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

[Waukonda]

My pleasure, thanks for the kind words fellers, I've got a bunch of photos of on my phone , cheers me up on a dreary winter day.

I thought "cheering you Up" was Nikki D's job!

[bighomer]

She along with several others make my day, we are blessed with pretty weather gals.
A ray of sunshine on a breezy day. A little play on words I guess, as NikkI D.Ray, Danielle Breezy and Bree Sunshine Smith are 3 of our local weather girls.

[Unk]

We moved into our new place last May, and I have enjoyed getting to know all the trees on the place. It is 5 acres and very wooded. We sit up on a limestone ridge, and have Live Oak, Post Oak, Cedar, Cedar Elm, and lots of Texas Ash trees. I took down some young skinny Ash trees a few months ago that were blocking my view off the back of the ridge (you can see for miles). I gathered them up to make some walking sticks with my drawknife and turn some mallets on the lathe. I have a few Live Oak trees that have Oak Wilt, and they need to be taken down. I have some beautiful stands of Live Oak, and hopefully I can keep the fungus away from them. I haven't seen any evidence of the Emerald Ash Borer in my Ash trees.

There's a 40 foot elevation change on the property. I have found some ammonites and reef shell fossils from the cretaceous period. It's weird the think this place was all under the sea at one point.

[TPK]

We moved into our new place last May, and I have enjoyed getting to know all the trees on the place. It is 5 acres and very wooded. We sit up on a limestone ridge, and have Live Oak, Post Oak, Cedar, Cedar Elm, and lots of Texas Ash trees. I took down some young skinny Ash trees a few months ago that were blocking my view off the back of the ridge (you can see for miles). I gathered them up to make some walking sticks with my drawknife and turn some mallets on the lathe. I have a few Live Oak trees that have Oak Wilt, and they need to be taken down. I have some beautiful stands of Live Oak, and hopefully I can keep the fungus away from them. I haven't seen any evidence of the Emerald Ash Borer in my Ash trees.

There's a 40 foot elevation change on the property. I have found some ammonites and reef shell fossils from the cretaceous period. It's weird the think this place was all under the sea at one point.

Sounds like you got yourself a beautiful chunck of land. Congrats!
Wish I had something like that.

[Unk]

Thanks Tom. We are real happy here.

[Dinadan]

Unk, your place does sound like a little piece of paradise. My wife and I made a choice to live on the edge of town on a regular subdivision lot, but I do miss the wider spaces of a place like yours.

[Quick Steel]

Unk, Congratulations on acquiring a lovely bit of America. In time I hope you wll share some more photos of your place.

[zzyzzogeton]

We moved into our new place last May, and I have enjoyed getting to know all the trees on the place. It is 5 acres and very wooded. We sit up on a limestone ridge, and have Live Oak, Post Oak, Cedar, Cedar Elm, and lots of Texas Ash trees. I took down some young skinny Ash trees a few months ago that were blocking my view off the back of the ridge (you can see for miles). I gathered them up to make some walking sticks with my drawknife and turn some mallets on the lathe. I have a few Live Oak trees that have Oak Wilt, and they need to be taken down. I have some beautiful stands of Live Oak, and hopefully I can keep the fungus away from them. I haven't seen any evidence of the Emerald Ash Borer in my Ash trees.

There's a 40 foot elevation change on the property. I have found some ammonites and reef shell fossils from the cretaceous period. It's weird the think this place was all under the sea at one point.

Where in Texas are you? Limestone ridges are going to put you in the hill country somewhere.

The Emerald Ash Borer has only been located in a single county in far NE Texas - Harrison County in 2012 and Marion and Cass Counties in 2018. It's anticpated that it will keep spreading and the Texas Forestry Service is very concerned about it.

[Unk]

Thanks, that's good to know it's only been spotted in a few counties. The website I saw just showed that it had been located in Texas without any specifics. From what I read, it had destroyed millions of Ash trees, with no end in sight.

We're in North Texas, in Parker County, west of Fort Worth. Lots of rolling hills and ridges around here.

[keithlong]

A friend of mine gave me some cuttings from her christmas cactus, and now I have of them rooted and off to a good start. I am looking for some easter and thanksgiving cactus cuttings to root next.

[Waukonda]

We don't have house plants, so I took some vegetation pictures on my walk this morning.
Hey, it is January.

[Unk]

It was a cold, wet, foggy day yesterday in North Texas. But we have a bright, beautiful, sunshine, 70 degree day today!

Some gloomy pics from yesterday from around the house yesterday, showing a couple of my live oak stands.

[TPK]

We don't have house plants, so I took some vegetation pictures on my walk this morning.
Hey, it is January.

Looks like my house plants.

[TPK]

It was a cold, wet, foggy day yesterday in North Texas. But we have a bright, beautiful, sunshine, 70 degree day today!

Some gloomy pics from yesterday from around the house yesterday, showing a couple of my live oak stands.

Looks like a nice place you have. I like those wood fences, the trees & the big garage.

Edit: And the happy mushrooms frog & bird feeders.

[wlf]

We should all beware that 4-8 beans from this caster bean plant will kill you. We always called them dog tick plants.

Never heard of anyone getting poisoned, although they were prevalent throughout the country .

I like your all’s style BH.

[TPK]

We should all beware that 4-8 beans from this caster bean plant will kill you. We always called them dog tick plants.

Never heard of anyone getting poisoned, although they were prevalent throughout the country .

I like your all’s style BH.

That plant has pretty colors.

[wlf]

Some of what remains alive :

[TPK]

Some of what remains alive :

Those shells are cool! Looks like crabs coming out of them. Great idea!

Time for bed now. Good night friends!

[Unk]

A view off the back of our ridge. It's prettier in the summer when everything is green.

There's a spanish dagger (yucca) seed pod in the foreground. Some young scraggly oaks on the left. The skinny stalks on the right are young ash trees. Some cedar trees behind them ( I don't like cedar trees) And the taller tree on the far right is a Chittumwood tree. We have quite a few of them.

The Chittumwood trees get little black berries in the fall, and the doves love them. They are small, twisted little trees, and they have thorns. The wood is also prized, evidently. I may have to see if I can turn some bowls out of it.

[Eustace]

Begonias bloomed in the middle of winter. Orchids have buds and soon they will bloom.
But the most interesting thing is that my aloe wants to bloom, which, as far as I read, is quite a rare event.

[OLDE CUTLER]

Here are a couple of good examples why hanging things on metal wires and rods hooked over tree branches are not good for the trees. About 15 years ago a woman lived across the street from me that had baskets with plants hanging everywhere. From the front and back decks, from a trellis over the walkway, and these two were hooked over the branches of the then small trees in front of the house. They are embedded so far now that they are in the middle of 4 inch branches.

[TPK]

Begonias bloomed in the middle of winter. Orchids have buds and soon they will bloom.
But the most interesting thing is that my aloe wants to bloom, which, as far as I read, is quite a rare event.

Nice flowers Georgi!

[TPK]

Here are a couple of good examples why hanging things on metal wires and rods hooked over tree branches are not good for the trees. About 15 years ago a woman lived across the street from me that had baskets with plants hanging everywhere. From the front and back decks, from a trellis over the walkway, and these two were hooked over the branches of the then small trees in front of the house. They are embedded so far now that they are in the middle of 4 inch branches.

Poor trees.

[TPK]

A view off the back of our ridge. It's prettier in the summer when everything is green.

There's a spanish dagger (yucca) seed pod in the foreground. Some young scraggly oaks on the left. The skinny stalks on the right are young ash trees. Some cedar trees behind them ( I don't like cedar trees) And the taller tree on the far right is a Chittumwood tree. We have quite a few of them.

The Chittumwood trees get little black berries in the fall, and the doves love them. They are small, twisted little trees, and they have thorns. The wood is also prized, evidently. I may have to see if I can turn some bowls out of it.

You have a great view Mike.

[Unk]

Thank you, Tom. I told my wife this is the last place I am moving. My next move will be the cemetery or the old folks home! Hopefully many years down the road.