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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on May 14, 2025, 10:35 pm Recently, I posted a pic of a new Japanese persimmon tree. I got from Home Depot mail order. The tree had a few developing flower buds on it. In the pic below, one of the buds have opened. I'll see if it gets fertilized, and a fruit develops from it... https://photos.app.goo.gl/c7sSvdvuwbM3AcJ28 AHHH...My favorite flowering shrub is blooming! It is the KOREAN SPICE VIBURNUM, Viburnum carlesii. If you have never inhaled the fragrance of this shrub, you are missing a treat. The fragrance wafts across the yard, too,,, https://photos.app.goo.gl/529z99gp5Jx5KrmAA https://photos.app.goo.gl/D98xNbj4Rh4zhNVx8 The BISHOP'S HAT or BARRENWORT, Epimedium sempervirens, is blooming! https://photos.app.goo.gl/g7GRYEwPDQqwkTku9 The GRAPE HYACINTHS, Muscari armeniacum, are blooming! https://photos.app.goo.gl/fvehy7QRH6NX66ad8 A DOUBLE Tulip... https://photos.app.goo.gl/SDFptPb3LWLnEGxB7 FRINGED Tulips... https://photos.app.goo.gl/PN2ire8G7Et8QjsRA The Perennial CANDYTUFT, Iberis sempervirens, is blooming! This plant is an EVERGREEN herbaceous perennial: https://photos.app.goo.gl/uv6ANQ2Um6EHPEp58 The Wisley Nana AUCUBA, is blooming! Who didn't know that Aucubas flower? Since Wisley Nana is a female, her blooms are pistillate: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KrQza5sxBAfPjhnK9 New leaves have formed on this little 'Chicago Hardy'. Anybody knows what fruiting plant this cultivar is? https://photos.app.goo.gl/4ZoUPBW6FwW5bFLA6 The DOGTOOTH VIOLET, Erythronia dens-canis 'Pagoda', is blooming! https://photos.app.goo.gl/BrUVN4z7SMCpQvuf7

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Mark z7 Sharptown, MD on May 15, 2025, 5:20 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Spring is chugging along in Detroit! Nice

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Fred SC on May 15, 2025, 6:15 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Alvin, as usual some not often seen flowering plants except in maybe a botanical garden. I love dogtooth violets. Do you have to protect your little Chicago fig? I do like Candytuft. As I recall, it stays in bloom a good while. I had it in Kentucky. Viburnum carlesii, I grew in Kentucky , it is very fragrant. The little grape Hyacinth are nice. My daughter had as lot of them. I may get a few bulbs this Fall. Hard to believe you still have tulips and Hyacinth in bloom, nice!

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on May 15, 2025, 10:37 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Mark. Unlike points further south, my shorter season compresses alot of blooms in a relatively shorter span of time. Once blooming begins, with the very early Snowdrops, blooms continue, with no breaks. Helps having a very broad grouping of plants, too, lol.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on May 15, 2025, 11:00 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Fred. I am entering a dreaded two week period, that happens every year. The silver maples drop a ton of helicopter seeds. They wind up every day, and create another chore of pulling up seedlings. I have already begun pulling up Rose of Sharon seedlings..a task that goes on all season. I love plants, plain and simple. I'm always adding some new species, each year, or replacing some that did not make it, for whatever reason. The Chicago Hardy fig, is a replacement for a fig I had been digging, and storing in my unheated attic. Last winter, I thought I had been keeping the rootball moist enough, because the plant was ormant, but apparently not enough. The plant died, last year. I promptly bought another small replacement. I hope to get the fig into the ground, eventually. If it doesnt go in the ground, this season, I'll bump it up to a 3 gallon, for another year, and keep it in my attic, in my attic, as I did with this plant. When it goes into the ground, I will either dig it up, in fall, or protect it, in situ. Tulips are nearing the end, for the season, in about a week or so. Fred, do you remember the collard starts I sowed, in February, later transplanting them to 6-paks, later hardening them off, and finally into the ground, last month? Well, they are ready for their FIRST picking of the season, now. For those who may not know, collards are a non-heading cabbage relative. If leaves lower on the main stem are harvested, the plants grow taller, and produce more leaves. Another picking can occur after another 6 weeks, or so, later, and so on. usually harvest 3 to 4 times all season, with the final harvest occurring around Thanksgiving. Collards are very hardy, and can overwinter, even here. This is what the plants look like, today: https://photos.app.goo.gl/KDjfZue3rWxuJmZV7 Here are some Romaine Lettuce plants, I set out, at the same time the collards were set out: https://photos.app.goo.gl/9Vw421TvxKaTikv78

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Mark z7 Sharptown, MD on May 16, 2025, 6:26 am, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Collards are looking yummy!

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Fred Sc on May 16, 2025, 2:01 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Alvin, if you wait , the collards will form large foot snd a half or bigger bunches.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on May 16, 2025, 4:34 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Fred, the collards were intentionally planted closely together, so they would need harvesting more often, increasing overall yield, from the designated space. Plus, I had more plants, than available space, lol. Since they are growing in partial shade, they will likely need staking, with thin bamboo stakes, to keep them from flopping over, when their main stems get taller.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on May 16, 2025, 4:35 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Mark.

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