: polynikes at March 30, 2024 03:33 PM (MNhXM)

68 Notsothoreau I am wondering if your in Kentucky as a blogger I go to often got 2 inches of snow that disappeared quickly as well

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2024 03:33 PM (fwDg9)

69 >>> 41 The bluebonnets are really exceptional this year. I just got back from round top and the fields surrounding there are covered in the beautiful blue-ish-violet and some bright pink flowers, which I think are Indian paint brush. Truly God's handiwork.
Posted by: LASue at March 30, 2024 02:46 PM (YDB6U)

Where did you drive around if you don't mind sharing? Trying to get an idea of how things are progressing and if the blooms are near me yet (Tyler-ish).

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 30, 2024 03:40 PM (llON8)

70 willowed by
PET NOOD

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at March 30, 2024 03:44 PM (llON8)

71 >> 38 35 Those freeway daisies are pretty!
>> Wonder what they're really called.

Those are the purple variety of Osteospermum.

Posted by: 40 Miles North at March 30, 2024 03:44 PM (uWF4x)

72 PET NOOD IS UP

Posted by: Skip at March 30, 2024 03:44 PM (fwDg9)

73 >>>Wild onions, you say? Do they taste good?

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia)
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Sorry, I got out of my chair and went to the dump and then decided to take mom for a late lunch. I don't think I've ever tried to eat wild onions.

Posted by: screaming in digital at March 30, 2024 03:44 PM (cJr4l)

74 Nope, north central KS. It's 2100 ft. I like it because it doesn't get as much humidity as the rest of the state. The weather can be interesting.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at March 30, 2024 03:45 PM (yeEu9)

75 Alas I only have a dozen Eggland eggs and their red seals on the ends of the eggs would have negated them being white.

Posted by: PaleRider at March 30, 2024 02:10 PM (wTs+0)

Those wash off.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 30, 2024 03:51 PM (w6EFb)

76 16 Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 30, 2024 02:11 PM (3e3hy)

You've got a lot of exotica there!

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 30, 2024 03:52 PM (w6EFb)

77 Late to the party but had to get to the grocery store for strawberries and blueberries.
I love those Irises. I would prefer a bouquet of them to roses. And that cactus is amazing. There is a garden I pass on my walks that has cactus, even here in MD. They just go flat in the winter but them perk right up as we head into warm weather.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 30, 2024 03:53 PM (t/2Uw)

78 I took some cherry blossom pictures two days ago when it was supposed to be peak. Not quite as colorful as last year but I'll send a couple. Supposed to be 70 here tomorrow so might try and get so,e more or just enjoy the weather.

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 30, 2024 03:55 PM (t/2Uw)

79 In San Diego county, Caltrans seeds the sides of roads with the state flower, poppies. Quite pretty when they bloom. Maybe one of those unnecessary expenditures I could live with.

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:39 PM (ynpvh)

All I ever saw was ice plant on the coast, but I left over 20 yeas ago, so maybe it's changed.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 30, 2024 03:57 PM (w6EFb)

80 >>>I took the sunny day yesterday to mow the front yard. Grass you say? Nay, my field of weeds. At least now it has the semblance of a lawn...

Posted by: jim (in Kalifornia) at March 30, 2024 02:41 PM (ynpvh)

We built our house in a field - we too have a semblance of a lawn. I can't be bothered with a "real" lawn. I'd rather put effort into flowers and veggies.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 30, 2024 04:00 PM (w6EFb)

81 Taking a break from mowing the wild onions to relax on the screen porch. It might have been a mistake to sit down. I don't want to get back up.

Posted by: screaming in digital

I love the smell, but they're a real PIA.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 30, 2024 04:01 PM (w6EFb)

82 Gourmand, you're safe. It's March 30.😉

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 30, 2024 04:06 PM (t/2Uw)

83 I used to find wild onions growing under a dogwood tree in front of my house in MA. No matter how many times I pulled them up, they always came back. I never thought they were edible. Ae they?

Posted by: Sharon(willow's apprentice) at March 30, 2024 04:08 PM (t/2Uw)

84 Miley, are you planting okra this year?

Posted by: All Hail Eris at March 30, 2024 03:21 PM (3e3hy)

You bet your ass! Half Clemson Spineless, half Red Burgundy. I have a few seeds for an alba variety, which I'll sow in a raised bed. I'd like to get more seed from them.

Posted by: Miley, okravangelist at March 30, 2024 04:09 PM (w6EFb)

85 Where did you drive around if you don't mind sharing? Trying to get an idea of how things are progressing and if the blooms are near me yet (Tyler-ish).
Posted by: Helena H

Helena H-
They seem to start growing in abundance east of tyler , and there some great areas around College Station, but they really go wild around Brenham and Snook!

Posted by: LASue at March 30, 2024 04:11 PM (Ed8Zd)

86 My memory still works! Yes, my Sunset Western Garden Book says so-called "Freeway Daisy" is most likely Osteospermum fruticosum.

Posted by: Pat* at March 30, 2024 04:59 PM (wd7fb)

87 Half Clemson Spineless, half Red Burgundy
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Somehow, I would think that 'Clemson Spineless', as a name, might not sit well with Publius.

;-)

Posted by: Mike Hammer, etc., etc. at March 30, 2024 05:44 PM (XeU6L)

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