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

[wlf]

Good looking hound. All our animals have went on. We have a large fenced in backyard, it kept the dogs in, but the deer just flow over a 5 foot fence like water.
This one missed his mark in the midst of town residents. I think I've shown him before.

[bighomer]

We have a mater about ready to eat. We cheated a little it was raised in commercial nursery, we just set it out a couple of weeks ago, I expect it to taste like a hot house mater, but what the hey.

[TPK]

We have a mater about ready to eat. We cheated a little it was raised in commercial nursery, we just set it out a couple of weeks ago, I expect it to taste like a hot house mater, but what the hey.

What's a Mater?

[TPK]

Almost missed this. Just happened to notice it by chance and I thought Shazam!!!
I have no idea what kind this one is. The pretty kind I guess.
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[TPK]

We have a mater about ready to eat. We cheated a little it was raised in commercial nursery, we just set it out a couple of weeks ago, I expect it to taste like a hot house mater, but what the hey.

So it came to me what a mater is. Sorry for the stupid question. Hadn't heard that word in 30+ years so it had vanished from my vocabulary.

[treefarmer]

We have a mater about ready to eat. We cheated a little it was raised in commercial nursery, we just set it out a couple of weeks ago, I expect it to taste like a hot house mater, but what the hey.

So it came to me what a mater is. Sorry for the stupid question. Hadn't heard that word in 30+ years so it had vanished from my vocabulary.

Tom you've been gone from Florida too long!
Surely you remember mater samidges with Duke's Mayonnaise!
Treefarmer

[bighomer]

Tom it's maters and taters 'round here with a lot of other colorful phrases you probably don't hear in Germany.
Farmer you wuz doing good till you mentioned that nasty condiment.
The tomato was really good I was pleasantly surprised, but as the boss pointed out it was planted in dirt not hydroponicaly grown as most winter time hothouse tomatoes are.

[TPK]

[1967redrider]

Awesome cactus bloom, Tom. I used to have Christmas and Chicken Foot cacti that would bloom from time to time.

[Unk]

Nice cactus bloom, Tom. We have some little barrel cacti on my place, including one in the backyard which I make sure I don't accidently mow over. The blooms are beautiful, but you have to be quick! They only bloom for a 1 or 2 days each year.

We always have these tall red flowers around the place, and I never bothered to look up what they are. This year we have a bumper crop of them, growing all throughout the woods around here. Come to find out, they are called "Standing Cypress flowers. They are also called by various other names, including Texas plume, Scarlet Gilia, and Red Texas Star. Some of these on my place are 6 feet tall. I took these pics today while I was burning brush.

[Unk]

The darn Emerald Ash Borer continues to wreak havoc on my Ash trees. This one right in front of the house died. I probably have 100 dead Ash trees on my place. I took the Ash and a 2 Chittumwood trees down (carpenter ants). Took me about a week to cut them down, cut them up, haul/burn the brush. I still have to haul the firewood logs over to the pile and stack them up. I only work a couple a hours at a time - it was in the 90s last week, but cooler the last couple of days. Losing trees is hard work for an old man.

[Mumbleypeg]

Ash borers took out a Texas Ash in my yard. Entire big limbs were dying, seems like one side of the tree at a time over a couple of years, so I finally took it down. It was the only one near the house but there are a lot of them and some Green Ash in the creek bottoms that so far seem to be doing okay.

All the rain we’ve been getting has everything really green. Bad news is the grass needs mowing perpetually! Started cutting hay too. The Mexican Hat, Indian Blanket, Primrose and other summer wildflowers are in bloom now. Different flowers seem to bloom in different pastures for some reason.

Ken

[Unk]

Nice pics, Ken. The EAB is devastating ash trees as it spreads across the USA, similar to what happened to Chestnut trees in the past. I drive around and can see all my neighbors Ash trees are dead as well. Thousands of ash trees just in my little area.

We had a bumper crop of Indian blanket flowers as well this spring. With all the rain, the wildflowers are having a good year.

[doglegg]

Sad about the ash trees. The flowers have sure been beautiful this year.