Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, March 28

It's nearing Passover and Easter, and here we have a flower associated with Christmas (maybe a different subspecies). I love its distinctive flowers!

The hellebores started blooming in mid-March. I first planted them by the concrete steps years ago when there was a weeping cherry providing shade. We had to take the cherry down after the trunk split and I expected to need to move the hellebores since they're supposed to be shade plants. They have been growing and blooming for over ten years in full afternoon sun. Hellebores hate being moved, at least in my experience, so I've left them alone since they seem to be doing fine!

Lirio100

From Neal in Israel:

Chandelier plant (Kalanchoe delagoensis): Received something small from a fellow gardener who lives down the street. Over the summer, it got strong and multiplied (also known as Mother of Millions), and now the stand has been flowering nicely for a few weeks.

An interesting succulent. I think that this is a good plant for beginners.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

The strawberries are Fragaria vesca that I grew from seed last year, basically just to see if I could. I didn't expect them to survive the winter as they were growing in a clay pot left out on the top step. I was surprised to see there were two flowers by May 20th. The plant is supposedly self pollinated but our temps are going down again so might not see any berries right now.

Lirio100

Beautiful! Let us know how they taste! Another photo of the ripe berries would be fun.

I think that Lirio's strawberries are in a "safe" container.

Cadmium, arsenic and lead are problem minerals here. Zinc, usually not so much, unless you really get a lot of it. You need SOME zinc. You don't need any cadmium.

Gardens of The Horde

Updated landscaping around the pond. Mexican heather along the walkway with poker plants behind them.

Phlox around the falls. Herbs on the slope. Lantana and yarrow for the butterflies. Petunias and dianthus for the humming bird. Bird feeders for everyone else.

Cross vine, Carolina Jessamine, and honeysuckle along the fence with some cannas because they’re outta control. Flowering yucca in red and yellow.

Daffodils, irises, dianthus and daylillies along the wall. Caladiums and hostas under the fig tree.

And the auxiliary office.

R/s

CrotchetyOldJarhead

WOW!

A lot of work! Everything looks great. Thanks for sending in the photos.

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, March 21

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