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Post by lugg on Jun 16, 2013 9:41:48 GMT
Very nice
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2013 13:30:09 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Jun 20, 2013 13:31:19 GMT
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Post by htmb on Jun 22, 2013 16:57:00 GMT
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Post by spindrift1 on Jun 22, 2013 19:07:13 GMT
htmb - that's lovely.
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Post by lugg on Jun 23, 2013 8:46:52 GMT
Wonderful mulberries K2 Gorgeous poppies Htmb. Was that taken next to a rail line ?
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Post by htmb on Jun 23, 2013 9:05:29 GMT
Good eye, Lugg. Yes, it was taken from the train on the way to Cambridge, which is why it's slightly blurry.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jul 8, 2013 15:01:09 GMT
Fabulous pictures on this page. Kerouac, yours are almost 3D -- just wonderful.
Htmb, those poppies look like an impressionist painting -- beautiful.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 16:56:12 GMT
My husband and I are homesteading on the weekends on Whidbey Island in Western Washington state. As such we have nothing but wildflowers as we attempt to carve out a little civilisation for ourselves. Here is a little Westcoast flora. In ascending order of desireability: St John's Wort, which we just identified this year as a noxious weed and must be pulled by hand. It is spread over two or three acres. Orange trumpet honeysuckle, way up in the fir trees. And the modest, tiny baldhip rose.
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Post by htmb on Aug 7, 2013 17:08:03 GMT
Nice, Lizzy! The flower I couldn't identify on one of my wanderings last week must have been a "baldhip rose."
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 17:28:24 GMT
I like any kind of wildflower, with emphasis on the flower -- we all know that some of these plants are 99.9% leaves, thorns and obstacles and only 0.1% flower, in which case I saw get rid of the damned thing!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 17:47:04 GMT
Thanks,htmb, but my sources say that baldhip roses are found only in Western North America. These are very tiny blossoms, under an inch across. I wonder what yours can be? I'll do some research. Kerouac, you are welcome to come visit and help clear 10 acres of wildflowers.
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Post by htmb on Aug 7, 2013 17:51:03 GMT
This flower was a bit bigger and, since the photos weren't very good, I deleted from my iPad after I downloaded. I will check to see if I still have a photo on my camera. Guess it must have been something else.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 17:53:18 GMT
htmb, Rosa multiflora may be what you are looking at, and in some places in Florida it is a noxious weed known for its thicket-forming behaviour.
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Post by htmb on Aug 7, 2013 17:54:21 GMT
Good thing it wasn't in my neighborhood then.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 18:07:33 GMT
Thickets! Those damned thickets!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 18:32:56 GMT
And I've wickedly misled you – now that I stare at it, that is not a baldhip rose but a Nootka rose, betrayed by the prominent sepals on the hip. The baldhip is the next plant over. Nootkas are bigger, about 2". Duh.
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Post by htmb on Aug 7, 2013 19:02:11 GMT
I'm not sure how I will ever trust you again! ;D ;D ;D
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 22:05:52 GMT
Oh Lordy. I'll be in Florida in September for 2 days. I'll come by and prove my trustworthiness somehow.
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Post by htmb on Aug 7, 2013 22:19:51 GMT
Honestly, I wouldn't know a Nootka from a honeysuckle. You could have just made something up. Come on by, but Florida's a big state. What part will you be visiting? Somehow I suspect it's not my part.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 22:44:01 GMT
Pretty sure it's not. We'll be on Amelia Island for a wedding of my husband's nephew. Flying trip, don't know anyone there. But I'd probably never get to Florida on my own, so it's all good. I'll wave.
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Post by htmb on Aug 7, 2013 22:49:48 GMT
Oh, that's nice! That IS my part of Florida, though still a good couple of hours away. I've wanted to go back to see Ft. Clinch on the north part of Amelia Island. Just to the north of that, across a waterway, is Cumberland Island, Georgia, a paradise of a place where I've spent a lot of time.
Have fun!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 7, 2013 22:55:51 GMT
Thanks!
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Post by htmb on Aug 10, 2013 3:29:14 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 12, 2013 16:12:47 GMT
That is stunning. I love the glowing red against the grey tree trunk.
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Post by htmb on Aug 12, 2013 19:39:58 GMT
Thank you very much, Lizzy. I liked it so much it's now my iPad wallpaper. The photo is from my Silver Springs thread.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 13, 2013 4:32:27 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2013 17:21:26 GMT
bixaorellana, I am a plant i-d fanatic. I ask questions on the UBC Botanical Garden Forum which has a worldwide membership who are extremely helpful in figuring out the strangest visitors to the property. At a wild guess, I would say that 65 - 70% of what is growing on our land is indigenous, in that they are pre-contact species and not introduced: trees, native berries and shrubs, mosses, ferns and sedges. Another 30% have encroached in the last 400 years: grasses, wildflowers and what one would call noxious weeds. A full two acres was covered by a fairytale-level Himalayan blackberry thicket when we bought, and we will be trying to eradicate it for the next 10 years, I suppose. Then we have a very small percentage of what I like to think of as kismet - garden hybrids or exotic (to me) weeds that drop from the sky as seeds in bird poop; shasta daisies are the latest additions. I save the seeds for when I get to plant a real garden. I'll include these photos as they are on subject (wildflowers and berries) and because they show the damage that was done by a homesick Brit immigrant who wanted some bramble jelly on his toast a couple of centuries ago. Himalayan blackberry eradication by professionals:
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2013 17:43:23 GMT
That gives enhanced meaning to the word "thicket"!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2013 18:07:13 GMT
It is most definitely the" year of the elderberry" here!!!! Mon Dieu!! Last years harvest was wiped out by Hurricane Isaac, so, barring no upcoming storms of that nature to disappoint, I am whipping out my recipes to go at it as I have at least 4 major stands of them burgeoning with berries!!!!!
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