Enjoy a slow thread about yer Grax’s adjustment from big city livin’ to #SmallCityLivin. I will get plant names—common and scientific—wrong and eagerly invite correction.
We’ll start with some #creepingPhlox ( #PhloxSubulata ) from our backyard.
#GreatMullein ( #VerbascumThapsus). Apparently a somewhat problematic invasive plant.
Probably #motherwort ( #LeonurusCardiaca ).
Gardeners are laughing at me, posting these non-descript plants.
Here’s the thing. We had a yard when I was a kid. But I was an indoor cat, just reading all the time. On top of that, although my mother grew up in a small city near Philadelphia and her father had an agricultural background, she didn’t seem to know anything about wildlife at all. So whatever was growing in the yard was um dandelions and non-dandelions.
So yeah I’m just catching up.
Probably a cherry plum tree (Prunus cerasifera).
Probably an apple tree. Orchard apple or crabapple? Time will tell.
Probably a cherry tree (Prunus subg. Cerasus), out in the neighborhood.
Lotsa people (well my mother-in-law) dislike a #blueJay ( #CyanocittaCristata ) but not me, certainly biased due to my adolescent fandom of the Toronto Blue Jays Baseball Club.
I filtered the hell out of the first photo because it was severely disadvantaged by my vantage (other side of a distant dirty window); forgive me M. Daguerre.
#GarlicMustard ( #AlliariaPetiolata ) in the backyard. An invasive species. It’s a beautiful yard but if it belonged to us we’d try to make it native.
#Lilac bush (genus #Syringa ). This pic is from a few weeks back. It never fully bloomed, probably because of the mid-month cold snap. Other lilacs in the neighborhood bloomed earlier and really pumped out their fragrance. Looking forward to next year's display. Good morning partypeople.
plague-of-grackles 😷🍉🐈⬛
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