I’m so glad to see them. It has been very windy here, and we’ve had smoke from the Australian bushfires and I was worried about the effects on the bees.
I tried eating my baby dandelions. They were a bit too bitter. I gather the ones grown for eating are picked when they just pop out of the soil. I also nibbled at my fiddlehead ferns. I’ve got some other edibles. I figure when there’s nothing left on earth, I can eat my garden.
I’m thinking along the same lines. Dandelion is really nutritious apparently and the roots make a coffee-substitute (though it will truly be the end of days when I can’t have coffee anymore).
I tend to use my edible flowers as garnish; nasturtiums mainly, and viola.
Some of mine need to be ground up and become some kind of grain which i don’t know how to cook. Like wheat before it’s milled. But I know lilies are edible and many flowers are edible.
I agree. When the coffee is gone, life won’t be worth living.
I told my son I was growing buckwheat and he got all excited thinking I’d make soba noodles. Then he saw the plant (singular) and figured he should just stockpile the bought ones. 😂
I grow a ton of Solomon’s Seal, a variation of a plant that also grows in Asia and South America. Native Americans used it for grain. My friend Cherrie says it doesn’t taste very good. I think I’ll stockpile whole wheat 🙂
I’m doing my best. This is the first year I’ve consciously and seriously planted for pollinators. It’s been really windy recently, so the bees stayed home, but I’m starting to see them back and hoping my flowers last long enough 🤔
Zimmerbitch 
A white allium! I meant to buy some of these for the spring. (or is it a chive?)
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Leek I think. It looks like my chive flowers, but much bigger.
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Definitely making a bee line for flower 🙂
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Hehe.
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I was just going to ask what kind of flower it was. Is it an allium?
Leslie
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Yes, a leek I believe. We were visiting a friend with an organic smallholding, so there were lots of different allium, but I think this was a leek.
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Love the leeks. I have them in my garden too…
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I love that little bee.
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I’m so glad to see them. It has been very windy here, and we’ve had smoke from the Australian bushfires and I was worried about the effects on the bees.
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Cleared to land!
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Hehe.
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That’s a beauty of a shot, Su. I always love to see bees.
janet
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asking for landing rights. Great title 😉
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Great photo and title. Lol❣️
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Thank you 🙏
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Your title made me chuckle!
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I love how this little guy stood still for you…! 😀 What a great shot.
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Took some persuading 🤣🤣
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Beautiful photo!
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Wow! nice shot!
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Are they edible as well as beautiful?
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Apparently, though I haven’t tried them.
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They are great in Chinese food 🙂 Or at least real leeks are. And I think good with chicken and chicken soup.
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I love leeks — and definitely with chicken! Not sure I’ve had leek in Chinese food. I’ll have to try the flowers now. 🙂
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I tried eating my baby dandelions. They were a bit too bitter. I gather the ones grown for eating are picked when they just pop out of the soil. I also nibbled at my fiddlehead ferns. I’ve got some other edibles. I figure when there’s nothing left on earth, I can eat my garden.
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I’m thinking along the same lines. Dandelion is really nutritious apparently and the roots make a coffee-substitute (though it will truly be the end of days when I can’t have coffee anymore).
I tend to use my edible flowers as garnish; nasturtiums mainly, and viola.
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Some of mine need to be ground up and become some kind of grain which i don’t know how to cook. Like wheat before it’s milled. But I know lilies are edible and many flowers are edible.
I agree. When the coffee is gone, life won’t be worth living.
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I told my son I was growing buckwheat and he got all excited thinking I’d make soba noodles. Then he saw the plant (singular) and figured he should just stockpile the bought ones. 😂
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I grow a ton of Solomon’s Seal, a variation of a plant that also grows in Asia and South America. Native Americans used it for grain. My friend Cherrie says it doesn’t taste very good. I think I’ll stockpile whole wheat 🙂
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That’s interesting; I know it as a medicinal plant, but not as a food crop.
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I didn’t know it was medicinal, so between the two of us, we know a lot. But it still makes pretty flowers in early spring.
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Very pretty!!
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Beautifully captured! Lovely allium. 🙂
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Thanks so much Amy
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Wow! Love the pic, aptly titled 😊
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Thanks so much 🙂
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My favourite flower tall like a mystical floating ball Aliums are from the ornamental onion plant, as big as a horsemans fist.
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🙂
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Keep those bees coming! We need them . . .
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I’m doing my best. This is the first year I’ve consciously and seriously planted for pollinators. It’s been really windy recently, so the bees stayed home, but I’m starting to see them back and hoping my flowers last long enough 🤔
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Lovely photo – am a big fan of alliums and the bees love them too 🙂
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They certainly do. After watching them on our garlic chive flowers last summer I had to wonder what the local honey would taste like.
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It looks very determined to reach it. 😉
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😀
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