I hope you have a good year we had a mild winter and the wife’s flowers have gone nuts . My little grow is going to hit five feet next week maybe if size matters lol . I just checked 58 1/2 inches they will make it then some .
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Gerber daisies poppin, still waiting on the zinnias, gotta water a lot, rainy season keeps starting later each year. That m99 cross buds sure looks tasty, I have found a couple sativa dom hybrids that help my PTSD by easing in to controlled sleep time, memories of my dreams and nightmares erased gives waking up… a better chance of having a good day.
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Boy, I miss the hops. I’ll be growing them here. I need to make sure I get some rhizomes next spring. I’ll try and figure a good spot for them and build a trellis or let them cover a patio or something cool. I hope I get my beer equipment back in action soon, too. I miss that too, but I don’t miss all of the weight I gained as a successful home brewer, heh.
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I was thinking of that the other day I have all the fermenters still but I’ll think I’m taking the Vino approach next it’s a lot easier as far as involvement Goes thats for sure!
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I hear you. I was doing all grain and fresh hops so it was a mostly all day ordeal to do one brew. It’s just not on top of my list atm. So many other things to do to try and remodel this house.
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I hear ya and it always disappears to fast I thought going to 10-12 gallon batches 
would help but not the case!
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Well the hops are to the top of the houses gutter already this plant looks healthier than years past unfortunately the sister plant died and didn’t ’t come back!
These leaves are getting huge again!
May try and keep up on the occasional jwa treatment the hollyhock always gets hit by a weevil type bug maybe I’ll lower the boom on them this year
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Lower the boom Capt. T-bone! Sooner the better. 
Another hot day here… the cosmos are miserable.
Butt… these things are doing great, they look like bottle caps complete with silver solar lining to cook the seeds, water caught inside is a magnifier.
Fluted birds nest or splash cup is the names most commonly used.
Cyathus striatus has proven to be a rich source of bioactive chemical compounds. It was first reported in 1971 to produce “indolic” substances (compounds with an indole ring structure) as well as a complex of diterpenoid antibiotic compounds collectively known as cyathins.[24][25] Several years later, research revealed the indolic substances to be compounds now known as striatins. Striatins (A, B and C) have antibiotic activity against fungi imperfecti, and various Gram-positive and Gram-negative bacteria.[26] C. striatus also produces sesquiterpene compounds called schizandronols.[27] It also contains the triterpene compounds glochidone, glochidonol, glochidiol and glochidiol diacetate, cyathic acid, striatic acid, cyathadonic acid and epistriatic acid.[28] The latter four compounds were unknown prior to their isolation.
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Is this a fungus type of thing then? Thanks for the tidbit of info!
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Fungus, the seed looking pieces release the spores after a rain by floating out. They are very common, butt… very small, when kept under control they can make excellent micro nutrients additions for garden soil.
The thyme flowers are fully bloomed now.
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Hey @Heliosphear not sure if ya checked out my csu trial garden 2020 has some eye candy in it!
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Ohhh snap! Didn’t know about the hail destruction… when i left in june 2020 and was gone four months and then two months i missed a hell of a lot. Having to delete my old irish garden thread and art thread before leaving for security purposes really set me back mentally. Thank you for the link you know I’ll be checking it out.
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Some more yard shots!
a loaded up Columbine! Colorado’s state flower comfrey kicking ass about ready to get a chop!
Iris in the “Purple rain bed”
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Looks like what my wife makes me eat. I took it as a hint and went and sprayed the yard last week. 
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You know to clear the vines for at least a foot from the ground. That saves a lot of trouble down the road. Man, I miss growing them. Maybe I can get my old computer up and find the pics. Those Nugget and Cascade are supposed to be the easiest to grow and I went that way cause I was in Alabama and wasn’t sure it they would even grow in that hot humid environment. Man, they really flourished and I got such a kick out of it. Huge harvests from both varieties.
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Don’t think Iv ever cleared a vine from year to year I just figure that I use the previous years growth for them to climb on again
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