I was surprised this Saturday to find green flowers in the garden – a week late for St. Patrick’s Day. And never expected this:
Green Larkspur? Delphinum ajacis, if I remember correctly. I bought a cutting flower seed mix last fall and thought the plant was Nigella – until this popped out. I love Larkspur and always had some in the garden further north, did not know it could be grown in winter in South Florida or flowers could be green. The flowers were pink, white and blue in my other garden. Happy day!
Dill flowers on the herb. I am so enjoying this Mammoth Long Island Dill. The foliage and the flowers.
From the produce section, the Sugar Baby watermelon has been shored up with a sling of netting and growing by leaps and bounds.
A top view of the watermelon sling. I use the netting on nearly ripe mangoes as squirrel abatement.
French Breakfast Radishes from the bag garden.
Surinam Cherry or Pitanga flowers. This is a common screening hedge in South Florida, it produces a grape sized fruit with a pit. In my opinion, the fruit is one of those things you have to grow up eating to enjoy. It has a resinous flavor and often has small worms. I like the indestructible hedge and enjoy the flowers, the birds enjoy the fruit.
There! My Six for this Saturday. To see more SOS posts, visit http://www.thepropagatorblog.wordpress.com.
Happy Spring and Happy Gardening!!
The Shrub Queen 
I, too, love green flowers. Pitanga flowers are charming, and your watermelon is looking very promising. .
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What is it about green flowers?
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One year I tried to discourage the squirrels form eating by gourds by putting them in panty hose. Worked but looked ridiculous. I must find a photo. A lot of wrong goes on here…as you know.
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LOL, I have seen bras on Papayas here, whatever works. The squirrels can drive you crazy. They eat the mango seed and leave the fruit.
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That is like my son. When he was a toddler, he refused to leave the store without a certain toy. He never did this before, so I bought it. We got home. It took it out of the box. He played with the box. 😖
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yes, that is priceless..
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I was totally baffled.
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Just took a stool picture
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great
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I can see the change in the melon from last week.
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It is gaining weight!
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The watermelon is taking a lot of work. It better taste good.
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I agree, I started with six vines, three were killed by cold and now I have one watermelon. The little fruits keep turning brown or the giant lizards are eating them.
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Today I too have radishes but it’s for dinner. Nice growth of your watermelon ! It will be tasty I’m sure…patience…
Here I would have used tights (my wife’s !) to help it but it must be warmer in Florida for you to use a net, you’re right 😂
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Hard to beat fresh radishes! My husband has used all my tights for straining paint!
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Cool larkspur, must be a white mutation? And your Sugar Baby has grown a lot in one week! Slurp!
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I love your netting! Your veggies are doing so well this year!
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Thanks.. hopefully it works.
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The green larkspur is really pretty. I wonder if it is a hardy one. I must look that up! 😃
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No idea, the seeds are from North Carolina – 700 miles north and much colder. Probably an heirloom mix of some kind. Will see if I can find out.
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I haven’t found any green ones available here. Will just dream of them instead. 😉
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As they open they are creamy white with green interior..will save seed!
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A rarity indeed. 😃
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Suriname cherry is a type of eugenia. I had to look it up. There is a eugenia that is a common hedge in Southern California also. It is not so common here. The fruit is good, but scant.
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hmmmm, there are several kinds…
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Yes, and a few are grown for their fruit.
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One of these days I will find one of the good ones.
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There are probably better fruit to grow. Brent grows the common Eugenia (for the region) as a hedge, which it excels at, but does not expect fruit from it. Fruit just might be a bonus.
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You don’t see the Surinam Cherry being used as a hedge in our part of Florida. I don’t know if it is too cool on the Treasure Coast or just not fashionable with landscapers.
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Vero is the land of Viburnum suspensum and Clusia hedges, not sure why – I think the Cherry may be considered invasive now, mine are probably from the sixties or seventies.
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Love the sling idea for that beautiful watermelon! I’m a lover of various shades of green in the garden too. That larkspur of yours is gorgeous.
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Thanks.. I’m going to try to save seeds from the Larkspur..
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