I got sweet pea flowers; I love the smell of sweet pea fl...
I got sweet pea flowers; I love the smell of sweet pea flowers. While they are super toxic to our furry friends, my dogs and cats have shown zero interest. Thank goodness! 😅 We now have sweet pea photos! Anyone growing sweet peas or anything else that smells so yummy and delicious? 😋 Ps- I’m so anxious today 😬 I’m supposed to have my soil delivery and my last thing I need for my water before I water my plants tonight. Why time is so slow 🐌 when you are waiting for things.. 😩 I’m giving a thank you gift; is a banana and a prickly pear a good thank you?? 🙏 #HappyPlants #PlantsMakePeopleHappy #PlantAddict #NewGrowth #TheThread #TheWateringHole #PropagationStation #PlantTherapy #PetsAndPlants #PlantCorner #BeforeAndAfter #PlantShelfie #RarePlants #PlantID
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@Idplantthat I love the color of your sweat peas. I just put my plant in the ground about 2 months ago. it’s much smaller than yours but finally is starting to flower. I built a little fence around mine so my dogs can’t get at them. My banana plants seem to be doing well too although mine are inside. I love them. Plants are always a great gift. Buy a little decorative basket, add some 🎀 and share your love of plants with others. ❤️🙌🏻
Yeah, I'm with you. Sweet pea flowers are enough of a delight to risk death if need be 😅 sadly my mother's garden doesn't have them anymore, but for the last years I got tiny delicate bouquets of them during summer that parfumed the whole apartment 😀. Our dogs also never were interested, luckily. I love them so much, they made my sister's wedding cake decoration back then. Enjoy your day, fingers crossed for a speedy delivery
@Shells_Garden omg, looks at your garden! 🪴 Your bananas are beautiful! 😻 So beautiful! Your sweet pea looks so beautiful; I bet by the end of summer, she’ll completely double in size. 🥰
@MusicalRedmint oh no! That’s so sad to hear you don’t have them anymore. I hope it got replaced with something equally as beautiful and smelly goods. 🤭🌸
@Idplantthat it's more than alright. My mother is a bit garden crazy and had rented a garden plot for several years in the city, additionally to her already overwhelming garden at home. The sweet peas during the last years came from that plot, which she recently gave up. But I'm sure she had already planted new ones at home. And even if not, her garden is bursting with delicious roses all year round, which she often brings over. As well as a lot of other beautiful and fragrant plants. 😊🌸
@Idplantthat my neighbor has sweet peas planted in her front garden. Every time I walk past her house I stop and smell them! So heavenly 😇 🪽 🌸
Sorry your delivery is taking longer than expected. I hope it gets there soon so you can carry on! Love the idea of banana and prickly pear thank you’s!! 🎁
Sorry your delivery is taking longer than expected. I hope it gets there soon so you can carry on! Love the idea of banana and prickly pear thank you’s!! 🎁
@Idplantthat girrrl I know! I was feeling that way yesterday waiting for my hoyas. Who makes deliveries after 6:30pm!! (I’m just joking here…but still!) And right now I’m anxiously awaiting my beneficial cucumeris mites to be delivered!! 😮💨😮💨 and then also for today I’m waiting on some bee pollen to be delivered for said mites (because I’m also aiming to put some aside to start breeding my own).
WOW, your sweet peas are beautiful 🤩😍 I’ve only ever had the white variety, dang, I was missing out!
Also, a banana and a prickly pear are a WONDERFUL thank you gift. Let your worries be eased 🫂🥰🤗
WOW, your sweet peas are beautiful 🤩😍 I’ve only ever had the white variety, dang, I was missing out!
Also, a banana and a prickly pear are a WONDERFUL thank you gift. Let your worries be eased 🫂🥰🤗
@MusicalRedmint oh my gosh! That’s absolutely perfect; even a little droopy, it’s stunning. 🥰🌸 My roses are absolutely terrible this year. Ugh, really, my outside plants have not been liking life lately. It’s been an unpredictable year for weather. 🤦♀️😬 I had no idea you could rent plots for gardening; that’s a great idea! 💡
@MariansOasis thank you! I needed that encouragement; I’m never sure what to give people and I hate guessing at people’s skill levels. I don’t want to stress someone out and end up killing the plant… and them having a negative experience with it for the future… so I just never know (I probably really overthink it 🙃) 🤭
@DreamMachine what! I didn’t even know sweet peas came in white. I’m going to have to find some to add to the color. 😂🌸 Brilliant ideas 💡 Where in the world did you find bee pollen? Do you have to get fresh pollen for your mites? I’m so excited for you. Your mite farming is going to be a serious adventure, and I’m excited to see all your posts. 🥰🤭
@Idplantthat oh silly me, I’d always assumed the ornamental sweet pea was in the same family as the vegetable sweet pea. 😂 So I’ve always only ever grown the edible kind. But, as I was just looking this up, it does appear that there are white-flowered ornamental sweet peas too. 👍
As for pollen, it’s a funny story. @MusicalRedmint has heard this one before.
Shortly after I started my current job at the restaurant, this older gentleman came in. Kinda kooky looking, like an aged beatnik poet— small stature but with a fedora and an oversized leather jacket. He didn’t say one word to me but took out a corked bottle from somewhere on his person and proffered it to me.
Of course I tried to politely decline. Who was this strange man who wasn’t talking and trying to give me… something? He just looked slightly confused at my decline, and held out the bottle again. Into my hand he poured a couple tablespoons of bee pollen granules. Then he walked away and went to each of my other coworkers and did the same thing. I noticed they all held out their hand at once, and thanked him.
Later I was informed, “oh that’s the Pollen Man. Just take the pollen.” 😂
He comes into my work maybe once or twice a month, and every time he does the same ritual and gives me and all my coworkers pollen. I’ll bet he’s a beekeeper, but I don’t really know much, if anything, about him! 😅 🤷♀️
I’m not sure how it’s usually harvested, like for supplements, but it is very nutritious for humans too.
I’ve always just eaten the pollen right away, but now I’m terribly excited to see him again, as I will save it for my mites!
Unfortunately, I haven’t seen him since I got this wild hair, and I had to buy (😱) a bag of it. You can find it online but it’s also for sale at certain honey vendors at local farmer’s markets near me.
As for pollen, it’s a funny story. @MusicalRedmint has heard this one before.
Shortly after I started my current job at the restaurant, this older gentleman came in. Kinda kooky looking, like an aged beatnik poet— small stature but with a fedora and an oversized leather jacket. He didn’t say one word to me but took out a corked bottle from somewhere on his person and proffered it to me.
Of course I tried to politely decline. Who was this strange man who wasn’t talking and trying to give me… something? He just looked slightly confused at my decline, and held out the bottle again. Into my hand he poured a couple tablespoons of bee pollen granules. Then he walked away and went to each of my other coworkers and did the same thing. I noticed they all held out their hand at once, and thanked him.
Later I was informed, “oh that’s the Pollen Man. Just take the pollen.” 😂
He comes into my work maybe once or twice a month, and every time he does the same ritual and gives me and all my coworkers pollen. I’ll bet he’s a beekeeper, but I don’t really know much, if anything, about him! 😅 🤷♀️
I’m not sure how it’s usually harvested, like for supplements, but it is very nutritious for humans too.
I’ve always just eaten the pollen right away, but now I’m terribly excited to see him again, as I will save it for my mites!
Unfortunately, I haven’t seen him since I got this wild hair, and I had to buy (😱) a bag of it. You can find it online but it’s also for sale at certain honey vendors at local farmer’s markets near me.
@DreamMachine wow that’s a kooky man for sure!!! An aged beatnik poet in a fedora 🫣🤭🫠 … perfect early morning smile material 🤭🫠
@Idplantthat Those sweet peas are GORGEOUS! Now I need to find a place to plant some…🤔
I have the tiniest little variegated Prickly Pear that aspires to be like yours someday!
I have the tiniest little variegated Prickly Pear that aspires to be like yours someday!
@MariansOasis I also can’t wait to see him again to see if the image I have of him in my head matches what he actually looks like 😂😂
@DreamMachine oh my gosh, this guy sounds hilarious and I love that he looks at you like you’re the questionable one; why wouldn’t you just take the powder the stranger is offering and ask ah, why?? Who are you? Is it safe?? Ha ha ha 🤣 but now you know him so; that’s even better; I can only imagine that; that particular pollen has to taste so good fresh! I’m so jealous, beekeeping is a true heart form. 🌸🐝🩵
@Idplantthat one of my coworkers can’t eat it straight, I can kind of imagine why…it almost tastes like how I would think green inedible plants taste. If that makes any sense!! 😂🤪 Like it tastes slightly floral, but green, and a bit bitter, mixed with chalk. I think that’s the best I could describe it from memory…until I try it again!
@Idplantthat those plots are a very German thing (though I've heard they do something similar in other European countries as well, in Britain for example). Basically the idea behind is was people that live in the city should be afforded the opportunity to grow stuff, while the cities benefit from more green spaces and the land owners can let out unused land. It's a thing that started during the industrialization to help poorer families, paid off big time during food shortages in the first half of the 20th century (😬) and then moved more to a lifestyle/green belt thing. You are even allowed to build sheds on those allotments, which sometimes I'm size and amenities can even resemble small houses. You are not quite renting the land but paying for use of it. As an example: the German rail company has a lot of unused land along old tracks or in the vicinity of their active lines. They rent out said land as a whole to a so called Kleingarten Verein ("small garden club"). Those clubs are community led organizations that are tasked with letting out smaller parcels and taking care of the land in general whenever any allotments stand empty. It's technically a great system, great for the environment and the communities, but sadly for some reason oftentimes draws in not the best and nicest of my countrymen. Lots of problematic behavior, which is why in the end my mother chose to give up the garden. Too much toxic behavior and borderline racism among the people there. (Which was my experience as well, when I had one myself for a little while. )🤷♀️
But on paper it's a terrific concept.
Luckily my mother still has her huge garden left.
I'm sorry to hear about your roses. Fingers crossed the weather will be nicer to them from now on.
But on paper it's a terrific concept.
Luckily my mother still has her huge garden left.
I'm sorry to hear about your roses. Fingers crossed the weather will be nicer to them from now on.
@DreamMachine that’s a beautiful color, I’m so excited to see what kind it is! 🤩 I’m laughing so hard that pollen sounds terrible. I mean healthy terrible.. so good for the healthy, I usually get bee pollen and add it to my tea or coffee.. so I don’t really notice it. 🤷♀️ but I don’t know if it’s gonna mask the taste of green, I know that flavor and that’s terrible.. ha ha 🤣 it’s amazing how many different flavors of healthy are out there and some you just go.. huh 🤔 really I can’t do it.. if I smell it and it’s that bad; even then I don’t know if I could do it. I associate smell with so much of my flavor that sometimes I just can’t do it. 😂🤷♀️🤦♀️
@MusicalRedmint wow; 😳 you’re so right, the concept is brilliant, but how terrible it invites such negative people who can’t wait to support each other instead of shaming people. I’m sorry yours and yours experience was like that. For such a great idea to be abused that way is downright offensive. My yard and soils have been so layered over by different owners doing or trying different things, but instead of removing the old materials, they’d just build on top of it and then add more soil and more soil, but the stuff and materials someone else or them may have put down act like a barrier. It’s so obnoxious and frustrating, but that’s part of the reason my roses have bombed. 😂 but I’m going to container grow my edible ones. OOH! Would you mind helping me if you can, that is, identify this Hoya? I don’t have a tag for it, so I’m unsure 🫤 what it is. 🤷♀️🤷♀️
