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A random flower that has come up all by itself in my nature garden, I think it's Geranium robertainum, it has taken up a good 20 inch circle under the back leg of the swing and I must say I am loving it. Its amazing what comes up in a garden when you just let stuff grow and don't cut the grass
It's only a weed if you don't want it more "weeds" and wildflowers the more creatures come to my gardenThat weed looks familiar
In our case = mosquitoes.more "weeds" and wildflowers the more creatures come to my garden
I have enough spiders in my garden we don't get many flys tbh, bees and butterfly's moths yes but little flys tend to get stuck in the many orb weaver webs that fill the garden we have had about 6 little clutches already this year just out the back garden. Between those the wolf spiders, Tegenaria, Eratigena, Steatoda, Crab spiders, zebra jumpers, and Amaurobius to name a few the flys don't have much chance .In our case = mosquitoes.
Wow lots of new growth how long has it taken to spread like that or have you placed them in?
Started with a single stick in the mail.Wow lots of new growth how long has it taken to spread like that or have you placed them in?
That's so cool it's very pretty I should imagine having a grove/mini jungle of it will look amazing especially once it reaches 6 metersStarted with a single stick in the mail.
It took forever but the grove is growing.
Maybe five years. ?
Apart from the rats that sounds cool a huge bamboo forest with hints of purple and green bet there are lots of spiders hidden in thereBotanical war. 3/4 acre around a family friend's mother-in-law house who was emphatic she be left completely alone and undisturbed. The Wandering Jew moved north from a neat little bordering plant, the English Ivy was given the central area of 2 sides of the house, and the Sichuan bamboo along the driveway. Dial forwards 25 years. Jew vs Ivy heaps over 6 feet high with bamboo supports, and the discovery the bamboo can push it's way up through the tarmac driveway. Mom-in-law's house no longer visible for the impenetrable green tidal wave.
To add to the chaos was the growth harbored rats. Lots of rats. Seen everywhere as evening came on. Enter your truly and my introducing two rat snakes. It took them and their offspring about 3 years to dial the rat population down.
After the mother in law passed on I got the job finding the house and returning the morass into a garden. The bamboo was a hopeless useless endeavor with zero chance of it not returning exponentially. See @DomGom TheFather pics of them sprouting like mushrooms after a spring rain then imagine them doing that right through the asphalt. Runner roots from hell. They grow near the surface and are pretty easy to yard out, but leave just one section of root................Apart from the rats that sounds cool a huge bamboo forest with hints of purple and green
Hot crops!
petit gris de rennes and Nagasaki long.
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I'm doing melons three ways.
Up strings, inside and out and straight on the ground.
We'll see.
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