All About Vegetation, House Plants, Gardens, Trees ect.

[TPK]

Nice pictures Tom .

My Queen Bee wife is happy today. She took the below picture this morning with one of her many well fed 'fat' bees on her Sunflower.

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Dan

Hi Dan,

Great to see ya! Nice picture & say Hello to the Quenn-Bee for me. Hope you guys are both doing well & staying safe & healthy.

Tom KGFG

[TPK]

My hostas and day lily's are struggling in this heat wave we 've got going on and the the hydranga's just flat gave up. We're supposed to get a little rain this . It is sorely needed.

Looks nice around your house Greg!

[TPK]

Didn't realize it has been raining so much, must be falling at night when I'm in bed? Enough to grow toadstools yesterday and today, the one in the third picture is about the size of a pie pan.

The Hibiscus are doing well locally too.

Great looking Hibiscus John! For some strange reason, they remind me of FL.

[Old Folder]

Nice pictures Tom .

My Queen Bee wife is happy today. She took the below picture this morning with one of her many well fed 'fat' bees on her Sunflower.


Bee on Sunflower 3.jpg

Dan

That bee is really fat, loaded up with pollen. The bees are amazing creatures and your wife's sunflower is beautiful.
Treefarmer

Thank you treefarmer.

Dan

[Old Folder]

Nice pictures Tom .

My Queen Bee wife is happy today. She took the below picture this morning with one of her many well fed 'fat' bees on her Sunflower.

Bee on Sunflower 3.jpg

Dan

Hi Dan,

Great to see ya! Nice picture & say Hello to the Quenn-Bee for me. Hope you guys are both doing well & staying safe & healthy.

Tom KGFG

Thanks Tom, Anna says hello.

Dan

[RobesonsRme.com]

I am at a lakeside home (rented) on Lake Talquin, outside Tallahassee.

This fir tree is growing on the bank and not at a developed area, so I assume it’s native. I saw it while out fishing this morning.

It reminds me of trees one sees in photos and art from Japan.

Anyone have any idea what this might be?

[treefarmer]

Can’t tell from the picture but the color and proximity to the water caused my to think Cypress. It could be a Bald Cypress or a Pond Cypress.
Treefarmer

[RobesonsRme.com]

It’s not cypress. It is a form of pine.

[bestgear]

Looks like either longleaf pine

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or slash pine

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to me but I’m not a subject matter expert on FL flora - you’d think Phil our resident treefarmer from FL would have nailed it … hmmmm …

[TPK]

Ever seen where toads live?

I did yesterday evening. This one lives about 1/2 way up my outside stairs in the potting soil of a tomato plant. We've had toads around here for about 10 years now. Normally two or three of them. This spring one of them got ran over by a car & I have only seen this one around here this year.

I thought this one might need some water for it's skin. When I poured a little on it, it jumped out of it's hole like "Are you CRAZY!?!? That's cold!!!"


Here are a few bad pictures of it.

[Quick Steel]

I found this growing in our front yard.

[Unk]

My wife's Desert Rose is blooming.

[TPK]

I found this growing in our front yard.

Beautiful!

[TPK]

My wife's Desert Rose is blooming.

Looks great Ike!

[TPK]

My wife's Desert Rose is blooming.

Looks great Mike!

[Quick Steel]

Beautiful flowers Mike.


Thank you Tom.

[TPK]

Thought I'd just take a few snap shots around here this morning. Give Ya'll something new to look at. Also wrote a short Sunday poem. Called it "The Good News". I'll post it over in the poems thread in a few min., then come back over here & add a link if anyone is interested.
Link: https://www.allaboutpocketknives.com/kn ... 5#p1026804

Have a great Sunday everyone!

[TPK]

A few more pictures.

[1967redrider]

Looks awesome, Tom.

[TPK]

Looks awesome, Tom.

Thanks John!

[Quick Steel]

I love the colors in your garden Tom.

[RobesonsRme.com]

Can anyone ID this?

It isn’t honeysuckle.

Has a very faint, non-offensive floral scent.

Looks like it could function as ground cover.

[TPK]

Walking through the Aldi Supermarkt today I ran across some plants for €1.19 a piece. I took these two what I would call succulents and planted them when I got home. Added a couple of stones and put a couple of pine cones from our last woods walk with the dogs in front of it. Here are a couple of pictures.

[Waukonda]

Walking through the Aldi Supermarkt today I ran across some plants for €1.19 a piece. I took these two what I would call succulents and planted them when I got home. Added a couple of stones and put a couple of pine cones from our last woods walk with the dogs in front of it. Here are a couple of pictures.

Very nice, Tomas, a good looking creation for a small investment. The only thing is........I can't find the hidden knife in the photo , surely you put one in there somewhere!

In regards to Aldi, here in the States, they stock Deutsche Kuche brand Knackwurst, and I have been stuck on them recently. Love those things off the grill, they also make a pretty decent fat hot dog. Is that a brand with which you are familiar?

[TPK]

Walking through the Aldi Supermarkt today I ran across some plants for €1.19 a piece. I took these two what I would call succulents and planted them when I got home. Added a couple of stones and put a couple of pine cones from our last woods walk with the dogs in front of it. Here are a couple of pictures.

Very nice, Tomas, a good looking creation for a small investment. The only thing is........I can't find the hidden knife in the photo , surely you put one in there somewhere!

Opps! Forgot the knife.

In regards to Aldi, here in the States, they stock Deutsche Kuche brand Knackwurst, and I have been stuck on them recently. Love those things off the grill, they also make a pretty decent fat hot dog. Is that a brand with which you are familiar?

Well they do have a few different brands of Knackwurst there. My wife can't recall reading that exact brand name though. However, Aldi in owned by two brothers. Two of the richest men in Germany. And Aldi is divided into two groups. Aldi North & Aldi South. One brother runs the northern stores, the other one runs the southern stores. So brands can & do vary between them. It could also just be a marketing name somebody came up with for the US stores.