Dave, calling Dave!

Nice pics kassy, looks peaceful there, but are the skeeters bad?

We went though some very long grass. Fearless leader ahead of me again.
But something tackled me in that grass!!!! It may have been malakai! Could have have moved from the corn to the woods?
Or the grass was so long it tangled around my foot!................LOL

We put on Skeeter spray and they stayed away..........There bad all over here!

I hope you packed alot...Looks like skeeter heaven
I don't think I'd be that far behind him either,lol
Stay safe

This was one of his dear stands..................good thing he was not sitting there when the tree when down :-o

Kassy, you gotta see these....baby trees that don't grow big...http://www.stanleyandsons.com/mindwf.cfm

The bonsai trees!!! lol

OMG, OMG, back to the forty..............there are a ton of them there. We may have a gold mine??? LOL

OK then tell me what these are?
These were really, really tiny!

Another flower?

Ohhhhhhhh and then we have these toooooo!
Tiny!

another picture of them

Another one of his dear stands..........
We think a bear had a tooth ache. He chewed on the wood where I have the area marked...............Time to LEAVE the woods!!!

They are Baby baby baby trees, followed by Baby baby trees, and then, Baby trees....grin

Some of those miniature conifers were 40 and 50 bx each, so you just might have a gold mine....grin

No clue

amazing the smaller they are the more they cost lol

OMG, and if you only knew how many there where there..............LOL
I brought a bunch home one tiime and used them in a christmas hanging basket. I keep them alive going home form here in water, and then I planted them in a pot. They stayed green all winter ^_^

We are making another trip to the forty before I leave...............LOL

Dave, I promiss I won't pick or eat the muchrooms there ;-)..............LOL

I really envy you. It is way too hot down here for most of the conifers and evergreens. really sad too cuz some of them are just drop dead gorgeous and i have this perfect picture in my head of how they would be planted and what it would all look like....oh well.

Moon send that picture to me ;)

He grows them small and big.
Here he is standing next to a pine tree at the forty.............this thing is huge!
And has planted a lot of baby pine trees ^_^

Hmmmm, has and oak tree there too

And here is a Tamerack tree, a baby one.

Maybe those are tamarack babies.

Here ya go Lynnie...this is as close as I could find...got lots of additional pics if you click on topics on the right. Since my perfect evergreen/conifer garden lives in my head, this will have to suffice....but hey, a lot of this I would lift and plunk down as is in my own yard...grin

http://coniferlover.wordpress.com/2008/10/08/in-my-own-miniature-world/

No, There is a big difference. Tamaracks are a very skinny tree, as far as the greens go, at his forty anyway. He has a few young ones and an older one. Tamaracks turn yellow as the season goes on, the little green ones stayed green all winter for me.

Yeah, I saw a bunch of them when I was looking at miniature conifers....it comes in a yellow baby size too,

A Cicada skin That we found

The Life Cycle of a Cicada

While the Cicada life span may be as long as 17 years, they spend almost all of their lives underground. Cicada nymphs emerge from the ground in periodic cycles. They climb up trees and quickly shed their skins(molt). An adult, flying cicada emerges. The adult Cicadas' entire purpose in life is to mate and produce offspring. You can hear the males' mating "song" from early morning to nightfall. In heavily infested areas, the noise can be quite disturbing. About five to ten days after mating, the female lands on twigs of deciduous trees, cuts slits in them, and lays her eggs in the slit.

Adults do not eat. Rather, damage to trees is caused by the adult female as she cuts slices into twigs to lay her eggs. Shortly after mating, the male Cicada dies.

The eggs hatch, producing tiny nymphs that fall to the ground. These nymphs burrow into the soil and feast on underground roots. They remain there for years, slowly growing, until their periodic cycle calls them to emerge again as adults.

only thing conifers are good for is making big smell good fires

Must have thrown two or three dozen of the cicada molts on the compost pile today while i was weeding. Came in for a drink and Jordan picked one out of my ponytail....they are everywhere.

OK, last one for tonight, nite ^_^

Nite Kassy

That looks almost like a day-lily... Great pictures Kassy. Really enjoyed them , especially the baby baby baby trees....grin

Have a sweet evening, see ya tomorrow.

Jean

Kassy! I saw the Dave calling Dave and had to check it out! Great pictures. :) I put a mushroom up for you an "the other" thread (uuummmm WHICH ONE?) but I saw you had already posted one like it! Seems to be that time of year. I was told to check our the AK botanical gardens again, I hear there are some fabulous mushrooms right now. If I see anything new, I'll post pictures! If only I could ID all of the edible ones.

Trinawitch / crystalrock / hotrock...I've addressed this before...if they tried to create a place for plant addicts it would just be a gardening club in the end anyway. In fact I think how garden clubs got started. "Heeeeelllllp my credit card hurts, my lawn is disappearing and my DH is giving me strange looks when he discovers new batches of pots in the yard." "Whaaaat?"
(o.k. that doesn't apply to Kassy who's DBF has strange new batches of stuff in they yard daily, but there are no pots)

Oh and Kassy, thank you for ruining my firm belief that moss only grew on the north side of trees. How will I ever find my way?

Hey Ican...my hubby I think has selective sight cause he never sees the new batches of flowers or pots ( and thank God my closet has doors or the trouble I would get in for my shoe collection!)

But then again he knew about both these addictions when he met me!

However he probably doesn't say anything cause he's afraid I'll start saying something about the cars he drags home, although technically he only brought one unfinished one home, the rest he takes to his friends farm where the share a garage.

so he doesn't say anything about my plants and shoes and I don't say anything about the 67 cougar that suddenly appeared in our driveway ( or the two 65 mustangs at the farm, or the 17 & 32 Model t's or the 67 chevelle, or the 78 Trans Am in pieces in my sons closet [yes the whole car] or the 55 chevy truck, etc.)

it keeps the peace that way!

Worked till the Sun went down.

The 1st mini-Pine looking plant is a Lycopodium. I think it is Lycopodium complanatum, Ground Pine. It has long been used as Christmas decorations in the USA, another common name for it is "Trailing Christmas Green".

Lycopodium species are Fern-Allies. They produce spores (like Ferns) rather than Pine Cones.

The "tiny" star shaped plants after, are a Moss. I think it is a type of "Hair Cap Moss".

After "Another flower?" is another Lycopodium species. Maybe Lycopodium clavatum, Club-Moss. Need to see the sporangia (reproductive part) to be sure.
Another common name for this plant is "Running Pine".

The "last one for tonight", I was thinking might be a Sedge or an Orchid. Need to see the flower.

wow someone other than me is awake! Yeah

Thanks Kassy, and thank BF for taking you there. Looking forward to seeing more of the Forty!

Here is a Hawaiian Ground Pine / Club Moss, Lycopodium cernuum. Hawaiians call these "Wawae'iole".

I like that one Dave

How are you this evening Trina?

You're up late; a peaceful time of day!