This tree is a favorited of mine-a nice shape now but in the Fall it turns red! I've never taken the time to see what kind it is, though.
But when Bill and I took a walk the other day, the honey bees were very active around this tree--it was humming!
We looked closely and found these 'lily-of-the-valley' shaped flowers and the even smelled lovely!
I had to google it and I learned it is a wild persimmon tree!!!
My Muscadine grapevine is off to a brilliant start!
And even has some very newly formed bunches!
(look closely!)
The pond, unfortunately, is shrinking!
We just had our first measurable rain in 6 weeks!
I am hoping for a normal rainy season this summer
to bring all our water levels up.
The Elderberry trees have all bloomed
but their little berries dried and fell off without the rain.
I'm hoping that the recent rainfall will help the late berries!
The aloe are happy and so are the hummers who visit it!
This rose bush is from Bill's Mom who planted it at her winter home here in FL many years ago. When the house was sold,
Bill took the root ball and has nursed it back to health!
It is stunning! (6' TALL)
Bill has also cultivated several large plots like this for vegetables and it was very happy for the rain, also!
We are eating radishes from it already!
It looks like Bill is as busy with his outside fun as you are with your inside projects. :-) We've had lots of rain over the past few days and the farmers are ecstatic. It's been a very dry winter.
ReplyDeleteBlessings and hugs,
Betsy
Enough bees to hum? Lucky you!
ReplyDeleteThat is a beautiful garden patch!! I am not a gardener, but grew up with a dad who sure was! All that fresh food sure helped feed our family of six! I so enjoyed all of your photos!! xo
ReplyDeleteSo much beautiful green! My radishes are coming along but it will still be several weeks before we can harvest!
ReplyDeleteBill’s garden is making me jealous. I always get garden fever this time of year. The deer put an end to it pretty fast though. They’ve already ate the buds off my roses.
ReplyDeleteOh, the wild persimmons...do NOT attempt to eat until they are dead ripe! My hubby tricked me into barely tasting one that wasn't quite ripe enough, and it was like alum on the mouth and tongue....never again!!!
ReplyDeleteYou have such a lovely parcel of land and gardens, etc. So wonderful!!! And your pond is certainly fuller than ours, as you know, ours is bone dry. I am really praying we are getting into our rainy season and that it won't disappoint us this year! Oh, that rose bush...I wonder if it is a Don Juan climbing rose bush? That is what my one rosebush is in the Memorial Garden, but it hasn't done very well the past couple of years. I need to relocate it more in the sun to see if it will start growing again...It has the most beautiful roses. It was a gift in memory of our son, and we had to transplant it when we moved here, and it just never has done very well here. Yours looks like it is in the full sun...so it must be happy there. I just don't know if mine is even healthy enough to survive another move to a different location. But seeing yours gives me incentive to want to try.
You have a lovely place. So happy for you.