Does look like one of the Earth Star fungi
I have to agree that there are some very interesting and thought provoking garden pictures shown on here. And just to show you what can be done,...
No real need to do anything other than perhaps remove the damaged fruit to avoid Brown rot later in the year. It is a seasonal thing and next year...
Check out a problem called Pocket plums. Sounds like this is what you may have. As you say pollination was difficult this year with the weather....
O. versicolor definitely is tender, so probably needs a greenhouse.
The centre of the species is in southern Argentina as far down as the Falkland Islands, so many of them are pretty tough. They are not keen on wet...
Gosh a month gone by already! Ok,so here is the garden this morning. I could go through and put names on the plants, but I am too tired at...
At least you do not have to worry about rashes from the plant then. Has it ever flowered?
To get a decent meal from the roots you need a large number of plants. they are rather thing things.
Giant Hog-weed?
The Poppy is Meconopsis cambrica. The Geranium looks like Herb robert. G. robertianum as said.
Salsify. Tragopogon porrifolius. A biennial Vegetable root. seed heads look like large Dandelion clocks.
Cannot see the leaves clearly enough to give an id, but it is not a Sedum (if that is what you mean by Stonecrop) with that kind of flower...
Sedum spectabile is what I would say it is. They come in shades of pink and white. Very attractive to Butterflies.
Dodecatheon is the proper Botanical name and to tell the species apart you need a very good magnifying glass to count the hairs inside the...
Blue flower is a Campanula or at least in that family.
This is what the old homestead looked like at the beginning of this month. http://s703.photobucket.com/albums/ww32 ... en%202012/
Well, we are currently, getting the 4 inches of rain which was forecast for this area.
Getting there! [img] Lamprocapnios spectabilis alba ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden ) [img] Lewisia cotyledon...
Even more! [img] Campanula altaica ( photo / image / picture from Palustris's Garden ) [img] Chaenomeles speciosa Moerloosei (...
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