Category: Flowers
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Goats, Fishing, Flowers, Pumpkin pollination, and Bats
Fool seems to like wearing the Pit Vipers (sunglasses). The last slide is Quinn holding Camo (Ghost). Camo is still not crazy about being held. Bass fishing in Florida- all catch and release- Things got better as the trip progressed! Flip through the pictures below. The last one is 4.8 pounds. Flip through the pictures…
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Memorial Day Weekend- Louisiana Salt Water Fishing, Flowers, Pumpkins, Watermelon, Corn, and Goats
Seems a lot of people went fishing over the long weekend. Obviously the slides above are from salt water fishing. Flip through the slide show below. We actually have pumpkins growing! Note the flower opening that does NOT have a bulb below (slides 3 and 4) These are male flower. Look through the slideshow below…
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Bass on the Beds, different plants blooming, and finally the muscadine vine is growing!
Bass usually spawn in the spring and summer as the water heats up. The male bass usually begins the process of making a nest or “bed” and the female then joins him. Not all beds are in shallow areas, but it is easy to spot these beds when they are in shallow muddy areas. The…
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Birds, Sunflowers, Seeds, Dahlias and Zinnias
This is the Great Crested Flycatcher which is a species of Tyrant flycatchers. Its range is the eastern half of the United States. it is sitting on the top of our tallest sunflower plant. This bird hunts in different ways, but its main strategy is “sit and wait”. The Sunflowers should start blooming very soon.…
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Pumpkin flowers, An Apple, Garlic harvesting, Cilantro, and more
Did you know that pumpkins vines have both male and female flowers. The female flowers have a bulb like structure behind the flower. When the flower opens, it needs to be pollinated within a day. If it is pollinated, it goes on to form a pumpkin. If not pollinated, it withers. The male flower does…
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The flowers are starting to bloom.
Flip through the slide show of flowers. #1 is a butterfly plant #2-7 are dahlias #8 is the flower on a blackberry and #9 is a mixture of Zinnias, Sulfur Cosmos and Sunflowers on the back row.
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Update on the fruit trees and blueberries
The 14 pictures above are our fruit trees. The first 8 pictures are the apple trees and apple blossoms. 9-13 are the fig trees from Preston. The 14th is the top of the pear tree and shows the bugs that infested the new growth. We broke off these few leaves and sprayed the trees to…
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Checking in on the Herbs
The basil has grown into healthy plants and should provide fresh basil for the summer. Next week we will harvest the basil, mix it with pine nuts and oil and make some pesto. The recipe will be given when we make the pesto. The flower above is from the parsley plant. The picture below is…
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Cilantro and Coriander
In some places cilantro refers to the plant and coriander refers to the seeds or pods that form on the plant after the flowers are fertilized. In other places the plant and the pods are both called coriander. Regardless of the names, here are the pictures of the seed pods formed after the flowers were…