That does look like a huckleberry. We had some in our yard in La. You are very lucky. They are delish!!!!
Native Plants found in the Wild part 2
It is kind of odd to see these large blooms by the side of the road in a drought-stricken area. But we did get a little rain late last month. Missouri Primrose, Oenothera missouriensis.
These were growing in a native nursery garden where I go from time to time to donate money to keep them going (some refer to this practice as spending too much on plants). Damianita, Chyrsactina mexicana, which came with my property. Fragrant foliage. Mine aren't blooming yet...
Wish I could grow huckleberry here! Nice!
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Scarlet Penstemon, Penstemon triflorus, one of my favorites, shown at the nursery, but blooming in my yard also. I should put mine in a rock garden area, looks good that way. Both hummingbirds and butterflies like penstemons.
And the bloom on a Texas Madrone, Arbutus xalapensis. I left with a very small one of those. It's tricky to grow, so I think it's better to just get it planted early on.
Linda, the Penstemon triflorus you gave me is blooming now too, it had three stems and some bug cut one of them at the base, so I thought I lost that part, but I put it in water and planted it and it is recovering, so I think I will have two now. It is so pretty, and it is endemic to Texas too.
Josephine.
If that bug ended up causing another plant to start, guess it couldn't be a bad bug!
Oo-Oo! I need to check to see if my penstemons are blooming yet. Penstemons are my new obesssion....along with many other plant obessions...LOL
That big stand of huckleberries are growing on the side of the road just of goverment land. I keep threatening to shovel prune a few but I know that's a no-no,taking plants from the wild. Never can catch ripening fruits. Birds eat them all I guess. There 3 nice plants of Arkansas Bluestar just a bit up from the huckleberry. I'm waiting on it to bloom.
Maybe you could net one of the trees or a part of it. It would ne worth the effort. I love huckleberries! I haven't seen any here but blueberries grow wild so I don't know why the huckleberries couldn't thrive here. I may dig up a tree from my old yard when we go down for a visit.
these are just little shrubs apx. 3 ft.tall
It's a shame you couldn't dig one up. Maybe replace it with something else right back into the same hole. Of course, the government is never THAT easy to deal with. LOL
Yup,they corp of engineers would probably plant me back there...LOL
Dumb government!
well...it's not nice to strip plants from the wild just to decorate my yard. If I see something I really want,I find an on-line source for seeds(or plants). I have asked for and received premisson to a flag
& post a "Do Not Spray"sign stand of ladies tresses to move from county judges office because the county road crew was going to spray the roadside w/ herbicide....unfortunately they choose to igore the flags and they got sprayed anyway
Typical. Government seems to care more for the rules that what the rules are there to protect. Guess they are just too big to act with good old fashioned common sense like neighbors can do. The nature of the beast I suppose. We just have to do the best we can.
That is pretty much the result of any of those signs! They usually mow where it says not to mow or spray where it says not to spray. The same thing when the supervisors and crews are just told where not to do it. As far as new development, I don't see anything wrong with digging up a few plants once the process of developing a piece of land has already started. I know of one place like that now. They might save a few scattered trees already marked here and there...everything else will go...most of it is already cleared. I remember something that happened in the 80's in Texas. There were thousands of areas where large-scale development were in the process of going on. Then the economy here fell through...sort of on the scale of what's happening in some states now. Bankrupcies, foreclosures, layoffs, etc. were rampant here. Real estate...forget it, hardly anyone buying. Some of those areas where construction was started, then abandoned, sat frozen in time. Some for a decade or more. I know of one project that had some kind of legal complications and development by a new developer didn't start again until the last few years.
It was a shame to watch the neighbors clear their land across from us..trees, wildflowers UG!
Right now I keep hearing the word "weed", I keep saying "what weeds, I don't see any weeds?" Oh well!!
LOL!
Lovely Senecio you have there.
the huckleberry and amonsonia are on corp of engineer property and they are very particular about folks digging up stuff. I may sneak some seed though...*G*
Thank you Josephine, I think they are lovely too.
I am seeing Bluebonnets, Indian paintbrush and other wildflowers growing along the road right now.....I was thinking the same thing about seeds. They sure are pretty.
Just remember, fall is best for planting those outside!
That's probably why the wild seed packet I bought at the local nursery did not produce a single flower; I dropped the seeds in February which was really too late. I'm thinking maybe next year something might spring up...or the birds already ate the seeds, who knows the rains may have washed them away too?
Might be a blessing in disguise, allwild - a lot of those "wildflower" seed packets sold at nurseries have a bunch of nasty invasives in them, sad to say.
Yes, maybe it wasn't meant to be.
Oenothera laciniata and Nuttallanthus candensis among others growing in the yard. Nope, still don't see any weeds.
Now that is really neat, I am gonna have to come and visit you girl!!!
Josephine.
Questions is; do ya see any snakes? LOL Very pretty flowers.
I'm happy to say I haven't seen any snakes around but the cat may be keeping them away, I know he keeps the mice away from the house LOL.
Josephine, you are welcome anytime! The Pussy toes have gone to seed and I have some for you...waiting to see if I can make it next month to the Roundup.
Pretty! If someone prefers wildflower mix packets, make sure it's one that's all-native and they have the regional packets, not one mix for the whole country. There's a popular wildflower company in Texas that has nonnatives along with the natives in the mixed wildflower packets. Why? I don't know...there's such fantastic natives here in the U.S. that people could just use the native wildflowers. I don't grow ONLY native plants myself, but I try to be very careful about any nonnatives I have in my yard. And try to get the percent of natives pretty high. My yard is unconventional and I don't worry about what other people might think...no lawn! Why waste space on a lawn, when I don't need it? I have pathways to walk on, however, where I have newspapers covered with local mulch. On occasion the "weedy" weeds start coming back in some of the pathways, so I put down more newspapers and mulch. It seems to work pretty good. Although if I lived in an area with a LOT of rainfall, I don't know if it would. I just rescued a few plants from that area in the city which has been partially cleared for construction. A couple of Coreopsis tinctora and some Phacelia congesta, now in pots, that I'll add somewhere in my yard, assuming they survive.
That is great about the Pussy Toes, I would love to have the seed and I hope you make it to the swap.
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Linda, I sent your Mexican Plum little tree with Pat, I hope it does well for you.
Josephine.
I saw this on a steep tall roadcut. Prairie paintbrush, Castilleja purpurea, just hanging out up there.
Obviously, it didn't go through that time. One more time!
And this Yellow Buckeye along the same road....like Red Buckeye, but the flowers are yellowish.
And thanks, Josephine!
That prarie paintbrush is really pretty.
Oh very pretty. LindaTX, I know I have to do something to control the wildflowers growing near the house, that last pic is where I want a cottage garden. Maybe newspaper and plenty of mulch and the natives won't like the soil as much? Want to plant veggies and lots of herbs and maybe include some of the native wildflowers like the cutleaf primrose which I think is very pretty. Not sure how to go about it yet and I'm getting a little frustrated trying to figure out the best way to do it all.
Found this growing in the same area, which frostweed helped me ID, Wild Petunia. There are now about a dozen of them blooming.
Driving around today, I passed some Barbara's Buttons along the road...that's Marshallia caespitosa. I have some growing and they'll bloom soon also.
I was checking one of the Texas Madrones along Hwy. 16 when I smelled something sweet. One was blooming! Kind of late for that, but the drought may have affected it earlier.
We've had a bit of rain lately, thank goodness. This Bushy Skullcap (Scutellaria Wrightii) seems happy!
This Damianita I saw looked so amazing!
I don't know what this is but I thought it was pretty. They are growing along the creek by the barn.
