Growing Other Stuff 2021

[HorseloverFat]

 

[ShadyStump]

What's that top one? Looks like a strawberry from seed.

 

[HorseloverFat]

What's that top one? Looks like a strawberry from seed.

Hehe! Wild strawberries!! Collected.. just to see if they’d “perform” in containers.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Some cukes.. climbin’
First ‘mater flower.. (all the peppers Also have tiny peppers with flower petals still stuck to them.. I’ll get pictures soon)

 

[HorseloverFat]

SOOO busy.. and lovin it!! (Soo many plants to love)

Trying to get through all my spring-summer updates on trees/plants by July 1st....

We’ll see...

 

[HorseloverFat]

Pictures do NOT do these justice!!

 

[Carol 83]

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That color is ooh-la-la. What is it?

 

[HorseloverFat]

That color is ooh-la-la. What is it?

That is a Breadseed Poppie!

 

[Carol 83]

That is a Breadseed Poppie!

Never heard of it, but it sure is pretty.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Never heard of it, but it sure is pretty.

Hehe.. it’s just ONE of the common poppies.

 

[HorseloverFat]

Looks like 3.5 days until they start to “go”

 

[dtreesj]

 

[HorseloverFat]

These are some more Papaver Variations..

This one has.. “frilly” petals..

This one is retaining it’s “cup shape” and refusing to “open” normally.
Zucc. About to flower..

 

[HorseloverFat]

Unique Papaver... this one dropped my jaw.

and another (but “tighter” frilled petal)

 

[LittleDingus]

My saguaro is growing!



I'm so excited! I repotted it a couple of years ago and it hasn't put on new growth since...I was really starting to worry

I started this guy from seed 20 years ago when my mother-in-law sent me some seed from their new home in Pheonix. I had it in Illinois for 10 years and now in Missouri for another 10. It looks out of place here...

 

[HorseloverFat]

Apparently the “red and white flag” is fairly common pattern.. but I planted All seeds from “Black Beauty triangular petaled” pods..

Just fascinating seed genetics.. I hope i get some more “non-purples”..

I also cross-pollinated my Hungarian black Pepper and Carolina Reapers.. because the Hungarian Blacks do VERY well here.. aaaaand the Reapers just wanna be in Carolina.... and Carolina, Wisconsin is not.

 

[ShadyStump]

My saguaro is growing!

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I'm so excited! I repotted it a couple of years ago and it hasn't put on new growth since...I was really starting to worry

I started this guy from seed 20 years ago when my mother-in-law sent me some seed from their new home in Pheonix. I had it in Illinois for 10 years and now in Missouri for another 10. It looks out of place here...

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Real cacti are a very under appreciated addition to a garden. The flowers are incredible, and the shapes can really break up or accent the lines of a traditional garden scape.
I've wanted to cultivate a patch of prickly pear for years but haven't gotten around to it. Beautiful AND edible.

 

[ShadyStump]

Apparently the “red and white flag” is fairly common pattern.. but I planted All seeds from “Black Beauty triangular petaled” pods..

I guess a stray seed got mixed in. Still impressive though.

 

[HorseloverFat]

I guess a stray seed got mixed in. Still impressive though.

That’s what I’m saying.. I buy seed PODS..... it’s just the genetics... I think!



The “cross” pattern is a fairly common variant..

“Red and white” is the most common.. with “frilled” petals.

This one has the “standard petals” with “Red and white cross pattern”..

So far, besides THIS.. i have noted three petal variations WITHIN the “black ones” too...

 

[LittleDingus]

Real cacti are a very under appreciated addition to a garden. The flowers are incredible, and the shapes can really break up or accent the lines of a traditional garden scape.
I've wanted to cultivate a patch of prickly pear for years but haven't gotten around to it. Beautiful AND edible.

There are a couple of places I hike here where prickly pear grow wild. They are wild in Illinois too.

I think saguaro typically don't bloom until about 35 years. I'd image mine will be behind being so far from "home" First are is typically around 75 years...I'm not likely to see that!

This one grew way faster than wild specimen in the early years...constant access to water will do that It's etoliated and falling behind wild specimen now...lack of enough sunlight will do that