Gardening, Nature and Home Thread, June 21

Well, we're slowly catching up with a backlog of early photos from The Horde. Here are a couple from Don in Kansas:

I took the camera out to the local community college garden this afternoon. It’s early, but I did find a few things in bloom.

Do they look enticing? More at the link.

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

By-Tor has started a container garden and has his first harvest now:

Salads coming up?

Fresh herbs, perfect for great homemade Italian dishes:

Oregano

Basil

Ah, Nature

NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker here, hoping you are healing and getting well. This is a gopher snake we saw on our property. It’s about 4’ long. We watched it slither down a gopher hole and disappeared.

Gopher snakes are much more endearing than rattlesnakes. In my opinion, anyway.

I would much prefer to see a kitty following a gopher snake than a rattlesnake (though gopher snakes sometimes try to look like rattlesnakes).

Orange dragonflies have arrived. NorCal Sierra Foothills Lurker

Looks kind of exotic, I think.

Puttering

Great idea from Teresa in Fort Worth:

I decided that I am going to start having flowers delivered to the house while I am still around to enjoy them! I have never seen Peonies before (they don't grow very well around these parts), so I am starting with these

Gardens of The Horde

Catching up with 40 Miles North, whose garden started showing signs of life a while ago:

Hi KT,

I was hoping to find some shots good enough for your garden thread, and the lighting is really good before and after the rain. Everything is waking up at the same time. Irises are getting ready to bloom, and I'm going to get nectarines this year:

The grapes are already waking up. The first leaves always have a touch of blue :

Here is one of my smaller fig trees in front of an ocean of amaryllis and some irises:

There is one, and only one, swallow tail aquilegia:

A Gaillardia:

I love the aquilegia. Excited for nectarines!

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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posted by K.T. at 01:21 PM

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