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In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin in Motown, z6 on May 18, 2025, 12:35 am Fred, a few days ago, you mentioned that poke greens are near past their prime, where you are. Well, mine are just coming up, here... https://photos.app.goo.gl/Hkm3dbscewdKC3159 Recently, I posted pics of some of my fruit trees, in bloom. After pollination, tiny fruit are now forming... Japanese PLUM: https://photos.app.goo.gl/JFgeLnqinuJZPKSg8 PEACH: https://photos.app.goo.gl/m129uWXvECFHENTTA My sister was mentioning to me, how she remembered how ants used to be on the flower buds of Peonies, when we were kids. I mentioned that the Peonies she remembered, were the herbaceous type, that dies back to the ground, every year. Here is the flower bud of an herbaceous Peony. Notice that it has ants on it. They love the sugary substance, this type of Peony produces. These flower buds are ROUND: https://photos.app.goo.gl/hhsycGPC6DsQgneM7 Here is a TREE PEONY flower bud. No suagary substance produced, so NO ANTS! These flower buds are not as round, either, as those on herbaceous Peonies... https://photos.app.goo.gl/4jiaHYzJF2QfUWpt7 Uh oh, the PARASOL TREE, Firmiana simplex, is budding out. This plant found commonly, came through a Michigan winter, with no protection: https://photos.app.goo.gl/M8tm4TV7WwWVy7Zi7 PINK Lily of the Valley, Convallaria majilis rosea, the birth month flower of May (even though the common WHITE, is the accepted one)... https://photos.app.goo.gl/dLC5114h6siTu4qp6 The common WHITE Lily of the Valley...They are as fragrant as Hyacinths, too! https://photos.app.goo.gl/AbArmwCThkNtMSzeA Wow, I stumbled across this one, under the foliage of neighboring plants. It is a DOUBLE white Christmas Rose 'Snow Frills'... https://photos.app.goo.gl/AP7ep4yjdcGQg7fm9 FANCY PARROT Tulips... An ORANGE one: https://photos.app.goo.gl/YmNM8ttdop1BLcJB7 An 'Estella Rjnveldt' Parrot: https://photos.app.goo.gl/8BwmdvdSgd18SyJv5 DARWIN Tulips: https://photos.app.goo.gl/d3FQL1Pm9ZBwJAcW6 https://photos.app.goo.gl/AiYYVdbd3hNmXc6v6

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Mark z7 Sharptown, MD on May 20, 2025, 5:34 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Hope you get some fruit from your trees. Love the flowers. Enjoy your spring.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Fred SC on May 20, 2025, 5:49 am, in reply to "In My Garden Today" Alvin such young tender poke . That would be tender poke to boil and fry. I have some I froze . I may eat it in the next few days. I bought Videlia onion yesterday. I sometimes like to cut up little onion ion poke salad , anyway looks like you’re gonna have a major fruit crop this year, especially the peaches . Ants on the ponies, I remember seeing that when I was a kid, my mother had several peonies, she loved them. Your Parasol tree is nice. I had one in Greer that I planted over 20 years ago. I need to drive up there and look and see just how big it is now. I love the big large leaves on it. I just don’t like the way the seed pods hang out after they bloom through the next year or so

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on May 20, 2025, 8:55 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Thanks, Mark. I hope I get some fruit, this year. In addition to critters, there is also a natural "drop" of some fruit, too, especially when in the case of the peaches, which tend to set too many fruit, way too close together, for them all to get a decent size. If not enough doesn't drop in June, or be thinned out (which I will do, if too many remain), to just a couple fruit per branch, they will all be marble-sized, by the time season ripening time arrives.

Re: In My Garden Today Posted by Alvin, z6 on May 20, 2025, 9:03 pm, in reply to "Re: In My Garden Today" Fred, do you grow your own poke, or are you able to buy it, there? Yep, ants don't crawl on tree peonies, like they do, on this type. Some people think ants crawl on all peony flower buds. Now that I discovered the Parasol Tree is hardy here, I hope it continues to grow slowly, because it would take up too much space, in my small yard. I heard that the leaves are bigger, on younger trees, as well, and tend to be smaller, on big trees. If the tree is hardy here, I'm sure it is hardy there. If the new residents, of your old place, didn't cut it down, it is likely quite large, after all these years.

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