This is the Clemson website I use to know the native plants around the area, its great! especially to for me to identify new things around the area and study the plants we are able to grow here the best. This is the best site I know to tell you about the plants best suited for the area, native ones atleast, the website also tells you evasive types and many more things, it's really cool.
our mimosa tree that flowered this year for the first time has seed pods now which is very exciting for me lol, some random mushrooms that look almost like (to me!) Chinese scarecrows because it looks like they have those straw or rice hats, and the last is just to show how hot it is around here, the reader yesterday said 102*f and today the weather says it'll feel like 105*f! Things if not properly watched (like the dogwood >.<) will just cook
Uuuggh! I've been procrastinating on putting up these pics of the bad but I think it's better that way. The first are of the fruit cocktail tree (plum,apricot,peach mix) and of course the dogwood. Chances are I'll dig up the fruit cocktail tree and put it in a pot in the front side yard. And the dogwood ill leave In the ground and wait till next spring to see what happens and hopefully it'll sprout new shoots. The next is whats called pokeweed. It's a rhubarb colored weed that i really like for some reason, Its flowers turn into black berries that have a dark purple color juice when squeezed lol. It gets pretty big, not very tall but like very wide and girthy. Also if the root isn't dug up itll grow shoots on lasts year base and usually double in size and becomes hard to get rid, but I like it so it's fine for me. And a bit nit-picky but the pinkish flowers are the pokeweed flowers, i took two of the same cause one has an ant on the edge but the other has a better visibility of the flower. The other I swear is real, is a little grasshopper and one of the best pics Id like to think I've taken lol. And the last are gladiolas, and I thought they'd be done before June ^-^, one is focused more on the yellow the other the red/peachish.
ordered some plants for only like the second time, hopefully they'll be as wonderful as they look!
Now: Blumex tulip, dragon flower/voodoo lily
later hopefully: (!) blue, green bearded iris, and a yellow and red crown imperial, I'd love to try those!
dont ship till fall so gotta be patient, but the first plants i ordered were cacao seed pods from puerto rico, and I ordered two and it did say it might take a while, but I got one seed pod like 3 years back and I got the second one a year later, they were different. One was a white cacao and the other was a regular cacao (don't hate me please cause I don't remember the name!) but I tried to germinate them unfortunately I got them in fall and didnt use a heating pad or green house and lost them, it was very frustrating but I said I would like to try it again and do it the right way, but here's the site I used for the cacao and the one for the tulip and lilies.
Here's the little garden i put together at my job! It's gotten a lot bigger and is looking fantastic, I've been maintaining it and the only bad thing I can say is that the basil did not do very well for some reason, whether it has been the heat, too little water or too much water im not sure, but it's still hanging In there lol. I also cast out some butterfly and bee pollinating flower seed mix in the patch and so far many have came up but mostly on the left side because we at the job tend to walk through the straw then go around the car >.<. But the rosemary, parsley, peppers and tomatoes are all doing well, there are some morning glory vines growing aswell but I probably need to pull those cause they get quite evasive around here and can choke a plant in a couple weeks and even sometimes in a few days if the vine is well established (like the morning glories at home that I gotta pull like every week or I can't see part of our yard lol). It cost about $160 for the plants, straw, dirt, and nutrients. I only use the osmocote calcium sprinkles and Alaskan fish fertilizer, the osmocote I put on every few months and the fish fertilizer I put on a couple times a week. And the flowers are oleander and the flower shoots can be just as flashy as the flowers a lot of the time. And I thought the hampton court palace flower show was great and im glad the gold went to the childrens autism garden, I know me as a gardener, I get so wrapped up in trying to make things beautiful that I forget to have fun with the plants and use our yard for fun and not just something ornamental that I gotta watch like a hawk. it was a garden that also helped reassure that gardening isn't some fad that will come and go but it's something that's being taken in by all people and with a better understanding that gardens are not just something to have because they look pretty but also has a human, medicinal and earthly value to it that can ultimately better peoples lives.
Some plants at work! The yellow one I forgot the name, and the pink is a Crape Myrtle, they come in pink, white, red, lavender, and different tones of the ones mentioned. we also have 2 at our house, the white which blooms first, then a darker pink comes to flower later. Also note the bark which sheds and splits in different colors. Different varieties even have knotches and what seem like twisting bone braches.
These are at our house, the first 4 are the bat plant (tacca chantrieri). the lime tree with the green lizard, there are a bunch of limes atleast a couple of dozen. The green berries are of the beautyberry which turn a shiny purple. The one in the glazed pot is a wild North America Ginger which has reddish to purplish pitcher/cup flowers that are hardly ever seen because they are below the leaves and this plant is usually in the ground cover of leaves/leaf mold, and wood from broke-down trees. I was lucky to get this one from the woods after another attempt that didn't work. And the last is a pokeweed flower, I just love them.
Some morning pictures! The white flowers are the Crape myrtle, the one on the left is the white flower, and the bigger is the pinkish flowers that will open just a little later. The plants near the Bottom deck are the purple angel trumpet and 2 poinsettias, one red one white. The purple colored branches of trumpet, the red stems of the poinsettia. Also a recap on the yellow crown of thorns, and its spiky branches. the tall grass morning picture across my neighbors house. The last is with the cage is the marigolds I think lol.
This is litchfield beach just north of pawleys island, literally on the other side of the creek. During low tide you can walk right over to each side. The one with dillons back turned is facing north towards litchfield/north litchfield, we live on the other side of the creek near the river about two miles inland. And the one with Dillon facing the camera is the northern tip of pawleys island behind him. The sea oats were just extra beautiful today! And the blue crab was dead when I picked him up but still very nice coloration, and Dillon is holding the fiddler crab, it's still alive and pinching at his fingers lol also a loggerhead turtle nesting site, there's a couple dozen running up and down the beaches. I've never seen them hatch in person but I'd love to, id just have to walk the beach at night, but also we've been told that if you do see them hatch it's a good thing to report them hatching to DNR so that they'll help them to the ocean, DNR is like the federal game wardens. But it was a beautiful day and even though I can't grow many beach plants where I'm at I still like to find small parts of inspiration for the garden even if it's bleached branches that wash ashore or some sea shells to put around pots.
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This is the Clemson website I use to know the native plants around the area, its great! especially to for me to identify new things around the area and study the plants we are able to grow here the best. This is the best site I know to tell you about the plants best suited for the area, native ones atleast, the website also tells you evasive types and many more things, it's really cool.
http://www.clemson.edu/extension/hgic/plants/landscape/
The colours in those mushrooms are amazing!
ordered some plants for only like the second time, hopefully they'll be as wonderful as they look!
Now: Blumex tulip, dragon flower/voodoo lily
later hopefully: (!) blue, green bearded iris, and a yellow and red crown imperial, I'd love to try those!
dont ship till fall so gotta be patient, but the first plants i ordered were cacao seed pods from puerto rico, and I ordered two and it did say it might take a while, but I got one seed pod like 3 years back and I got the second one a year later, they were different. One was a white cacao and the other was a regular cacao (don't hate me please cause I don't remember the name!) but I tried to germinate them unfortunately I got them in fall and didnt use a heating pad or green house and lost them, it was very frustrating but I said I would like to try it again and do it the right way, but here's the site I used for the cacao and the one for the tulip and lilies.
http://www.montosogardens.com/tropical_fruits.htm For the cacao (chocolate)
https://m.brecks.com/product/Blumex_Tulip Is the site for the bulbs
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