That has happened to me once before and I have no clue what causes it.
I have been out walking around and the following caught my eye:
This is a Tipuana Tipu tree growing just across the street from me. It is a large tree with aggressive roots but worth it if you have the space.
Under my care, about 6 feet. In books, 70 feet. in real life, about 30 feet. This is a difficult plant for me to grow. They say it is a wetland tree so I planted one close to the lake and it drown. I now have one planted away from the lake in the front yard and keep it hand watered. I have fought off hoards of insects by drenching with Bayer systemic for years. I'll get it to grow up to 5 or six feet and then a major part of the plant will just die and another shoot will come up. I look at it as a challenge. I don't know if it will ever develop into the tree it is suppose to be.
Jim
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Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
I must admit, those stinky Amorphs are kind of pretty . . like a variegated lettuce with a scoop of steak tartare in the middle? Nice to look at, in a picture.
Just love those purple Datura. I've had some seeds of Black Currant Swirl sitting on my desk for quite a while, think I'm going to get busy and plant them! That's a gorgeous daylily, and the yellow flowered tree is amazing! Never heard of it.
Elaine
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The Loblolly's are very common around here and we have quite a few on the property. About 8 years ago lost a bunch due to a Beetle that was attacking them. It seems to have subsided now, and I'm seeing alot of small tree's coming back. We have a small one by our front gate and they do have a very soft fragrance when they are blooming. Although like you Jim I had heard they like really wet soil, we have them in high dry spots like our gate area, and then in the back pasture where it drops off and can get fairly wet, and in between....so.......
When I lived up north, I remember the dogwoods lightening up the woods with their pretty white blooms. Dig one up and move it to your yard where you can feed and water it and it will drop dead in two days. It must be the same for our loblollies.
Jim
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Ursula, I see you put a question mark after the Datura. It is Datura fastuosa , often called Devil's Trumpet. I have shared pictures of the flowers before. Here are a couple to jog your memory.
Beautiful Datura's , Jim! I also have the Datura, but mine is the D. metel 'Double Purple'. I'm not familiar with D. 'fastuosa'. Really never even heard of it.
Name: Elaine Sarasota, Fl The one constant in life is change
They all look beautiful, Ursula. Even the Buttercups! They were a noxious weed when I was growing up in Vancouver back in the dark ages. Really hard to pull up when they get into a flower bed. Looks like you've got them nicely in hand there.
Elaine
"Success is stumbling from failure to failure with no loss of enthusiasm." –Winston Churchill
The Cyp acaule are now past their prime in South Jersey and slightly past peak in the Ramapo mountains.
At our place in NE Pennsylvania the acaule are at their peak this weekend.
We spent a few hours visiting the individual stands ( and today - since we approached one of them in reverse fashion managed to get really lost. )
We saw lots of plants in bloom and in addition tons of juvenile plants.
Here is now the final set of this year's Cyp acaule pictures, I promise….
These first pictures really took our breath away as the fairly dark blooms in this location were almost glowing in morning sunshine.
and some companion plants, I am always partial to the Podophyllum.
Nice to look at, in a picture.
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