Gardening, anyone?

Super52-- yours was right out of the chrysalis, while April1964's appears to have had a close brush with death.

From Taos

please advise: yesterday i bought a beautiful clematis on sale... as I was gently (maybe I should’ve been more gentle) eased it out of the pot to plant it,the main stem started to break in half due to the weight of the plant... I ran and got some duct tape and taped up the stem and then trimmed off some of the upper vines and planted the poor thing anyway... I apologized to it and watered it... any hope that it’ll survive ?

thanks super! I just watered it and it stlooks unhappy ... I had no idea that the stem was that delicate... that’s amazing that your tree survived !!

April, clematis are perennials and it shouldcome back. In fact, some you are supposed to prune. I would just prune it back where it broke and let the roots get established and I think you will be OK next year.

Taos sure looks gorgeous, Jazzy.

Veggies looking good, GMA.

A Hummer visiting one of my red yucca flowers this am

April- I get out early on the weekends and they are out first thing for a drink from the feeder which lies below this spot. But they like to graze off the flowers too. I waited patiently until I could catch this one foto. I love my little hummers, they are drinking up a lot right now as they begin migrating (and some already are-I have an aggressive rufous in my yard which chases all the other birds away). By early October, they are all gone.

Did you know that hummers migrate from the exact same spot for summer and winter? Ours here in the area go to Costa Rica. I would like to go with them sometimes.....

Thank you for making me smile, you hummingbird picture is amazing! Your gardens are not only gorgeous, they look so inviting! Wow, I am totally impressed!😊♥️🌺🌼

ooohh!! 2hobbies those hydrangeas are so pretty !! I love the refreshing color

Is that a rufous ?

The wild gymsom flower

Hi, well I did the wrong spelling, it is the jimsomweed and the plant is actually pretty large, like a shrub size and it blooms in the wild here in the late summer. I was told when I moved here, that some people like to "roll it and smoke it" but it is very poisonous and thus, people don't usually plant them in their garden either.

The flowers open during the day and close at night, that one happened to still be open at dusk. I will try to take a picture of the bush on my walk tonight. It is also referred to datura.

What I learned reading this link below today is that it is in the tomato family!

https://wimastergardener.org/article/datura/

Carlos casteneda?