Gardening, Home and Nature Thread, June 27

Happy Saturday! Don in Kansas has posted severa; interesting recent snapshots, some of which remind me of fireworks. Flower fireworks could come in handy where sensitive pets live, or where drought has resulted in restrictions on noisy fireworks.

Balloon flowers are easy from seed and can bloom their first year, as can Silene regia.

The place I live is allegedly the real "Smallville," Superman's home town. Every June there is a "Smallville Festival" here celebrating comic books and related cultural matters. This year's festival was smaller than usual, with less cosplay than I expected, but at least there was Supergirl.

I spotted this flag near the festival site.

Sounds interesting! Love the Braille flag. Click on the link for more great photos of Supergirl and Krypto, Don's delightful daylilies at their peak, fiery-looking Asclepias tuberosa and more.

Another daylily expert in The Horde!

Edible Gardening/Putting Things By

By-Tor has more milestones from his container garden:

June 4:

A warm almost summer day calls for a fried green tomato sandwich, straight from my garden.

It's sweet, it's sour, it's salty, it's perfect. Slice, dip in flour, salt and pepper then fry until crispy. Eat on white bread. Nothing fancy here.

Not fancy, just good.

June 22 Garden is progressing nicely. One tomato plant is almost as tall as me.

Also, this week’s haul.

RED TOMATOES IN JUNE! And more! Impressive for a container garden!

Is there anything better than a homegrown tomato out of your own garden?

Here I had two tomatoes, Greek olives, pepperoni and Korean pickled radishes, drizzled with olive oil.

So the answer is no, nothing better.

Mmmm Thanks for the recipe!

Puttering

Surviving the summer heat in the UK

Good morning. I’m on my way to the fair to see if there’s any treasure to buy! Then back to just finish off the flowers I cut yesterday evening.
I’ll catch up later ☀️☀️☀️ pic.twitter.com/nQisXK93ep

— Garden Brocante (@GardenBrocante) June 27, 2026

Gardens of The Horde

Anything going on in your garden?

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, June 20

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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