Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, April 4

Happy Holiday Weekend! The air is fresh around here, and you can almost feel it in these photos, too!

Here are photos of my Anemone Clematis, almost at its peak. I've been training this vine almost 20 years.

San Franpsycho

Twenty years! The flowers DO look like anemones, but also like clematis!

I love them. How about you?

Are there some roses in that border, too?

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

Grow some greens!

Ah, Nature

Well, Spring is definitely in the air! I managed to get a photo of something rarely seen in the wild--two FedEx trucks mating.

Number of offspring varies, but delivery sometimes happens later that same day.

Thanks for the weekend threads!

BeckoningChasm

I have never observed this in the wild! Thanks!

Adventure

Cherry Blossoms

Hi

I finally made the walk to Kenwood. This was the first time I was able to do a walk of that length since well before my hip surgery but I had a goal. Was determined to get there. And it was just in time. Blossoms had mostly gone white already and when the wind blew it was raining blossoms.

The little yellow flowers were literally a carpet on the forest floor. The other pictures are mostly Kenwood where the trees are just ancient and have shapes out of a fantasy novel.
The last picture, I think it's a redbud? Looks like the flowers are growing right out of the branch.
Hope you enjoy these as much as I did taking them.

Sharon(willow's apprentice)

Glad you were able to visit Kenwood and take those lovely photos to share with us!

Gardens of The Horde

The Tree!

Hi KT! Hope you're doing well.

I've been absent from Saturday postings for awhile, but I wanted to share this photo of our red bud tree. Back in 2021, our first spring at the new house, I got one of those free tree packs from the Arbor Day Foundation. Since all we had was bare clay around the place (we built in a field) I had to put them all in pots. Eventually, they made it into 10" pots.

We got the red bud into the ground in early summer of 2024, and it's budding now. So cool! Two hawthornes and two crapemyrtles survived as of last year, still in pots. My Darwinian torture chamber of procrastination and neglect produces hardy survivors.

I'll try to get a photo of the whole tree later on, when it starts to get leaves. Publius said it's a nice-looking tree, and he rarely gives unsolicited commentary on the plantings around here.

He likes the hostas, too. Their little horns are sticking up.

My current project consists of digging up wild onions, which are EV.REE.WHERE.

Miley

Thanks for the great photo, information and garden update. I see a few Redbud blossoms sneaking out on that three last week . . .

Hope everyone has a nice weekend.

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Week in Review

What has changed since last week's thread? Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, March 28

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

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