I don't know how much rain we got but it was a drencher/gully washer! It POURED!

Elaine, does 1 need a pollinator for figs? There was 1 here when we bought the place but I saw no blooms last year & no fruit --- nothing yet this year either.

Ann is right about the gully washer. The plants should be happy as clams today.

Nope, no pollinator needed - as far as I know my little tree is the only one for blocks.

The one thing I've learned, after fertilizing as soon as the leaves start to appear, it needs consistent water, then after fruit appears, generous water to size up the fruit. I had not been watering enough up til now, and the fruit was dropping, or ripening sort of tough and not juicy. Last fall this little tree set a second batch of just a few fruits, and they got lots of water. The couple I ate were fabulous.

This time, there were literally no fruits visible when I left for my 'Grandma Trip' to Salt Lake. Two weeks and one heavy rain later, when I returned there were dozens of 1/2in. fruits all up and down the branches, and since I've been watering generously they've more than doubled in size in just over a week! Your gully washer might just inspire your fig tree to put on some fruit, keep an eye out, they are in the leaf axils and on the bare branches.

Btw, you probably won't see 'flowers' as such. Figs are sort of an oddity in that the flower is actually inside the fruit.

This explains it better than I can http://www.figweb.org/Interact...

Is there an easy way to tell a baby Dwarf Poinciena from a Chamberbitter besides looking for the time seeds under CB leaves? I was pulling them up then realized some are very near the DP from last year & maybe the seeds germinated, I can only hope since my seedlings didn't make it.
Cloudy & very windy so i'm hoping for some rain...................else-wise, I need to mow this evening!!

Oh thank you so much Elaine! I posted that question on the edibles forum & no one knew. One responder only & she gave me a link to a seller of fig trees where I would have had to call them & ask the question. How about that timing? You said something about your figs just a day after I posted that question. I loved the link you gave. Very interesting!
SO, I went out & checked it & sure enough, there are baby figs growing; not many but they're there! I guess the rain is the answer as we've had quite a bit of it this fall, winter & spring. It's planted in a bad place if they need good waterings though. I don't think these people knew too much about plants needs b/c they didn't plan very well in that respect. It's way too far for me to drag a hose & even if I did, it's on a downward slope so the water would just run downhill. But I bet I can propagate that baby!

Woo, hoo! Let us know how that goes. I'd love to propagate this tree of mine.

There's lots of info. out there for propagating figs:
https://www.google.com/search?...

and here on ATP -- in the comments section --- Marilyn's comment
Figs (Ficus carica)

Already humid out. Pulled a few weeds, picked some yellow cherry tomatoes, picked kale for a salad. Got some seedlings potted up for the MG plant raffle tmrw.

Looking forward to the rain & cooling event starting tomorrow afternoon.

My little figs.



Daylilys blooming now

NOID but I love this one. I'm crazy for reds!



Another NOID that just bloomed for me for the 1st time & I'm tickled pink over it! It has diamond dusting which the photo did not pick up.




PEACH PIECRUST + friend

qwilter said:Already humid out. Pulled a few weeds, picked some yellow cherry tomatoes, picked kale for a salad. Got some seedlings potted up for the MG plant raffle tmrw. .

I went to the local Orchid Society Show this past weekend and won one of their hourly drawings......for a manicure...........tried to exchange it for a plant....No Dice....I NEVER win anything, then when I do, it's something that for all intents and purposes would be ruined within a day or two...... Ended up giving it to my son's girlfriend.

Isn't that just the way of things?

An ongoing joke that I never win anything. At the holiday exchange, where everyone went home with something, mine was the very last name drawn!!!!

Mowed & now am thoroughly wet!!!!! But the front yard looks so nice. Now the rain can penetrate a bit better.

Think I'll find some indoor activities for this steamy afternoon.

Sounds like a good plan Jean.

All I did was a tour around the yard with the camera . . and it's time for a swim! The orange justicia (?) coming into its own after the generous rain last week. East side pathway starting to light up with caladiums and begonias, and soon the spiral gingers. I need to clean up and re-root the coleus along this pathway, they are leggy and full of dead branches. But survived their 3rd winter


The white/yellow lantana is really nice now. I rooted some cuttings of this last fall, and now I've LOST them! Don't you hate that.

dyzzypyxxy said:
The white/yellow lantana is really nice now. I rooted some cuttings of this last fall, and now I've LOST them! Don't you hate that.

Yes, as I wander around the yard muttering to myself that they HAVE to be there somewhere........I've even lost full grown plants !

Oh my! I've never lost a plant before. That must be frustrating. That lantana is really pretty.

Forgot this one, which David posted at the very beginning of this thread, and mine are still blooming! Blue Eye'd Grass. (much bluer than the camera shows)



Agapanthus starting to open, inside the pool cage. Again, the camera washes out the blues here. They are a stunning color in reality. I'll try a picture later when the light is not so bright.

Agapanthus is 1 plant I really want to add to my collection. I just never see it in the Nurseries.
That white lantana is an eye catcher. It would look lovely around the base of my white hibiscus.
The friend I've been weeding for lost a daisy last week. Some special variety a friend gave her. She was sure I had brought it home with me. I remember moving the pot when I was weeding but left it with a group of others. Maybe I'll find it when I'm back there next week.

Jean, I don't really "Lose" them, but they do get misplaced...and then I spend a great deal of time wandering around trying to figure out where I put them.

@qwilter, Jean the last time I was down your way, I believe Pat's had some of the Agapanthus. I was looking for some of the Blue eyed grasses, and I think that the guy I talked to thought I was looking for the Ag's. Check them out! If I remember correctly, they were over by the front corner near a lot of their annuals. Right along the front fence.