Are we ever not showing off elderberries?

Yours is gorgeous!

That’s such an awesome find

Michael’s bought the JoAnn lines like Big Twist so you should be able to find those again soon. At least, that’s what I heard from a Michael’s employee

Thanks, I’m really proud of everyone who donated their plants and time, and for the folks in town for showing up like they did.

Congrats!

Our town library’s plant and bake sale happened on Saturday, and we raised over 1200 dollars for the programs they put on - a 107% increase in donations from last year!

I’ve basically run out of small pots for bringing plants to market, but choose to see it as proof that my seed starting has gotten much more consistent. I do need to find more though, because I have something like 300 seedlings that need more space. Sent some texts and emails and also metaphorically begged for them during the plant sale so hopefully folks come through, since I refuse to commission the creation of more plastic.

Please give him some of it! And some pats and a “whosagoodboy” because he is

Hi Petey! Even your serious face is very smile inducing

He reportedly sent an email that read " […] It’s chalk not paint"

A police report that Cox shared with the news station alleged that officers were unable to determine whether his improvised crosswalk had been created with permanent paint

That tracks

That’s what she said! (About the plant)

Some fun facts:

• The root ball is about 4 feet / 1.3m across

• I stopped counting at 40 crowns

• It’s been nice knowing you all 😅

Absolutely lovely, and a great photo to boot!

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Fun fact, they can be either, depending on the species!

OP, if you’re based in the US check out USwildflowers. Further down on the page os the option to sort by state

Please don’t feel like you have to answer this, but out of curiosity: how were their prices? I’ve seen some places charge ridiculous amounts for serviceberries (and other plants). Still, that sounds right up my alley and I’ll have to make a visit the next time I’m out that way

Don’t beat yourself up! It can be very difficult to sprout seeds in spaces that aren’t cultivated or prepped for them, and planting them in competitive spaces, while rewarding, ups the difficulty. If there’s a garden center that you like, go and ask them if they’re willing to give you some of their plug trays. Some distributors take those back but not many, so they might be more than willing to give you some for your starts. Then you can transplant those plugs of yours and get a leg up on your garden plans 💕

Always happy to help!

Boo less time to garden, but I’m so glad you’re seeing positive results for what you have had the time for (also hoping you’ve had positive results from the things that have been eating your gardening time)

Hmmmmmmmmmmmm. To me, that looks more like lemon balm than Joe Pye. For comparison, from our gardens:

Lemon balm:

Joe Pye:

For another exotic cane fruit, consider Goji Berry (Lyceum barbarum). It has purple flowers instead of the pale yellow gooseberry flowers, no thorns, and it does admirably where we are in Maine. I think the berries taste better when they’re dried.

A different exotic fruit bush would be Haskaps (Lonicera caeruleae). Pale yellow flowers give way to long-ish sweet/tart blue berries that ripen around the time of early strawberries, before blueberries ripen. Bumblebees and mason bees seem to love the flowers, and the birds in our area haven’t caught on to how tasty they are yet. Another exotic worth considering is Goumi berry (Eleagnus multiflora), which will perform anywhere that autumn olive does. I keep expecting the state to call it invasive but it seems to behave better than its cousins.

For rarer native fruits, I’d probably recommend looking at Amelanchier and Viburnum family plants. A. laevis is more tree shaped, but A. alnifolia is more bush-y. A. canadensis is sort of in between, being a multi stemmed shrub that can get up around 26 feet tall if you let it. V. lentago (nannyberry), V. cassinoides (wild northern raisin), and V. trilobum (highbush cranberry) are each wonderful in their own right.

If delicious and decorative is the goal, we always get comments about our purple flowering raspberries (Rubus oderatus) and they’re naturally thornless. They will send up new plants in a radius from their original spot - I’ve seen some coming up some six feet away - but I wouldn’t consider them aggressive spreaders. They just like to make sure the space gets filled

Oh jeez! I hope those thirty are super industrious