Flora, Fauna, Foraging, Forest-y stuff

[littlemamma]

put it here.


someone tell me why my tomatoes won't grow?

[Clams]

put it here.


someone tell me why my tomatoes won't grow?

Because it's only April?

[scotto]

Wendy--the missus and official bluebird monitor--reports that all five eggs have hatched and the nestbox is now a-stir with five wriggling pinkish-gray alien-looking bluebird babies.

(And LM, Clams is right--it's too early for 'maters.)

[littlemamma]

pepper and a mater, growin up mean and strong.

Beans and peas pullin in too!!!

This garden might make it yet.

Plus all 5 roses survived the move and are thriving. It's a sign, i tell you.

[littlemamma]

ooh Scotto! you're here!
know much about asclepias?
can I grow them from a cutting? or should i just go buy a new one?

[scotto]

ooh Scotto! you're here!
know much about asclepias?
can I grow them from a cutting? or should i just go buy a new one?

I think just some regular salve should clear it right up.

[littlemamma]

fuck it then, nature boy.
I'll just google it!

[Clams]

Spent a couple of hours Sunday filling about 20 flower pots with dirt from my compost and topped them off with a bunch of annuals that I bought on Saturday. It's been pouring rain on them since last night and I have to say all the pots looked pretty happy this morning.

[littlemamma]

alsum, clams! what kinds of annuals?

and asclepias can be grown from seed. I'll just go buy a plant. i know you all were aching to know.

[Clams]

alsum, clams! what kinds of annuals?

and asclepias can be grown from seed. I'll just go buy a plant. i know you all were aching to know.

the usual suspects... impatiens, petunias, begonias, geraniums, vinca, some tall yellow flowery ones, the tall spikey stuff, etc.

WTF is an asclepia (and is it pronounced ass-clepia like it looks??? )

[Penny Lane]

[scotto]

fuck it then, nature boy.
I'll just google it!

Ahh...milkweed! Why didn't you say so.
If you go with the native varieties, they should do fine from seed, but may take a few seasons to bloom. Should be easy to find some small plants.
We have swamp milkweed, purple milkweed, butterfly milkweed, and spider milkweed. Beautiful plants and the birds and butterflies love 'em.
Good luck.

[littlemamma]

it's mexican milkweed. monarch butterflies lay their eggs on them.
http://www.missouriplants.com/Redalt/Asclepias_tuberosa_page.html

[scotto]

I think swamp milkweed and Mexican milkweed are the same thing.
If you want to order some, check out this place: http://www.mowildflowers.net/index.htm
It's a totally alsum all-native nursery and just about 10 minutes from our house. We go back again and again the way some folks go to their favorite tattoo parlor. And I'm pretty sure they do mail-order.
They're very knowledgeable and would be able to give you a good idea about what would be adaptable to Texas.

[littlemamma]

I think swamp milkweed and Mexican milkweed are the same thing.
If you want to order some, check out this place: http://www.mowildflowers.net/index.htm
It's a totally alsum all-native nursery and just about 10 minutes from our house. We go back again and again the way some folks go to their favorite tattoo parlor. And I'm pretty sure they do mail-order.
They're very knowledgeable and would be able to give you a good idea about what would be adaptable to Texas.

cool!!! I love the bright orange flowers. I wasn't able to get every plant I wanted from the other house, that's one I definitely want to have in the new butterfly garden, though.

[myjeepsbigger]

Got a decent little garden going here in mid-IL. Need some sun, though.

I've actually got some ripe ones too...need to update pics.



Also need to keep this guy out.....



We've got a bit too much of this going on, too:

No, this is not a lake. It's a field.

[myjeepsbigger]

Updated for today. Sooooooo goooood.....




Taters are getting some size too....finally.

[scotto]

Hey LM, I was mistaken. Mexican milkweed is the same as butterfly milkweed, not swamp milkweed.
Hope i didn't influence a screwed-up purchase.

By the way, it's copper iris season in our rain garden:

['Scratch]

We drove all the way to Iowa for a family visit (1100 miles) ....and to satisfy my wife's obsession for morels.

One day's haul...

[scotto]

^^^
Nice haul!

[joelle]

"get the fuck off me"
"call 911"

i'm sorry but this crazy fucker laughing was too good

['Scratch]

Thanks for that Joelle, I was laughing almost as much as Pugsley!

[joelle]

Thanks for that Joelle, I was laughing almost as much as Pugsley!

me too!!
i watched it about three times in a row
and then called my daughter in to watch it...ahhh pugsley

['Scratch]

^^^
Nice haul!

Thanks, it would have been better if I didn't blow my chance to bring home a big gobbler. Visions of wild turkey and morel gravy flew out the window when I moved my restless arse and the giant Tom I had set up under when WHOMP WHOMP WHOMP away into the next county. We did have a few nice trout though, kept the stockie Rainbows and left the wild Browns.

[myjeepsbigger]

Nice batch of morels! They've been done around here for about a month now. Didn't have a real good crop this year.

Here's a few babies we found when I actually had my phone to take a pic.



Today's strawberry harvest at the house. Got more at the farm that I need to pick.


Uh-oh. Got hungry looking at them.

[littlemamma]

damn. lusting after those morels.
never had one.
and thanks to Joelle for the fauna levity
and scotto, I'm still up in the air about the butterfly garden.
so, it's cool.

[joelle]

green acres
city born city raised
every year this is my garden.
lookin' good so far. real good lookin' dog is good lookin' out.
last picture is the sweet (bird) home alabama by the dexateen cat

[Clams]

Gotta love the urban garden.

['Scratch]

No doubt. Very nice. Never underestimate the will of plants, or plant lovers.

[joelle]

i love these two photos
the three you chose were EXACTLY
the three i would have picked as well.