Backyard Blooms!

[sluckey]

I thought it would be interesting to see what y'all have growing in your yards this year. I took a walk through my backyard and snapped some pics of my favorites. This stuff is scattered all over my back yard. Hope y'all enjoy. Love to see what y'all have too.

[sluckey]

Three more...

[shooter]

found this a couple weeks back.  Then the deer or rabbit ate it's head off!
I believe it's a new shoot for a walnut or hickory tree

[acheld]

You guys have quite the touch!   I was out in the yard yesterday and realized that I had one blooming rhododendron.  Noting else is blooming though the PI (poison ivy . . .) is growing well.  Oh, and I have drones now too.   

[PRR]

.....what y'all have growing in your yards this year. ....

You southerners!! We're just-now putting unfrozen dirt in pots.

In the yard we got an infestation of ticks and dandelions. And grubs so bad the birds tore-out the whole corner of the lawn.

But just past the fence into the woods-- the Ladyslippers came out. Cypripedium reginae. They have been regular in the back. But the front has been MIA for several years. One came back out front this year.

It is vulnerable to microclimate and is going extinct in most of its range; it is also slow to reproduce.  Charles Darwin was unsuccessful in cultivating it.

If you know where I live, don't tell anybody. There are poachers. I don't like to have to shoot them.

[sluckey]

Very pretty plant. I've never seen those before.

[PRR]

Not known south of Tennessee. FWIW: orchid seeds can not absorb nutrients on their own. When they do reproduce from seed a fungus invades the seed and nourishes it.

[sluckey]

Looks like a doll face to me. Blonde hair, pigtails. I've seen that face somewhere, but can't recall where.

[shooter]

We're so deep in drought most of our perennials are hurting, where 30 blooms might be normal we got 3.  The exception is the yucca, it's got 4 stalks ready to bloom where 1 is normal.  Grass is August crunchy yellow.


EDIT:  auto focused badly!


the swamp Dogwood should be open by Monday.

[shooter]

1.85" of rain!!!!
Finally got enough to fill the frogpond, set the tadpoles free!!

the Elderberries are starting to show! 

[PRR]

Actually front yard:
"lookit the size of these suckas! and obviously something thinks they are delicious..."

[EL34]

But just past the fence into the woods-- the Ladyslippers came out. Cypripedium reginae.
They have been regular in the back. But the front has been MIA for several years. One came back out front this year.
It is vulnerable to microclimate and is going extinct in most of its range; it is also slow to reproduce.  Charles Darwin was unsuccessful in cultivating it.
If you know where I live, don't tell anybody. There are poachers. I don't like to have to shoot them.

We have a patch of about 75 to 100 of the pink lady slippers here every spring for the last 5 years or so.
They have come and gone this year
They are all along a path in the woods where I walk the dogs

There are yellow and white ones also out at Dupont State Forest

[rafe]

These grow wild in my backyard ...If I had seen those blonde baby flowers I may have sold my property out of fear...lol

[PRR]

We have blueberries. The real ones, wild blueberries. (New Jersey blueberries are artificially bred from freaks.) Just from along my driveway:

[PRR]

At the other place there is an ancient apple tree.

[shooter]

we're the 3rd owners, the 2nd owners told me the 3 apple trees were there when they showed up in '53
the deer really like the fall treats!
sadly lighting nailed all 3 about 4yrs back.  They're still producing, even ate around the worms on one this afternoon.


the "kids" are now 6 strong and just a wormy 

[acheld]

Those are cool old trees. 

I grew up with some like that.  Suburban setting, with no deer;  however, the raccoons were fat and very happy.   

[EL34]

We have blueberries. The real ones, wild blueberries. (New Jersey blueberries are artificially bred from freaks.) Just from along my driveway:

I have the wild low bush blue berries on my property
maybe about 12 inches or so high is all they get
They are smaller than store bought blue berries and the flavor is way more intense.

[PRR]

> 12 inches or so high is all they get

These are head-high. Or chin-high on the bear.

[PRR]

The jewelweed is wild, and fruiting. The Glads are very cultivated.

[shooter]

The jewelweed is wild, and fruiting

got some plants around the barn, never knew what it was called, now i do! thx

[reidgw]

Not nearly as cool as some of the stuff you guys have growing, but I dig my Morning Glories. Bought my house around 21 years ago in the late fall and the first spring, these critters popped up all over the front yard. Been playing with them ever since, gathering seeds every year and mixing in new colors now and then.

[sluckey]

I've always liked morning glories.

[shooter]

cactus n alt-blueberries 

[reidgw]

Looks like a doll face to me. Blonde hair, pigtails. I've seen that face somewhere, but can't recall where.

Pink Floyd - The Wall? 

[shooter]

Autumn Berry
 the 1st 10yrs I trimmed the bush kinda like a red-neck bonzi (sp?)
the next 10yrs it took care of itself, expired last year, with 3 offspring's
berries are at the early eating stage

[PRR]

Purple Glad.

[shooter]

Pretty sure this is the last bloom   11/3
we call 'em flocks, not sure what the Botanical name is


the "fungus" looking stuff is ashes.  It was dark last night when I emptied the ash bucket

[PRR]

> we call 'em flocks,

"Phlox" helps Google find it.

[shooter]

 
i learn't phonix english

[PRR]

The word phlox comes from Latin and Greek.

[shooter]

working for Doc's I got used to Latin, sorta.  Most of the time I'd say, "Doc, just point at the problem you're seeing, my Latin is off today"   

[PRR]

.....Ladyslippers came out. Cypripedium reginae. They have been regular in the back. But the front has been MIA for several years. One came back out front this year. ...

Ladyslipper in front, in a different spot, practically under the wheels of the UPS/FedEx trucks.

[dude]

Plants and flowers are vital to my demeanor, here’s a quick photo of where l love to just relax and play my acoustic.

[sluckey]

Looks very peaceful.

[dude]

My home was built in 1870, country victorian. All my children are gone, 17 rooms for my wife and I, way too much space not to say “upkeep”.
I love this place, been here, almost 40 years.
Nature is second to none, thanks for sharing all God’s beautiful gardens.
Here’s my home.

[shooter]

all the spring flowers n trees are past, it's edibles season now 
(These are all "cultivated" wild - I trim them occasionally:)

[sluckey]

5 years ago this was a vegetable garden!

[sluckey]

Second crop of blackberries (Sweetie Pie) will be ready next week.

[shooter]

same bushes?  We get one shot up here, late June to mid Jul

[sluckey]

The Sweetie Pie only produces one crop per year. But the berries in the earlier pic in the other thread are Prime Ark Freedom and they produce two crops per year. The first crop is gone now but the new canes are just now blooming and setting fruit and will be ripe in early July. So, with two different blackberry varieties I have early May berries, early June berries, and then early July berries.

[scstill]

Some awesome plants thank you for sharing. Wish I had the rain you do :-)
I will join this posting fun although only one is from the yard
The rest are from beauty captured hiking around SoCal (OC)
First is front yard staghorn fern with schefflera berry's,
Second reminds me of Avatar "tree of souls"

[scstill]

A few more because of four attachment limit in first post
more here https://stillampd.com/wildflowers-california

[shooter]

Wish I had the rain you do

it's not as fun as it seems
I prefer high desert dry heat but that kinda lacking here in MI


EDIT:
added this week's forecast

[scstill]

I left Warren MI in 76.

[shooter]

 
that's the same year I left Kalamazoo!
in '90 was offered a job and $$'s I couldn't say no to, so been back ever since, farm country though, no more cities!!

[sluckey]

Here are a couple more blooms. The luna hibiscus blooms are about 8" diameter and the pagoda leaves are about 12" diameter. The island is a mix of yellow native azalea, agapanthus, caladiums, gladiola, variegated lace cap hydrangea, polka dot, walking Iris, Texas star (not blooming yet), sparkle berry tree, wandering jew, and red honeysuckle, and more luna hibiscus.

[acheld]

You guys have amazing green thumbs.  Me, not so much.

The one plant that thrived is a rhododendron I planted 21 years ago, and it just grows and blooms every year w/o intervention.   Our herd of deer aren't interested . . .

[shooter]

amazing green thumbs.

ya, me either.


Some of the wild blooms currently.
the Smoke Bush is a planting, was 3ft, now tops 20'
The wild Rose will take over ANYTHING.  The image is from a bush ~~ 20' long, 15' deep and 12' tall!
you can mow them off and 2 weeks latter they're a foot tall!
The water plant has been around for ~5yrs, this is the 1st year it's bloomed

[sluckey]

This is all happening in the berry patch today. The birds are overwhelmed! I finally get to eat all I want too. Plums are my favorite. Love the taste of Methley plums and there are no little seeds to get stuck between your teeth. I can almost smell the blueberry pie baking in the oven!

I also have peaches on the other side of the yard.