Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, July 13

Here's a royal poinciana tree I found near my home. I am filled with envy that I do not have a yard big enough for one of these spectacular orange red beauties. sigh

Just call me "Dirk Bohunk" like my legion of admirers...well at least my dog would if he could talk.

Well, that is a spectacular tree, alright. Doesn't grow in many places in the USA.

It's been pretty hot around here. And we've had a few raindrops this morning. I guess this is our "monsoon". We're chopping weeds. What are you doing in the garden? Seen anything interesting in the neighborhood?

Here's a bloom from my Chinese hibiscus. It's a smaller plant and not as prolific a bloomer as the solid pink hibiscus in my yard, but it makes up for it in blazing colors.

Dirk Bohunk

A little different flower form than the usual Tropical hibiscus we often see. But similar to some other members of the genus. Lovely.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Not only does By-Tor grow his own tomatoes, but his friend brings him home-grown tomatoes, too! I'm thinking some of these might be Juliet.

He had some with breakfast:

We'll be over for breakfast some time next week.

Ah, Nature

Hi KT,

The other morning I took a walk down the street here in San Diego and saw this growing in the grass under a Eucalyptus tree. I don't recall ever seeing one of these so I did a quick search and found nothing similar. I am wondering if any readers know what it might be.

Napoleon XIV

You don't usually see the gills on top of the toadstool like that. Anybody know what it is?

A Monarch found our one milkweed plant and deposited 2 eggs… Nan in AZ

So fun!

Puttering

Art for a hot summer:

Hans Thoma, Germany
(1839–1924) pic.twitter.com/sLpJbhED8b

— Academia Aesthetics (@AcademiaAesthe1) July 8, 2024

What do you do with those flowers after you gather them? Some unusual ideas

Flower Arrangement Ideas

pic.twitter.com/SOf1ZDpWDf

— Figen (@TheFigen_) July 8, 2024

Adventure

Travel to Switzerland, see a rose.

Gardens of The Horde

A dish garden of three: a pitcher plant, a Venus flytrap, and a sundew. The white flower is from the Venus flytrap. I missed a picture of the sundew flower but it was very similar in form to the flytrap although a light purple instead of white.

Lirio100

Ambitious and fun! Also check out the expert commentary from our outdoor carnivorous plant expert Tony Litwin and Ladyhobbit in the comments from last week (below) starting at comment 72. Perhaps dish gardens are an interesting way to replicate mini-environments.

Hi KT!

The sunflowers are doing well this year, in spite of a late start. I'm really enjoying the bees that are visiting. I'm always impressed with the size of the leaves. Giant solar panels providing a lot of photosynthesis for these huge plants. And such beauty from such small seeds!

Thanks for all you do!

Mrs. Leggy

Love seeing those big, exuberant plants and flowers! We may want growing tips!

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Puttering and Adventure Thread, July 6

Any thoughts or questions?

I closed the comments on this post so you wouldn't get banned for commenting on a week-old post, but don't try it anyway.

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