These will be tasty later.
![[Blooming wild black cherry]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2022-03-17--wild-cherry-blooms/20220317_081930.jpg)
Later as in October for these Prunus serotina.
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Category Archives: Plants
Pomegranate flowers 2021-05-16
Maybe we’ll get some pomegranates to eat this year.
![[Purdy Pomegranate Blooms]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-05-16--pomegranate/20210516_160655.jpg)
I think we got this plant from Dennis and Dottie Price.
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Native wild azaleas 2021-04-12
These were many places in the woods, with an acre of them here: native wild azaleas, Rhododendron canescens.
![[Nellie, native wild azaleas, Gretchen]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-04-12--wild-azaleas/20210412_174959.jpg)
Nellie, native wild azaleas, Gretchen
No, not honeysuckle. That’s a vine. These are a bush. Continue reading
Mushrooms 2021-01-02
![[Wide 'shrooms]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2021-01-02--mushrooms/20210102_170741.jpg)
Plants escaped 2020-12-13
Gretchen left these plants locked inside, but while she wasn’t looking they escaped.
![[All the plants]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-12-13--plants-escaped/many.jpg)
They’ll have to go back inside tomorrow; freeze predicted. Continue reading
Picking wild black cherries 2020-06-21
We don’t have a cherry picker, but we do have a ladder and a roof.
![[Gretchen on the roof picking black cherries]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-21--gretchen-cherries-glass-house/20200621_092152.jpg)
Gretchen on the roof picking black cherries
Later, I didn’t take a picture as I was on the ladder picking behind my head.
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Garden mowed 2020-06-21
You can almost see it’s a garden, after weeks of weeding and Gretchen had just finished mowing between the rows.
![[After weeks of weeding and mowing]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-21--garden-mowed/20200621_104105.jpg)
After weeks of weeding and mowing
Visible, left to right: cucumber, yellow squash, okra, eggplant, tomato, corn (maize).
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Gretchen finished weeding tomatoes 2020-06-03
Gretchen finished weeding the tomatoes.
![[Weeded tomatoes]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-03--garden-weeding-tomatoes-finished/20200603_125604.jpg)
Well, those tomatoes. She already weeded the other ones.
And I found those cucumbers in the okra.
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Weeding tomatoes and cucumbers 2020-06-01
![[Tomatoes and cucumbers]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-06-01--garden/20200601_121710.jpg)
Mystery pond berries 2020-05-03
What are these mystery berries that grow on the beaver dam and on islands in the pond?
![[Closeup]](http://www.okraparadisefarms.com/pictures/2020-05-03--butterfly-snake-dogs-cormorant-heron-beavers-dogs-pond-longleaf-fencewire/20200503_150506.jpg)
We think they’re probably some species of Smilax. Continue reading