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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on May 4, 2025, 1:03 am The spring progression of bloom continues... Here is a pick of a wild species of tulip: https://photos.app.goo.gl/VqzXBk6G9hjXd2rZ9 Here are a couple EMPEROR/Fosteriana tulips: https://photos.app.goo.gl/uBjRAYUQo85K4HWS8 https://photos.app.goo.gl/tSSAXs99oyiCJH5R6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/CN8V9Q71fYdY2rwK8 Another spring woodland ephemeral is in bloom, in my garden. This one is a double-flowered BLOODROOT, Sanguinaria canadensis 'Multiplex'.... https://photos.app.goo.gl/DK1WuVhZ5ZBCM9ng7 Spring foliage has appeared on the FALL BLOOMING COLCHICUM (a type of fall Crocus), which will disappear in early summer... https://photos.app.goo.gl/WaJzF6KTm5xUEEG38 MORE FRUIT TREES ARE BLOOMING... Here is a dwarf PLUM, Prunus salicina 'Shiro', I planted, last fall: https://photos.app.goo.gl/hbGKpcSF64YnzHcz5 Here is another dwarf PLUM, also planted last fall. This variety is 'All Red: https://photos.app.goo.gl/yVDCDq7cxM5gyP8r9 A PEACH, Prunus persica 'Contender', planted last summer, is blooming': https://photos.app.goo.gl/CDiaFuUVAeV83WxB6 A NECTARINE, Prunus persica var. nectarina, 'Mericrest', is blooming. It is a close relative of peaches, but its blooms are slightly larger... https://photos.app.goo.gl/aRNHS6aWBKAHqrW27 _ NEW PLANTS - Here are a few plants I got from Secret Garden Growers. Pictured are a variegated ENGLISH LAUREL, Prunus laurocerasus 'Marbled Cream', a DARWIN BARBERRY, Berberis darwinii, and an AMARYLLIS 'Voodoo... https://photos.app.goo.gl/DVxJ59gCacQCv57H8 These are some plants I got from Far Reaches Farm Nursery. Pictured here are: Crinodendron tucumanum, a Puya sp. - Ecuador, a Soldanella cyanaster, a Cassinia x ozothamnus, and an Arum creticum https://photos.app.goo.gl/BjLXzoKW7QfsrD6T9

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Fred SC on May 4, 2025, 7:08 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Alvin, I love blood root. Your picture reminds me of when I was a kid in the woods in the spring lots of blood in the spring in the woods and Southeast Kentucky. The little wild species of tulip is very interesting and quite nice. Your colorful tulips are nice.. unfortunately tulip season here is long gone. Are most of your fruit trees with grown in large pots or are they in the ground? I couldn’t tell. I like. Puya . I had one when I lived down the coast. I grew outside under a big live oak. I don’t know what species it was, but I can’t go outside here. What color will the flower new amaryllis voodoo ?

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on May 4, 2025, 1:13 pm, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Thanks, Fred. Tulip season, here, runs from early April through, approximately, the third week, in May. Due the early spring, last year, Tulip seaon began earlier, and was over sooner. In fact, when the annual Tulip Festival, in Holland, Michigan, occurred, visitors were disappointed, that the season was just about over. Not so, this year, though. The Tulip Festival, like the Kentucky Derby, is scheduled for the first weekend, in May. This year's festival, which is happening, this weekend, is not a disappointment. Puya is a bromeliad. I have several broms...a Dyckia, and a few types of Queens Tears, in addition to this new Puya. All my temperate fruit trees, with the exception of my newly acquired Japanese persimmon (which will be going into the ground), and a dwarf Mulbery, are in the ground. I do place objects (chicken wire, bricks, concrete blocks, or heavy soil filled pots) near the base of recently planted trees, to keep digging critters, for uprooting, them, or make it more difficult for them to get to the trunks, to bite into or chew. I was surprised that the Shiro Plum flowered, after being planted, last fall, as potted Stark Bros. EZ potted, non branched whip. The All Red Plum came from a local Meijer, last summer, and went into the ground, last fall, but it's dormant flower buds were visible, after its leaves fell off.This spring, Meijer aren't selling fruit trees. I hate when merchants change like, that, from one year to the next. Last year, I mentioned not being able to find no collard greens starts, anywhere, locally. So, "like the devil", this year, after I grew my own starts, I see them being offered, locally, albeit exorbantly priced. The single-flowered Bloodroot, is more common, than the double Multiplex form, which is not as readily available.

Alvin it is late in poke season Posted by Fred SC on May 4, 2025, 5:18 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Alvin , yesterday I gathered a lot of poke. I washed, cut up and put in plastic bag in fridge. I plan on making poke salet on Tuesday. I I boil it through three waters , then I put it in a frying pan and mixing a couple of eggs and a piece of ham meat and cook it a while . Next put it on a plate and eat it maybe with a piece of cornbread , if I can get Dorothy to make it tomorrow, she made some today . Anyway, it’s delicious! You don’t know what you’re missing . Does poke plant grow there , if so, you should try sometime. Yes, it’s a poisonous plant, but not when boiled through three different water you can eat stem and leaves if the stems are tender and not real big . you can boil the stems for about 10 minutes , roll and dip in buttermilk ,roll in corn meal and fry . Anyway, just a thought, lol.

Re: Alvin it is late in poke season Posted by Alvin, z6 on May 4, 2025, 5:46 pm, in reply to "Alvin it is late in poke season" Now that you mention POKE, and that it is "late" in its season, Fred, I haven't checked to see if my plants have even come up yet, from the ground. They are perennial. I guess for "northern connoisseurs", the season comes later, than where you are. I'll check, when I'm out in the yard again,

Also, regarding Amaryllis 'Voodoo'.. Posted by Alvin, z6 on May 4, 2025, 5:48 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Its blooms are red, and striped with white. They look very much like the St. Joseph's variety.

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