Open Contest Outdoor Garden Show—2025 BYC Summer Fair

[atomic]

Bitter oranges from my trees in the backyard, what are sour oranges good for you may ask? MARGARITAS!

 

[drstratton]

Flowers: A Carniolan honeybee on a Shasta Daisy.

 

[Perris]

what are sour oranges good for you may ask?

they make the best marmalade

 

[Perris]

Final entry, a fun one: A very hungry caterpillar was here

 

[Gill-b]

Entry No.1

I enjoy photographing tiny flowers. When you look at the photographs on a screen, you see things about the flowers you would not have noticed while looking at the real flowers first hand.

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[Gill-b]

Entry No.1

I enjoy photographing tiny flowers. When you look at the photographs on a screen, you see things about the flowers you would not have noticed while looking at the real flowers first hand.

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[Not an entry.]

This is to help give perspective of the size of the flower using a matchstick...

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The plant which produced the flower is growing in a outside container which is mounted below my bathroom window. A pair of Wagtails nested in the container and the plant has never quite recovered.


Here is a photo of one of the Wagtails sitting on the nest.

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[Debbie292d]

Final entry, a fun one: A very hungry caterpillar was here
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Either those caterpillars know how to chew to create beauty, or that ones got OCD!

 

[drstratton]

This is not an entry. I've submitted a different bee garden photo with a sunset.
The flower garden we planted for our honeybees. I love how it's grown in and the bees are also loving it.

 

[Rethia]

Oh my gosh, where do you live that you can grow watermelon THAT huge? We can only do the little round ones up here in WI.

Sorry, missed this! I'm in zone 6a (Indiana). I try to get watermelon seeds in the ground as soon as it warms up and then they trellis above the ground so I get at least 3-6 large melons before it's too cold for them to finish ripening. Because they are on a trellis, they get a lot of sun and seem to grow more quickly. I also have a lot of flowers around them so they get pollinated early.

 

[jxp]

It was a seed library seed, and the packet said it was ‘2000 Year Old Squash’ (a little digging brought up the name ‘Gete Okosomin’) donated by the local indigenous museum.

And here I was being proud of the Tuscany melon plants growing from seeds from 2014 I found in a box I'd packed away.