Not sure what these are. Really look like little hanging hearts !
Bleeding Hearts !
Beautiful. My mom always had bleeding heart in her front flower bed when I was growing up. That's a lovely specimen.
We continue to work on the garden and landscaping here. I planted a container of herbs yesterday: mint, thyme, rosemary, oregano, and lavender. I also potted up some rooted olive cuttings.
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Last week my husband and I built some protection cages out of some old fencer wire that we had. Yesterday we got the plantings underneath them done. We're planting some Carolina Allspice [sweetshrub] in some areas of our yard that have some bad erosion. Carolina Allspice is a beautiful plant native to this area that can withstand periodic flooding, so we have hopes that it will help with the washout. The plants are "deer resistant," so I don't plan to fence them when they're older. I just don't trust the deer not to pull up new transplants when they're young and vulnerable.
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This was one of the tomatoes defoliated by the recent hailstorm. I was pleased that the one remaining leaf allowed it to photosynthesize enough to put out new growth. When it's a bit bigger, I hope to clone another plant off it off it give me a second for the one that was killed by a cutworm.
I did all the pruning of hail-damaged foliage yesterday. I was delighted to see some green tomatoes on my Maglia Rosa and Taste Patio bushes.
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I've got some okra coming up as well as some buckwheat to act as a cover/smother crop on the soil underneath. Despite all my cardboard and mulch, I've got some tenacious grass invading my garden beds. I'm working on more mulch.
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Some of my cucumbers succumbed to the hail, but the surviving ones are putting on new growth. My Beaver Dam peppers are beginning to flower.
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This is garlic from my mom's garden. It's perhaps a little overmature, but all the rain we had recently meant that it was hard to get out there to work in the garden. She has lots more that's still growing.
All in all I'm very pleased with how little lasting damage there was from the hail.