Asparagus and frog eggs. Spring is here!
It's Earth Day today so if I'm not too tired I might go out and do my annual garbage cleanup around the property. It's amazing what blows in over the winter.
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This year my white mulberry produced fruits for the first time, only for them to freeze a couple of nights ago. Everything in bloom/that had newly formed fruits froze at the orchard, but these mulberries are what I'm most disappointed about.
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My friend sent me this from Pinterest but I just know one of you freaks made it
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my flowers peeking thru my lace curtains ♡
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So, this is cool:
We need to convince more municipalities to plant more trees. I would suggest looking into trees that are more heat and drought tolerant (oaks, not western red cedar, for an example) & also those that grow more quickly. Planting on the west and south (or north, if you're in the Southern hemisphere) of a building matters the most for heat reduction.
If you want to get into it, I'd suggest finding your Köppen climate classification, and then finding either native trees that can thrive in a hotter-but-otherwise-similar climate than yours, or trees from such a climate. For example, I'm in a warm-summer Mediterranean climate so I'm looking at plants from Hot-summer Mediterranean climates that are hardy enough to still survive our winters (oaks, I'm looking at oaks. Fortunately, one species extends from here to down there, so that's easy).
I wouldn't usually advocate for non-native plants, but I'm seeing the climate change quickly enough that I think maybe humans should help with the pole-wards migration of plants.
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One of my favorite things about gardening is other gardeners. There's just such an urge to share plants, seeds and cuttings. Such a freeness with sharing information and ASKING for information. I can't wait for my front yard to stop looking like crap so I have little old ladies stopping by to ask me what kind of plant such-and-such is and does it attract many butterflies? And would I like some spare hostas? Are those blueberries there? What kind are those? Good for jam?
MN is not known for it's front porch culture but if you sit there and have a garden you will attract gardeners eventually, no matter how chaotic your garden is. I miss that from the old house, but I'll get there eventually.
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How to become self sufficient on a ¼ acre!
(OP was a white nationalist, so take this one instead)
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Daffodils
White daffodils with colored cups, my beloved. We have
yellow, butter-yellow, pink, peach, orange, and 'it's complicated'.
The daff on the left is what I consider an attractive double flower. The one on the right . . hmm. Congrats, little buddy, . .
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