Spring at Last

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Post: # 33311Unread post Growing Coastal
Sat Oct 31, 2020 10:18 am

A friend started some of these and I had one Fat & Sassy pepper. Did well.
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She also had some extra cukes. So glad I took only one plant!
Babylon produced 52 small sized cukes! 22.3 lbs
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It was grown up strings for each arm.
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So glad I had one little boy next door who loves cukes!
He told me that his mom just LOVES garlic when he saw mine drying on a table in the driveway under the tree. So, I sent him home with some samples.
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His mom told me that he tried growing one this year too. A young gardener lives next door!!! He called me his mentor one day this summer (be still my beating heart!) I gave him a few cloves to plant this fall along with some elephant garlic.
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The Edamame soy did better than I expected, even in this cooler than normal summer. Tohya & Kuro Shinju
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A few mixed pole beans too. Hummingbirds love their flowers.
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Next to some holly berries.
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Here is one self sown garlic chive growing in straight peat along with a blueberry. it did well there for two years with only a bit of acid fertilizer added for the bluet.
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When I saw that the very large berries were only large this year I decided to plant it in the front yard after most fruit was picked.
Might as well sift....
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Blueberry plants have great fall colours then the stems look good in winter.
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Mon Nov 02, 2020 11:52 am

loving the look of those peppers and garlic....
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Mon Nov 02, 2020 2:36 pm

Me too! I've never grown such a large pepper before thinking they wouldn't do well but this variety was great even in this year's cool summer.

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Post: # 36717Unread post Growing Coastal
Wed Dec 23, 2020 4:46 pm

A few of the this years pics before 2020 is done.

I don't think I've mentioned these petunias A friend ordered them and shared a few.
Scentsations is a very satiny looking flower changing colour as it matures. It does have a geat scent. A good basket plant.
Anyone have a favourite scented petunia?
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We also grew some black ones from seed. These were more upstanding.
One plant had a few flowers that were bicoloured.
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I love orange zinnias.
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I tried Cleome again but the hummingbirds didn't really like it though they'd explore it once in a while.
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Amistad
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I put the big Agapanthus where I could see it easily from the house. I didn't know how much hummingbirds liked it. They seem to like it quite a bit! Most often they would cling to the bottom petal of the flower to feed on it.
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Salvias are their bread and butter though.
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Crocosmia of any size is a hit with them too.
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I saw a hummingbird poking at an Amistad flower yesterday! After our first snow there are still a few flowers but they are doomed now with minus temps at night coming.
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One flower I have seen them squabble over is this Lobelia. It can grow 3-4 ft in a pot.
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A young male just growing in his colours around his head.
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Clinging to a leaf. It must be hard to grow and put on weight while feeding on flowers.
Holding on like that conserves some energy.
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Hanging onto a garlic chive stem to reach a geranium flower. The geranium was a steady draw.
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An orange Skyscraper salvia. Afternoon shade makes the light blue.
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When it starts to get rainy, after the tomatoes are done here, I stuff the salvias etc that will fit under cover on a bench.
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These two Lantanas survived the winter in my garage last year and did well.
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More apparently delicious salvia.
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This was in October.
Abelia has become one of my favourite shrubs. Its lightly scented flowers go on long into November.
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A teenager. You can tell by the spots.
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Wed Dec 23, 2020 6:15 pm

[mention]Growing Coastal[/mention] these are all so beautiful, thank you for sharing! I love those purple petunias and how happy the hummingbirds are in your garden :)

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Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:01 pm

Wow! All those flowers are amazing. As for the hummingbirds, I really do miss them. Back in Oregon, we used to have a male in our backyard that would put on a flying show for the females where he's fly up high and dive, making a high-pitch click. I do wish I could plant more permanent perennials here...but I only got two little community garden plots. Can't wait to own a home with a BIG yard one day.
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Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:06 pm

I'd like a big yard one day, but I'd really like a hummingbird.
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Thu Mar 04, 2021 4:07 pm

fluffy_gumbo wrote: Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:01 pm Wow! All those flowers are amazing. As for the hummingbirds, I really do miss them. Back in Oregon, we used to have a male in our backyard that would put on a flying show for the females where he's fly up high and dive, making a high-pitch click. I do wish I could plant more permanent perennials here...but I only got two little community garden plots. Can't wait to own a home with a BIG yard one day.
The males were doing that last month as well as chasing after the female who has taken over this year. I'm guessing she will nest somewhere nearby but that will be hard to spot. She has quite the attitude and will chase a male away from a feeder if she wants to drink.

She's not much to look at and is skinny when viewed from the side but spunky as anything.

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As soon as a gold crowned sparrow showed up she came out of the shrubs and started to bathe as if to say that the fountain was hers.

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Fri Mar 05, 2021 3:51 pm

Amateurinawe wrote: Thu Mar 04, 2021 12:06 pm I'd like a big yard one day, but I'd really like a hummingbird.
Do they exist in your area? If they do, just put out a feeder and somehow they will find it!

Edit: Nevermind, I just looked it up and it doesn't seem like hummingbirds exist in Europe :(
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Sat Mar 06, 2021 2:53 pm

Neither do they live in places like New Zealand which has plants hummingbirds would love like tree fuchsias.
Only in the Americas.

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Sat Mar 06, 2021 6:13 pm

None here either... we have to make do with dragonflies. Just love your garden, Coastal. :) Hummingbird paradise!
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