Jackalope Gardens

10/18/2024

Adenium blooms from this morning. 🌺🌺🌺

09/05/2024

Please plant more native plants!

The already endangered monarch butterfly population has dropped by 59% from 2023 to 2024.

Plant more milkweed! More mistflower! More native plants that provide nectar and host plants for all of the other native bees and butterflies that we have here.

This pic of a Monarch caterpillar is from this morning on one of my Narrowleaf Milkweed plants.

02/29/2024

Do any of your tomato flowers look like this?

This is a genetic mutation referred to as fused blossoms or commonly as a "megabloom".

Megablooms are a mutation that are caused by extreme stress to the plant mostly being due to large fluctuations in temperature from cold to warm. It usually only happens on the first couple flowers on the plant, then will produce normal flowers subsequently after that. Megablooms are usually found on larger beefsteak and hybrid varieties of tomatoes, but can be found in others as well. Case in point, the photograph (shown) was taken in my garden of a Chocolate Sprinkles Cherry Tomato.

Megablooms can be pinched off, or allowed to grow. If allowed to grow, they will turn into a larger tomato that is conjoined and catfaced (fasciated). Keep in mind that if you allow the tomato to grow, it will sap more energy and nutrients from the plant than normal, due to it being 2-6 conjoined flowers in one. A normal tomato flower (shown) will have only 5-7 petals and a single pistil in the center. Megablooms will look like a sunflower or dandelion, with a large multitude of petals surrounding the several pistils in the center.

Megablooms will not hurt your plant, so if you want a fun science experiment, allow the blossom to develop into a giant mutant tomato!

01/10/2023

07/26/2022

Beautiful NOID Plumeria bloom this morning!

04/16/2021

Created this succulent wedding bouquet earlier this week. I can do these as a custom order! I can also make boutonnières, hairpieces and tiaras/veil crowns. Please DM me if you need my services!

03/09/2021

Red Baron Peach, Tropic Snow Peach, Bonanza Peach, Jubilee Blueberries and Sunshine Blue Blueberries.

02/14/2021

Tropic Snow Peach blooms making an appearance 🍑❄️

02/06/2021

Hibiscus and Nasturtium’s beautiful blooms.

02/06/2021

Anna Apple tree in full bloom!