Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, June 14

Hello! A short thread as I get re-oriented to the big outdoor world! I've missed you. Thanks for all the help from the COBs!

Hope everyone is doing well.

Hey KT,

Glad you are back at it again and hopefully feeling good.

Saw in today's garden thread a hibiscus discussion. I have a little story about this one. When we first moved here to Wee Kreek Holler, we put a garden in off the living room patio. One of the first plants I bought for the area was a lavender hibiscus bush. It did very well and grew to be quite large, and then about 8-9 years later, it up and died. Not sure if that was its life span or it got tired of the unrelenting death star beating down on it. But before it croaked I managed to harvest some seeds after it bloomed. I have had those seeds for over 10 years now and I had tried planting them here and there and never any luck. This year I was cleaning out my seed storage and decided I would throw all the seeds I had left of the lavender hibiscus into a pot and if I got one, great, if not I wouldn't have to stare at that seed envelope any more. Lo and behold the plant Gods smiled down on me and one took. It just bloomed yesterday. I will have to transplant it out of the pot soon but I was very happy to have another one. I enjoyed it very much the first time and I am sure I will enjoy it as much this time around.
Never give up Horde, sometimes 10 year old seeds will surprise you!

WeeKreekFarmGirl

Never give up!

We have a lot of Hibiscus and their relatives among The Horde.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Strawberry Harvest at the Throckmortons

Hey Katy: I hope you're getting better.

Attached is a picture of my little 20 sq foot patch of Earliglow strawberries. I ripped out my old strawberries last year, because they were tired and played out, and I replanted with new roots. We are up to our eyeballs in strawberries right now. This bowl-full is just what my wife picked today, and we're picking on average about 30 berries a day right now. Suffice it to say, dessert every night is strawberries. Of course, these are "Junebearing" so they'll play out pretty soon.

Prayers for your continued recovery,

Buck

Thanks! The berries look great! We may need recipes later.

Ah, Nature

Big thunder storms last night. We all woke up to a rainwashed morning with leaves and flowers shedding drips onto the unwary early riser. Even Mr. Mousie looks as though he found it hard to avoid some of the droplets ...#embroidery #EmbroideryWhisperer pic.twitter.com/6Q527LJR8V

— #EmbroideryWhisperer Helen M. Stevens (@helen_m_stevens) June 14, 2025

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posted by K.T. at 12:52 PM

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