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I've seen enough asian wisteria take over trees and make a real eyesore that I wouldn't have any. Momma had some several times, it's pretty and smells good,but too invasive for me. I don't hate it as much as bradford pear(doesn't deserve capitalization),but close.
Hey Nic, give me a call when you get a jar or two ready.
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Got wild petunia and St. John's wort blooming around the house. Transplanted an Indian Pink that I scratched out of the ground with a digging stick in the woods last year. Potted it up. It over wintered and bloomed. Hope to get a colony established in a shady fern bed next to the back porch.
Visited a pond yesterday. "Payment" for beaver trapping. Bass on the fly rod! Fish for supper tonight.
Visited a pond yesterday. "Payment" for beaver trapping. Bass on the fly rod! Fish for supper tonight.
The native W. frutescens is 100x more well-behaved than the Chinese or Japanese species. It's a good vine to plant on a chain link fence.
I've only seen those a few times, down on the SC coast. They are indeed beautiful little birds.
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Actually I think it's strange that the landscape/horticulture crowd spends so much time and effort in "developing" new varieties of cultivated plants rather than focusing on the already "developed" (over thousands of years) native varieties. Clear a new home sight then come in and start planting stuff that doesn't belong there in the first place. The heavy hand of man.
Most of them have definitely never read any Jens Jensen and his theories about a "sense of place." They come around here all the time and bulldoze down oaks, sourwoods, dogwoods, rhododendron, mountain laurel, and native azaleas and plant crape myrtles, junipers, and nandinas.
I also don't understand the American fascination with monocultures of exotic invasive grass that gets clipped down every time it tries to grow.
I also don't understand the American fascination with monocultures of exotic invasive grass that gets clipped down every time it tries to grow.
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Here is a pic I took this morning of native Wisteria frutescens that I planted on a fence several years ago.
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We've gotten small showers the last two nights - about .3" each. First rain the month of May. Saturday and again today I backed up and looked at two good gray rat snakes each close to 5' long dead in the road. Also today I passed another black snake dead and then to top it off backed up to examine yet another road kill and found a good solid 4' corn snake (red rat)! Man, if I'd'a been a little earlier I'd be telling you about the corn snake I caught! I don't see 'em much any more and when I do they're dead...
Have a volunteer poke weed in the yard that I let grow and provide seed for the birds. Several years old now and reaching 7' tall!
Have a volunteer poke weed in the yard that I let grow and provide seed for the birds. Several years old now and reaching 7' tall!
I saw a swallow-tailed kite as I passed over Horse creek just outside Lumber City yesterday! I have seen them from time to time soaring gracefully high above the river during the summer but never this early and never down low like this one was. He was obviously hunting just above some low trees and I was impressed with how acrobatic he was for such a large slender looking bird!
Saw an Orchard Oriole today, as well as at least two pairs of Phoebes. We have been putting up Bluebird boxes for 40 years or so,Bluebirds everywhere. Did something today that probably should have been done years ago. Pushed open a shallow ditch from the garden into a lower place in orchard,hope that I have no more standing water after a big rain. Maters as big as cupcakes.
Watched a Barred Owl on my fence yesterday who was watching a squirrel eat sunflower seeds and did not attack it, he must of just finished his breakfast.