Their colors are changing fairly quickly. I do not apply any saturation to pictures; he is that blue. The stackable nut rings are a big hit. Goldfinch is here more often. Spring is in the air for sure. Woke up thinking about a new garden in the front lawn, artemisia powis castle, Spanish lavender, and pink cosmos. Need decide on an ornamental size tree for full sun. Just providing more places to land and hide. We'll see. 20 days to Spring. 😊 Jane

FRIENDS…. My Updated spring 2022 New Roses list: @strawchicago z5 @Kelly Tregaskis Collova Straw, Thank you for your tips on Louis Odier, Rohen, & Princess Charlene de Monaco. I had L Odier in Oregon-beautiful! I now have P Charlene de Monaco & she’s 2 1/2 ft w/buds in her 2nd start of year-I love her-she was a great bloomer & very fragrant last year all the time!!!! Kelly, Straw’s roses are great roses!!! Love them! The OGR s Staw mentioned & my La Reine and Mme Dubost are excellent OGR bloomers & so fragrant! I am really in love w/these old garden roses!!! My garden new OGRs 2022 NEWBIES: : My Madame Dubost, Very fragrant! La Reine, Very fragrant! And I ordered about 32 roses for this spring 2022… A few newbies from those orders I planted include: 1. Reminiscent Pink 2. Reminiscent Cream 3. Amazing Grace 4., Queen of Elegance 5. Dark Desire 6. 2 Rosarie de Chantelet from Palatine-great canes! 7. Rosemantic Fushia from Palatine! 8. 2 Morden Blushes 9. Lady of Guadelupe 10. Plum Perfect 11. Cream Veranda 12.,Eglantyne 13. 2 pink minis 14. Julia Childs 15. Sexy Rexy 16. Madame Caroline Testouts (From Pirtland, OR) 17. Pearly Gates CL 18. Ardoisee de Lyon 19. Bolero 20. Summers Romance 21. Madame Isaac Perierre CL 22. Jacque Cartier 23. Awakening CL 24. Vicomtesse Decaux (cross between Kordes & Winchester Cathedral-a very light pink.) 25. Wedding Bells 26. Orchid Romance 27. Cupid’s Kiss 28. Reine des Violettes 29. 2 more pink minis (died) My favorites are the OGRs right now. Reine des Violets just bloomed in my garden…fragrant! Vicomtesse Decaux, Antique Rose Emoorium photo)…. just planting it tomorrow…. Ardoisee de Lyon (Heirloom Roses photo) shipped on June 13…. Madame Isaac Perierre (Delivered tomorrow hope!!!) Heirloom Roses photo…. but bought from A Reverence for Roses… Jacque Cartier, Heirloom Roses photo, shipped June 13….(bought for free w/ sale-free shipping & voucher!!!) HEIRLOOM ROSES SALE CONTINUES…. Many roses $30, plus free ship/no tax!!!

Probably and survive 9 out of 10 years if properly root pruned. For insurance I always bury the smaller pots (I have a few and one northern italian fig from a friend in ground) in my empty vegetable bed during winter and pop a garbage pail over it. One big one (Greek Fig) in a pot is too big too bury so I throw a frost cloth over it. Momma fig is still alive at my friends family house in Greece and a 3 story clone exists at his Brooklyn House.

I've tasted something that I had identified as a probable Morton Citrange, which was growing in someone's yard in Vancouver, WA. When you cut one open, it misleadingly looks like a delicious orange. I and the homeowner think they taste horrible and inedible, but the homeowner says he has two relatives that say they kind of like the flavor. Interestingly he also has what is apparently a special variety of pure Poncirus that I can stand to eat a little of. Doesn't have any of the horrible putrid "I need to spit this out right now" flavor that the (presumed) citrange has.