#trees and shrubs

[winterribelle-blog]

#nature

[bluebelly-sun-serpentine]

[weepingfoxfury]

The man on the radio thumps away on his table top and throws on tune after tune, tucks into sent in treats and slurps away on a large cup of 'tay'. Weatherwise we're just riding the tail of Storm Ernesto ... so no point in grabbing 'the umbrella', best to just hold onto your hat. The traffic lady warns drivers of debris on the roads before kicking back with chocolate and the man on the radio to the strains of Midnight Cowboy.

Today's groaner: What is a sock's favourite sci-fi film? ... The Toe-minator ;-D badoom tish ... here all week!!

Yep, you've guessed it, the shiny metropolis is calling once more. Thought I'd throw up a thrilling picture of one of the car parks I get to sit in. More interesting than some of them, but oh good grief, anything that's planted is done in a line. Regimented evergreens as a nod to the rural.

Very soon there'll be the endless sound of the leafblowers both here and at home as the trees have the temerity to shed their finery. The Emerald Isle is as obsessed with those as lawnmowers. I watch with wry amusement as people struggle up and down with the huge leafblower 'backpack' like strange bumble bees ... performing crazed pattern after crazed pattern as the leaves blow this way and that. Must be the fumes.

There are woodlands nearby and, one day, I fully expect to find these same people, leafblowers strapped on, as they go for their orderly Autumn walks. My childhood memories are of kicking through the leaves, hearing them crackle beneath my feet ... can't help but wonder what memories the leafblower lunatics have.

Thursday, Thursday, Thursday and old Frankie boy is singing about a summer breeze ... the summer, such as it was, is slipping away. I'd best grab another coffee ...

[toyastales]

A nice little nook to contemplate my next move.

[cfknursery]

Country Flower Kettle

Family-owned nursery providing high-quality custom flower baskets, annuals, perennials, vegetables, trees and shrubs, landscape material supply, and one of the Treasure Valley's largest fruit tree inventory.

Contact Info-

Country Flower Kettle

Address- 6340 US-95, Fruitland, ID, USA 83619

Phone- +1 208-452-4300

Email- countryflowerkettle@outlook.com

Website- http://www.cfknursery.com/

Business Hours- Mon-Sat: 9 am-5 pm.

Payment- Cash, card, check

Year Est.- 2018

Owner Name- Andrew Swensen

Find us on:

Facebook- https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100063743312130&mibextid=LQQJ4d

Instagram- https://www.instagram.com/country_flower_kettle/

[melankoliadam]

Transitional Landscape

Design ideas for a large transitional privacy and partial sun backyard stone and metal fence landscaping in summer.

[sagent-of-chaos]

cardinal males

[botanyshitposts]

had an interview for a plant job in Nevada and afterwards the interviewer emailed me a list of all the known plants there confirmed by the organization and I keep considering responding with ‘Wow, and all these plants are running casinos you say?’ and every time I restrain myself

[unholyeldritch]

Time to take a walk in the woods.

[emaadsidiki]

Central Park of Late Autumn 🍂🍁

[jillraggett]

Plant of the Day

Monday 13 January 2025

Found along a pathway in an urban situation was this casccade of goji berries on Lycium barbarum (Duke of Argyll's tea tree, Barbary box thorn, Barbary wolfberry, Chinese box thorn, matrimony vine, Tibetan goji berry, vicar's tea party, European box thorn). This scrambling, deciduous shrub can reach up to 3m tall. The flexible spiny stems have narrow, dull green leaves and small, dull purple flowers in late spring and summer. The species can be invasive.

Jill Raggett

[uncharismatic-fauna]

Uncharismatic Fact of the Day

Building a nest out of foam may not seem like the best idea, but it certainly works for the African foam-nest frog! Before laying their eggs, females find a tree branch hanging over a body of water and secrete a thick mucus-like fluid from their cloaca, then use their hind legs to whip it into a froth. The outside of the foam will dry into a thin but hard crust, which keeps the inside moist and helps to protect the eggs from predators. After hatching, the tadpoles break free of the nest and drop right into the water!

(Image: A mating pair of African foam-nest frogs (Chiromantis xerampelina) by Martin Grimm)

[herpsandbirds]

TRICK or TREAT‼️ 🐊🕷️

Here is a sexy treat for you...

Side-striped Shrub Frogs (Pseudophilautus pleurotaenia), mating, family Rhacophoridae, endemic to Sri Lanka

photograph by Ravisara Jayamanna

[michaelnordeman]

In the garden. Värmland, Sweden (June 13, 2017).

[godbirdart]

🌿 25 02 2025

[sagent-of-chaos]

ice pack