Oooo, strawberries! I wish we had strawberries... (The blackberries along the driveway haven't even flowered yet. *sniffle* Let alone the growing-wild grapes that smell just like that overpowering grape juice in the store.)
It is tempting to try to grow strawberries. So far I have only planted some wild ones in my foothills/montaine garden section. They are going nuts as a ground cover, but I doubt I ever see a berry on them. And if I do they will be the size of particularly puny peas.
Are you in an urban-ish area? If so you would need to build a giant cage to keep the tree rodents (squirrels) and birds from getting to strawberries before you.
We're in... Well, we're in New England, in one of the small ...I dunno if we're a town or a city. In the suburbs, which tends to mean that everything looks like trees till you turn and OMG A DEVELOPMENT. Plus we have a bunch of wetlands in front of our house (YAY!).
There are definitely a lot of squirrels around -- mostly gray now, but occasionally a red.
The birds eat all the cherries, the little wretches.
I want exploding strawberries. Sadly, I think the ones I planted this year have yet to hit the creeping stage, but it is nice to hear what might be looked forward to.
Also, these are the neatest garden journals. Makes me want to start cross-hatching little brackets on everything.
Marginally related -- I appear to have stumped all my other local gardening friends with this -- do you have any idea what this shrub is? I thought it was a camellia based on the leaves but then it flowered and it's clearly not.
I...guess it's possible that it's Chinese Privet. I don't have any firsthand experience with that one. But the leaves make me think Waxleaf Privet, which is the Japanese variety. Developers plant it all the time.
It'll reseed like crazy, so I'm not saying you shouldn't get rid of it, but the leaves are making me think Japanese, not Chinese.
She does about thirty of these and we can start demand...bug...begging and pleading that Ursula's Garden Journal be a Thing. Letter campaigns to her agent! Email requests to Sofawolf! Or the company that's producing the Botswana Art Journal!
Um, that is, if Ursula is willing... *looks hopeful*
Are you in an urban-ish area? If so you would need to build a giant cage to keep the tree rodents (squirrels) and birds from getting to strawberries before you.
There are definitely a lot of squirrels around -- mostly gray now, but occasionally a red.
The birds eat all the cherries, the little wretches.
And yes, the Iris is scary.
Also, these are the neatest garden journals. Makes me want to start cross-hatching little brackets on everything.
However, you are obviously much further south than I am and you should get an authoritative ID from someone local.
It'll reseed like crazy, so I'm not saying you shouldn't get rid of it, but the leaves are making me think Japanese, not Chinese.
That Iris looks like it is smiling in an Alienesque fashion.
Edited at 2015-05-23 01:06 am (UTC)
Um, that is, if Ursula is willing... *looks hopeful*