BYC Café

[Shadrach]

The flowers have a lovely colour; do they also have scent? Some modern roses are very disappointing from that perspective, but that one looks a bit traditional, and some of them smell good enough to eat!

Do you harvest the fruit for quince jelly or paste? Or are they not worth the effort (like mine)?

Not much scent to these Perris. It's getting quite hard to find scented roses here; you know, breeders again.
There is a place further North that specializes in flowers that haven't been messed about with so much and they do scented roses and have a seed bank for 'original' strains of a number of plants. I should take a trip up there. It's a lovely part of Catalonia.

 

[Shadrach]

Good morning Cafe.
Coffee is made. Tea bags and kettle on the counter.
Warm and overcast here. There is just no way I can keep up with the vegetation growth here.
Just trying to keep the bit in front of my house sorted is enough gardening for me.

 

[Perris]

morning all
thanks for the coffee Shad.
Blooms are bursting out all over here; tried to capture some of it yesterday

and the smell is gorgeous, especially of the orange blossom (middle) and lilac. I love spring, and it's especially welcome after such a wet miserable winter as we had here.

 

[Perris]

and caught the supermoon at dusk

 

[Shadrach]

morning all
thanks for the coffee Shad.
Blooms are bursting out all over here; tried to capture some of it yesterday
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and the smell is gorgeous, especially of the orange blossom (middle) and lilac. I love spring, and it's especially welcome after such a wet miserable winter as we had here.

From what I can see from the pictures you've posted it looks as if you have a lovely garden.
Just a bit less of a jungle here is a result.

 

[Perris]

From what I can see from the pictures you've posted it looks as if you have a lovely garden.

thank you. I worked hard on the plans for and planting it 20-something years ago, and lots of tlc for its first couple of years, and since then it's been very much left to get on with it. The plants that were happy thrived and the ones that weren't have withered away, making room for the others to expand. So it's mostly established shrubs and trees now, though some burly perennials survive the chicken onslaught . This is a ravaged centaurea gigantica - one of their favorites nibbles for new growth - it will be waving lemon flowers 10' high by midsummer! And it self seeds all over the place, so I'm not worried by the chooks depredations.

 

[DobieLover]

Do you harvest the fruit for quince jelly or paste? Or are they not worth the effort (like mine)?

Nothing at all worth the effort. By the time it bears it's tiny fruit, the cedar waxwings show up and have at it.
Your gardens are beautiful! I love the scent of orange blossom and lilac. I have to finish the roof on my house and get the front of the garage done before I even think about landscaping here. I actually should finish the inside first too.

 

[DobieLover]

Good morning Cafe. It's a frosty 31F this morning. The flock was rather subdued this morning compared to the way they went to roost last night.
Kerrie took the chicks out of the maternity ward twice that I saw but never made it out of the coop. As soon as someone walked into the coop, she'd hustle the kids back to the ward... only to be invaded in there instead. It was quite chaotic last night, especially when Cap went after Alecia in the ward run, Fabio heard and saw it but could do nothing about it. So far both boys seemed to have come to some sort of truce.

 

[sourland]

Good morning, Cafe, and thanks, Shad.

@DobieLover are you getting hit with snow tonight ?

 

[DobieLover]

@DobieLover are you getting hit with snow tonight ?

That's what 'they' are saying. Going down to 26.