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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #360 on: June 29, 2019, 03:19:23 PM »
More wildflowers from my woods

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I love your wildflowers.
I am growing these flowers in my garden...in containers. They return each year. I have forgotten their name. :(
They look similar to the flowers you posted.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #361 on: June 30, 2019, 08:03:49 AM »
As noted I am an urban gardener. Don't judge my style of growing plants. At one time, in the past... I wished for a large open space for gardening.
I am growing hops in a long homemade wooden container. I drop "hop twine" from my second floor awnings. The hop flowers are starting to bloom. I DID NOT eat my hop plants's spouts. I have feral cats that visit my yard.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #362 on: July 01, 2019, 04:51:23 PM »
Great pictures, @FISH.  Thank you!

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #363 on: July 02, 2019, 02:34:31 PM »
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Some night blooming cereus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night-blooming_cereus

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #364 on: July 02, 2019, 03:50:22 PM »
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Some night blooming cereus.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night-blooming_cereus
All that work for Mother Nature for one night of fun.

Night-blooming cereus. The flowers are short lived, and some of these species, such as Selenicereus grandiflorus, bloom only once a year, for a single night.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #365 on: July 02, 2019, 04:05:20 PM »
I never really knew the history of who and why the poem In Flanders Field was written. Every year, I would made a donation to American Legion Auxiliary Poppy Program. I would display my artificial poppy until I destroy it. This year, the Legion sent me poppy seeds. To my surprise I am growing red poppies in containers.  My poppy flowers only blooms for a day or two. The petals falls off after 48 hours. The poppy plant has a long history. I am now watching you tube videos on growing the poppy plant.

After seeing the poppy petals fall off after two days of beauty, I understand the words to the poem.

We are the Dead.
Short days ago We lived,
felt dawn, saw sunset glow,
Loved and were loved,
and now we lie In Flanders fields.


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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #366 on: July 06, 2019, 07:11:21 PM »
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A recent visitor to EllGab Garden West.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #367 on: July 09, 2019, 01:46:47 AM »
From the Library of Congress.  The Richmond Palladium and Sun-Telegram., July 09, 1919.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #368 on: July 16, 2019, 06:26:34 PM »
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Some Pecos melons from Texas.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #369 on: July 22, 2019, 05:53:19 PM »
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High above EllGab Garden West...a baby bird cloud, fresh out of the eggshell.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #370 on: July 25, 2019, 01:17:50 PM »
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I should have posted this card a month or so ago, when the apple trees were actually blossoming.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #371 on: July 31, 2019, 01:47:50 AM »
From the Library of Congress.  The Evening star.  July 31, 1919.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #372 on: July 31, 2019, 10:55:46 AM »
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An Eastern Tent Caterpillar wants to live in my Ell Garden East. I found a tent in one of my hop plants that is growing on the hop twine. It was so hideous that I could not take a photo. I was too annoyed. The tent is gone and now I am on tent watch.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #373 on: July 31, 2019, 10:59:37 AM »
I waited until my poppy flowers wither and the plants formed seed pods. I cut off the seed pod heads and collected the seeds. I stored the seeds in an envelope. I put the envelope in the freezer (fake winter). I will plant theses seeds in 2020. Time will tell.

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Re: The EllGab Garden
« Reply #374 on: August 01, 2019, 11:39:01 PM »
Some Thai basil. I haven’t been cooking much so it is starting to go to seed. I was surprised this survived two brackish water floods. The dill and rosemary didn’t.

Next week I will be eating Thai basil in situ.

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