@Kyeh It was R. Starkey, on a boat trip in Sardinia, who learned about the octopuses and their gardens from the Captain of Peter Seller’s boat. He wrote the song and was the lead singer. The other Beatles said the song was “just so Ringo”.
My ideal garden would have fragrant plants blooming throughout the growing season. Currently I have daphne that blooms early, irises and a couple of rose vines, peonies, and lilacs; later I’ll have honeysuckle (so heavenly!)
I discovered that a plant that grows itself in my yard, Dame’s Rocket, is classified by the state as an invasive weed, but it smells wonderful. I picked some and brought it inside; interestingly it releases its scent at night!
@Kyeh
I have something that my boyfriend brought home and it’s starting to take over my front garden. I don’t know what it is, I just paid an app to ask a plant expert to identify. It’s a pretty flower but it’s just starting to take over other stuff that I’ve planted and I’m not happy about that. I’ll be interested to find out what they say.
Nature! I spent most of my first quarter-century living in temperate climes, where it was easy to grow almost anything you desired. Now I live at an altitude where the winters are cold and the summers dry, and wildlife wanders through the yard sampling anything that looks appealing to them. My garden now consists of whatever native plants can survive both the elements and the wild things. It’s less work for me and all manner of critters seem to appreciate our oasis with reliably maintained water dishes and, unlike our neighbors’ yards, no dogs to harass them.
But currently mine is starting to produce tomatoes, eggplant, yellow squash, zucchini, jalapenos, green peppers and okra.
The roses, dahlias, lillies, loropetalum, hellebore, and gardenias are in bloom as well
@Star2236
We have both white and yellow jasmine in two different spots around the house. The yellow is a played out, but the white is flowering and smells awesome right now. The gardenias are about halfway through their process and the front bushes are covered. It makes sitting on the front porch a pleasure. The back ones by the pool house are covered in buds, and will be ready in a couple of weeks.
@chienfou
I can just imagine how awesome your house must smell. One of my favorite for MI is lilacs, grew up with them all over my dads neighborhood. Trying to kill another thing my boyfriend brought home before I can plant a lilac tree or bush out back in the swamp area. I really like tuberoses too, I just forget to order them ever year. I’m gonna look right now.
I had to scale back for health reasons this year, but I’m still growing three kinds of tomatoes, four kinds of peppers, and lots of basil and oregano. My wife informs me that I’m “a real Wop.”
She’s not wrong. This is what we Italians do in our dotage.
Where I grew up in dairy farm country,vegetables were grown in a garden,and flowers in a bed.I guess it’s a regional thing and a distinction without a difference.My answer to today’s query is good sensemilla. Oh,shit…that flowers too Time to get out that damn shovel
I just sent this photo into a plant expert for them to identify. It’s starting to take over garden where is at. For the few years I’ve had it it’s grown 3-4x it’s size and is taking out my other flowers that I like.
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@Kyeh
The flowers look like that of a butterfly bush, long cone shape, puffy, purple and I think they change to orange in the fall. But the leaves are different than a butterfly bush.
@rockblossom
I think that might be it but it looks more like this. It says it turns a rich Carmel color in the fall and spreads fast. The flowers are very big and poofy. I would have never guessed astilbe bc we had them in the back before they died of a hard winter and the different flower heads.
@chienfou@ThunderChicken
How about pink?
This is what happens in my back yard if I don’t mow. It’s pretty but after it stops blooming it’s a pain. VERY invasive stuff.
The bees love it, though - so I feel like I’m supporting the pollinators.
@chienfou@ThunderChicken@tinamarie1974 I’ve only allowed it to get that crazy once, when it was a very rainy spring and never seemed like a good time to mow!
Soil. I’m no gardener but I’m pretty sure that’s the key to growing the other stuff.
@awk I came here to say dirt. This will do.
@awk Hydroponics!
Weeds and bugs. That’s what’s in my garden.
@heartny same. In my experience, this is all you get even when trying for something else.
Octopus?
@shahnm Interestingly, I just saw this:
Maybe the Beatles learned this and were inspired.
@Kyeh It was R. Starkey, on a boat trip in Sardinia, who learned about the octopuses and their gardens from the Captain of Peter Seller’s boat. He wrote the song and was the lead singer. The other Beatles said the song was “just so Ringo”.
@rockblossom
Oh! That’s marvelous.
My ideal garden would have fragrant plants blooming throughout the growing season. Currently I have daphne that blooms early, irises and a couple of rose vines, peonies, and lilacs; later I’ll have honeysuckle (so heavenly!)
I discovered that a plant that grows itself in my yard, Dame’s Rocket, is classified by the state as an invasive weed, but it smells wonderful. I picked some and brought it inside; interestingly it releases its scent at night!
@Kyeh I looked it up. Those are pretty! And so many different colors! Some of the prettiest flowers are classified as ‘weeds’.
@Tadlem43 Yeah, I guess they’re concerned that they take over and push out native species, which I understand, but they’re so attractive and fragrant!
@Kyeh @Tadlem43 just googled, so pretty
@Kyeh
I have something that my boyfriend brought home and it’s starting to take over my front garden. I don’t know what it is, I just paid an app to ask a plant expert to identify. It’s a pretty flower but it’s just starting to take over other stuff that I’ve planted and I’m not happy about that. I’ll be interested to find out what they say.
Oh, I also have a mock orange bush that’s divine when it blooms, probably next month.
Perennials. If i never plant anything again I’ll be fiiiine.
Nature! I spent most of my first quarter-century living in temperate climes, where it was easy to grow almost anything you desired. Now I live at an altitude where the winters are cold and the summers dry, and wildlife wanders through the yard sampling anything that looks appealing to them. My garden now consists of whatever native plants can survive both the elements and the wild things. It’s less work for me and all manner of critters seem to appreciate our oasis with reliably maintained water dishes and, unlike our neighbors’ yards, no dogs to harass them.
'cept mine has silver foil wrappers and peanut shells and the maids all gave up and aren’t anywhere to be found.
Tranquility.
Flowers and flowering bushes in the beds, herbs and vegetables in the raised beds, a dedicated butterfly garden in a back.
Bodies…
@chienfou I do hope that “Mobile” is the name of the place rather than a description.
But currently mine is starting to produce tomatoes, eggplant, yellow squash, zucchini, jalapenos, green peppers and okra.
The roses, dahlias, lillies, loropetalum, hellebore, and gardenias are in bloom as well
Oh… And cucumbers… and water lillies and jasmine
@chienfou
So jealous. I love the smell of gardenia and jasmine, it’s just to cold in Michigan to grow it.
@Star2236
We have both white and yellow jasmine in two different spots around the house. The yellow is a played out, but the white is flowering and smells awesome right now. The gardenias are about halfway through their process and the front bushes are covered. It makes sitting on the front porch a pleasure. The back ones by the pool house are covered in buds, and will be ready in a couple of weeks.
VAN GOGH! MANGO! TANGO! AWESOME!
@chienfou
I can just imagine how awesome your house must smell. One of my favorite for MI is lilacs, grew up with them all over my dads neighborhood. Trying to kill another thing my boyfriend brought home before I can plant a lilac tree or bush out back in the swamp area. I really like tuberoses too, I just forget to order them ever year. I’m gonna look right now.
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME!
@chienfou @Star2236
Sounds heavenly!
Stuff + Gnomes
@tinamarie1974
Do you have gnomes?
@Kyeh DO I HAVE GNOMES?!?!?! I do, many of them actually. But I am particular, I like the cute ones. No silly ones
@tinamarie1974 Nice!
Cacti!
Fruit trees.
I had to scale back for health reasons this year, but I’m still growing three kinds of tomatoes, four kinds of peppers, and lots of basil and oregano. My wife informs me that I’m “a real Wop.”
She’s not wrong. This is what we Italians do in our dotage.
@dannybeans
Consider that a badge of honor!
@chienfou
I absolutely do.
Bodies of your enemies.
…
What?
@PocketBrain Oh, so that’s what happened to them. Thanks, I guess.
Vegetables need flowers, so both!
Crap, dung, manure, turds, AKA natural fertilizer.
Something that looks intentional. Mine is whatever opportunistic thing shows up this year.
/giphy garden of weeds
Grow some weeds…
@JvB
Billy Joel fans.
racoon, squirrel, possum, duck, blue jay, dove, cardinal and various bird poop
Where I grew up in dairy farm country,vegetables were grown in a garden,and flowers in a bed.I guess it’s a regional thing and a distinction without a difference.My answer to today’s query is good sensemilla. Oh,shit…that flowers too
Time to get out that damn shovel
Astroturf?
Actually anything someone else is willing to take care of. I hate to garden. I do like looking at nice gardens and eating produce out of gardens.
Flowers and flowering bushes in the beds, herbs and vegetables in the raised beds, a dedicated butterfly garden in a back.
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I just sent this photo into a plant expert for them to identify. It’s starting to take over garden where is at. For the few years I’ve had it it’s grown 3-4x it’s size and is taking out my other flowers that I like.
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@Star2236
It hasn’t flowered yet.
@Star2236 What do the flowers look like? The plant is pretty - too bad it’s so aggressive.
@Kyeh
The flowers look like that of a butterfly bush, long cone shape, puffy, purple and I think they change to orange in the fall. But the leaves are different than a butterfly bush.
@Star2236
I wonder if it’s this- Spirea?
https://www.lowes.com/pd/Van-Zyverden/5013272987
@Star2236
This says spirea is invasive:
https://www.invasiveplantatlas.org/subject.html?sub=3076
@Star2236 It looks like astilbe chinensis - which can spread fast but is not considered invasive. Does it look like this when it flowers?
@rockblossom
@rockblossom
I think that might be it but it looks more like this. It says it turns a rich Carmel color in the fall and spreads fast. The flowers are very big and poofy. I would have never guessed astilbe bc we had them in the back before they died of a hard winter and the different flower heads.
Weeds
@ThunderChicken
That would be my yard. I’m not one to stress over the grass. If it’s green it’s “lawn”…
@chienfou @ThunderChicken
How about pink?
This is what happens in my back yard if I don’t mow. It’s pretty but after it stops blooming it’s a pain. VERY invasive stuff.
The bees love it, though - so I feel like I’m supporting the pollinators.
@chienfou @Kyeh @ThunderChicken that is really pretty but looks like A LOT to deal with
@chienfou @ThunderChicken @tinamarie1974 I’ve only allowed it to get that crazy once, when it was a very rainy spring and never seemed like a good time to mow!