Radogast's Non-420 Garden Creation Thread

[Radogast]

The Grape vine (Catawba) is growing well.
The HummingBird vine is just starting.

 

[brightlight]

I like how you put sticks and branches to use in your garden design. Looks good and very green approach. I also visited your grow thread. Considering it's your 1st grow, you put together a very nice indoor garden room and hardly seem like a new grower. Is your MA weather and location suitable for outdoor plants too?

 

[Radogast]

I like how you put sticks and branches to use in your garden design. Looks good and very green approach. I also visited your grow thread. Considering it's your 1st grow, you put together a very nice indoor garden room and hardly seem like a new grower. Is your MA weather and location suitable for outdoor plants too?

Greetings Brightlight


We have LOTS of sticks, branches, trees and leaves. I have piles and piles of branches that I have cleared that are on their way to becoming garden mulch, fence posts and trail markers. I try not to burn them as they are so full of nutrients plants love


It's nice if you to complement me on my growing. I have not planted a vegetable garden since 1989. Or done any landscape gardening for at least 15 years.


My wife says I come home from work and bound around the backyard like a new puppy
Playing in the garden restores my soul.



Massachusetts climate is very friendly to outdoor growing. Lots of wind, rain and sun without being too hot.
I'm considering a guerrilla grow if I end up with extra clones next month.
I have to be cautious. Growing in an unsecured area could result in the state pulling the permit to grow medical.
Even posting here on 420 feels like a risk, but a lower risk than me asking strangers in the bus for growing advice

Thanks again for stopping by. I haven't checked your profile yet to see if you have logs going, but I will very soon.

 

[GardenFaerie]

Oh those ferns! Just so reminiscent of where my mom lives up on eastern Long Island. I miss the woods. We have them here, but not really like up north or west. Things are looking beautiful. I have birdhouse gourds I grew for Carolina wrens and Chickadee's. This year a flock of common Grackles took up in the yard and there are several nests. They are huge, loud, make giant loads everywhere and aggressive and not afraid of humans at all. They'll leave soon. We also have a pair of woodpeckers, a cuckoo in the front live oak and Cedar Waxwings. It's birdmania back in my garden with two ponds. You are going to have a ton also with your brook.

I'm jellin!

 

[Radogast]

Red Breasted Grosbeak - New in the garden this week.

The female is shy, but the male let me take a photo with my phone this morning.

Also, the robin nesting in the holly by the front door has eggs

I put up a stick barricade and the wife put up a sign, to go through the garage

 

[GardenFaerie]

Ooo, he's handsome!

 

[Radogast]

Those ferns aren't full size yet. They only broke ground this month

We have lots of birds and are doing address best to attract more.
Just today I talked back to wren, chickadee-dee-dee, downy woodpecker, red breasted Woodpecker, nuthatch, grackles(much smaller here, blackbird sized,) catbird, titmouse, red breasted grosbeak, mourning doves, cardinal, and robins. A lot of the birds have pulled back deeper in the woods since we stopped the winter Bird feeding.

 

[Radogast]

I've always wanted to see a cedar waxwing.

 

[GardenFaerie]

Oh the Cedar Waxwings are the most delightful birds. They have this beautiful little song and travel in packs. When they arrive they usually eat every hackberry off the tree and make good use of the ponds for about two weeks. I'll dig out some photos. We have a few Bird Cams set up around the property. They have motion detectors, can be set to take photos on a timer and also video and flash for night. I'll put a bunch of photos together and some video taken at night of the giant racoons who hang from our feeder and swing around like mental cases! LOL.

I'm going to set up the camera to take timed photos of my pot plants and then at the end try to sew it all together for a time lapse grow video.

Isn't life great? I guess at my age every minute is a delight. I was out driving around to buy my parrot some food (well, one of her myriad foods) and I was blasting Let It Bleed and I'm screaming RAAAAAAPPPPPPEE MURRRRRRRRRRRRRRDERRRRRRRRRRRRR, IT'S JUST A SHOT AWAY! Like a nut. But I had a smile on my face and the wind blowing my hair everywhere and I had a few memories of The Stones back in the day and what else is there?

 

[Lester Freeman]

This is an amazing thread, I want to thank Radogast for making it, and thank Gardenfaeri for being here with her awesome stories!
I am so happy to partake in these parallel adventures side by side the cannabis.

Be Well my friends

 

[GardenFaerie]

This is an amazing thread, I want to thank Radogast for making it, and thank Gardenfaeri for being here with her awesome stories!
I am so happy to partake in these parallel adventures side by side the cannabis.

Be Well my friends

Me too. I love talking dirt, gardens, plants, anything really. I just like being social. I do most of it online and have been for over 25 years. Actually, since '86.

OMG, my bird *her name is Mika, named after Mika Hakkinen of Formula One Champ Racing...just said a new word very clearly! I don't teach her to talk, but parrots learn to use words correctly to get what they want. She just said, "gimme kiss" and I gave her one. She asked me again and I said, I just gave you one and she said her new word, "REALLY!" A parrot learned how to use the word "really.' Uh, really? Wow.

 

[Radogast]

Me too. I love talking dirt, gardens, plants, anything really. I just like being social. I do most of it online and have been for over 25 years. Actually, since '86.

OMG, my bird *her name is Mika, named after Mika Hakkinen of Formula One Champ Racing...just said a new word very clearly! I don't teach her to talk, but parrots learn to use words correctly to get what they want. She just said, "gimme kiss" and I gave her one. She asked me again and I said, I just gave you one and she said her new word, "REALLY!" A parrot learned how to use the word "really.' Uh, really? Wow.

Gardenfaerie,
You definitely are a riot


I'm a big fan of the internet. My wife and I met and wooed online in Second Life (virtual reality) followed by Skype and real life. Because it's still easy to make and end relationships online, a person who is real online gathers real friends. It probably helps that both my wife and I have been online since before the world wide web. I started with Prodigy around 1983 and she started with the old style newsgroup forums before that.


I don't have the patience to spend time with a dog or Bird day after day. I'm more of a cat person.
I was visiting with a green conure last weekend and pet other people's dogs, but I like to leave them and go home

The wildness of sorting planting has slowed down, so I was able to spend the day usefully puttering. I'll do a little photo update tomorrow over coffees

 

[Radogast]

Planting lilac


We have several shrub clusters known as Winterberry.
They grow an attractive red berry which remains on the bush after all the leaves drop.
The berries stayed on all winter because none of the birds want to eat them.

The birds love the bushes for winter shelter.
Last winter there was a flock of "bachelors" that spent a lot of time in one winterberry bush.
We called them bachelors because it was a mixed flock of 3 Junco, 1 male Cardinal, 1 five stripe sparrow (our only sparrow), and 2 Blue Jays.
The Blue Jays came and went but the Cardinal and Five Stripe Sparrow went everywhere together


On Saturday, I removed the center 25% of the Winterberry and replaced it with a small lilac.
If the birds accept the Lilac in winter, I still encourage Lilac to gradually replace the Winterberry.

Winterberry in winter.

Winterberry with Lilac insert

Some impressive root sharing among the Winterberry.

 

[GardenFaerie]

What are those giant leaves that look like Gunnera?

Mark and I met online in the 80s on Prodigy! WAY before AOL, or Internet access. We met on a Howard Stern bulletin board. He was a fan in Dallas and I lived in NY. After three weeks on the phone day and night we were in love and never saw each other. We go together a few months later and we've been together since that day. I can count how many nights we spent apart.

Two nerdy dorks with Radio Shack PCs. Hahaha.

 

[Radogast]

What are those giant leaves that look like Gunnera?

Mark and I met online in the 80s on Prodigy! WAY before AOL, or Internet access. We met on a Howard Stern bulletin board. He was a fan in Dallas and I lived in NY. After three weeks on the phone day and night we were in love and never saw each other. We go together a few months later and we've been together since that day. I can count how many nights we spent apart.

Two nerdy dorks with Radio Shack PCs. Hahaha.

Gunnera - never heard of that one. GIGANTIC

That's for sharing your loveBird story

Those big green leaves are Eastern Skunk Cabbage. I am surrounded by acres of it.

Skunk Cabbage is a perennial herb growing visible 4 seasons (although it pulls back underground to show just leaf tips in the winter.)
Notable for:
Skunky, earthy smell.
It finds puddles and builds them into swamps.
Natively invasive/top species in shaded wetlands.
Creates it's own heat in winter.
Variously medicinal herb.

The ONLY herbal remedy I have tried is as a topical analgesic.
After blooming, we cut a spadix in half and rubbed on skin to suppress Posion ivy itch.
Within 5 minutes, pain was suppressed. Lasted from the afternoon until at least bedtime.

Swamp Cabbage Spadix

 

[GardenFaerie]

Wow, very interesting. We have an invasive species here called bastard cabbage. I think it is a mustard because it has the same flower parts or at least from what I can see of them. Very small and very prolifically smother out our natives.

Gunnera is a gorgeous specimen plant in a large border.

 

[Radogast]

Photos of the Dryad Saddle fungi in the brook near the house.
The smaller ones in a group are 6-8 inches each. The larger trumpet flower shaped one is a foot across.
They emerged about 3 days ago.
I have heard on good authority they are edible with a consistency similar to an eggplant and prepared in the same ways.
As they age they increase in cellulose content (up to about 80% cellulose) and become hard as wood.

I'm not going to eat them. At least the largest one will be part of an art project

These photos were taken along the path between my stepping stones and the fallen log bridge.
8 of 12 Morning Glory seeds I planted among the path have just sprouted and are showing their cotyledon leaves.


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[Lester Freeman]

Wow! Incredible!

 

[Radogast]

Cinnamon Ferns

 

[Radogast]

My wife found Laughing Buddha a seat on the natural "shelf" of the bathouse tree.