Andrey 2016 Season

[Andrey_BY]

Bower,

picking mushrooms is my favorite hobby (equal to growing tomatoes) since my early childhood. I have always been living near a forest and pick mushrooms. The first mushrooms experience I've got was in Mongolia in local sugarloafs there you may find really big mushrooms.

That shrub is not ginseng, but Parthenocissus which was invited to grow in the forest near our dacha village by local gardeners and since then has been getting more and more space around and up

Originally Posted by bower

Magnificent! We're just having our first summer day too. 22 C or 71 F is summer hot for us. We won't see chanterelles until August here, and blueberries are lowbush, late august for them. How lucky to have them in June! And fabulous flowers, we're still running late so no peonies, and not even chives in bloom yet - which is one I usually see on midsummer day.


Andrey, in the first forest picture, is that ginseng growing on the ground?
That hedghog is priceless!

[akgardengirl]

It's all beautiful Andrey! It all grows here also but I have never looked on the map at our latitude. It must be close at 62. I am still enjoying your tomatoes from 2006.

[ginger2778]

Parthenocissus- also known as Virginia Creeper. Here it is as invasive as kudzoo, and can cause a sever allergic reaction. Once it's in the garden it is almost impossible to irradicate, especially if some of the vine has grown through the fence from a neighbor.

[Andrey_BY]

Marsha,
many gardeners use Virginia Creeper as climbing ornamental shrub here.
We called it Devichiy Vinograd in Russian (Maiden grapes) and have never heard or experienced allergic reactions...
I like their foliage in the fall time when it turns red.

Sue,
will be glad to send you more early and other favorite varieties to try for the next season. Let's get conncted in the fall
Sherry is also invited