Plant Pictures 6-15-13

Some of my plants.

 Purple Oxalis.  This is a houseplant the likes a lot of sun, so it is outside for the summer. I gets morning sun.

This is a green Oxalis.  I will be dividing both the green and purple before they go in for the winter.  Let me know if you want some of either or both.

Pineapple plants.  The back on I planted last year and it stays in the house.  The front one I planted a few weeks ago.  The back one used to look like the front one and it took at least 6 months to start looking like it was growing instead of dying.

Sweet Basil.  Just picked off a bunch more flowers this morning.

I picked these pieces off of the above plants a few weeks ago and rooted them in water.  This is the pot that will come in the house for the winter.

Pineapple Sage.  Not sure what to do with it, but it smells good.

Orange mint.  This smell good too.  I brought a piece in from last year and rooted it in water.  Here it is this year.

Stevia Plant.  Last year the cuttings kept dying, so I bought a new plant this year.  Haven't tried any cuttings yet.

Last picture for today is this.  The wind chime doesn't keep the birds away, but the pine cone does.  I got sick of cleaning up sticks that kept falling on the porch everyday and sometime twice a day.  No more birds on the light.

Some of my Yard Pictures 7-15-13

This is the Moon Flower plant at my front door.  It is getting huge.

Here are three seed pods from the Moon Flower.  The spikes are painful when they turn brown.  There are thousands of flat seeds similar to Holly Hock seeds inside.  If you want some let me know.

Going to plant lettuce, spinach and more carrots today.  Dug up some of the garlic Saturday and one bed of potatoes was getting too much water, so the plants started dying.

Here are the potatoes we dug Saturday.  Yukon Gold.  I have the hardest time getting very many of these.  All the other kinds do much better.

This is the other bed of potatoes.

Picked this onion and took a picture right away.  Lots of onions this size this year.  They loved all the water the the potatoes don't like.  Let me know if you want some onions.

There will be lots of purple grapes in September too.  They are growing good this year.

Lots of Elderberries for the birds.  We never get any.  To hard to protect from birds, because the berries on the top of the plants.

Some of the gourds from last year.  Larry is in the process of carving some.  They will be on a different blog when finished.

This Lavender plant is doing very well this year.

I put some lettuce in a pot to grow just for seeds.  Almost ready to put a bag on it for the seeds to fall into.

Now for some of my favorites.  I call these the self planting things.  I don't know where they came from, but I always let them grow to see what they become.

 Sun Flower plant in the back yard.

These were in the pot you can barely see in the background last year.  Seeds blew here from the pot.

The Holly Hock was there last year, but not the yellow flower on the left.  Didn't plant either of them.

Haven't planted Violas in 4 or 5 years and a few keep popping up somewhere every year.  It does quite well for getting no water.

One strawberry plant showed up 2 years ago and now it has turned into a lot.  Here are the ones that aren't hidden by other flowers.  These are in the front yard and I planted strawberries in the back yard 15 or more years ago.  No fruit on these or the ones in another flower bed that planted themselves 7 to 10 years ago.  Can't remember when they showed up.