Alastriona, The Cats & Dogs: Thursday in the Garden

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Thursday in The Garden

We miss Jonsie and The Society of Feline Gardner's. What fun days those were. Our oregano is doing well.

So is the Mexican Tarragon.

Mom says when the Oregano starts blooming it's time to whack it back.

But we think the blooms are pretty.

Confederate Jasmine it smells so good.

Butterfly Plant not to be confused with a Butterfly Bush or Butterfly weed. We love how the blooms look like little butterflies.

Cuphea

Begonia, why you would want such a pretty flower to be gone I don't know. ~Scylla, reporting for ATCAD

Thursday in the Garden

Not only does the Gardenia look pretty when it blooms it smells good too.

Daddy planted some cherry trees and look we already have cherries.

The pears are almost ready to pick.

And so are the apples.

These pretty little flowers came up around the pear tree.

We hope you enjoyed seeing whats growing in our yard. ~ATCAD

The Pokeweed. We had mentioned something about eating it and someone mentioned they thought it was toxic. So we sort of thought we should explain. It's only safe to eat at certain times (early Spring) and you have to wash it like a bazillion times. Mom said she would only eat it if her friend was the one that harvested it and prepared it. He is older than her and has been eating it for years so she knows he knows what he is doing. But during the Depression lots of people in the South ate it to survive and from what Mom understands that is about the only reason you would eat it.

Violets this picture turned out pretty good. Now if only Mom can remember how she did it.

Confederate Jasmine we wish we had more of it. It doesn't get cold enough here for the Asian Jasmine to bloom.

All these pictures are from April. Mom planted a few new pots, they are really big and luscious now.

Angel Wing Begonia.

~ATCAD

Thursday in the Garden (April Flowers)

Mom got a Buddleia, but it died. The company she got it from is supposed to send us a refund but we are still waiting on it.

Crossvine

Mom has no clue what this is. She took a picture in order to use Google Lens, but it didn't know either.

Same for this.

Scylla's Bane We are sure some of you remember how it got it's name but we included a link for our new friends, that might not know the tail.

Amaryllis

Rosemary, we wish we could get a picture that does justice to how pretty it looks when it is blooming.

Washington Hawthorne.

Chinese Witch Hazel.

Swamp Iris ~We hope you enjoyed our garden tour. ~ATCAD

Thankful Thursday the March Flowers edition

Mom was so happy the Hyacinths she planted last year came back. She loves them. We are very thankful for all our flowers, especially the ones that come back year after year.

We liked the Forsythia so much that Mom bought us another one it is doing well.

This poor little thing is suppose to be a Buddleia, unfortunately it did not make it. We are supposed to get a refund from the company that packages it. This is how it looked when it came out of the package. It was supposed to be dormant. Mom planted it anyway and we hoped for the best but it just couldn't make it.

Mom got us some Foxgloves, they are doing terrific.

Some little violets growing wild. Mom loves them they are the flower for her birth month.

Mom really loves this pot, the mums are fixing to bloom now. ~ATCAD

Xenia

Xenia (also known as the Xenia effect) in plants is the effect of pollen on seeds and fruit of the fertilized plant.^[1] The effect is separate to the contribution of the pollen towards the next generation.

The term was coined in 1881 by the botanist Wilhelm Olbers Focke to refer to effects on maternal tissues, including the seed coat and pericarp, but at that time endosperm was also thought to be a maternal tissue, and the term became closely associated with endosperm effects.^[1] The term metaxenia was later coined and is still sometimes used to describe the effects on purely maternal tissues.^[1]

^{Thankfully we don't have to understand xenia to grow beautiful flowers.}