My Garden
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- ali
A thread to share your garden pics and/or stories.
Plants, flowers, insects, sculpture, water features, ganja crop or anything else interesting in your garden.
I'll start with this beauty, the night-flowering Red Pitaya 'Dragonfruit'. Bloomed the other night and was lucky to capture it as it was gone by morning.
- ali0
- ali0
The petals are delicate, feathery and transparent like silk and as soon as the sun rises they wilt. It has a very strong and unique fragrance which drives the ants wild as they come from everywhere to climb on the cactus.
- ali0
Soon it will turn into this:
- witchcraft********
- yum!!sea_sea
- Yes they are YUM it will be ready in a few weeksali
- I've had this before the color inside is so intense, it was fluorescent pink right?HijoDMaite
- witchcraft
- stoplying0
My garden is in development phases now. After a long winter and a lot of snow I don't want to start too early. But we're planning on starting with tomatoes, watermelon and garlic. And starting a compost pile. Oh and I inherited a fish pond...which is pretty nice. I'll post pics once they're ready for primetime.
- danthon0
Current orchid bloom
- ali0
Found hundreds of these...
- ...where??e-pill
- eeewww! those always gross me out :(sea_sea
- In a pile of wood chips in the front yardali
- They turn into Rhino beetlesali
- bear grylls popcornscarabin
- i ate some in S.Korea. all the kids love 'em. kinda startchy like a raw potato.Douglas
- roasted? or rawscarabin
- and do you clean them out like shrimp or whatscarabin
- roasted with salt. like you said, as popcorn.Douglas
- locustsloth0
planted eggplant, pepperocinis and oregano and have them under lights. Tomatoes are probably next.
Very excited to have the grow shevles up and running again- so you have a green house? i've been thinking about setting something up indoors too.sea_sea
- sea_sea0
i have a few veggie plants to put in the ground too :) LOVE my garden, nothing beats being outside, playing with my dogs and cats relaxes me and seriously re energizes. but there is one truth in my playground... only the strong survive! lol
- ali0
This talk really inspired me to have a garden indoors as well...
http://www.ted.com/talks/kamal_m…
- utopian0
e-pill, how is your poppy garden coming along?
- locustsloth0
No, not a greenhouse (though we'd love to have one), just a couple of semi-homemade shelves with fluorescent lights attached. Worked pretty well last year. The tomato plants we started indoors ended up growing taller than i am. Unfortunately, they caught the blight that was going around my area (Northeastern US) and most of the fruit was ruined. Heartbreaking. Hoping this year has a happier ending
- Just your standard fluorescent light? I have one in my garage, I can try it...stoplying
- sandbag0
Artichokes in my garden, taken Mar 3, 2010.
- scarabin0
those are gorgeous, ali. i've always had a thing for cactus flowers
- ali1
Yeah they're stunning and have an amazing perfume, unfortunately only one flower this year, so only one fruit.
Next year I plan to go to a dragonfruit orchard up north that run a tour on the night the orchard blooms and light up the trees.
- wordssssss16
I am wanting to start a cut flower business in a couple years, so figured I should try my hand at growing flowers this year.
My son and I focused on three types of flowers (zinnias, bachelor's buttons and Cosmos) all grown from seed. Planted some too closely and forgot to water enough during a heavy heat wave but has been fun and look forward to growing more types and varieties next year.
It has been a lot of fun to do together and then give bouquets to people.
