What is growing in your yard---type of flowers , veggies or fruits. Mine is lavender.

[debm55]

[sinkingfeeling]

1. Papaya, pineapple, coconut, and hundreds of bananas. Oops, those are all fruits! Lots of tropiccal flowers.

[debm55]

2. Thank you sinkingfeeling . I will add fruits to the list.❤️

[electric_blue68]

19. Wow You're in a warm climate and have a farm?

[sinkingfeeling]

37. Costa Rica.

[electric_blue68]

38. Ah! Got it!

Are you growing mostly native varieties of stuff?

[NeoTrajan]

36. "I want to go to there" - Liz Lemon .... nt

[JoseBalow]

3. I've got both kinds

Sativa and Indica

[debm55]

4. Thank you very much for sharing, JoseBalow.

[buzzycrumbhunger]

5. We moved a year and a half ago...

Everything is still just sitting out there waiting to be situated… I’ve got orchids hanging, plumerias. Tons of succulents, spider plants, fruit trees, a list too long to name them all.

Of course, every time the county announces a free tree giveaway, my son bops over to get the biggest ones…

Problem is that this is a rental and judging by the massive system of roots and dead wood EVERYWHERE, they lost at least one HUGE tree. My tiller is useless. The yard is impossible to walk through easily because 1. I shattered my knee years ago and rough terrain is iffy for me, and 2. The damned yard is nothing but huge roots and sand—not much in between. What the place needs is a couple dump truck loads of soil or at least gravel to make it usable.

Son is also even more anal than I am and has to take over any time I start a project—meaning nothing ever gets finished.

So yeah, I’ve got pots of almost anything you can imagine—gone wild. Luckily, in Florida, neglecting your plants is the best way for them to flourish (so easy to over-mother them and they perish).




Stapelia—HUGE, star-shaped flower that stinks of rotting meat…

[debm55]

10. Those are beautiful. Thank you for sharing buzzycrumbhunger.❤️

[electric_blue68]

21. Good luck for improvements. Lovely flowers....

. My mom and idk where she got it (she had succulent) had one of those stinky flowering plants! I'm sure she wouldn't have gotten it otherwise! And the darn thing would bloom almost every year; and there'd always be a few houseflys hanging out in that spot when that happened. Ew.
.
Otoh, she had a couple of stone flowers- and one bloomed! 🥰

A friend talked about bourgevillia. I didn't see any until I visited Puerto Rico. Our hotel pool area had the yellow ones, and while I was walking to a store there was a big magenta one. So pretty!

[buzzycrumbhunger]

28. Yeah, the stapelia has AWESOME flowers

…but the stink is horrendous. I made the mistake of planting some by the front door and they LOOKED amazing… but yeah, they were always covered in flies—and not just a few.

[electric_blue68]

31. Egads! Yup, that's what she had!

Luckily, I guess bc it was indoors we only had a few flies.

[Hassler]

6. Salvia, lavender, cigar plant, trumpet plant,

Basil, parsley, cuke, peppers, beans, onions, tomatoes.

[debm55]

11. Great selection of all types. Thank you, Hassler, for sharing with us.

[biophile]

7. So many things are blooming now

Boneset, daylilies, hyssop, coneflowers, lavender, black eyed Susan
Not counting the annuals - celosia, petunias, geraniums, portulaca, impatiens, borage, chamomile, begonias…
My garden brings me joy!

[debm55]

12. When we were younger, We had all types of flowers, veggies and plants. I loved having them. As we got older, we cut back

And just have the lavender. I miss my butterfly garden the most.

[biophile]

15. Lavender is one of my absolute favorites!

The anise hyssop is tied with lavender. It’s one of the first to come up, it flowers from July until hard frost or freeze, it gets tall and doesn’t flop, stays green in dry spells (takes a lot to make it wilt, although it will eventually if it’s super dry), isn’t a bully to other plants, bees love it and reseeds nicely. I have a lot of it around the pool- smells nice and no thorns or harsh stems.
But I’m with you on cutting back; it’s getting to be a lot for me in these later years.

[electric_blue68]

22. What about (if it can be done) a potted butterflybush?

[Permanut]

8. Hydrangeas, lavender, azaleas..

and the star of the yard, crocosmias. Bees and hummingbirds love 'em.

[debm55]

13. Thank you very much for sharing with us, Permanut . Love your selection. I had a hummingbird and butterfly garden.

It was wonderful.❤️

[electric_blue68]

23. Lovely selection!

Had to look up the crocosmias - very pretty!

[Polly Hennessey]

9. Lemon tree, orange tree, Wisteria, and roses.

[debm55]

14. Oh wonderful Polly Hennessey. Wonderful selections. At one time had 2 peach trees.❤️

[electric_blue68]

25. Fruit tress! And 🥰 wisteria!

I never knew about wisteria until my early 20's. A friend and and I were walking around in The Village (nyc) at just rhe right time, and saw some.
A few years later going to a health food store; the block I'd walk across then turn southwards - there was a smaller apt building with it all over -glorious. Later still The Brooklyn Bontanical Garden has sonetjing like pergolas for it.
Definitely a favorite!

[Figarosmom]

16. Dalhias, hollyhocks, ziennas, roses, marigolds

Tons of beans both Bush and runners. Blue Dream, tomatoes of all colors and sizes, watermelon. Zuchinni and hot and sweet peppers. I put in cantaloupe but the seeds were d so I don't think they will come up ( I don't see any so likely no).

[bobalew]

17. Sorrell, Variegated Ivy, & lots of redwood trees, with some Maples & Bays...

We've gotten rid of most of the non-native scotch broom, though....

[retread]

18. Crabgrass, dollarweed, and nutsedge in the yard . Stays green year around! Also tomatoes, eggplant, peppers,

and cucumbers in garden. Tried strawberries for a couple of years. The one positive note was the berries seemed to keep the squirrels out of the bird feeder.

[Tikki]

20. Meyer lemons. We have an active tree.

There is an acre of avocado trees across the road.
We do not eat avocados but we guard it so strangers don’t hop the fence and harvest.
The owner does not live on site and thanks us with grapefruits he grows else where.

Tikki

[ProfessorGAC]

24. Bushes & Flowers

We have too much shade for most veggies. We've tried multiple times with no success.
We had 50 something boxwood, 8 or 9 yews, a dozen hydrangeas or so, an oak leaf hydrangea, a few lilacs, plus a bunch of hostas, Herman's Prides, Corabelles, and ferns.
For flowers we have roses, calla lilies, tulips, and lillies of the valley.
Plus my wife plants some annuals; mostly impatiens & marigolds.
Here's some pics.

[electric_blue68]

32. Lovely. What are the white flowers?

[ProfessorGAC]

33. Those Bushes Are A Variety Of Lilac

Until we got these, I didn't know there were different kinds of lilac Bushes.
Those flowers are different than those on the lilacs my parents had.

[electric_blue68]

34. Wow TY

I didn't think they were the oak leaf hydrangea because you said you only had one.

I did look it up. .I've seen both types the oak leaf, and the round ones.

[ProfessorGAC]

39. The Oak Leaf Hydrangea Also Has White Flowers

But, they don't grow in a ball like typical hydrangeas. They actually resemble tiny white daffodils.
Here's a pic of one of the 3 rose Bushes. 2 are red, one is white. I didn't get those in the other pucs.

[electric_blue68]

40. Lovely!

Yeah, I saw pics of the white ones when I looked them up.

There's at least one Oak leaf variety that's bi-colored. Starts out one one the lower area then changes mid way

[Diamond_Dog]

26. Veggie garden - lettuce and tomatoes only this year.

Green leaf, red leaf, and red romaine lettuce.

Tomatoes are Early Girl, 4th of July, Brandywine, Beefsteak, Juliet, and Moby Grape.

We’ve had two ripe Beefsteaks and the lettuce is just crazy - salad every night!

[mike_c]

27. eight citrus trees, plus mesquite, two ash trees...

...a bunch of oleaders, yellow bells, a Mexican bird of paradise, two passion flower vines, and a whole bunch of agaves and cacti. A palo verde. Roses. Canna. Mexican fan palms. Mulberry trees. The veggie garden is finished for this year. We just moved two blueberry bushes inside because of the heat. Somehow the raspberries continue to hang on.

[Cirsium]

29. It's a jungle

250+ species of native plants. Virginia stickseed, Common milkweed, Enchanter's nightshade, Shrubby St. John's-wort, Gray dogwood, Hop hornbeam, Early figwort, False sunflower, Common cinquefoil, Bush honeysuckle, Rudbeckia hirta, Canada bluets, Long-leaved bluets, Butterfly weed, Canada milk vetch, Pearly everlasting, Prairie sundrops, Penstemon digitalis, Narrow-leaved vervain, Hoary vervain, Blue vervain, Shrubby cinquefoil, Pale corydalis, Calamint, Dwarf skullcap, Yellow avens, Harebell, Blue-eyed grass blooming now.

[electric_blue68]

35. Wow!

[Jbrn]

30. Veg, fruit and flowers

Tomatoes, peppers, cantaloupe and lots of flowers and herbs

[Phoenix61]

41. Assorted drought and heat tolerant flowering

plants and 5 blueberry bushes, 5 blackberry vines and 2 Asian pear trees. The blueberries have done well the last few years. The pear trees are just getting started.

[surfered]

42. I'm jealous as Lavender doesn't do well here. So, red and white Vinca, red Zinnias, Purslane, Portulaca, Day Lilies,

..Canna Lilies, Red Caladiums, Green Caladiums, blue Salvia, and Dianthus.

[Wicked Blue]

43. Lavender is about the only plant the deer won't eat

and I have several. Also a couple of rosemary plants that they avoid.

I have a few plants protectively caged. Buddleia (they eat the parts that stick out). Dianthus "Cheddar pink". Catmint. Alyssum. Clematis. A peony. An iris. Vinca - which they usually leave alone. Native columbine in a pot. A couple of rhododendrons and a hellebore.

Everything's in bad shape because of a long drought.

[sakabatou]

44. ATM, veggies and herbs, mostly

We do have watermelon, which is new.

[Aristus]

45. I have a hydrangea and two Japanese maple trees.

They’re the only things I haven’t killed.