Thanks so much, Karen. I'm very much a photo beginner.
Here's next year's rhododendrum.
Garden Photos - Part 43
Lavender in November.
Sage for Thanksgiving stuffing.
The last one...tomatillos and rose campion. The former for salsa this week and the later for flowers next April. G'night and thanks for letting me share here.
Laurel
That's okay, Laurel, about being a photo beginner. We were all beginners at one time.
Karen
Maypop, it's great to see you back here! And also that you bring pictures with you. I love the ficus pumila. That plant evaded me for years. I kept hearing something about a fig that could climb up walls, but wasn't as invasive as ivy or boston ivy, but nobody could produce a name for me until about a year ago. I was happy to finally have the mystery solved. Unfortunately.... it's not hardy here :-( that's all right though, I'll look at yours!
Karen, thanks a bunch. and to answer your questions. answers are in order: it's sunset, the tree that does look like a maple is actually a sweetgum (often confused), and that's a big raindrop!
my only (discernable) pic from today. It's a maple, the river, and some neighbors. Strange, I have neighbors really close across the river, but quite a ways off if on the same side of the river.
About words !!!!!
For a long time I believed "spellcheck" dictionary was compiles by people on Mars, especially when they corrected Obama with "Osama" how bad is that?
Nice shot, Shelly!
redchic - yes, it is a dwarf yellow-twig according to all the resources I find
http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/143823/
MaypopLaurel - No Fair! I barely have any leaves anywhere, and you have all kinds. [pout]
Peppermint Schnapps still going! Has quite a few buds.
Dwarf Fothergilla 'Appalachia'.
Cryptomeria with Hydrangea Pee Wee.
Pee Wee.
Last - coralberry.
Victor, that Appalachia belongs to me. Thanks for caring for it. It will be ready to move back home in the spring.
Beautiful pics, all.
No problem, Sharon!
My favorite pic on this thread is the first one - your "Washi", Victor!
Gotta get me one of those Coralberries - beautiful!
Thanks Sue - and Happy Birthday!
Thank you muchly!
And happy birthday from me, too, Sue...
These leaves are still hanging on, inspite of one heavy frost and a ton of rain. So maybe your birthday will be like that, just hanging on and celebrating for a long time.
Sharron, I love yours and Victors 'plantsitting' services. How can I get in on this? :-p
Victor, that coralberry...the white form is native here. Is it not over your way? I could send plenty! (to you as well Sue) The picture of yours makes it look so elegant. It grows down one side of my bank. If I can get down there (waters come up) today I'll take a picture.
Evie... thanks for the info, that name makes much more sense to me now. here i've heard it called bloodtwig dogwood and the red tips makes much more sense. Especially given that it's a sport off of Midwinters flame, which I've admired but never purchased because I thought it was too big. I was actually thinking that someone sent you the wrong plant because the stems seemed the wrong color. Yours sounds like the perfect combination of color and size. If I can find one here I might have to get it!
Happy, happy birthday Primrose Baby!
Sharron.... I love your leaves! what kind of maple is it? I have several odd species names going through my head right now.
goodness, Shell, I dunno, maybe Victor knows. It is on one side of my driveway and is green in spring and summer, now red, so I call it a red maple. It touches the yellow maple on the other side and forms a canopy over my driveway, I love them both, but haven't given much thought to either. I do know the sweet gums, but my neighbor has them, I don't.
The yellow maple is what is now covering my front yard in a soggy mess. The red seems to have more more dignity, or is waiting till I get all the yellow cleared, then will whooooosh, shed like crazy, all in one evening. Trees have a way of doing that, you know, they get back at us for not meeting their every whim and fancy.
Red maple, yellow maple, sweetgum. It all works for me! Yours I just don't see that often in a larger tree. But, maybe it does better out your way than it does here. I think that it's a trident maple (acer buergerianum http://davesgarden.com/guides/pf/go/56754/ ) , which i've usually thought of as a fairly boring tree. But, yours is anything but that!!
I love sweetgums as well, it's even better when your neighbor has to deal with the big trees! They're always the last tree to keep some color here.
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Thanks Shelly. No, neither is native around here.
The maple could be mountain maple - acer spicatum. But not sure.
Here is a closer look...
Maybe that'll help.
Okay - don't think that's it. The leaves are too smooth. Does resemble red maple - acer rubrum.
What about acer buergerianum? I think that has potential.
Possible too - though these have more serrated outsides. The bueger looks smoother.
Not only are the photos lovely, it's hard to believe there's so much color still---but not here! The landscape is brown & gray--the lawn is still very green however, & still needs mowing! I bought a Thanksgiving cactus & an amaryllis bulb today in HD---here's my oldest cactus.
Darn! I didn't notice it was Sue's birthday. Sorry, girl!
Happy happy day ... or rather what's left of it!
Oh, btw, Victor, thanks for taking care of my coral berry, too. It sure looks happy in your garden. Almost hate to ask for it back. Maybe I'll just let you keep it. I could get another. ;0)
Happy Birthday, Sue! Hope it's been a great one!
Shelly, thanks for answering the questions.
LOL!, Sharron, about the shedding trees. Two weeks ago I mowed my front yard and got it looking really nice, and the back yard, too. Well, then the oak dropped most of its leaves on my nice, neat lawn, and the maple in the back dropped the rest of its leave as well, after my Dad had raked up all the ones from it before. Then the silver maple, which turns yellow in the fall, dropped all its leaves on the north side yard. Sigh! You can't win.
My friend Karen complains about her neighbor's huge Norway maple dropping tons of leaves on her yard, and she complains about the white pines in her front yard dropping all the needles, and in the spring the spent blooms, which she call "rice crispies". I told her it doesn't matter what kind of tree you have, they all make a mess, but they are all beautiful in their own way.
Nice color on your cactus, ROBINDOG.
Karen
Happy B-day Sue. Hope you had a luvly, luvly day.
ha, Karen....sounds a lot like here. I sure love them even now.
dahlia, I am still thinking about that blueberry tea.
Victor, thanks for the tree id, you and Shel, I think your last guess might be right. But it really doesn't matter, it'll be the last to go, until next spring when the dead all winter oak leaves fall.
Why do your oaks drop their leaves now, Karen?
I guess I have a lot to learn about "my" trees living in other climates.
Sharron I'm still thinking about the Ampelopsis from the other thread. Mine has never made berries before freeze sigh :( I am in the process of turning DG southerners onto my 'Mostly World Famous Citrusy Cranberry Sauce' which is edging out blueberry teas because cold is only a wind in the south and you'all are still planning for your turkey day ^_^
Oh, well, there is that.
But of all the sauces ever, I hate cranberries in any form.
I'll stick with blueberries.
I know, it is probably anti American, but ....
here is what's left of my old old old Rose of Sharon that came with me from the mountains.
and one of the clusters of balloon flowers, also from southeast KY
OOPS...
Tired accounts for my momentary lapse up there....late also, old another..
anyway, too tired to remember how to spell so you will have to do with common names, Victor, sorry. Name them if you want.
