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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on November 13, 2024, 9:33 pm Anybody familiar with the Sarvis or Serviceberry Tree. There is one type called the Saskatoon Blueberry, Amalanchier alnifolia, that is loved for its edible, blueberry-like fruits, in summer. Named for a cold Canadian province, these plants are very hardy. Anybody know they have great fall color. Here is a Saskatoon blueberry, in my garden, now: https://photos.app.goo.gl/CjoBTxGLdgEmeQAN9 The berries have ripened on the POET'S LAUREL, Danae racemosa. This plant is a broad-leaved evergreen, that is related to the vegetable Asparagus. In spring, these plants produce new stems that resemble thin asparagus spears, when they grow from the root area... https://photos.app.goo.gl/HaJpK56EJH4khBCk6 Here is a pic of 'Listy'. She is a Cape Primrose plant, and is in bloom now: https://photos.app.goo.gl/dQtjYMbsnPvq7skv8 - NEW PLANT - Anyone ever hear about the Starfruit, Averrhoa carambola? It is a tropical fruit, and grows in subtropical and subtropical areas. Here is a baby plant that I got. They have been known to grow and fruit, in a container. Although this one didn't come from Logee's, they sell a few Starfruit varieties that are container-friendly, for those of us, who don't live in the Tropics... https://photos.app.goo.gl/oviqiZd3ssueaN2B7

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Gred Sav on November 14, 2024, 6:39 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Alvin, the Poet’s Laurel red of the berries is beautiful! The Cape Primtose is beautiful in bloom, i’m very familiar with serviceberry tree. Growing up, we called them ‘sarvice’. I can hear my dad taking us out and a place I believe it or not called Booger Mountain then we would spread the sheet on the ground and head shake the service tree and then come down and eat them and I think my mother made jelly out of if I remember, right. Growing up, we call ghost and scary things like that boogers against the name, booger mountain. Hence,’. You kids better be good or the boogers gonna get you, lol. We’re getting much-needed rain here this morning and it’s cool just 45 this morning. I just went on the back porch and saw my big bright orange can of blooms and blooming and lots of things for 30 days or numbered..

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on November 14, 2024, 8:05 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Fred. The Poet's Laurel has proven itself to be z6 hardy. When I bought the plant from PDN, years ago, it was rated, like many of their plants, at the time, were listed as hardy only z7b and up. Rather than risk my plant to "z6 elements", believing the plant to be hardy in just z7b and up, the plant got protection, for most of the years, since planting. However, a few years ago, I saw a few naturalized plants pop up, from dropped berries. They were not protected, at all, and have survived actual z6 minimums. So, I think the plant is hardy, when it starts to naturalize, and the volunteers live, healthily, unprotected. A good thing, too, is that it doesn't reproduce enough to be considered invasive. I remembered you mentioning Sarvisberry trees. I wondered if anyone else had. Nice orange fall color, I think. Indigenous People use service berries, as a staple fruit. Booger Mountain legend is funny, lol. The Cape Primrose came from Logees, last year. it blooms for a lage part of the year.

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