Gardening, landscaping and plants in general

[jfk1117]

@GraemeE what kind of smoker is that?

[GraemeE]

@jfk1117 I think it's a fairly generic brand - while I've used it for smoking plenty it's essentially just a welded barrel with a chimney

[motojobobo]

A friend’s harvest of “Tommy Atkins” mangoes looks very promising this year!

[Clint_D]

Those look delicious!

[Giles]

Envious....

[jiminstitches]

I thought I’d share a photo of my 7 foot monstera as she was looking so good today! Another obsession I have is house plants. I’m constantly propagating but I’m most fascinated with Alocasia and philodendron.

I recently added this Philodendron billietiae too, love the orange stems on these.

Any others collect these?

[spleef_oner]

A couple Japanese maples and a wip pic of a flagstone path my wife and I did last summer/fall.

[Clint_D]

Love the Japanese Maples! I’ve tried quite a few over the years but can’t seem to do well with them in the Texas heat. The Bloodgood varietal did okay but never really thrived and got wiped out by our heavy freeze a few years ago.

[spleef_oner]

Thanks @Clint_D ! I think we’ve just been getting lucky tbh as I can be pretty neglectful. My neighbor has tried several times and they’ve all died over their first winter. Those pics were from last fall, the maple with the rock border(not sure the type) is just now coming out of its first winter and is looking good, here are some progression shots from the past cpl wks.

[goosehd]

We are about 3 weeks early this year:

[GraemeE]

We are working on getting the last of the vegetables planted this weekend

[SKT]

We’ve got a couple mature lilac bushes in the backyard in full bloom and they smell glorious

[GraemeE]

Little by little we are getting our space re- beautified after our Xmas eve flood (drunk driver + hydrant)
Got the new path in this week

[Giles]

[iammortalcombat]

Not the greatest pic but expanded to 2 beds this year and started working on adding a clear path. We took out 9 dying pines from this area last year.

[goosehd]

[Giles]

[long_john86]

So I have the back-breaking job of digging out an 800mm border in my garden.

During my hard labour today I came across this ‘object’…..

What do you see?
Any thoughts?…..

[goosehd]

Pretty good condition to be very old and too thick to be any type of knife. Thinking it may have been part of an old iron fence?

[long_john86]

@goosehd Whilst I’d love to imagine it is a weapon of some description, some kind of railing is a more logical assumption. The site has an old Victorian convalescent on it in the Gothic style (now converted into apartments) so no doubt something to do with that.
It really captured my boy’s imagination - he went on to dig for more random finds.
But back to the back-breaking border for me tomorrow….