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Hello hellebores! Hellebores are some of the earliest flowers to bloom in our garden and they are such a beautiful prelude to the spring flower season. They were some of the first flowers I planted by our front porch and they’ve brightened our mornings every winter with their lovely pink blossoms.

Some folks don’t care for ornamental plants because they don’t serve a practical purpose. For me, beauty serves a great purpose - to awaken something deeper in us. I grow flowers to say thank you to the flowers and to the one who created all this beauty. Every delicate, ephemeral blossom is a reminder of how beautiful life is.

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I think it is not technically raising the meat but raising an apple orchard with intention of harvesting meat. I support that when the deer are honored. Venison is delicious and deer are our kin. 💚🙏🏼

🤷🏽‍♂️ How deer resistant are your fruit and nut trees?

I ranked a fair number of common and rare fruit and nut trees for theur deer resistance based on my direct observation of the trees and the deer.

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You don't have to deer fence your entire property or orchard to grow fruit and nut trees.

After tempting the deer to eat leaves from hundreds of trees, from dozens of species, I learned so much about what I can get away with and what I can't.

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Oh 😂 no worries! 💚

Oh interesting, that sounds similar to our climate here! Summer is our arid dry season as well.

That's amazing! We are much drier so not as lush with growth all year round. I am imagining you with a machete whacking paths through your elder forest 😂💚

If I had that problem I would celebrate an abundance of elderberries! One person's weed is another person's lover. But to be fair it's a good warning, I love mint, raspberries and other creepers but take in consideration where I plant them. But seriously you must have fertile soil and lots of water... there are worst things in life! 💚🙏🏼

How much rain do you get annually? Depending you may need to offer supplemental irrigation to get good fruit crop. Elders like lots of water as a general rule, but some varieties, at least here on the west coast and the ones that adapted to living in the rain shadow have much more drought tolerance. Depending if you are zone 7, 8 or 9 you'll have the best result if you look for genetics from similar zone and rainfall. Good luck!

So cool that you have wild elders growing on your land!! Do you know what kind they are? Are they the native black variety? What a gift! We are zone 7bish in southern Oregon. I love how adaptable and giving elder is!

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we are also in Mediterranean climate usually zone 7b. Elder does very well here, we even have our native blue elder which ranges from Mexico all the way up into Canada. you can definitely grow elder! some varieties may be better suited to your climate but with enough water they should do really well there!

very cool! can't go wrong with peaches, they are so juicy and delicious 🤗💚

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All winter I look forward to her emergence! Her beautiful leaves will soon grow huge and lose the purple and tight wrinkles.

Later in the season we will enjoy the abundant food - for now I swim in her beauty.

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thank you! we use elderflower for helping sweat our fevers. it really is delicious 🙏🏼💚

congrats! yes they can grow for many years and get fairly thick trunk for a shrub

thanks for the share! what zone are you in?