That’s why I only buy native perennials. Not as cheap as seeds, but they’ll last pretty much forever. They also need much less attention than annuals.

I do wish I had the time for a vegetable garden, though. I hope to build a sub irrigated planter some day soon to grow annual vegetables in.

The light green serrated leaves in the middle are a hackberry tree that was planted by a bird. They have a bad reputation, but they’re fast growing, native, and provide decent shade. If this is at least twenty feet from your house, you could let it grow and have a tree there instead of a mystery shrub.

You can confirm it’s hackberry by looking at the veins at the underside of a leaf. You should see three main veins starting at the base of the leaf, similar to if you held up your three middle fingers.

The user I’m thinking of has a cat themed username. They comment quite a bit, or at least they used to.

Short comments scream human to me more than long comments. Like that guy who never posts any comments shorter than three paragraphs all perfectly formatted and punctuated.

If it’s dying back to the ground every year, training it into a tree might not be the best idea.

My point is that I don’t search for or subscribe to communities, though. Instead I browse all and mute communities I’m not interested in. This is much harder to do on global all.

In my view this isn’t a problem that needs to be fixed, it’s just something new users have to get used to.

It’s also my biggest complaint, but I avoid it by just browsing local all.

Vinyl instead of boards also removes any particular spacing requirements.

I haven’t bought it in years, those may very well be pre covid prices I’m remembering.

Your comment helped me remember that I had a dream hummingbirds were visiting my coral honeysuckle!

I just realized I had a similar misunderstanding about trumpet creeper and crossvine. Turns out both are native, but trumpet creeper just grows way too aggressively. This is a good thing for professional landscapers that can keep up with training and pruning it, but most people would probably do better with a well behaved crossvine.

I wouldn’t grow corn personally. The grocery store corn is like four for a dollar when it’s in season. Give that space to some different tomato or pepper varieties!

A two part reminder to be mindful of which type of honeysuckle you plant: Japanese honeysuckle is very popular, but also considered invasive in some areas and grows very aggressively. But also, not all honeysuckle is Japanese, you may have native varieties available that will work even better.

My local native honeysuckle unfortunately isn’t fragrant, but the hummingbirds love it.

Sub irrigated planters are another option. They’re equally effective, but they take the human error factor of setting and adjusting watering rates out of the equation.

This is the site I used to make mine and it turned out well:

https://albopepper.com/sips.php

Note that he says not to put perennial plants in it. This may be true for areas that get a very deep freeze, but my perennials did great in zone 8.

Y has a vertical part, just like its axis. X is the other one.

Discoverability is my biggest issue with the subscribed feed. If I’m using subscribed, I’m not finding new communities. Curating a set of base communities that I want to see does seem like it would be worth the effort, though. Thanks for the suggestion.

I love the idea of the decentralized services, but trying to browse global all is a nightmare. Even browsing local all I have a ton of communities blocked and add more every day. The only downside is when communities I like migrate to a different instance. I still try global all once every few months, but it never lasts long.

Gotta love these Tuesday Friday Friday Friday Friday Sunday long weekends.

I kissed four so the universe is now back in balance and there’s nothing you can do about it.

My chili pequin planted in the ground comes back each year in 8a, but it’s native here.

I see people selling seeds on places like etsy all the time. Problem is you’ll have to let them mature to sell them, which would inevitably be more getting in the yard and germinating.