Friends

: sarracenia wrote in gardening; November 16th, 19:42

Current Mood:: cold

ladybug hanging out on my pink skullcap...I guess she's a Longhorns fan.

TDG plant sale find...'plain old sage' is what they said since it was unlabeled and not blooming. I guess it's a generic salvia gregii, but I'm thrilled with the flowers :)

I did not stand there cooing NOM as I took pictures, no matter what you heard. Monarchpillar babies!!

Tags: beneficial insects

~*~Trip to Mahon Park~*~

: lilitha wrote in mycology; November 15th, 18:53

Current Mood:: chipper

I visited Mahon Park on Saturday and have never before encountered so many different kinds of fungi in my life. It was pretty exciting and I was able to recognize a few of them as well.

( extremely photo heavy )

Implosion of the Drexel Shaft

: lblanchard; November 15th, 10:05

Roy rode over on his bike to photograph this event with an antiquated Nikon and Tri-X. I told him it would be up on YouTube before he got back, and it was, in 18 versions. This is the best of the ones I looked at. The detonation happens at :40.

Tree Planting Fail

: ilexcassine wrote in gardening; November 14th, 14:05

I live in the Piedmont of NC. I got three Yaupon Holly trees from an online mail order source in the first part of October. After they arrived I couldn't get them in the ground for about 4 days.

I thought I did the right things planting them, dug a hole significantly bigger than the modest root ball (these guys are only about a foot tall) and used new bagged topsoil to fill it up. Watered every three days unless it rained (which it has been, quite a bit, but they are on the top of a slope so I expect drainage isn't much of an issue) for the first 2 weeks they were in the ground.

Now their leaves have turned a nice red brown and have fallen off and I expect they are dead.

Any suggestions as to what went wrong?

Tags: trees

BANANAS! and a few questions?

: jintendo wrote in gardening; November 14th, 13:54

Current Location:: Orlando, FL

Current Mood:: good

These are going to be bananas soon, right?! :)

I also have a couple plants I would really love to know what they are (and if I should stay away from them! The red thing looks sketchy!)

( 2 strange plants! and my small garden. )

I know that was a lot of questions, thank you so much in advance for any help!! :)

Very sweet, very brave.

: treebreeze; November 14th, 12:34

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o4YUY4feys

Dad,Dad...I'm straight......

: treebreeze; November 14th, 12:28

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1o4YUY4feys

Did you hear our John is gay? lol.....

: treebreeze; November 14th, 12:17

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1RcV6SfOKcI

(no subject)

: molasses wrote in mycology; November 14th, 9:16

( North Vancouver )

Nor'easter II

: lblanchard; November 12th, 16:27

Here in Philadelphia the prevailing winds are out of the west and don't affect me much in my third-floor home office. But I have two good-sized windows in my 11 x 10 office -- one faces north and one faces east-northeast. When a nor'easter comes roaring down from wherever nor'easters come from, the wind moans and shakes the panes of the old windows in their sashes and bullies its way through the cracks.

This is the second nor'easter I've noticed since the weather cooled, and I am suspecting that this is a portent of a cold wet winter. The last one dropped three inches of rain, which would have been 30" of snow. I wonder how this one will be -- my informal rain gauge isn't out there.

I am glad to be indoors today, wearing several layers of clothing and a lap robe and eating hot soup for lunch. Tomorrow is supposed to be the rainiest and windiest day, though, and I must venture forth.

Tags: weather

new art prints

: merwing; November 12th, 14:32

new art prints
Originally uploaded by merwing✿little dear

Fall always makes me think of faeries and forests. If you love both as much as me, treat yourself to an Enchanted Forest art print, available today in my shop! I hope you're having a lovely and magical autumn. :)

littledear.etsy.com

How to make my plants Kitty-Free?

: redrumwolf wrote in gardening; November 12th, 11:05

Current Mood:: hopeful

Does anyone have a good solution to perhaps save my indoor plants from my ever-eating-plants-cat?

I'm running out of space to put my plants on that she can't reach, and I'd love getting more so!
Any suggestions someone tried that worked?

Mushroom correction

: anjel_kitty wrote in mycology; November 12th, 10:26

Current Mood:: embarrassed

So apparently the mushroom on my last post was not Ischnoderma resinosum but rather Inonotus dryadeus. I find this out from an email from the Natural products guy asking me if I thought I was sure and a replying email from my adviser stating that he is on second thought sure it is Inonotus dryadeus. So I will correct those pictures and repost them. Also this is exciting news because this means that there has been next to no work done on this mushroom and it might have interesting properties.

A Rose

: taurica wrote in flowerphotos; November 12th, 16:49

Composter agitated.

: wildernesscat wrote in gardening; November 12th, 9:26

After stirring the contents of the composter a bit, I discovered some huge roaches running around the box. I'm kinda new to this compost thing. Is that normal?

Mushroom finds of today

: anjel_kitty wrote in mycology; November 11th, 18:26

Current Mood:: busy

Today while on a walk in the woods I stumbled on 2 interesting mushrooms that I thought I would share with y'all

	Resin Polypore Ischnoderma resinosum Found this in the woods today growing on an old oak tree. Leaves have fallen into the fruiting body and the mushroom was growing around them. It appears that this mushroom may have medicinal value and the pharmacology work has already been done, but we are still thinking about sending a sample off to the Natural Products Research center to see what they can find.
	Another picture of the Resin polypore Here you can see the leaves being engulfed by the fruiting body
	Laccaria experiment So this little mushroom, Laccaria laccata is a fairly common ectomycorrhizal species found through out the world. I dug it up and got a good clump of roots along with the mushroom, and quite a few of the appeared to be mycorrhizal. I check them out under the scope and ended up extracting fresh tissue from both the mushroom and the nearby mycorrhizal tips. I plan on preforming PCR and then sequencing them to see if the ECM roots are indeed the same species. I'll update y'all on the results.

Uneven lawn?

: teribeth wrote in gardening; November 11th, 14:24

Current Mood:: curious

We recently moved into our house and are just starting to fix up the yard-gone-feral (the house was empty for six months, which is also about as long as our summer season is here in Florida). As I'm getting out and about, it's very obvious that our yard is uneven. There are a couple of places that are 3'-across circular areas that dip down by an inch or two. They are somewhat hazardous during the day and I expect they'll be even worse at night. Is there a quick and easy way to fix them? We're having our housewarming weekend after next so I'd have this weekend to work on it (stupid non-daylight savings time taking all the weekday sunlight away from me!). I'd also be interested in solutions that take longer because, hey, it has to be fixed eventually. Oh, this is also in the back yard so it's okay if it's a little unaesthetic for a while.

pathways

: hi_im_kelsi wrote in gardening; November 11th, 12:23

I've been trying to decide what to do with my garden pathways. I decided to go with using straw/wood shavings. I got a TON of cardboard from work to lay down to kill the weeds. So what is the easiest way to go about this? My thinking is (simple!) lay down the cardboard and top with straw/wood shavings. Sounds easy. Will that work?

wow. i cant believe how different my garden looks today. this is a picture from last winter. since then i built a 4' picket fence where the metal fence is, i replaced all of the old bed frames with 2x8's and built 2 new beds. but the weeds in between the beds still grow like.. well... weeds!!! it's a pain in the butt to mow in between all of those beds so often.

Roses

: rainien wrote in gardening; November 11th, 11:11

With so many here reporting late (OMG LATE!) roses blooming, I thought I'd share these. I picked them yesterday at my employer's house. LOL She's had her gardens for about four years now and has *never* picked so much as *one* of the flowers. Since I had the run of the house and grounds yesterday while she was out of town, I decided to show her what she was missing out on.

Included in the arrangement is several pink roses (in various stages of blooming), a few Knockout roses, and foliage from nandina, youpon holly, an unknown shrub, and ornamental grass.

I left before she got home, but she called me later asking who'd sent her flowers and what had happened to the card. When I told her the flowers had come from right outside her own door she just couldn't believe it. I have a feeling my list of duties is going to be expanded to include Chief Flower Cutter and Arranger.

Tags: flower: rose, zone 7

Stupid Question

: muffinmon wrote in gardening; November 11th, 11:24

This morning, I turned on the light for my baby pomegrantes and saw a WORM!!
Ok, granted the soil was brought in from a bag in the shed, but when it was warming up and drying out, I thought I thoroughly checked it for bugs.
Do I leave the worm to come out on its own again and pluck it out? Do I use tweezers and get it out? [I am thinking no]? Or do I just let the litle worm live in my cupboard?

I really dont like worms!!

Thanks in advance, and Happy Wednesday! :D

Remembrance Day

: lblanchard; November 11th, 10:35

I am the wife of a veteran and the daughter and grand-daughter of veterans. I am grateful to them all, and to all their colleagues living and dead, for keeping me safe.

overwintering seed potatos

: squid_ink wrote in gardening; November 10th, 21:45

how can I do this? I grew potatos this year and I have a couple of nice ones I forgot about, I just dug them up and I'd love to save them for next year

any tips?

thanks!

I'm on the border of zones 5 and 6

Tags: vegetable: potato, zone 6

Re:Mushroom update

: mad_artist wrote in mycology; November 10th, 16:09

Spore print is white.

Strange season

: lapochka99 wrote in gardening; November 10th, 14:17

Current Mood:: amazed

So, yes... I just wrote a comment to the previous post here, went outside and took some pictures. Take a look.
This is my crazy re-blooming iris. I don't know if you can see it on this picture but there're some buds that are still opening

( more pictures )

it's November and toasty warm zone5!

: bailey36 wrote in gardening; November 10th, 13:10

Can you believe it's November and my roses are blooming!!!! my white creeping phlox is just finished with its [???] second blooming[???]
( Read more... )

what a weird year

Making mushrooms from tissue paper

: faerieboy wrote in mycology; November 9th, 23:46

Current Mood:: annoyed

It's so easy!

What a perfect thing to do after holiday gift giving, when tissue paper is in abundance.

Love sets Fire.
Potter Dee.

p.s. Miatakis give me the WORST gas ever! What's up with that? Am I just going to have to isolate my self if I wish to eat them?

SOOOO very bored, hurt foot means no foraging. At least I'm back folding paper.

Bug ID

: juri_anne wrote in gardening; November 9th, 21:59

Hi! First time poster and first time homeowner. :)

Since I'm extremely new to all this, I'm not sure where to figure this out. My hubby and I just bought a house last Tuesday, and we noticed what seems like hundreds of these cocoons made out of sticks ALL over the front of the house. In all of the bushes, on the windows, hanging from the roof. I have NO idea what they are, my parents don't know, and apparently the pest guy that came by on Wednesday had no idea.

So, if anyone could help identify this, it would be great! My parents did such a wonderful job cleaning out the front of the house, I don't want a swarm of bad insets coming and destroying it all. The pictures of the cocoon, and a tiny bit of the insect inside, are in my journal along with the before and after shots of the front of the house, a few of my new animal neighbors. :)

CLICK FOR PICTURES

Thank you to ANYONE that can help me!

Tags: garden pests: insects

mushroom update

: mad_artist wrote in mycology; November 9th, 16:39

Mush5 Mush4

Both pics 300 dpi and sharpened using Photoshop. I tried for spore print but is negative.

I hope they are good enough…

May we jump to conclusions now?

: lblanchard; November 9th, 9:34

Intelligence officials were aware of Hasan's efforts to contact Al Qaeda

Joe Lieberman is calling it potential terrorism. Does it matter whether he actually made the contact with Al Qaeda? Freelance terrorists shoot you just as dead as formally affiliated ones...

(Snarky side thought. How humiliating it will be for him to come out of his coma and discover he was taken down by a teeny-tiny woman.)

Tags: politics

Autumn blooms needed for a wedding next year

: jenniferwillow wrote in gardening; November 9th, 7:33

Current Mood:: curious

I am getting married next year in the Fall on 10/10/10 in my home in Nashville. I am wondering if anybody in this area knows what flowers, bushes, etc will be blooming at this time. I'm hoping to try and grow all or most of the flowers that I would need for the wedding as a way of keeping costs down, and our theme is basically anything to do with autumn, so we're not planning on having any out of season flowers being displayed.

Does anybody have any suggestions on flowers that are easy to grow outdoors, no greenhouse, very little fuss, potentially drought resistant, hardy little things that will survive the summer and bloom in early October in the middle Tennessee area?

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