gardening nonsense

canadian goblin, female or neutral pronouns, 30+ feels like 60+ @zesty-goblin-trash

[gardengobbo]

June 10th 2026

At almost 3 years on the dot since I last had peonies grace in my garden, they finally bloomed again.

[thejrauscher]

Some Grackles! These birds are incredibly common but I still enjoy watching them.

[gardengobbo]

I hijacked my hubs phone to take these photos.

I still don't know what type of lilies these actually are. Okay so I looked em up, they Liber Edge Oriental Lilies.

[gardengobbo]

These guys are actually pretty big though. Like the 2 flower one that still has another flower to open is at least as tall as my waist-ish. (I'm 5'3")

I guess I'm also still grumpy that I wanted dizzy lilies, which one of the 2 that never fully grew is, but when I'd gone to buy them when I planted these last year or whatever it was online they showed them as the dizzy lily bulbs but in store they were these ones. They were both under the same product number and everything so it's not even that they were sold out, they just never updated the product images or whatever online when they switch the bulb types.

[gardengobbo]

Oh yea I forgot I took more bad photos of the height/size of em to add to this post.

So uh, here.

[gardengobbo]

Okay now this is just nonsense.

There's 5 Hachi bulbs I planted and 3 of the Roselily Elena.

I know I had one surviving Dizzy Lily that was the one that got munched early on and didn't grow more than like 3 inches.

But neither of these two cards I kept are what's bloomed?? The color is close to the Roselily Elena but not the petal shape or double layering, and it's got the white edges of the Hachi ones? But the Hachi image looks closer to my favorite Dizzy lilies so maybe they just super mucked up what was in the bag?

Cause the Hachi bulbs were also the ones that were listed online as Dizzy lilies with the same product code.

Did I some how hybridize the hybrids unintentionally? 🙃

This is a rabbit hole I don't think I want to dive down right now. I just wanted pretty white and pink lilies with little freckles like when I was a kid, damnit

And I can't even just attach the photos I've taken of those specific ones because of this shit ass phone not having the space to store my photos at all.

Whoops I've made my self angry again.

Editing to add; I finally just looked em up. They're liber edge lilies, I think at least. I must not have kept the card for these ones. Which then begs the question, where the hell did those other bulbs end up? Like, okay one or two not making it or getting dug up by critters I understand but all 8?

[gardengobbo]

These guys are actually pretty big though. Like the 2 flower one that still has another flower to open is at least as tall as my waist-ish. (I'm 5'3")

I guess I'm also still grumpy that I wanted dizzy lilies, which one of the 2 that never fully grew is, but when I'd gone to buy them when I planted these last year or whatever it was online they showed them as the dizzy lily bulbs but in store they were these ones. They were both under the same product number and everything so it's not even that they were sold out, they just never updated the product images or whatever online when they switch the bulb types.

[gardengobbo]

Man, I'm so bad at gardening

[gardengobbo]

June 12th 2025

I'm pretty sure this is the apple tree I tried to grow from store bought apples like, literally 3 years ago that never survived. Proved me wrong, clearly!

Part of me wants to move it so it's in the center of the flower pot, but also I don't want to touch it cause clearly it's better off just doing its own thing 😅

[gardengobbo]

Huh?

[gardengobbo]

June 12th 2025

👁️👁️

funky lil grackle

funky lil LOUD grackle

[gardengobbo]

June 12th 2025

Stuffs a bloomin'

[gardengobbo]

June 12th 2025

Stuffs a growin'

[nobodysuspectsthebutterfly]

And they were roommates...

[gardengobbo]

April 6th 2025

Unnecessarily photogenic moss

[gardengobbo]

April 6th 2025

Things are starting to pop off in the gobbo garden.

Except you know, after a week or so of positive temps and lots of rain, we got dunked on with like an inch an and a half of snow. 🙃 Which is like nothing for Canada, but it's made me worry that all this early growth is going to be ruined since it's stuck around for a couple days.

I mean, I'm not worried about the catnip at all, because that shit was already growing under the winter snow, but other stuff might be less hearty.

I'm particularly stressed about the peony plant that I finally relocated last year. I was genuinely so happy to see tiny little spikes popping up. I have no idea if this cold snap is going to hurt that, or even if the plant will bloom in this new spot, but I really hope it does.

Some of the haustas were already coming in too! Specifically the miniture haustas back by the raspberries, and the giant haustas by the catnip. The ones in the lily garden (also where the peony is now) didn't have any pokey bits yet, that I'd seen.

The day lilies are (unsurprisingly) already going ham.

I'd like to be able to make sure the poppies grow inside the dang cage this year, so I have to keep a close eye on them now too. (and get the weeds out of the mix.)

And last for this update, I learned that rhubarb looks like weird alien nonsense when it starts growing in. Steven said it looked like egg sacks, I said brains. 🤷‍♀️

[zesty-goblin-trash]

do not look at the moon

[gardengobbo]

March 11 2025

I was sweeping the winter crud off the deck and stopped for a moment when a little gray bird landed on the bottom of the railing.

I had filled the feeder up yesterday with the little bit of seed I had, but no one came by for a snack yet. As stupid as it sounds, I kind of felt like because I've been struggling so much with my mental health and filling the feeder fell to the way side that the birds just weren't interested in coming back.

The gray bird only eyeballed me for a few seconds before flying off, but the sparrows found their way to the feeder and that makes me feel better.

I hope this year to do more gardening things again, and enjoy doing them again.

I popped open the app I use to figure out what birds are what to double check what I though that gray bird was (a dark eyed junco. It, in fact, was ) and I was greeted with the bird of the day being my old friend, the mourning dove.

Considering 'befriending' a mourning dove in the backyard is what started me actually doing stuff out there, it seems fitting in some sort of weird coincidental way.