In The Garden

@frank you have an amazing garden. We enjoy seeing people's photos here, but good to keep it lite.

@frank

That is so inspiring Frank, to see your wonderful garden space... you have put your labor of love on the bigtime charts!

But hey, where's that Meyer lemon tree? ?

I love you garden photos @Frank.  Thank you for the inspiration.

Thanks @jeanne-mayell.  Perhaps it would be better to link to a photo sharing service like Flikr or something rather than attaching photos here.  I can't edit those posts anymore, but going forward...

@stargazer  I wish citrus could survive here! ? 

@frank I left them in because they are beautiful. And people are allowed to post photos on the site, just want to stay photo lite. Your gardens are so inspiring.

@frank  looking at your garden, i suddenly realize how lazy i am. Beautiful pics.

@stargazer - i am with you on loving all things lemon, and like you and @claire, i tried a Meyer's lemon tree.  It just sat there for 12 years and never grew, and that was in CA, where you would think it would have done great.  But one of my neighbors just gave me a tree that has giant lemons-  big enough to cut in half and eat with a spoon, like a grapefruit.  Yay!

@unk-p

But those little thin-skinned Meyers, unk ...so yummy for lemon meringue pie! The flavor! I don't know why the trees are so temperamental ... may be a new research project worth looking into if I live that long lols.... ?

This garden thread is just the best idea.  Here in the Northwest, we are still under stay at home orders and working in the garden has been a great joy as we endure the pandemic and now a season of grief and protests over racism and police violence.  Unsettling times, and yet when we enter the garden we are connecting with the earth and planting is aways an act of optimism about the future, isn't it?  

So in the past few months, we watched our daffodils and early blooming trees in the first days of spring and then the rhododendrons and lilacs started blooming.  My husband works in the yard every day.  Yesterday, he was pruning back a hedge that had encroached three feet across our driveway.  Before he finished, he cut some roses from the garden arch for me.

@unk-p LOL. Thanks! I'm a Taurus so gardening is like breathing for me... also it's not like I have anything else to do with my free time right now. ?

Lovely,

What are the perennials?   I have just made one sweet potato bin out of old roof tin.  now I am looking to make a chicken coop.  My neighbor gave me 15 tomato plants.  I potted them, gave some away, and now have 8.  They are just blooming with about 4 tomatoes about the size of a Lima bean.  I also have zucchini  and cucumber.  The neighbor says I will need Dipel for pests, but I have not bought that yet. We are in North Central Florida.  Where are you?