The Beauty Of The Changing Seasons

[Shawnee]

Gorgeous......

 

[odinsmaster]

Getting more rain

 

[Shawnee]

You are totally dealing with I deal with....animals and the weather....not for the faint of heart....

 

[Radogast]

My first iris is trying to open, but the wind and rain battered it pretty hard - I have about 50 more iris plants a week and more behind.

Wormwood (Artemisia) silver mound is listed as a drought tolerant plant. It is doing fine in the slpash zone of the fountain.

 

[Tead]

Wormwood (Artemisia) silver mound is listed as a drought tolerant plant. It is doing fine in the slpash zone of the fountain.

Is that the same wormwood used in the creation of absinthe?


Tead's local signs of the changing seasons.... bugs of course! From a recent journey down 'round Lafayette....

 

[Gauge Steel]

I do NOT miss the love bugs Mr. Radogast. Have you ever tried dryer sheets? They work great.

Gauge

 

[Radogast]

Artemisia Absinthium, common wormwood, comes in a few different cultivars (I planted 3 last fall). They all are good for making absinthe and vermouth, getting rid of fleas and moths, before hops used in brewing beer - Ansinthe it's there in the latin name The whole artemisia family has a lot of terpenes.

Close relatives are:
Artemisia annua (anti- malaria, anti-cancer)
Artemisia vulgaris (Mugwort - smoking with ancestors, chinese medicine moxa)
Artemisia tridentata (Sage - disinfectant, native american ceremonies)
Artemisia Dracanculus (Tarragon - french cooking)

 

[Radogast]

I do NOT miss the love bugs Mr. Radogast. Have you ever tried dryer sheets? They work great.

Gauge

Tead may have used dryer sheets.

My strategy on exterior car care is to have the rain wash them every time I leave a car out in the rain - whether they need it or not.

 

[Tead]

Termites actually... Formosan. The yearly hatch was the other day. Some years they cloud streetlights so bad they become useless as light sources.
At least the ones on the bumper are not eating my house!

 

[Tead]

A big wall of Jasmine. Yup... summer has landed. Sure smelled nice!

 

[Gauge Steel]

Confederate Jasmine is without a doubt the best smelling plant in the whole wide universe. Lucky you, enjoy.

Thanks for sharing.

Gauge

 

[Radogast]

I love the smell of Star Jasmine. I grew up around it in the San Francisco Bay Area and planted some outside my front door when I lived in Arizona. Never heard it called Confederate Jasmine before, but that seems to be a real name for it.

 

[Tead]

Man... Jasmine, Night Blooming Jasmine, and Honeysuckle really fill my little local tropical world. It's a good thing... life in the swamp comes with many not so lovely smells. Man.... you've never experienced life until you've had the pleasure of enjoying crawfish shells from yesterday's burl at 90f+.

 

[Gauge Steel]

Lilly time in Gaugetown

Hope all is well in your world.

Gauge

 

[Radogast]

A bumblebee on comfrey flowers.

New Moonflower/Moon vine leaves looking like butterflies. (The bottom pair of leaves have the seed membrane still attached.)

 

[Skullman420]

A "something beautiful" on my drying laundry

And a strange little fellow I found in my grow-tent the other day. I carefully carried it back to the swamp I suspect it belongs to Hope I put it somewhere along where home is. Beautiful indeed, but I don't think you should live in a grow-tent. I just can't imagine that's very good for you in the long term.

 

[Radogast]

A "something beautiful" on my drying laundry

And a strange little fellow I found in my grow-tent the other day. I carefully carried it back to the swamp I suspect it belongs to Hope I put it somewhere along where home is. Beautiful indeed, but I don't think you should live in a grow-tent. I just can't imagine that's very good for you in the long term.

I like that moth. Is it nearly as big as the width of your hand? Looks like some kind of Hawk Moth from here.

Google shows a couple of two-lined salamanders that look the same to me - a young southern two-lined and a mature Blue Ridge two-lined salamander

 

[Radogast]

Do you know the butterfly and the seedling ?

 

[Skullman420]

I think you're right. It was that size and when I googled hawk moth I found my little friend or at least some very similar ones

I like that moth. Is it nearly as big as the width of your hand? Looks like some kind of Hawk Moth from here.

Google shows a couple of two-lined salamanders that look the same to me - a young southern two-lined and a mature Blue Ridge two-lined salamander

 

[Skullman420]

This little guy is confusing the shit out of me as it doesn't look like any of the native species. It does indeed look like a northern two-lined salamander or maybe even a dwarf salamander. The problem is that they're not supposed to exist on this continent. I'm in northern Europe

Google shows a couple of two-lined salamanders that look the same to me - a young southern two-lined and a mature Blue Ridge two-lined salamander