Gardeners! So any new plants, and flowers for this Spring, or Summer? Something new?...

[electric_blue68]

Something you tried once that didn't work out.

I love going to our parks, and botanical gardens to see my favorites, and something new to me.

Anyone planting saplings?

I just found out about camellias from a friend. So many kinds: anenomie, rose, and peony forms.

[Bayard]

1. I've planted asparagus already

Planning on getting my tomato seeds planted when I get more soil. I'm going to start them in boxes, then transplant.

In preparing for the coming food shortages, I am planting a new 28' x 68' vege garden, and keeping the existing big watermelon patch. Will be digging my canner out of the garage.

I have a nursery holding some dwarf fruit trees for me.

Prepare!

[FirstLight]

9. I'm in a bad zone for growing... high altitude, poor soil...

But I am looking into some inventive garden shelving solutions. It'll be easier for me to reach with my bad back, and maybe I can get a little of something going. I miss having my strength so I could really get in the dirt and make rows...it's been over 10 years since I could manage a real veg garden...

[electric_blue68]

10. That's Some new veggie patch! And dwarf fruit trees, wow!

Fun tomato seed story. Yup, this city sticker's got one.

Buying from one of my several regular Green Market farmers; I go through a particular pile of small yellowish heirloom tomatoes. Skin is smooth, but I find a few with "peach fuzz", and they don't match any other variety they have.

Ah...mutation? I buy ?2, and give 2 - 3 others back to the farmer. His wife would pick out the seeds, dry them, then plant at some point, and see what happens.

Never found out, but it was exciting to find something like that! My sciency side. 👍

[Keepthesoulalive]

2. cox orange pippin apple tree

I ordered it last October and it arrived last week . Hopefully it survives.

[electric_blue68]

11. Hello, new tree! May it thrive!

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[Keepthesoulalive]

12. Thank you

My dogs just pulled out the carcass of the last one.

[Botany]

3. Plant what is native to your area ... avoid cultivars ... work on getting blooms throughout the season.

100s of different trees, shrubs, perennials, and some annuals to be picked from.

Xerces Society, Doug Tallamy’s books … bringing nature home and nature’s best hope…
…. and Wohlleben’s “the hidden life of trees” …. Plants talk to each other …are good resources
as per garden seeds and plants I would recommend The Prairie Nursery and Seed Saver’s
Exchange are solid. Epic Tomatoes is a good resource too.

If they are native to your area Early and Late Figworts don’t have a real showy flowers but they
put on a great show of pollinators are really neat plants.

If you have a wet area Lizard Tails are neat as are Button Bush.

[quaint]

4. Interesting, any hot tips for North Orange County, California?

Lots of natives, few exciting.

[Botany]

5. These might help.

https://www.cnps.org/

Xerces Society

https://www.occnps.org/

[lark]

6. Yes!

We've moved for the first time in 36 years and cut down 5 giant legustrums as I am allergic to them. To replace the ones by the sidewalk, we've planted a Japanese magnolia tree surround by 2 good size multi color azaleas - pink with red centers. Our neighbor has one of these trees and it's spectacular! Hope ours does as well!

We also have some plants we don't recognize so I need to get Plantify to identify them and see why they aren't doing well maybe move them.

[EYESORE 9001]

7. Rutabaga!

I expect to see lots of little scandahoovian cabbages populating my garden before long.

[FirstLight]

8. Welp, there's still about a foot or so of SNOW fresh in the yard - High Sierras...

When it finally *does* melt, I hope to do more native wildflowers! I wanna boost my pollinator population, so I'm gonna plant the bare patch on the side of the front yard with as much wildflower seed as I can find for cheap...

I've also decided that since my "lawn" is really more for ground cover and erosion, so any new bald spots will be met with clover and maybe even some red thyme creeper...

For now, all I can do is wait. At least I got the birds and varmints to feed and watch as they play!