A most excellent day in gardening.

[akujunkan]

Green thumbs run in my family. My mother is a hosta fanatic. My father is a vegetable fanatic. I am an herb fanatic. Still, I can pretty much be counted on to tag along whenever one of us is heading out to look for plants. Today we headed out into the country to a hosta grower's outdoor garden. This woman has about 400 varieties of the plant, and the grounds are gorgeous.

I was already enjoying myself when I happened to notice some Solomon's Seal growing along one of the pathways. Now, I love Solomon's Seal



It used to grow along the road to my house. I wanted very badly to dig some out and transplant it to my garden but never did because all my guidebooks frown upon such behavior. Then the state highway bureau cut it all down and planted grass over it and I haven't seen any since. So I screwed up my courage and asked the lady at the hosta garden is she'd give me some and she did! So now it's safely transplanted in my garden next to the Jack-In-The-Pulpits.


She also had some Canadian Ginger


so I looked along the hedgerows and found a few, which I dug up and transplanted as well. They looked pretty wilted this afternoon, but have perked up considerably since.


Driving back we stopped at the Pisgah Marsh boardwalk for a brief stroll. On the way back, I happened to notice some Angelica



growing along the side of the road, so put the car in park and grabbed a seedhead of that. So I'll have some of that growing next year.


I then went blackberry picking this afternoon with bran420_7, who has just acquired some Firepink



which she's going to give to me once it gets a little more established at her place. We have plans to grab some St. John's Wort




from an abandoned lot tomorrow, and also identify some really intriguing orange flowers growing along the highway.


Finally, my rue



which almost drowned thanks to last week's thunderstorms, seems to be on the road to recovery. Keep your fingers crossed!

Good times.

That will be all.

Comments

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

have to admit to only planting things to eat.

currently growing strawberries, a mango tree (that has yet to produce fruit) and chives.

attempting to grow a cherry tree and korean melons (Chamoe).

failed to grow watermelons...it died. :(

i fail at flowers, too. they die or rabbits or deer eat them.

[perseid.livejournal.com]

I fail at gardening. With a big, bloody F. I always envy the green thumbs I know. Then I try to coerce them into fixing up my lawn. They always think I'm joking.

[metal-dog5.livejournal.com]

You might like Solomon's Seal, but someone's not happy with you linking their image. You naughty bandwidth stealer, you.

As for gardening, I have two black thumbs, indeed all the way up to the elbows. The more I look after a plant, the quicker it tends to die. I had a maidenhair fern, Adiantum aethiopicum, for years until I started treating it the way I was supposed to. It's unfortunate as my mother and paternal grandmother are avid gardeners, making stuff grow in the most unlikely of places.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what you're talking about. As you can see, none of my images say anything about stealing bandwidth

I've often found that plants get ornery if you start "looking after" them once they've already determined how they'd like to live. I've got several full shade plants growing in full sun and vice versa, and I doubt they'd take it quietly if I were to move them so they could have their optimal sunlight conditions.

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Oh man, and if they were real green thumbs, they'd probably want to take out your lawn and stick a garden in. At least, I would...

[akujunkan.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I'd love to get a mango started. Did you get it from a nursery or start it yourself from the pit? (Same goes for all the other fruit you've got.)

Watermelons are very finnicky in my experience. They want a lot of room and just the right amount of moisture.

My whole family wouldn't have any flowers, herbs, or vegetables if we didn't use something called Liquid Fence. You spray it on your plants about once a month, and the deer don't touch them. It's nigh on magical, but it works. We've got a herd of about 80 deer living in the neighborhood, and they eat everything green...

[nokiirat.livejournal.com]

got the mango from grocery store, ate the fruit and put the seed in a pot; my first experiment ^_^ The korean melons were also from grocery store fruit. The strawberries were from 2 store bought plants that budded into 30 now...yummy.

gonna look up that liquid fence. we only plant merigolds now cause the bunnies don't like them.