It’s Saturday morning and time for The Propagators garden meme featuring six items of interest from your garden. For more interesting sixes, follow this link SIXES
I think Tom Petty said ‘The waiting is the hardest part’. If there is one thing gardening teaches you it is patience. Our weather has cooled a bit and this slows everything down. Here are six things from my garden that I am waiting for:
The Dombeya, I had the buds in last weeks post, they are tormenting me by just getting bigger and staying green. This uber tropical small tree should be covered in pink hydrangea like flowers soon.
Green Beans, not quite big enough to eat:
Radishes, again not quite big enough to eat:
Tomatoes, every so slowly turning red:
Papayas refusing to turn yellow or doing so at the moment a hungry bird flys by. These must have yellow streaks before picking or they never get ripe.
Lastly, fancy Zinnias grown from seed (Macrenia), these are supposed to be an excellent cut flower – double and 3 inches across bronzy orange with scarlet tips. Waiting to see the flowers!
That’s six from my garden. Happy Gardening.
The Shrub Queen 
Florida is a different planet.
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It is, South Florida, anyway. I may figure things out eventually.
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Waiting is indeed the hardest part! Sounds like the papaya fruit needs a bird net. 🙂
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Yes and a really tall guy to put it up.
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Those pawpaws look wonderful…would it be possible to cover them with something to stop the birds? What a lovely treat to see young plants flourishing outside.
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Thank you – I had netting up on the first set of Papayas this summer – it makes it hard to tell if they are ripe though a lot of people do it. I don’t mind sharing if I get a few. The fruit is about 10 feet up now so I can’t really reach it.
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All looks lovely – you are virtually the southern hemisphere, aren’t you? My mouth watering at the green beans – I’ll have to wait another 7 months to eat them again!
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It is nice to have something to look forward to in the winter.
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O my goodness, this is what gardening used to be only a few short months ago. Flowers, buds, fruit, veg. Where did it all go? That radish has my mouth watering. Think I’ll go stroke my box of Russian snowdrop bulbs.
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Laughing, well – it is too hot to grow all this during the summer. I am going to eat the radish right now.
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My son lived in both Florida & Georgia. A visit to him as late as Easter had me spending all my time indoors w/the A/C. I covet your radish but not your summers.
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Agreed and I am from Atlanta – summers are not to be coveted either place. Though I do love winter here. My A/C was on today.
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Hmm, I’m not sure about your conditions. On the one hand, it’s summer still! On the other, I think I’d miss the turning of the seasons.
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I have been here too long to face cold again. There are seasonal changes, you have to pay attention to realize it.
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I hope your Dombeya blooms soon, I think it is one of the showiest landscape plants we have here in Florida.
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It look almost like Australia. I am sorry I missed this two wees ago.
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