As far as replaced parts, flu, bad backs and all the rest...at least we know we are alive! So we just keep on keepin on....gotta laugh or we'd just all be puddles of tears....
Good health, healing and happiness to all!
Need some company!!!
Ah yes, I have all on the list except...canary Island date palm and I must say that palm tops the list of my favorite palms. They are just HUGE though. I've been watching one grow on the next block, and it's just now getting the height to walk under it, and it consumes quite a big area.
Yes, all of us metal implanted folk beep away at the airports!
No metal in me but do have problems due to being t-boned a few years ago.
No tree ferns around here. Those things would swallow my house. lol. Bad enough having a couple black walnuts over the house. Sounds like a bomb going off when they land on the roof.
oh tell me ..I have an oak tree growing out of the middle of my deck, and it's always pooing something.
For me it is always raining Kamani pods! Bout the size and denseness of a golf ball! They hurt! And there is something in them...don't know what, but something that doesn't play nice with the other plants...everytime I notice something looking poorly, sure enough one of those things has landed in the pot! People laugh at me, but I am constantly on the lookout for "kamani balls"...
Kamani balls, acorns and black walnuts. LOL. I also have to deal with plants doing poorly due to the walnuts and it drives me nuts!
You know..the acorns are the same way, I have to dig them out of the plants because of the same reason. I don't use any of it for mulch. The other types of oak trees however are the best mulch.
Here it is She Oak nuts landing on the roof or gumnuts ...the gumnuts sound like machine gun fire, but I don't live there any more ...now it is she oak "cones" ...isn't that funny we all have floral hail raing down on windy days.
Rj I tought the canary Island palm would be considered "common" even though I love them and have grown some from the fruit myself, (only takes abour 30/40 years) lol, they are everywhere here.In Australia the palm people dislike is the Queen Palm ...I don't dislike any palm but they are fairly messy I guess ...my favourite palm is my Kentia palm,but I love them all ...
hi to everyone I hope all the aches and pains will be washed away by the Spring Showers and sunshine :)
chrissy
The Queen Palm has become extremely popular here. They grow fast and are elegant looking.. Not sure why they're disliked there. I'm thinking about getting one for the front garden.
I planted 2 Majesty Palms in the back garden.
Well when the fruit forms it drops hundreds of fruit (squishy) all over the ground and because there are zillions planted everywhere ...they are dangerous if people walk on them (the squishy fruit has a hard seed in the middle and this causes mess and falls on path ways ...the fruits just pop up everywhere they land if they land on soil and people have to keep picking out the seedlings. I think it it mainly poor planning ...someone must pick up all the stuff over your way ...the main problem here is that they don't. Queen palms also blow over very often when planted in the clay soils. I don't mind them but would rather grow others only because of the clay and wind here.
chrissy
My turn, my turn. We have pecans and acorns. I don't weed my garden, I pull pecan trees and oak trees. If you let them go for a couple of days, the tap root is already too far down to get it up. Oh, my, my, the troubles we must endure.
sigh
Christi
Hi Everybody,
I'm still in San Diego and still recovering from the flu. I see the doctor for the follow-up about the rash on my arms a week from tomorrow and hope to be able to go home after that.
If anyone has brug cuttings that they can send that will get here within a week I would be happy to pay postage. I have unnamed cutting of plumerias in red, white and pink if anyone wants to trade.
thanks,
katiebear
Wow it rains pecans? ...ooooh yummy! guess they would make a lot of noise and hurt if they hit you on the head. Fancy having to pull out pecan seedlings (the mind boggles).Imagine all those pecan pies ... muffins and cookies! or are you sick of the sight and taste of them ....hmmmm triffid pecans Lol ...Hi everyone ...hope you all enjoy your day :)
chrissy
I'm with you Chrissy! Can't even imagine such a thing as "too many pecans"! Ha Ha! Of course, that's probably because I don't have them in my yard!
Que lastima, Katiebear, hope all continues to get better for you. I would be happy to send you anything but don't have what you ask for, and probably couldn't get it there in a week. Lo siento mucho, chica! I'm sure that some of the others can help though!
Christi - I have visions of you "Paul Bunyoning" it, pulling up trees bigger than you are! It is a funny vision, but I'm sure it isn't a funny chore!
I have only two small pecan trees that were "volunteers" and they aren't baring as yet. If I were to leave all of the seedlings, whooo boy! It would be a forest.
My neighbor has several trees both front and back yards. Only one of them has been grafted and it has big paper shell pecans. Needless to say she gets the lion's share. The others are Texas natives and are so tiny they are more shell than pecan. By far they are the tastiest. Often buy those already shelled.
Sure hope we are not going to repeat last spring/summer. We have gotten 4 inches of rain today and the tv is showing Dallas area with flooding everywhere.
DFW airport has been closed down. (3rd largest airport in the world). Closed.
Many passengers stuck on planes sitting on the tarmac. Now that I couldn't take.
I'm going to catch up with Carol pretty soon in the rain department.
Mike is cooking pinto beans, rice, and corn bread. Lemon bars for dessert. Comfort food. The dogs don't want to go outside. yuk.
Wish you were all here and we would play cards.
I'm afraid my little koi pond will overflow and the fishies will float away.
C
oh..there is nothing worse than Pecan chips with squirrel spit mixed in dropping on your car. It's like cement..very hard to get off. Where I live, used to be a Pecan grove -it rains them here too, and the squirrel population is out of control. There are about 3 types including nocturnal flying squirrels.
Hmm.. Chrissy I wonder if they are the same queen palms? probably, but we have the clay soil, and the wind...but mabe the difference is that individual home owners use them in the landscaping and not alot of commercial use. It's been so windy here the last few days I thought my garden would blow away
Gee RJ did ya want to borrow my German Shepard? she is a big baby but she does not like squirrels in the yard she chases them up a tree then will sit there for hours if ya let her watching and waiting for them to come back down but they never do LOL
I hope to get a couple pecan trees this year or next to plant.
oh yes please...does she like to eat them as well?
No Squirrels here ...only fruit bats, that squirrel cement *thats funny !*sorry I know if it was my car it would not be funny ...we get strange mixed colours on ours ...mulberry colour of course and burgundy from the vineyards. In Italy it is chestnuts! ...which of course they fight over.
I must look up the proper name of those palms ...their fruit look like
golf ball sized apricots.
Mabe the trees here are not mature enough yet. i have seen them produce seeds but they're more like marble than golf ball
ok here it is Syagrus Romanzoffiana ...produces large heavy bunches of fat orange fruit ...edible(never been game to try it might have bat wee on it +^( ) ...loved by bats and various insects. Yours may be another type, ours have hundreds of fruit in huge bunches and the fruit drops for many weeks.
We are being told to pull them out by our garden gurus because the bat population has exploded and they are killing off some of the trees in the sydney botanical gardens.
umm don't' know she hasn't caught one yet that I know of ..ahve only had her since October when I got her from the rescue here in Tyler LOL but he beagle might ..but then she is old and slow she doesn't seem to care much any more unless you are sharing supper with her LOL
okay..yep they are the same tree, but I think what I said earlier is that our trees here have not yet hit the maturity level that I just saw in the pictures. Hardly any of them here are as tall as the ones I googled. I don't think we have any fruit bats here.
I'm definately going to get one for the front garden as it looks alot like the coconut palm which I really love.
I wonder if we are going to experience a problem with them once they start reaching the maturity level, which shouldn't be too far off in the future.
Another problem tree in my yard is maple. The ones with the spinners. Volunteers everywhere!!!
I have plenty of dogs up the road that need new homes if you want them. If they chase squirrels like they do cars you will have a winner. LOL
Ya' know. It's such a shame. After all that chasin', they couldn't drive it if they caught it.
C
Send the squirrels up to eat the fruit so you won't have a problem ...just orange squirrel cement *giggling* sorry can't help myself ...maybe the dear old doggy may like them too ...when they are mature (the fruit) the little nut under the orange apricot coloured flesh looks just like a teensy coconut. I have 4 huge fully mature ones out the front of two villas we rent out to folk and everytime we go there it looks like some wonderful holiday place ...but sad to say with tenants the fruit does not get picked up and we have to send someone in to cut the huge bunches of fruit off ... they are about a metre in length and are very heavy and awkward to get down but unless we do that someone may skid on the fruit or turn their ankle.
So as long as you don't mind that ...you will have a lovely palm ...you may even taste one :)
LOL,
You know the cartoon The Roadrunner? Wylie Coyote and the Road Runner..if you do, then you have a good visual of me and the squirrels. Like Wylie, I keep trying new tricks with similar results, while squirrels line the branches in stadium seating style laughing their fluffy tails off.
ROTFL!!! Oh what a funny image I get from that!! A dog driving a car. That's something I would have to see.
3 posts in one thread all at once. I think that's a first for me! lol
Here it is pinecones and pine seedlings.....china berry trees bombing china berries and more seedlings!
It has rained off and on all day, sounds like hail hitting the window, so will have to shut down.
It is supposed to be nice tomorrow! See you later!
Aloha!
some of our flights are starting to divert because of the line of storms
You guys did it again. LOL.
I'm not suprised they are diverting. This is a HUGE system. We brought it up on radar at work this afternoon and when we saw it our mouths dropped open. I have heard there was at least one tornado somewhere from this system though I don't know if that was true or not.
Yes, I was looking at it on radar too. It's like a huge wall, which is why some of the flights are having a time getting around it. Our approaches have resumed again. we got off so lucky here..American got hammered in DFW
It just started raining a lil bit this afternoon in Tyler around 3:30 then slacked off and now it has picked up again but nothing like what DFW got ..temp has dropped it is cool now compared to the 74 before dark. but they still have us under a tornado watch till 2am
I just keep thinking about that old commercial "It's not nice to fool Mother Nature"...wonder when she is going to get over what ever pissed her off. This has been a long , looonngg series of weird weather!
You guys all stay safe and dry!
It's that time of year, guys. The two worst tornadoes we had here were both in May but it cuts up like the dickens between now and then. After that it is just hot, hot and more hot.
C
Yeah, Old Man Winter is not exiting gracefully
Seems to have forgotten his manners all together. This is a full twelve months that it has been hazardous to someone's health almost all of the time.
C
Ain't that the truth!