Go to the farmers markets, big box stores don’t fluctuate pricing like that.

Got to 26c last week couple days later frost, now it’s 16c with lows of 2-4c and rain all weekend. Usually dry here, so not gonna complain about some rain. Just can’t garden those days.

I dead head mine so they bloom longer, but I think if I left them it would grow larger faster?

Don’t mind the size of these actually.

Canadian prairies. You can see it’s still the colder side from the purpling of the leafs (anthocyanins).

Canada!

This is when commercial products lead the way. Get some safers soap or some neem oil.

How many species have a larger wing span than that? It’s not that many…

That would look out of place in the majority of the world. Condors aren’t exactly flying over every city mate…

wingspan of 1.96 meters.

Not exactly bird like like these other ones though…

Well darn, looking back through my photos mine won’t bloom till around July.

That colour is stunning. I’ve got some deep purple, some white and purple, and red yellows myself. Mixture of oriental and asiatic too, so they bloom at slightly different times I believe?

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Leaving them on the plant gives it more energy for larger blooms. Your choice what you want.

If you got deer, probably get those beautiful blooms safe.

Mine are coming out of dormancy with vengeance, excited to see mine bloom in a few weeks

Yes!

Lillie’s are cuttable, you can even cut the whole stalk with other blooms and they will continue to bloom in your vase.

They are poisonous to animals, and clean the pollen off, it stains everything.

Sounds like you’re number 6 in line and have an axe to grind haha.

Yeah sorry mine came out wrong, I meant the California poppies that I looked up were rufflier so I wasn’t confident they were poppies. Hadn’t been assed to find out if the app was right or not, but you fine folks did.

I get it, I could someone’s ear off about cannabis myself.

Damn, that’s the information I like to get. Trying to get that myself would involve an hour of research. Never would of thought to count petal or sepal amounts.

Plant id said it’s a California poppy, but some looked rufflier?

I do try and save the tab for them, but this one was just a mix and general info for all of them. Like seriously haha.

I don’t count the dandelion blooms myself.

My neighbor has a lilac tree I think and it’s the first thing to bloom. One of my trees still isn’t out of dormancy, some are budding. Love this stupid cold-hot time of year.

It’s not “needed”, but it will make more seeds start and allow them to sprout faster.

I would rather have a 90% germ rate in a few days at ideal conditions, than 50% germ rate and it take 3 weeks.

Link to the mix

I dislike how they don’t include all the flowers in the mix.

Also fixes nitrogen. Idk if shady spots with moss need it, but lawns generally need nitrogen.

Our clay is already basically that…

That does make sense actually. Big issue with concrete is you can’t use a lot of sands because they are smooth, you want the rocky abrasive kind so it binds together. So while we have deserts of sand, our construction sand is finite.

Also, don’t use jointing sand, it has a binding agent in it.