After the recent cold snap that we had and the fact that we are just a day away from the new (Roman calendar) year, I thought it would be fun to share some favorite 2022 photos from our orchards or gardens. I hope others will join me. 
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After many years and many attempts from different trees I finally got my first cherry (Carmine Jewel) this summer.
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Sorrel?
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I have too many to post!
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Borage officinalis
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Here are a few of mine in reverse chronological order.
A few nights ago.
On a morning of hoarfrost. Our ducks didn’t care.
Identifying some 19th century varieties for a friend who was going to add them to her own for display at a fair. Not a good year for it.
Big apples for a small tree.
Our first Halberstadter Jungfern apple.
New life!
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It’s: Symphytum Uplandicum
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YAY! 
haha.
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The species name (second word) in taxon binomials should not be capitalized. 
Also, this plant is actually a hybrid:
Symphytum ×uplandicum : Symphytum asperum × S. officinale
Dax - It is in the Borage family.
https://npgsweb.ars-grin.gov/gringlobal/taxon/taxonomydetail?id=70770
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Yes, I know that, I copied and pasted from another site.
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Anyway, great photos!
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Shiitake
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Common name: “bocking 14” Comfrey, which is in the Borage family as I understand it.
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daylilies (from seed is cheap!) work good as underplantings. just a sayin
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I just know there are oak people everywhere. This is Quercus x sternbergii (Q. buckley x Q. shumardii). It occurs in a small band in TX where the two converge. It was not until recently not-considered a new species. It’s named after an author and friend, Guy Sternberg of Petersburg IL where he has an enormous oak arboretum (and other trees) and where ongoing oak-research, occurs. He has the most oak species at one location than anywhere else in the world. Now the big deal conversation about this one as, I walked past it on Dec. 4th for the first time to look at its’ fall color to my surprise I came upon a tree that turns purple with red-veining in its’ leaves. I was shocked needless to say. Guy Sternberg and about 100 other arborists/arboretum ‘personnel’ & other authors etc- about dropped their pants I think. Guy definitely did. He stated, ‘this is something very special’.
(hickory nut for camera to focus better on oak)
Quercus x sternbergii (seed grown from natural range, TX.)
Quercus x sternbergii (seed grown from natural range, TX.)
Quercus x sternbergii (seed grown from natural range, TX.)
Quercus x sternbergii (seed grown from natural range, TX.)
Quercus x sternbergii (seed grown from natural range, TX.)
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@AaronN
I believe you pressed “Reply” before the photos had finished uploading. If the connection is slow then sometimes the upload stalls indefinitely.
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I’m just sooo excited about my shiitake!!!
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I hope you will be able to reload the photos! I inoculated some wood chips with Shiitake this past year… hoping that I get some next year.
That’s a beautiful color! I have several peonies, but none that I would consider that pretty.
@Barkslip What a beautiful leaf color. Are you growing seedlings from that tree?
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