Another missed opportunity is my relative told me about a seedless red raspberry that got into the wild from his neighbor. I should have asked if it still grew and taken some cuttings because it's related to roses and should be easy enough to root if you can root a rose.
I screwed up a lot of opportunities. The asparagus was in Henry County, IL.
These beauties were just a couple miles from my home in IA. Found them in 2003. The flower is rare here; I bought some bulbs, the green comes up but they won't bloom.
The blue is common and considered a nuisance, chicory. I think it is pretty. The next day I went back and it had all been mowed off.
Then a couple years later they bulldozed the whole field where 3 clumps of those lilies grew (they aren't really lilies but look like them) for a housing development. So there have been many disappointments.
They aren't edible. My black raspberries have taken over so have to go. There are some blackberries behind the garage, a little tamer so far. And all I have left of my beloved fruit trees is one North Star cherry tree. So there are sad memories, too. At least I have some lovely pictures and had the satisfaction of planting all my trees myself except the last cherry trees, paid to have them done, then lost its mate when my huge tree dropped a gigantic limb. It had to be cut down, too.
