hi Masto #Gardeners: I need an ID please for this dark purple flower which has come up in my garden. I’m in #Jersey Channel Islands

Thanks!
#Bloomscrolling #gardening

Quick question to Masto #Gardeners

How can you know what tree might graft successfully onto another? I'd like to try a few. And I was wondering about a couple of frankenstein versions. But there have to be limits here. Presumably I can't grow a fig graft on an apple tree for eg?

Thanks!

OK, this is most specifically for my #CentralFlorida #gardeners - have any of you successfully grown Witch Hazel down here?

Like Hamamelis virginiana, not the ornamental loropetalum.

IFAS has it down to zone 8B, but I’ve seen other sources that have it all the way to 9B…

Please and thank you: Only responses with firsthand experience in the 9a-10a zone!
Boosts appreciated!

If you didn't believe that #voles are #gardeners as I told you in my podcast episode "When gardeners run wild" part I, here's the proof with photo: https://mastodon.online/@Minimus@archaeo.social/114173909170033316 by @Minimus

For the episode about gardening animals: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/ep-07-when-gardeners-run-wild-part-1/id1630784381?i=1000606747381

#Gardeners , planting milkweed and butterfly weed is totally helping! This makes me very happy!!

#Gardening

#Monarch

#Butterflies

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/mar/11/eastern-monarch-butterfly-population-doubles-year

Having done a little more reading, I think that I need to actually understand some more about my soil chemistry. Sadly, where I live there is no agricultural support facility which can help.

So I need to do it myself. I have a P, K, N testing kit - which I am going to try.

But the symptoms I want to address are: 1) soft fruit doesn't taste great; 2) lack of bulb growth on a range of veg; 3) that's it.

I mulch deeply and regularly. But something is wrong...

Thoughts #gardeners?

Red blush rose with morning dew.

https://www.artheroes.com/en/shopartwork/Red-Blush-Rose-Macro-with-Water-Doplets/1403003/132?mediumId=1&size=75x50

Hello Masto #Gardeners - so I'd welcome comments, suggestions, advice.

I'm going to put a metal-frame pergola up length of the garden and plant fruit trees along it. Something like this: https://www.agriframes.co.uk/collections/pergolas/products/round-pergola

Mayb 1.8 wide and I think it's about 10 m long. It's a big investment and project.

I'm now wondering what to plant along it. I'd like it to be fruit. which means something over 20 trees are reasonable.

So: are multi species graft trees any good? Any advice at all here?

Where are the #permaculture #gardeners on Mastodon?

If any aussie #gardeners looking for seeds, just found https://www.theseedcollection.com.au/ and it has a huge variety in veggies and herbs.

Alrighty US desert #gardeners hit me with your favorite native plants!
Need ideas to start this spring, what should I look for? What can I propagate?
Any good books I should look for?

I briefly mentioned that I’ve started a PhD with Greenwich Uni where I’ll be looking at female gardeners and environmentalists in the long 19th century. Who are the best people to follow here into that topic? Any ideas? #history #victorian #19C #gardening #gardeners #environment

Early morning garden harvest - some of my Hungarian lettuce & some grapes.

A few of our #cucumbers are still growing.
Some large Oregon #snowpeas.
Ongoing soil remediation project is making slow & steady progress. Cardboard, topsoil, compost, woody debris, crushed seashells, seaweed, grass cuttings, leaf mulch are all breaking down together nicely.

It's #SeedTapping / #SeedsCollecting time. My #liatris & #zinnias have gone to seed. I'm collecting their #seeds to save, to share & to plant next year, in new spots around the backyard.

My #roses & #dahlias are still producing new buds & blooms.

Morning, mixed #tomatoes #harvest from our backyard. I have maybe 1 or 2 more tomato harvests left for this season.

Two more galia #cantaloupes that I grew & harvested.
These fruit melons are super sweet, juicy & delicious.