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I took these today -- I'm not very good, but I like them. It's fun to take photos of little things you notice :wink: So let's share :-()

A bead of water on a Nasturtium leaf:

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Onion blossom:

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...OK? Go! :()

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Not sure why you say you aren't good at it, applestar, those are beautiful! I love the reflections in the bead of water. So I guess time for me to get my camera out!

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Not a whole lot going on here just yet, but I do have many from last year.
I shoot everything with a 300mm lens, so closeups can be a little difficult.
Bumbler on a Tithonia.
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Big Kid found the baby plums!
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Some of these are from years past!

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Such beautiful photos everyone! :)
So far, this is all I have on my iPad right now:
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It's a baby lemon tree I grew from seed. It's about 6 months and is 5.5 inches tall!

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Oh, and here are some strawberries we picked:
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And our pup Cleo in a patch of cute, yellow flowers:
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I'll have to take a few current ones. for some reason I'm out of that habit.

here's a few from years past, though:
my entry in the drop-on-leaf category (one of my potted gingkos, a few years ago):
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a new cluster of thorns on a honey locust, next to some old ones:
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out-of-season alert! groundnut blossoms:
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this pic from deep in the turnip jungle is a classic in my household (from about 12 years ago, I think)
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the first yacon plant I grew, ~2009:
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and me in my yacon patch (all divided out from that original plant) 2 or 3 years ago:
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(growing an amount somewhere in between, this year)

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Mascara Lettuce
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I can smell them just looking at them!

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I love the little chamomile flowers, so perky and cheerful:

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here they are again with some kind of little flying visitor. It is not a honeybee and the picture is maybe three times life size:

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I'm trying to get chamomile growing again, it is just not happy here!

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^have you tried the annual ones? they always seem to do better for me than the perennial kind, for whatever reason.

rainbowgardener, agreed, not a honeybee - but it is a bee of some sort. the antennae and loaded pollen sacs on the hind legs attest to that. at first glance I thought it might be a hoverfly.

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^have you tried the annual ones? they always seem to do better for me than the perennial kind, for whatever reason.
Tried them last year. I have seedlings still just sitting around not doing anything again this year. Tried both the perennial and annual versions from purchased plants several years. I'm starting to think it may just be too hot here.

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I had been thinking hoverfly too. I didn't see the pollen sacs (? or what looks like them?) until I looked at the blown up picture.

This is annual chamomile. It is starting to fade now that it is getting SO hot, but it has bloomed for quite awhile. Perhaps you need to start yours sooner, Lindsay?

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Maybe so. I feel like I need to give it a more concerted effort.

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Two photos of Arrowwood Viburnum flowers. I can't decide which I like better. I keep flip-flopping :lol:

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--- I don't know why the colors came out so differently either. Maybe different light quality. We had a crazy scary wind storm this morning shortly after I took these photos.

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Very pretty! Told2be :D

I tried to start some dianthus from seeds earlier, but they didn't come up. I need to learn more about growing them, I think.

Lindsay, loving the luminous tomato shot. :wink:

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Haha that last photo is that terribly named fungus isn't it? I didn't know they grew here in NJ. :lol:

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This is a bluebird house that I gave up hosting bluebirds with ( I just don't have the right kind of location ) and moved around the garden until I settled on this corner between the Family Room wall and back wall of the garage. It's right outside a window,though we keep the sheers closed due to hot sun from this direction.

The house never looks occupied, but every year, Carolina Wren nests in this box. Unlike house wrens who tend to imitate Luke Skywalker, Carolina Wrens are very cautious about approaching their nest box. They flit from shadow to shadow, first landing in the apple tree, then in the blackberry patch, then the Swamp azalea. Sometimes (presumably when they have hungry mouths to feed) I hear their desperate calls of distress at finding me working nearby, and I temporarily switch tasks to let them go in the house and feed their babies.

Unfortunately, the entrance hole is big enough for cowbirds (but I can't limit the entrance since Carolina wrens are about the same size/girth. And I see them sneaking in this house, so I wait anxiously for the chicks to fledge and show themselves. I hate seeing the devoted parents gallantly feeding chicks that are as big or bigger than they are. But I see this more with house finches and house sparrows, and occasionally cardinals.

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applestar wrote:Haha that last photo is that terribly named fungus isn't it? I didn't know they grew here in NJ. :lol:
The devil's dipstick. That's not too terrible.

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Mascara, Rosetta, Romaine, Red Oakleaf, Green Oakleaf, Escarole. Fresh from the sink. :)

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Yummy!

My Mascara has gone to seed. Interestingly, the upper leaves have lost the dark color -- maybe due to heat.

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I will have to be watchful and be ready to harvest. Apparently local house and gold finches have figured out I'm allowing my greens to go to seed and have stripped the first clump of Red Russian Kale seeds and half of the Japanese mustard spinach seeds. :x

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Oh no!!! Those little beasties! Don't they know those seeds have purpose?!?! :lol:
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These mascara are fairly new sprouts. They're in the new pots! (Yay me for keeping things alive in pots!!!!) They only get about 4 hours of sun per day in that spot. I'm hoping they keep up as long as I keep picking.
The older lettuces are beginning to bolt. The Oakleaf, romaine, escarole.

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When you notice the red part finally gaining enough courage to stop hiding and come out...
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This picture makes me smile :D
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Elephant garlic, still wearing the scape "hat".

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Arugula in bloom:

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the garden itself is a little rough this year. instead:

tea seedlings!
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and even farther from the garden (had to haul a piece of wood out for contrast): one of the grafts I did this year on seedling american persimmon, in situ:
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being on it's own original un-transplanted taproot should make it a seriously resilient and long-lived tree. I guess technically there are two grafts in the picture. this variety is a very large-fruited cultivar.

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Where are my sunglasses :cool:

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!potatoes! wrote:the garden itself is a little rough this year. instead:

tea seedlings!
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and even farther from the garden (had to haul a piece of wood out for contrast): one of the grafts I did this year on seedling american persimmon, in situ:
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being on it's own original un-transplanted taproot should make it a seriously resilient and long-lived tree. I guess technically there are two grafts in the picture. this variety is a very large-fruited cultivar.
OOOHHH tea seedlings, eh? I've been meaning to try that -- my potted little tea shrub blooms like mad and then fruits, but somehow, I've never gotten around to growing them from seeds. Are they difficult?

The persimmon -- American persimmon rootstock? And what's the scion?

Man, start a thread or two! Don't just show us tantalizing pics :-()

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aw, but tantalizing pics is all I have time for!

I'll see what I can do...tea goes under trees'n'shrubs, I guess?

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Herbs, please -- I know, but part of tea herbs, I thought. I think I might have started a thread somewhere and you could add to it, but you might want to start a new one a follow their progress?

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Here's a thread we've had going for a long time on tea herbs: https://www.helpfulgardener.com/forum/vi ... =tea+herbs

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oops, I had already gone ahead and put it in trees and shrubs - feel free to move it!

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