Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, June 20

My little garden has been pretty colorful and a delight to look at out the window on a 90 degree day. Here's a couple photos of my Tequila and lime Daylilies.

Didn't realize that each blossom actually only last for a day til Hrothgar mentioned it.
In one picture you can see the delicate pink hydrangeas. I was initially disappointed that they didn't get those big rounded flowers but grew to like how delicate they look.

Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Daylilies and hydrangeas both come in different flower forms. The daylilies are spectacular, and the color of the hydrangeas looks nice with them.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

We have updates from Intrepid Liaison/Admiral Ackbar from May 15 and from more recently today.

May 15:

In some ways, plants are pretty uneventful. Most flowers on my plants have fallen off, and tiny little fruit are starting. Little baby quince fruit starting under the dying flower. The North Star cherry tree has always produced massive harvests, despite being fairly small and young still.

The side of my house is overgrown with grape and kiwi vines, so I put up some ghetto "trellising" to help if grow out more. We'll see how well it holds up. Last year we had quite a few grapes. . . but raccoons ate them all.

Okay, I lied. The Pawpaw tree is native, and always a little behind the other fruit trees, so it still has its weird, brownish bell-like flowers.

They are so interesting.

June update:

Lots of fruit and berries growing at the homestead, but with a move coming up, I haven't harvested like I usually do. Tons of mulberries and wild raspberries ready to pick, and finally a few pawpaw fruit on our young trees!

The berries look great. Quince are coming along. The pawpaws have made fast progress since the blossoms last month!

We have just a few grape vines on the side of the house, but they produce a ridiculous amount of fruit. Problem is keeping the critters out long enough to let them fully ripen and harvest.

Saw a little turtle on the walking trail. Had a weird worm looking thing on the back of his shell...maybe a leech? Ewww.

Any suggestions on keeping critters out of the grapes?

Know what's on the back of that turtle?

Oh! I saw a mass of bright yellow mushrooms growing along a local path. Wife said they're "Golden Oyster", edible and invasive. I brought a backpack and hopped the fence on my next walk (chain-link fence to keep people away from the train tracks), and they were JUST out of reach. And, I pulled something trying to reach for them lol.

Take care of yourself. Are you really moving?

History - Some Special Trees

Halnaker tree tunnel in Sussex is a hollow way, or just Holloway

Created by 2,000 years of traffic on the original Roman Road from London to Chichester

Stane Street is the modern name of the road from Londinium (London) to Noviomagus Reginorum (Chichester) pic.twitter.com/F4SrJvQWST

— The English Oak Project (@TheKentAcorn) June 19, 2026

Gardens of The Horde

Hello KT!

I have been meaning to send pictures of my patio efforts for some time now! Things are growing and blooming and the bees seem to be very happy. My sunflowers are getting tall and the flowers are starting to bud-soon

Bee balm is blooming:

The Spiderwort has really done well. I chose a sunny/shady spot:

Thanks as always for providing such a lovely spot on the internet!

Mrs. Leggy

I can see why the bees would be happy and will be happier when your sunflowers bloom.

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, June 13

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.