As partially stated in the title, someone I follow on Twitter posted this request today: “Please feel free to send me healing and peace verses.” Continue reading “My response to a Tweet request for healing and peace verses.”
Tag: plant ID
What is it? Part 2
Courtesy Notice: This did get a bit more rambly than planned, but I don’t have time to try to knock it down because I have a promise to keep today.
It finally opened! The other one also suddenly has a second bud forming. So I had to take some pictures. I want to point out that last year I have no photo evidence of anything like that in that bed.
Here’s what’s odd. When I look at my 2018 Plantings notes, I wrote that I planted “Black eyed susans – porch – June 8”. From pictures I’ve looked at, this is a fairly likely candidate but the “porch” designation is supposed to mean something else. Continue reading “What is it? Part 2”
What is it?
So the two about foot tall flowers on the west bed in front of the porch have become a daily (ok, since the petals started showing, multiple times daily) ponderance I feel the need to lift.
I’ve done some comparisons. I’ve sworn at a few plant ID sites that lack the details I wish I could input to maybe get a closer result. Still, I am unsure. Eventually, I hope, I’ll learn what they really are.
The last time I guessed something was a flower, it turned out to be a tree. Last time I thought I found a certain larvae that would grow to be a butterfly, I instead had found a larvae that is growing to be a moth. I’m obviously terrible at the guessing game, but knowing that doesn’t quiet my brain.
Any day now…any day…I will learn.
Follow up of attending my first Conservation Commission meeting.
As I noted before, I did finally attend a local Conservation Commission meeting, and in doing so found myself volunteering to help share some plants with a homeowner that inadvertently removed plants he didn’t know he shouldn’t because part of his land was in a protected flood zone. Not a “you’ll flood every year” sort of flood zone, but what’s known here as a Q3 “100 year flood” zone. You’d think there’d be some law stating sellers of homes should make sure buyers know about that sort of thing…I guess it’s more expected that folks will inform themselves about such. I remember after I heard about one legendary Gardner flood, and soon found myself well acquainted with the OLIVER map which helped us strike a few homes off our house search possibles. Continue reading “Follow up of attending my first Conservation Commission meeting.”
Not a sunflower, sadly.
I checked on the possible sunflower after coming home from an errand today, and noticed the stem was getting a bit ruddy. I checked the other spots where I had planted sunflowers last year that also did not sprout, and found one other in the right side front porch bed. Continue reading “Not a sunflower, sadly.”