What’s going on in your garden (2025)?

Morning Glory said:
Is this the finger lime caviar? Looks good 'n hairy! What will you do with the fruit assuming it crops? I've used it with smoked salmon to effect.
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That’s the tumbling tomato plants 👍
I’m not expecting anything from the finger lime tree for a while. It’s quite small at the moment.
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If it eventually fruits and they are the pink variety I think they’ll be quite pretty.
Smoked salmon sounds like a lovely idea 😊
 
Still no sign of the peppers, but that’s to be expected - they always take forever to germinate.

I started 2 different varieties of tomatoes today (big rainbow and my fave, golden pearl). Still not much more than snowdrops up in the garden - I am worried that my rhubarb might have kicked the bucket over the winter (who manages to kill rhubarb, it’s supposed to be indestructible!).
 
I mostly indoor garden ...
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This is the Anthurium Plant that my estranged sister sent to me 2 years ago when I was in the hospital for a time.. it never bloomed before until I started to treat it better, aka gave it fertilizer and watered it regularly 🤷‍♀️
 
kaneohegirlinaz said:
This is the Anthurium Plant that my estranged sister sent to me 2 years ago when I was in the hospital for a time.. it never bloomed before until I started to treat it better, aka gave it fertilizer and watered it regularly 🤷‍♀️
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That's beautiful!
I've got quite a few in the garden; they love the climate here.
Anthurium are epiphytes - like orchids, and bromeliads - which (in the wild) grow on other plants, like trees, but are not parasitic. They derive their nutrients from the surroundings, rather than soil.
When your anthurium grows even bigger, you can remove it from the small pot, cut the stalks into pieces and replant in some sort of peaty/mossy soil. Then you'll get double the amount of plants.
Mine need re-potting right now, so when I replant them, I'll send some photos.
 
karadekoolaid said:
That's beautiful!
I've got quite a few in the garden; they love the climate here.
Anthurium are epiphytes - like orchids, and bromeliads - which (in the wild) grow on other plants, like trees, but are not parasitic. They derive their nutrients from the surroundings, rather than soil.
When your anthurium grows even bigger, you can remove it from the small pot, cut the stalks into pieces and replant in some sort of peaty/mossy soil. Then you'll get double the amount of plants.
Mine need re-potting right now, so when I replant them, I'll send some photos.
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Yeah, ya know, I really need to separate this guy and re-pot them in smaller sizes... this is really three different plants graphed together, I can tell because there's three different colored blooms.
DH said, "wow, that's the first time that your sister gave you something nice"
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Put some mulch down where my watermelons are to be planted. I'll have 4 Sugar Babies.
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Some more mulch for my chili's and tomatoes.
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Another area that's never been planted in so I mulched all of it.
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Took a step back and I've also gathered another pile of clippings for my squash, cucumbers, eggplants, and beans.
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Up on the hill I've got a pickup truck load of leaves I've been turning since last fall that I'll put down everywhere after everything is planted.
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Heard a wolf howling last night and on the second howl went outside on the back porch. I clapped and called for Ozzie but nothing. I heard something crashing through the brush and found the footprints in the garden this morning. Good thing is since there wasn't any food/game to be had it'll wander along.
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Here are some of the orchids that always flower at this time of the year.
The first is a Cattleya - The Venezuelan national flower. Exquisite perfume.
The second is a Dendrobium aggregatum. These were my mother-in-law's, and last year, I pulled them off the fern trunk they were attached to and gave them a bit more room, on 6 trunks instead of 1.
the 3rd and 4th are probably dendrobium, but I can't for the life of me find their proper names. Anyway, they flower once a year, for about 10 days, and then the babies appear, attached to the stalks. I've got hundreds of them.
The last one - again, a dendrobium, but this one has been carefully nurtured back to life after my 18 month absence in 2022-23.
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