#smooth witherod

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Smoothie Ideas

I’ll just be like, who wants to hear all my smoothie ideas? and not wait for an answer. If I had access to all of these and a good amount of space to work with as well as room in a freezer, and a good blender/food processor, this is what I would do. All plant parts in equal amounts. Plus plain yogurt and silky tofu for texture. And maple syrup, honey, and cane sugar for added sweetness.

Black smoothie

honey: fall

acai

aubergine

black apple

black fig

black goji

black huckleberry

black jellyroll mushroom

black jujube

black nightshade berries: eastern glossy sunberry

black pansy

black sapote

black trumpet mushroom

blackberry jam fruit

blackcurrants: American golden European northern

blueberries: bilberry bog common deerberry highbush hillside lowbush

Canadian gooseberry

carob

cherries: Bing black choke pin

chia seed

chocolate

chokeberry

coffee bean

common buckthorn

common elderberry

crowberry

grapes: black concord riverbank witchfinger

hackberry

haskap

Hungarian hawthorn

jaboticaba

jamun

jostaberry

mulberries: black red white

nonifruit

pechiche

plums: black damson sloe

poppyseed

raspberries and blackberries: Allegheny blackberry black raspberry Canadian blackberry common dewberry glandstem blackberry leafy-bracted blackberry marionberry Pennsylvania blackberry setose blackberry swamp dewberry youngberry

serviceberries: Canadian Bartram juneberry downy inland serviceberry low shadbush berry pigeon berry roundleaf serviceberry saskatoon smooth serviceberry

viburnum berries: mapleleaf nannyberry smooth arrowwood witherod

Virginia creeper berry

#smoothie #colour smoothies

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My first plant order of the year arrived today and I have planted them and it’s made me very happy. I can’t go to my old city and hug my grandparents or my friends, but I have my garden at least.

Those plus the plants that have survived the winter are:

Agastache foeniculum Anise hyssop (survived first winter)

Allium cernuum Nodding onion (survived second winter)

Allium schoenoprasum Chives (survived first winter)

Allium ursinum Wild garlic (survived second winter)

Anaphalis margaritacea Pearly everlasting (survived second winter)

Amelanchier canadensis Canadian serviceberry (survived first winter)

Aquilegia brevistyla Smallflower columbine (survived first winter)

Aquilegia canadensis Eastern red columbine (survived second winter)

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi Kinnikinnick (survived second winter)

Aronia melanocarpa Black chokeberry (new)

Asarum canadense Canada ginger (survived first winter)

Asclepias incarnata Swamp milkweed (survived first winter)

Campanula rotundifolia Harebell (survived second winter)

Cercis canadensis Eastern redbud (survived first winter)

Cornus florida Flowering dogwood (new)

Echinacea purpurea Purple coneflower (survived second winter)

Erythronium americanum Trout lily (survived first winter)

Gaultheria procumbens American wintergreen (survived first winter)

Geranium maculatum Wild geranium (survived first winter)

Geum triflorum Prairie smoke (survived second winter)

Helianthus nuttallii Nuttall’s sunflower (survived first winter)

Helianthus pauciflorus Stiff sunflower (survived first winter)

Hierochloe odorata Vanilla grass (survived second winter)

Lilium michiganense Michigan lily (survived first winter)

Lindera benzoin Spicebush (survived second winter)

Lonicera villosa Mountain fly honeysuckle x2 (survived second winter)

Mentha arvensis Wild mint (survived first winter)

Mertensia paniculata Tall bluebells (survived first winter)

Monarda didyma Scarlet bee-balm (survived first winter)

Monarda fistulosa Wild bergamot (survived second winter)

Myrica gale Sweet gale (survived second winter)

Oenothera biennis Evening primrose (survived first winter)

Prunus americana American plum (survived first winter)

Prunus nigra Canada plum (new)

Prunus serotina Black cherry (survived first winter)

Pycnanthemum virginianum Virginia mountain mint (survived second winter in spite of my neighbour’s attempt to smother it in cigarettes; seriously who the fuck decides a garden bed is an ashtray?)

Rhus aromatica Fragrant sumac (survived second winter)

Rosa blanda Smooth rose (survived first winter)

Rubus strigosus American red raspberry (survived first winter)

Sambucus canadensis Common elderberry (survived second winter)

Silene acaulis Moss Campion (survived first winter)

Spiraea alba White meadowsweet (survived second winter)

Urtica dioica Stinging nettle (survived first winter)

Vaccinium angustifolium Lowbush blueberry (survived second winter)

Vaccinium corymbosum Northern highbush blueberry (survived second winter)

Viburnum lentago Nannyberry (survived first winter)

Viburnum nudum Witherod viburnum (survived first winter)

Viola blanda Sweet white violet (survived first winter)

Viola canadensis Canada violet (survived first winter)

Zizia aurea Golden alexanders (survived first winter)

Waiting to see if the black nightshade reseeded itself, and it’s still too early for the pawpaws to make any new growth. And I have many new plants on the way.

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Went outside to check which of my plants is emerging after their winter sleep/whether they made it.

So far the plants that have made it for sure are:

Allium cernuum (Nodding onion)

Allium schoenoprasum (Chives)

Anaphalis margaritacea (Pearly everlasting)

Amelanchier canadensis (Canadian serviceberry)

Aquilegia brevistyla (Smallflower columbine)

Aquilegia canadensis (Eastern red columbine)

Arctostaphylos uva-ursi (Common bearberry/Kinnikinnick)

Asarum canadense (Canada ginger)

Campanula rotundifolia (Harebell)

Echinacea purpurea (Purple coneflower)

Gaultheria procumbens (Eastern teaberry/American wintergreen)

Geum triflorum (Prairie smoke)

Hierochloe odorata (Vanilla grass/Sweetgrass)

Lindera benzoin (Spicebush)

Lonicera villosa (Mountain fly honeysuckle) both!

Monarda didyma (Scarlet bee-balm)

Monarda fistulosa (Wild bergamot)

Oenothera biennis (Evening primrose)

Prunus americana (American plum)

Prunus serotina (Black cherry)

Rhus aromatica (Fragrant sumac)

Rosa blanda (Smooth rose)

Rubus strigosus (American red raspberry)

Sambucus canadensis (Common elderberry/American black elderberry)

Silene acaulis (Moss campion)

Spiraea alba (White meadowsweet)

Urtica dioica (Stinging nettle)

Vaccinium angustifolium (Lowbush blueberry/Wild blueberry)

Vaccinium corymbosum (Northern highbush blueberry/Swamp blueberry)

Viola canadensis (Canada violet)

The plants that have probably/seem to have made it but I can’t quite tell yet (it’s still March after all):

Agastache foeniculum (Anise hyssop/Giant hyssop)

Allium ursinum (Wild garlic)

Asimina triloba (Pawpaw) I might not know until June for these...

Cercis canadensis (Redbud)

Helianthus nuttalli (Nuttall’s sunflower)

Helianthus pauciflorus (Stiff sunflower)

Myrica gale (Sweet gale)

Opuntia fragilis (Fragile prickly pear)

Viburnum cassinoides (Witherod viburnum)

Viburnum lentago (Nannyberry)

Viola blanda (Sweet white violet)

Zizia aurea (Golden alexanders)

The ones I have no idea about yet (again, it’s early):

Asclepias incarnata (Swamp milkweed)

Asclepias tuberosa (Butterflyweed)

Cerastium arvense (Field chickweed)

Erythronium americanum (Trout lily) I’ll know soon

Galium boreale (Northern bedstraw)

Geranium maculatum (Wild geranium)

Lilium michiganense (Michigan lily)

Mentha arvensis (Wild mint)

Mertensia paniculata (Tall bluebells)

Pycnanthemum tenuifolium (Slender mountain mint)

Symphyotrichum ciliolatum (Fringed blue aster)

Symphyotrichum lanceolatum (Panicled aster)

And the ones I think didn’t make it (hope I’m wrong) are:

Cornus canadensis (Bunchberry/Creeping dogwood) was doing fine but a squirrel dug it up a bad time...

Hibiscus moscheutos (Swamp rose mallow) was doing fine but people KEPT STEPPING ON IT THERE’S LITERALLY A SIDEWALK RIGHT BESIDE IT!!!

Pycnanthemum virginianum (Virginia mountain mint) WHO DECIDED THAT RAISED WINDOW BED SHOULD BE WHERE THE CIGARETTE BUTTS GO???

Solanum ptycanthum (Eastern black nightshade) They’re technically annuals/biennials, but hopefully it reseeded itself with the berries I didn’t eat.

So I can’t go to my old city to see my grandparents and friends. I can’t go to Quebec to see my sister, mom, nieces, and nephew. I can’t go to the parks because people have been gathering there so now there’s a fine. But I can still go to the ravine (I would LOVE to see people try to gather there; if the mud doesn’t get them, the thorns and pricklies will) and I still have my garden.