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They have begun to flower. I know it is a process but I do enjoy waiting for these beasties to produce. I am excited to see them come into bloom and see what kind of taste they have. I have…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: 2021, agriculture, agroforestry, April, beautiful, beginner, beneficial, blackberry, edible, flower, flowering, food forest, food forestry, food security, fruit, garden, gardening, growing, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, horticulture, landscaping, permaculture
Are you like me and didn’t know that common plant names are not the best way of identifying plants because a lot of the common names get confused or could overlap with others? I mean there are trees that are…
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Category: Year One
Tags: 2021, agriculture, beautiful, beneficial, botanic, botany, country, definition, dicot, edible, educational, favorite, flower, flowering, food forest, food forestry, food security, fruit, fruit tree, future, garden, gardening, goals, growing, growing indoors, harmless, herb, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, horticulture, industry, land, meaning, monocot, mystery, name, names, nature, new, New Year, pasture, pasture land, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, plants, pollinator, pollinators, preparation, pretty, propogation, random, resources, scenery, season, seasons, seeds, shrub, soil, sound, species, spirit, sustainability, suvrvial, TAMUC, temperature, texas, tradition, tree, trees, tricks, unknown, update, variety, web, wildlife, zone 8, zone 8a
I have a five year plan. It is not a good plan and it changes from day to day but it is a plan. Right now, I have just left year zero. January 2021 is starting a new year for…
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Category: Uncategorized, YearZero
Tags: agroforestry, anniversary, apocalypse, apple, apples, autumn sage, baby trees, banana tree, beautiful, bee, beginner, beneficial, bird, birds, blackberry, blueberry, bug resistant, bulb, bulbs, business, butterflies, butterfly, calm, clay soil, drip irrigation, drought resistant, edible, fall garden, flower, flowering, food forest, food forestry, food security, fragrant, fruit, fruit tree, future, garden, gardening, goals, grape, ground cover, growing, growing indoors, herb, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, hummingbird, hummingbirds, irrigation, jasmin, jasmine, land, landscaping, lantana, lemon tree, life, lime tree, limes, marjoram, meaning, medicinal, milkweed, monarch, monarch butterflies, monarch butterfly, nature, New Plant, New Year, new year 2021, nursery, orchard, oregano, ornamental, ornamental peppers, pasture, pasture land, pear, pear tree, pears, peas, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, pests, picture, pictures, plant, sustainability, year zero
Amber E. Clifton was just convinced by me to start a hobby Facebook page for her amazing pictures. Of course, I provided a link and I look forward to everyone having very pleased eye holes. She did some amazing photography…
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All the way from Oregon, Groot wants you to know he is proud of you. This is a weeks worth of growth on a Sunflower she planted with her daughter. I love the way she made the pictures come together…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: 2021, annual, beautiful, beginner, beneficial, butterflies, butterfly, container, cultures, edible, flower, flowering, fragrant, future, garden, gardening, goals, groot, growing, growing indoors, harmless, herb, homestead, hopkins, hopkins County, hops, hummingbird, hummingbirds, indoor, indoors, land, life, meaning, medicinal, mystery, nature, new, New Plant, New Year, new year 2021, News, pagan, pasture, pasture land, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, picture, pictures, plant, Plant yourself, poison, preparation, pretty, Project Grow Your Roots, propogation, random, resources, shrub, spirit, sunflower, sunflowers, temperature, Tips, unknown, update, violas, violets, wish, wishing
I live in Texas. Howdy. I was looking into things that could boost my permaculture food forest without costing me any money. As I was looking through the many grants. It all started with the Monarch Butterfly Grant. This is…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: agroforestry, autumn sage, beautiful, bee, bees, beginner, beneficial, bird, butterflies, butterfly, calm, clay, clay soil, cultures, definition, drought resistant, edible, evergreen, fall garden, flower, flowering, fruit, garden, gardening, goals, grant, growing, hardy, harmless, herb, homestead, honey, hopkins, hopkins County, hummingbird, hummingbirds, land, landscaping, lantana, meaning, medicinal, milkweed, monarch, monarch butterflies, monarch butterfly, nature, nest, new, pagan, pasture, pasture land, perennial, permaculture, Personal blog, plant, plants, pollination pollinators, pollinator, pollinators, preparation, pretty, random, red sage, resources, sage, salvia, shrub, soil, sound, spirit, Spiritual beings, starting out, sulphur springs, temperature, texas, Texas sage, Tips, trailing lantana, tricks, unknown, vine, vines, wish, wishing, yellow, zone, zone 8, zone 8a
I think I might have slaughtered more innocent plants this time. I am sad about it, but the soil was too perfect and I was crumbling in my hand. Like a hermit crab these plants cannot stay in their smaller…
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A beautiful pumpkin flower Silverado Sage flowers
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Year zero was not as productive as I wanted it to be and so I am actively working towards making sure that i am actively adding pollinators and fruit producing plants. One of my favorite ways to do that is…
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That’s right. You heard it right. My pumpkins are beautiful and they have the most amazing flowers. Ignore how weedy my garden is. Pumpkins have two kinds of flowers: male and female. The first flowers to show up are male…
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I have three silverado sage and one texas sage or at least that is what the tags say. I have to say that I am impressed with how well sage grows here. Maybe I should start making smudge sticks or…
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It turns out that out of all of the lantas we bought only three survived but they are the prettiest three lantanas. Now don’t quote me on it but I am ninety percent sure that I will be the proud…
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Category: Uncategorized
Tags: flower, flowering, garden, ground cover, homestead, landscaping, lantana, perennial, permaculture, plant, plants
I am much happier during the early growth season. Here I am planting new seeds right before it starts to get chilly. I know I will bring them in and I already have the best idea for where I want…
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Bachelor’s Buttons are absolutely stunning. This is also called the corn flower but there are a few plants called that from different species. Just so you know this is just an honorable mentiom, it is not revelant to what I…
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Morning Glorys are more butterfly and hummingbird feeders. They are viney and have beautiful flowers that come in many different colors. Growing up to 10 feet a year morning glories make an excellent climber or thick ground cover. Morning glories…
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I enjoy taking pictures. Here are some of my favorites from this week.
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