Category: flora

FFF 45 — Molly Tuttle new song plus!

I’m on the Nonesuch mailing list, which is Molly Tuttle’s label.  This morning I listened to a new tune from her new solo album, “So Long, Little Miss,” called, “The Highway Knows.”  Is there such a thing as love at first listen? Most of the following pics were taken today.  As you can see, the…

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Dawn Redwood at fmg

Anybody who has read my blog for any length of time has heard me go on and on about the gardens and feeding the koi at the waterfall pond. Last Tuesday I realized the whole area around the pond has a stand of dawn redwood trees. How could I have failed to see them before?…

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Birdhouse Gourds

Dotty had surgery yesterday, to remove a mammary tumor.  She wasn’t recovering as well as they wanted so they suggested she spend the night there.  I picked her up this morning, but when I saw all of the open blossoms on the birdhouse gourd plants I had to take a pic.  This is more blossoms…

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Mid-June Miss Toad

Mid-June, while doing a plant check around the yard, I found Miss Toad hunkered down amongst the new prickly pear cacti.  She stayed there for a number of days, but now she is gone.  I think she chose a dangerous but safe place to rest.  I wonder where she is now? soft and warty cool…

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Doodads — 2 pics from the past week and a song

This is a pic taken of sunset a few days ago.  I thought it was pretty.  The next pic is my newest plant project.  I removed a couple of lobes from the prickly pear cactus, have let the cut end dry out well, and yesterday planted them in a mix of perlite, gravel, and planting…

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