What have you discovered growing in your yard?

[enola]

Yeah there is a way to "grift" or grow a new plant from cuttings of an established plant. I'm not a gardener so my knowledge is limited...

The word you are looking for is sprig.

I don't think black berry bshes are grafted. Just dig up a few roots in the falland plant them where you want them.

 

[chickensfinally]

LOL...I'm hoping to stumble across a couple elderberry that I can relocate.
Folks tell me it grows wild, but I have yet to find a couple.
We want it to make our own herbal supplement for strengthening the immune system

Once i learned what they look like in flower I noticed all the different places they do grow "wild" around here. Even in someone's yard... you may be able to sweet talk them out of the berries in exchange for a bottle of elderberry syrup the trick is to get them once ripe but before the birds get to them, quite the balancing act! In my area( Des Moines Iowa) they are now in bloom and I'm squirreling away the locations

After writing this I had to go out on errands and I saw whole bunch of new yards where elderberries are growing that I didn't know about before. Gotta make notes as once the flowers go away they don't look like much till the berry clumps get droopy. I find people don't much know or care about elderberries and will let you have all you want, unless they are birders!

 

[RichnSteph]

The only thing I've found growing in our yard so far is deer. Friday evening I went for a walk around the place and 15' from the back door in a brush pile was a fawn. Maybe 40lbs and covered in white spots. It ran off, scared the hell out of me, and was followed by its mother who was laying down a few feet farther out. The next morning both of them were in the yard again nosing around for food, we're sitting in the middle of a large patch of oak trees and I guess they eat the acorns. So at the behest of my wife I dug a small pond that I'm filling with the condensate drain from our AC system so that there will be water available for them and this week I'm setting up a deer feeder.

 

[LindaB220]

The only thing I've found growing in our yard so far is deer. Friday evening I went for a walk around the place and 15' from the back door in a brush pile was a fawn. Maybe 40lbs and covered in white spots. It ran off, scared the hell out of me, and was followed by its mother who was laying down a few feet farther out. The next morning both of them were in the yard again nosing around for food, we're sitting in the middle of a large patch of oak trees and I guess they eat the acorns. So at the behest of my wife I dug a small pond that I'm filling with the condensate drain from our AC system so that there will be water available for them and this week I'm setting up a deer feeder.

Awww, that's so sweet. You've got pets. My mom used to live in a mobile home that was on a slope. One end was high and every year we would hear bumps from under the house. Antlers or heads, it made some noise. She pretty much made herself a villian come hunting time. Put out No trespass signs. Nobody messes with her deer. The house is gone but I'm next door and they still come to the woods line. (Not a hunting family)

 

[RichnSteph]

Awww, that's so sweet. You've got pets. My mom used to live in a mobile home that was on a slope. One end was high and every year we would hear bumps from under the house. Antlers or heads, it made some noise. She pretty much made herself a villian come hunting time. Put out No trespass signs. Nobody messes with her deer. The house is gone but I'm next door and they still come to the woods line. (Not a hunting family)

We are a hunting family.... except when they live in the back yard. *laugh* I'm sure I'll have names for them within a month and once named they are forever part of the family..

 

[NEChickenNoob]

They taste the same name or not! With that being said, we have deer here that know no bullet will head their way...as long as they don't get in the garden (fenced). They jump the fence and eat my veggies, I will eat those veggies one way or another.

 

[3forfree]

this emerged from the garden this year, have no idea what it is. Anyone?

 

[chickensfinally]

this emerged from the garden this year, have no idea what it is. Anyone?

The flowering plant looks like dianthus. There are some that are only annuals, but others are perennial. If you were referring to the green next to the flowers that looks like a carrot family plant.

 

[3forfree]

I think the green stuff is actually marigolds, I had a bag full of seeds that I scattered around the garden and they're growing everywhere.

 

[mtgrl]

We have LOTS of deer. They like to pass through our yard and eat the alfalfa. I think they are also snacking on my grape vines...