Great pics thanks for sharing! Two things...
1. I have the same old man face hose sprinkler
2. Love the blooms on Russian Olives: they are delicious. Although they are soooooooo invasive. All up and down the NJ highways here
Great Pics again!!! Enjoy the summer!!
Mike

Jacklord - IF im not mistakin, there is a hardy type of olea, hardy to zone 6 or 7. IF thats the one you seen, id grab it. Make sure its an Olea, not Elaeagnus as russian olive would be really invasive there....

Mike - Thanks dude LOL

We got that old man face years ago for a buck on clearance. Theres a rabbit one too. The smell from the russian olive is intoxicating. Im noticing im going outside just to catch a wiff of it LOL. Im not sure how invasive they are here, but I think im about to find out. My bosses dad started a cutting liek 30 years ago, and they said it never actualy set proper fruit, just " little wrinckled raisin things", and theirs never poped up shoots from the roots either. I do hope it fruits, I wouldnt mind having a few more of these, and mabey even sell a few. There so useful it sickning, to bad 90% of the websites out there are to get rid of it 🙁

Jacklord - IF im not mistakin, there is a hardy type of olea, hardy to zone 6 or 7. IF thats the one you seen, id grab it. Make sure its an Olea, not Elaeagnus as russian olive would be really invasive there....

Mike - Thanks dude LOL

We got that old man face years ago for a buck on clearance. Theres a rabbit one too. The smell from the russian olive is intoxicating. Im noticing im going outside just to catch a wiff of it LOL. Im not sure how invasive they are here, but I think im about to find out. My bosses dad started a cutting liek 30 years ago, and they said it never actualy set proper fruit, just " little wrinckled raisin things", and theirs never poped up shoots from the roots either. I do hope it fruits, I wouldnt mind having a few more of these, and mabey even sell a few. There so useful it sickning, to bad 90% of the websites out there are to get rid of it 🙁

Here is a link to a map where it is invasive in the States.... http://www.nps.gov/plants/alien/map/elan1.htm

Thanks Mike

I cant find to much info on how invasive it is here. The only mention of it being invasive in any canadian province, is southern alberta ( which, i must say, i never seen this planted in calgary that I can remember).

I should say, the states under me ( minnisota, wisconsin) say this tree is invasive there. The mild temps are a few kilometers from the lake, It wouldnt be a far stretch to say it may be invasive here. THen again, they usualy inhabit feilds and or disterbed forest, or open forest, which my area isnt. ITs matured/maturing larch, birtch, aspen/maple forest, and my city has trees that are usualy only seen in the wild down by duluth or minniapolis ( they follow the shoreline).

I think I should at least keep an eye on it, and around here to see if any pop up...

Well done, Jesse, your hard work is paying off with some nice specimens!

Oooh that Russian Olive is gorgeous.
I lost mine a couple of years ago due to overwatering (sprinkler zones meeting right at the tree...damn!)
Its tiny flowers had such a wonderful fragrance, very subtle, could be detected 400 feet away.
Love its blue color.

Make sure you don't eat that NainiTal when you're harvesting the (what are they?) cole crop beside it 😆

Cool agaves.

Barb

LOl, i guess thats another way of saying "cover crop"?

ITs buckwheat and Living multch, can be cut down 2 or 3 times a year for mutlch or compost innoculant....and hopefully i can get some seed! ( theres also some lilies in there, and yarrow). Beside that, are my black berries 😈

To bad yours didnt make it, they truely dont like lots of water ( except the first year apperantly)

the only thing is now, spidermites seeem to be everywhere 👿 I need to get a few hundred ladybugs...

Maybe tie a forestry ribbon around that palm seedling (with blackberries nearby)
And try a couple of birdbaths, Jesse.
Birds will clean up spider mites too (unless you've got an outdoor cat).

Each morning I take my coffee to the patio to watch the brightly-coloured Orioles.
Their antics include hanging precariously on branches, searching for leaf rollers etc from new growth on birch and spruce.

Never been so happy that I no longer have a cat!
The sheer number of birds here blows me away.

I wish I could get birds to eat the soft-bodied scale on my palms 😡

Barb

Birds arent a problem. I have a small hanging fountain, and 2 feeders. Not to mention, the read n what not we give em. Starlings, chikadees, grackles, crow, and sparrow are all over my yard, but I need a larger tree to attract more, hence the russian olive ( another use ). They seem to have got to my grape and clematis, and weigelia 😡

I used a bit of soapy water, hopefully didnt kill to many beneficial insects. Hopefully when everything is in bloom things will balance out ( thats what im trying to do, let nature work itself out), but thats hard to do when i see that LOL

Jack, there is a type of Olea europea hardy to zone 6, called "Eddy's Winter Wonder". If you do a search in the top corner, it will bring up the post where I mentioned it. I would buy some for myself, but the place in BC won't ship them! 👿 They said that they might ship cuttings next year though 🙄

ahh, thanks Cameron, I know i heard it form somewhere.

Im apperantly goint on a road trip to BC in august. Looks liek itll be a plant trip. LOL

ahh, thanks Cameron, I know i heard it form somewhere.

Im apperantly goint on a road trip to BC in august. Looks liek itll be a plant trip. LOL

😈 😈

but the place in BC won't ship them!

That sounds odd for a business.
Unless they don't have any.

They definitely have them, but I think they mostly deliver around the Lower Mainland. They said they're "not used to shipping things out of province" 🙄 😆

They said they're "not used to shipping things out of province"

oh for heaven's sake, do they want the business or not?
What a bunch of morons!

Barb

Nice update Jesse!

I'm glad to see things are growing well for you. I can't remember did that banana go through last winter in the ground? The color on that olive is beautiful, I love foliage that looks like that.

Cool agaves!

Bill