#bonesets

[geopsych]

It’s an animal farm now and I’m glad it isn’t houses instead but a few years ago before its sale this pond and the land around it were only mowed once or twice a year and it was full of native wetland plants. It looked like this in late August. I would see wood ducks, herons and egrets there in different seasons and lots of species in migration. I’m grateful that I knew it then.

[tay-swifts]

NICHOLAS GALITZINE & LEO WOODALL Variety - Actors on Actors (June 09, 2024)

[huariqueje]

Late-Flowering Thoroughwort -   Matt Bollinger , 2023.

American, b. 1980 -

Flashe and acrylic on canvas, 50 x 60 cm.

[tanuki-kimono]

Fanstastic late summer/early autumn outfit, pairing this brightly colored kimono showing mushikago (insect cages) among akikusa (autumn plants*), paired with a matching if more muted obi depicting an adorable suzumushi (cricket) among hagi (bushclover).

*usually the seven ones depicted together are => bushclover/hagi ; pampas grass/susuki ; Chinese bellflower/kikyou ; arrowroot/kuzu ; maidenflower/ominaeshi ; pinks/nadeshiko ; boneset/fujibakama.

[uxbridge]

Mistflower and late bonset

[lost-harts]

August 2024

[vandaliatraveler]

The one thing that excites me more than a pop-up summer thunderstorm is a walk in a damp, dripping, glowing-green forest after the storm has passed. The forest's living essence is made all the more real and immediate by the intoxicating perfume of decaying things, creatures flitting like ghosts through the leaves and underbrush, and clinging raindrops unleashed from the treetops by an evanescent breeze. Photos above are from a hike this morning on Glade Run Trail in Coopers Rock State Forest.

From top: common boneset (Eupatorium perfoliatum), which is closely related to Joe Pye weed, and sneezeweed (Helenium autumnale); the deep purple-red berries of common elderberry (Sambucus canadensis); hollow Joe Pye weed (Eupatorium fistulosum), which can attain a height of 7 to 8 feet; eastern tiger swallowtail (Papilio glaucus), whose tattered wings show the wear and tear of summer errands; a colony of gregarious fungi, perhaps cross-veined troop mushroom (Xeromphalina kauffmanii), which grow in huge numbers on decaying hardwoods; a red-capped bolete, perhaps Leccinum longicurvipes, which is symbiont with oak trees; an eastern newt (Notophthalmus viridescens); white wood aster (Eurybia divaricata); bigleaf aster (Eurybia macrophylla); cowbane (Oxypolis rigidior), also known as common water dropwort; bluestem goldenrod (Solidago caesia), a woodland goldenrod with flowerheads in the leaf axils; and Appalachian oak-leach (Aureolaria laevigata), also known as smooth false foxglove, which is semi-parasitic on oak tree roots.

[strayfriend]

It's good to be home! Sightings from the garden yesterday.

[uncleasad]

It’s like the Universe was eavesdropping on @evilpenguinrika and I last night, for lo and behold, this afternoon this young hawk zoomed by me on the deck not six feet away, and then I heard the sound of something being dropped! (Alas 😢)

This appears to be a young hawk, both by size (only about half as bulky as the ones who visit usually appear) and the fact it let me get within ~12 feet to take these pictures (max digital zoom, but still cool to look at). And perhaps also that it seemed to have dropped its prey. I’m not great at hawk ID, but my best guess is a Cooper’s hawk. (Cooper’s and red-shouldered are common here, and I’ve seen a red-tailed once, as well.)

After apparently dropping its prey, it landed on the deck railing opposite of me, then flew out and up a few feet into the maple tree for a better vantage point at the area where it dropped its (very lucky) prey. It was making some very brief chirping noises that Merlin’s Sound ID couldn’t even decipher. After that, it flew over to the fence and awkwardly traversed 2-3 panels before taking off and landing in the neighbor’s pear tree (takeoff and landing in the pear tree shown in the video…is there no way to set alt text on a video?)

The small white flower clusters in the last photo and video are late boneset (Eupatorium serotinum), a favorite of monarchs (and, here, all manner of bees and eastern tiger swallowtails).

[lmaxell-plants]

Really great plants at the park today

[firstlawcedarprairie]

Boneset (Eupatorium makinoi)

[flame-of-brigid]

[ilikevintagebooks]

Boneset

-Common Sense Medical Adviser 1895

[tanuki-kimono]

Romantic late summer/early-autumn antique outfit, featuring a soft-tones kimono showing yuri (lily) over lattice decorated with nadeshiko (pinks). The ground shows delicate woven-in hag (bushclover).

The lovely matching obi has another big lily among akikusa (autumn plants, here: Chinese bellflower/kikyo, bushclover/hagi, boneset/fujibakama, pinks/nadeshiko, arrowroot/kuzu)

[faguscarolinensis]

Conoclinium coelestinum / Blue Mistflower at the Sarah P. Duke Gardens at Duke University in Durham, NC