Animals
- Coin - Photo Hunt
Coin - to invent a new word or expression, or to use one in a particular way for the first time: We often wonder who coined the names of our flowers. We call the pretty pink flower Bee Balm, but it has a bunch of other names too; Beebalm,...
- Tuiren Tuesday
Sigh, weed, weed, weed, that is all Mommy ever does these days. ~Tuiren, reporting for ATCAD ...
- Thursday In The Garden
The Katie Rubella is so pretty right now we just love the purple flowers. And the Cape Honeysuckle is a real show stopper. Mommy bought some yellow Butterfly Weed and got it planted last week. She planted it by our red Butterfly Weed, that came back...
- Thursday Thirteen #20
Thirteen Things about Lilies Many plants that have “lily” as part of their common name (such as daylily or peace lily) are not “true” lilies. True lilies belong to the genus Lilium. They grow from bulbs made of fleshy, overlapping scales with...
- My Favorite Garden Tool
I thought I would share my favorite tool with those of you who enjoy gardening. Everyone knows that keeping a garden relatively weed-free is no small undertaking. This year, though, I have found the best tool for getting rid of weeds....easily! It is...
Animals
What is a Weed?
"What is a weed?
A plant whose virtues have not yet been discovered."
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ponder, if you will, the common Roadside Lily.
AKA Railroad Lily
AKA Outhouse Lily
AKA Wash-house Lily
a plant, so prolific, that it has the potential
to become a noxious weed.
You can hardly drive a country mile
without passing at least 5 clumps of this
"weed" along the roadside.
It is so abundant that it is considered a native wildflower.
Order it from a catalog, and you have bought the Tawny Daylily.
Not a weed, but a perennial flower.
We have several clumps of these daylilies growing around our farm.
Each morning, the buds open at sunrise and close again at sunset...
each day's flowers replaced by new ones the next.
I have always wondered where they came from.
Was there once a Johnny Appleseed of Daylilies?
I guess not.
It seems they have always been here.
A weed, by virtue of the fact that they grow in the "wrong" place.
Not put there by human hand,
but by a force of nature.
"A weed is but an unloved flower."
Ella Wheeler Wilcox
Something else to ponder.....
"A man's children and his garden
both reflect the amount
of weeding done during the growing season."
Author Unknown
It seems to me that the task at hand is to decide what are weeds and what are not!
- Coin - Photo Hunt
Coin - to invent a new word or expression, or to use one in a particular way for the first time: We often wonder who coined the names of our flowers. We call the pretty pink flower Bee Balm, but it has a bunch of other names too; Beebalm,...
- Tuiren Tuesday
Sigh, weed, weed, weed, that is all Mommy ever does these days. ~Tuiren, reporting for ATCAD ...
- Thursday In The Garden
The Katie Rubella is so pretty right now we just love the purple flowers. And the Cape Honeysuckle is a real show stopper. Mommy bought some yellow Butterfly Weed and got it planted last week. She planted it by our red Butterfly Weed, that came back...
- Thursday Thirteen #20
Thirteen Things about Lilies Many plants that have “lily” as part of their common name (such as daylily or peace lily) are not “true” lilies. True lilies belong to the genus Lilium. They grow from bulbs made of fleshy, overlapping scales with...
- My Favorite Garden Tool
I thought I would share my favorite tool with those of you who enjoy gardening. Everyone knows that keeping a garden relatively weed-free is no small undertaking. This year, though, I have found the best tool for getting rid of weeds....easily! It is...