Scarlet runner and luffa
Flowers
Crazy cucumbers
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OOO please tell us what’s in your native plant garden! I see a couple things I recognize but mostly don’t? I gave them letter labels… in case other people want to help. I ran out of letters and didn’t get to the tree.
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You are so funny!! I’ll work on the alphabet list and edit with name 
Here you go:I’ll include scientific name where I know them off top of head.
A: joe pyeweed, sold as “coastal” but does great in the droughts and grows 6-7’ so more likely hollow or gateway
B: Heliopsis helianthoides (smooth oxeye)
C: dill flowering, not native…seeded EVERYWHERE from my “brilliant” idea of planting in the garden last spring. I let this tiny patch remain. Will be dead heading this time!
D: yup. Echinacea purpura, also white swan or something white in there and echinacea pallida
E: firefly peach yarrow (cultivar)
F: Asclepias tuberosa (butterfly weed)
G: not sure what this is referring to. At the very end against the street is some little bluestem. The taller green thing just to the right of telephone pole at the very back is some verbana hasta I pulled up maybe 6 weeks ago and shoved in the mulch over there.
H: correct! Amsonia hubritchii
I: aromatic aster
J: correct! These are the annual ones. They grow themselves each spring from all the dropped seeds. Everyone’s favorite
K: pink muhly grass
L: there’s some more echinacea about to open there. Not sure if it’s white or straight species
M: hmm good question! I’m entirely blanking right now and need to go check. I have Culver’s root in this area and one is blooming. Can’t remember if this is another
N: echinacea pallida
O: monarda didyma, I think Jacobs cline
P: red husker penstemon that planted themselves there last year and I decided to let be
Q: coreopsis verticillata. I have endless volunteers of this and moved this one here this spring
R: good zooming in!!! This came from a kind GF member this spring and had rooted nicely in its container and got planted last week
S: Baptisia australia (blue false indigo). This is new this spring because voles ate my big one. Planted it and THEN all the BFI volunteer seedlings appeared..
S: yup! I think that’s the Long Island cheese pumpkin.
T: helenium autumnale. I prune this a few week ago to force it to be bushy
U: itea virginica. I think they’re all “sweetspire” this was one moved last year and the year before so it’s small
V: liatris spicata (blazing star)
W: firefly white something yarrow cultivar
X: apparently I shoved an onion in there. Who knows.
Y: “moonbeam” coreopsis.
Z: phlox subulata
It’s hard to label and see more of whats there from the picture, but a few others maybe easier are:
Tall green stuff under the “B” label is verbana hasta.
Tree is spring glory serviceberry
Directly under the “M” is a narrow/small plant (not the blanket) that is lespedeza virginica
Between the white yarrow and pink muhly in the foreground are a bunch of smooth aster seedlings and the remnants of two big plants destroyed by the voles
Above “Z” in front of that grass is a monarda punctata volunteer (thanks for making me see that!)
I think it’s hard to make out more
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This monarda makes me happy. From 3 little ripped up clumps from another patch fall 24 and the very tall not blooming is m. fistulosa from seed that 24-25 winter. We put in the posts and cattle panels this spring when it was already 2’ and I was worried it was going to be floppy this year. It’s so nice when things sometimes go how you envision
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I am here to brag because not many real life people that I associate with understand how hard I’ve worked to get my fruits to this quality without spraying or netting anything
The literal fruits of my labor in the last few weeks. And a very pretty rose I bought myself because apparently I don’t have enough already on my plate.
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flower bed with Titan sunflowers going up up up. drupes making a quart of berries every day now. hollyhocks coming up in the paths. and a marigold patch by the fennel
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Rhubarb took off and is growing like crazy. Has 2.5’+ leaves.
Crimson star goji is starting to ripen a lot of fruit.
Very disappointing taste after having tried the yellow goji and the orange Imperial goji, which are a lot better and enjoyable to eat.
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What do those goji taste like. Which is the best. I’ve been debating on getting one, but not many people say anything good about them.
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Like a pepper with a little tomato and some sweetness in it.
Depends on what you like, the yellow has very little to no bitterness, the Imperial has a little bit of bitterness, but is sweeter and super juicy.
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The red goji berries a friend gave me tasted like chemicals.
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Harvested some Seminole pumpkins that were ready and there’s over a dozen more still on the vine.
This banana stalk is flowering and there’s another stalk right next to it that is a little taller that ought to flower soon as well.
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Wow productive vine!
Wow! I really want to try those. I didn’t think they’d ripen this early, I had in my mind the fall.
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Hi. No they start on May. This is even a bit late. They are amazing fruits!
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